{"id":2642537,"date":"2026-08-10T08:21:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhow-cancel-culture-laid-the-groundwork-for-the-lefts-socialist-lurch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:24:59","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhow-cancel-culture-laid-the-groundwork-for-the-lefts-socialist-lurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhow-cancel-culture-laid-the-groundwork-for-the-lefts-socialist-lurch\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cancel Culture Laid The Groundwork For Socialist Lurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhow-cancel-culture-laid-the-groundwork-for-the-lefts-socialist-lurch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2642537&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-elections-republican-danny-diggs-unseats-monty-mason-in-senate-upset\/\" title=\"Virginia elections: Republican Danny Diggs unseats Monty Mason in Senate upset\">recent electoral successes<\/a> of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) adn explores how socialism has gained popularity, especially among youth, despite its historical record of tyranny and oppression. The author argues that socialism equates to slavery-where individuals lose ownership of their property, freedoms, and even their thoughts, subject to the control of a ruling elite. A key factor in this rise is the fear of ostracism; people self-censor to avoid social rejection,perpetuating propaganda that dismisses concerns about socialism as outdated or hateful. The media and Hollywood play meaningful roles in discouraging discussion by branding critics as red-baiters, leading to silence on the atrocities associated with communist regimes. <\/p>\n<p>The piece traces the timeline of socialist influence in American politics, beginning with critical theory from the Frankfurt School in the 1930s, moving through the militant activism of the 1960s and the influence of radical groups like Weather Underground, and culminating in the modern rise of socialist policies within the Democratic Party. The author highlights how socialists have gradually infiltrated and transformed the Democratic Party over decades, shifting it from its traditional American values toward a more socialist agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the DSA advocates for radical reforms such as abolishing branches of government and establishing a system akin to a Soviet Politburo, which would eliminate individual freedoms. The article emphasizes the importance of free speech in resisting these trends and urges people to openly speak out against socialism, reiterating that socialism is fundamentally akin to slavery. It concludes with a call to action to defy censorship and continue exposing the dangers of socialist ideologies to preserve American freedoms.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We shouldn\u2019t be surprised at the recent electoral gains of communists who identify as members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). If you\u2019ve been paying attention to the social and cultural landscape in America over the past many decades, you know this has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p>The more important question is this: How did so many Americans, particularly youth, come to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article\/survey-nearly-two-thirds-young-americans-support-socialism\/28114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tell pollsters<\/a> they approve of a system that has proven beyond a doubt to be unworkable, tyrannical, cruel, and <a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murderous<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Socialism is actually slavery, as I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/23\/every-american-needs-to-know-that-socialism-is-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently wrote<\/a> at the Federalist. It\u2019s the peak form of slavery because it subjects entire populations to the whims of an inner circle of very few masters with no accountability, who have an eye towards global enforcement of their slave state.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that socialism always amounts to slavery is perhaps the best kept secret of the wannabe slave holders in the DSA leadership. In their system, you are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Dred-Scott-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dred Scott<\/a> wandering off their plantation. Anything you own \u2014 whether it\u2019s land or money <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hughlafollette.com\/papers\/lic-par.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">or your children<\/a> \u2014 are considered fair game and the property of the state. How did we get to this place? And what was the timeline that led us here?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>We Got Here Mainly Because Of Fear Of Ostracism<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The short answer is that we got here because too many people were fearful of the ridicule they would receive if they spoke out against the tyranny embedded in socialism. That whole phenomenon is something I call the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Weaponization-Loneliness-Tyrants-Isolation-Silence\/dp\/1637582021\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37R8OD9FG5QPN&#038;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.BrlmEGU7CiaIjtYXMYafhuFVpT9xaMusdQDQbnDlsdQQFhux5cYesgEOHyBH52EJbQghmu77Xp1z3CrG1pBu1w.4a-XFe4cP1eXhP-pL5Ot4dPU7KRaTcuf-InHq3agIAU&#038;dib_tag=se&#038;keywords=the+weaponization+of+loneliness&#038;qid=1784852719&#038;sprefix=the+weaponization+of+loneliness%2Caps%2C137&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weaponization of loneliness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We tend to comply with malicious orders and stupid ideas if we view the alternative as being ostracized. I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Weaponization-Loneliness-Tyrants-Isolation-Silence\/dp\/1637582021\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IJDROCRFH6JG&#038;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tkqKAl_Mrf_z10rzv-FiREVRVTCDhr06QdJYN6XS4m9FzPMz0KSB1zkNcXT4Ubu3R0TTX93atqT-BpIDMUFtp9SImy0Vgrn2o-tYKlhgezziTANdcOPN1YqfigwOcSWT.lLlHc2tGsm-twkBzkajclMClA67RUp4tgA-9BwAQHb8&#038;dib_tag=se&#038;keywords=weaponization+of+loneliness&#038;qid=1785543746&#038;sprefix=%2Caps%2C144&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book<\/a> about it because I believe this process shapes just about everything in human affairs. It\u2019s a social contagion that affects what we say, what we think, what we do, and with whom we associate. If we give in to this fear too much, we eventually allow the slavery of socialism to gain power over us.