U.S. hardly home to socialist party

In regard to the letter stating Democratic Party “identifies as socialist.” The chairman of the DNC should get a dictionary along with the author of that letter. He states there is no difference. Wrong! There is a total difference.

Democrat: an advocate of democracy. Believes in the political or social equality of all people.

Republican: A state in which the supreme power rests in the body citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives.

(A republic, which we are, is governed by representatives such as a president rather then a king or queen.)

Socialist: Believes a person’s body, health, soul, property and money belong to the state. Believes in limited personal liberty. Government control over lives. Such as North Korea, for example.

Terri Lackor

Everett

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