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This time it’s real, and undeniable. The Democrats have for years denied, with varying degrees of scorn or anger, that they are Communists, despite hating both free enterprise and borders, which are just the sorts of things you’d expect socialist internationalists to hate. Now, however, the deniability is no longer even close to plausible. As the Democrat candidates move ever farther to the left, it’s clear: A spectre is haunting the Democrats. The spectre of Communism.
Back in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published “The Manifesto of the Communist Party,” which began grandly, or ominously, depending on your point of view, with this statement: “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.” They claimed that all the most formidable forces of the continent were arrayed against this new phenomenon: “All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.” “Exorcise” was well chosen.
Yet even as Marx and Engels claimed that they were unleashing a power that all the European elites were determined to destroy, they likewise immediately insisted that those elites were engaged in battle with an imaginary threat that they themselves had conjured up: “Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?”
That sounds quite similar to accusations Democrats have hurled at Republicans over the years: “How dare you question my patriotism,” and all that. As the Democrats’ policies grew progressively more anti-American, the gang of hacks, DEI hires, and grifters that once proudly styled itself as the Party of Jefferson and Jackson did everything it could to make people think pointing out that increasingly obvious fact was both ridiculous and offensive. And so, ever fewer people have dared to do so, even as it became even more obvious that hating America and having a taste for Marxism went with being a Democrat like arrogance and self-righteousness went with being Barack Obama.
Now, however, it’s impossible to deny. The best and the brightest among young Democrats are all avowed socialists. The party would have chosen a socialist, Bernie Sanders, as its candidate for president in 2016 and likely also in 2020 if party top dogs hadn’t stepped in and arranged for the candidacy of someone who was at least outwardly more mainstream.
All the while, Democrats insisted their socialism was nothing to be worried about, but was of an extremely cuddly variety. One of the foremost among the party’s up-and-coming new socialists, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick), maintains that what she has in mind isn’t the bad old socialism of the Soviet Union, Communist China, Pol Pot’s Democratic Kampuchea and the rest, but a type involving more unicorns and moonbeams. “So when millennials talk about concepts like democratic socialism,” she explained, “we’re not talking about these kinds of ‘Red Scare’ bogeyman.” Yeah, tell all the victims of Stalin and Mao that it was just a “scare.” Those hysterical right-wingers were having the vapors over nothing.
Ocasio-Cortez continued, “We’re talking about countries and systems that already exist, that have already been proven to be successful in the modern world. We’re talking about single-payer health care that has already been successful in many different models, from Finland to Canada to the UK.” Great, but none of those countries are actually socialist. Foreign Policy pointed out in 2021 that “Nordic countries are often used internationally to prove that socialism works. It’s true that social democratic parties are enjoying success in this part of the world.” However, it’s not the kind of success that AOC would want to encourage: “Today, the Nordic social democrats have adopted stricter immigration policies, tightened eligibility requirements for welfare benefit systems, taken a tougher stance on crime, and carried out business-friendly policies.”
The brand of socialism that is getting more popular among U.S. Democrats is nothing like that. Instead, we have Zohran Mamdani, who will likely be the next mayor of New York, and has called for “seizing the means of production,” as well as transforming “housing from a private commodity to a public one.” And now there’s Omar Fateh, a candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, who also wants state-owned housing, along with wage rates set by the state. That’s not cuddly Scandinavian socialism. That’s Marxism. Do we have to have actual gulags on American soil to know where it leads?
The Communists are clearly the future of the Democrat Party. Arrayed against their spectre are the party top dogs, not because they’re against their ideology, but because they want to continue the illusion that their party still champions American values. There are still some rubes out there who can be fooled on this point.
Nothing about Great Britain’s NHS is great, or even mediocre. Just as in Canada, the system deals with failure to support aging population by prescribing euthanasia of the elderly. Just as in Canada, the system supports the castration, mutilation, and medicalization of children with sexual dysphoria. Just as in Canada, the system condones and fosters prenatal infanticide. Why any sentient human, faced with evidence of sustained failure, supports single-payer medical services is incomprehensible.
“prenatal infanticide”.
Love the newspeak bro. It’s as jaunty as anything coming from the Left. But then again Christianity is on the Left. And Marxism comes from Judeo-Christianity.
You will always be an idiot. There is zero hope for you. But at least you had the infantile smarts not to post one of your Lenny screeds about how Christianity laid the ground for blah blah blah.
Hey if MamiWho’sYerDaddi gets elected are you going to have the nuts to leave Manhatten?
Or are you going to just sit there and whine about how the world is coming to an end….Without your girlfriend/Goddess.
Oh, did someone need a trigger warning?
Talk about “infantile.” Look at me everyone! I can make fun of people’s names! “DeSanctimonius and “Little Marco” say “hello.
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Bullets hurt.” Deep that!
Hey Al, you are just as stupid dealing with me as you are with Bergholz. Or is this Sebby using one of his ghost accounts.
Guess you don’t like Trump either do you, AIFullofgas.
And bullets actually do hurt. Obviously you are too much of a pussy to stand up to one.
It’s obvious you have nothing intelligent to say because you area low rent moron. Go back to Gaza and play in your sandbox.
Take it balls deep. bitch.
You sounds like you lean towards Muslim ideas.
Instead of blaming Marxim on Christiany, blame it on Jews who started and continuously promoted socialism, communism, Bolshevism, and Marxism even here in the USA.
Can you name many Jewish politician in the USA who are patriotic conservatives?
Somewhere Spectre chief Ernst Stavro Blofeld is enraged at the besmirching, or Be-SMERSH-ing of his name!
Not even the homeless will opt for government housing, let alone citizens who currently live in their own private property. What a joke.
Marx was one of the worst in the History of all Mankind worst then Hitler ever was his Philosophies are still around just look at the Campses, Hollywood and M.S. Media Bottom Feeders
There’s a very excellent documentary video on Amazon titled “Sweden: Lessons for America?”
The narrator explains, Sweden experimented with a kind of socialism based on the “tax the rich” mentality popular among Democrats, and saw it’s economy decline severely. Their tax system was reformed to spread the cost of things like education and health insurance among everyone including the middle class. The result is, middle class people pay 40% or more of their income in taxes.
The other thing about Sweden is it has a relatively small population – 10.6 million compared to the US’s 350 million.. Almost every citizen has a relative or knows someone personally who is elected to their national legislature. The kind of money-driven corruption so prevalent here doesn’t exist there.
I joke that, instead going ahead with the planned burial of Lenin in September 2025, Putin should just ship Lenin’s corpse to the DNC, COD. They’ll rapturously pay the COD charges!
The DNC would subject Lenin to DNA testing with the aim of demonstrating his diversity as their strength. The results would be predetermined and not reproducible.
Time to expose into the light of men’s consciousness today of what Communist ideology breeds: 150+ million dead in 100 years of marxist rule, killing innocent citizens by the governments of the USSR, Soviet China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Venuezuela, Chile, Cuba, etc…. all done by government leaders dedicated to marxist and communist ideology.
The reason these minor countries can afford the luxury of communism is that the alpha dog of the globe maintains a dominantly powerful military. Despite the left-wing rhetoric bemoaning the US as “the policemen of the world,” that is exactly who we are, if only by default. If not us, then who? I’ll open the floor for nominations.
The flow of the article was smooth and logical. This gave me a new perspective. I can see how this applies in real life.