Communist Candidates Are a Threat to the USA

Article CAIRCO note: 
Socialists are Communists in sheep's clothing
Article author: 
E. Jeffrey Ludwig
Article publisher: 
American Thinker
Article date: 
7 July 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
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We have recently seen a surge of leftists being nominated to run for office or actually winning offices in our beloved USA. They support a range of policies that are fundamentally programmed to expand government's role in providing various services to the public. The policies supported include Medicare for All, an end to funding weapons for Israel, the abolition of prisons and ICE, and a halt to deportations.Some support universal rent control, expansion of public housing, and public ownership (instead of mere regulation) of utilities.

The supporters of these far-left policies call themselves Democratic Socialists... This move to prominence and influence happened in June of 2020, when he [Bernie Sanders] and the Biden camp signed off on a 110-page memorandum of understanding... a pact in which the Biden faction agreed to incorporate Sanders’s policies into the Democrat platform...

This uniting with the Democratic Socialists was a reversal of the Democrat position taken by presidential candidate Harry Truman in 1947..

These so-called Democratic Socialists are really communists but hide behind the word "socialist" to diminish the sense of radical loss of freedom that the word "communism" denotes...

Sanders, AOC, and some of these other freaks... have their deepest allegiance to the communist ideology advanced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century...

But the modern radical communists saw and continue to see the Keynesian ideas of government involvement as half-measures to be overthrown by more radical action. They follow communist ideologists like Antonio Gramsci; Rudi Dutschke ("the long march through the institutions"); and Saul Alinsky...

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