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How could this happen? How could so many socialist and openly Marxist candidates be winning elections?
The answer is a perfect storm of man-made and natural disasters. The storm began with the COVID-19 pandemic. For three years, supply lines were halted, our movements restricted, even our ability to worship together was controlled.
As former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
DAVID ASMAN ON COVID-19 TIPPING OFF RISE IN SOCIALISM: ‘PERFECT STORM’
Government agencies gorged themselves on almost $5 trillion of so-called temporary COVID-19 spending. But much of that funding became permanent.
“We created a program with great danger when we allowed expansion of Medicaid,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The U.S. government now spends more per capita annually on Medicare and Medicaid than what the British government spends on its socialist medical system.
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The massive expansion of government hit Middle America hard, with high inflation peaking at 9.1% in 2022. Making the slide into socialism worse was the enormous spending on millions of new migrants during former President Joe Biden’s open-border policies, costing taxpayers an estimated $150 billion to more than $450 billion annually.
LATIN AMERICA’S SOCIALIST EXPERIMENTS LEAVE DEVASTATING TRAIL OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND POVERTY
The seeds of hatred for capitalism were sown on fertile ground: Young voters have become products of a woke education system that prizes indoctrination over basic educational skills.
A recent report by an education watchdog shows teachers unions contributed more than $1 billion to political activism and left-wing social causes since 2015. All you have to do is listen to what they are saying.
“To fight back against this fascist regime, we need to be in the streets, wisely using our wallets, battling in the courts and winning at the ballot box,” said Jeffery Freitas, the president of the California Federation of Teachers.
It turns out the left has been laying the groundwork for this moment for years, and socialists were just waiting for the perfect storm to try it out.
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