Democrats love to rail against capitalism, but only after they’ve cashed in on it. Take Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren. Both pocketed fortunes in real estate before stepping into politics. They built wealth the good old-fashioned capitalist way — then turned around and branded the system “unfair” once they had their millions secured.
Now they want younger Americans to swallow the poison of socialism, while pretending it’s the cure for the financial misery Democrats themselves created. Young people can’t buy a house, can’t pay for basic healthcare, and can’t even imagine saving for retirement — not because of capitalism, but because Democrat policies have smothered the system.
Overregulation strangles housing construction. Green mandates jack up energy bills. Endless lawsuits and suffocating bureaucracy punish small business owners and developers until only the elite can compete. Democrats claim this is “equity.” In reality, it’s economic warfare on the working class.
And the irony is almost too much to stomach. Obama lives in a waterfront mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. Warren preaches about “rigged” systems from inside her multimillion-dollar portfolio. These are the people lecturing twenty-somethings that the answer to their pain is more government, more control, more socialism. The very policies that caused the crisis are now being sold as the solution.
Socialism doesn’t build. It destroys. It takes away opportunity and replaces it with dependency. And it’s exactly what Democrats are forcing on a generation that desperately wants the chance to thrive, own homes, and build families. Instead, they’re being told to live smaller lives while elites retreat behind gates and walls, enjoying the fruits of the very capitalism they now despise.
This is the bait-and-switch Victor Davis Hanson warns about: Democrats climbed the ladder of capitalism, then yanked it away to trap the rest of us at the bottom. Watch Hanson explain exactly why they’re doing it — and why it’s destroying America’s future.