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The UK Constitution And The DSA Agenda

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Lately I'm seeing lots of talk to the effect that the Democratic Socialists of America are communists, but their agenda goes back a lot farther than that. I found the graphic embedded above at Conservative Treehouse, which says it comes from DSA Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo . I think there's less of Marx in it than England of the 1600s and the subsequent UK. The first two agenda items are "Eliminate the US Senate" and "Congress [presumably now just the House] chooses Executive & Judiciary". This, with a few small differences, is the system England adopted during its 1642-1651 Civil War and codified in the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Settlement Act of 1701, that "Parliament is supreme". In the time since then, "Parliament", theoretically the House of Commons and the House of Lords, has come to mean the House of Commons exclusively in normal speech, and somewhere during the reigns of Victoria or Edward VII, the monarch lost all ex...