The recent string of primary electoral victories by fringe left-wing candidates operating under the cover of the Democratic Party, though it is a repeat movement, has many people panicking. There is no need to panic. This movement will eat itself with infighting and intra-ideological betrayal as was seen in Ira Kipnis’ work, The American Socialist Movement 1897-1912. In fact, fellow Americans, calm down. Our electoral system is the best in the world. It is not perfect, but it is the best because of the firmly grounded and infused democratic capitalism.
For 250 years, capitalist ideas have built our nation and will continue to do so. Yet within this tradition, industrial-scale ideological folly has emerged. Its proponents mislead the American public with ideas that are counterproductive and even contrary to their own interests.
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Meaning? Erasing our borders means ceasing to be a nation. That will never happen. Eliminating any semblance of law and order. That will never happen. Taking the hinges off the iron gates of prisons and correctional institutions. That will never happen. Destroying our capitalist and merit systems and replacing them with one where success is punished and vilified. That will never happen. Rendering women and women’s sports invisible. This can only happen if women decide that they no longer matter or even exist. And that will never happen. Society is incomplete without women in it. Destroying the intact family unit and structure as we know it. Among other gut-wrenching and common-sense-offending ideas.
There is good news. And that is we have a second filtering process where we can weed out these civilization-destroying lunacies and focus on the truly important and serious ideas of forming a more “perfect” union.
So, fellow Americans, calm down. Help is coming. The general election is the filter. The rash of socialists disguised as democrats “winning” primary elections with a vocal but a small fraction of the Democratic Party voters turning out to vote is concerning and emblematic of political apathy. The general mood in the party? However, these “victories” are misleading. They paint the wrong political picture. Democratic Socialists of America “victories” and voters in New York, Colorado, or Minnesota will not, and cannot supplant centrist moderate democratic victories and voters in Tennessee, Mississippi, or Georgia, among other places. Americans know the Democratic Party and will not wholesomely replace true American-style and brand democrats with communists disguised as socialists bent on destroying the United States.
It was in the 1890s to the 1920s, under another pretense of progressivism, when socialism tried to inject itself into the American political bloodstream. But it failed. Woefully. It is set to fail again. The socialists of that era, though resentful of corporate greed and corruption, were not proponents of burning down America and replacing it with something entirely different. Something unrecognizable.
Today’s socialists-communists want to bulldoze the entire American system and way of life. In its place, they want to impose policies like food rationing, government-controlled dieting, centralized home cooling and heating policy, communal housing, punitive and regressive tax system, and other awful and inhumane policies. They want to confiscate the symbols of capitalism, progress, individual freedoms and success, innovation, and entrepreneurship. They will then usher in an era of doom and gloom. This shall not be America’s portion.
Though these socialists-communists are “winning” their narrowly confined primaries, the sensible and mature general election voters are the last line of defense of our democracy. They will be the correctors of this political anomaly. At the same time, it is hoped that the general election voters will not be tempted to become politically complacent and dismissive of this fringe ideological idiocy.
FOR AMERICA 250, REJECT MAMDANI’S NARRATIVE OF AMERICAN OPPRESSION
Observers of the American electoral system can take solace that the general election process exposes ideological fraud. It allows a platform for ideological lunatics to show themselves. In turn, they will be soundly rejected on the basis that a multi-century capitalist system is incompatible in a socialist-communist mold.
So, calm down. This lunacy will fade away.
Solomon Iyobosa Omo-Osagie II, PhD is professor of political science and history at the Baltimore City Community College, Baltimore, Maryland.
