In today’s episode of “Democrats defend unadulterated evil,” vice presidential hopeful and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told liberals, “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
Going full socialist is a bizarre choice if Walz’s mission is to join the Harris ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris was the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate during her brief time in the upper house of Congress, despite the media’s attempts to memory-hole that fact. Mobilizing progressives is the least of the Harris team’s concerns, considering her anemic poll numbers across the Midwestern swing states.
All that aside, let’s consider how neighborly socialism has historically been. Socialist and communist governments murdered an estimated 168,759,000 people from 1900-1987, by far the largest genocide in human history. The Marxists killed six times as many innocent people as the fascists and three times as many people as Genghis Khan’s Golden Horde. The Chinese communists murdered around 90 million people, and Joseph Stalin’s 43 million kills brought the USSR’s death toll to around 70 million, hardly neighborly. Ask a modern-day Ukrainian how it feels to be the neighbors of a post-socialist oligarchic state.
Walz, Harris, and even Marx-loving, Soviet Union-honeymooning Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are no Stalin or Chairman Mao, or at least our constitutional order has thus far successfully prevented them from becoming those dictators. But to pretend that their deranged and oppressive policies are neighborly is as nonsensical as it is malicious.
During the George Floyd race riots of 2020, Walz allowed masked bands of street communists to burn Minneapolis to the ground, causing half a billion in damage to over 1,500 locations as then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA raised money to bail out the rioters. Her post on X promoting the fundraiser is still active.
Dr. Anthony Fauci attempted to turn America into a socialist state through the guise of “neighborliness” during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Fifteen days to slow the spread” turned into years in some precincts. Deaths of despair skyrocketed as Democratic governors sent elderly patients back to nursing homes to die, all while states that did not lock down their economies fared the same or better than states that employed draconian, socialist-inspired measures.
Another aspiring socialist dictator, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, declared that her husband was the only citizen in the state allowed to use a boat and prevented Michiganders from purchasing seeds for their gardens. Pastors in the United States and Canada were arrested for the crime of holding church services. Talk about neighborliness.
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It is not neighborly to force people to purchase health insurance they don’t want or need, to force plumbers and factory workers to pay off the student loans of gender studies students, or to saddle future generations with enough debt and inflation to make the American dream unattainable.
Under socialist, communist, and fascist regimes, children would turn in their own parents to the government, and citizens would regularly snitch on their neighbors. Perhaps this is what an authoritarian such as Walz means by “neighborliness.” If you’re a Minnesotan who lives next to the governor’s mansion, it might be time to move.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.