It used to be that so-called Democrat Socialists were considered on the fringe of American politics.
That is because their policies are almost indistinguishable from Communists.
They are savvy enough to avoid that name.
The Democrat Socialists are also generally smart enough to not run for political office with that label on the ballot.
The Democrat Socialists of America are not an official political party.
However, they have an agenda and a platform.
It is contained in this document.
They are currently working to gradually takeover the Democrat party.
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| Source: https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/dsa-democrats-us-politics-k8z2tdz78 |
Why go to the time and expense to grow your own political party when you can do a takeover?
Although Bernie Sanders is not officially a member of the Democrat Socialist party he has consistently referred to himself as a Democrat Socialist.
Sanders has always run for his Senate seat in Vermont as an Independent although he caucuses with Democrats in Washington.
However, more and more members of the Democrat Socialists of America are running for political office as Democrats and winning.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D--NY) is a DSA member.
Rashida Tlaid (D-MI), the U.S Representative from Michigan is also a DSA member.
The Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, is also a Democrat Socialist as is the Mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson, and in Washington, D.C., Democrat Socialist Janeese Lewis George just won the Democrat nomination to be the next mayor of that city.
The big news last week was that three Mamdani endorsed candidates who espouse DSA views won the Democrat nominations for Congressional seats in New York City. Two of those who were defeated were Democrat incumbents.
The Democrat Socialists are clearly working to takeover the Democrat party and remake it in their image.
What are some of the major platform items in the Democrat Socialist of America 2025-2026 program?
It starts with promises of lots of FREE stuff.
FREE Medicare for All with no premiums, deductibles or co-pays.
FREE college tuition and room and board at all public schools.
CANCEL all student loan debt.
FREE public universal child care and pre-K.
FREE expensive paid family leave.
UNIVERSAL rent control housing.
ZERO cash bail.
For an added bonus, demilitarize ( I guess defund did not poll well) the police and decriminalize all drug offenses.
How is all of this going to be paid for?
All you have to do is tax the rich according to the Democrat Socialists.
In the meantime, everyone also gets to work a 32-hour work week with no reduction in pay or benefits.
Make unions stronger and also spend trillions on a Green New Deal while having the government take over major transportation, energy infrastructure and natural resources companies.
I am sure it will all work out great.
The most important foreign policy issue for the Democrat Socialists is freeing Palestine and reducing the United States military budget.
A core belief for the DSA is very much an anti-Israel and anti-Zionist agenda.
The DSA also wants a free and open border and to provide amnesty to all illegal immigrants.
Of course, we also have to provide everything FREE to all immigrants who end up here as well in addition to providing them access to jobs and labor rights.
Finally, they want to rework the political and governmental framework in the United States.
Abolish the electoral college.
Extend full voting rights to non-citizens and convicted felons.
Replace the two-party system and expand the seats in the House of Representatives and have proportional representation elections.
Reform the Supreme Court.
Put everything together and it is a very long list.
In summary, the Democrat Socialists want to fundamentally alter and change almost everything about the United States of America.
In so doing, it would almost certainly destroy what has been the most prosperous and successful nation in the history of the world.
The problem is that when a politician comes along and says that they are going to make everything FREE it is not easy for everyone to see that the math does not work and where it all leads.
You simply cannot provide a bunch of free stuff, cut everyone's work hours, provide jobs and free stuff to millions and millions of immigrants and expect it is all going to be paid by a few rich people.
People in many countries have fallen for that "FREE" line and not one has ended up better off.
And they were not promising to let everyone else in the world into their country to also get free stuff.
In the aftermath of the elections in New York, President Trump warned the Democrat party that they had better be prepared to fight off the takeover or they would be doomed and the country would be facing one of its greatest risks in its 250 year history.
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| Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5943014-trump-democratic-socialist-candidates-primaries-nyc/ |
President Trump warned that the democratic socialist candidate victories in Tuesday’s New York primaries go beyond the left-leaning state.
“The Democrat Party is in big trouble because this isn’t stopping with New York,” Trump said Friday, speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual policy conference in Washington.
It’s too easy to get elected, giving everything away,” he continued. “It’s easy for them to get followers because they make promises they know they can’t keep.”
Trump went on to say the Democratic Party’s establishment is not fighting back because “they’re afraid to fight.”
The Democrat establishment is afraid to speak out against the insurgents because they fear they will be the next target for the Democrat Socialists.
The Democrat Socialists left no doubt about that after the election in New York City by booing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and changing "You're Next".
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| Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVJMJp9b5c |
However, history has shown that appeasement does not work when core values and principles are so misaligned.
Ronald Reagan said it well.
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| Source: https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/quotes/freedom-is-never-more-than-one-generation-away-from |
Are the Democrats prepared to fight the takeover of their party?
Are the rest of us prepared to fight for the soul and sanctity of the United States of America?
The choices could not be more profound and consequential.
As Ronald Reagan also said in his famous "A Time For Choosing" speech in 1964.
It was true in 1964.
It is even truer today.
Oh Scott, a time for choosing indeed.. The choice you're offering, though, turns out to be between reading the DSA platform and reading a history book, and you would prefer us to skip the history book.
ReplyDeleteLet's start with your ending: Reagan's 1964 "A Time for Choosing." Perfect. Let's talk about what Reagan was choosing against. That speech is the founding text of a very specific American genre (this government program will be the end of freedom itself). Reagan built his career on it, warning that Medicare would have us telling our grandchildren what it was once like, way back when, to be free Americans. Medicare passed in 1965. The grandchildren turned out fine. They also love Medicare. The "this will destroy America" speech has a 60-year losing streak, and you just cited it as his closer.
Then there's the parade of "FREE stuff," which you treat as self-evidently ruinous. Funded by taxes, free when you use it the horror, oh my god, no!!! That also describes the fire department, the interstate, the United States Navy, and the public high school. In fact, "a free high school education available to everyone" is the exact phrase YOU use, two days later in your next post, to explain the foundation of the American dream. So either free public education is the bedrock of not ending up poor, or it's a communist plot. You're welcome to pick one. Scott argued both inside the same week.
And the closer to the argument: "not one country that fell for FREE ended up better off." Denmark would like a word. So would Norway, Finland, and the Netherlands. Universal healthcare, tuition-free college, paid family leave, work weeks that would give an American middle manager a panic attack and every one of them beats the United States on life expectancy, happiness, and press freedom, all while running stock markets and producing plenty of billionaires, which we know you passionately care about. The whole post depends on one word: "Communist", quietly doing the job of turning Copenhagen into Caracas. Bernie points at Denmark. You point at Venezuela and hopes you won't check the map.
One more thing, since you're worried about a "takeover." What actually happened, by your own account? Candidates ran in primaries. Some won. Some lost. An establishment leader got booed by his own voters. That is not a coup that's a party having an argument, conducted entirely through elections. It is, in fact, the single least communist thing a movement can do. The actual Communists were famous for not holding primaries, remember?