(Daily Signal)—As America celebrates its 250th birthday, a growing political movement isn’t just sitting out the party but actively working to tear down the constitutional system.
It’s not a “both-sides” issue: a 2025 Gallup poll found that only 36% of Democrats say they are extremely or very proud to be American, while 92% of Republicans say so.
What sort of Democrat isn’t proud of the greatest country on earth? The same sort of Democrat who’s on the ascent in the New York and Colorado primaries.
Don’t buy the messaging: the only “democratic” thing about the Democratic Socialists of America is its rapid infiltration of the United States’ left-leaning major party. The only “American” thing about it is how vehemently the DSA hates America.
The Democratic Socialists Against America
To adopt a phrase from Christian theology, the DSA is “in but not of” America.
Its ideology traces back to “Progressivism,” a transplant from 19th-century Europe—and a movement at odds with the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.
Under Progressivism, our God-given inalienable rights become privileges ordained by the fickle whims of government elites. The people’s will takes second place to “scientific expertise,” and technocratic experts determine policy. Democratic socialism takes this one step further, expanding government power over more and more aspects of American life.
This focus on government expertise has enshrined leftist positions—from critical race theory (the notion that America is systemically racist and requires fundamental change) to climate alarmism, to transgender ideology—in government and culture, giving the impression that truth and justice must be “woke.”
These forces demonize President Donald Trump’s attempts to challenge the woke bureaucratic consensus, comparing the enforcement of immigration law after four years of open borders to the Gestapo.
This “woke” superstructure is shifting the ground of elite opinion, making open socialism more and more attractive to those who have been primed to see President Donald Trump as the modern incarnation of Adolf Hitler.
While woke leftists may think their approach is sensible or moderate, their hyperbolic reaction to Trump has fostered an environment in which the Democratic Socialists of America can flourish. DSA candidates have won Democrat primaries, most recently in New York and Colorado, often ousting longstanding Democrat members of Congress.
The Democrat Party may have had the antibodies to resist the far Left decades ago, but Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has weakened its immune system and helped infect it with an anti-capitalist fever.
The DSA Platform
The DSA makes no bones about its radical agenda. Its web page on “working-class democracy” calls for extending “full voting rights” to “noncitizens.” It calls for expanding the number of seats in the House of Representatives, ending the Senate filibuster, abolishing the Electoral College, and “reducing the power of the Supreme Court.”
These structural changes amount to a wholesale rejection of the Founders’ approach to limited government, abolishing any checks or balances that might frustrate the Left’s agenda.
What would the DSA do with such unchecked government power?
The platform calls for establishing a “Green New Deal” in the name of combatting climate change, implementing socialized medicine, making higher education “free,” and reducing the work week to 32 hours—”with no reduction in pay or benefits.” It would allow “workers to freely migrate between countries to seek employment” and extend “immediate amnesty for all immigrants.”
Darializa Aliva Chevalier, the 32-year-old DSA member who ousted a five-term incumbent in a New York Democrat primary last month, fleshed out this immigration policy.
Chevalier opposes all deportations, even if an illegal alien committed a violent crime.
She also founded the anti-Israel group Columbia University Apartheid Divest. In 2024, the group posted a statement on Instagram declaring, “We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” After a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the group posted “Marg bar Amrika,” which translates to “Death to America.”
Rejecting the Woke Ideology Behind DSA
Few Democrats are chanting, “Death to America!” in the streets today, but this post grows out of the same noxious ideology that claims America is systemically racist, sexist, homophobic, or what-have-you. The woke narrative claims that America is systemically evil, and that only a fundamental revolution in each of America’s institutions will bring about “justice.”
If states require ID to vote, it’s a “threat to democracy!” If moms and dads oppose racially divisive lessons in school, they’re abetting “white supremacy.” If we don’t want to pay more in gas prices, we’re contributing to the “climate crisis.”
The DSA brings these woke arguments to their logical conclusion. The result is horrifying, but it’s also revealing.
If Americans are rightfully proud of our country and its history on this 250th anniversary, we must reject the ideology that animates the DSA. We must dedicate ourselves to limited, constitutional government. We must remember the virtues of capitalism. We must oppose the leftist ideology seeping through so much of the legacy media, Hollywood, and academia.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, America was founded on the premise that our rights come from God, not government. Socialism, however “democratic” it may claim to be, rejects that fundamental premise. Americans must emphatically reject it, especially at this historic milestone.
Let’s celebrate the 250th anniversary, and throw such a big party that even those DSA haters can’t help but wish they could join us.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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