‘You Are Morons’: Fetterman Says Ex-Communist Citizens Mock Far-Left Democrats
“Ask yourself this question. When the Berlin Wall fell, who ran to which side?”
A Gallup poll released on Monday found that 66% of Democrats view socialism more favorably than capitalism, compared with 38% of Independents and 14% of Republicans.
Citing these surprising results, a reporter asked Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) if he thought this was a messaging issue for Democrats.
Fetterman replied, “I literally was in a former communist nation, and I asked that [question]. I said, ‘Some people in my party, some of the lefties are talking about socialism now. What do you think?’”
Recounting one of his conversations, he said, “He’s like, ‘That’s the worst thing ever. You would never want to live here. I’ve lived through that kind of a thing. You know, you’re going to need a reality check if you ever adopt any of those things. You know, like, you are morons. … It was a nightmare for us, and now we are a free market nation.'”
Asked which country he had visited, the senator said, “It was Croatia. And they’re just like, ‘Thank God, we’ve been freed from that.'”
Fetterman added, “They are just mystified why we’re even having that conversation in our nation.”
We’ve watched with amazement as the radical ideology of the Democratic Party’s far-left fringe slowly took root in the party’s mainstream. While many Americans were shocked by the socialist platform of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016, four years later most of the candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination proudly supported his ideas.
After former President Joe Biden took office, the party’s gradual drift to the left accelerated to the point where the Democratic Party has become almost unrecognizable.
The popularity of Zohran Mamdani, the current frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral race, speaks volumes. For all intents and purposes, while he describes himself as a Democratic socialist, Mamdani is a communist.
The antisemitic, anti-ICE Mamdani’s radical proposals, which include free city buses, free child care, rent freezes, and city-owned grocery stores, would run the city into the ground. He equates capitalism to “theft,” and insists these initiatives would be funded by a 2% wealth tax on the top 1% of taxpayers in the state and an increase in the state’s corporate tax rate from 7.25% to 11.5%.
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
But New Yorkers currently bear one of the heaviest tax burdens in the nation. This has already caused many wealthy individuals and corporations to flee the state. In reality, Mamdani’s proposals are unworkable and would plunge the city into its worst economic crisis since the 1970s.
Following Mamdani’s victory in the June Democratic primary, the editors at The Washington Post provided his supporters with a reality check.
Such a massive minimum wage would depress low-skilled employment. His rent freeze would reduce the housing supply and decrease its quality. Cutting bus fares would leave a transit funding hole that, unless somehow filled, would erode service. Meanwhile, the grocery business operates on thin margins, and his plan for city-run stores would probably lead to fewer options, poor service and shortages, as privately run stores closed rather than try to compete with city-subsidized shops.
Yet all of this is lost on voters captivated by the youthful politician and his rosy vision for the city’s future.
This newfound enthusiasm for socialism, especially among young voters, stems from a mistaken understanding of what it truly is. Few could likely even define the term, seeing only the promise of “free everything.”
Anyone who has lived under the boot of socialism, as the Croatians have, knows how it ends. All four of my grandparents immigrated to the U.S. in the 1910s from Albania. When one of my grandmothers was a young girl in Romania, she watched a government official walk into her family’s kitchen and shoot her father dead.
In May, the Cato Institute’s Michael Chapman reacted to a survey that showed 62% of Americans aged 18–29 held a “favorable view” of socialism and 34% said the same about communism. He wrote:
This is shocking given that communism is responsible for 100 million deaths worldwide and is rooted in socialism, the same philosophy that spawned both Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s National Socialism. To favor socialism is to flirt with tyranny.
Earlier this week, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity to discuss the rising popularity of socialism in the U.S. He said that “socialism is for morons” and called it “an equal sharing of misery.”
He then made an excellent point. “Ask yourself this question. When the Berlin Wall fell, who ran to which side?”
The silver lining of a Mamdani victory in November is that Americans would see socialism up close and personal. And they probably won’t be too happy with the results.
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they dont care
the goal is wealth transfer
if you are a good stoolie for the hammernsickleswatika loving crowd
you will be rewarded with an extra coipon
these people are mentally ill
which is why the fight the mentally ill be taken off the streets
correction:
coupon
I like that spelling better. Coipon- false savings Where you pay more
They don’t really care about wealth. They want power. With power, they’ll take whatever — and whoever — they want.
