Today seems like " The Last Hurrah " for Bernie Sanders but not for democratic socialism .

As a democratic socialist I can only deplore this pernicious GROUP THINK contempt for Christians - especially Catholics and Christianity- on the Left . It can only guarantee that collectively they on this Left will never grow much beyond the " Feel the Bern " Bernie Sanders movement- not to be confused with a DEMOCRATIC socialist movement. " GREED , lies ,hypocrisy and mind blowing corruption " is what everyday capitalism- the Democratic Party- " OUR democracy "- is all about. The brilliant atheist , philosophical materialist Jew , Karl Marx , was right about capitalism containing the seeds of its own destruction. But neither Marx nor Engels approved any petty bourgeois radical WAR ON GOD , war on Christianity . And the biggest mistake of the old Soviet Union was not the first bold attempt at " socialism " . It was making the STATE " officially atheist ". Ironically today our illiberal liberal " progressive " Democrats sound more and more like old Stalinists and are just as contemptuous of the FREE SPEECH, FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization and also contemptuous for a fundamental principle of ANY democracy - MAJORITY RULE . They ARE attacking freedom of religion in the United States. Erich Fromm 's " The Sane Society " is still an excellent prescription for social change . And Fromm's explanation of the failure of Soviet " communism " is still very cogent . Fromm was very much influenced by the un-corrupted works of Marx and by the insights of Sigmund Freud in " Civilization and its Discontents " and " The Future of an Illusion " ( in which he hardly sounds like the arrogant and obnoxious New Atheists) . Today seems like " The Last Hurrah " for Bernie Sanders but not for democratic socialism .