I & I Editorial BoardWith the rapid takeover of their party by the Democratic Socialists of America underway, it’s time for every Democrat to answer for what the DSA believes in.
As the City Journal’s Stu Smith reported, the DSA has adopted a new platform that is, incredibly enough, even more radical than its previous one. Although it still hasn’t been published on its website, an advance version, which Smith obtained, is straight-up Marxism, declaring “the entire global system of capital” as its enemy and promising to “build a new society from the ground up.”
We doubt that many Democrats – much less the general public – have a clue what the DSA actually stands for. As Smith notes, “The DSA has largely avoided scrutiny, despite its increasingly extreme rhetoric and practices.”
But ignorance is no excuse. Because, as our I&I/TIPP Poll found, nearly half of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism. Because DSA members are the rising stars in the party, its driving force. Because leaders in the party are bending over backward to appease their socialist comrades. (House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries congratulated the latest socialist primary winners, and when pressed on CNBC “to reject those things,” blurted out, “Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America. Are you kidding me?”)
So, as a public service, we’ve come up with 10 questions that every Democrat must be asked – by the press, by the public, in every interview, at every event – and be made to answer. Everyone deserves to know where they stand on these issues.
Let’s start with the easy ones.
1. Do you support paid family leave for all families, free pre-k through college education, and canceling all student debt?
These are pretty standard ideas pushed by Democrats these days. Never mind that the 10-year price tag of the DSA’s “Freedom to Flourish” plan would be more than $3 trillion, to say nothing of the open invitation these “freebies” would create for fraud. (You can almost hear Minnesotans licking their chops.)
2. Do you support universal healthcare?
That’s another one on the DSA’s agenda that’s shared by most Democrats these days. Price tag: more than $3 trillion a year.
3. Do you support reparations for slavery?
If so, consider the price tag of up to $14 trillion, and the fact that it would only exacerbate, not ameliorate, racial tensions.
Now we get to some tougher questions.
4. Do you support defunding the police and closing prisons?
The DSA’s platform calls for both, except it uses jargony terms such as “demilitarizing” the police, “disempowering” police unions, and “abolishing the carceral forces of the capitalist state.” Democrats have been on both sides of this issue, depending on which way the wind was blowing.
5. Do you support a federal jobs guarantee?
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed this one years ago. That isn’t entirely surprising for a guy who honeymooned in the Soviet Union, which “guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance with its quantity and quality” in its constitution. (But yes, please keep explaining to us how there’s a big difference between Democratic Socialists and Communists.) Back in 2018, the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities figures the annual price tag for such a guarantee would be $543 billion.
6. Do you support wide-open borders?
The DSA wants to abolish ICE, “legalize migration,” grant amnesty to all illegal aliens, and end visa caps and quotas. What say you, Democrats?
Now for the really hard questions.
And remember, there’s no skipping questions, and no credit for non-answers.
7. Do you support nationalizing “the largest corporations and essential industries?”
Who’s up for a government takeover of Apple, Chevron, Walmart, Walt Disney, and NVIDIA? The DSA says this will ensure “democratic control and accountability to the people.” Sure, because it worked so well in Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, etc. Do you agree, Democrats?
8. Do you support defunding the Department of War and closing all overseas military bases? Should all aid to Israel, military and economic, be cut off?
Yes, that is in the DSA’s platform.
9. Do you support abolishing the Electoral College, the president, the Supreme Court, and the Senate?
That, too, is in the DSA’s platform, which says that “for the working class to govern, we need a new political system,” by which they mean getting rid of two of the three branches of government, along with the Senate, so that everything is “subordinate to Congress.” Some might call that downright un-American. What say you, Dems?
10. Final question: Do you agree with Sen. John Fetterman that Democrats are “drifting firmly into communism”?
We’d say that the party is rushing into communism, not drifting. In any case, if you’re a Democrat, and your answer to this question is “no,” then why are your fellow Democrats so afraid to condemn the DSA?
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
See Also:
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Nearly Half Of Democrats Say They Have ‘Favorable’ View Of Socialism: I&I/TIPP Poll
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Well..,the Democrats allowed Bernie, AOC, and tge rest of that tepid lot to run
Add to that manifesto the fact that the Left calls dissenting conservatives ‘morons’, can there be any doubt about who the real morons are? And the real threat to ‘our’ democracy?
