The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have stopped decorating the wrecking ball. Their new “Workers Deserve More” program calls for abolishing the Senate, replacing the President and Supreme Court with officials subordinate to Congress, ending the Electoral College, creating public ownership of corporations, and building a new political system.
DSA leaders describe capitalism as exploitation that must be replaced, while affiliated voices speak of taking down the American “empire” from within. The threat works through elections rather than armed revolt. These candidates win Democratic primaries, using the party’s ballot line, donors, volunteers, and infrastructure to advance a movement aimed at destroying America.
The Democratic establishment is revealing itself by tolerating, promoting, and normalizing these socialist candidates. They have captured congressional nominations and mayoral offices, while the DSA says endorsed candidates will be expected to accept, promote, and align with its program. The Democratic Party has allowed its machinery to become the vehicle for activists who regard America’s constitutional structure as an obstacle.
Today’s radical plank becomes tomorrow’s caucus demand, then next year’s Party talking point. When Party leaders embrace candidates who seek to abolish the Senate, subordinate the judiciary, seize corporate ownership, and dismantle constitutional checks, they are advancing socialism through democracy’s front door while carrying blue campaign signs.
This assault reaches deeper than the Constitution because America’s tradition of representative self-government began before 1787. In 1620, the Mayflower Compact declared that its signers would “covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick” and establish “just and equal Laws” for the “general Good,” promising “due Submission and Obedience.” The Compact joined liberty with covenant, law, order, faith, mutual responsibility, and consent. It created government to preserve a community under the rule of law with citizen consent.
Democratic socialism divides citizens into classes and concentrates ultimate authority in government. Socialism offers government-directed equality enforced through political control, an old promise that leaves citizens equally dependent.
The danger is wrapped in the comforting word “democratic.” Yet voting for the demolition of constitutional government still produces demolition. A majority can surrender its freedom as surely as a tyrant can seize it.
America’s system protects people through divided powers, representative institutions, private property, free enterprise, religious liberty, and laws that restrain rulers and citizens. Democratic socialism seeks to abolish these safeguards. The Democratic Party, once the party of slavery, seems to be returning to its tyrannical roots by its tolerance of socialist candidates.
Proverbs 14:34 says, “Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people.”
A republic survives when citizens recognize truth, honor covenant, and defend freedom. There is no moral equivalence between socialism and a Constitutional Republic.
Sources
The Washington Stand, “Democratic Socialists Come Clean about Their True Intentions”
https://washingtonstand.com/article/democratic-socialists-come-clean-about-their-true-intentions-overthrowing-the-us-government
Democratic Socialists of America, “Workers Deserve More”
https://program.dsausa.org/
Democratic Socialists of America, “What Is Democratic Socialism?”
https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/
Democratic Left, “DSA Launches New Program”
https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/07/17/dsa-launches-new-program/
Associated Press, “Republicans Decry a New Democratic Socialists of America Platform”
https://apnews.com/article/democratic-socialists-platform-dsa-communists-midterms-30df54db6b42f7de57e33f86ae44b638
Yale Law School Avalon Project, “Mayflower Compact: 1620”
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp
DSA Socialist Forum, “Let’s Reinvigorate the Dirty Break”
https://sfarchive.dsausa.org/issues/winter-2022/lets-reinvigorate-the-dirty-break/