A 2018 Gallup poll revealed that 57 percent of Democrats
have a favorable view of socialism without really understanding what the
Democrat Socialism they promote is. Capitalism, which allowed them to prosper,
was only favored by 47 percent. Millennials were polled the year before and 44
percent of them wanted to live in a socialist nation.
After the 2020 election, overall American support for
socialism dropped to 43 percent. Support
for Socialism in America Sinks Like a Stone After 2020 Election, Hits Lowest
Level in Years According to New Study (westernjournal.com)
Harold Meyerson wrote that there were 252 million voting-age
Americans. There is a whopping 93 million of Americans voting who view
socialism as a desirable society. I am not sure how the 11-40 million illegals,
who vote in our elections, factor in the statistics. Personally, I do not have
much faith in statistics as they can be skewed so many ways in order to prove
or disprove a narrative and the group polled may or may not be representative
of the population at large.
But the finding that Americans want socialism appears to be an
interesting development because in 1982, when Michael Harrington co-founded the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), there were only 6,000 members of DSA,
and membership did not grow by the time he died in 1989.
The Millennials and Generation Z (those younger than Millennials)
have overwhelmingly supported socialism in America and branded capitalism as
evil while enjoying a lifestyle provided by capitalist enterprises. Brainwashed
in schools by educators and environmentalists with well-targeted lessons and
videos of gloom and doom Apocalypse and a dying Mother Earth, huge levels of
college debt, a shrinking job market, and unmarketable and worthless college
degrees, more and more young people have joined the ranks of socialism as
promoted by Bernie Sanders, a socialist candidate who never held a productive
job in his life.
The socialist movement grows stronger with each younger age
group attracted by the promise of “free” stuff. Most of them have never attended
an Economics class to learn the concept of opportunity cost, and that nothing
is free, someone must pay for it.
Unfair media coverage of Democrat Socialist candidates inflates
the rosy picture of socialism as the alternative to the “evil” capitalism which
lifted everybody’s boats and gave all Americans an unusual opportunity for
prosperity unlike most countries in the world.
My mother used to say, protesters have nothing better to do,
Democracy has gone to their heads, and are bored by their wealth and abundance.
They have truly never had to suffer any economic indignity, poverty, or famine.
By any economic definition, they are not poor, and they are not oppressed as
they claim. They just repeat a narrative fed to them from the Mother Ship of
the Democrat Party who never lets an opportunity go to waste to score political
points in their favor.
Bernie Sander’s campaign and AOC’s victory in New York recorded
a huge surge in DSA membership. The Democrat Socialists promised free college
tuition, free childcare, full employment, more taxation of wealth to pay for
these programs, free housing, universal healthcare, and basic income, while not
working. They can just go on the Socialist plantation and find themselves.
How do Americans understand socialism? Even if they search
for it online, they find several manufactured definitions which are not
accurate – social causes and the public do not own the means of production, the
totalitarian governments do.
Thirty-three percent of Americans answered a Gallup poll in
2018 that socialism is a “society with equal standing for everybody, in which benefits,
and services were free for all.” Millennials and Generation Z want everything
free with no effort expended on their part to build anything or work at
anything, just exist.
As I recall from my two decades of living in a socialist
republic, nothing was free, and if it was, it was not worth having it, such as
health care. We certainly did not have equal standing; we were serfs to the
omnipotent government. There were no benefits at all, simply hard work and a
meal after standing in line for hours each day.
In a socialist republic, the government in total control of
the equally poor proletariat owns all the means of production and decides the
quantities of goods and services to be built and to be distributed to the
masses, after the ruling elites keep the lion’s share for themselves, their
families, and their ideological lackeys and Marxist useful idiots with starry
eyes and rose-colored glasses.
American Democrat Socialists view the Constitution as their
enemy, starting with the electoral college they despise which stands in their
way of controlling everything. They want the majority rule to replace the
electoral college thus giving voting power in perpetuity only to metropolitan
coastal cities. New York, California, and Illinois would be deciding the voting
landscape in perpetuity. American socialists also want to abolish the power of
the Senate.
