For years, Americans have been told by the media that the Democrat Party’s far-Left drift merely reflects the will of its “base.” We’re told that socialism, identity radicalism, and authoritarian “equity” programs are what Democrat voters truly want—an act of obedience dressed up as journalism. But this narrative is worse than false; it’s a deliberately engineered myth meant to conceal a hostile ideological takeover.
The Democrat Party, as it exists today, has not become extreme because most Democrats are Marxists or radicals. It has become extreme because a small but organized faction of Progressive-Marxist ideologues leveraged institutional capture while the great majority of ordinary Democrats remained culturally docile, trusting, and perhaps a bit too patient.
Let’s dispense with platitudes and talk numbers. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—the flagship organization of the Marxist-progressive faction—claims barely 100,000 members nationwide. Even if you generously double that number to account for unaffiliated sympathizers who share their ideology but not the label, you’re looking at roughly 200,000 to 250,000 people.
Compare that to the 50 million-plus registered Democrats in the United States. That means self-identified Democratic Socialists make up around 0.4–0.5% of the party, maybe one-half of one percent at the outside. Even adding in sympathetic progressive activists and “anti-capitalist” organizers from adjacent groups, perhaps 5–8% of the total Democrat constituency holds genuinely radical ideological commitments based in neo-Marxist or postmodern thought.
Yet these individuals dominate the party’s cultural, rhetorical, and policy direction. How? Through the same mechanism that every radical minority throughout history has used when seizing power in a complacent establishment: discipline, manipulation, and infiltration of institutions.
They occupied universities; then journalism schools; then legacy media; then the party’s policy committees; then the congressional staff structure; and finally, through relentless activism and fear tactics, they cowed senior party officials into compliance. The result is a party that looks far more like an imported political religion than a coalition of liberal voters seeking fairness and pragmatism.
The media’s claim that the Democrat Party’s leaders are merely “playing to their base” is propaganda wrapped in pseudo-analysis. When Democrat officials push hardline climate mandates, “equity” redistribution, censorship of dissent, transgender policy radicalism in schools, and a never-ending stream of race essentialism, this isn’t reflective of a grassroots demand. It’s a top-down imposition directed by think tanks, activist NGOs, and donors in Silicon Valley, academia, and global finance (think Soros, Singham, and Lewis).
The “base” in question is not democratic—it’s bureaucratic. It consists of professional activists, social media mobs, and ideologically captured institutions that operate as enforcement arms for a small minority. In that sense, “playing to their base” is really “appeasing their enforcers.”
Rank-and-file Democrats are not sitting in living rooms discussing Marxism or class dialectics. They are small-business owners, teachers, first responders, parents–the disappearing American middle class–who want stability, fairness, and affordable living. Yet somehow, their party obsesses over race quotas, gender identity, and climate catastrophism. How does the activism of the Chicago Teachers Union, taking to the streets to protest Nicolás Maduro’s capture, help their children learn to read? These issues and actions alienate millions of disillusioned working-class Democrats who feel politically homeless
The invasive Progressive-Marxist wing thrives on language manipulation. “Equality” becomes “equity,” which becomes state-enforced outcome control. “Tolerance” becomes compelled speech. “Justice” becomes a permanent social war. They use the moral lexicon of compassion as camouflage for coercion.
And mainstream Democrats, for all their virtues, have not had the will to resist. Every time a moderate pushes back—even lightly—they are accused of being “racist,” “transphobic,” or “centrist sellouts.” And the intimidation works. Silent disagreement yields to public conformity, and before long, policies once considered unthinkable—like teaching children that gender is a spectrum detached from biology—become mainstream party dogma.
This drift was not accidental; it was designed. Marxist theory explicitly directs adherents to infiltrate cultural institutions first, politics second. What we’re witnessing is not grassroots populism—it’s institutional Marxism disguised as progress.
The radicals have mastered a specific formula:
Narrative Control: They dominate the language of public morality. Disagreeing with them is presented not as a political difference but as a moral sin.
Institutional Capture: Academia, entertainment, and NGOs form a self-reinforcing triad of ideological enforcement.
Emotional Blackmail: Party leaders are terrified of social ostracism; they obey to avoid being “canceled.”
Voter Manipulation: The party relies on emotional, identity-based appeals to keep ordinary Democrats aligned, even when their own values clash with the radical agenda.
Through this model, 5–8% of Democrats shape policy for the other 90%.
But this doesn’t have to be the destiny of the Democrat Party. Many lifelong Democrats remember when “liberalism” meant free speech, civil liberties, skepticism of concentrated power, and economic fairness—not ideological conformity and censorship. They remember when environmentalism was about clean air and water, not neo-Malthusian de-growth.
It’s time for the rank‑and‑file Democrats, the rational center of the party, to take back their institution. You can no longer delegate your conscience to career politicians or the activist elite. Demand transparency. Reject censorship. Stop tolerating leaders who use moral panic to distract from economic decay. If moderates, classical liberals, and real Democrats stand together, the radicals can be marginalized quickly because their power is built on perception, not numbers.
The problem is not that your party has leaned Left—it’s that it’s been colonized by neo-authoritarians masquerading as idealists. Cull the extremists, or they will cull your freedom of thought.
Now, let’s not romanticize the other side. The Republican Party suffers from its own pathology—a cancer not of ideology, but of selfish opportunism and strategic apathy. It’s the “it’s my turn” mentality of career politicians climbing the hierarchy while pretending to be outsiders. The GOP establishment too often serves its donors first and voters last, ignoring the grassroots organizations doing the real work, preferring managed decline to real reform. Many elected Republicans oppose Marxism rhetorically while embracing the same crony structures that sustain it. That’s a problem for the GOP rank-and-file to rectify.
America doesn’t need two dysfunctional parties trading hypocrisy—it needs citizens reclaiming both.
America’s political illness cannot be solved by switching jerseys. The only cure is courage—especially from the moderate, reasonable Democrats who still value genuine liberalism over ideological control. A party that silences dissent cannot call itself democratic, and a people that tolerates it for convenience will wake up one morning to find that democracy has been replaced by dogma.
The Democrat Party must choose what it wishes to be: a coalition of citizens or a cathedral of ideology. And the first step is for its quiet majority to stand up and say the words that terrify tyrants in every age:
“You do not speak for us.”
When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.
In Closing…
The truth is simple: the progressive‑Marxist faction is loud, not large. They’ve hijacked a once‑liberal party and sold moral absolutism as compassion while silencing dissent. Rank‑and‑file Democrats—teachers, small business owners, parents—must take back their house before it collapses completely. Demand honesty, reject coercion, and stop mistaking extremism for virtue.
And for Republicans, self‑interest disguised as leadership is no better. Both parties are ill from different diseases—one of fanaticism, the other of apathetic self-importance.
The cure isn’t left or right; it’s courage—citizens choosing principle over party before corruption, disinterested in the citizen, becomes our new normal.
Until next time…
