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Leavenworth Times posted:In what appears to be a crowded GOP primary, one candidate is running for the U.S. Senate in Kansas as a Republican socialist. Just discovered Republican Socialism right now: quote:Republican Socialism is the movement to revive our dying communities, both urban and rural, by using Federal dollars to fund local, community-driven projects, particularly in low-income areas. It is a movement to unite Kansans who are tired of the status quo. It is about the coalition between good-neighbor Republicans and common-sense Socialists. Both coalitions want to pitch in, take care of each other, and have meaningful work that enriches our lives, rather than jobs with long hours and low wages to further enrich billionaires. quote:We know that communities across Kansas are full of potential. In Southeast Kansas, in places like Humboldt, Iola, Ft. Scott, and Pittsburg, an incredible amount of emphasis has been placed on a trail system that will increase walk-ability and bike-ability between communities. While some of the trails have already been built, the vision is much more expansive. We want to use Federal dollars to help these projects come to full fruition. Using funding from national policies like a Federal Job Guarantee and a Green New Deal, we can put dozens of people to work in good paying jobs, and help Southeast Kansans realize their goals of a healthier and more connected region. The FAQ quote:What's Republican about it? quote:What's Socialist about it? quote:What’s the difference between Republican Socialism and Democratic Socialism? So basically trying to revive some populist agrarian co-op energy, except from the GOP side. (Which is ironic because the rural Populists merged with the Democrats, while the Progressives that merged with the Republicans were far more urban.) He also coins a "good-neighbor Republicans" brand while calling for ICE to be abolished and decriminalizing border entry. His candidacy isn't going to go anywhere, but it's interesting that anyone is even trying to do this.
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# ? Mar 11, 2020 23:37 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 14:18 |
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Worth a shot, not a real fan of academics myself but I wish this guy the best
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:00 |
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He really should try to mix this with Maoism. I exposed a bunch of Republican (non TPUSA) millenials to Maoism and they were quite sympathetic. Albeit mostly about publicly owning the libs software companies and forcing the libs to have to work on their parents farm for a year.
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:03 |
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set sail for fail
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:03 |
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Hmm I wonder if I can still switch party affiliation
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:04 |
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How do we set up his Patreon
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:05 |
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this is a better plan than just running third party but is still not actually a good plan
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:05 |
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calling it socialism is the problem here. just pretend youre a republican but focus on "coastal elites" and "wall street vs main street" over everything else and you can probably win. you gotta huey long that poo poo, say your wealth tax is from the Bible & Declaration of Independence not from Marx
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:06 |
eh why not
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:06 |
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like, the GOP is probably extremely vulnerable to this kinda poo poo, but you got to play it smart. dont come out of the gate calling yourself a socialist.
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:10 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:calling it socialism is the problem here. just pretend youre a republican but focus on "coastal elites" and "wall street vs main street" over everything else and you can probably win. you gotta huey long that poo poo, say your wealth tax is from the Bible & Declaration of Independence not from Marx i agree with shengji, with the caveat that it would still probably be p difficult since most republican primary voters in kansas are in fact conservative - ted cruz won it overwhelmingly in 2016. but the approach has some potential in states that are a little bit, for lack of a better term, 'whackier', like maybe WV or AK
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:14 |
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Just throw in Nationalism and he'll be a major hit
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:17 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:like, the GOP is probably extremely vulnerable to this kinda poo poo, but you got to play it smart. dont come out of the gate calling yourself a socialist. yeah pretty much this dude could clean up in rural KS but you can't use the S word around those chuds
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:19 |
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Fallen Hamprince posted:this is a better plan than just running third party but is still not actually a good plan if the guy's sincere about his ideology, better to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks this is the state that more or less gutted itself thanks to Brownback
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 01:37 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:calling it socialism is the problem here. just pretend youre a republican but focus on "coastal elites" and "wall street vs main street" over everything else and you can probably win. you gotta huey long that poo poo, say your wealth tax is from the Bible & Declaration of Independence not from Marx The trick is, assuming you're not a complete shithead, trying to do this without getting racist
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 05:32 |
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That said Godspeed
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 05:32 |
literally reads like normal left libertarian socialism e: call yourself a democratic confederalist my dude republican means too much in the usa not an endorsement has issued a correction as of 07:39 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 05:35 |
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Personally I think it's a brilliant hack! Run as a Republican in a red state, assume that the typical voter is a low-info moron who will pull the lever if they see (R) next to the name, and be a socialist regardless. Socialists throughout the country should run as whatever is the most popular party in their area and govern and advocate for socialist policies regardless of their stated political party.
