Todays Democratic Socialism

by

       George Sontag

         
     "Democratic control is therefore also essential to the meaning of socialism," - World Socialist Movement. Democratic socialism is a political ideology advocating a democratic political system alongside a socialist economic system. Democracy and socialism go hand in hand. All over the world, wherever the idea of democracy has taken root, the vision of socialism has taken root as well. The Founding Fathers knew this. That is why they set up the country as a Republic. They did all they could to avoid creating a democracy. For them, democracy meant mob rule and depotism. It is also, the first step towards Socialism.


      To get to Socialism you first have to go through another stage - Fascism. It doesn't have to be exactly as the definition suggests. You would have a leader who, in the eyes of the media, can do no wrong. Constitutional violations would be marginalized and spun to be inconsequential and the ruling elite would arbitrarily pick and choose which of the country's laws to enforce and by how much. The judicial systems judges would be appointed according to their political views especially their willingness to "change" the laws "to fit" a "modern world".

       What Socialism, Fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people -- like themselves -- need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat. The left's vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of themselves, as superior beings pursuing superior ends. In the United States, however, this vision conflicts with a Constitution that begins, "We the People..." That is why the left has for more than a century been trying to get the Constitution's limitations on government loosened or evaded by judges' new interpretations, based on notions of "a living Constitution" that will take decisions out of the hands of "We the People," and transfer those decisions to our betters.

      To keep the average citizen confused and complacent they go by different names such as Progressives, Liberals, Socialists, or today, Democrats. They are the ones changing the country. These are "mainstream" liberals, who control the Democratic Party, the old media, the executive branch of the federal government, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Supreme Court half the time, the mammoth federal bureaucracy, many state governments, our universities, our national educational establishment and other cultural institutions. Their Socialist mindset oozes intolerance for opposing viewpoints, and with their cultural bullying, they've effectively scared many non-liberals into silence using such tactics as "political correctness".

      This is the stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the ruling class has not yet been successfully achieved. We are, however, going down that road.  Unless the American people come to their senses and stop the "something for nothing" mindset and demand that the Constitution, as it is written, be respected, the end of this great Republic will come sooner than later.