There's a term, gaslighting, that refers to a form of psychological abuse in which a person harms another by deliberately making someone else doubt their memories, perception of reality, or sanity. It comes from a 1938 stage play in which a man slowly dims the gas lights in the house while convincing his wife that she's only imagining things getting darker.
Democrats have done this to voters for years. They claim to be champions of women, while doing things like removing guardrails to the abortion drug, which has allowed numerous men to order pills and forcibly give them to women (so much for my body, my choice); they claim to be champions of children, but endorse gender mutilating surgery and harmful practices like puberty blockers; and they claim to care about minorities, only to give jobs to illegal aliens to the detriment of black communities.
They've also tried to gaslight us on socialism and communism, telling us these fetid ideologies — which killed 100 million in the 20th century and condemned countless others to lives of abject poverty — haven't really been tried. This time, they swear, they'll get it right.
You don’t hate socialism. You hate the version that was explained to you by someone who owns 4 houses and 3 yachts
— Kadott (@Kadotttt) November 10, 2026
No, we actually hate socialism. The wealthy are well-off enough to do okay under socialism. Socialist political leaders need them to prop up their failed political and economic agenda, after all. As I've said before, reading Amnity Shlaes' book "Forgotten Man" shows that Communist Russia was already relying on Western capitalism to keep it afloat in 1927 — about a decade after the Bolshevik revolution.
You are not rich enough to be afraid of socialism.
— Russell (@ATLCWorker) November 10, 2026
The people who suffer the most under socialist regimes are the middle and working classes. It is their property that is seized, their income that is confiscated, and their way of life — from the family structure on down to their church — that is uprooted in the name of revolution. It's why most of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are rich, spoiled white kids and why most middle- and working-class voters reject them.
Cea Weaver, Mamdani's housing advisor who wants to impoverish the white middle class, can go visit her mom's mansion in Tennessee, for example. Even Hakeem Jeffries said the DSA — which wants to oust him from leadership, by the way — isn't very diverse. There's a reason for that: none of these people support policies that would make them poorer. They are no that altruistic or selfless; they want to inflict pain on others while they have power and control over us.
It's as simple, and as scary, as that.
"Real socialism" and "real communism" have been tried in Cuba and Venezuela, and elsewhere around the world. Venezuela was one of the most affluent nations in South America until the greedy communists took over; it took only a few short years for things to get so desperate that people were forced to eat zoo animals to survive. In Cuba, government rations provide seven pounds of rice, one pound of beans, half a bottle of cooking oil, one daily bread roll (a provision that was recently cut), small amounts of chicken, eggs, milk (prioritized for children), sugar, coffee, and soap/toiletries. It's estimated that these foodstuffs only provide 30 to 60 percent of a person's daily caloric needs.
If weight loss drugs like GLP-1s are fascism, what is it called when the government starves you in the name of socialism?
Even Russia's Boris Yeltsin couldn't deny the bounty of capitalism.
A grocery stores in Texas destroyed communism https://t.co/HBuVV0i2kw pic.twitter.com/3MKbzKQ0t8
— Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus) (@_Credible_Hulk) November 7, 2026
Compare this to the breadlines in Russia.
I guess they missed this in
— Dean Rushmore (@RushmoreDe58881) November 8, 2026
Grade school
Soviet bread lines
From government grocery pic.twitter.com/cnP2KYIVly
Socialism is the ideology of greedy children who believe the world owes them everything and they, in turn, owe it nothing. They are entitled to the wealth of their neighbor and the largesse of government simply because they say so. If socialism works, it only does so in small, racially and ideologically homogenous enclaves where social mores and culture demand specific behaviors.
That is not America. Here, we can't even get 64 percent of D.C. bus riders to pay the fare. Instead, we punish the law-abiding citizens who do pay by making them pay even more. As I have pointed out countless times, the Left will use their socialist ideas as a cudgel against their opponents, including in housing, healthcare, and education. They've already played their hand on that, and we shouldn't tempt them to prove their intentions.
Socialism is a scourge wherever it is tried, and we should not just oppose it with our entire being; we should despise it to the point where socialists are afraid to speak of it in public.