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 05:36 |
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I just found it funny because he's literally calling himself a republican socialist because he's from Kansas and thus from a Republican family, and is punning off of Sanders' described "democratic socialism", and his definitions of both "republican socialism" and "Republican" as seen in the OP are using the asinine American colloquial definitions of "democracy vs. republic" so favored by the Free Republic boomer conservative crowd. It's definitely novel branding. Also, there's always been weirdos running in the major parties as the diametric opposite, like pro-life activist Randall Terry for the Dems and gay rights activist Fred Karger for the Repubs, but Matlock seems to be trying to doing it in a less wild-eyed perennial candidate kind of way and making something more systematic and believable. Kinda reminds me of the hopeless GOP guys trying to primary Trump, including transhumanist Zoltan Istvan who has a grosser UBI proposal than Yang did. It's as if people have caught on that the duopoly is undeniable and trying to take over the party from within is more effective than running third party. That said, Brian Matlock is sadly doomed this time as a political newb, he seems new to the public speaking thing despite being quite photogenic. Here's his first interview and he comes across as pretty unexperienced. I also listened to him on talk radio with some Kansan Republican John Whitmer and while he gets his policies across, Whitmer just calls him out at the end. Hopefully this will be a practice run for him to establish "republican socialism" as a 21st revival of farmer-labor politics.
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:14 |
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not an endorsement posted:literally reads like normal left libertarian socialism except this dude is probably a racist Besides abolishing ICE as linked in the OP, one of his policies is criminal justice reform and he's said he's running to stop Kris Kobach Campaign Guiding Principles quote:1. Priority hiring for folks who are struggling the most, from communities that are struggling the most. This includes low-income folks, Black folks, and Indigenous folks. lol this guy is to the left of Buttigieg
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:22 |
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StashAugustine posted:The trick is, assuming you're not a complete shithead, trying to do this without getting racist yeah
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:24 |
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isn't this guy a gender essentialist nazbol also ground floor
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:25 |
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Where did you get that from?
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:27 |
Maximo Roboto posted:Besides abolishing ICE as linked in the OP, one of his policies is criminal justice reform and he's said he's running to stop Kris Kobach why is this allegedly intersectional soft ancom running as a republican e: ah, saw your prior post. it's cool, but i don't think it'll work re: voter base, and i really object to using "republican" in this sense when surrounded by boomers who mistake it for their ideology not an endorsement has issued a correction as of 07:34 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:31 |
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Republicans running to the left fiscally might help put some pressure on the Democrats to do the same. It's probably their only chance to remain relevant once the boomers die out.
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:48 |
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idk if he made this himself, but looks like Republican Socialists of America is a meme: https://www.facebook.com/RSAalltheway/ https://twitter.com/SocRepublican lol nice https://twitter.com/KansasBrian/status/1196938292912099328 This may or may not be effective, but it certainly is entryist
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:49 |
Words have no meaning and it rules
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:52 |
Maximo Roboto posted:idk if he made this himself, but looks like Republican Socialists of America is a meme: actually on second thought this dude might actually be brain dead and is incomprehensibly trying to tie vague libleft ideology with classical republican liberalism because "hey republicans care about the lil guy and being folksy!" literally struggling to find a link between libertarian leftism and the republican party, ends up with "well rural republicans are Very Good and corporate neoliberals are Very Bad", which is a true take in some sense but... https://twitter.com/SocRepublican/status/1162817315395817472 https://twitter.com/KansasBrian/status/1208487677919682567 https://twitter.com/KansasBrian/status/1223361418478739456 not an endorsement has issued a correction as of 08:02 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 07:58 |
anarchist with republican parents and an econ degree doesn't wanna call himself an anarchist
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 08:03 |
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Well, the Republican Party did have some leftist factions at the turn of the century up to the end of the WWII or so- the LaFollettes, George Norris, William Borah, Bull Moose Progressives and so on. Matlock isn't really drawing from that history explicitly, but he does talk about agricultural cooperatives a lot. There's also been some not-quite-left tendencies in the Midwestern milieu that are localist, communitarian, pseudo-Distributist- they like saying "subsidarity" a lot- such as the Front Porch Republic blog. Matlock emphasis on Republican Party = rural localism kind of makes sense from a branding perspective if he's trying to reach out to those people. In an age where Bernie Sanders is trying to retake socialism as a label it's at least marginally less scary than anarchist.
