"Communism as a creed has failed everywhere it’s been tried, bringing only grinding misery, state slavery, mass death, and horrible poverty. Quite a record."
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"Here’s a headline that you might not be surprised to see today: “Have The Democrats Been Lost To Socialism?” Only it wasn’t written today. Issues & Insights crafted that headline way back in 2016, when it was already clear the Democrats had moved sharply leftward. Today’s extremist Dems are no different; they’re just more obvious about it.
“Polls show a shocking number of Democrats, in particular young ones, find socialist ideas not merely acceptable but preferable to capitalism,” I&I wrote then. “It’s hard to imagine a more stunning indictment of our schools.”
"That still stands up pretty well today, we’d say.
"It was prompted by the release of a then-shocking February 2016 poll of 1,000 likely Democratic voters by the American Action Forum in which 47% of Democrats described “socialism” and “communism” as either “very favorable” or “favorable.” And 60% said they’d be OK if America went socialist.
"The numbers were equally dismal for young Democrats (those under 45), who favored socialism over capitalism by 46% to 19%, a landslide for leftism.
“How could average Americans of a supposedly mainstream political party throw their lot in with a creed that’s responsible for more human misery and poverty in the world than any other?” we asked. “It boggles the mind. Socialism, and its evil twin, communism, murdered well over 100 million people during the last century, a scale of slaughter unmatched in human history.”
"That was Feb. 22, 2016. Those under-45s who answered that poll then are today no longer youthful idealists; they’re the Democratic Party’s heart and soul, its establishment, as an even-more extreme group today emerges each year from our nation’s far-left universities to take their place.
"So what has changed? Nothing really, except today Democrats show a brazenness and shamelessness about their extremism. Today, socialism is edgy. It’s cool. It’s violent. It’s destructive. It’s online. And if allowed to take over, it will ultimately and inevitably metastasize into the moral cancer of communism, the worst political system in history.
"This is no false alarm. The Democrats are already objectively socialist." . . . More...
DSA: 'Our Goal Is Communism' - The Daily Signal
. . . "After visiting China in November 2025, Piker said: “Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world, OK? A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet.” Never mind Mao’s killing 60 million of his subjects (three times Adolf Hitler’s body count), Piker announced, “I never would and never will” mock Chairman Mao. Indeed, Piker donned a full Mao jacket when he addressed the College Democrats Convention in Washington, D.C., last July 18."

