Whenever the time comes to clean up the mess after the hard right fossil Republicans ruin the economy, a hysteria seizes the right wing conservative dinosaur pundits. Remember that Roosevelt had to fight real hard to effect changes in the deteriorating social, economic and political status quo because the Communist threat was alive and real back then.
But today, there is no Communist threat. We even have "friends" who are Communists (China, Vietnam, etc.). Democratic Socialists' rise inside the Democrat party is nothing more than a push to repair the damage being done by Donald Dumb and take actions and enact policies for the working class and the middle class, to bring the US on a par with all other advanced countries. There is not one country on earth that has not embedded socialist ideas and programs in its policies. And those "socialist" policies that Roosevelt forced on the Republican dinosaurs turned out to be successful at redressing the economy and are still very popular today, despite the disgruntled backward Republicans trying to undo them.
Critics say that whereas Democratic Socialists claim to act on behalf of working-class people and advance working-class interests, they and their supporters are disproportionately affluent and elite-educated, as if this was a blemish and a reason to discount the movement. I would rather trust an educated American with economic, social and political policies than a dumb ignorant illiterate imbecile from the south and the middle of the country whose horizons are limited to corn stalks and pig butts. Our history is replete with intellectuals, engineers, scientists, and academics who saved the country and made discoveries that made America truly great. What contributions the illiterate bums and peasants have made to the country are few and far between. Granted they produce a lot of the food we eat, but that is their place, in the farms, not in the halls of Congress.
Because of its fundamentally peasant-stock country of immigrants, this country has grown hateful of thinkers, intellectuals and smart people. The average American worships physical strength (athletes for example) but denigrates intellectuals as "nerds". But it is the nerds, most of the time immigrants who bring their smarts with them, that have propelled the US forward. Think of Silicon Valley: Indians, Asians, Arabs, Europeans, etc... Not Kentuckians, Tennesseans, or 'Bamans....
The principle of social solidarity is enshrined in every advanced European constitution. There is a conviction there that wealthy people owe their wealth not only to their own individual efforts but to the fact that an organized regulated society is there to provide them with the needed labor, infrastructure and protections. Wealthy people do understand and accept that a redistribution of wealth from them to the rest of society is essential for their own success and perennity and for the welfare of the country.
The truth is always in the middle of two opposing positions. Unfortunately, despite the progress made in the US over the decades with social and economic policies that have propelled the middle class, raw capitalism remains a haven for corruption and for poverty. On one extreme, you have raw capitalists (represented by Donald Trump's corporate and corrupt elite) who thrive on deregulation and the absence of laws to pilfer whatever they can of the common good for their own selfish interest. On the other extreme, the history of Communism is nothing to be proud of because of its totalitarianism and abuses that we saw during much of the 20th century. Therefore a middle road is where to find the most ideal combination of free markets and a regulated environment, and that middle road is what Democratic Socialists are offering the country. Americans are common sense people; they are more likely to follow those middle road rather than adhering to extremist rightwing and often racist ideologies that often promise to take the country back to the Darwinian 18th century of slavery and colonialism. They are not likely either to endorse pure unadulterated totalitarian Communism with its crushing of liberties and ruin of the economy. Successful countries usually take that middle road. Even Communist party-led China operates on a capitalist economy, and that may explain its success and its meteoric rise to challenge the US.
Working and middle class people in Maine, Colorado and New York have shown the country that they wish more progressive economic policies and less savage cannibalistic capitalism like Donald Trump's. The criminal felon who cheated on his tax forms has made 2.2 billion dollars in 2025 while in office. Elon Musk who built his wealth with taxpayers money in the form of grants is now the first trillionaire ever. Is this a middle road? or is this the law of the jungle that corporate-bought Republicans want to maintain as the law of the land in the US? Outsiders are always shocked when they first encounter the US: They generally see the US as the Third World of the First World because it is so far behind in such areas as social justice and equality.
Economic wealth and money are useless if not accompanied by enabling the working and middle classes from ascending up the ladder. The history of the 20th century is exactly that story. Workers' rights (8 hours a day, 40 hours a week) were literally clawed out of corporations. Women's rights (suffrage and independence) had to be earned with a struggle against the right-wing conservative neanderthals of the early and middle 20th century. The rightwing wealthy conservative elite wants to take us back to those days. The billionaires are making life unlivable for many working and middle class people.
The fact that educated people are less likely to be members of the working class does not discount their desire to work for the wellbeing of the working class. Many decent billionaires are begging to pay more in taxes, while Donald Dumb is a corrupt billionaire who made his way to power by lying to the working and middle classes, leaving them in much worse conditions than existed before. Critics of Democratic Socialists are themselves condescending snotty snobs who are NOT of the middle class, and much less of the working class. They are themselves the corrupt money-whales elite who fear for their corruption and their scavenging lifestyles while the rest of us are left to worry about egg prices, gasoline prices and healthcare.
The extremism is not on the left. The left is looking for the middle road, the fair road. The extremism is on the right with racism and lawlessness, and guess what? The extremist right-wingers are now blaming "immigrants" for bringing the "dirty" socialist ideas to the US. Another knife to be plunged into the communities that make America great. Yes, immigrants bring novel ideas to this country. They bring wealth and science, progress and development. This country has always done better when immigrants are welcome and not persecuted.
