I & I Editorial BoardNo one who’s kept up with U.S. politics even minimally over the last four decades should be surprised that the Democratic Party has been the launching pad for a wave of socialism. The party has long been rooted in socialist principles. It was inevitable that what the Democrats have long covered up is now out in the open and its zealots adherents are threatening our republic.
Granted, the wave is not overwhelming and our country has survived previous flirtations with socialism. But the boldness from the outright socialists, who are hiding behind the label of “democratic socialists,” cannot be waved away, and the Democratic Party will be responsible for the damage that the Democratic Socialists of America will wreak if voters don’t turn away the slate of the most radical candidates we’ve seen in some time.
There is a reason that Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders first caucused with, then ran for president as a member of, the Democratic Party. Contempt for limited government and economic freedom (which naturally begets capitalism) has long been a main chapter in the Democrats’ handbook.
Redistributing wealth to increase political power is not a new idea for them. Neither is their disdain for secure borders nor animosity toward their country. Democrats have sympathized with leftist dictators, from Fidel Castro to Daniel Ortega to Hugo Chavez while crusading for the seizure of private property and the means of production. The seeds that sprouted into hatred for Israel and Jews abroad were planted, watered and fertilized by yesterday’s more mainstream Democrats. Both the new and old have agitated for chaos so that they we are more easily divided and then conquered — because who else could fix the country’s problems other than someone who is willing to knock heads and put boots on necks?
Today’s new socialists sit firmly on a straight line from the 1960s leftist radicals. Like their forebears, they lump their many causes under a big umbrella not so they can address multiple grievances but because the only issue was, and still is, the revolution. Toppling our system is the only goal. Democrats have not only declined to turn away from this thinking, they have nurtured it, and it has come back around to the incrementalists as they are eaten one by one, from California state senator and U.S. House hopeful Scott Wiener to the many not-left-enough politicians who recently lost their primaries.
As far as we can tell, few Democrats are publicly resisting the socialist swell. Instead, they want their version of a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to keep the communism-now Democrats at bay. For instance, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who has “embraced a new crop of congressional nominees … including three Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates.” Yet he has not escaped their wrath. The DSA faithful have warned him that “you’re next.”
A monster has been loosed on this country, and though still an infant, there’s reason to be concerned that it will too soon become fully grown and begin to consume our republic. Democrats, who have been closeted socialists for at least a couple of generations, are to blame. They’ve been setting up the revolution for decades. How they react will have a significant impact on our future.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Socialists/Communists are out of the closet. It was a close race, but NYC beat LA. If a closet could have a basement, that closet (of course I don’t mean to red-tar all residents of NYC, there are exceptions) would be in the many (?) red precincts of NYC.
The rise of Socialism within the Democratic Party is directly related to the failure of our education system to point out the past failures of Socialism. I find it ironic that they call themselves Democratic Socialists and repeatedly smear their opponents with names of fascists or Nazis. A history lesson is in order. In 1933, Germany came under control of the Democratic National Socialist Party; It was shortened to the Nazi Party. Their main platform was anti-semitism and the elimination of the Jewish people. Ironically, anti-semitism is rampant within the current Democratic Socialists; they are the true Nazis. It is important to follow their actions, not their rhetoric.
If there is any benefit to the Democratic “leadership” being subsumed by the Radical Democratic Socialists of America, it will be the rise of the common sense party, which now calls itself the No Labels Party.
No Labels understands the intelligence, the balance, the admirable good graces and common sense of the majority of our citizen/voters, eschewing the extremists in the right and left end zones of both major parties.
If No Labels changes their name to the “Common Sense Party,” (dropping the negative word) they will lead, even the Republicans, to save our country from the ruinous evil, the middle schooler ignorance and the guaranteed dangers for the United States which motivate the Radical Democratic Socialists of America.
I vote for our “Common Sense Party.”
So the moral of this story kids , you better vote ONLY Republican* for the next generation or two. Or you and and your children will live out the rest of your lives in a nightmare you never really imagined.
The monster is fed by by the festering problems left behind by Liberalism, whether you call it that it or call Conservatism – they are both sides of the same coin. Voting rights and citizenship battles are the ultimate battle for both, meanwhile Progressivism and Socialism promise to actually solve this country’s issues with inequity. Like it or not, its not a trick and it appeals to many, many people. Gird your loins, Centrists.
Why do conservatives keep playing into leftist tactics by calling them socialists instead of Communists?
Interesting article. Personally I’ve read Marx and know the labor movement in the U.S. along with trade unions were a large part started by socialists, so I don’t feel as doom and gloom about it.