Many Democrats are Marxists. Is that Helping Them?

It seemed, by the end of the Obama Administration, that America had lost the Cold War and Communism has triumphed because of the almost totalitarian expansion of the central government regulations controlling the economy, education, the media, the Intelligence Community, and health care; but fortunately the American people and traditional American political culture reasserted itself and we just missed walking off the cliff into outer darkness.

The struggle continues, of course, but the tide has turned against the radical left. But as farmers and hunters in this rural Virginia always tell me: “A dying animal is the most dangerous thing there is.” A dying raccoon, bobcat, or even possum, will attack you if you get within 100 yards of it. A dying animal is frightened, desperate, vicious, and has nothing to lose. Liberal Democrats are like a dying possum – ridiculous-looking but deadly. This is because their whole system is collapsing, and they are holding on like a monkey clinging to a slippery tree limb.

Their Marxist ideology could actually help them out of these death-throngs, but they don’t have any intelligent Marxists left and that Communist fantasy itself has some fatal and ironic flaws.

The problem with Democrats is that they act like they have never been taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.

In other words, instead of getting themselves elected to the constitutionally limited power federal government and unconstitutionally expanding the federal government’s powers to repeatedly prove that socialism doesn’t work, Democrats need to get themselves elected to state governments and work independently of the federal government, using 10th Amendment-protected state powers to experiment with socialism.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Justice Brandeis had put it this way about the "laboratories of democracy," the unique powers of the sovereign states to serve the people, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government, etc.

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