During the Vietnam war, LBJ famously told us that, “the ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there.”  We all know how that turned out.  The recent influx of Socialist/Communist political candidates in the Democrat Party implicates a domestic hearts and minds situation.

Did you ever wonder how Democrats who consider themselves Progressive can advocate for clearly foolish or destructive policies in the face of overwhelming facts proving them to be terrible ideas?  I’m not talking about genuine differences of opinion, or differences as to the best way to handle a problem.  I’m talking about their support for policies that plainly are bat-shit crazy.

For example, erase all national borders and admit 15 or 20 million uneducated, destitute illegal aliens, so we can immediately add them to our welfare roles and classrooms.  Don’t vet these invaders, so admit hundreds of thousands of alien criminals.  When these criminals rob, rape and kill Americans, demonize any citizen who points this out, and assure us that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than citizens.  Don’t prosecute the criminal aliens for their crimes, and don’t prosecute citizen criminals either, unless they’re conservatives who did something heinous like praying in front of an abortion clinic.  And of course, never deport anyone.

Demand that the U.S. stop all aid to Israel, the only democratic Mideast country, and for almost 80 years, our best and sometimes only ally in the region.  Demonize all Jews, call Israelis Nazis who practice genocide, and demand that Americans exhibit unlimited tolerance for Muslims, no matter what they do or say, or who they kill, even though Muslims are the least tolerant people on the face of the Earth.

Exhibit hate for your own country.  Demonize the entrepreneur who creates jobs because he makes a profit.  Tax the successful members of the community to the point where they leave, taking your tax revenue with them.  Preach for the repeal of the Constitution, and advocate for violence and the restriction of personal freedoms, “in order to save our democracy.”

If all of the above seem stupid and crazy, it’s only because it is.  And yet, all of the above, and many more insane notions are part of the Socialist/Communist agenda being pushed by the so-called Democratic Socialist of America (DSA).

Now, the people who are behind the ruinous policies being pushed by the DSA know exactly what they’re doing.  There is a relatively small number of instigators, including villainous billionaires like George Soros and Roy Singham who are financing the movement, whose goal is the toppling of the U.S. system of government, to be replaced by a New Order.  Soros’ Open Society Foundation is the leading proponent of this.

Soros has said that “American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.” Soros wants to subordinate national sovereignty to international law and institutions.  Like most leftist hypocrites, Soros gained his wealth from capitalism, but he now denounces capitalism.  And the financiers are aided by useful idiots like Bernie Sanders.

If the populace could be made to understand precisely what the DSA had in store for it, I have no doubt that the Communist message would be rejected.  And therein lies the rub, and the answer to the question, “If the DSA policies are so demonstrably bad, why are so many voters supporting them?”

We’re back to Hearts and Minds.  For many years, the late Rush Limbaugh spoke of “the low information voters.”  These were the people who had very little political information, and thus could be swayed by falsehoods that were spread by media outlets.  The ranks of the low information voters have swelled of late.  And sadly, most of the newcomers to the “low information” ranks are some of the most highly educated young people in the land.

How is this possible?  Educational malpractice.  For more than 100 years, the Progressive movement has been hard at work pushing the Progressive/Socialist agenda on our students.  John Dewey, who is hailed as a Progressive educational “reformer,” was pushing a collectivist message.  He rejected personal freedom, individualism, and liberty, that is, the foundation of our Constitution, and favored the Soviet system.  He wanted to establish “a New Order.”  Sound familiar?  Dewey didn’t start kindergartens to begin formal education at an earlier age, he did it to get the children away from their parents’ influence as soon as possible.

Every attempt at the establishment of a Socialist/Communist “workers’ paradise” has ended in abject failure.  One would think that the experiences of the Soviet Union, Maoist Chi, Cambodia, North Korea, the European eastern bloc counties, and Cuba should provide more than enough evidence to prove the Communist way should be avoided at all costs.  These regimes were responsible for the deaths of more than 100 million of their own residents, after all.  But our young “intellectuals” haven’t gotten the message.

It’s a sad commentary on our educational system, that the more formal education one has, the more susceptible he or she is to the Communist message.  The blue collar workers understand what communism means, and they oppose it.  Yet young unmarried women, with graduate degrees from places like Oberlin or from Ivy League institutions have embraced the siren song of communism.

It’s a classic “Hearts and Minds” paradox.  The supposedly highly educated know nothing that didn’t come out of the mouth of one of the leftist professors who dominate college campuses.  And sadly, the information age ushered in by the explosion of the internet has largely become an opportunity to spread misinformation.  The truth is available on the internet, to be sure, but it’s not easy to find.  The material I mentioned above about John Dewey can be discovered only if you go though 6 or 7 pages of fawning articles celebrating his genius as an educator.

If you accept whatever your search engine or social media site spits out, and many if not most young people do, you don’t get facts, you get propaganda.  Progressives get away with this because, for them, facts are not important.  It’s not a matter of knowing the truth based on the facts.  The Progressive doesn’t need to “know” “the truth,” he “feels” “his” truth.  It’s hearts and minds.  The people with the minds are spreading the Communist bullshit, that’s being soaked up by those with the maleducated hearts.

Because they were never taught history, young people who may have spent $200,000 or more for an education are some of the most ignorant people in our society.  It’s the main reason that DSA candidates are winning primaries of late.  As this is written, Abdul El-Sayed, a DSA backed candidate has been declared the winner of the Michigan Democratic Senate primary.  In truth, Michigan Democrats didn’t have much of a choice.  It was Jihad Johnnie El-Sayed, or a woman whose best attribute was her resemblance to Wednesday Adams.

El-Sayed is supported by Hasan Piker, a DSA “influencer” who denounces capitalism, while reaping millions of dollars are year from podcasts, and who owns a $3.4 million home in Beverly Hills, and drives a $200,000 Porsche.  Piker is the self-appointed “Ayatollah of Woke.”  He is wildly antisemitic.  Piker has is an apologist for the sexual violence perpetrated on Israelis on October 7th.  “It doesn’t matter if rape happened on October 7th.  It doesn’t change the dynamic for me.”  Piker has said he has “no issue” with Hezbollah, the world’s the most heavily armed terrorist organization in the world.

El-Sayed opposes capitalism, wants Medicare for all, opposes ICE, and says he want to “get the money out of politics.”  The general election in November will be a test of just how far the DSA poison has seeped into our society.  Unsurprisingly, the bulk of El-Sayed’s votes came from the area around the University of Michigan and other colleges, where the victims of educational malpractice have been taught to expect most things in life for nothing.

That’s the problem with Communism.  Everything is free, but there’s damn little of everything.  That’s why workers in the Soviet Union used to say, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.”  Overcoming the feelings stirring in the Hearts of the highly educated ignoramuses is a difficult task.  Better to appeal to the Minds of the two-thirds of the population that didn’t go to college.