Socialist Party USA

I wanted to just make mention of everybody that's thinking about voting Democrat this time.

We all know that there's the Socialist Party, the Democrat Socialist Party.

People relate that to communism if you're a Republican.

My buddy's a big MAGA guy, and I've known him for 30 years.

And I mean, um, there, there's a lot to get into.

So there's The Rebel, um, which is the newspaper of the Texas, uh, of, of, of the Texas Socialist Party.

It has an incredible tagline.

Um, it says, "The, the, the powerful only look mighty to us because we are on our knees."

This guy who fought for slavery, fought for the Confederacy, um, ends up, you know, s- dedicating his life, uh, fighting for Black political representation.

So, like, that's kind of floating around, um, I think for sure.

I think in Texas specifically, what Tom Hickey, who was the leader of the Texas Socialist Party, uh, did, um, as well, and he was, uh, uh, he was Irish, um, he would really look to the Texas Revolution.

The Texas Revolutionary language was a big kind of, uh, metaphor, um, or, or kind of touchpoint, um, in that, in that movement for sure.

Yeah I mean that was a weird time so around the early 80s I joined the Labour Party because they were the only people around the time of the divorce referendum doing anything that was kind of before I went to college and when I went to college I you know, helped set up a branch there off the Labour Party.

Now, there was some, which I didn't know at the time at all, but there was a group operating inside the Labour Party who are now, I suppose, would be known as the Socialist Party.

A very long story about that, but anyway, they had, it was that group of people who would have involved Joe Higgins and people like that.

We were expelled at that time, you know, because we were a party within a party or whatever.

Obviously, I would say we've been very much maligned by the media, particularly since I went to the European Parliament.

But yeah, generally, a lot of people would have said to me, well, yeah, I would vote for you.

I think you're great, but I don't like that Socialist Party now and that hard, I don't like that stuff, you know, so yeah.

You have to work harder, I think, when you're from a small party or when you're an independent, you have to work harder to overcome some of that

We'll see how it is in the general.

But, Justin, I think you're right that, I mean, and believe me, I hate to say it, but I think if we want to be objective, and you and I both want to, I really believe that they've become the third party, meaning, you know, it's the Democrat Party, then it's the, say which one, it's the Socialist Party, which is part of the Democrat Party, but their own kind of brand, and then it has become The Republican Party.

I'll share with you.

I try to sometimes explain to people and they don't fully get it.

The first Telegraph style book has these very peculiar rules, like rival newspapers can't be mentioned by name, because he's so competitive.

The Labour Party has to be referred to as the Socialist Party.

And various tabloidy words and abbreviations are banned.

Which does show that basically these have been around for ages, so you weren't allowed to use the words tragedy, outside of a dramatic context, landslide, about an election, luxury, millionaire, or UK.

And then he comes out and he forms the Socialist Party of America, runs for president from 1920 from 1900 to 1920 every year, doesn't really get any votes.

Branching off of the Socialist Party USA is the Communist Party USA, and they run candidates for president every year from 1920 to 1940.

And that's World War II, and Franklin Roosevelt makes a treaty with Stalin, and the Communist Party says, why should we run our own candidates? Let's just support the Democrats.

And so that's when they began to infiltrate the Democrat Party.