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Victor Davis Hanson: True Democratic Socialists Can’t Run on Their Real Platform

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. 

I’d like to talk about the current rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and the idea of socialism itself. 

Socialism innately is antithetical to human nature. Most people want to keep the profits of their own labor, and they don’t think the government, especially an unelected bureaucracy, can manage an economy, a supply-and-demand economy better than average people can. 

In other words, in the United States, 360 million people, all operating on agendas that they think are best for themselves and indirectly for their country, are smarter than a few experts in a central bureau, like the Soviet Union, issuing commands. And we know that’s true because socialism has never worked. 

There are now socialist governments in Europe. The EU has 100 million people more than the United States. Their GDP is $10 trillion less. China was socialist. It still has command-socialist elements in its economy. They have four times the population. Their GDP is $10 trillion less than ours. 

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In other words, an American capitalist economy, even with its socialist fringes, one American produces more than four of his Chinese counterparts, 30% more in goods and services. 

So the socialists know that, so they can’t run on what they want to do. That is, take over utilities, command the economy, open the border, and pretty much do what the Democrats already wanted to do, which, and to be frank, the Democrats are socialists prior to the Democratic socialists absorbing the Democratic Party. 

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