I have found that while watching the Democrats debate that I am reminded of those during the earliest of the Russian conversion to communism led by the socialists.

Those debates were between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks, two factions of the Russian Socialist Party. Members of both groups were advocating a communist-socialist ideology as the form of government to be forced upon their citizens. Presently, Bernie represents the Bolsheviks who did not believe the Mensheviks were radical enough, while Hillary represents the Mensheviks who were more inclined to questionable legal means leading to a revolution. The message to the American public seems to be that Bernie wants revolution now, while Hillary wants it more slowly.

Isn’t the Menshevik/Bolshevik message the same socialist ideological theme that Hillary and Bernie and a majority of Democrats are making to the base of their party for the 2016 presidential election? Free everything associated with the equal distribution of wealth, only if you give me the political power to do so.

However, throughout world history where the state owns or controls much and the individual little, these false promises of altruism that revolve around consuming more than one produces are failing and plunging the inflicted societies into financial and citizenry chaos.

History has told us where such a set of beliefs leads: A complete rejection of economic and personal freedoms, the bedrock of the U.S. Constitution, and the need for an authoritarian government to successfully implement. That is the history of these revolutionary regimes throughout the 20th century that have always led to tyranny and remain in such places as Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.

All socialist/progressives advocate a false utopia that mankind can live without working and without personal responsibility because the government will provide. These deceptive promises of socialism claimed by the progressives, that they can create a personal Utopia through wealth redistribution, have never worked and its absurdity is foreboding of national ruin.

It has been unfortunate, but one can never underestimate a country’s inability to imagine its own destruction fostered by its political elite through their selfish quest for power with means that are morally unjustifiable, but best serve their desired outcomes. Instead of economics determining politics, politics is to determine economics has now become the message to the Democrat base as encouraged by their two presidential candidates as they pander for political influence. They foster the idea that all morality and all truth is comprehended within their ideology.

One can ignore the reality of such a destructive message within a constitutional republic as ours, but one cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality; thus, I am asking “real Democrats”: Why do you allow such a murderous ideology that was the scourge of the 20th century to be converted into the modern ideology of the Democrat Party in the 21st century? It is a death wish, for all. America has no ideology, as we are it.

Spencer is an online reader of the Daily Inter Lake from Delaware. He is a retired businessman and economics professor.