They don’t really care about the people. To them, the people are little more than a means to an end, and the end is them in power and controlling the wealth. They won’t be impacted by the shortages, high prices, rotten service, and the misery, and they don’t care about those who will be.
A bigger question is “Has the city reached the point where it just can’t be saved?”
For all the promises of freebies and “equity” and talk about rainbows and unicorns, a mayor needs city councils to actually enact the laws and programs and reforms in cities. Even if they elect a non-communist Democrat, or even a Republican, in NYC or LA, if the city council opposes his reforms, the city stays a cesspool, and the mayor will be labeled a failure.
The same situation exists in many state governments: New York, Illinois, and pretty much the entire West Coast. Even if they manage to elect a Republican governor in Kalifornia, how much can be accomplished with a veto-proof Neo-Communist majority in both houses of the state legislature and a left-wing bureaucracy entrenched in the government agencies “resisting” the governor’s agenda?
Sure but the real joke is that it isn’t a transfer to the exploited masses who are conned into voting this refuse into power. These communists want power and money for themselves. Ask the abused masses in any communist hole if they’ve ever experienced any wealth.
So? The state will bail them out as needed, and the Communist media will gaslight its very gullible proles into believing they are living in heaven on Earth. “The chocolate ration has been increased from 30 grams per week to 20 grams per week, comrades!”
And for those who actually try to flee: get ready for a massive “exit tax” even if you left many years ago. #Resistance Federal judges would certainly be onboard with a move like this.
But who will bail out the state?
So, Mamdani would look to have imposed an increase in the STATE’S wealth tax and the STATE’S corporate tax? Upstaters are gonna love that!
The non-NYC New York voters are paying plenty for transportation boondoggles and various other goodies.
The only people socialism benefits are the unproductive and the mentally unstable, which is why sh*tlibs want it.
Fetterman is right again. They are morons. It is too complicated for them to understand that someone has to pay and there are consequences to giving stuff away. I understand that half of the population has an IQ below 100 so you can’t expect much at some point but a lot of the people espousing socialism in one form or another have IQs above 100 sometimes well above 100.
Yet again more proof that unfettered democracy is a bad bad system as if we needed more.
That’s a funny statement.
There’s an SF story, “Letter from a Higher Critic,” in which future historians are dismissing contemporary US history books as unreliable religious metaphor. “You have Adolf (the Wolf) being confronted and defeated by Stalin (Steel), Roosevelt (Field of Roses), deGaulle (He of France), and Churchill (Church on the Hill). The conflict is resolved by a masterstrike of True-Man, and the defeated villains are confined into harmlessness by Eisenhower (Iron-Hewer).”
Now, who should be tasked to address unfettered democracy?
Representative government which we have is better than democracy. The founders were smart. Unfortunately the dramacrats want unfettered democracy since it allows them to promise stuff for votes when they aren’t just manufacturing them.
Personally I’d like to see constraints on who can vote. I’d like voters to have skin in the game, not work for the government, and have completed some kind of service. Also, they should pass a citizenship test periodically and be of sound mind (my sisters probably collect my 98 mother’s vote and she has dementia).
I’d like further constraints who can be a representative. Raise the minimum age and add a maximum age. Add term limits. Must have worked in the private sector. Representatives get no pension or any other benefits once out of office. No insider trading. No ability to lobby afterward.
Even with the constraints I’ve added there are too many “idiots” who would believe in socialism. People tend to think that bad stuff will never happen to them or they are above it all.
My wife grew up in Czechoslovakia. The idea that anyone would support the introduction of more socialism and system absolutely mystifies her, like she just can’t fathom what the hell they’re thinking. The worst part is, nobody tells anybody ahead of time. There are classes in socialism. You have your Elites who want for nothing and then you have everybody else who get to be equally poor and miserable.
“There are classes in socialism.”
But the ones in colleges now are all lies.
(Mine in 1969 was damn good. Pity.)
I actually meant social classes, not school classes.
Ha ha! That was entirely ambiguous! I read it as:
“The worst part is, nobody tells anybody ahead of time. There are classes in socialism. Why isn’t anybody taking them and learning this stuff?”
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully process the reality that John Fetterman is the last rational, SANE voice of reason in the entire Democrat party.
