Victor Davis Hanson: Democratic Socialists Hide What They Really Are

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I'd like to talk about the current rise of the Democratic Socialists of America. They can't run on what they want to do. If you're Mr. Talarico in Texas, he's not going to tell you he believes there's a multi-gendered Jesus, or that God has no gender, or that meat eating is terrible. They can't say who they are. They do not like the United States at its creation. They did not like America as it matured, and they despise it now at its fruition.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson from the Daily Signal. I'd like to talk about the current rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and the idea of socialism itself. Socialism innately is antithetical to human nature. Most people want to keep the profits of their own labor, and they don't think the government, especially an unelected bureaucracy, can manage an economy, a supply and demand economy, better than average people can. In other words, in the United States, 360 million people, all operating on agendas that they think are best for themselves and indirectly for their country, are smarter than a few experts in a central bureau, like the Soviet Union issuing commands. And we know that's true because socialism has never worked. There are now socialist governments in Europe. The EU has 100 million people more than the United States.

Their GDP is $10 trillion less. China was socialist. It still has command socialist elements in its economy. They have four times the population.

Their GDP is $10 trillion less than ours. In other words, an American capitalist economy, even with its socialist fringes, one American produces more than four of its Chinese counterparts, 30 percent more in goods and services. So the socialists know that. So they can't run on what they want to do. That is, take over utilities, command the economy, open the border, and pretty much do what the Democrats already wanted to do, which, to be frank, the Democrats are socialists prior to the Democratic socialists absorbing the Democratic socialists. Pack the court in the filibuster, bring in new states, destroy the electoral college, defund the police, recognize the BLM and Antifa, etc. That was the Democratic Party and the Socialist Party agreed with all of that and joined them. So socialists know that that's not popular. They're not going to run on. They may carve out districts in Boulder, in the Upper West Side, in parts of Chicago, in California, and where there are completely blue socialists carved out left-wing districts. And socialists may be honest. But in purple districts, in statewide races, they can't say who they are. So, if El-Sayed, Abdu'l-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic nominee, has said on record that he follows Sharia law, or that fireworks, or football, or traditional American pastimes like Thanksgiving are silly, or that he wants to take over the health care system and abolish private health insurance, or he wants to tax the rich to distribute, or he wants basically open borders. He's not going to tell you that. You know what he's going to do? He's going to put a cowboy hat on, and he's going to talk about sports, and that he was a high school athlete, and he's a good old boy from Michigan.

If you're Mr. Talarico in Texas, he's not going to tell you he believes there's a multi-gendered Jesus, or that God has no gender, or that meat eating is terrible, and you should have vegetarian diets only, or that you should abolish private health care and nationalize the medical industry. He's not going to say any of that to Texas. You know what he's going to do? He's going to walk around in a rented truck, and a cowboy hat, and talk about how great Texas beef is.

Up to a point.

When he gets elected, as we see with Mr. Mondami, did Mr. Mondami in New York ever tell us that he was going to confiscate private apartments he felt were unfair to renters? Did he ever say he was going to make multiple food markets and say that there would be no ID to use them? Because when he initially said you had to have an ID to come in there, then he was contradicting himself because he felt like he was ice. You have to have an ID to show you're a legal citizen. Well, he was requiring IDs to go into a socialist school, not now.