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Van Jones On Tea Party: ‘I’m Not Mad At Them For Being So Loud, I’m Mad At Us For Being So Quiet’

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In a speech this morning, former White House environmental adviser Van Jones called on progressives at the Take Back The American Dream conference to act more like the Tea Party. ”We have been on a one-sided offensive in this country where the worst people in America with the worst ideas have dominated the discussion,” he said of the surge in Tea Party in recent years. “And I’m not mad at them. I’m not mad at the Tea Party. I’m not mad at them for being so loud. I’m mad at us for being so quiet.”

Jones suggested that much of Barack Obama‘s success in 2008 stemmed from his campaign’s ability to join together progressive groups as a “meta-brand.” They have since, he argued, let their movement flag from a “movement to a movie.” Change, he argued, will not come at Obama’s doing, but from the ability of progressive groups to continue working together to gain collective momentum, perhaps under the “Rebuild the Dream” banner, much like the Tea Party has. ”They’re not wrong to stand up for what they believe in — silly as it is,” he said. “We have the wrong theory of the presidency.”

“We have to remember, [Lyndon Johnson] did not lead the civil rights movement. He signed a bunch of laws we liked, but he did not get out there and lead that movement. That was people like us right here in this room,” Jones said.

This is not the first time Jones has credited the Tea Party, earlier this year he called them “a right-wing populist movement” that was able to come out of nowhere to reframe and ultimately “win” the debate on emissions regulations, health care and immigration. “We had very, very smart ideas, but we didn’t have emotional resonance,” he said at the time.

This morning he suggested that Occupy Wall Street movement was showing signs of that Tea Party resonance, and that if continually pushed for change, the White House act. “The White House is talking different because we are walking different,” Jones said.

Watch segments of his speech below, courtesy of Huffington Post:

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  • Michelle

    Commie!

  • Michelle

    What’s funny is the bill for the conference he’s speaking at is being footed by the fat cats they supposedly hate. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    ”We have been on a one-sided offensive in this country where the worst people in America with the worst ideas have dominated the discussion,” 

    That is his opinion which I am sure is well received by the far left progressives out there…  

    The rest of the country does not give a crap about Van Jones as he is a communist and promotes a socialistic economy for this country…  Hey for you lefties out there!  This country no matter how loudly you raise your voices is still right of center…

  • ChrisG

    That is one beautiful man!  Morally, intellectually, and physically.

    Go Van!

  • ChrisG

    Channeling your inner Frank Burns?  Or is that your Joe McCarthy impression?

    Outdated and irrelevent in any case.

  • Michelle

    You liberals love your commies, don’t ya?

  • Exgoper

    “Commie” being anyone to the left of Limbaugh, obviously.

  • Anonymous

    Watching too much Beck, I see.  

  • Anonymous

    What the teabaggers don’t realize is that Van Jones is fighting for their best interest too.  We are all in this together the problem is that the righties don’ t get it.  

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Obama-garglers should be embarrassed that one of their torch-bearers is this ignorant dumbfuck. The son-of-a-bitch has no clue.

  • Michelle

    No, it means anyone who admits to being a Communist.

  • Ed Ross

    The progressive dream of transforming America into a
    social-democratic state, where “social justice,” “green jobs,” and the
    “redistribution of wealth” are its organizing principles, has turned into a
    nightmare. American voters are on a path to reject the progressive agenda en
    masse and its standard bearer, President Barack Obama, along with it. But don’t
    expect progressives to go quietly into the dust bin of history. Beware the ides
    of October and expect an all out class-warfare attack on Republicans, the Tea
    Party and conservatives. The question is will it work?

     

    http://www.ewross.com/beware_the_ides_of_october.htm

  • Anonymous

    He’s actually smarter than the teabaggers who got mislead thinking the corporate Republicans will vote for their best interest, but instead the banksters and big insurance are screwing them too.