Matt Walsh, who is the typical conservative hateful neanderthal says: "Third world communists are the enemy. They're taking over one of our two major political parties. They hate this country. They hate white people. They hate our heritage and traditions. This is the fight. Get in the game or go away." This is language taken straight out of the the 1920s and 1930s when the economy tanked because of wealthy white criminals on Wall Street. Instead of taking responsibility for their derailing the economy, they turn around and blame the immigrants, the "other", the "foreigner", etc. And they still do. This is what Donald Dumb has done: steal and run the economy to the ground, then blame dark-skinned immigrants. Matt Walsh is intellectually dishonest because he refuses to admit the facts, lies and desperately tries to win the argument on the basis of his own lies.
But these Third World immigrants are also white and do not come from Communist countries. They come to this country because they love this country. But leave it to the barbarians, themselves descendants, one generation removed, of immigrants, to attack the weakest in our society, the immigrants and blame them for all the ills we suffer from.
Robby Soave, writing for The Hill, says, "The point is that this view of socialism as a specifically third world ideology conquering the U.S. because of mass migration is a BIG LIE. Affluent, native-born white and Black people are just as likely or more likely to support left-wing politics than many categories of immigrants, particularly Hispanic immigrants. If right-wing immigration hardliners had their way and restricted citizenship to just people who can trace their lineage back to colonial times, we would be no safer from socialism. In fact, the category most likely to support socialist policies is the highly educated."
If democratic socialism is once again having a moment, it is because working and middle class Americans have had enough of the filth, the corruption, the untax the rich, the corporate scams, the immoral warmongering to drive the economy by selling deadly weapons to both protagonists in conflicts around the world, the ass-kissing to wealthy oil-slick kingdoms and emirates, the cronyism, favoritism, and nepotism as Donald Dumb's hallmark...Yes, it is perhaps the wealthy and elite-educated Americans who are veering into Democratic socialists for both objectives: To stand with the working and middle class against the right-wing cannibal capitalists, and also because without a thriving middle and working class, their own affluence would disappear along with the country's prominence.
The fact that educated people are less likely to be members of the working class does not discount their desire to work for the wellbeing of the working class. Many decent billionaires are begging to pay more in taxes, while Donald Dumb is a corrupt billionaire who made his way to power by lying to the working and middle classes, leaving them in much worse conditions than existed before. Critics of Democratic Socialists are themselves condescending snotty snobs who are NOT of the middle class, and much less of the working class. They are themselves the corrupt money-whales elite who fear for their corruption and their scavenging lifestyles while the rest of us are left to worry about egg prices, gasoline prices and healthcare.
The extremism is not on the left. The left is looking for the middle road, the fair road. The extremism is on the right with racism and lawlessness, and guess what? The extremist right-wingers are now blaming "immigrants" for bringing the "dirty" socialist ideas to the US. Another knife to be plunged into the communities that make America great. Yes, immigrants bring novel ideas to this country. They bring wealth and science, progress and development. This country has always done better when immigrants are welcome and not persecuted.
Matt Walsh, who is the typical conservative hateful neanderthal says: "Third world communists are the enemy. They're taking over one of our two major political parties. They hate this country. They hate white people. They hate our heritage and traditions. This is the fight. Get in the game or go away." This is language taken straight out of the the 1920s and 1930s when the economy tanked because of wealthy white criminals on Wall Street. Instead of taking responsibility for their derailing the economy, they turn around and blame the immigrants, the "other", the "foreigner", etc. And they still do. This is what Donald Dumb has done: steal and run the economy to the ground, then blame dark-skinned immigrants. Matt Walsh is intellectually dishonest because he refuses to admit the facts, lies and desperately tries to win the argument on the basis of his own lies.
But these Third World immigrants are also white and do not come from Communist countries. They come to this country because they love this country. But leave it to the barbarians, themselves descendants, one generation removed, of immigrants, to attack the weakest in our society, the immigrants and blame them for all the ills we suffer from.
Robby Soave, writing for The Hill, says, "The point is that this view of socialism as a specifically third world ideology conquering the U.S. because of mass migration is a BIG LIE. Affluent, native-born white and Black people are just as likely or more likely to support left-wing politics than many categories of immigrants, particularly Hispanic immigrants. If right-wing immigration hardliners had their way and restricted citizenship to just people who can trace their lineage back to colonial times, we would be no safer from socialism. In fact, the category most likely to support socialist policies is the highly educated."
If democratic socialism is once again having a moment, it is because working and middle class Americans have had enough of the filth, the corruption, the untax the rich, the corporate scams, the immoral warmongering to drive the economy by selling deadly weapons to both protagonists in conflicts around the world, the ass-kissing to wealthy oil-slick kingdoms and emirates, the cronyism, favoritism, and nepotism as Donald Dumb's hallmark...Yes, it is perhaps the wealthy and elite-educated Americans who are veering into Democratic socialists for both objectives: To stand with the working and middle class against the right-wing cannibal capitalists, and also because without a thriving middle and working class, their own affluence would disappear along with the country's prominence.
