Behold the official website of the Democratic Socialists of America. Unless it is a false flag effort by frightened Democrats or sneaky conservatives, this is a metaphorical smoking gun of epic proportions. Yet its content should not surprise anyone who has any historical perspective or who has been paying attention for the last, oh, two decades or so.
As for me, my inner Fredo is again saying, “I’m smart! I’m not dumb like everyone says!” I’d like to find the first time Ethics Alarms started warning that the American Left and the 21st Century Democratic Party was sliding into totalitarian goals and tactics, but I know it was quite a while ago. I also know that EA’s objective analysis of this terrible political development, which creates a genuine threat to democracy unlike the fake threats to democracy heralded by Axis propagandists, was perceived as a partisan tactic itself and attacked as such, here and elsewhere. That was and is wrong for I was and am right, and it didn’t take any Fox News script to lead me to the truth. I was paying attention. Democrats were using the playbook of Communist regimes while accusing their adversaries of doing what they were doing themselves. And it should have been obvious to everyone. I’m not that smart. Heck, Donald Trump figured it out.
Now, suddenly, after sowing these metaphorical dragons’ teeth and getting the predictable bumper crop, some progressives and Democrats are waking up to what their cynical pandering to the anti-American, radical and ignorant extremes on the Left has wrought. Bill Maher, Van Jones, James Carville, Joe Scarborough, Senator Fetterman and others are suddenly saying, “Hey, hold on a bit, these Democratic Socialists are crazy, and they are going to get us slaughtered in elections.” To which I respond with two Hollywood clips from the EA archive:
I have no sympathy for these fools, and the group includes a lot of my Trump Deranged friends and relatives. They allowed Bernie Sanders, the epitome of a communist “useful idiot,” to become the face of the Democratic party along with “the Squad” and now the mayor of New York City. They relied on the our broken education system’s indoctrination process to ensure the ignorance of much of the public, especially Gen Z and, to be blunt, stupid people. Now all those ignorant voters are threatening to expose just how irresponsible and unhinged the Left has become, making even the hated Republicans and their boorish POTUS look safe by comparison.
You really have to read the rhetoric on the website, but I’ll give you just an appetizer to get you started, as readers are told what like under a socialist (<cough!> communist <cough!>) regime will be like:
“You have no debt. You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities…OK, enough about bills. What do you do on your day off?…what if you were free to spend your time how you like without worrying about cost or dreading going back to work? What if you didn’t have to think about paying rent or loans at the end of the month, or saving for college, or affording groceries?”
I have to note that all of the graphics pander to “people of color,” like this sweet portrayal of the average American family:
Read it all.
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Pointer: Steve Witherspoon
Ethics Alarms 
Free everything? What’s not to like?
“Free everything? What’s not to like?”
Free (frē) adverb/adjective/noun: At _The_Expense_Of_Others.
Regrettably, pointing them in the direction of inestimable Dr. Thomas Sowell’s seminal treatises Seductive Beliefs I and Seductive Beliefs II would be a waste of time.
PWS
Your links didn’t work properly.
“(W)hat if you were free to spend your time how you like without worrying about cost or dreading going back to work?”
WWFTBD (What Would FeelTheBern Do)?
Sit on his LAZY @$$ while the other Hippies toiled away; this resulted (with spectacular irony) in his getting “asked” to leave.
PWS
Gotta love the story of the commune’s demise. These setups are always nothing more than a novel way for guys to get laid.
Fox News had an article back on July 10th about the DSA’s planned platform. I was very skeptical of the claims made in the article, so I saved every word of the article so I could fact check it later. Here is my evaluation of the Fox News claims that I just finished about 15 minutes ago…
My Skepticism Meter Pegged In The Red Zone!
The article has links and screenshots of everything.
Here is the comment I posted on the Fox News article…
“Silverspoons” is what I use to post comments on Fox News articles. It’s an old CB radio handle I used back in the mid 1970’s.
My personal evaluation of the Democratic Socialists of America’s platform, aka program, is that these morons are…
Anti-USA, Evil, & Bat Shit Crazy!
Trying to present the progressive left we observe in a painting as the lying, morally bankrupt, hypocritical, cult that they are just doesn’t quite complete the canvas, but once you dip your brush into the word “EVIL” and begin to brush it on the canvas, the painting becomes vibrantly complete.
