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The Rev. Carl Kline expressed indignation years ago over President Trump denouncing socialism in his 2019 State of the Union speech, while looking in the direction of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the new darling of left-wing socialist politics (Register 2-16-19).

Trumps offending quote: America was founded on liberty and independence, and not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.

Kline protested, Lets be honest, Mr. president. Lets be realistic. No one is talking about socialism as state ownership of the means of production. No one is talking about a Venezuela in North America.

Ocasio-Cortez is a big government socialist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which is the largest socialist organization in the U.S. DSA goals are far more consequential than Kline is evidently aware. According to a staff writer at the DSAs socialist magazine, Jacobin, In the long run, democratic socialists want to end capitalism, (Vox, 8-1-18).

Another leading voice of left-wing progressive politics, socialist Aen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), supports expansion of the bureaucratic state, and he has purposefully surrounded himself with high-level staffers who publicly advocate for the very same Venezuela-style advancements of state ownership which Kline denies.

According to a Wall Street Journal survey of past speeches and writings by Sandera senior advisors, the redistribution of wealth and property is a major theme among the Bernie brigades. These are the very people who would staff his [Sanders] White House they dont merely admire Venezuela. By their own words, they want America to emulate it. (WSJ, 4-9-19).

Klines faith in socialist-progressive government deserves further examination. How well has it worked in those U.S. cities where it has been brought to blossom?

San Francisco is a posterchild of the classical, socialist Blue Model urban governance, featuring high taxes, inane regulations, petty nanny-state authoritarianism, tolerance for rising lawlessness, and disorder on its streets in the name of compassion. This progressive city is being hollowed out with the exodus of middle-class families who can no longer afford, or want, to live there. Crime rates are rising, drug addiction and vagrancy are exploding. Dirty needles and piles of human feces litter hundreds of city blocks within its main business district (Investors Business Daily, 7-6-18).

San Francisco has more drug addicts (24,500) than students enrolled in its Unified School Districts 15 high schools (SF Chronicle, 1-30-19).

The last Republican mayor of San Francisco, George Christopher, served from 1956-1964. Democrats have controlled the office for the past 57 years.

Detroit is another hot spot of urban failure. Once the global center of automobile manufacturing, now recognized more for its poverty, crime, rot and bankruptcy.

Detroit is rated the No.1 most dangerous city in America. Last elected Republican mayor: 1957 (How Decades of Democratic Rule Ruined Some of our Finest Cities, Investors Business Daily, 3-9-16).

St. Louis, The Gateway to the West has become the gateway for crime. Currently the No. 2 most dangerous city in America with some of the highest poverty rates in the country, St. Louis has been governed by Democratic mayors, without interruption, since 1949.

Memphis, Tennesee: No. 3 most dangerous city. This haven of violent crime and poverty sports an unbroken string of Democratic mayors dating all the way back to 1893.

Kline more recently sought to convince readers that expanding government-driven socialist policies is biblically-based, from the book of Acts fifth chapter where the whole body of believers sold their property, everything was held in common (Register, 9-14-20).

Klines 80-word citation did not come from Acts 5, it was a direct quote from Acts 4:32-37. The body of believers in this passage references the 120 close followers of Jesus Christ, and the three thousand souls who were swept up in the power of the Holy Ghost during Pentecost.

On the 10th day following Christs public ascension, the Holy Ghost, third person of the Trinity, manifested himself through a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and cloven tongues of fire to approximately 120 of Christs immediate followers (Acts 2:2). A multitude of devout men, out of every nation under heaven were drawn together at the news of these astonishing happenings.

The apostle Peter preached unto them the resurrection of Christ, calling upon them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (Acts 4:39). They continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayers (Acts 4:42).

Property was sold voluntarily by believers, and for a limited time only, to provide sustenance for the 3,000 during that brief period of divinely-inspired fellowship.

This supernatural timebomb set human history on a new course 2,000 years ago. The body of believers received the Holy Spirit to guide and empower them in their mission of leading people of all nations to the same life-saving knowledge of God that they had found in Him. It was a spectacular event, marked by supernatural signs, a powerful sermon, and an overwhelming response (ourdailybread.org, The Birth of the Church).

