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Democrats’ sway toward socialism: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 20, 2026

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The Issue: Socialism’s growing popularity among Democrats, with several DSA-allied primary winners.

The danger of romanticizing the radical left is akin to the fable wherein a frog that’s trying to cross a creek hitches a ride on the back of a scorpion who stings the frog, thus sending it to its death (“Socialist lean for Dems,” Aug. 17).

The frog asks why he did that, to which the scorpion responds “because it is what I do.”

There is no such thing as a “democratic socialist.” The term is used to cloak their real intent of communism and to lull folks into a false sense of safety, similar to the frog who tried to ignore the truth of the scorpion’s nature. If we do not acknowledge what democratic socialism really is, we may suffer that same fate.

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Democratic socialists want a government that helps workers rather than the billionaire class. Socialism is not really an accurate term for them. If anything, Republicans are far more socialist.

A socialist government........

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