Stella Morabito writes for the Federalist about the political left’s continued march toward the extreme.
We shouldn’t be surprised at the recent electoral gains of communists who identify as members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). If you’ve been paying attention to the social and cultural landscape in America over the past many decades, you know this has been a long time coming.
The more important question is this: How did so many Americans, particularly youth, come to tell pollsters they approve of a system that has proven beyond a doubt to be unworkable, tyrannical, cruel, and murderous?
Socialism is actually slavery. … It’s the peak form of slavery because it subjects entire populations to the whims of an inner circle of very few masters with no accountability, who have an eye towards global enforcement of their slave state.
The fact that socialism always amounts to slavery is perhaps the best kept secret of the wannabe slave holders in the DSA leadership. In their system, you are Dred Scott wandering off their plantation. Anything you own — whether it’s land or money or your children — are considered fair game and the property of the state. How did we get to this place? And what was the timeline that led us here?
The short answer is that we got here because too many people were fearful of the ridicule they would receive if they spoke out against the tyranny embedded in socialism. That whole phenomenon is something I call the weaponization of loneliness.
We tend to comply with malicious orders and stupid ideas if we view the alternative as being ostracized. I wrote a book about it because I believe this process shapes just about everything in human affairs. It’s a social contagion that affects what we say, what we think, what we do, and with whom we associate. If we give in to this fear too much, we eventually allow the slavery of socialism to gain power over us.
