Former President Barack Obama recently explained why he rarely comments on current politics:

"There are moments ... where our core values are at stake. In those moments, I think it's appropriate for me to say something."

But if the rise of Democratic Socialism inside his own party, the growing denunciation of capitalism and accusations that Israel is committing "genocide" don't qualify as moments when America's core values are at stake, what does?

In 2013, Obama said, "... nobody questions the efficacy of market economies in terms of producing wealth and innovation and keeping us competitive."

Today, some of the Democratic Party's rising stars, with the biggest voices, do exactly that.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani vows to "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." One of his endorsed candidates for the U.S. House, Darializa Avila Chevalier, expressed views that would have been unrecognizable in the Democratic Party of President Obama.

Avila Chevalier once retweeted: "I just cannot get over the fact that the universe has foisted upon us the perfect illustration of literally every failing of capitalism and people are still like we can't be communists cuz there won't be enough types of soup." CNN........

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