  • TbagsRstupid

    Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being

    Green Jobs

    oh the horror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    btw

     In December 2007, President Bush signed the Green Jobs Act to train workers for green collar jobs.
    It authorizes $125 million for workforce training programs targeted to
    veterans, displaced workers, at-risk youth, and families in extreme
    poverty. It will train people for jobs like installing solar panels and weatherization

  • TbagsRstupid

    Hey,

    Your right of center country put a Commie Marxist Muslim Leftie Socialist in the White House

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Van Jones… another African-American Republicons love to hate!!

  • bohratom

    I just can’t wait for this “911 truther” do have his huge rally he is calling for later this month. A “911 truther” being the leader of anything puts a big smile on my face.

    Can’t wait to boot Obama in 2012..

  • Silverado

    The Marxist ex-Presidential Advisor is upset. Sounds like a STORM is a’brew’n

  • Silverado

    He also nixed loan guarantees for Solyndra.

    Guess he was too stupid to see the benefit of using taxpayer money to quid pro quo his big donors.

  • Silverado

    A  Marxist working on solving Conservative problems…

    (?) 

    I believe you’ve taken “don’t get it” to new levels

  • Anonymous

    Just because Beck says it that doesn’t make it true.  I know you think the caliphate is coming because Beck said that too.  

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Typical ‘Gargler-the idiot you voted into the White House is in on the swindle-take your head out of your ass and quit shilling for these ‘Mopes and you might actually what’s going on.

  • Jon Carry

    Who is paying this guy’s bills? It is expensive jetting around the country condemning the very system that allows you to jet around this country.

  • Anonymous

    If Jones is so ‘smart,why does he still worship at the Church of Karl Marx’s Dick?

  • Anonymous

    Commie being anyone like Jones who still worships at the Church of Karl Marx’s Dick

  • Anonymous

    Jones is a “watermelon man”…green on the outside and red on the inside…now all you knee jerk lefties tell me how “racist” that is.

  • Anonymous

    You lost soul…. sounds like you’re still worshipping Beck’s chalkboard.  Didn’t you realize it was just an act.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    We get it because we read history. Van Jones is a self-avowed communist. How is communism in the best interest of anyone? It hasn’t worked out so well for the rank and file proles of any country where it’s been tried so far. You think the income disparity is bad in capitalism, just look at what happens in communist countries where government insiders have access to food, housing, cars and health care while the other 99% of the country lives in abject poverty. But they’re all equal, and that’s the goal. Right?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    The fact that his skin is of a dark tone may have statistically increased the chances of him growing up to be a leftist, but it’s coincidental and irrelevant to the opposition his ideas receive from the right. We oppose him because he’s a communist kook and would do so if he was white, argyle or paisley.

  • Anonymous

    Reading Glen Beck history books don’t count!  He isn’t a communist, you been listening to Glenn Beck a little too long.  He doesn’t want to turn this into communist country, but it true the wealth disparity is out of hand.  If you look at 3rd world countries you will shee huge wealth disparity gaps.  It sounds like you are still effected with McCarthy hysteria and fear.  The righties are controlled by fear.  Remember fear leads to the darkside.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    Green jobs would not be such a bad idea if they could compete on a level playing field. I’ll buy in when there’s such a thing as a solar-powered solar panel factory.

    Green energy is not green and creates less energy over its useful lifetime than it takes to manufacture, ship and install. Solar panels typically last 20 years but would have to be in service for 25-30 years in order to offset the carbon required to make them. When they’re worn out, they’re driven to the junkyard where they’ll slowly disintegrate over the next thousand years.

    A wind turbine’s span is about the same as a Boeing 747. About 20-25% of wind turbine blades fail initial strength tests and are never put into use. Another 10-15% fail in the first year and must be replaced. These are made of composites that cannot be recycled and end up in the landfill. A good blade will last maybe 7 years. Replacements come on the back of a diesel fueled truck. Because of the constant repairs, wind turbines can never offset the carbon used in their manufacture, transportation, installation and maintenance.

