No matter who wins the presidential race, liberty-loving Americans have at least one reason to be encouraged by this year's election results: socialism may not be a winning agenda.
In Florida, President Trump won handily thanks in large part to the huge majorities of Cuban-Americans and Venezuelan-Americans who voted for the president. These Americans understand the dangers of socialism first-hand, and they believed that Trump was the candidate least likely to support socialist policies.
Far-left socialism didn't just hurt Democrats in the presidential race. Democrats lost seats in the House all across the country, and in a widely reported Democratic caucus meeting, congresspeople voiced their frustration with the progressive agenda.
House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) reportedly said on the call that if “we are going to run on Medicare for All, defund the police, socialized medicine, we're not going to win,” according to Forbes.
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) also expressed outrage with the left, reportedly telling fellow Democrats, “don’t say socialism ever again” while warning that if the party continues moving left that in 2022 “we will get f***ing torn apart.”
Spanberger also pointed out that she nearly lost her race due to a "defund the police" attack ad, and voiced frustration at the poor showing of many Dem candidates.
Spanberger on the Dem caucus call: We lost races we shouldn’t have lost.
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
Defund police almost cost me my race bc of an attack ad.
Don’t say socialism ever again.
Need to get back to basics.
(Is yelling.)
All of this should be encouraging to Americans who care about self-governance, limited government, and the prosperity of our country.
But there's still much work to do.
Responding to Spanberger, liberal activist Malaika Jabali defended Marxism and socialism, calling them "popular policies" that shouldn't be blamed for Democratic failures.
Obama was called a Marxist by high-ranking Democrats and conservatives alike. He won Florida (twice), Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio. You look positively stupid blaming popular policies for your failures. https://t.co/DXnnfFx9FU
— Malaika Jabali (@MalaikaJabali) November 5, 2020
Voters also reelected all four members of the so-called "Squad," a group of socialist congresswomen who routinely push for larger government and less freedom in healthcare, education, and the environment.
Americans shouldn't have to worry about a socialist takeover every two and four years. We should embed a firewall against socialism into our constitutional system, and we can do it with a Convention of States.
An Article V Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments that limit the power, scope, and jurisdiction of the federal government. These amendments can forever prohibit socialist policies by limiting the topics on which Congress can legislative and spend money, and returning that legislative power exclusively to the states.
Millions of Americans have joined the movement, and 15 states are on board. Sign the petition below to join the fight!
