Read the entire thing. This scares the hell out of me. We all see it coming. Sanders may not implement it. But he's spreading the message and the message is taking root. Ever growing numbers favor this fool's ideas that will lead us to Venezuela. Scary **** folks.
Bernie Sanders's primary win has put Democrats on the road to serfdom
Bernie Sanders has essentially been running for president for five years, and Tuesday night, he won the New Hampshire primary for the second time. Since 2016, he has traveled the country spreading his message of socialism and supporting a new wave of younger, charismatic candidates, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who share his worldview.
It seems, at least for now, that Sanders’s persistence has finally paid off. Sanders has now taken the top spot nationwide in the RealClearPolitics polling average, replacing former Vice President Joe Biden as the front-runner. With Sanders leading the race, the Democratic Party has embarked on the road to serfdom, where “government knowledge” takes the place of “market knowledge,” where consumers in the marketplace and private owners make decisions. In Bernie Sanders's America, the government knows best.
The rise of Sanders and socialism has come to represent the Democratic Party and its future.
The emergence of this movement is a threat to capitalism and our free market system. Every one of Sanders's objectives selects government control as an alternative to the market-based system. Though he couldn’t currently get as much done because of a Republican-controlled Senate, his objective is to radicalize younger voters with his message and beliefs. Organizations such as Justice Democrats that share Sanders’s worldview have already promised to launch primary challenges against Democrats they believe aren’t left-wing enough.
Their plans to challenge Democrats may seem unrealistic to some, but with a significant portion of Generation Z and millennials more likely to embrace socialism than previous generations, the idea of socialism spreading is both realistic and concerning. Gen Z and millennials make up 37% of the electorate and growing, and their susceptibility to socialist ideas means a potential return for socialism’s failed ideas.
It's time to sound the alarm about what is yet to come if Sanders and those who follow his failed ideology aren’t stopped.
Socialism is appealing to many young voters who are concerned about the human and social costs of capitalism, but it is no different from Vladimir Lenin’s ideas: a system in which the government controls every significant element of the national economy. In its promise to correct all wrongs, the government will continue to expand until the few market-based processes it does permit cease to exist, the end result of socialist governance.
Despite socialism having failed and most of the developed world having realized the root of its failures, Sanders’s rise to the top of the Democratic field suggests a new generation of voters are not only open to socialism's return, but actively seek it.
This new and growing generation of voters who are Sanders’s most ardent supporters does not understand the concepts of government failure and the threat it poses against freedom, which can only thrive in a free market system. It does not accept the reality of socialism’s failures in the past because Sanders pitches his ideas as new and revolutionary, when in fact, they are tried-and-failed.
Understanding this critical ideological shift within the Democratic Party can be traced to the Great Recession of 2008. It has given rise to madmen in authority such as Sanders. If not him, it will be someone else who shares his ideas but is craftier at articulating them and galvanizing a greater portion of voters. That is the biggest and most alarming threat of Sanders's rise.
The threat that will come as a result of Bernie Sanders's success isn’t just limited to his individual success, but the success of those who follow. This growing far-left wing of the Democratic Party means the dramatic redefinition of the government and its role in centralizing the economy. The power of these ideas cannot be understated and nor should they be ignored. At the root of their claim is an argument based on desire and need, and there’s no greater moral claim than need.
It’s those desires that may help return the ideas of socialism and centrally planned economics. That will be the result of Sanders's success, and it will be his legacy that will undoubtedly be carried forward by the next generation of socialist leaders.