Mark Small

Candidates - usu “front-runners” if not in others’ at least in their own - R safer 2 keep promises vague and 2 use bland phrases that harken 2 “mom, apple pie and the girl next door” & simpler times (that never existed). 2/26

Mr. Bales: > specific on > issues than other GOP candidates He warns “Nation and our Constitution is under assault by the Left! Join me to Protect our Freedoms!” but say how. 3/26

Mr Bales doesnt ID what societal forces make up “the Left” & Socialism as such a threat it keeps him “awake at night. I cherish the freedoms our Constitution guarantees us as United States citizens, and I will fight to protect those freedoms!” 4/26

Yesterday, I explained the concept of socialism is complex, difficult 2 define, & usually explained in context of comparison to capitalism. For 99% of Americans outside the uber elite, capitalism sucks. 5/26

Socialism involves govt control of capital, = treatment of ppl, & distribution of goods based on needs of ppl who use goods, not profits 4 ppl or corporations that, in capitalism, control those goods. 6/26

In capitalism, concerns for profit supersede concerns for people. A myth of capitalism is that it fosters competition and, through that competition, the marketplace benefits. 7/26

Given basic economic forces, socialism should not be feared. It makes sense. Basic dynamics of economics boil down to “stuff.” People need it, there only are so many ways to make it, and the more people that control it, the better. 8/26

Also, a country’s economic system does not have to be one hundred percent (100%) purely socialist. Parts can function on principles of socialism. Socialism has been part of the USA’s system for a long time. 9/26