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The Threat Posed by the Democratic Socialists of America

For decades many of us were warning that socialism (a.k.a., communism lite) was slowly creeping onto the American stage, largely due to an organization called the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Now, following Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s November 5, 2025 mayoral election, things have become crystal clear. Overt socialism has gotten a major foothold in the largest and most iconic city in America.

Time to take a more in-depth look at DSA.

With over 80,000 dues-paying members, including 11 sitting members of Congress and over 200 state and local officials, DSA has been able to wrestle control of the levers of power in a number of key places in the U.S.

In New York City, the group controls key committees, and in Chicago, 6 DSA members have a seat at the city council’s table.

DSA presents itself as a champion of compassion. However, beneath rhetoric such as “medicare for all” and “affordable housing” lies a radical agenda rooted in Marxist ideology.

The organization has been following the communist playbook to a T, seeking to obtain power through infiltration. It has made insidious steady progress toward this goal.

Unfortunately, it is currently the central focal point of energy for the Democratic Party, a party that appears to have so lost its way it is difficult to imagine any kind of return to sensibility.

Now let’s look at DSA’s core ideology.

Founded in 1982, its ideology is firmly rooted in Marxism, advocating for the end to all capitalism in favor of governmental control of industry.

The organization explicitly calls for the abolition of private property, the nationalization of enterprise, and the replacement of the free market system.

Most of the sustained attempts at the implementation of its ideology have ultimately arrived at communism’s doorstep. Communism’s legacy is one of economic decay, governmental ruin, and social collapse, a distinct pattern that is historically consistent across time, place, and events.

DSA’s own platform, updated in 2023, demands “public ownership of utilities, housing, and finance,” “decommodifying healthcare and education,” and “seizing the means of production,” all prequels to the imposition of totalitarianism and freedom’s ultimate demise.

The reality is DSA is a political insurgency with a proven playbook: Infiltrate, normalize, and dismantle.

Its youth wing, Young Democratic Socialists, is in favor of “abolishing prisons,” a prescription for crime and chaos that disproportionately harms the very vulnerable communities the group professes that it is seeking to protect.

DSA’s 2024 platform calls for nationalizing key sectors of the economy, such as energy and housing.

Its working group, “Ecosocialism,” advocates for “planned degrowth,” deliberately working to shrink the economy in order to meet specified climate goals.

The organization’s 2024 convention passed a resolution that called for “expropriating fossil fuel companies” and “banning private real estate development,” resolutions that translate into a form of national self-destruction.

DSA’s policies reflect a visceral hatred for the free market, and conversely, a worship of government. This inevitably leads to food shortages, black markets, and Soviet-style oppression.

The tenets of its foreign policy are equally atrocious. DSA’s “International Committee” has called for cutting all aid to Israel. It has hosted events with activists that are linked to terrorist groups. And it has refused to condemn Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

A document from the NYC-DSA’s Anti-War Working Group (AWWG), which was recently obtained by the Just The News website, shows AWWG has been plotting ways to pressure newly-elected New York mayor Mamdani to comply with its “demands.”

Demands include arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers, divesting city pension funds from Israeli securities, withdrawing city funds from banks that do business with Israel, ending city contracts with companies that do business with Israel, operating city-run grocery stores free from Israeli products, and evicting weapons manufacturers and transporters from New York City.

Mamdani is a longtime DSA member and leader. He is listed as one of the group’s “New York State Socialists in Office.”

When DSA-aligned officials are in power, “defund the police” efforts are typically underway as well, leading to skyrocketing crime rates.

Homicides were already up 30% in NYC post-2020, according to FBI data. Now with Mamdani’s victory secured, the trend is unlikely to be NYC’s friend.

Those who are DSA-aligned have also pushed for open borders and sanctuary policies, which have fueled a host of crises, including fentanyl overdoses, human trafficking, surging crime rates, and wage suppression for working-class Americans.

DSA’s own rhetoric betrays itself. Co-chairperson Ari Rabin-Havt recently tweeted about “seizing the means of production” as essential to combating climate change, ignoring how such seizures in Cuba and Nicaragua have led to corruption and poverty.