    Most wind farms are in places where it freezes during the windiest months which prevents them from operating at full capacity when energy demand is highest. They are defrosted with chemicals similar to the anti-freeze in your car, which seep into the ground below, then leech into the grasses and are consumed by the cattle which graze on the “multi-use” lands. In addition, wind power is attached to the power grid as a supplement to coal fired electrical plants. Like cars, coal powered plants operate most efficiently at a near constant output. Because wind is not constant, the turbines output varies widely and the coal plants end up operating like a car in crosstown traffic at rush hour – slow and go. In the end, the power plants use no less coal at best and are, in actuality, usually less efficient when supplemented with wind power.

    Then there’s the economic cost. Spain bought in to the green job myth and their economy lost 2.2 regular jobs for every green job created. Now the green jobs are also gone. So their gamble on a green economy cost them 3.2 total jobs for every green job their government funded. The fact that our current administration ignored this recent history and has spent $11 billion in loan guarantees for green tech manufacturers in an already struggling economy shows an inconceivable level of hubris and incompetence. I’ll be glad to see the whole lot of them unemployed in 15 months.

  • Pablo

    You find having maggots in your soul sexy? Interesting.

  • Pablo

    He’s an Obama voter. Thus, he’s a moron.

  • Pablo

    Then why does every word out of his mouth reflect those beliefs?

  • Pablo

    It’s not that Beck said it, it’s that Jones said it. Beck just quotes him.

  • Pablo

    No, dumbass. Communism leads to the dark side. Every. Fu*king. Time.

  • Pablo

    Then there’s the electric car and its ignorant, self righteous owners: http://tinyurl.com/62okz8g

    The study was commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership,
    which is jointly funded by the British government and the car industry.
    It found that a mid-size electric car would produce 23.1 tonnes of CO2
    over its lifetime, compared with 24 tonnes for a similar petrol car.
    Emissions from manufacturing electric cars are at least 50 per cent
    higher because batteries are made from materials such as lithium, copper
    and refined silicon, which require much energy to be processed.
    Many
    electric cars are expected to need a replacement battery after a few
    years. Once the emissions from producing the second battery are added
    in, the total CO2 from producing an electric car rises to 12.6 tonnes,
    compared with 5.6 tonnes for a petrol car. Disposal also produces double
    the emissions because of the energy consumed in recovering and
    recycling metals in the battery. The study also took into account carbon
    emitted to generate the grid electricity consumed.

    Aren’t you glad we bought GM, and its awesome green savior, the Volt?

  • Pablo

    Let’s just say it rhymes with George Soros. http://tinyurl.com/4r3fnyv

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    I love how these frauds won both houses of Congress and the White House in 2008, had the run of the show unfettered for years, dominate the vast majority of media and pop culture, infest every level of academia and public education, and then they act like nobody hears what they’re preaching at us 24 hours a day.

    Hey, Van. We know what you believe. Your creed is not dissimilar to the creeds and half-baked economic doctrines other failed collectivist demagogues and statists throughout world history.

    What you’re struggling with is our utter and unequivocal rejection of it.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    You have been reported to Attack Watch, comrade.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    “Communist?”  I’ll bet good money that the clothes on your back, the shoes on your feet and the computer/laptop/keyboard you posted that message with was made by “communists.”  The economic Cold War was won by Communist China, but you still sit there and proudly wave your imported American flag.

     You don’t know how unintentionally funny you sound.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    And what system do YOU advocate?  And be specific.

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    I love when you and others throw out a logical statement and the the Tea Baggers reply, they’ll always answer it with a childish school yard reply.  They make it obvious they don’t have any knowledge beyond what they heard on Beck and FOX News.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Free market capitalism.

    A constitutional representative republic, with a two-tiered federalist system of central and state governance.

    What do YOU support?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Free market capitalism.

    A constitutional representative republic, with a two-tiered federalist system of central and state governance.

    What do YOU support?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Free market capitalism.

    A constitutional representative republic, with a two-tiered federalist system of central and state governance.

