OPINION:
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday found 47% of Americans say they don’t understand what it means to be a democratic socialist. Meanwhile, a Washington Post/Ipsos poll released a few days earlier found 39% of U.S. adults would consider voting for a democratic socialist for president.
For the sake of the low-information voter — and by the looks of recent polling, there are quite a few of them — let’s clarify that democratic socialism is one and the same as socialism. Moreover, socialism is one and the same as communism. And since today’s Democrat Party has ceded its political power to the democratic socialist crowd, and the Democratic Socialists of America influences, then it’s clear a vote for a Democrat is a vote for a communist.
It’s a simple geometric equation.
“A lot of Americans are confused about what democratic socialism is,” USA Today wrote. “A Reuters/Ipsos poll .. reported 47 percent of Americans don’t understand democratic socialists’ policies, compared to 49 percent who do. Twenty-seven percent said democratic socialists have some good ideas, while 51 percent of respondents said there [are] few, if any, good ideas.”
Well, that makes sense.
Ask a Democrat if a socialist has good ideas and that Democrat will say yes. That’s because Democrats are socialists.
Ask a Republican if a socialist has good ideas and the answer is no, nope, not even close, not ever. That’s because Republicans aren’t communists, oh, excuse, socialists, oh, forgive, democratic socialists.
What’s the difference, by the way?
Democrats want border policy reform — so that borders will be wide open to all. But shh, don’t say that part out loud. Democratic socialists want to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And feel free to say that part out loud — they sure as heck do. And communists don’t believe in border controls until they take over the country and its government, and then they enforce borders for those trying to flee to another nation.
“In The Washington Post/Ipsos poll, 55 percent of respondents said they wouldn’t ‘consider’ casting their ballot for a self-identified democratic socialist presidential candidate, while 39 percent said the opposite and 6 percent did not respond,” The Hill wrote.
Read that: Nearly 40 percent of ignoramuses in America would vote for a communist masquerading within the Democrat Party as a democratic socialist.
They may not know what a democratic socialist is, or what the DSA types stand for, or the level of devastation these leftists would inflict upon America — but nearly 40 percent say, hey, what the hay, let’s vote ‘em in anyway. It’s on par with the Democrat Party’s fearless leaders in Congress advising fellow members to pass a thousand-plus page bill and then see what’s in it.
Nancy Pelosi, then-House speaker, circa 2010, on the Affordable Care Act: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Yay, Democrats.
Yay, Democrat voters.
Still chasing stupid after all these years.
But if those of curious minds truly want to know the difference between a democrat and a democratic socialist — or a democrat and a progressive; or a democrat and a communist; or a democratic socialist and a communist — all that’s needed is a quick look at these parties’ and organizations’ platforms and stated visions for the country.
They may use different verbiage. They may couch their more destructive and anti-Constitution designs in flowery language. They may dress their final endgame goals using diverse narratives. But their hope for America’s future is all identical: They want a collectivist society.
Vote Democrat and what’s sure to come is a country where individualism is killed off and the notion of God-given rights and liberties is replaced by a dark substitute called government-granted — where the elite few get to decide who gets, who must give, and who must give up all for the greater good.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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