Statistics show that the “majority of the fifty largest
cities have Democrat mayors and councils, many of them progressive, even in the
reddest of states.” Large cities are the incubation of socialism and Marxism, in
alliance with unions and far left ethnic organizations, cities in which crime,
poverty, homelessness, and other criminal activities dominate. Harold Meyerson
wrote that “we haven’t seen an upsurge like this since the wave of municipal
socialism in the early 1900s.”
Socialists helped promote public banks, public utilities,
social housing, mixed-income housing, worker and community-owned businesses,
co-ops, taxpayer entitlements (welfare). Prominent among urban organizations
are public/private partnerships associated with the U.N. Agenda 2030, the
destruction of suburbia by adding low-income mixed-use, high-rise housing among
expensive single-family homes for which owners have worked and saved their
entire lives. Looking again at the Nordic countries of Europe as a role model
for their socialism, urbanites want a “social wealth fund along the lines of
Norway.”
Many lawmakers have turned socialists and Marxists. The
House Progressive Caucus numbered 102 Socialist Democrats in 2018.
Socialists want to break up the big banks and to destroy
Wall Street; they want to nationalize the private sector and transfer ownership
to employees and the public. That really did not work well in the former
socialist republics run by the Communist Party – those in power controlled
everything and the proletariat was left with nothing after confiscation of
wealth, only hard labor, equal pay, and a horrible 400 square ft. tiny concrete
apartment for which they paid the rent decided by the state.
There is a vast difference between asking for more welfare
from your government in the Nordic model of social welfare paid for by the
private capitalist sector, and a socialist republic where the means of
production are owned by a totalitarian government who demands cheap and
egalitarian labor from the subservient population.
Americans on the left are far too ignorant to understand
history and economics, they are too busy demolishing monuments and installing
statues of criminals as role models instead.
And the sad reality is that we are sliding irreversibly into
socialism, the precursor to communism. The constitutional republic, for all
practical purposes, is comatose.
My liberal sister always points to the Nordic countries as evidence for how socialism can work. Now I just retort that it's her "white supremacy" bias causing her to cite majority white nations. . .after which I step back and watch as the smoke starts to pour out her ears!! Seriously, the testimony of those of you who have experienced socialism/Marxism firsthand is of increasingly vital importance in today's America!! Thanks Ileana.. keep em coming.
ReplyDeleteThanks, McBuff!
DeleteFrom my friend Carmel:
ReplyDelete"Thanks for another outstanding article... can you give us another one that "trashes" the United Nations...show how after 80 years they've failed.
Remember their first Charter was for "world peace"
and remember that time about 15 years ago when some of their scientists died suspiciously.
I like what your Mother had to say about protesters. It's so true...these people have nothing to do worth doing and they seem to wish to all be rich and famous."
From my friend, Dr. S:
ReplyDelete"With regard to the recent interesting exchange between many of you regarding banks, capitalism, usury, oligarchs, etc., I’d encourage you to read today’s post by my (and Kathie’s) friend, Ileana. Having spent the first 20 years of life in the miserable conditions of Romania, (where her father was killed by being dropped head first onto a pile of steel machining cuttings!) Ileana escaped to America. She earned her Ph.D in economics @ Mississippi State and taught there during the next 30 years. Since 2010 she has steadily been writing about the horrors of socialism/communism, that can be fully understood only by someone that lived through it. As she views the present woke cancel culture, Critical Race Theory, Agendas 2021 and 2030, the vast $6 trillion (read “$6,000 billion” OR “$6 million million” ! ) spending plans of Congress, etc., she fears being overtaken by the grim system she thought she had left behind in Romania. In that system the oligarchs are the party leaders, as was Ceasescu in Romania. As I see it, the biggest problem with socialism is the state ownership of all businesses. This destroys the profit incentive for hard work and the creation of wealth that underlies the millions of small businesses that are responsible for making most non-government jobs. Those individuals risking their fortunes on a new business are much better at assessing the need for their product or service than is a government bureaucrat playing with someone else’s money."