The Socialist Sweep

NYC Is A Warning Sign

“How did you go bankrupt?”
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

―Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorite writers. If we paraphrase his quote above and use it for socialism versus capitalism in the United States, we might say, “How did you get socialism? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

We are in the gradual part now.

Socialists are taking over cities. Last night in NYC, the Mamdani candidates won. They beat well-funded, more establishment Democrats. Those Democrats were NOT centrists. They were people of the left, too, just not communists.

Here is the rub. In many states, if you control the city, you control the political landscape. In Nevada, if you control Clark County, you can control the legislature.

A lot of states are like that. Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Illinois, and Minnesota. Control the big cities, and you get it all. Or at least most of it. I have warned Democrats since the rise of Obama that this was coming, but they said I was nuts.

Not so nuts now, am I?

Control the cities, you control the states. Control the states, you control the national legislature. Control that, and you can control the country.

Democrats played the very long game. Where did it start? Post 1960s, the radicals quit trying to change society overtly. They all went into education. They became respected members of the professor class, and frankly, that professor class had a bias toward welcoming them in. That’s how Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, worked. Here they are. Smiling commies with their red stars. Totally accepted in the Obama network.

Never forget, The Weatherman and 60s radicals all grew up wealthy. Ayer’s father was the CEO of Commonwealth Edison. They have trust funds and generational wealth to rely on. President FDR was the same. They won’t part with it, but they are happy to take yours.

It took a couple of generations via taking over the public and private school system, but we have a lot of people out there who do not understand capitalism and think America is a racist country with a flawed founding.

They are easily persuaded to communism, socialism, or whatever you want to call it.

No amount of data can get them out of their confirmation bias.

They also went into law. We see them all over the judiciary now. They rule by emotion and in a manner that confounds and stops capitalism. Private property rights be damned. Precedent is created, and honest judges follow precedent.

Once the machine is installed in cities, there is no turning back. They change voter laws so they can cheat. As Stalin said, it’s not who votes but who counts the votes. In addition, they do all they can to suppress the vote, so turnout is small. In Chicago, they hold the mayoral election in February when it can be bitterly cold.

They liberalize voting to make it look like they want everyone to vote, but that just makes it easier to steal.

The United States teachers’ union is outwardly socialist/communist/Marxist. Randi Weingarten is the leader, and if you listen to her or read anything by her, she is a horrible person. Her acolytes, who lead local chapters, are not any better. The Teacher’s Union has taken over the old, corrupt Chicago Democratic Machine and runs the city now.

Gerrymandering combined with low turnout creates the opportunity for even more hard-leftists to win. Once they are in, they are like roaches; they never leave. If they leave office or die, their replacement is a drone that is the same.

The media is their handmaiden, so no one knows the real truth. I was chatting with a left-wing guy on X. He didn’t know what the SAVE Act was. They don’t know about the treason Obama committed, which was laid bare when Tulsi Gabbard left office. I told him the only way to change is to vote Republican, but he can’t do it because he can’t get beyond his own confirmation bias. It’s not like you can vote for Libertarians and get anything done. Parties have to win elections to govern, not just make a point.

I’d be curious to know the paths of others who recently broke out of their confirmation bias and left the Democratic Party. What triggered it? What changed in your life?

Again, even when confronted with it, they tell you it is not real. Then they go into a tirade about how corrupt Trump and all the Republicans are.

The center of the Democratic Party is gone. It’s over for people like Senator Fetterman. There are no Danny Rostenkowskis, Scoop Jacksons, or Tip O’ Neills. Rahm Emanuel is running around the country trying to save it but he was the butler who helped usher in the communists as Obama’s Chief of Staff.

He is more interested in power and control than in doing right by citizens.

Once they have control over the levers of power, you have no choice but to submit. You will pay more taxes and suck it up. You will follow mask mandates and suck it up. You will because you don’t want even more severe penalties from a corrupt government or have to spend some time in prison. Or, what they call re-education camps.

Democrats have always had a culture of control and centralization. It stems from the post-Civil War era. Woodrow Wilson was the first to enact a lot of it, and FDR codified it. LBJ expanded it. They are your betters, so let the bureaucrat make decisions. Let us take more of your money, and we will fix the problems.

It never works.

Trump is an antidote. The great thing about him is that he is unafraid of a fight. Republicans like John Thune are constantly wimping out. Trump understands what he is facing, and the Establishment Republicans do not.

The bad thing about Trump is that he hasn’t yet shrunk the size and scope of government. He talked about disposing of entire bureaucracies. Like the Nike slogan, “Just do it”.

Some of his policies encourage big government. Tariffs increase government power and centralization. Some tariffs applied to industries with true network effects would be in the US's best interests. Others don’t do much. Deregulating and changing tax law would do a lot more to increase domestic manufacturing and production than tariffs. He’s deregulated, but at a snail’s pace. The deficit grows.