Now if that evaluation causes some psychological distress to some Democrats, Liberals, or progressives, well tough shit. You’re acting like delusional morons and your shit needs to be painted accurately.
Isn’t there a popular line to the effect of “When people tell you what they are, believe them?”
When people tell you they are hard-core Communists, believe them. They aren’t crazy or anything else, they’re Communists.
Young Bill wrote, “They aren’t crazy or anything else, they’re Communists.”
In my opinion; that statement is basically saying that Communists are not crazy, thus giving their absurd delusional nonsense some kind of validity and I’m simply not willing to do that.
Pure communism and socialism has been tried and failed over and over again. Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results is insane, aka crazy.
That’s how I look at it.
As I pointed out, there was a state in this country that had the following benefits:
free housing
free clothing
all the food you needed was free
a job for life
all the healthcare you needed was free
all the education you needed was free
That state was slavery. The Democratic Party has been the party of slavery for over 150 years.
Communism is state slavery. In Communism, the state ‘seizes the means of production’. Well, the #1 means of production is people. Leftist elites love Communism because they think that they will be enslaving us and they will be in charge of us. I had teachers who seemed to think that when the Communist revolution hit, the people in charge were going to say “Well, that Mrs. Smith down there at Topeka Middle School has been a fantastic revolutionary for decades, let’s make her in charge of Topeka!”.
They are not insane, they are totalitarians who think that the ‘leftist elite’ should be a hereditary ruling class over the enslaved populace.
You think Communism and socialism have failed because you thought it was supposed to bring about some utopia. Communism has always succeeded because it was never about bringing utopia to the masses. It was always about bringing an oligarchy to power and enslaving the population.
Michael R. wrote, “Communism is state slavery.”
You’re welcome to your own opinion, but personally I think that’s an absurd claim.
Even the far left The Atlantic is taking note:
https://archive.ph/20260721154135/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/dsa-socialist-leftist-takeover/687989/
Remember the episode of “The Office” where flaky, overdramatic Kelly is dating gruff, but generally low-key Darryl? Kelly throws a fit and Darryl walks up to her, saying, “Hey. I like you. There’s a lot to like. But you need to access your uncrazy side or else maybe this thing has run its course.”
Democrats need to access their uncrazy side if they want to get votes.
They claim they’re alarmed at the socialists, but their own propaganda organs are still running interference for them.
Just today, the news broke that Daniel Ortega, the socialist dictator of Nicaragua, had permanently cancelled all elections going forward. The news stories covering the event, for the most part, pulled no punches in describing his regime as dictatorial, authoritarian, even tyrannical. They dutifully reported the suppression of political dissent, the political killings, the torture.
But they left out the leftism.
In article after article, you couldn’t find any mention of the political Left, or of socialism. They would mention the Sandinista movement, but not what they were or what their political philosophy was. This was how the Associated Press handled the story, along with Reuters, CNN, and The Guardian. Surprisingly, the NYT was one of the new who could bring themselves to mention Ortega’s was a leftist movement.
Well, at least they are not trying the Abagail Spanberger maneuver! When people tell you who they are, believe them, and when it comes to Dems, assume they are lying.
This DSA manifesto, platform, or whatever it is would’ve been right at home on the hippie communes of the 1960’s and 1970’s.
What always baffles me about these Utopian political movements is that they never address what happens if things go wrong. For example:
So what happens when (not if):
No Utopian vision can survive being surrounded by enemies, ideological, practical, or simply covetous. If most of the world embraces some form of capitalism and militarism, the society the DSA envisions would quickly become absorbed by more powerful opponents who have not decided to scrap their military or see the opportunity to make a lot of money for their people off the USA. And even of some shambling remnant of a military remains, are warfighters likely to hang around long enough to be killed by more powerful opponents?
In the end, this stuff reads like something out of a high-school political science project, and is just about as likely to succeed.
Jack wrote, “Unless it is a false flag effort by frightened Democrats or sneaky conservatives”.
I did a little digging to put everyone’s mind at ease that this is not a false flag website.
I looked up the https://www.dsausa.org/ website and it was created on 1996-02-16.
A 30 year old website is not likely to be a false flag.
Logically speaking: who would pay out all the annual money required to maintain the domain and maintain the site itself for 30 years so they could have a false flag reference. Plus I don’t see anyone on the left claiming it’s a false flag; I’m sure they’d be all over it if it was.