President Donald Trump recently warned at the NATO summit that communism is spreading internationally, arguing that it promises people everything while ultimately delivering poverty and oppression.
At nearly the same time, candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America continued gaining influence inside the Democratic Party, bringing ideas once considered far outside America’s political mainstream into everyday debate.
Whether Americans agree with Trump’s warning or not, every citizen should pause and ask a simple question: When an ideology has repeatedly failed wherever it has been tried, why would anyone believe the next version will produce a different result?
The Democratic Socialists of America openly advocate major economic restructuring, expanded public ownership in key sectors, and a platform rooted in socialist principles.
America’s free enterprise system rests on private property, entrepreneurship, voluntary exchange, and the opportunity for individuals to build wealth through hard work and innovation.
Socialism shifts economic authority toward government, reducing private ownership and market competition. The former Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea each promised equality while producing shortages, restricted freedoms, economic decline, and political repression. Centralized control has repeatedly concentrated power while limiting individual liberty. This resulted in the deaths of over 100 million people in the 20th century alone.
America learned this lesson long before Marx ever published a word. The Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony initially operated under a communal system requiring everyone to work for the common storehouse. The results proved disappointing. Some worked diligently while others contributed less, yet everyone received the same share. Governor William Bradford later wrote that the arrangement bred discontent, discouraged industry, and reduced productivity.
Facing hardship and the threat of starvation, Bradford assigned families their own parcels of land, allowing them to enjoy the fruits of their own labor. Production immediately increased. Families planted more, harvested more, and the colony prospered because personal responsibility replaced compulsory collectivism. The lesson still echoes across four centuries of American history.
Every election ultimately becomes a choice about first principles. Do we trust free people to build, create, invest, serve, and prosper through honest work, or do we place greater confidence in centralized government to direct economic life?
America has produced unprecedented prosperity because freedom and responsibility have traveled together. When either disappears, both suffer. Healthy debate strengthens a republic, but wisdom requires remembering where certain roads have already led.
History is one of God’s greatest teachers for those willing to learn. As the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, “For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.”
Whatever the odds, it’s always worth standing for the truth. Promoting socialism in America is, say it with me, Stupidocrisy.
Sources
The Epoch Times, Trump Warns of Global Spread of Communism at NATO Summit
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-warns-of-global-spread-of-communism-at-nato-summit-6059015
Breitbart, Democrat Socialist Admits Goal Is to Overthrow American Empire
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/10/democrat-socialist-admits-goal-is-to-overthrow-american-empire/
J.D. Rucker, Everything Americans Need to Know About the DSA’s Marxist Platform
https://jdrucker.com/everything-americans-need-to-know-about-the-dsas-marxist-platform/
Democratic Socialists of America, Official Platform and Policy Positions
https://www.dsausa.org/
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (Project Gutenberg)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24950
Plimoth Patuxet Museums, William Bradford and Plymouth Colony History
https://plimoth.org/
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