Two stories have captured the attention of our nation over the last few weeks: One is the rise of communist candidates within the Democratic Party and the other is the zeal with which European World Cup tourists have come to love America. It turns out these stories are very much related.
If you look at what amazes Europeans about our great nation, they are almost all things that Marxists like soon-to-be Democrat member of Congress Darializa Avila Chevalier and her leader, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, would seek to destroy.
If you go down the line and match them up, it is almost perfect. What the Europeans love are road trips with cheap gas, big box stores, air conditioning, authentic small towns and free refills. These are all blessings of capitalism.
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On the issue of cars, it is crystal clear that the commies in the Democratic Socialists of America want fewer of us driving them. This explains their penchant for congestion pricing that bars private vehicles from certain roads.
This anti-car attitude also extends to fuel prices, because these are people who think “Drill baby, drill” will kill the planet, and that if you can’t afford an electric car, you should just be taking the free buses.
When it comes to our giant stores, Europeans are treating trips to Walmart, Costco and Buc-ee’s as if they are in a museum, amazed not just by the scale, but by the audacious variety of products. You can see the surprise and joy lift their faces to wonder.
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It’s like the Europeans are Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka’s Everything Factory.
These marvels of 21st century consumerism are detested by the communists, which is why New York City has no Walmarts. And make no mistake, if these people take national power, the entire country will have no Walmarts.
In fact, under the kind of Marxist rule that candidates Melat Kiros in Colorado and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan want, it’s not just the Walmarts, but the small, unique towns they serve, the ones that enthrall our European cousins, that will disappear, as everyone is made to live in the longhouse, each according to their ability, etc.
Even on air conditioning, perhaps the wonder of all wonders to our visitors, Commie Mamdani stepped in it this week, urging New Yorkers to set their thermostats at a toasty 78 degrees amid a heatwave. There is no word, of course, on whether hizzoner is himself following this rule he created.
It is not a coincidence that the Marxists taking over the Democratic Party seek to destroy everything that amazes Europeans, because their specific and stated goal is to make America more like Europe.
Most of the harebrained schemes that the communists like Chevalier support are already on the books in lefty Europe, where socialism has choked economic growth to the point that they aren’t even in the same stratosphere as the United States.
What Europeans are experiencing, first hand, is the explosive commercial possibilities that exist in our free-market capitalist society, and to them it looks like science fiction.
There really couldn’t be a clearer warning sign of the dangers of Marxism than these visitors, who are living the supposed dream of free healthcare and high taxes on everything, and declaring that Americans live in a wonderland.
Sadly, the would-be communist leaders dominating Democratic Party primaries, perhaps because most of them come from money and spend decades getting useless degrees, have absolutely no appreciation for the gifts of capitalism wowing the European tourists.
These commies don’t build anything, they just tear things down. That’s why they embrace the childlike assumption that something, anything must be better than the capitalism they so despise.
Of course, they argue, there must be better systems out there in the world. Of course, ours cannot be the pinnacle of societies. But guess what? It is, and the gobsmacked testimonials of Europeans, who live under socialism, prove it.
The joy that World Cup tourists are finding in America is not just a testament to our nation’s greatness, but to capitalism’s greatness. Almost every moment of shock and awe is a product of our imperfect, but free markets.
What the communists in our nation are going to learn is that, outside of their weird little urban bubbles, Americans do not want to live like Europeans. And the World Cup has taught us is that many, many Europeans would prefer to live more like Americans.