<\/p>\n<p>The media and Hollywood has long worked overtime to cultivate mass derision towards anyone who even mentions concerns about communism or socialist agendas. Are you a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red-baiting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">red baiter<\/a>? Are you one of those <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McCarthyism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McCarthyites<\/a>, responsible for the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Red-Scare-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">red scare<\/a>?\u201d How silly to talk of a \u201cred menace.\u201d In short, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h7x8RkdG6I0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cHave you no decency?\u201d<\/a> They made up words that are the equivalent of \u201ctransphobe\u201d today \u2014 meant to cut off discussion.<\/p>\n<p>It worked. People simply stopped talking about the mass murders that are such a dependable feature of communism. And the propaganda press is still pushing its ostracism trick. They tell us that our concerns about becoming enslaved and murdered by a system historically guaranteed to end in slavery and murder are just a bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/26\/trump-communism-democrats-red-scare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cold tropes\u201d<\/a> against socialism.<\/p>\n<p>The propaganda machine and the institutions they took over had that much power over us because we gave it to them inch by inch over the years as we self-censored. When people hear no other narrative, they end up fearing social rejection if they don\u2019t play along. This fear is the primal fuel that keeps the lies of propaganda alive.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is that this fear of speaking out against socialism needs to be stopped immediately. Yet it\u2019s more difficult to turn back after it\u2019s been allowed to fester for so many decades.<\/p>\n<p>But there is hope. One way to challenge the narrative is to repeat a more accurate narrative that more people can understand: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/23\/every-american-needs-to-know-that-socialism-is-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Socialism is slavery<\/a>. Socialism controls what you are allowed to own, where you are allowed to live, what you\u2019re allowed to eat, with whom you\u2019re allowed to associate, whether you\u2019re allowed to buy or sell, what you can say or read or write, and it takes away the fruit of your hard labor. It polices your thoughts. All exactly like slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as we see in the case of transmania, when a few brave people like author J.K. Rowling, swimmer Riley Gaines, and WNBA star Sophie Cunningham are willing to expose the trans cult for what it is, the whole trans narrative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persuasion.community\/p\/transgender-identity-really-has-fallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falls apart<\/a> like a house of cards. How about that? Indeed, the emperor has no clothes. That should tell us something extraordinary about how self-censorship can lead to tyranny and how speaking out is the best way to help others speak out and to preserve freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Now consider polling of youth who say they like socialism. We shouldn\u2019t suppose for a minute that they really believe that stuff. Maybe some of them do. But socialism has become trendy, like a fashion accessory. Oppose it and you\u2019re a dork. Hence, many youth feel more accepted among their peers if they are \u201csocialist.\u201d And so the propaganda media and the cool kids at high-end college campuses say socialism is really groovy.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Timeline Of The Rise Of Socialism In The Democrat Party<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>How else did we get here? The longer answer is that we got here after a century of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/critical-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critical theory<\/a> pushed in the academic world, beginning with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Frankfurt-School\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frankfurt School<\/a> in 1930s America. Those left-wing academics, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcuse.org\/herbert\/publications\/1960s\/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Herbert Marcuse<\/a> and a host of others, eventually spawned political correctness, identity politics with a focus on DEI, and the agitation of mobs such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>But to succeed, communists also knew they needed to latch onto an effective and practical vehicle. Hence, the long march through the Democrat Party started. But it couldn\u2019t be the party of someone like Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy or Hubert Humphrey, who still held allegiance to American values. Socialists had to change the Democrat Party from within.