Socialists seem to think George Orwell’s 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality.

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.

Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we'd make a ruddy mess of it.

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.