From the killing fields of Cambodia, where Pol Pot oversaw the murder of 2 million, to Vladamir Lenin’s Soviet gulags that punished 18 million political prisoners, communist ideology claimed an estimated 100 million lives during the 20th century, when the promise of a worker’s paradise proved untrue.
Despite that blood-soaked past, history is repeating itself with controversial candidates such as Francesa Hong. A self-described Democratic-Socialist candidate for Wisconsin governor, Hong is a state representative who is running in a three-way Democrat primary.
In a recent interview with Hasan Piker, the communist podcaster, Hong said she supports everything from free childcare and public grocery stores to signing a “worker’s bill of rights” and legalized marijuana.
A related story about Hong, by CNN, said she supports "abolishing" law enforcement because police exist to "uphold white supremacy."
Hong finished second, behind the state’s lieutenant governor, in a straw poll in late June, Fox6 reported.
After AFN previously reported on three primary wins in New York City, a socialist candidate in Colorado also defeated a well-known incumbent Democrat. Rookie candidate Melot Kiros ousted liberal incumbent Dianna DeGette in a primary.
Kiros, a self-described Democratic Socialist, was also interviewed on Piker’s podcast. On the podcast she said the United States deserved the 2001 terrorist attack, comparing it to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel which she blamed on Israel being an “apartheid” state.
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is a textbook example of communist ideology, since it describes a stronger and cruel “oppressor” versus the supposed victim of that cruelty, or the “oppressed.”
That is why, even with an estimated 1,200 Israelis killed by Hamas, the motto "Free Palestine!" is frequently changed, and why those documented acts of kidnapping, murder and savagery are defended and praised as bold and courageous.
Richard Randall, a Colorado-based talk show host, told American Family News there is a direct link between socialist candidates and an anti-Zionist platform.
“More and more Democratic Socialists are getting elected,” he said, “and the underlying current for all of them is a hatred of Jews.”
Asked later about her comments to Piker, Kiros told a Colorado news station the 9/11 attack was an “inevitable consequence” of America’s actions.
“We destabilized a lot of the Middle East. That forced people to believe that an act of violence was the only response,” Kiros told 9News.
Her comment denouncing America’s foreign actions is called “imperialism” in communist ideology. It claims the foreign policy of a capitalist country, such as the United States, is built on exploiting and stealing from poorer regions.
Reacting to Kiros’ win over Rep. DeGette, Colorado resident Gordon Klingenschmitt told AFN the socialist candidate is openly campaigning on taking a communist platform to Congress.
“Seize the assets and means of production of the wealthy. Just take people’s assets out of their bank account,” he said.
Despite the surge of socialist candidates, he also predicts they will “fizzle out” over the next couple of years leading up to the 2028 presidential election.
“They don’t have a credible presidential candidate,” Klingenschmitt said. “I think, in 2028, the country swings the pendulum back to the right.”
