{"id":211115,"date":"2026-10-11T19:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=211115"},"modified":"2026-10-11T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:49:25","slug":"patriots-to-discuss-democratic-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/11\/patriots-to-discuss-democratic-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots to discuss Democratic Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Heartland Patriots will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 13, at Wesley Methodist Church, 551 Center St. in Van Wert, near W. Main St.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The topic for the night is \u201cThe Rise of Democratic Socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politicians such as Bernie Sanders, Alexsandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib have publicly declared their desire for a more socialistic government in the U.S.&nbsp;Socialism is often viewed in Marxist theory as an intermediate transitional stage between capitalism and communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1950\u2019s President Dwight Eisenhower signed the \u201cControl Communist Act,\u201d which outlawed the Communist Party USA and stripped it of legal rights, privileges, and immunities. Card-carrying Communists were blacklisted from major film studios.&nbsp;Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, claiming he had a list of card-carrying Communists working inside the U.S. Department of State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the help of Hillsdale College and their Imprimus magazine, the Heartland Patriots will tackle this issue Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The Van Wert County Heartland Patriots will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 13, at Wesley Methodist Church, 551 Center St. in Van Wert, near W. Main St.&nbsp; The topic for the night is \u201cThe Rise of Democratic Socialism.\u201d Politicians such as Bernie Sanders, Alexsandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib have publicly declared their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-19 13:01:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211116,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211115\/revisions\/211116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}