President Donald Trump recently warned at the NATO summit that communism is spreading internationally, arguing that it promises people everything while ultimately delivering poverty and oppression.

At nearly the same time, candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America continued gaining influence inside the Democratic Party, bringing ideas once considered far outside America’s political mainstream into everyday debate.

Whether Americans agree with Trump’s warning or not, every citizen should pause and ask a simple question: When an ideology has repeatedly failed wherever it has been tried, why would anyone believe the next version will produce a different result?

The Democratic Socialists of America openly advocate major economic restructuring, expanded public ownership in key sectors, and a platform rooted in socialist principles.

America’s free enterprise system rests on private property, entrepreneurship, voluntary exchange, and the opportunity for individuals to build wealth through hard work and innovation.

Socialism shifts economic authority toward government, reducing private ownership and market competition. The former Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea each promised equality while producing shortages, restricted freedoms, economic decline, and political repression. Centralized control has repeatedly concentrated power while limiting individual liberty. This resulted in the deaths of over 100 million people in the 20th century alone.

America learned this lesson long before Marx ever published a word. The Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony initially operated under a communal system requiring everyone to work for the common storehouse. The results proved disappointing. Some worked diligently while others contributed less, yet everyone received the same share. Governor William Bradford later wrote that the arrangement bred discontent, discouraged industry, and reduced productivity.

Facing hardship and the threat of starvation, Bradford assigned families their own parcels of land, allowing them to enjoy the fruits of their own labor. Production immediately increased. Families planted more, harvested more, and the colony prospered because personal responsibility replaced compulsory collectivism. The lesson still echoes across four centuries of American history.

Every election ultimately becomes a choice about first principles. Do we trust free people to build, create, invest, serve, and prosper through honest work, or do we place greater confidence in centralized government to direct economic life?

America has produced unprecedented prosperity because freedom and responsibility have traveled together. When either disappears, both suffer. Healthy debate strengthens a republic, but wisdom requires remembering where certain roads have already led.

History is one of God’s greatest teachers for those willing to learn. As the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, “For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.”

Whatever the odds, it’s always worth standing for the truth. Promoting socialism in America is, say it with me, Stupidocrisy.

Sources

The Epoch Times, Trump Warns of Global Spread of Communism at NATO Summit
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-warns-of-global-spread-of-communism-at-nato-summit-6059015

Breitbart, Democrat Socialist Admits Goal Is to Overthrow American Empire
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/10/democrat-socialist-admits-goal-is-to-overthrow-american-empire/

J.D. Rucker, Everything Americans Need to Know About the DSA’s Marxist Platform
https://jdrucker.com/everything-americans-need-to-know-about-the-dsas-marxist-platform/

Democratic Socialists of America, Official Platform and Policy Positions
https://www.dsausa.org/

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24950

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The Democratic Party’s “big tent” is filling up with openly Marxist and communist candidates.

NY Democrat candidate Darializa Avila-Chevalier openly celebrated communist and Marxist ideas on social media. But party leaders largely chose inclusion over condemnation. US Rep Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) defended the “big tent” philosophy. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) dismissed the candidate’s previous statements and welcomed “new members and new ideas.” Meanwhile, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) stood almost alone in warning that the “dirtbag left” has become openly anti-American.

When your own members are raising alarms while leadership shrugs, something important is happening. And it is—dangerously so.

Then there is this: A recent poll found that a majority of Democrats say they would vote for a democratic socialist and hold favorable views of socialism. Those numbers do not mean most Democrats support communism, nor do they suggest they embrace every radical slogan heard on college campuses or social media. They do suggest that ideas once confined to the political fringe are steadily entering the mainstream conversation.

Political movements rarely leap from moderation to extremism overnight. They travel one small compromise at a time. Every movement eventually reaches a point where its leaders either establish clear boundaries or continue expanding the tent until the tent itself becomes the message. Today, the Democratic leadership is expanding its coalition and redefining its principles. Or maybe it’s been this way all along.

History provides plenty of reasons for alarm. Marxist governments have promised equality while delivering oppression. Communist revolutions have claimed liberation while producing censorship, imprisonment, confiscation of property, and the deaths of millions.

America certainly has its faults, but its constitutional republic has generated more freedom, prosperity, innovation, and opportunity than any Marxist system ever created. That heritage deserves defense, not apology.

Senator Fetterman’s willingness to challenge his own side deserves attention because voices of internal correction often reveal truths outsiders cannot. Healthy political parties police their own extremes. Unhealthy ones excuse them until the extreme becomes the new center. The majority in the Democratic Party are excusing the extreme.

Citizens of every political persuasion should ask where today’s compromises may lead tomorrow.

In Matthew 15:14, Jesus warned of following those with evil hearts. “They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

A nation does not stumble into decline through one election or one candidate. It drifts there by ignoring warning signs, applauding destructive ideas, and convincing itself that every new direction somehow leads to greater freedom.

America has survived because generations understood that liberty requires responsibility, truth, and moral courage. Those are the principles that deserve a larger tent than the evil of communism.

When leaders celebrate confusion, excuse radicalism, and call it progress, the ditch ahead grows deeper with every step. Say it with me… Stupidocrisy.

Sources:

•  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/29/socialist-congressional-candidate-darializa-avila-chevalier-hyped-communism-marxism-social-media/
•  https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/06/30/schiff-on-chevalier-prior-tweets-not-mainstream-i-welcome-new-members-and-new-ideas/
•  https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/06/29/jayapal-on-chevaliers-pro-marxist-communist-statements-big-tent-means-big-tent/
•  https://jdrucker.com/everything-americans-need-to-know-about-the-dsas-marxist-platform/
•  https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/06/30/fetterman-the-dirtbag-left-is-clearly-anti-america/
•  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/02/poll-majority-of-democrats-say-they-would-vote-for-a-democratic-socialist-view-socialism-favorably/