Why The Trend Toward Socialism?
The trend toward socialism is evident, with the election of an Islamic Communist New York City mayor, and socialists winning other elections, including in Colorado. This is, of course, with the help of Soros money, which has been directed toward smaller and seemingly inconsequential local elections. There is a plan in place.
Democratic Socialism, Social Democracy - whatever you want to call it - is rebranded communism. Communism has failed every time it has been tried, and has resulted in the deaths of millions. Leftists, socialists, and Marxists claim that it wasn't the right kind of Communism - next time will be different. They have co-opted the Democrat party as a vehicle to achieving their utopian agenda.
Why is this happening at this particular moment? Connor O'Keeffe offers an explanation in his 8 July 2026 Mises Institute article, Is This Country Having Its Socialist Moment? He first observes that even our MAGA VP is leaning toward a command economy:
At the same time, Vice President JD Vance went viral last week for celebrating that the American right was moving away from Milton Friedman-style market economics and supporting the idea that the federal government should get a lot more involved in the economy.
The growing popularity of this kind of sentiment and the indisputable electoral success it's having in some primaries has predictably caused establishment liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to panic...
O'Keefe then notes that:
... there was a period in the early twentieth century when the intellectual battle between advocates of socialism and capitalism was as rigorous and intellectual as many like to pretend it still is...
Mises, specifically, delivered a simple yet devastating case that economic calculation - or the efficient allocation of capital goods and available resources for the production of goods and services that end consumers value - is impossible under a centrally planned economy. That is because the only way to know if production inputs are abundant enough and best used in a line of production or if the output is valued enough by the end consumer to make that project a better venture than the alternatives is through prices that can only come about through a market process.
In other words, command, centrally planed economies are demonstrably and unequivocally inferior to market economies.
And yet, we see socialism growing in popularity. Why?
O'Keeffe explains that belief in a key narrative is crucial:
... a small group of officials and well-connected courtiers and plutocrats use state power to enrich and empower themselves and their close friends and allies. State power is used to redistribute wealth from the broader population to whichever groups are organized and connected enough to steer it in their own favor...
He then explains that:
One reason socialism has remained a viable political force despite losing the economic argument is that socialists have done a good job of convincing much of the population that the current setup - where government works on behalf of well-connected companies and lobbies - is simply laissez-faire capitalism. And that socialism is the only real alternative.
In other words, people believe that the current system rewards those at the top, and the only alternative is socialism - which readily transforms into communism as a command and redistributive economy is actualized.
It won't work. O'Keeffe explains that the envisioned salvation of socialism and a redistributive economy is just another popular delusion.
The idea that states would or even could siphon wealth from the broader public to benefit that same broader public is a fundamental misunderstanding of what states are and how they work.
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