By: Wes Hester
Published: January 04, 2011 2:17 PM
Virginia’s youth donkey population is lashing out at Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for comments on communism in a recent Richmond Times-Dispatch story.
In a statement released today, The Virginia Young Democrats urge Cuccinelli, a Republican, to avoid what the group’s president calls “partisan bickering.”
In a story published Jan. 2, Cuccinelli, a Republican, claimed that “The Communist Manifesto,” published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is embraced by “large swaths of academia and the legal profession and the people who know how to run our lives better than we do — just ask them.”
He went on to say that government has “initiated a cycle of expectations ... where government is the solution for every problem,” which runs counter to the way things worked in the first two-thirds of the nation’s history.
Sean Holihan, President of the Virginia Young Democrats, condemned the remarks in the statement.
“As 137 members of the General Assembly are busy drafting and submitting legislation to help people across the Commonwealth, this sort of partisan bickering does nothing to advance the agenda of average Virginians a few short days before the start of this year’s General Assembly session,” he wrote.
Uh, Mr. Shepard anarchism is a complete lack of government and no politician would push such a movement because it would end their own career/self-interest.
...and Cuccinelli is an adherent of anarchism under which those who have get more and those who don’t have get nothing. If we can only talk in extremes I’ll take communism over anarchism any day. If we can discuss these matter as adults, I’ll take pragmatism.
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