With socialism at the top of the ballot, Democrats will never turn Tarrant County blue

All the speculation about Tarrant County and Texas transforming to Democratic control is nonsense, and some prominent leaders of the party on the left have recently and fearfully declared why that’s not going to happen.

As voters approach primary elections a week from Tuesday, Democrats should think about their choices.

If their candidate wins because he or she is clinging to the coattails of polling favorite and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders, then that “winner” will be easy pickings for the Republican alternatives on the November ballot.

That may be true of any local Democrat seeking state or federal office no matter which of the presidential contenders they may be aligned with among the entire field.

As long as the far-left policies that have dominated the presidential contest continue to develop to more and more extreme positions, those seeking to join the Texas Legislature or the Texas delegation in the U. S. Congress who embrace those policies will all lose.

The reason is actually quite simple. Neither Tarrant County nor Texas or most of the rest of the country, wants to hand over our treasured independence or economic freedoms to the federal government.

Democrats are wrong to believe there is sufficient support of socialism across the land to put Washington in control of our lives, our fortunes, or our sacred honor — like it says in the final lines of the Declaration of Independence for those not familiar with it.

Whenever I have warned of creeping socialism in past commentary, I have gotten flak from readers who say I’m using scare tactics in my defense of the most successful system of self-government in human history.

Nowadays, I’m feeling vindicated, thanks to those notable Democratic stalwarts I mentioned above who have expressed, in no uncertain terms, their fear that their party is so far off on the wrong track that it may become irrelevant.

The legendary master of knowing the public mind who steered Bill Clinton from Arkansas obscurity into two terms in the White House, James Carville, has lately shown up in the national media sounding the alarm.

“This party needs to wake up and talk about things that are relevant to people,” Carville cried out in his MSNBC appearance. “We can’t act like this is going well.”

He was clearly frustrated that Elizabeth Warren had “decided to chase Bernie’s left tail all over the country” – a reference to the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders, who’s appealing to crowds cheering for free stuff.

When Sanders responded by calling Carville a “hack,” his comeback was to say, “at least I’m not a communist.”

Then there is long-time NBC Democratic partisan Chris Matthews analyzing the results of the New Hampshire debate. “The issue of that campaign, it is that word, socialism. … Some people like it, younger people like it. … I’ve seen what socialism is like, I don’t like it. OK, it’s not only not free, it doesn’t frickin’ work.”

Democratic voters should pay close attention if they are to put a viable substitute to Republicans on any ballot. Candidates promising free health care, free college, debt forgiveness, open borders, gun confiscation, government takeover of energy production, and the crippling of free enterprise not only aren’t going to win, they have no chance of delivering any of that even if they did.

One more thing. If you are among the 21 million Democratic voters who identify as pro-life, as described in a recent column by the Star-Telegram’s Cynthia M. Allen, Sanders says there is no room for you in his party.

Don’t despair – welcoming Republican arms await you.