    What do YOU support?

  • Silverado

    Princeton:

    “Former White House adviser Van Jones appointed visiting fellow”

    http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/69/64O70/index.xml?section=topstories

    And the boards of these fine institutions:

    Demos, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, and the Campaign for America’s Future.

    Thank you Ted Kennedy and Oprah Winfree for endorsing the historic Barack Obama’s presidency.

    And not because he’s black.

  • Silverado

    You forgot chameleon…

  • Silverado

    Anything American. There are enough foreign imports as it is. We don’t need their governing philosophies to.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Yeah that’s great we can become like China were people are forced to relocate to factory camps and work for $1.50/day.  Sign contracts that in which we state we won’t commit suicide.  Yeppers that is something to look forward to..

    China has won nothing, you have such little faith in American, not so long ago there were many in this country that felt we could never compete against Japan that their economy was going to take over the world…  China will soon have it’s problems, they will experience growing pains as her people will look for more out of life than to just see it wasted away in building the state.  It will happen, we need not to worry about China so much but look to put our own house in order and then have faith and build our economy back to one of prominence.  

  • Anonymous

    Truer words have never been spoken!  They should have get rid of everything they own made in communist countries.  Then they might realize how corporate America is shipping all of our  jobs overseas.  And they want to lower corporate taxes so they can “provide jobs”.  Just continue to listen to your Republican friends who just want the corporations to continue filling their campaign coffers.

  • Michelle

    Tell that to Barry’s right hand man at GE.

  • Guest

     I support a socialist Utopia as exemplified in a fictional country that my college professor described.
     
    In this fictional country, productive and successful people are taxed to the point where they receive equal rewards to unproductive and/or irresponsible people.  Even with this dynamic, the productive people continue to be productive.
     
    I support a complete disbanding of our national security systems, because I know contrary to 4000 years of recorded history, everyone can be dealt with in a civil and diplomatic manner.
     
    I believe that raising deficits to historical level along with the national debt is ok…especially when paying for services to people that have the means and ability to provide it for themselves.  I also think that when we run out of money and cannot raise taxes any higher, we simply need to print more money, because that will not affect anything other than the benefit of having more money in circulation.
     
    I believe that I, along with the rest of the unwashed masses are not capable of legislating the preponderance of our laws at the state and local level.  I think the best solution is to continue with the “one size fits all” federal solution…because the impact of a federal law is identical in all 50 states.
     
    I think that the government should take care of me and everyone else.  I want them to take care of my retirement, my health care, I want them to tell me what to eat, what I should think, and where I should get publically educated.
     
    This is what I believe……Go Obama!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Funny that the most sensible thing I’ve hard from a far-leftist this week has been from Van Jones.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    But is he mad at Joe Biden for not knowing who the hell he is?

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    LOL !!!

    Oh… he’s going….

  • Guest

    I also am a big supporter of china. 
     
    I love the respect for human rights, their forced population control measures, and the quality of life of the majority of the population.
     I respect the fact that the worker in the factories you describe makes fractions of a penny on a dollar of profit while the government pockets the majority of the profit to build huge cities that no one lives in. 
    I enjoy their constant ignoring of international copyright laws to in order to steal American technology, and the technology of other countries, in order to save themselves billions in profit.
     I like their staunch support of citizens voicing their own opinion, and have great respect for China’s reaction to individual opinions that the government does not agree with.  I like when they lock down entire swaths of the internet from the Chinese population to prevent them from learning harmful information that might put to risk the county’s tranquility.
     
    And above all, I am thankfull of our elected officials continued support of the unions, that allows a guy to turn screws in an automobile plant for $75.00 an hour with a 100% pension, forcing corporations to send their jobs to China.

  • Guest

    “Commie” being anyone to the left of Limbaugh, obviously.”Translation= HI ALL!!!  I’M AN IDIOT! 

  • Anonymous

    As opposed to you,shit for brains.

  • Guest

    I’m sure there is a website for it somewhere.