Those Democrats who are oblivious to the complete DSA creed are indeed morons who have attended our public schools (thus, they can’t think or even want to) and have already “drunk the Kool Aid”.
Their votes are freely giving away our country. They will suffer for it; but if they are successful so will the rest of us.
Nobody could invade America and take her over. They know that. So, our enemies create and support groups like DSA. Neville Singham and Soros fund most of these seditious groups and are trying to take over America. Keep your powder dry, patriots. The enemy is inside of the gate.
Here are a few questions that all Republicans will be required to answer:
1. On January 6th your leader instigated a coarse and violent attack on the basic mechanisms of democracy following unproven claims of election fraud. Do you support the violent overthrow of American democracy?
2. Republicans have become a party completely in the thrall of a single antidemocratic leader who is considered by most in the party to be beyond all criticism. Do you believe there are any circumstances in which criticism of the Leader could be justified.
3. The Republican party is largely built on Christian nationalism, but the Leader is a Godless man who has made mockery of the sanctimony of marriage, has made many degrading and sexual comments about women, frequently his own daughter, and has been very close friends with the world’s most famous pediatric pimp. How do you reconcile having this foul excuse for a human with your beliefs?
Thank you for considering these important questions, answers back by first thing tomorrow!
We’re not Republicans, so you will have to find one and ask these yourself.
A list of lies needs no reply.
Three more years! I hope they are extremely brutal for you.
Often I ponder: Are democrats really this stupid….or are they really just completely ignorant? The first requires believing things which are disproven daily, weekly, monthly, and now — over a decade. The second requires a lack of curiosity while pretending to know everything (and the inability to intimidate others into silencing by implying proven lies are truth and that everyone but the one being spoken to “stands” with them.)
Impossible to figure out. A conundrum for our age.
How long has it been since the democrats actually elected, not apponted, someone?
A few months at most. House: Mejia, 2026. Senate: Gallego, 2024. Governor: Sherrill, 2025. President: Biden, 2020.
The legacy media don’t cover grooming gangs in the UK, Fauci’s COVID-19 lies, election fraud, etc. What makes you think they will touch any of this with a ten meter cattle prod?
This list hits hard and deserves to be broadcast everywhere, especially on X.
Forget the yes/no questions without a follow up. “Who is going to pay for your position by income levels, spelled out in legislation? Nobody receiving Veterans or Social Security benefits they paid for will pay a penny extra.
With the Democratic Party flushing itself down the toilet, all by themselves, is this finally an opening for the No Labels Party to gain national popularity by their common sense, level headed, moderation to our issues?
What happens when they all say “yes” to all of the above, and the positions get normalized?
We can’t even get the US Senators to explain why they will not vote for a bill the demands people be citizens of the US to vote. The Senate allowed a ridiculously watered down version of the filibuster, which does not force the a debate, “silent filibuster”. and, the Senate leader is for some reason afraid to force the debate and votes of those apposed. What a coward Thune is.
Question: #1) Are OK with 120,000,000 million non-urban conservatives with more guns and ammunition than all the worlds’ militaries combined using said guns and ammo to actively put down the communist revolution? Considering that the majority are ex-military and trained as snipers since they were 10 years of age. By the way this is the reason for the 2nd Amendment and the Constitution in general. Please understand that we will never allow a foreign national communist jihadi, that wipes her ass with our flag to rule over us. This is one of those FAFO moments you should think about. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I don’t think very many people realize just how many students have been taught in our schools for the past 3+ generations. Over 150 million students have been taught Socialism is great. At the same time, they have been taught everything about our country, from its founding to the present day is bad. We are in a lot of trouble in this country [as are most of the Western nations].
Between our schools and mass-media they have destroyed this once great country.
We are coming up on the 250th Birthday of our nation and as I look back on the changes this country has gone through since our Bicentennial Birthday 50 years ago, I am saddened and have realized if we continue down this same path our once great country will eventually be no more.
What a nation decides to teach to its children will be reflected in society. It is only a matter of time.
My Democrat friends refuse to see that their party has been taken over by the Islamocommies. Like German Jews in the 30s who refused to believe the Nazis were a threat, current Dems refuse to believe the Mamdani-Platner coalition spells doom. Refusing to see the writing on the wall must be a powerful psychological feature of all true believers.