that greatest of all guarantors of liberty: property.

wut?

The DSA, in the name of democracy, proposes to remove all buffers between the individual and centralized national political power wielded on a purely majoritarian basis.

In the name of democracy, they want to introduce democracy. Yay!

This is a formula for mob rule, of course

The mob of common people who are fed up with your bullshit? Sounds much better than the current gangster-style mob boss setup. Down with the don.

The DSA promises that it will use this only to do good for the People, which is, of course, the same promise various peoples heard from the Jacobins before their Reign of Terror, from Lenin and Stalin before their terror, from Mao before his terror, from Hitler before his terror—and from Donald Trump, who murders and oppresses and steals and terrorizes while promising that his only ambition is to “Make America Great Again.”

You have highlighted the problem with dictators. Let's try true democracy.

I do not mind if the ladies and gentlemen of the DSA wish to call that “democracy,” which is what John Adams called it. But, if you ask me, terror is terror.

It is natural to be scared. The future is unknown, change can be uncomfortable. But change is necessary for growth, for improvement. I wonder how much we could accomplish if we all cooperated. And we should! We share this existence, this planet, these resources. It is in our best interests to work together.