After years of defending, encouraging, and catering to the most radical people in their base, it has been interesting to see some of the more old-school liberals getting worried about the craziest members of their party starting to acquire some real power.
For example, here’s James Carville, who has sounded increasingly crazy himself in recent years, fretting over lunatic members of the Democratic Socialists taking over their party:
Similarly, Bill Maher has increasingly moved from a radical to something closer to a voice of reason on the Left over the last couple of years:
Other liberals like Rahm Emanuel and Mark Kelly have criticized Democratic Socialists because they think they’re too radical for voters, which is sort of like a Muslim condemning 9/11 not because it was wrong, but because it made Muslims less popular in the West.
The truth of the matter is that liberals have been enthusiastically building this Frankenstein for a long time, and it’s hard to do anything other than roll your eyes when they’re now warning everyone about the monster they created.
Liberals have openly embraced increasingly radical positions for a long time now. Shouting down conservative speakers at universities, supporting threatening anti-Jewish riots on college campuses, and millions of them publicly celebrating a left-winger murdering Charlie Kirk while he spoke to students are just a few examples.
Yes, Zohran Mamdani is pretty obviously a communist, but what is the difference supposed to be between him, “The Squad,” Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Ro Khanna? There’s not two dimes worth of difference between all of them put together.
Kamala Harris and other leading Democrats are publicly promoting the idea of getting rid of the filibuster for legislation, stacking the Supreme Court, and essentially ending America’s time as a Republic in an attempt to create a permanent one-party state like China. Popular left-wing streamers like Hasan Piker and Destiny have openly called for the murder of conservatives. Refusing to deport illegal alien sex offenders, opening the border, getting rid of ICE, calling for violence against Republicans, and declaring that people who disagree with them are literal Nazis are all mainstream liberal positions.
Sanity and common sense left the building a long time ago on the Left, and although Democratic Socialists are arguably even crazier than people like Eric Swalwell, Ilhan Omar, Jasmine Crockett and Tim Walz, there’s really not that much of a difference, and it’s very easy to see all of them working together toward the same goals. In fact, you have to suspect that the Democratic Socialists of America are mostly just saying publicly what liberals have been talking about privately in faculty lounges, congressional staff meetings and think tanks when they think the American public won’t find out about it.
So, what do the Democratic Socialists believe? Well, we could go into quite a bit of detail, but since they’ve gotten some attention lately, they’ve already started sanitizing their agenda for the public and claiming that they don’t believe the things they were saying just a couple of years ago.
That’s why I thought this very current Fox News segment featuring DSA co-Chair Megan Romer talking about what they believe is so useful. It’s someone in a position of authority in the party clearly, unapologetically talking about what they believe. You want to see the agenda of the DSA, which is quickly becoming the agenda of the Democratic Party? Well, here it is:
Let’s take a moment and briefly address these ideas the DSA supports from the segment.
Get rid of the Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court: We’re talking about throwing a Constitution that was put together by men like James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington away to create an entirely new system designed by weirdos who’ve never accomplished anything and probably aren’t 100% sure what gender they are today.
Abolish ICE, abolish borders, and give citizenship to anyone in the country illegally: If you don’t have a border, you don’t have a country. If anybody can just waltz into our country and get the benefits of citizenship, why wouldn’t tens or even hundreds of millions of people exploit the system to get welfare or even control our country via proxy votes for another nation?
Defund the Pentagon: What do you think happens to America without a military? I can tell you – you die, your children die, and you lose your country to a nation with a military.
Abolish prisons: If we don’t put criminals in prison, then the only way to protect ourselves from them is to hunt them down and kill them in the streets. Since you wouldn’t go to prison for doing that in a world where prisons had been abolished, it would make even more sense to do that. Still, gunfights at the O.K. Corral in every city and town to get rid of criminals don’t seem like an improvement over our current system.
Government/public ownership of large corporations: Oh yeah, I’m sure if you take every Elon Musk and Jensen Huang out of the picture in American corporations and replace them with the equivalent of Joy Reid and Elliot Page, our entire economy won’t completely implode. We’d be lucky if we could still feed ourselves after 5-to-10 years of that policy.
If you think Democrats won’t vote for this, I hate to disillusion you, but they already are voting for candidates aligned with the DSA all over the state of New York.
Furthermore, the candidates don’t have to call themselves Democratic Socialists because, as we’ve seen over and over and over again, no matter what liberals claim they believe on the campaign trail, they vote for whatever their base wants when they get into office.
Remember Barack Obama claiming he was against gay marriage until he wasn’t? How about Joe Biden promising to be tough on border security? What about the “pro-life” Democrats who wouldn’t support Obamacare because it funded abortions who then caved when it couldn’t pass without them? If Democratic Socialism is proven to be popular with the Left at the ballot box, you’ll see everyone from ancient Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on down enthusiastically embracing this insanity because ultimately, they don’t care about the consequences. Democratic power brokers will enjoy the fruits of their powerful jobs as long as they can, and if it ultimately destroys the country to such a degree that even their gated communities aren’t safe, they’ll just move overseas. It’s not as if they care about what happens to this country.
These are not smart people, and these are not good ideas, but this is what the Left is moving toward right now.
With that in mind, the big questions are, "Can Democrats reform themselves?" "Are the American people as a whole smart enough to want no part of this?" and "Will the Left drag the rest of us down with them if they get to implement some of their suicidally foolish ideas?"
Time will tell.
The problem with Carville and most hard core Democrats is that their hand-wringing about the socialist drift of their party is only because they see it damaging the Democrat brand for upcoming elections. It isn't any indication that Democrats are gaining some concern based on ideological standards and principles. Democrats like Carville have no standards and principles other than winning elections and gaining and retaining power. The reason is that government is the money and wealth-making industry for Democrats. They demand control of government to funnel more money into their bank accounts. Just like Wall Street banksters, morality comes after filling up personal coffers.
Morality is just an outdated, evangelical Christian, white-supremacist noose around the necks of progressive thinkers. Like the barbarians that they are, they simply refuse to be tied down by old-fashioned notions about what worked best in the past. We all laughed at Kamala's word ridiculous tag line about not being tied down by what happened in the past, yet Demoncats are aligned with that insanity. Jessica Huong is running for governor in my state (WI), and she is crazier than a sh*t house rat, yet I think she is the Demoncat front-runner. If you want to hear insanity, catch a short clip of her responding to rapid fire questions from Hasan Piker about what she believes. (Crowder has a great segment on YT and Rumble.) I know it sounds overboard to predict a violent response to her victory, but how do you square the constitution and the existence of a functioning nation with turning control over to these anti-American maniacs? It won't be me that fires the next "shot heard round the world," but I also can't imagine people like me just sitting on the sidelines watching while they tear it all down. The lack of good parenting, the decline in public education, and the decline in church attendance were all bound to undermine the foundations of American society. We are living in dangerous times, when even soulless puppeteers like Carville are shaking their corrupt melons about the radical left.