None of the internal circumstances peculiar to Pentecost validates, in any way, Klines variant interpretation of Acts 4 supporting government-imposed social mandates and coercive sharing the wealth laws and regulations.

Acts 4 does, however, validate something far greater. Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, preached boldly in Jerusalem during this time, resolute in this conviction: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The happenings detailed in yesterdays front-page article, Troops get reading lists for books on critical race theory, are more than alarming because they promote divisiveness and destroy unit morale and cohesion.

There is an insidious aspect to making CRT required training in the military. As a civilian, if you object to what is being taught in a classroom or workplace you can stand up and walk out. However, in the military, members are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), so a uniformed member cannot simply walk out. If they do, they could be walked right into jail for violating an order (whether it is a lawful order is questionable because forcing racist behavior and race-based decision making violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law).

Refusal to comply with this mandatory training, reading and these white privilege walks can be criminalized in the military. Is this the next step in our civilian world, too? Will the social-injustice warriors on the Hill and in the Biden administration take the next step and make it a criminal action to refuse such indoctrination, using the military as an example? Teachers are being fired for not towing the woke line. Is the threat of incarceration the next coercive step?

The secretary of defense has admitted that the U.S. armed forces are not racist, so why is this indoctrination being implemented in the first place? Racist indoctrination in the military must be ended. If you think this position is extreme, even laughable, remember, not too many years ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders was considered way out there. Look at todays political, social and cultural environment. Were woke and racism is now being promoted and taught. Mr. Sanders is mainstream, and our country is running headlong into socialism.

Capt. EDWARD J. OBLOY

Judge Advocate Generals Corps, U.S. Army (retired)

Bristow, Va.

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One of the worlds quirkiest weddings is taking place on Sunday in Indias Tamil Nadu state when a young man called Socialism marries Mamata Banerjee in the presence of his close relatives, Communism, Leninism and their little nephew, Marxism.

Socialism is a 25-year-old businessman from a village in Salem and his bride P Mamata Banerjee, 19, is an English literature graduate from the same village.

The two are set to exchange wedding vows on Sunday.

The couple's wedding invitation in Tamil, with hammer-and-sickle emblems stamped on the top, has gone viral on social media.

We are flooded with congratulatory messages. We are getting calls from Dubai, Russia and even America. People are surprised to know our names but are happy for us, Socialism told The National.

Socialism was named by his father A Mohan, 55, a local politician with the Communist Party of India, and his wife M Lakshmi, both staunch leftists who gave all the three sons the red-tinged names reflecting their ideology.

Their first son is named Communism and second son Leninism. Mr Mohan has named his five-month-old grandson Marxism and hopes to name his future granddaughter Cubaism.

After the Soviet Union was dissolved, people were saying that communism has fallen and the ideology wont prosper anywhere in the world. There was a news clip with regards to this and at that time, my wife gave birth to my elder son, Mr Mohan told local media.

I decided immediately to name him communism as I believed that as long as the human race exists, communism wont fall."

P Mamata Banerjee was named by her grandfather after the powerful chief minister of West Bengal state. She recently defeated Prime Minister Narendra Modis right-wing party in state elections.

While Socialism was teased by boys in school, he is elated with his newfound fame.

I was teased for my name but in college, friends with leftist ideology accepted me. Since the wedding invitation, it is surprising that I have now become popular...I am very happy, said Socialism.

The wedding will take place at Socialisms ancestral home and will be attended by 100 guests including people from the Russian embassy.

Hindu weddings are elaborate ceremonies but for the couple, it will be a one-minute ceremony with Socialism tying a sacred thread around Banerjees neck. No other Hindu rituals will be followed.

In southern India, many parents with Left-wing leanings name their children after famous politicians and communist leaders. Names like Lenin, Karl Marx, and Stalin the last being the name of the states current chief minister, are common.

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Our Gov. Kristi Noem had good reason this week to brag on our states strong economy as the rest of the nation emerges from the pandemic-hobbling effects on the overall economy. Noem says that South Dakota has the strongest economy in America and reels off supporting data to back up that claim.

