Posted on 07/07/2026 5:56:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This year’s primary season features the rapid ascent within the Democratic Party of the faction going by the name “Democratic Socialists of America.” Despite the gratuitous co-opting of the label “Democratic,” it is by no means clear that the DSA faction would continue open elections once they had achieved enough power to end them. Instead, the DSA adopts the hardest of hard-line socialist positions on every issue.
I previously reported in my June 24 post that the DSA candidates in New York had accomplished nearly a clean sweep of all the Democratic Party congressional and state legislative primaries in which they had participated. Since then, a DSA candidate has knocked out a 15-term incumbent progressive Democrat in a safe Democratic district in Colorado. And The Washington Examiner reports on June 25 that DSA candidates have succeeded in some 30 down-ballot primary races in “Oregon, California, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Utah, Maryland,” as well as New York.
So who are these people calling themselves “Democratic Socialists”? I’ve spent some time researching the biographies of these successful candidates. Remarkably, there is a pattern that repeats time after time, with only slight variations. Your budding Communist ideologue comes from a family that has recently achieved modest or even substantial (but not extreme) success in the free market economy; and then a member of the next generation goes away to school at some “elite” institution, often on scholarship, studying some subject where leftist orthodoxy is pervasive (African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Sociology are typical examples). The scion then either remains in school indefinitely, or leaves school but disdains the private economy and dabbles in political organizing or other left-wing not-for-profit endeavors. Combine this sort of background with a sense of entitlement, and the result is a bitter, angry, resentful young person, with no understanding of the blessings of freedom or of the private economy, completely ignorant of human history and convinced that the socialist/communist program will quickly lead to utopia.
Let’s take a few examples.
Zohran Mamdani. His family arrived from Uganda (of all places) via South Africa when young Zohran was seven. The father became a professor of left-wing claptrap at Columbia, while the mother became a relatively successful film director. In other words, Zohran is nothing close to “working class.” Young Zohran then went away to fancy Bowdoin in Maine, where he majored in “Africana Studies.” He then spent around a decade without ever having a real job, dabbling in political campaigns, “organizing,” pretending to be a rapper, and claiming to be “oppressed.”
Darializa Avila Chevalier. After graduating near the top of her high school class in Florida, Ms. Avila Chevalier got a scholarship to Columbia in 2014, where she repaid the generosity of her sponsors by joining the anti-Semitic Students for Justice in Palestine, and the co-founding Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Twelve years later, Avila Chevalier continues to be a “graduate student” in Sociology at CUNY. Although she claims to have spent at least some time as an “investigator” for a public defender organization, almost everything in her Wikipedia biography consists of organizing and leading protests of one sort or another, and it appears that her lifestyle has been supported for the last twelve years mostly to entirely by scholarships and fellowships (likely taxpayer-funded).
Melat Kiros. This is the 29 year old woman who just won the Democratic primary for the Colorado congressional seat covering Denver. Her family immigrated from Ethiopia when she was an infant. According to her campaign website, her father went to pharmacy school in the U.S., so presumably is a pharmacist now. Kiros went to private colleges (Washington College in Maryland) and law school (Notre Dame). She landed a job at elite Sidley & Austin in New York, and then promptly got herself fired in 2023 for writing an anti-Israel screed. She has spent the last three years as a graduate student at the University of Colorado Denver.
Mamdani, Avila Chevalier, and Kiros (and the other DSA candidates) follow in well-worn footsteps of many famous predecessors — all of whom seem to have very similar biographies. Consider:
Pol Pot. I wrote a post about this guy back in 2021. From that post:
Pol Pot (birth name: Saloth Sar) was born in 1925 to a relatively wealthy farming family (Kiernan: “In later years the family would have been ‘class enemies.’”) with some 30 acres of land and six buffalo. One of Sar’s cousins was a dancer in the royal palace, and became one of the King’s principal wives; then one of his sisters moved into the palace and also became a royal consort. By the age of six, Sar too had moved into the royal palace, and after that was sent to top French colonial schools of the time. In his early twenties, they sent him off for further education in Paris. Big mistake. That’s where he took up the trendy Communism of the day. What later became the Khmer Rouge inner circle — in addition to Pol Pot, it was the Thiounn brothers, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary and Son Sen — were all his pals from his days as a student in Paris.
Lenin. Although Lenin’s paternal grandfather had been impoverished, his father was a striver who (according to Wikipedia) worked himself up to Director of Public Schools for a Russian province, and got himself awarded a hereditary title of nobility! Lenin went off to Kazan University, where he promptly began associating with the radicals of the time.
Karl Marx. The story of Karl Marx, creator of Communism, is no different. He was the son of a prosperous lawyer, Heinrich Marx, but had a huge sense of entitlement and was angry and resentful that he should have to work to make a living. Here is a famous quote from a letter that Marx’s father wrote to him in November 1837:
"Frankly speaking, my dear Karl, I do not like this modern word, which all weaklings use to cloak their feelings when they quarrel with the world because they do not possess, without labour or trouble, well-furnished palaces with vast sums of money and elegant carriages. This embitterment disgusts me and you are the last person from whom I would expect it. What grounds can you have for it? Has not everything smiled on you ever since your cradle? Has not nature endowed you with magnificent talents? Have not your parents lavished affection on you? Have you ever up to now been unable to satisfy your reasonable wishes?
