The "NEW" Democrats are NOT the Party of Our Parents

by

       Zeno Potas

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." – Sir Winston Churchill

      On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record. These are the one's pertinent to this article:

• Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S. (Note: In his book, "Reagan’s War," Peter Schweizer demonstrates the astonishing degree to which Communists and Communist sympathizers have penetrated the Democratic Party.)

• 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.

• Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

• Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

• Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression.

      Now, with the accomplishment of these goals, John Bachtell, chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA, has penned a 2,000-plus-word essay explaining to his True Believers why the party has chosen to use the Democrats as its vehicle. It can be found on their website. Former Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin explained in his writings that the ultimate goal of Socialism is Communism.

      They are now seeing the results. The rise of newly elected, Communist inspired, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who is being touted as one of the rising stars of the “new” Democratic Party. Ocasio-Cortez is not of the old Democratic party of our fathers. That doesn't exist anymore. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest Socialist organization in the United States. A number of

Democratic Socialists of America leaders have publicly

endorsed communism, an ideology that, according to some estimates, is responsible for the unnatural deaths of 100 million people during the 20th century. The DSA doesn’t merely want to create new government-run social programs, it desires, in the words of a member of DSA and the editor of the Socialist magazine Jacobin, to “in the long run … end capitalism,” - to change the United States into something the Founding Fathers would abhor.

      At the foundation of all of Ocasio-Cortez’s reforms is her commitment to Socialism, an economic system that in its most utopian form aims to eliminate nearly all private property. Ocasio-Cortez’s radical left-wing policy proposals and her socialist ideology present a significant threat to America’s economy and its longstanding commitment to individual liberty. For example, Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal includes “upgrading every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety,” a plan that would cost trillions of dollars and give government access to every household in America. Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t simply want to tweak our existing system, she wants to complete Barack Obama’s goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

      How does Ocasio-Cortez plan to pay for free education, health care, living income, etc, these massive programs? She has called for printing money to pay for her socialist reforms. In a “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper that will air on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez suggested that some of her plans could be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy to rates as high as 70 percent. But even that huge tax increase wouldn’t be nearly enough to pay for her numerous policy proposals. Raising taxes on all citizens, perhaps to 50%, would eliminate the middle class and bring about true Progressive Socialism.

      Back in the 1940s, Communists were also infiltrating the Democrats, but back then, there was resistance. Hubert Humphrey rose to national prominence as mayor of Minneapolis when he crusaded to drive the commies out of the Democrats. He was joined by a large cohort of anti-communist Democrats, people like Henry Jackson. Somehow, these days, there is no expectation of resistance to this infiltration. Ocasio-Cortez wants to impose her radical, socialist vision on every single American citizen, a fact most of those in the mainstream media, who have spent the past several months fawning

over her, refuse to tell the public. That fact is that Socialism has two classes – the proletariat, the workers which would be 95% of the population and the ruling class, the uber-rich, who will tell the proletariat what they can and cannot do or say and administer to them as they see fit. Also known as “The Nanny State.)

      There is nothing trendy, cool, or desirable about Socialism. And those who advocate it are, well, let me be blunt, lying, deceptive jackasses – the symbol of the Democratic Party. The ugly face of Socialism has destroyed the beauty of Venezuela and many other countries while murdering millions to achieve this so-called utopia These “new” Democrats will turn our nation which could be termed a little piece of heaven on earth into a living hell.

"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it."

                                                  – President Ronald Reagan