The communism that DSA is peddling has a 100% failure rate. This is because, among other irrefutable things, it violates human nature and defies economic realities.

We ignore this group at our peril.

It may be that many who subscribe to socialist ideology have never had to work to protect their rights. Someone else has always done that for them.

As one who with wholehearted rejection of communism and its socialism offspring has battled across decades to preserve our God-given rights, I speak for those of us who are still willing to continue to do so.

Just praying that it’s not too late.

Communist Seduction and Zohran Mamdani

If America is to survive as a nation, it is important that our people have a fuller understanding of the inherent dangers of communism.

Unfortunately, for far too long there hasn’t been a whole lot of discussion about the evidence-based heinousness of communism.

Socialism, or what those in the know call “communism lite,” made its way into the cultural milieu several decades ago. Politicians who were practiced at the art of deception went on to popularize it.

Once socialism got its initial foothold, the slide into communism was sadly a relatively easy one. Our country now finds itself in the situation of having a candidate for the upcoming New York City mayoral race who has a documented track record of proudly advocating full-blown communist policies.

Democratic candidate for NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani has made it very clear that he wants to eliminate the free market and replace it with communism. His Big Apple starting point would be housing, with a plan to get rid of privately-owned housing and instead have government-controlled property.

Under the mantle of supposed social justice, he seeks to confiscate the wealth of New York City homeowners. His policies would inevitably drive real estate development and investment out of the city.

Mamdani has spouted words that echo the writers of The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

“If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now,” Mamdani said.

He goes even further, stating that his objective is “to take control of the means of production,” a phrase that has been used by communists before him throughout the ages.

It’s high time for some straight truth about the horrors of communism.

The communist intelligensia as well as those who embrace communist ideology know that control of ideas and information ultimately determines the direction toward which a society moves.

In an effort to transform society’s beliefs, attitudes, mores, and behaviors, the institutional pillars of society are infiltrated, with special attention to those of academia, journalism, law, news media, and the entertainment industry.

Numerous polls make the unfortunate point that too many folks today don’t really understand the threat to life and liberty that communism poses. This may particularly apply to young people who haven’t yet been exposed to the truth about this totalitarian form of government.

In 2020, a poll was released of those 16 years of age and up, which showed that 35% of millennials and 31% of the Gen Z population “support the gradual elimination of the capitalist system in favor of a more socialist system.”

The same poll indicated that 20% of millennials and 1/3 of the Gen-Z population view communism favorably.

“Communism—the pernicious idea that man could create his own heaven on earth—is, quite simply, the most deadly idea ever conceived in the history of the world,” writes Steven W. Mosher, in his book “The Devil and Communist China.”

Communism is an insidious political ideology precisely because it is one that is based on lies.

For individuals who are motivated to acquire power for less than honorable purposes, this ideology provides a rationale and grants a tacit self-permission to oppress others. Left unchecked, history has proven that the ideology’s implementation inevitably leads to widespread suffering, and even the loss of innocent life for victims of the oppression.

Promoters of communist governance typically employ a kind of linguistic seduction, with ample use of words and phrases that are intended to captivate our human emotions, satisfy our drive to have basic needs supplied, and lure us in with a most enticing message: We will belong to a group and be accepted by others.

Of course, it is a series of lies that are wrapped up in a pretty box with a bow on top. Usually the package is presented to the public by a highly appealing yet duplicitous individual.

It’s all so enticing at first, but countries under communism have a distinct pattern of deteriorating rapidly.

Under communist rule, there are no free and fair elections. No rule of law either. State-sponsored security forces are used to suppress dissent. Human rights violations are routine. Central planning fails to allocate resources efficiently, resulting in shortages and economic instability. Private property is abolished. Individual incentives to work are non-existent, and ultimately, misery prevails.

“Communism is a cancer, and it always produces the same results: oppression, suffering and death. We must teach the next generation of Americans the threat communism poses to liberty and justice for innocent people around the world,” said GOP Louisiana Senator John Kennedy.

As the largest and most iconic city in America, it is a very real possibility that an NYC mayoral race gone awry will lead to a “so goes New York City, so goes the country” outcome.

For the good of our nation and all of her people, I pray that NYC voters don’t fall for the communist seduction.