You missed my point entirely so I'll clarify: if what you say about the Dems and the DSA is true, the question should be "Why are these ideas proving so popular with a large segment of our populace?". I'm not saying what you wrote is right or wrong nor am I saying if the Dem and DSA polices are good or bad, I'm only asking why do they resonate.Quite a bit of hyperbole but if what you say about the Dems and the DSA, the question should be "Why are they popular?". I'd submit it is in response to radicals on the Right taking the GOP out of the mainstream.There was a time when the Democrat Party was an American party, infused with the heritage and values of this great nation. No longer.
But that may be about to change.
Where things stand now in the Democrat Party:
"MARXISTS AND EXTREME RADICALS SEEK TO TAKE OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A far-left group behind rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rife with Marxists and other far-left radicals.
- DNC chairman Tom Perez said Democratic Socialists of America member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “represents the future of our party.”
- DSA chapter chairs have agreed that “communism is good.”
- One DSA caucus calls its members “revolutionary Marxists.”
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which includes Ocasio-Cortez, is creeping its way into the mainstream of American politics.
What Perez didn’t mention is that the group behind “the future” of the Democratic Party is teeming with radicals openly dedicated to dismantling and overturning the economic and social foundations of the United States."
Marxists And Extreme Radicals Seek To Take Over The Democratic Party
It’s Not ‘Identity Politics,’ It’s Anti-White Politics
It’s Not ‘Identity Politics,’ It’s Anti-White Politics
"With Thomas Perez As DNC Chairthing, Democrats Go Full Anti-White
… Mr. Perez is a dedicated Social Justice Warrior, a key enforcer of the Obama administration’s anti-white programswhen serving in key positions in the Justice Department and the Department of Labor across almost all of the eight Obama years."
With Thomas Perez As DNC Chairthing, Democrats Go Full Anti-White
“White men are now the Democratic Party's punching bag. That's a dangerous bet to make.” White men are now the Democratic Party's punching bag. That's a dangerous bet to make.
“Democrats’ refusal to call out Ilhan Omar’s anti-semitism is just appalling
What’s hard is bringing a resolution to the House floor condemning a representative’s bigotry when you don’t want to and you’re afraid of making people mad, even though what we’re talking about here is Jew-hatred. We’re talking about a member of Congress attacking a small minority group.
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, said she believed Omar’s remarks “were not intentionally anti-Semitic.”
https://nypost.com/2019/03/06/democ...-ilhan-omars-anti-semitism-is-just-appalling/
But the handwriting is on the wall…..and it’s in English!
“Labor Party Apologizes to British Jewry”
.Labor Party Apologizes to British Jewry
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.www.nysun.com
Dems flirtation with Socialism is a reaction to the growing economic chasm between the rich and poor and the perceived excesses of Wall Street. A large number of Americans don't see their economic future as very bright and they don't believe the GOP's business as usual is the solution. A majority of GOP tax breaks go to the rich and corporations, the GOP fights minimum wage laws, the GOP supports removing environmental rules to favor businesses.
Dems efforts to include minorities, racial, religious, and sexual, all very popular with a wide swath of Americans are a reaction to the GOP working to exclude and marginalize them. The GOP is set against gay marriage, Islam, voting rights, etc.
The Democrat Party stands for the same principles and ideas of the Communist Party.
5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)
1. The Family
2. Individuality
3. Eternal Truths
4. Nations
5. The Past
5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)
Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat's march to utopia. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted...fee.org
These were listed as the aims of the communist party, (CPUSA) after the war, and, to an almost 100% extent, they the same as today's Liberals/Progressives/Democrats.
1. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
2. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
3. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
4. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
5. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
6. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
7. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
8. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
9. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
10. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
11. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
12. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
13. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce
Now....wouldn't an honest appraisal agree that all or almost all are clearly the aims and direction of Democrats/Liberals/Progressive leaders?
I got 'em from a website of declared communist goals...
The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals
10 planks of Communist manifesto
I'd submit it is in response to radicals on the Right taking the GOP out of the mainstream of Americans political thought.