Socialism And The Demise Of The Democrat Party

[mystery-ak]

November 4, 2025
Socialism And The Demise Of The Democrat Party
By Steve McCann

With Zohran Mamdani’s ascension in New York City, Bernie Sanders nearly capturing the Democrat presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, and the rapidly expanding number of Marxist-indoctrinated candidates and elected officials, socialism—or its latest euphemism, “Democratic Socialism”—is now the dominant philosophical underpinning of the Democrat party. This is a philosophical capture that will not result in transforming the United States but in the fracturing and demise of America’s oldest political party.

Socialism has been ruinous everywhere it has been tried, yet the emerging leadership of the party is just the latest in a long line of true believers throughout the world who are convinced they are so exceptional that they can succeed where so many before them have failed. Their naiveté oozes from every pore as they mindlessly rail against capitalism and tout the illusory benefits of socialism.

Why has socialism failed everywhere it has been tried despite the die-hard true believers’ best efforts? The vast majority of the proponents of socialism consistently fail to recognize that it is doomed to failure, as it is nothing more than a vehicle to seize power by malevolently manipulating human nature.

The most dominant trait that mankind shares, as do all living creatures, is an innate determination to survive and thrive. This is a trait that has been exploited since time immemorial by those with an uncontrollable need to conquer or maintain control over their fellow man.

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[Free Vulcan]

Socialism tries to substitute the material for the spiritual. It says I must work to support the collective while my lazy worthless buddy won't, but gets to share the fruits anyway, while the elite upper crust does the same crap they claim the capitalist pigs are doing.

It expects a continuous giant leap of faith and unending altruistic serfism to your grave, and you never get to question your corrupt gods as perfectly analogized in Animal Farm.

The whole thing is nothing but a giant bait-and-switch flim flam job.

[Cyber Liberty]

I put it more simply, socialism defies human nature. 

[Bigun]

I put it more simply, socialism defies human nature.

And capitalism is the natural order of things just as Adam Smith said.

[rustynail]

"The Demise Of The Democrat Party"?  Sounds like wishful thinking.

[Fishrrman]

Mr. McCann's presumption:
"Socialism And The Demise Of The Democrat Party"

I would like to accept your premise, but I don't believe that what you call "socialism" (which is REALLY marxism) is going to hasten the demise of the [now misnomered] "democratic" party.

When we consider the emerging "new demographics" of America (how many of those illegals and "refugees" are REALLY going to be sent back?), the new socialism may become the spoonful of sugar that entices the population to swallow down the bitter elixir of communism.

Mr. Trump provided a respite for America, similar to the "renaissance" that Giuliani created in New York City almost thirty years ago. But as we see New York going today, once Mr. Trump is gone his own American Renaissance (polite cough) may begin to fade as did Rudy's before...

[DefiantMassRINO]

Libs turning to Socialists as alternative to Dems just as Conservatives turned to MAGA as an alternative to GOP.

Both political parties are failing the American People as they represent Globalist oligarch donors.

Socialism is mass grand theft.

[Kamaji]

I put it more simply, socialism defies human nature. 

Socialism defies reality. 

[MeganC]

Socialism, like pounding in your head with a hammer, sounds great in theory. In practice it sucks.

[mountaineer]

William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. New York City is about to be governed by the Columbia University student body. A city that used to think of itself as grown up has just elected a mayor who seems the very embodiment of the American college student: uninformed, entitled and self-important, enjoying a regal quality of life that depends parasitically upon a civilization about which he knows nothing, yet for which he has nothing but scorn. ...

Just as the young Barack Obama had struggled in Chicago to find a cause to organize around, Mamdani hopscotched among various left-wing activist groups – MoveON Seattle, TexPIRG and Chhaya, the latter a government-funded social justice organization in New York. His mother briefly employed him as a “music supervisor” on one of her films. A career as a rapper was abortive. He worked on an unsuccessful political campaign or two for New York progressives, then decided he was ready for office himself.

