Democrats Didn’t Bend the Knee – They Became the Revolution: Communism Is Now the Party Platform

Last night, NYC Mayoral candidate and communist Mamdani had a big rally in NYC. Out of the closet communists. AOC and Bernie were there. They walked off the stage to a chant of “Tax the Rich”.

“Mainstream” Democrats like NY Governor Kathy Hochul were also there. She has endorsed Mamdani for mayor.

Democrat pundits are trying to draw a line between a “Democrat” and a “Democrat Socialist”. When you are a Democrat and bend the knee by endorsing a Democratic Socialist, the line isn’t blurred. You are one and the same thing.

Any Democrat who endorses a Democratic socialist has exhibited that they have a concern only for power, not the people. Period, the end.

They are communists. There is no difference between them: China, the old Soviets, North Korea, Castro, or the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.

In the sixties, William F. Buckley was trying to rally Republicans to the conservative movement. One of his first steps was to clear the decks of the Republican Party of radicals like the John Birch Society. Many told him, “We might lose elections if we don’t include them.” He didn’t care. Winning elections by partnering with communists, or the John Birchers, means you aren’t actually winning. You are always going to have to make policy decisions with them at the table, and that means you are always going to have bad policy.

Put simply, “I made some wonderful chocolate brownies. I put just a little bit of dogshit in them, but they still taste great. Want one?”

Look at what has happened in states like Illinois. The old Chicago Machine wanted to hold on to power. They were not interested in people. Just the levers of power that controlled people. Slowly, they were infiltrated by communists. Eventually, the communists were smart enough to say things the old Machine wanted to hear, and then grab power for themselves. Toni Preckwinkle was one of the first. She controls Cook County. Eventually, the Chicago City Council had 9 communists, and now there is a communist mayor. The governor of the state tries to cast himself as a mainstream old-style centrist Democrat, but he isn’t. He’s governed as a hard leftist and finds more common cause with communists than he does free-market capitalists.

People who inherited their money often feel guilt about it and embrace causes like communism to put a salve over that guilt. Hence the phrase, “rich enough to be a Democrat”. It is a weird and damaging psychological construct.

There have always been differences between Republicans and Democrats. But, those differences are very wide today and very different today than they were 50 years ago. It used to be that Democrats were “for the little guy” and for unions, and Republicans were for the corporate and wealthy country club set.

That difference is no longer true. Democrats are for big corporations and for centralized, unelected bureaucratic power. Elected Democratic officials simply put their cronies into those unelected positions and then fake the oversight function they are supposed to carry out.

The result is LESS freedom for citizens and corruption.

The result of the Democratic Party transformation is the strong advocacy of communism and anti-Western Civilization values. I am not talking about religion at all, but just the simple ideas developed by the ancient Greeks, ancient Romans, and then put into action by the Founders of the US. Ironically, their experiment has found its way into other countries. Many of those countries are where the Founders or their families originally emigrated from.

Yesterday, after 100 years of corruption and heavily centralized crony capitalistic bureaucratic rule, Argentina voted to give Mileil a majority in all houses of their legislature. It took 100 years to weed out the strength of the corrupt Peronists.

Why?

Because that corruption feeds on itself. The tentacles go into the private business world, and the private business world finds itself voting for corruption. The opportunity costs to the business initially are small, like the dogshit in the brownie. Eventually, they become larger and then swallow the business whole.

It starts with, “appoint this one guy” or “hire this one person”. It ends with, “give us all your profit”.

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It can be a very lonely and isolating experience. I’m very lucky in that I have five other DSA-endorsed comrades who are with me in the Assembly and in the State Senate. But, for example, before we were elected, Julia Salazar was in office for two years without a single other socialist endorsed by DSA.

It then makes it much easier to run a campaign that will be built around raising class consciousness because we will run the campaign challenging the current status quo and showcasing through our critique how this is an issue of capitalism. So there are 107 Democrats in the New York State Assembly out of 150 Assembly people. And of those 107 Democrats, there are six DSA-endorsed electeds and seven DSA members.

We have a seventh person who’s a DSA member, though she wasn’t endorsed by DSA. Her name is Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas. We clearly do not have the numbers, as they are in this moment, to win the radical legislation that we need to bring about and begin to believe that these kinds of results are sufficient.

We have to continue to elect more socialists and we have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism. We had an academic boycott campaign to, and one of the aspects of that was to fight to stop study abroad at universities in Israel that were complicit in the occupation, many of which through the development of weapons technology for the IDF. Now, by bringing the issue of Israel-Palestine apartheid to Bowdoin, you bring it front and center, it’s harder to ignore.

And then making sure that we move to dismantle that relationship. Those are things that you can do as a legislator. For example, Governor Cuomo has an executive order barring New York State from doing business with any company suspected of sympathizing with BDS.

One thing I can do as a legislator is once we build up a large enough coalition for this, we overturn that executive order. But I sincerely believe in this political project. I sincerely believe in socialism.

For me, it was Palestine that brought me into this movement. It can be such a lonely experience to be a socialist, and it was for me, a country. Because my journey, as Oren alluded to it and referred to, in organizing began at my college campus with Students for Justice in Palestine.

To power this journey and understanding that it is socialism that we are fighting for this moment right now. If we’re talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we’re talking about Medicare for all, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country. But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it’s BDS, or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production.