  • Roger_Fails

    Here’s another example of the hatred, Michelle. Calling people “commie”? Really? This is your idea of a rational, adult  response??

  • Anonymous

    Pablo is a lost soul that has been lead down Beck’s crazy path of fear and hate.   

  • Anonymous

    Pablo is confused person, but what do you expect when he takes his directions from Beck like a good little follower.  

  • Anonymous

    Pablo is confused person, but what do you expect when he takes his directions from Beck like a good little follower.  

  • Anonymous

    i thought van jones was history.  who cares what he thinks???

  • TbagsRstupid

    watermelon man
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ASTMFN-h4

    pretty damned awesome

  • Guest

    Not as outdated as communism.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Van lad, the difference is the Tea Party is heard, your ilk is akin to the tree falling in the forrest, if no one heard it, did it make a sound?

  • Anonymous

    So what you are saying, he is just another affirmative action community organizer clown like Obama.

  • Anonymous

    We are only in this together, if we are all commies.

  • Anonymous

    Pull youur snoze out of Obama’s anus and smell the coffee fool.

  • Anonymous

    But your commie Messiah Obama is already here, right?

  • Anonymous

    Well he got Bin Laden after Bush let him get away at Tora Bora, so who is the commie. Pablo is just like Beck a coward that has to log in as a different user.  

  • Anonymous

    Of course, voter registration fraud by ACORN nationwide, black panther electioneering and intimidation in Philadelphia, democrat state officials bending the rules on so-called, “early voting”, allowing multiple voting and voting without proper identification as well as not counting our overseas stationed and deployed servicemen and women’s absentee ballots in key states like New York didn’t hurt in putting him in the White House either.

  • Anonymous

    You are correct sir! The bulk of China is still very third world, and the only people who enjoy any kind of a decent standard of living are government officials who live in the cities in China.

    China’s communism still is a very oppressive government, despite their advances.

  • Anonymous

    I appreciate your thoughtfull reply, seriously, unlike some of the FOX and Beck’s parrots who just seem to only know what one or both have told them.  You may have misunderstood my comment, because I never said anything about supporting China or their deplorable working conditions.  In considering your comment about auto workers earning $75.00 an hour, if that in fact is accurate, even with high payroll the Big Three pay their workers they are still competitive with the foreign manufactures in both price and in quality.  The foreign auto manufactures have also moved many of their factories to our country which creates more jobs for us.  I don’t think anyone will argue the union workers also vastly improved working and safety conditions in our country.  One of the most important function the union still provide today is constantly monitoring safety conditions at their facilities.  Although they still may want to raise in their their pay, recently their main concern has been on benefits, including their retirement benefit and not on what they earn, in fact they have voluntarily taken a pay cuts to help their employer.  

    The working conditions in China are deplorable like you mentioned, but a major contributor of those working conditions are the corporations who send our jobs overseas for the lower labor cost.  Currently many of the conservatives in Congress want to give more tax breaks to corporations, and if they signed Norwquest pledge to never raise taxes, they also pledge not to close tax loop holes.  Many conservatives  have also stated that to create more jobs, we have to give corporations more tax breaks.  That is not completely true.  The reason corporations create more jobs is to meet the demand for their product, not because of tax breaks.  I realize there is a problem with what I just wrote, and that’s because to afford the products that create the demand, you alos have to have a job.  It’s a Catch 22 no matter how you look at it.  That’s where the Federal government has tocome into the picture by helping to create jobs so you can  create demand. Perhaps the Republican need to write a jobs bill of their own instead of just complaining about Obama’s bill.  Instead, the Republicans seem more concerned about getting Obama out of office and playing politics, instead of working for their country.  Their non-action disturbs me as you can tell.

  • david r

    In addition to being a Commie, he is also a punk-ass chump.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    I catch 15-20 minutes of Beck… a month. My guess is that you don’t listen to him at all so you don’t know of which you speak.

