All the political news nowadays centers on the so-called Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  The recent victories by DSA candidates in a number of Democrat primaries has sparked debate about whether the DSA will take over the Democrat Party.  The Democrat Party has undergone a steady shift to the Left side of the political spectrum, but the emergence of the DSA is something else again.

Once upon a time, the Democrat Party was composed of members from all parts of the ideological spectrum.  While some Democrats today like to call their Party “a big tent,” that actually used to be true.  As recently as the early 1980’s, conservative Democrats existed, and they were both socially and fiscally conservative.

People like to talk about the Kennedy tax cuts, but that’s a misnomer.  JFK never got them passed.  LBJ got them done, but even with a House and Senate ruled by his own Party, it wasn’t easy.  LBJ first had to prove to Democrat Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harry Byrd that the federal budget would be cut.  Find me a Democrat today, or a Republican, who’s ever passed a budget, much less wanted to cut one.

The Democrat Party always had its liberals as well.  LBJ used to call Hubert Humphrey “a bomb thrower” for his liberal ideas.  Humphrey would be too conservative for today’s Democrats.

Despite what you may have been told by the media, America has always been a center-right nation.  But because the Democrat Party was that big tent we hear about, that didn’t mean the Republicans were in control.  Quite the opposite.  Until recently, to win the presidency the candidate had to be somewhere in the middle.  Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, and Dukakis were failed candidates because they were too far Left.  Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were more moderate.

Because Democrats understood that the public shied away from candidates considered too far Left or extreme, they avoided the liberal label.  As the shift to the Left continued, they became “progressives,” yet they continued to avoid being considered extreme, and by no means would they ever want to be seen as socialist.

Remember that, when Il Duce Obama was elected, after pledging to “fundamentally transform” the U.S., he vehemently denied being a socialist.  Sure, he supported socialized medicine, and he started the wasteful socialist Green energy scam, but he didn’t want the socialist label.  Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden ran as phony moderates, as well.

But now, the DSA has arrived, and they’re not pretending to be moderate anymore.  While some Democrats and their lapdog media pretend that the DSA is nothing radical, that’s simply not the truth.  But don’t take my word for it, listen to the DSA itself.

In a recent interview, DSA co-chair Megan Romer was asked to state the DSA agenda.  She did not shy away from controversy.  Romer stated unequivocally that, among other things, the DSA wants to abolish the Senate, replace the presidency and the Supreme Court with functionaries answerable to a unicameral House of Representatives, abolish ICE, abolish borders, grant amnesty to all illegal aliens, defund national defense, government ownership of large corporations, and “largely” abolish prisons.  If other socialist  regimes are any guide, I think “largely abolish prisons” means they would keep some open to house political prisoners.

The DSA makes no effort to hide its intent. “Complete victory will require building a new society from the ground up.”  “Our goal is communism.”  They really mean it.  The DSA website talks of “a world without capitalism,” in which you can “work as much as you are able, and no more than needed.”  Only Karl Marx could have said it better.  “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

If you’re hearing the truth about the DSA for the first time, it’s only because, like any of the previous socialist takeovers, a compliant, and complicit, media is required to hide the truth and pass the propaganda.  So-called journalists seem to make a habit of denying that communism is a bad idea.  In the 1930’s New York Times columnist Walter Duranty apologized for the Stalinist purges (slaughters) of millions as a necessary means of eliminating class distinctions.

More recently, New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews became famous by getting a 1957 interview with Fidel Castro.  Matthews portrayed Castro as a reformer, who would hold free elections and restore the Cuban Constitution.  He repeatedly reported that Castro was not a communist and that, indeed, he was anti-communist.  Matthews was so convincing that the U.S. ended its military aid to the Batista government, and Castro’s revolution succeeded in 1959.  Once in power, Castro announced he really was a communist.  The New York Times reporting was so bad that some suggested that Castro should take out an ad in the paper saying, “I got my job through the New York Times.”

In a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan sounded the alarm about the DSA.  She pointed out that, although our system of government is not without its pain and injustices, as Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others.”

Noonan rightly acknowledged that young people, the demographic that makes up the bulk of the DSA have legitimate concerns about affordability and job opportunities.  Unfortunately, the young are ill equipped to reject the siren song of socialism; a world where buses are free, rents are frozen, and only the rich are taxed.  They have been the victims of socialist indoctrination throughout what passes for education in America.  And that education does not include any instruction on history other than the notion that America is a land of oppression.

The young think that they can elect socialists, put the government in control of every aspect of their lives, and continue to enjoy the same freedoms that they now enjoy.  Of course, this is the same fantasy that was embraced elsewhere in the past.  In every case, the triumph of socialism brought hardship, brutality, and the deaths of more than 100 million inhabitants of the socialist workers’ paradises.

We could use some common sense reforms to our government, to be sure.  We might get our national finances under control, eliminate fraud to make sure government benefit programs really benefit the needy, ensure fair elections, and help young people get into useful jobs that could support their families.  None of these things will be accomplished by putting the DSA in charge, and destroying the Constitution.

A DSA led socialist system will end up like all of its murderous predecessors, with destitute, miserable people, empty store shelves and forgotten liberties.  If the young people flocking to the DSA think a socialist system will permit them to live rent free, drive their Teslas, and play video games while ordering from Doordash, they are sadly mistaken.  They soon will realize the cost of free stuff, and there won’t be time for gaming, because they will be in line at the government run food store waiting for their weekly allowance of gluten free bread.

Simply put, if you think that socialism will make your life easier, the joke’s on you.  The DSA’s poster boy, Karl Marx, sagely predicted all this.  “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, and second as farce.”