So the Democratic voters in the Bronx have decided to just go right past the standard Democrats and instead nominate the the outright Socialists.

It’s important to recognize just what Socialism is. In recent years there has been a concerted effort to soften the image of the term, to make it synonymous with “welfare state,” or “nanny state,” or Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, being nice to illegal immigrants, throwing open the doors of the prisons, hamstringing the cops. But that’s NOT what Socialism is. Let’s be clear:

a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

In other words: “the government owns the factories and the farms.” And the auto repair places, the electronics stores, the grocery stores, Starbucks, Google, Amazon, FaceBook, McDonalds, PornHub. It should be sobering to any reasonable mind to realize that, economically, fascism is less awful than Socialism. Fascists at least let you make and sell your own stuff. Mostly.

Claims that there are many forms of socialism, some that focus on “social justice” rather than Takin’ yer Stuff, make about as much sense as someone claiming that there is a nice fluffybunny form of Nazism that you shouldn’t be afraid of, it’s only about marching bands and cool uniforms, none of that world conquest stuff, nosiree.

If they vote for the Socialist, those New Yorkers will have voted to institute the economic miracle of Cuba, of Venezuela, of the Holodomor.

But as monumentally bad as Socialism clearly is… here we are.

Millennials would rather live in socialist or communist nation than under capitalism

If the GOP is smart (and how long has it been since that was a safe assumption?), they would lead a nationwide effort to teach the electorate just what Socialism really is, what it really means, what it really leads to. And then let the Socialists the Dems nominate speak for themselves. Because if it’s fair for the left wing to tar the right with the brand of “Nazi” because there are some loons on the right who think the Nazis were just neato, it’s just as fair to tar the left with the Socialist brush.

But since that would require the GOP to be smart, competent and actually interested in defeating Socialism, here instead are some funny memes so we can at least have a little chuckle as the ship goes under: