Stay Home, Elect Socialists

American Thinker ^ | 9 Sep, 2026 | Joseph Ford Cotto

[MtnClimber]

The November midterms will determine whether the country keeps advancing under President Donald J. Trump. The alternative is Democrats dragging her backward into the abyss of malicious weakness and willful disorder.

Republican voters who sit this cycle out will hand power to a party that has been seized by its most radical elements. Those elements make no secret of their contempt for the country that virtually all Trump voters still love.

Democrats, from city halls to Capitol Hill, now answer to young activists who call themselves “democratic socialists.” Their warped worldview treats the majority-white West as a thief that stole its wealth from the nonwhite developing world. Their intent is to drain America of her capital so others, especially from Muslim countries, can exact revenge.

That is not hidden. It is the operating theory of the insurgent left that now holds the blue party hostage.

If Democrats take the U.S. House, the Senate, or both, they will spend the next two years doing everything within reach to derail the Trump administration. They will also try to wreck every Republican presidential bid in 2028. Pretending anything to the contrary is an especially pathetic form of self-deception. The stakes are that high.

Consider the blue record.

Just days ago, 192 House Democrats voted against a resolution denouncing socialism and the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America. Months earlier, nearly 100 House Democrats had already refused to condemn socialism. Their votes confirm what Trump has said: the radical left wants open borders, abolished police, shuttered prisons, taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens, voting by non-citizens, and policies that favor criminals over citizens.

Every Democrat in Congress voted against the largest tax cut in American history. They opposed ending taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security. They opposed Trump investment accounts for children

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: elections

[MtnClimber]

I think democRATs would love it if everyone lived in Section 8 apartments and if all food was rationed.

[Openurmind]

What needs to be hammered home is that they are NOT “democratic socialists.” This is deceptive mislabeling and they are actually Communists and want Communism. “Socialists” is a term that sugar coats their true end goals.

What exactly is communism?

When it was first used in the mid-19th century, communism referred to an economic and political theory that advocated the elimination of private property and the common sharing of all resources among a group of people; in this use, it was often used interchangeably with the word socialism. Today, the word communism usually refers to the political and economic ideologies originating from Karl Marx’s theory of revolutionary socialism, which advocates a proletariat overthrow of capitalist structures within a society; societal and communal ownership and governance of the means of production; and the eventual establishment of a classless society.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism

[alloysteel]

“Stay home, elect socialists.”

Well, THAT is easy. Exerting no effort whatsoever. Who ever said one had to vote to put socialism in office? Merely suppress the vote AGAINST socialism, the minority wins every time.

At no time has socialism won the majority vote of an informed public. They just have to get all the fools on their side, that is the majority in any town. Willful ignorance is a practiced art.

[eyeamok]

Make no mistake, the difference between socialism and communism is the difference between seduction and rape, you are still screwed.

[caddie]

Socialists/Communists can't work/have a morbid fear of work. They rely on trickery, chicanery, sophistry, etc., to talk normals out of their hard-earned money.

Classic is the Arab trying to get elected to the Senate. Gets an MD which is basically school that is impossible to get flunked out of.

The REAL work and learning and FEAR starts when you start taking responsibility for patient care decisions. And this guy was to chicken even to go through with an internship, let alone a residency. Let along the hard work which inevitably follows.

Two things are obvious from this:

1.) He is a Red-diaper baby Communist Post Turtle exactly like Clinton and Obama. Gets a "Rhodes Scholarship" like so many other dull-witted Post Turtles like Rachel Maddow, Clinton, etc., etc,. I wish those fools in Oxford would stop polluting the world with their intellectual feces in the form of Rhodes Scholars.

2.) He has a morbid fear of work. He would slit his wrists rather than do a decent day's work. Like Bernie Sanders, he will rehearse his lies and sophistry all day all night, rather than actually put in a solid day's work. He couldn't do it if his life depended on it. That is the weakness of the Communists. They are butt-lazy and they know it.

[simpson96]

His sentiment shows how Mamdani got elected.

[aquila48]

Idiots that sit at home think they’re not voting.

By not voting you’re handing a vote to the other side.

[Republican Wildcat]

The Left would never have made all of the progress they have made over the decades without that handful of voters - 5-10% - who just decide to “stay home” claiming there is no difference between the two parties. And they continue to say this no matter how many successes our side has - you could have ten accomplishments and if there ends up being one single failure, to them it negates everything else as though it doesn’t exist and we may as well just allow the Left to have free reign.

There are people on here actually claiming there has been no policy difference since January 2025 than we had previously and are advocating on this forum people to stay home. They’re upset with Cornyn so they want people to stay home so that the person who defeated him in the primary can’t get elected. They’re upset with Cassidy so they want people to stay home so the person who defeated in the primary can’t get elected. They’re upset with Tillis who saw the writing on the wall he didn’t bother to run for re-elect, so they want people to stay home so the person running to replace him to not get elected. Etc, etc, etc. Just nonsensical logic.

[Openurmind]

“Make no mistake, the difference between socialism and communism is the difference between seduction and rape, you are still screwed.”

It is more like an individual as a teen and then an adult. Same exact same individual, just more advanced and deeper refined. The concept and end goals list are the exact same. The only difference is to what degree of maturity.