Is Socialism the future of the Democrat Party?
Democrat National Committee Chair Tom Perez has stated that candidates such as New York City socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the future of his party. Ocasio-Cortrz defeated a powerful incumbent, Joe Crowley, who had been seen as a potential successor to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. (Perez himself is a radical left-wing ideologue.) In a Nebraska swing district, progressive neophyte Kara Eastman beat another established Democrat figure. In Maine, Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein, also a socialist, is running for U.S. Senate. And of course, in the last Democrat primary season, Hillary Clinton, a fan herself of left-wing causes, resorted to dirty tricks to insure her victory over socialist Bernie Sanders.
Considering that the Democrat Party is now strongly influenced, indeed, some might argue led at least partially by socialists, it is remarkable that there has not been a national conversation about the implications of bringing socialism within American government. Dave Nammo, writing for the National Review reports that “The American Culture and Faith Institute recently conducted a survey of adults 18 and older. It shows not only how deeply divided Americans are on some issues but also how their view of the nation stands in many cases in stark contrast to our nation’s founding principles…The…Institute recently conducted a survey of adults 18 and older…The most alarming result… was that four out of every ten adults say they prefer socialism to capitalism…”
In every inhabited continent, and in every type of nation, socialism has been tried, and produced little more than economic misery and failure. Some might argue that some nations that have a degree of socialism, such as those in Europe, have not been plunged into bankruptcy. But the reality is that their economies are facing significant downfalls in the near future, and the avoidance of disaster so far has been dependent on U.S. taxpayers buying their products in uneven trade schemes, and on American taxpayers paying for vital portions of their defense bills. Even China’s powerful economy would collapse without American consumers.
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Despite that, socialism is growing in popularity in America.
As the Russian publication RT notes “Since its heyday in the early 20th Century, socialism in the US struggled to win even a tiny following. Now candidates are openly calling themselves socialists and winning elections…Clearly, some kind of tectonic shift is underway in American politics, because Ocasio-Cortez is not the only socialist winning elections and ousting establishment Democrats. Four incumbent members of the state legislature in Pennsylvania, a state that narrowly voted for Trump in 2016, were defeated this year in primaries by insurgent candidates – all of them, like Osario-Cortez, members of Democratic Socialists of America, a little-known political group that has suddenly grown in membership from 6000 prior to 2016 to over 40,000 this year. Socialism as a political force has never had an easy time in the US…Now, in part because the Sanders campaign has made socialist ideas like national healthcare and free college education – once not on any Democratic candidate’s campaign agenda – suddenly acceptable topics for political discourse, his millions of enthusiastic youthful supporters from that campaign are openly considering socialism …One sign that this sudden popularity of socialist politics and ideas is not just a short-time phenomenon is that it’s showing up most among younger people, many of whom hadn’t shown much interest in politics before. A Harvard University study published in April for example, found that 51 percent of those between the ages of 18-29 disliked capitalism, with a majority preferring socialism as a political system. A year earlier, the conservative magazine National Review wrote with alarm that in the wake of the Sanders campaign, a poll by the conservative American Culture and Faith Institute had found 40 percent of Americans saying they favored socialism over capitalism.”
The Report Concludes Tomorrow.
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