Many kinds of governments exercise authority over nations, states, provinces, and territories around the world. Which form works best? The founders of the United States of America whittled down a few words that have become the foundation of our beliefs and values: “All men are created equal.”
Thomas Jefferson crafted those words into an immutable truth that has held our nation together through many challenges both foreign and domestic: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These are the words rebels used against the English throne to justify our declaration of and revolution for independence from that monarchical form of government.
Although these words are true and have kept us united for more than 250 years, many among us have challenged them in efforts to change our form of government. A group calling themselves Democratic Socialists of America have created more heat than light in their attempt to overthrow many of our institutions in the name of “democracy.”
Citizens of the USA should know we are not a democracy. We are a republic as noted by none other than Benjamin Franklin when he answered Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy? Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.” All these years later political leaders still argue about whether we are a democracy or a republic.
Monarchies were the rule rather than the exception to the form of government used across Europe and most of the rest of the world in those days. Indeed, after George Washington’s terms as president, many of the citizens wanted to make him king. Washington rejected the idea as a threat to the republic. Hadn’t they just fought and won a war against a monarchy?
Cue the “Democratic Socialists of America” who have gained the political spotlight in this year’s annual elections. As the winner of the New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani took office January 1, 2026. He is the city’s 112th mayor and the first Muslim and Asian American to hold this position.
What does this mean? Who are the Democratic Socialists of America? The DSA Political Platform website’s Preamble as of September 2025 explains in part.
“The Democratic Socialists of America are fighting to win a world organized and governed by and for the vast majority, the working class. We are socialist because we share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships. We are democratic because we know that this transformation cannot be won from the top down, by a small group of elites who claim to have all the answers, or by even well-meaning politicians. This transformation can only come from the bottom up, when millions of working-class people stand together.”
That’s a lot to digest. The Democrat Party doesn’t appear to welcome this group into the national party but also doesn’t challenge DSA’s platform. DSA wants to eliminate the Senate and replace the president with an executive chosen by what’s now the House. Can our constitutional government withstand a challenge from the Democratic Socialists of America?
Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.
27 comments:
All the Dems have to do to geld Trump for his last 2 years is not be lunatics, but they’re trying hard to fuck it up.
Granted, they’ve got to fill an inside straight to take the Senate; but watch the Michigan senate primary this week.
If they nominate the jihadist, he’ll lose to Mike Rogers in November, resulting in a GOP pickup & nuking their chance at a majority.
The House is in the bank for the blue team.
Whatever you say.
Mamdami is unique. I don’t look for his politics to spread significantly beyond New York.
Go look at Governor's race in Wisconsin and the 7th District in Colorado.
Democrats have flirted with Marxism since FDR. The last 18 years have been an outing for them to just exit their collectivist closet as naked Communists, but often hybridized as MusliMarxists, an evil twofer.
The DSA works in blue areas. That’s why they went there first, Democrat voters are the weakest.
Denial and cognitive dissonance abounds.
This government does not work for the common man.
Don't act surprised when people turn to alternatives.
Trump is a big ole Socialist
Of course, it IS a small group of elites who are behind this, such as the newly wealthy AOC and the trust fund baby Mamdani. You can be sure that these people are not going to live the life they envision for the masses.
Meanwhile the commerce department is buying equity into American businesses.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/
It is true that all men are created equal. Ir is up to the individual to keep themselves equal.
It’s a pretty easy choice when your options are socialism or fascism. Trump has shown us the floor of our once great country, I hope we can dig out of this hole in my lifetime.
After decades of creeping communism, Americans are finally waking to the reality that socialism is here. Any idea that it will be defeated is unfounded. The nation is not prepared for that battle. We have many who ignore the socialism danger, because they do not understand socialism and communism. The degradation of public education is partially to blame.
We also have many who want socialism, because the sense it is morally right and beneficial.
The decision to defeat socialism will be a hard one for us as a nation. Perhaps it is easy for you and me, but it will be difficult to gather a majority that is willing to defeat it.
RMQ
If Mamdani takes down NYC, great. It won't have the least effect on me, you, and most of the rest of the country. Well, it might disrupt your FoxNews or your MSNow fix. But other than that, we'll all be fine and, truth told, probably better off.
Are any of you Mamdani haters aware that his mother directed the film Mississippi Masala that starred Denzel Washington and had all of the Mississippi scenes filmed here?
So what?
Interesting tidbit, 1:25, but you seem to be trying to make a point that is unclear to me.
Please detail the fascism by Trump. Don't simply respond to the NPR dog whistle.
I don’t care if his momma invented southern fried chicken and catfish. That dude is evil and represents the worst and most dangerous ideology in the world. If Col Sanders was a Muslim and declared that he wants to cut your damn head off, would you say that’s ok because you love the biscuits at KFC?
The Commies, leftists, and Islamists infiltrated and destroyed American institutions and education by design. What happened to the Boy Scouts is a text book example. They got their radical people in there and destroyed the greatest institution for developing boys into grown men and leaders. Everything that leftists touch is turned to dog crap. Anyone sho votes D is a blind, mental midget. Republicans and Trump are far from perfect, but they are at least trying to save or nation and the West, not destroy it. The left is, quite literally, hell bent on destroying Western civilization. If you can’t see that you are either blind and have your head buried in the sand or you’re a fool.
Mamdani's family are nothing but thugs.
6:46 regards those who seek to be mollycoddled slaves of statist overlords as "common". Until several millions of those "commoners" are killed off, as Marxists historically do. But enjoy the cuisine on the way down: Bernie Sanders said Communists stand in soup lines around the block because the soup is so good. Of course the Healthcare is free: all it takes is a bullet and a ditch.
yes, the thug anthropology professor (eyeroll)
Says Gollum Carville, whilst sitting before a roasted nutrea on his table.
Why does the right use the term thug so much? It obviously doesn’t apply here, is it just the new “n” word?
Mamdani's father published a book last year defending Idi Amin and completely exonerating him. Thugs.
You know you are about as ignorant of a troll faced turdpusher as they come. Idi Amin was 100% justified and Churchill was a drunken Zionist traitor.
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