As the USA celebrates its 250th, socialism is sadly on the rise

Several years ago, there were people who said they didn't want to vote for a socialist in USA elections. Now, as the USA celebrates the 250th year, it sadly appears the negative view on socialism has tragically given way to one that's favorable:

Rep. Matt Van Epps, R-Tenn., told the Daily Signal he will introduce a bill on the House floor Thursday to reaffirm the values of the Declaration of Independence in honor of its 250th anniversary and in response to the sweeping rise of socialism.

“Socialism is antithetical to the principles of the Declaration of Independence,” Van Epps told the Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday. “The idea of private property and entrepreneurship is intrinsic in the Founders’ idea of inalienable rights. In reality, a socialist regime would undermine—not protect—Americans’ rights to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’” [...]

Schmitt told the chamber that America is forgetting the values that bind Americans to the Founding: “America’s deepest crisis is a loss of memory.”

“Only 28% of Democrats say they’re proud of America’s 250-year history,” he said. “Only 11% say America is the greatest country in the world. Only 27% plan to display the American flag this 4th of July.”

“That is a national forgetting made visible,” Schmitt warned.

Forgetting American values will result in the deterioration of the nation and the character of its leaders, Schmitt argued.

“A people that forgets its heroes will soon be ruled by men who despise them,” he told the Senate.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, who just won the Democrat primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District, calls herself a “democratic socialist” and co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, an organization that pledged itself to the “total eradication of Western civilization.”

The organization also posted “Marg bar Amrika” after American airstrikes in February that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Translated from Persian, the statement reads: “Death to America.”

Chevalier is projected to win her election in November and become a New York member of Congress. Her campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is truly horrific. Once, this may not have been considered a serious issue, but now, it's clear the USA does have a problem of socialists/communists as much as Islamofascists becoming accepted by the leftists in America, and dragging down the quality of life that way. Some could say the new communist movement in the USA is serving as a 5th column and aiding the Islamists that way. Worst, the problem can't be solved overnight. And it could get much worse before it gets better, if it ever does. Socialism has sadly taken hold, no thanks to Joe Biden when he was faux-president.

Update: and in a new poll, a majority of Democrats said they're fully favorable to socialism. Another sad sign where things are going now.