Noem has taken credit for all this by touting her hands off approach to statewide mandates requiring closures and masks as a means of fighting the pandemic. That South Dakota has one of the nations worst track records in handling the coronavirus catastrophe seems irrelevant to her, though the family and friends of more than 2,000 dead South Dakotans would disagree. Consider the contrast between covid-caused deaths in Oregon, with its population of 4.2 million, and South Dakotas death toll, with our population of 886,000. Oregon lost 2,759 of its residents to the pandemic. South Dakotas loss? 2,026.

Noem, enthralled by our economic recovery, never mentions our states horrible track record on the handling of the pandemic, and I have yet to hear any consoling words coming from her office aimed at those who survived the dead.

As to the state of the economy, lets continue the comparison between South Dakota and Oregon. According to people I know out there, Oregon is coming out of this thing in fine economic shape. The Salem Reporter just headlined a story on the situation Oregons economy expected to come roaring back from pandemic-induced recession, citing an economic forecast that expects a speedy recovery from the historic recession brought on by the pandemic.

Closer to home, consider Nebraska, where, according to the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, the economy has outperformed that of many other states and the nation as a whole. At around 3%, Nebraskas unemployment rate rivals South Dakotas, and that states Gross Domestic Product is within 1.5% of its record high. Comparing covid deaths, Nebraska has had 2,517. Comparing populations, Nebraska has 1.93 million residents.

In context, Noems braggadocio about our economic recovery doesnt look all that great, even as our states covid death count is tragically deplorable.

Meantime, I hear little or nothing from Noem about how federal, socialistic stimulus payments have made it possible for South Dakota to get through this difficult period. She can brag all she wants to about keeping the state open so that the economy could thrive, but take it from me, a businessman who sees it from the perspective of reality, the nearly $2 billion that our state expects to get from federal relief funding this year is the difference-maker between economic struggle and economic growth.Those loans and payments kept a lot of businesses afloat in this state. Last year we got federal, socialistically-generated funds totaling $1.25 billion.

Noem can kid herself all she wants to about her great handling of the crisis, but the fact is, our horrible death toll says otherwise. It was federal funding that got us through this thing, economically. She and her supporters can rail all they want to against socialism, but without it wed be in mighty tough shape these days.

John Tsitrian is a businessman and writer from the Black Hills. He was a weekly columnist for the Rapid City Journal for twenty years. His articles and commentary have also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post and The Omaha World-Herald. Tsitrian served in the Marines for three years (1966-69), including a thirteen month tour of duty as a radioman in Vietnam.

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All are the progeny of A. Mohan, a district secretary of the Communist Party of India in Tamil Nadu state where left-wing ideology still burns red-hot.

My first son was born during the fall of the Soviet Union and everywhere in the news I was reading that this was the end of communism, Mohan toldAFP.

But there is no end for communism as long as the human race lives on, so I named my first-born Communism, he said.

His next two sons were named Leninism whose five-month-old son Marxism will also attend the nuptials on Sunday and Socialism, the groom.

Pictures of the invitation to the wedding, embossed with hammer-and-sickle emblems, have gone viral on social media.

Socialism's bride-to-be meanwhile is P. Mamata Banerjee, named by her grandfather after a firebrand left-wing politician in West Bengal.

The fact that this other Banerjee ended several decades of communist rule in 2011 in the eastern state to become chief minister isn't spoiling the party.

India leaned more towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and names like Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky and even Pravda the name of the USSR's state newspaper are not unheard of, particularly in the south.

Tamil Nadu's current chief minister is M.K. Stalin, named by his father in honour of the Soviet communist dictator just days before he died in Russia.

Mohan said that there was nothing unusual about his sons' names some of his comrades gave their children names such as Moscow, Russia, Vietnam and Czechoslovakia.

But he admitted that his boys, especially Communism, were sometimes teased at school. One hospital refused to admit Communism when he was three years old.

They were scared of the name Communism and initially I faced a lot of troubles. But over time, things smoothed out, he said.

All three sons, now in their 20s, are fellow members of the local communist party, and Leninism named his son after none other than Karl Marx.

Now I am waiting for a grand-daughter from one of my sons, who I will name Cubaism, Mohan added.

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Communism, Leninism to attend younger brother Socialism's wedding in India - The Express Tribune