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 08:14 |
Maximo Roboto posted:Well, the Republican Party did have some leftist factions at the turn of the century up to the end of the WWII or so- the LaFollettes, George Norris, William Borah, Bull Moose Progressives and so on. Matlock isn't really drawing from that history explicitly, but he does talk about agricultural cooperatives a lot. There's also been some not-quite-left tendencies in the Midwestern milieu that are localist, communitarian, pseudo-Distributist- they like saying "subsidarity" a lot- such as the Front Porch Republic blog. Matlock emphasis on Republican Party = rural localism kind of makes sense from a branding perspective if he's trying to reach out to those people. In an age where Bernie Sanders is trying to retake socialism as a label it's at least marginally less scary than anarchist. thanks for the link, i sincerely know very little of the republican fringe factions and their history and i'm pretty interested now! there's no doubt that calling yourself anything but an anarchist is a good idea -- i mean, hell, my understanding is that bookchin called himself a libertarian/municipalist later on to get away from it -- but judging from his mentions and retweets he's not hitting his intended republican audience but fellow libertarian socialists who describe him as "one of us, but running republican" i will say that it's definitely a good thing to approach republicans with a sincere non-scary presentation of socialism of which they can understand the appeal of, just not an election-winning one not an endorsement has issued a correction as of 09:00 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 08:20 |
not an endorsement posted:anarchist with republican parents and an econ degree doesn't wanna call himself an anarchist That was my takeaway too. This may actually been the first time in a long time where I've been reading about a republican candidate and thinking "yeah, I could vote for this guy". A cursory googling didn't result in any info about how he felt about foreign policy (I kinda care at the senate level about that), but I'm not from Kansas so whatever in the end. I think this goes to show if you take a bag of candy and write "DOGSHIT" on the bag, lo and behold, it's now just a slightly less appetizing bag of candy.
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# ? Mar 12, 2020 08:54 |
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This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them. https://twitter.com/jonivy/status/1206651522978762753 https://twitter.com/jonivy/status/1208891761990369281 https://twitter.com/jonivy/status/1188590433082830848 Platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71N_4IqYH4 His examples of progressive Republicans are Lincoln, Grant, and Hiram Johnson... lol
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# ? Mar 13, 2020 02:09 |
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http://matlockforsenate.com/frequently-asked-questions/quote:How are you gonna pay for it? He actually said it! Even Bernie plays into the "We need a balanced budget, but only for things the left wants" framing.
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# ? Mar 15, 2020 17:53 |
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I mean sure, why the hell not.
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# ? Mar 15, 2020 19:36 |
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I'd toss him a vote if we're in my state
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# ? Mar 15, 2020 20:41 |
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I've legit thought about doing this myself.
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# ? Mar 15, 2020 23:03 |
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I mean, at a certain point, it's worth asking if the left has a better shot of taking over the Republican Party than the Democrat Party. They seem to be more open to brash outsiders, wary of elite opinion, and are only slightly more hostile to socialism.
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# ? Mar 15, 2020 23:55 |
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proud to announce that im running for congreas as a Maga Socialist why Maga? because socialism will make america great again
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# ? May 9, 2024 14:18 |
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new campaign video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDYQFPeaS2E
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