Really, it’s hard to say it better than Heinrich Marx said it. These “socialists” are a crop of spoiled and ignorant losers who “quarrel with the world because they do not possess, without labour or trouble, well-furnished palaces with vast sums of money and elegant carriages.” At the moment, that seems to be the key to electoral success in primaries within the Democratic Party. Let’s only hope that it does not translate to general election success.
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HATRED OF GOD AND GOOD THINGS. JEALOUSY. LOSER MENTALITY.
Who travelled to Cambodia to praise Pol Pot’s regime in 1978
And Pol Pot just had him shot.
Indoctrination and/or ignorance
The only good one is a dead one ...
Manipulative person stuck in an infantile state where they believe ‘Momma’ MUST solve every problem. And if not ‘momma’ than ‘the state’ must become ‘momma’....
Manipulative person stuck in an infantile state where they believe ‘Momma’ MUST solve every problem. And if not ‘momma’ than ‘the state’ must become ‘momma’....
Selfish brats of culture liberal elites...
What causes people to vote communists into office? This is simple. Voters are tired of being lied to by politicians! Either they are voting for change (false hope) or as a protest vote. Our current lying politicians caused this! They were right about a third party would not stand a chance against the two party machines. But the found out that the communists would take over one of the political parties to gain office.
IMHO...people who have nothing and are typically too young to have grown any wealth. It’s very appealing to look around at those that have built wealth, assume they got it easily, and believe a system that takes from them and distributes it to those with less, iow - me, is justified.
If you’re young and struggling this makes sense. I never bought into it when I was younger, but I could see why others did. What they lack is an understanding of human nature and the destruction of motivation that comes with socialist/communist systems. Wealth must be constantly generated, once the motivation to do so stops, it’s just a downward spiral of equal misery. They think wealth “just exists” and the government can just print more money.
BTTT
If you’re young and struggling this makes sense. I never bought into it when I was younger, but I could see why others did.
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I think if I were poor and struggling, communism still wouldn’t make sense. Under capitalism, the production of goods can be so extraordinary that even people with low skills could afford to have a roof and eat well.
I keep in mind that the US economy is not free in many ways:
The government prints money
There is a minimum wage
There are a lot of business regulations
Without these things, the amount of goods produced by the US would be even higher and more people with limited abilities would live well.
Conservatives need to do the same and take over the Republican Party. The democRATs need to be kicked out of the Republican party.
I’ve posted it many times but it’s still true: socialism/communism will always be popular with people who think they can get something for nothing.
Conservatives need to do the same and take over the Republican Party. The democRATs need to be kicked out of the Republican party.
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That’s what the Tea Party tried. They couldn’t do it. The newer generations are less able to pull it off, so I believe it won’t be done.
Cuz its trendy right now with young people.
Ugh. Karl Marx is the mode of filthy, lazy, smelly, stinking pustule of leeching humanity that all other Communists are molded from.
I am currently dictating an audiobook “The Naked Communist” and the first chapter described Marx’s life. It makes you understand why all these other verminous Leftist Rats on the Left today gravitate to his mold to be stamped at places like Columbia.
It makes perfect sense that Obama went there.
The term democratic socialist is an oxymoron.
The last quote has nothing to do with Marxism. Karl’s father wrote that when Karl was 19 and in school away from home. He pretty much was calling him out for being “a little bitch.”
I am not sure it was prophetic or caused Karl to “do anything.” I think it does show the mindset of a bored little rich boy getting “schooled” by his Dad.
Anyone who has had to endure their child coming home from college in their Sophomore year and lecturing them on (Fill in the blank) because they’ve started a course in that subject, has had similar feelings. LOL
We now have mis-educated generations raised in American schools who were taught that Socialism and Communism are good, Capitalism is Evil.
They are not taught the evils of the Communist regime in Russia which killed 62 million people - as Professor Rummel puts it - men, women, children:
“Old and young, healthy and sick, men and women, even infants and the imfirm, were killed in cold blood. They were not combatants in civil war or rebellions; they were not criminals. Indeed, nearly all were guilty of...nothing”
— Death by Government, 61,911,000 Murdered, The Soviet Gulag State.
It is disturbing to read, but it meshes with one of my favorite books "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers in which he stated in his book:
“It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods."
It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.
It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world.
It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world.
It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe.
Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.”
The term democratic socialist is an oxymoron.
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When I was a kid in the 60’s I collected stamps. One of my friend’s mom was a secretary at a large hospital system in our area. She would grab stamps off from every foreign letter than came into the office. For some reason they got letters from Eastern Europe. That is when i learned about “The Democratic Socialists of”…name your commie country.
It caused me to go to the library to figure out where they came from, and what that meant. It’s funny…pretty much every country that had that in their name was under USSR rule. And I might have been young, but I wasn’t stupid—I knew that the USSR was the enemy.
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