He was elected to the New York State Assembly for Queens in 2020 on the Democratic Socialists of America ticket. As a member of the State Socialists in Office bloc in Albany, he can take credit for a negligible three bills and a lot of missed Assembly votes. Next up: the New York mayoralty. Mamdani’s governing philosophy can be encapsulated in the slogans beloved of undergraduates confronting supposed injustice for the first time in human history: “People before profits!” “Fight corporate greed!” “Housing is a human right!” His campaign focused on four proposals, all inspired by the city’s alleged affordability crisis: he would freeze rents; make city buses free; offer free universal childcare; and open a government-operated grocery store in each of the city’s five boroughs. ...

The Cost of Zohran, by Heather MacDonald.

[Cyber Liberty]

The Cost of Zohran, by Heather MacDonald.

NYC is going to get what it voted for, good and hard.

[mountaineer]

NYC is going to get what it voted for, good and hard.

Yes. Just pray for any friends and family who live there. They probably now are in danger, considering what Commie Mamdani plans to do with police.

[andy58-in-nh]

Any person who believes that wealth is something not created or earned, by rather taken by force or fraud is telling you clearly what they intend to do should they be given the chance.

[catfish1957]

Everything is now different.  When a voting population elects an AG who recently threatened the life of an opponent and his children?

Bigger question....   How do we now adjust?

[Free Vulcan]

Everything is now different.  When a voting population elects an AG who recently threatened the life of an opponent and his children?

Bigger question....   How do we now adjust?

Red states need to redistrict ASAP, that alone will give us an advantage in the House.

The biggest part is the court wait. There's anchor babies, race based districting, and leaving illegals out of the census that we have to win before we can proceed.

Either that or a landslide in '26, enough to overcome the RINOs.

[MeganC]

NYC is going to get what it voted for, good and hard.

Yup.   

[Kamaji]

NYC is going to get what it voted for, good and hard.

Yup.  And with no KY, either. 

[MeganC]

Yup.  And with no KY, either.

Why should NYC be bailed out by Kentucky? 


 

[berdie]

NYC is going to get what it voted for, good and hard.

From what I know, the taxes are already outrageous. So who do people think are going to pay for these "free" things?? Believe me folks, nothing in life is free.

That is aside from all the other cr*p he is saying.

[libertybele]

The headline should read "Socialism and the Demise of America".

[mountaineer]

Since socialism seems to lead to poverty, these tweets seem on point:

Meghan McCain
@MeghanMcCain
Can someone remind New Yorkers that Venezuela went from being the third richest country in the world in 1992 to eating zoo animals because of socialism.
5:57 PM · Nov 5, 2025

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
On the plus side, the Bronx Zoo has a large diverse menu selection.
6:09 PM · Nov 5, 2025

[MeganC]

Since socialism seems to lead to poverty, these tweets seem on point:

Meghan McCain
@MeghanMcCain
Can someone remind New Yorkers that Venezuela went from being the third richest country in the world in 1992 to eating zoo animals because of socialism.
5:57 PM · Nov 5, 2025

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
On the plus side, the Bronx Zoo has a large diverse menu selection.
6:09 PM · Nov 5, 2025

 

[LMAO]

Listen to any Bernie speech or Warren or this NYC mayor

Young people start out life struggling a bit. My wife and I did

You're a young couple struggling, and rising costs put even more pressure on you

Well, Bernie tells you that he can make your life easier by taking money from multi millionaires and billionaires to help your struggles

And add to that the naivety of youth

A toxic stew

[Kamaji]

Listen to any Bernie speech or Warren or this NYC mayor

Young people start out life struggling a bit. My wife and I did

You're a young couple struggling, and rising costs put even more pressure on you

Well, Bernie tells you that he can make your life easier by taking money from multi millionaires and billionaires to help your struggles

And add to that the naivety of youth

A toxic stew

Except that life has gotten more expensive, and today's young are starting out with a lot more so-called negative capital than we did when we were young.  However, all of that is the fault of earlier rounds of socialism - like government subsidy of student loans, government pushing the minimum wage to uneconomic heights, rent control/stabilization in places like NYC and SF, and substantial new limitations and restrictions on home building (including noxious "affordable" mandates).

The problem is, socialism is like alcohol:  when you get a hangover, the cure is not more hair of the dog that bit you.

[Hoodat]

Define 'demise'.