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Chicago-Seven-law-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chicago Seven<\/a>, Marxists who rioted in an attempt to take over the Democrat Party at the 1968 Democrat Convention, under the guise of opposition to the Vietnam War. Just four years later, the Democrats nominated far-Left George McGovern to run for president at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2026\/07\/22\/democrats_1972_re-do_154354.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1972 Democrat Convention<\/a>. Since then, there were fits and starts in the left\u2019s takeover timeline. These included Jimmy Carter\u2019s air of \u201cdecency\u201d after Watergate and Bill Clinton\u2019s famous \u201ctriangulation\u201d or shift to the center.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a penchant for planting bombs in government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/history\/cases-and-criminals\/weather-underground-bombings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">buildings<\/a>, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1972\/05\/20\/archives\/the-pentagon-bombing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pentagon<\/a> during the 1970s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/09\/11\/books\/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Weather Underground<\/a> terrorists Bill Ayers and wife Bernadine Dohrn were soon free to continue promoting communist agendas from their base in Chicago. Ayers was instrumental in the leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/nepc.colorado.edu\/author\/ayers-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">takeover of K-12<\/a> education, while Dohrn focused on family law. In 1995 they <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/pundits-blog\/presidential-campaign\/28339-obama-and-bill-ayers-together-from-the-beginning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped launch<\/a> Barack Obama\u2019s run for the Illinois Senate, likely with an eye on the presidency and the \u201cfundamental transformation of America\u201d into a socialist state.<\/p>\n<p>By 2016, after eight years of the Obama presidency, the communist left came \u201cclose, but no cigar.\u201d So Trump\u2019s 2016 upset defeat of Hillary Clinton resulted in more leftist machinations, including Covid, Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, the weirdness of the 2020 election, endless lawfare, house raids, and multiple assassination attempts, all to prevent Trump from running again.<\/p>\n<p>By some extraordinary stroke of fate in November 2024, the Democrats knew they would have to contend with Trump 2.0. So the masks came off entirely. Fast forward to 2026, and they\u2019ve gained some ground with communist Zohran Mamdani elected mayor in New York, and the DSA\u2019s ouster of several Democrat incumbents in their primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Today the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2026\/07\/27\/communism__its_back_154369.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DSA is the loudest<\/a> voice of the \u201cprogressives\u201d in America. Its recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/program.dsausa.org\/#top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">platform<\/a> \u2014 to abolish the presidency, the U.S. Senate, the Supreme Court, and ultimately the U.S. Constitution \u2014 is nothing more than the reframing of Congress as a sort of Supreme Soviet, a body meant to rubber-stamp whatever the inner circle or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Politburo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politburo<\/a>\u201d of the DSA decides in terms of how you may or may not live your life, once they own you like the slave they consider you to be. At that point America is no longer America.<\/p>\n<p>As the American founders knew, tyranny cannot bear individual freedom of speech. That\u2019s why free speech comes first in our Bill of Rights. Use it or lose it. So keep saying loud and clear: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/23\/every-american-needs-to-know-that-socialism-is-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Socialism is slavery! <\/a> To shut up about this \u2014 especially in the face of attempts to humiliate you \u2014 is to accept communism\u2019s classification of you as a slave. So keep talking about it. You have nothing to lose but your chains.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Stella Morabito is a senior contributor at The Federalist. She is author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Weaponization-Loneliness-Tyrants-Isolation-Silence\/dp\/1637582021\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N5PGDDDUYGO4&#038;keywords=weaponization+of+loneliness&#038;qid=1666811187&#038;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&#038;sprefix=weaponization%2Caps%2C104&#038;sr=8-1\">The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer<\/a>.&#8221;    Her essays have appeared in various publications, including the Washington Examiner, American Greatness, Townhall, Public Discourse, and The Human Life Review. In her previous work as an intelligence analyst, Morabito focused on various aspects of Russian and Soviet politics, including communist media and propaganda.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stella_morabito\">Follow Stella on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did Americans come to accept socialism\u2019s tyranny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":2642538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/El-Sayed-e1786199304721.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32365,36487,56429,12428,60396],"class_list":["post-2642537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cancel-culture","tag-cultural-critique","tag-political-movements","tag-socialism","tag-societal-change"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/El-Sayed-e1786199304721.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642541,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642537\/revisions\/2642541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}