Looks like the Democrats are tired of hiding behind the “progressive” misnomer and finally admitting that they’re really Socialists at heart. With talk of tax cuts being for the rich and voter ID measures being against the poor, they’ve consistently played the class warfare game for years. The reason behind it is finally coming to light. They’re Socialists, plain and simple.

Remember back in 2004 when Hillary Clinton said:

“Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you,” Sen. Clinton said. “We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

She was referring to the Bush tax cuts, where Americans’ hard-earned money had been returned to those who earned it, from a government that had confiscated too much of it to begin with. You see in Hillary’s comment an admission that the money really doesn’t belong to the producers who earned it, but rather to the government. She admits that Democrats will cut short the Bush tax cuts so that “we” (the government) can take “things” (your hard-earned wages) away from “you” (the producers in society) on behalf of the “common good” (distribute to those who don’t produce).

Socialism is defined as:

Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Now the whole party is finally coming clean about their true plan for America becoming a land of Socialism.

From the AP:

Ned Lamont uses it in his Connecticut Senate race. President Clinton is scheduled to speak on the idea in Washington this week. Bob Casey Jr., Pennsylvania candidate for Senate, put it in the title of his talk at The Catholic University of America _ then repeated the phrase 29 times.

The term is “common good,” and it’s catching on as a way to describe liberal values and reach religious voters who rejected Democrats in the 2004 election.

And Bill Clinton came clean last night:

During remarks that were framed as a discussion of the common good, Clinton decried personal attacks against candidates for perceived lack of faith.

Democrats are admitting to being Socialists across the board. The title of a post on Democrats.com is “Progressives seek to secure the common good.”

In fact, leading left-wing scholars are touting the admission of Socialism:

The American Prospect’s May 2006 cover article, “Party in Search of a Notion,” by Michael Tomasky, has sparked a discussion among progressives about where the Democratic Party should be headed and what should be its underlying philosophy. Tomasky argued that, in response to the radical individualism of the Bush era, the party should stand in defense of the common good.

Left-wing bloggers love the idea:

The “Common Good?” Great!

In the new issue of the American Prospect, editor Michael Tomasky has written a tour de force that tpmcafaholics will enjoy drinking up and discussing. In a nutshell, Michael argues that liberals and Democrats need to return to the idea of “the common good” as our central animating principle.

It’s not a coincidence that during all of the anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-American protests that have occured over the past few years, many of the participants are members of Socialist Workers organizations.

A hero of the Left, Noam Chomsky, wrote a book called “The Common Good“, in which he advocates the ideals of socialism and denounces free market capitalism and individual liberties.

You remember who Chomsky is, right? The darling of Communist Hugo Chavez.

And speaking of Communists, here’s the rest of the dictionary definition of Socialism:

A stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

Remember this the next time you hear Democrats on the campaign trail telling Americans that when they’re in power, the government will take things away from you for the common good.

UPDATE:
Several readers have emailed me to remind me about DNC Chairman Howard Dean’s claim that, “A victory for Bernie Sanders is a win for Democrats.” Sanders is, of course, a self-described socialist.

UPDATE 2:
My liberal friends have been telling me my mention of communism in this post is ridiculous. Looks like it’s not as far off as they had hoped.

There’s a new book on Ronald Reagan making the rounds, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. Its author, Paul Kengor, unearthed a sensational document from the Soviet archives. That document is a memo regarding an offer made by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts via former Senator John Tunney, both Democrats, to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, Yuri Andropov, in 1983. The offer was to help the Soviet leadership, military and civilian, conduct a PR campaign in the United States as President Ronald Reagan sought re-election. The goal of the PR campaign would be to cast President Reagan as a warmonger, the Soviets as willing to peacefully co-exist, and thereby turn the electorate away from Reagan. It was a plan to enlist Soviet help, and use the American press, in unseating an American president.