As more and more members of the Democrat Party embrace socialism, other Democrats seek to end the use of the words “socialist” or “socialism.” According to Charles A. “Chuck” Donovan, Democrat Representative Abigail Spanberger of Richmond, Virginia, is one of them. After Spanberger narrowly regained the seat in 2020 that she lost in 2018, she made the emphatic statement that Democrats should not use the words ever again. Donavan explained as follows:
In Marxist doctrine, socialism is seen as
a steppingstone between capitalism and communism. Socialist policies pool basic
goods – food, housing, health care, the economy – and distribute them equally
to all persons recognized as part of the polity: “From each according to his
ability, to each according to his need.”
Socialist policies are therefore
centripetal – they pull all goods toward the center and crush intermediate institutions
like local government, local business, churches, and family. Socialism controls
all wealth creation and distribution. To do this, it must control all politics,
inevitably crating a one-party state.
Americans
have been adopting socialist ways for many years, but the Biden administration appears
to be pushing us to make the move more quickly. This site lists ten ways that
the United States government has adopted socialist programs or brought
government in control of certain areas. The ten programs are as follow: (1) Social
Security (1935), (2) Federal Reserve (1913), (3) endless wars, (4) farm
subsidies, (5) public or government schooling, (6) corporate welfare, (7) the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), (8) healthcare (Obamacare, Medicare (1965),
Medicaid, 1965), (9) public transportation and security, and (10) the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA). Even though most Americans do not recognize them as
such, these are all programs in which the federal government is involved. Each
of the programs bring the federal government into control of important areas of
American lives.
Donovan quoted Mark Levin: “The
diabolical genius of Marxism-socialism is that it provides the emotional and
intellectual roadmap for autocrats to persuade millions of people to support
their own enslavement to government.” If consideration is given to the ten
programs listed above, one can see how emotional and intellectual persuasion were
used to convince Americans that the various programs are necessary.
Donovan gave several examples of
socialists taking over country. The Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 and had a
program to legalize abortion. They attacked private medical practice and instituted
a free health care system for everyone. Soviet law took control of childbearing:
“The law was pronatalist – or in support of more births – but permissive of
abortion. Use of contraception was discouraged, and the result was predictable”
– an explosion of abortion (“as high as 70% of all pregnancies in the late
1980s).
In 1980, Maoist China declared their
“one-child policy” that “led to forced abortions carried out by the family
planning cadres who roam and rule the communist nation.” Now there is a “two-child”
limit – especially for minority groups. There were approximately 381 million
abortions in China from 1956 to 2015.
Donovan said that the United States
is “not yet a socialist nation,” but the nation qualifies as “semi-socialized”
in health care. “Socialism, statism, and abortion on demand go hand in hand.
Social conservatives have every reason, contra Spanberger, to make sure the “s”
word is heard again and again. It looks like the pro-life movement would do
well to advertise the connection between abortion and socialism.
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