Tackling Critical Race Theory: What It Is and Where It Is Being Banned

MCPO Hilary Kunz As I recall, he was.

MCPO Hilary Kunz Amen.

SP5 Dennis Dorsey - hahaha, read any history? I can think of two Democratic racist leaders that left the party, Strom Thurmond and George Wallace. Both started third parties. Wallace later repented of his racism and would go to black churches and apologize for his racism. After a third party failure Thurmond became a Republican. Fulbright, Gore, Johnson all remained racist and remained in the Democratic including Robert Byrd who was a grand kugle and recruited for the Klan. Biden liked hanging out with the racist I the party.

LTC David Brown - Read who the Democrats were who lead the filibuster against the civil rights act and tell me how many left the party. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-filibuster-that-almost-killed-the-civil-rights-act/

Roger that!

Socialism and its grumpy older brother, Communism, have been attempted as a system of national governance in 41 nations. It has failed every time and everywhere it has been tried. China did not begin to succeed economically until it abandoned true Socialism/Communism after Mao's death. As it now exists, China is under the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party which operates a mutated form of capitalism, specifically dictatorial state capitalism. Anyone who harbors any notions of wanting to adopt Socialism or Communism needs to seriously study history. The only people who ever benefit under those systems are the leaders of the Socialist or Communist Parties, everyone else suffers common poverty and oppression.

MAJ Hugh Blanchard And often torture and/or death.

Yes. I've been to Hong Kong several times in the past, but alas, never again. Were I ever to show my face there I would not be free for longer than maybe 10 minutes.

Switzerland is anything but Socialist. The Swiss are fiercely independent and strongly believe in individual and national self-reliance. Every fit Swiss male is part of the Swiss Army Reserve and has a weapon and several hundred rounds in their house. You won't find the Swiss providing a lot of welfare hand-out's. Also the Swiss don't let very many people emigrate to Switzerland, they only let in people who have money and valuable skills.
Sweden and the other Scandinavian nations have in fact moved away from some welfare hand-out's they used to provide. There was a movement toward a guaranteed income beginning in the late 1970's, and it ended in the early 21st Century. The nations attempting this so-called "social guarantee" found it was promoting undesirable consequences, i.e., increasing numbers of people being dependent on government hand-out's and not looking for work.
You're seeing some of that in America today as a residue of the COVID 19 Pandemic. The labor market is very tight in large measure because the government is offering too much welfare, and some people would rather take freebies than actually go to work.
Socialism has been tried about 40 times as a system of national governance, and has failed every time. Socialism advocates promise that everyone will get their "fair share" of everything, but everyone ends up sharing poverty and misery. Look at Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, and all the Eastern European nations forced into Communism (which is Socialism's grumpy older brother).
When China was conquered by Mao Tse Tung and the Communists, they endured industrial failure and mass starvation under "real" Communism. Only when China adopted dictatorial state capitalism and allowed people and businesses to earn a profit did they turn things around.