Socialism: No Longer a Dirty Word

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      The election of people who declare that they are Socialists to public office is starting to snowball. The recent election of Kshama Sawant to Seattle City Council, Bill DeBlasio as Mayor of New York City, and

Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who says he may run for president, is representative of the direction the United States is going.

      Ms Sawant recent rally to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour drew many new converts to the cause. Their victories not only establishes a model for others to follow, it flies in the face of American wisdom which holds that no Communist candidate can win an election in the United States. Not only can these Progressives win, but they can win in the largest city in the country. This is a substantive change in U.S. politics. Is anyone paying attention or is this the nation's future?

      In Florida  Rep. Joe Garcia (D., Fla.) of Florida stated that “communism works"  "We’ve proved that communism works. If you give everybody a good government job, there is no crime,” Rep. Garcia said. This is the mindset of the Progressives, the Socialists, the Democrats. As much as they dance around any suggestion of this truth, it is a slip of the lip that occasionally shows their true colors, their anti-Constitutional, anti traditional American agenda. They wave the flag to hide behind, but the truth is nothing of the kind.

      There are a lot of arguments about whether communism, socialism, and liberalism are the same thing.

What shouldn't be arguable is that they're all closely related branches of the same tree. We have seen this progression before with failed policies around the world. Winston Churchill described described what the Socialists in Britain had brought to that once-proud island. He stated that “Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

      Today, the government  -- the welfare and warfare states in which we Americans now live -- is comfortably in the hands of Progressives. With the exception of the Goldwater and early Reagan years, the leadership of both major political parties has been dominated by Progressives since WWII -- heavy progressives in the Democratic Party, now almost completely infected, and light progressives in the Republican Party, the "mainstream Republicans."  The Democrats in the Senate are loading up the federal courts with Socialist judges, who will be dismantling the rule of law and destroy the rights of the people, for decades after they are long gone from the Congress. The Senate's power to confirm or not confirm presidential nominees to the federal courts is the only thing that can prevent the Progressives from leaving that kind of toxic legacy in the federal courts, including the Supreme Court.

       We are at a crucial point in the history of America, and perhaps approaching a point of no return.  This year's elections and the 2016 presidential election may be among the most important elections in the history of this country, and can determine what kind of country this will be for years -- and even generations -- to come. We will choose whether to continue down the course of Democratic Socialism or try to reverse this back towards what the USA was once was.