If I gave him some slack, it would be that things were pretty screwed up before he took office in 2016, and even more screwed up by 2024. The Judiciary has blocked him at every turn, and by Republicans in Congress. Those Republicans are comfortable being in the minority and getting the crumbs of power left to them by the Democrats.

Communist Democrats will give them no crumbs.

You know Trump is doing a lot of the right things because of the hate and vitriol spewed toward him, along with continued assassination attempts. The last thing a communist wants is to have their free money taken away.

His Iran deal looks like a misstep currently, but we will see.

The way to fight them is the way Trump has been fighting.

• Gerrymander right back at them. Gerrymandering stinks, but you have to fight fire with fire.

• Cut off their money supply. Getting rid of US AID and other NGO money sources has paid. Look at what happened in Central and South America. Capitalists were elected.

• Do symbolic things that show life can be better. This is Washington Square in DC and the Reflecting Pool. Reinstalling Columbus statues and other giants of classical Western civilization would be a good idea.

• Do real things that show people life can be better. That’s cutting crime in DC and Memphis.

But the biggies are to end many of the government agencies that were spawned as far back as the 1930s and FDR.

His policies were economically illiterate. The NIRA cartelized entire industries and made it illegal to lower prices during a deflationary collapse. He paid farmers to slaughter livestock and plow under crops while people stood in bread lines. He launched a war on business so aggressive that investment dried up because nobody knew what insane rule was coming next. Even his own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, admitted in 1939 that they had spent enormous sums and "it does not work" and that unemployment was as high as when they started.

Then in 1937 his policies triggered a second brutal crash so embarrassing the textbooks gave it its own polite little nickname, the "Roosevelt Recession," so they would not have to attach his name to the failure in the obvious way.

A UCLA study in 2004 concluded the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression by roughly seven years. Seven years of extra suffering sold to you as heroism

The Obama Era was the same.

• Obamacare, you can keep your doctor…..

• Dodd-Frank, the worst financial legislation in history

• Obama’s foreign policy was to kneel, not to carry a big stick.

• DEI/ESG policies

• Global Warming policies that were actually designed to give the government more control and make energy more expensive, not cheaper.

• Everyone against the Obama communist agenda became a racist. He was the most divisive President in US history, for good reason.

Many more, but his entire administration sees America as a totally flawed country with government as the only apparatus that can fix the flaws they see. Trouble is, those flaws aren’t fixable.

There are signs of positivity. Silicon Valley is waking up. The Democrats aren’t just coming for their money; they are coming for their equity. An entrepreneur can stomach parting with some money. They will fight you tooth and nail over equity. Silicon Valley builds the stuff that propels us forward, and for years, they were mesmerized by Democrats. Jews are waking up to the idea that the Democrats are truly anti-Semitic and want them disposed of. Turns out communists and anti-Semites have a lot in common.

But, Randi Weingarten is Jewish! By birth, not by practice. There is a good joke a Jewish friend told me. Who has more Jewish grandchildren, Trump or a reformed Jew?

Trump. His grandchildren are Orthodox.

Once Democrats are in power, they divide and isolate. They pick the weakest children first. That’s why in Illinois, they chose to put a .2% transaction tax on transfers between crypto wallets. Crypto is the weakest child. But their goal is all transfers and financial transaction taxes. They will deny it, but name a tax that hasn’t expanded.

Combine all this with innovation. Unions that have relied on people and dues to give power to Democrats will be gutted by robots and software. The Culinary Union holds a lot of power in Nevada’s Clark County. Robots will decrease their power. They know that, so they are rushing to get as much done now as they possibly can.

Centrist Democrats know it too, and will cut deals with Communist Democrats to retain power, not realizing that their throats will get slit in the end.

By 2032, the Democratic Party you grew up with will be gone. It will be an irredeemable Marxist institution.

For their part, Republicans are not perfect. That’s why more and more people are saying they are “independent”. Plenty of Republicans can be bought. Sometimes it is hard to see who can be bought, but any Republican who will lie their way into office, commit petty fraud, and has low ethics has a price tag on their back. We saw it in Illinois, and look at the state of the Republican Party there.

Despite what it looks like today, Republicans are in danger of becoming a rump party if they aren’t careful. Look at what happened in Virginia.

How do Republicans win?

Put in place policies that encourage classical liberalism, a la Milton Friedman. Free to Choose is a how-to manual unlike George Orwell’s 1984. For the record, Donald Trump is not Milton Friedman, but Donald Trump could be a bridge to a Milton Friedman world. We had it going with Reagan, and lost it with Bush 1.

Trump’s successor, and the people that successor surrounds themself with, are critical.

Never back down from a fight. I think America, as it was founded, is worth fighting for. 250 years ago, some people thought the same.