Right? 🤣
better him than nobody
I don’t agree with his politics very much but he seems to be intelligent and mostly level headed.
I also have expected the Democrats are going to primary him.
Someone commented on another blog that he expects the Democrats to split soon, like the Whigs. I told him the only possible split was the entire Democratic Party on one side, and John Fetterman on the other.
I have to believe there are other dramacrats who don’t go along with their party’s insanity internally but play along with it. Yes I’m delusional. If so Fetterman might have some company in his new party. How much? I’m not sure.
“They are just mystified why we’re even having that conversation in our nation.”
We’re having that conversation because, like commies and socialists everywhere else, our Left believes they’re smarter than all the commies and socialists of the past. They’re going to do communism/socialism right!
Back in the day, I patrolled the East German border. It was very apparent to me that there’s a difference between walls built to keep people out and walls built to keep people in.
I recently read, socialist, Upton Sinclair’s Lanny Budd hendecalogy. The first 10 books written during and soon after ww2 kissed FDR’s bum and pushed socialism. Appalled at what Stalin wrought, he added an 11th volume in the 1950s praising Truman and capitalism, and arguing for a hawkish defense establishment.
So he was one edition smarter than the New York Times.
“This is shocking given that communism is responsible for 100 million deaths worldwide …”
Some people seem to be OK with that. They think it will never be themselves.
“This is shocking given that communism is responsible for 100 million deaths worldwide and is rooted in socialism, the same philosophy that spawned both Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s National Socialism. To favor socialism is to flirt with tyranny.”
I’ve been telling people this for years. Hitler was a left winger. Look at the night of the long knives. He had his people kill all the communists in the party before they seized power. What political party in the United States features both Communists and Socialists?
“[Hitler] declared that ‘national socialism was based on Marx’ Socialists have always disowned him.”
The lot of them are Authoritarian Collectivism: Socialism/Communism, Fascism, ‘NAZI-ism’,
All do not recognize the individual as important, other than how he might serve the state machinery/the Party. All are totalitarian. All control the economies and the society absolutely. All employ terror as a necessary feature of State control.
Different frosting on the same poisonous shit cake.
State authority must provide for peace and order, and peace and order in turn must conversely make possible the existence of state authority. Within these two poles all life must now revolve… Ideas of “freedom,” mostly of a misunderstood nature, inject themselves into the state conceptions of these circles.
–ADOLF HITLER, MEIN KAMPF
Fetterman won’t leave his party; it will leave him.
It may have already happened. According to a SP&R’s Juny 27th poll of PA voters (I think their latest), Fetterman’s approval rating in the state is 41%. He’s at 45% with Republicans, but only 39% with Democrats and an appreciably higher disapproval rating with Dems (39%). That’s a 40%+ drop from where he was with Dems when elected in 2022. There was another pollster that had poll published a few weeks earlier (for the life of me, I can’t remember which one it was, maybe Morning Consult), which said his approval rating with Democrats far worse, something less than 30%. Baring some miraculous recovery, he’ll almost certainly be primaried in 2028.
Fetterman always talks some common sense
Then he votes 100% lock step with the commie dems
Every. Single.time…
Young people have been conned by school teachers, university instructors and constant media bombardment. And their parents either didn’t know about it, don’t care or think socialism is a better option.
You’re talking about the generation that grew up playing with anything with a screen. The parents will bring up some sort of a game on their phone or tablet and head to the child so they can avoid actually interacting with their own children.
“Ask yourself this question. When the Berlin Wall fell, who ran to which side?”
The east Berliners all ran to the West Berlin side, like Merkel, so they could start their March through the institutions again and capture the entire country this time.
The other huge concern with Mamdani is his islamist roots and connections.
how can this guy stay a Dem.
Respectfully, the final paragraph of this excellent article contains a huge mistake. Specifically, your expectation that people seeing the results of this communist’s election would see it for the calamity that it would be. I ask you “how”? How would they know? How would they find out? Who is going to tell them? There is only the media. And this is the same media that has been covering up for Mamdani his entire campaign, and for socialism/communism for decades. So you think that NOW they will tell their audience? Not a chance.
Yup, this contradicts obvious history. Just look at California. It’s like the people there have KICK ME tattooed on their back. They all realize things are awful, and they have no idea why, though it’s obvious to everybody else.