After a long hibernation, the Communist Party USA is dusting off its red banners and diving back into American elections, scoring some shocking wins that should make every freedom-loving patriot sit up and take notice.
These old-school Marxists, straight out of the Cold War playbook, just elected three of their own in the November 4 races, capturing seats in Maine, Massachusetts, and Upstate New York. That’s twice as many open communists in office as the party has managed in its entire 106-year run.
“The Communist Party believes that capitalism needs to be replaced fundamentally,” CPUSA co-chair Joe Sims declared in an October chat on The Daily Show, slamming the system that built America’s prosperity as “distasteful.”
Sims used that appearance to set his hardcore crew apart from figures like New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists of America buddies.
“Socialists believe they can function within the framework of the Democratic Party,” Sims said, dismissing them as mere “reformers.”
“We don’t believe the Democratic Party can be reformed.”
In Bangor, Maine, CPUSA’s Daniel Carson snagged a city council spot, while in Cambridge, Massachusetts, party member Luisa de Paula Santos – a Brazilian immigrant highlighted in their propaganda – won a school board seat.
“I think he really flew under the radar,” said Maine podcaster Chuck Ellis about Carson, pointing out to the New York Post how national media obsesses over D.C. drama and ignores these backyard battles where radicals slip in unnoticed.
Ellis sees why these extremists are gaining ground: Mainers are tired of wishy-washy politicians. “In the past, Mainers wanted more independent-minded people,” he explained. “To use a biblical passage, there’s this idea of, if you’re lukewarm, God will spit you out of his mouth. And I think that a lot of voters are feeling the same way.”
Up in Ithaca, New York, 20-year-old Hannah Shvets, another CPUSA devotee, joined the Common Council after pushing for jam-packed housing, racial reparations, protecting illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities, and loosening rules at homeless shelters to allow more drinking.
These victories hit in college-heavy spots like Ithaca and Cambridge, where naive young voters flock to socialist pipe dreams of equality without grasping the nightmare they’re inviting, warns Texas Tech economics professor Benjamin Powell.
“Socialism means something to Karl Marx and to economists who have studied [his work]. It means government owning the major factors of production or abolishing private property. But most young people don’t think about socialism like that,” Powell said when speaking to the New York Post.
“It’s not accidental that they’re running and winning in local elections because usually you work your way up the chain in politics and they’re breaking in at the lowest level,” added Powell, author of Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World.
“It’s also the case that the socialists and the communists are probably less scary at the local level than at the national level,” he noted, estimating that about ten percent of attendees at socialist gatherings he attends are die-hard fans of tyrants like Mao and Stalin.
This communist creep into local government is a wake-up call for everyday Americans – time to watch your town halls before these radicals climb higher and turn our communities into failed experiments.
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