New Representatives whose family experience socialism create caucasus opposing it

 Epoch Times:

Several Republican Reps.-elect whose families fled socialist countries are forming a “freedom force” in Congress to fight socialism and counter the socialist “Squad.”

“We need to form our own ‘squad.’ We have a group of new Republicans who love America. We value freedom, liberty, and opportunity,” Rep.-elect Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) told the New York Post.

In the House, a group of progressive women with a socialist agenda became known as the “Squad” including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). They have supported the “Defund the Police” movement, “Medicare for All,” free college education, “The Green New Deal,” and other socialist policies.

Malliotakis, whose mother’s family fled Cuba, will be the only Republican in the New York City congressional delegation in the coming January.

She is joined by three newly-elected Republican Congress members including Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.).

Spartz grew up in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and lived there for 42 years. She said she’s very sad to see what is happening in the United States.

“I saw what happens when it runs out of money and it is not pretty [in Soviet Ukraine],” she said during an interview with “Fox & Friends.” “And now we’re building socialism. I’m kind of going full circles. I can tell you what is going to be next. It’s very sad for me to see that.”

“This system creates a lot of destruction and misery so we have to be smarter than that. You know, we’re not going to change. There are only two systems: you have freedom and free enterprise and you have a system where the government decides and political elites on top [decide] how we’re going to lead, what we’re going to do,” she added.

Salazar, whose parents fled Fidel Castro’s socialist Cuba, vows to fight back against socialism in Congress.

“I was born in Miami—a community built by survivors. My parents fled Castro’s socialist nightmare,” she wrote in a Twitter post. “We can’t just let the socialist left destroy the American Dream for our children!”

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The Epoch Times is a Taiwan based paper.  It is an island whose population fled communism.  I am glad to see that people whose families experienced the evils of socialism are fighting back against AOC and her squad.  Apparently, people who have never experienced socialism are proselytizing for it in colleges and universities.  Those who support socialism are ignorant of history and economics, and I don't care if they have an economics degree, they learned something that is dead wrong.

Back in the 1970s some of the radicals in the US described communism as "state capitalism."  In a free market, economic capital is provided by competing businesses and banks.  In communism and socialism, the state has all the capital and the bureaucrats decide where to invest it.  That has been an unmitigated disaster where ever it was tried.  The bureaucrats also decide how people will be compensated so there is no incentive to become more efficient or develop products.