A Civilizational Choice Is Upon Us

A Civilizational Choice Is Upon Us

American political movements have changed dramatically over time. Earlier debates centered on states’ rights, limited federal power, individual liberty, and laissez-faire economics. The language of federal management, class politics, and expansive social programs arrived later, with progressivism and the New Deal. Then came identity politics. Now, with the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a radical current is openly socialist—and hostile to America and the West.

This history matters because it reveals how far the activist left has traveled. What began as a dispute over the size and reach of government has become a fundamental challenge to constitutional government itself.

New York exposes the threat. Democratic Socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept key primaries and defeated establishment figures. The socialist movement is no longer content to heckle from the sidelines. It wants power. And the trend is spreading.

A healthy political order can sustain real disagreement. Constitutional conservatives, classical liberals, and libertarians can argue over government, markets, tradition, and the proper limits of power. That is normal politics in a free country because all three traditions operate within constitutional limits. Socialism is different, and so is Islam. They reject innate human rights and civil society. They attack the very foundations that make free politics possible.

The DSA makes its agenda plain. It calls for an economy run by working people “to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few.” This trite Marxist trope has been revived through intersectionality—the dominant framework of the woke left and a force that has overtaken American education. It holds that intersections of individual or collective identities inherently produce unjust treatment, whether framed as discrimination, privilege, or systemic bias.

Intersectionality is marketed as compassion. It is not. In practice, it divides citizens into ever-proliferating classes of “oppressors” and “oppressed.” It fuses classical and cultural Marxism, assigns moral worth by group identity, and casts equal treatment as suspect. Merit becomes “privilege.” Dissent becomes “hate.” Law becomes a weapon.

A recent report by the Legal Insurrection Foundation the and the Defense of Freedom Institute, titled “Intersectionality: The Rise of a Dangerous Anti-American Ideology and How to Stop It,” explains how this framework drives CRT and DEI across schools, campuses, media, politics, and culture. It is not merely descriptive; it is prescriptive. By justifying different treatment according to perceived privilege or oppression, it collides directly with equal protection and merit.

That logic explains why otherwise incompatible groups—“Queers for Palestine” is a striking example—attack the same targets: capitalism, Israel, America, and the West. Capitalism is smeared as exploitation instead of recognized as history’s greatest anti-poverty engine. Israel is cast as a colonial oppressor despite the continuous history of Jewish presence in these lands, predating Muslim conquest by thousands of years. Instead of being treated as a democratic ally, Israel is forced to defend its existence in a hostile region. America is depicted as a machine of evil domination instead of the most remarkable experiment in freedom, prosperity, and self-correction.

The DSA’s organizing architecture fuses socialism with identity politics through initiatives such as socialist feminism, the Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus, and the Queer & Feminist Commission. Intersectionality is the glue. It centralizes hostility and lets the DSA fold every grievance into a single campaign against free enterprise, constitutional order, Israel, America, and the West.

History has already delivered its verdict. When socialism gains real power, it does not produce justice. It produces coercion, scarcity, repression, and often mass murder. U.S. groups such as CPUSA and RevCom make the revolutionary ambition easier to see; the DSA makes it easier to sell. Revolution strips away the euphemisms. Incrementalism turns the same impulse into a long march through the institutions. But the destination matters more than the tempo.

That is why the DSA’s advance matters. This is not merely about rent control, taxes, or health care. It is about the core premises of American life: individual rights or ranked identity blocs; equal opportunity or ideological equality of outcome; capitalism and liberal democracy or the abolition of a system that has produced more freedom and human flourishing than any alternative ever devised.

Institutional leaders can pretend this is youthful energy or ordinary renewal. It is neither. It is an ideological campaign led by activists who see America’s founding principles as the problem. A healthy republic needs citizens and institutions that love America and argue in good faith over how best to preserve it—through commitments to order and tradition, balanced by commitments to liberty, markets, and limited government. It does not need anti-American socialism partnering with Islam and normalized in civic life.

The West does not need to be deconstructed. Capitalism does not need socialist planners. Israel does not need lectures from those who excuse and enable its enemies. Socialism belongs on the fringe—or, better yet, on the ash heap of history.

Those who propelled the DSA candidates are largely young, college-educated voters and champagne socialists. The answer cannot be merely electoral, though an election victory for beneficial traditions and common sense would be an excellent start.

The deeper antidote is to restore American education to its former excellence: civics, liberal arts, historical literacy, Western tradition, and nationally beneficial pursuits. That means replacing intersectional indoctrination with an education that prepares school and college graduates to understand, improve, and defend their country—not to hate and destroy the life-giving civilization that made their freedom possible and their prosperity attainable.

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