    Everything Van Jones espouses is perfectly in line with communist philosophy. If you don’t believe he’s a communist it’s probably because you agree with him and don’t want to admit that you are also a communist.

  • Anonymous

    It sounds like you never listened to Van Jomes except for the clips Beck plays on his show.  He is no way a communist.  My guess is you don’t even know what communism is.  Little boy go run back to the playground before you get hurt.   

  • Hugo Daun

    Dummy!

  • Guest

    Regarding American competitiveness in the auto industry, from my understanding, they are not.  The numbers I recall seeing during the Auto bailout showed an average autoworker making about 75.oo an hour.  This is on top of the pension system bill which is in the stratosphere as well.  When compared to a Japanese auto worker averaging 45-50 dollars an hour, it just business 101 to see that Japanese car manufacturers are better postured to provide a superior product at the same price since their employee overhead is essentially 2/3rds of an American Manufacturer.  There working conditions and quality of life I believe is comparable to any American auto plant.
     
    As for the GOP not producing a job bill, remember the Dem controlled senate is perfectly able to produce a jobs bill as well.  Unfortunately when the term “jobs bill” is used, that generally refers to stimulus. The GOP generally feels that government does not create jobs..which is probably why your not seeing it.
     
    But I need to also remind you that Mich McConnel introduced Obama’s Jobs bill in the senate for a vote last night, and Reid refused to put it up for a vote.
     
    Also, the fact that we did not pass a budget for 2 years, does not help with the creation of jobs either.

  • Guest

    Regarding American competitiveness in the auto industry, from my understanding, they are not.  The numbers I recall seeing during the Auto bailout showed an average autoworker making about 75.oo an hour.  This is on top of the pension system bill which is in the stratosphere as well.  When compared to a Japanese auto worker averaging 45-50 dollars an hour, it just business 101 to see that Japanese car manufacturers are better postured to provide a superior product at the same price since their employee overhead is essentially 2/3rds of an American Manufacturer.  There working conditions and quality of life I believe is comparable to any American auto plant.
     
    As for the GOP not producing a job bill, remember the Dem controlled senate is perfectly able to produce a jobs bill as well.  Unfortunately when the term “jobs bill” is used, that generally refers to stimulus. The GOP generally feels that government does not create jobs..which is probably why your not seeing it.
     
    But I need to also remind you that Mich McConnel introduced Obama’s Jobs bill in the senate for a vote last night, and Reid refused to put it up for a vote.
     
    Also, the fact that we did not pass a budget for 2 years, does not help with the creation of jobs either.

  • caconservative

    Van Jones wants emotional resonance in the Progressive movement like that shown in the Tea-Party? In order to attain that kind of resonance, your movement must be based in tried and true traditions of self responsibility and a strict interpretation of the Constitution. The Progressive Party is one of collectivism and dependency. Systems that have never worked! They think the Constitution is a living document, subject to self-serving interpretations to support their agenda. Americans have seen the Progressive movement for what it is and they are dismissing it. Van Jones is, and will always be a Progressive Black Liberation movement spokesman who will continue to make a living off of the bottom-feeders who want to buy into his socialist view!  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    He has plenty of full speeches on YouTube. I’ve seen enough of them to know what he espouses. He is, in every way, a Communist.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think Van Jones wants the government to take over all the subways, pizza huts, walmarts and  everybody’s personal property.  I think you need to understand what Communism is before you throw it out there like you know what you’re talking about.   You never have listened to him you’re just repeating what Beck told you.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    He just wants the government to impose massive regulations, enforced at gunpoint, which force all the Subways, Pizza Huts and WalMarts to pay every employee a “living wage” cover all their health care costs and guarantee all of them jobs for life. How is that not taking over the operations of those businesses? I think you have a very narrow definition of communism which carves out a niche so people like yourself and Jones can call yourselves something else. I have eyes to see and understand that there are many ways in which communism has been creeping into our once democratic republic. You, on the other hand, support the growth of this latent menace but don’t want others to see it for what it is or even call it by its name yourself. 

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