Just when you thought the lies of the Left couldn’t get any worse, or any bigger, the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) kicks it up a notch. Megan Romer, co-chair of the DSA, was interviewed recently by David Remnick on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, where she was dumbfounded when asked to explain her own words.

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Tax the Rich

“We (the DSA) believe in taxing the hell out of millionaires,” Romer emphatically stated.

The host shot back, “Well, what does taxing the hell out of them mean?”

Instead of giving a specific answer, Romer chuckled and responded, “Ugh, yeah. You know, again, I don’t have, like, a solid…”

As she stumbled through her response, Remnick interrupted, asking, “But shouldn’t you?”

This question puzzled Romer, who admitted, “Ummmmm, That’s a good question.”

Marxist Lies Exposed

Romer’s shallow, vague answer revealed one of the DSA’s biggest lies about taxing the rich. While proponents tout, “We must start by building the narrative that taxing the rich is foundational to both American democracy and our common goal of equity,” the truth is that they have no concrete idea of how they will make that happen. Their words are nothing more than the rhetoric of Karl Marx, who in the Communist Manifesto, advocated for “a heavy progressive, or graduated income tax,” as well as the “abolition of all rights of inheritance.”

The host of the podcast could tell that Romer was grasping for straws. He pressed her for details. “If you’re the co-chair of the DSA, shouldn’t you be more specific than just taxing the hell out of something? What exactly do you mean?”

From there, the gobbledygook became thick. “So again, it’s democracy, right? And we have to look at what we have to spend and what we need. We don’t want to depend on the existence of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited. So yeah, we need to look at what we need to pay for in the interim, what sort of tax base we need for that to happen, and build from there,” suggested Romer.

DSA Doublespeak

DSA enthusiasts love using the word “exploitation,” but all of their ideas, such as open borders, abolishing the police, eliminating prisons, and redistributing wealth, will exploit the safety and rights of the American people. When Romer asserts, “we need to look at what we need to pay for in the interim,” what she’s saying is, how much money will we have to steal from hard-working citizens?

DSA Lies about Israel

Host David Remnick also questioned Romer about the DSA’s position on supporting or helping Israel. The unabashed DSA co-chair had no problems stating, “No defense or economic support for Israel.” Remnick also asked if Israel has a right to defend itself and if the DSA supports a two-state solution, or a binational, one-state solution. Romer explained, “Our position is a free Palestine with a capital in Jerusalem, so I think that could be safely read as a one-state solution.” When Remnick pressed Romer to define what that looked like, she became tongue-tied, claiming that she needed to look into the specifics. From there, she suggested that Israel’s right to safety is suspect anyway because they are “committing genocide.”

Romer’s views on Israel became even clearer when she was asked about New York Congressional primary winner Darializa Avila Chevalier, an avowed DSA member who attended a pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas rally the day after the October 7^th attacks in Israel. Remnick inquired if she supported Chevalier’s actions, to which she said, “Yes, I do.” When asked if she would have gone to the rally if she were able, Romer unapologetically responded, “I probably would have.”

Remnick probed further, giving her a chance to think about her prior response. “One day after the slaughter of 1,200 people and the taking of over 200 hostages, you would have come and rallied behind Hamas?” An unfazed Romer declared, “I think that October 7^th was largely inevitable. If you put people in an open-air concentration camp and you deprive them of rights, dignity, food, and the ability to live in safety, you have to expect that they are not going to take that for that long.” 

The lies in Romer’s responses are numerous. While she claims that Palestinians live in an “open-air concentration camp,” without rights, dignity, food, and safety, the truth is that the terror group Hamas creates the very conditions that she describes. Money and resources that could be used to help people are instead diverted toward building terror tunnels underground and funding acts of violence. Additionally, Hamas hoards food and supplies while its people live in poverty.

The ruling authorities in Gaza follow Islam, a religion and system of governance that establishes itself through Sharia law, and rewards those who commit acts of rape, torture, and murder against Jews and infidels. Safety and dignity cannot co-exist in an environment where rights are controlled by terrorists whose own religion declares that they can lie, steal, and massacre at will.

An Irrational and Evil Agenda

Romer’s argument that October 7^th was inevitable is evidence of a person who is not only irrational but also sides with Nazi-like behavior. The utter depravity of Hamas’s war crimes has been thoroughly documented with evidence so heinous that most people cannot even read through the reports. The Israeli citizens who were brutally murdered are the victims of a bloodthirsty, genocidal regime, not the Palestinians. The truth is that the DSA has aligned with Islam and Hamas for one reason: to destroy Western civilization. Romer has already made the intentions of the DSA crystal clear: “We must dismantle, piece by piece and with great haste.”

As the DSA and its representatives continue to sow confusion and spread lies, it’s time for intercessors to pray with great vigilance and authority. Younger generations are being wooed by promises of “freebies” and a utopia where no one works harder than they want. Ultimately, all this Marxist agenda can offer is a dystopia of destruction and death.

Let’s Pray

Lord Jesus, the DSA props itself up as an organization that fights for democracy, but we know that everything they stand for goes against biblical principles. We pray that their plans would be confused and scattered, and their leaders would continue to be exposed for who they really are. Tear down their tower of deception and open the eyes of those who have believed their lies.

What do you think of Megan Romer’s comments? How can we pray?

Angela Rodriguez is an author, blogger, and former teacher who studies the signs of the times, as well as the historical and biblical connections between Israel and the United States. You can visit her blogs at 67owls.com and 100trumpets.com. She is also the author of Psalm 91: Under the Wings of Jesus and Hallelujah’s Great Ride. Photo Credit: Personisinsterest – Own work (Given to me with full permission), CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=176968401.