I’ve noticed an uptick in media commentary about how bad Socialism is, always was, and must always be. I’m sure it’s related to this Zohran Mamdani guy. He is running for Mayor of New York City on the Democratic ticket but he calls himself – you might want to sit down for this – a Democratic Socialist! Arghhh! Terrifying.

There’s a huge swath of people in the country who simply accept that “Socialism” is, always was, and must always be, Communism. People like that are generally referred to with the comforting euphemism, “low information voters.” That is, people who don’t know enough to have a valid opinion. It turns out, there are lots of different kinds of Socialism.

The reason for the uptick I think I’m seeing? Well, first, Bernie. See? I don’t even have to write his surname and you know who I mean. Bernie. Sanders, the guy who would have wiped the floor with Trump in 2016 if the Democrats hadn’t artificially sidelined him in favor of Hillary, who lost spectacularly, leaving the world in the clutches of insanity. But her check cleared, right? Free Market Capitalism bought the election, Free Market Capitalism lost the nation. To Trump.

Bernie is an independent. He caucuses with the Democrats, but he’s a New Deal kind of guy and the New Deal was very definitely Socialism. It was Democratic Socialism, or elements thereof. The US DID adopt elements of Socialism. The US was never Communist. The New Deal, or Democratic Socialism, is what made America great in the first place. Not “cruelty to immigrants.” Socialism.

Bernie has remained popular ever since the nation discovered him. He’s too old to run for President again but he remains a visible spokesperson and he continues to hold the feet of power to the fires of exposure. That is, he’s not afraid to point out the flaws of our current system and suggest fixes – and his “fixes” tend to be Democratic Socialism.

People readily embraced him. Now he’s running around with AOC. She’s straight up Democrat but she’s hanging with the Democratic Socialist and she’s gaining much of the popularity and gravitas Bernie enjoys just from her association with him. That, too, is scaring the bejesus out of the Capitalist class. Now comes Mamdani.

Mamdani is out there promising Democratic Socialist solutions to problems created by Free Market Capitalism and, once again, the victims of that Capitalism are responding. I mean, it’s pretty clear so-called Free Market Capitalism has failed. No, it hasn’t collapsed, yet. But it seems a collapse is coming and with the Orange Moron at the helm, I’m betting on sooner rather than later.

So, people are looking for a better way. Democratic Socialism IS that way, scary name or no. The beauty part? We don’t even have to figure out if it’s going to work. It already works like a charm in several countries and the citizens of the Democratic Socialist nations are counted among the happiest citizens in the world. All we have to do is borrow the bits that work the best and fuse them into our own version. Simple.

But the powers that be work overtime to convince low information voters that Capitalism and ONLY Capitalism should rule the world. We’re supposed to ignore all the desperate poverty rampant in this, the richest country on the planet. Income inequality is dismissed as the normal course of events. Pay no attention to people who can’t even secure a place to live. They don’t “count.” Need a doctor? Oh, you should have been born rich.

The worst part is, we KNOW Socialism is better than Free Market Capitalism. From time to time, the Free Marketeers overdo it and crash the economy in a way their blessed Free Market can’t save them from. So what do they do? Why, they turn to Socialism! They let the government bail them out. Socialism. Then, once things settle down, right back to the “Free Market.” There’s even a saying about it: privatized profit, socialized risk.

I’ll tell you this: I’ve come to the conclusion that we should just socialize the whole thing, profit AND risk. Since we, the people, are going to be asked to suffer the consequences, we should also be able to enjoy the benefits…

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Speaking of Free Market induced poverty, homelessness. It’s already a huge problem in this once great nation and it’s getting worse, pretty much everywhere. Donny has a new “solution.” He has ordered all homeless people to leave Washington, DC. That’ll solve it, at least in his pea brain.

It works, in his mind, because all cons know that all homelessness is caused by drug addiction, meaning it’s all their own fault, which is why it’s okay to leave them suffering in the streets rather than follow the teachings of Jesus, right? But the truth is, the vast majority of “homeless” people make up a group called “the working poor.” In this case, the emphasis should be on the word “working” because when 47 manages to run all of the “homeless” people out of Washington, DC, there are going to be a LOT of jobs left undone. It seems like everything he touches turns to garbage…

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Oh, hey, I didn’t want to leave before reminding you that Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell were the best of friends for years and seem to have worked together in a ring of sex traffickers of minors. The co-conspirators all insist the story is false and point to the so-called “Epstein Files” to prove their point. BUT, one of the co-conspirators also refuses to release the evidence they pretended would clear their names because of the obvious common sense needed to NOT supply exonerating evidence when one has it.

MAGA was so upset by Hillary Clinton’s non-existent child sex trafficking ring in a non-existent basement of an actual pizza parlor, one acolyte shot the place up trying to rescue the kids. Now that the mountain of actual evidence suggests it’s their Precious involved in an actual child sex trafficking ring, though, they’re pretty ho-hum about it. Funny, that…