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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Democratic Socialists of America, riding high from primary victories in several Democratic-run states, have unveiled a \u201cWorkers Deserve More\u201d platform.<\/p>\n

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It aims to dismantle the American republic, starting with the abolition of the U.S. Senate, the Electoral College and our national borders, and the subordination of the president and the Supreme Court to Congress.<\/p>\n

Then there is universal ranked choice voting, public ownership of large companies, free childcare, \u201cMedicare for All,\u201d cancellation of student loans (to be paid by taxpayers), the transgender agenda and more benefits for the growing \u201cfree stuff\u201d army. How do we pay for all this?<\/p>\n

Who cares? Hit up the billionaires.<\/p>\n

The DSA now claims 120,000 members and dozens of public offices. It is no wonder that so many young people are buying into the DSA and socialism in general. The public \u201ceducation\u201d system does not share the shocking, real-world track record of socialism and communism.<\/p>\n

This makes young voters sitting ducks for a pitch like this one on the DSA\u2019s website: \u201cImagine taking a day off from work in a future without capitalism. \u2026 You have no debt. You don\u2019t need health insurance. You don\u2019t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. Your retirement is publicly funded. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren\u2019t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bottom line: You do not have to grow up or take responsibility for anything. Mommy government will do it all.<\/p>\n

The DSA\u2019s pixie dust masks class warfare straight out of the bloody French and Bolshevik revolutions. To understand what is going on, it is helpful to revisit an extraordinary essay drafted 176 years ago in Mugron, France.<\/p>\n

In 1850, Frederic Bastiat published \u201cThe Law,\u201d a slam-dunk refutation of \u201cThe Communist Manifesto\u201d by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It is a surprisingly accessible read.<\/p>\n

Unlike Marx and Engels, who were atheists, Bastiat agreed with America\u2019s Founders, who said rights come from God, not government. \u201cThree gifts from God precede all human legislation,\u201d Bastiat wrote, citing individuality, liberty and property \u2014 all protected by law.<\/p>\n

In a free republic, people cede some liberties to government in return for law and order and protection of life and property. When a government fails to do this and instead takes money from Peter to pay Paul, it engages in a form of theft that Bastiat labels \u201cplunder.\u201d<\/p>\n

A grasping government plunders as much wealth as it can and redistributes it to increase the power and wealth of those doing the transferring, he wrote.<\/p>\n

I thought about this when watching Virginia Democrats take over Richmond in January. The fake \u201cmoderate\u201d Gov. Abigail Spanberger immediately signed a measure to send consumers\u2019 electric bills soaring. Democratic legislators, meanwhile, voted themselves a $32,000 salary increase, nearly tripling their pay in the name of \u201cthe people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bastiat writes that despite socialism\u2019s flowery promises, it is all about \u201cnaked greed\u201d and \u201cmisconceived philanthropy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gad Saad, a scholar at the University of Mississippi\u2019s Declaration of Independence Center and professor of marketing at Concordia University, calls the latter \u201csuicidal empathy,\u201d a compassion so excessive that it harms the person, group or society engaging in it.<\/p>\n

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A prime example would be the Great Society welfare state\u2019s destruction of the Black family. Another would be the Biden administration\u2019s importation of millions of unvetted immigrants, some of whom are now working to destroy America by advocating socialism or Islamism.<\/p>\n

Each of these movements, which overlap to form a red-green axis, is using America\u2019s constitutional liberties to attain power. If they get enough of it, they will tear up that document and replace it with their creed of choice.<\/p>\n

Like communism, Shariah cannot be squared with the Constitution, especially the First Amendment\u2019s guarantee of religious liberty. Under it, converts from Islam can be punished with death, as can those convicted of blasphemy. Women have few or no rights. This conflicts with the 14th Amendment\u2019s equal protection guarantee and the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.<\/p>\n

Criminal punishments can include amputation or flogging, which would violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.<\/p>\n

Not all Muslim-majority countries impose Shariah, but in countries such as Iran, run by Islamists, women are forced to wear hijabs or even more concealment in public \u2014 or face beatings. How many college students who run around with signs backing Hamas and Iran while trashing Israel are aware of any of this?<\/p>\n

The DSA is stoking hatred of Jews. Its platform calls for \u201ca free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital\u201d and to \u201cend all military and economic aid to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 103 \u2014 nearly half of 212 Democrats \u2014 voted yes on a failed House measure to end military aid to Israel. Only one Republican, bill sponsor Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted yes as the measure failed on a 104-314 vote.<\/p>\n

The DSA has a Red Star Caucus, whose members vow to destroy America\u2019s free market economics and impose communism. Its heroes are New York City\u2019s Islamist\/communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent, a lifelong communist.<\/p>\n

The DSA\u2019s Red Star Caucus, of which Ms. Romer is a member, states in its published platform: \u201cWe do not believe that capitalism can be reformed into socialism. It must be overthrown and replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans must educate American voters before it is too late. They need to offer a positive agenda and remind people of the bad old Biden days of $5 gas and open borders.<\/p>\n

They need to make clear that if the Democrats do not expel the DSA, then voting Democratic at any level is enabling a growing red-green axis that threatens American liberty and prosperity.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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