Posted on 11/07/2025 3:34:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
Democrats in the party continue to radicalize, and the position of the socialists in supporting Marxist ideology increases its hold.
Many people are wringing their hands over the election of self-identified democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor. Unfortunately, they have reason to be worried, because his election reflects a trend that can be called conservatively, concerning, and liberally, alarming. To understand this assessment better, it helps to understand the nature of democratic socialism.
What is the history of the movement in this country?
Although he wasn’t an admitted socialist, Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced sweeping socialism to America:
While Roosevelt was not a socialist, his administration enacted a series of sweeping government programs that had long been championed by the Socialist Party.
Policies such as Social Security, unemployment insurance, federal jobs programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and laws protecting workers’ rights to organize were all core tenets of the socialist platform that had been dismissed as radical just years earlier.
The Great Depression thus serves as the clearest example of how a systemic crisis can rapidly move socialist-inspired ideas from the political fringe to the center of American public policy.
Many of these programs have now become integral to the operations of the federal government, in spite of the early criticism of them. There is a good reason for calling them “entitlement programs.” Most of the country has come to depend on them.
Fast-forward 40 years, and we see the beginning of the Democratic Socialists of America:
Shortly before he co-founded Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in 1982, academic and leftist activist Michael Harrington attended a conference of the Socialist International in Paris. There he befriended many of the world’s leading socialists, including Israeli Knesset opposition leader Shimon Peres. Peres was among the coterie of leftist
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The goal of socialism is communism.
The left manufacturers social crisis in order to gain power
Communists can’t compete with Jesus’ promise of eternal life. Free fast buses was their lamest attempt yet.
The socialists that make up the democrat party aren’t scared to enact their socialist policies, that’s for sure.
Conservatives could learn a thing or two about overcoming timidity by watching them. Just the other day, AOC was talking about how the democrat has to embrace socialism as it’s their future.
The are telegraphing exactly what they are going to do, and we stay home and don’t vote. We complain about fraudulent elections after we saw what massive turnout does to voter fraud in ‘24.
Some talk about civil war as a solution to defeat socialism. You better pray it doesn’t ever come to that. Asymmetric civil war will have the US looking like Gaza.
Get out there and register people to vote and then get everyone to the polls every election. Pray that voting solves the problem. If it doesn’t, I fear the ramifications.
42 million hungry Socialist RATS is the greatest threat to the Far-left’s Damockrazy.
I think this (Mamdani’s election) will end up being a wake-up call. Things will get worse in NYC and then a lot of folks will start paying attention to what is going on all over the world, particularly in London UK.
The Great Awakening will occur.
A lot of the Stupids won’t survive, right? For example, the people who are STILL pushing the vaccine and mask-wearing.
Of course, the current crop of Republicans in Congress isn’t going to buck the status quo. They all need to be replaced, whether they are any good or not.
It is a lot easier to promise to give things than to promise to take it away.
Communists with an innocent sounding name.
Not only an innocent sounding name, but also the suggestion that they always mean well in all they do with nothing but the best of intentions. However, when it’s good news for the Democrat Party, it’s bad news for America.
Communism is designed to spread the democrats contracted it early it’s why their party was formed.
“Democratic Socialists”
Hard-line communism via the slow boat.
The VERY FIRST thing that the commie dems will do if they win the midterms will be to Impeach Trump Again. It will go downhill very fast from there!
Before reforming his party into the Communist Party of Russia, Vladimir Lennon led his Democratic Socialist Party of Russia in a civil war against the minority (Menshaviks) party members who were critical of the majority’s (Bolsheviks) violence against Tsarists and capitalist in Russia. Democratic Socialism isn’t an American invention. Socialism = Communism
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