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 examined her now-deleted X account and reported it contained “repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.” Another post encouraged workers to “seize the means of production.” Another advocated worker control of wealth. She wrote: “You can call that communism, you can call it socialism, you can call it pancakes.” She described Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” as an “essential must-read.”
Her posts went well beyond economics. In April 2020, she called Joe Biden a “rapist.” After then-Vice President Kamala Harris urged migrants not to cross the southern border illegally, Avila Chevalier responded: “I have no nuance to add. (Expletive) Kamala Harris.”
Avila Chevalier called for abolishing police and prisons, posted about wiping her hands on the American flag, and denounced interracial relationships by accusing Black and Arab men of “fetishizing ugly colonizer women,” one of several posts in which she attacked white women.
Claire Valdez, another Mamdani-endorsed Democratic nominee for the U.S. House, has vowed to “take away buildings” from alleged slumlords and supports nationwide rent control.
Where is Barack Obama?
This brings us to Israel.
Mamdani, Avila Chevalier and Valdez belong to the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel and calls Israel an “apartheid” state engaged in “genocide” in Gaza. Never mind that then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2024 called the genocide accusation “meritless.”
Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Obama defended Israel’s right to defend itself. He has never accused Israel of genocide. In 2025, he wrote on X: “After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered.”
But as Mamdani, DSA-backed candidates and others within the Democratic Party increasingly describe Israel as an apartheid state committing genocide, where is Obama?
How strong is this socialist, anti-Israel tide?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom strongly opposed a wealth tax in California on the state ballot in November, warning that it would drive high earners from California. Yet almost immediately after all Mamdani-endorsed candidates won their primaries, Newsom called for “an economic reset for America” and endorsed a nationwide billionaire tax.
California state Sen. Scott Wiener, a gay Jewish progressive Democrat running to succeed retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi, was loudly and profanely berated a week ago at a Trans Pride march for refusing to accuse Israel of genocide. Days later, he reversed himself and did just that.
Obama once scoffed at those who called him a socialist, saying they should “meet real socialists.” He defended market economics as the engine of innovation and prosperity. He defended Israel’s right to defend itself. He urged Americans to reject ideological extremes.
Obama says he speaks when America’s “core values are at stake.” Many Americans — including many Democrats — might reasonably ask: If not this, what? If not now, when?
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He won’t say it, because that’s what he wanted all along, to “fundamentally transform America”!
Obama’s pre-politics occupation was “community organizer” (i.e., socialist agitator). He began his first campaign in the living room of the former head of the Weather Underground. He was mentored by a Marxist, and he had Communists in his family on his mother’s side. He was our first openly Marxist President. He is not likely to condemn those extreme left-wing Democrats who are his political heirs.
I just wonder — “How fast is Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) spinning in his grave as uprising Democrat socialists continue to support evil at all levels?” Pres. Obama wanted to change America and he is getting his wish. Most Americans remain ignorant of what is happening and it will be too late as they realize the error of their way.
Thank you, Mr. Elder, I am a fan of your work since the nineties, and this article is just the best and most informative. This would be a time for the former President to come forward with some sanity for his party, but he won’t. He knows in his own mind, our country will go through a revolution, if necessary to protect our way of life, and the demonic attitudes from this socialist/communist group, is waay too much for him to attack. Just my opinion of course.
The leaders in the dim party, think they will be in power if Communism becomes our government mode.Look out world if this happens.
We, the US BORN CITIZENS OF OUR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, need to stand with these families who have lost loved ones to these dumcrap biden illegals. Those of us who swore an oath when we enlisted in our US Military, to protect our country from enemies foreign, COMMUNIST SOCIALISTS. They want to protect these illegals and open borders, prisons…..WE, THE US CITIZENS AND VETERANS NEED TO STAND AGAINST THIS! PROTECT AND SECURE OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS.
Do you really think the former Fraud in Chief cares about the Democratic Party or America? He used the Democrats to gain power and weak minded voters to elect him to the Presidency. Barak Hussein Obama is corrupt to his core, does not have America
s best interest in mind and is a suspected Muslim. He in fact, imported Somalis and other Muslins to America`s heartland and seeded them into districts so they could vote Muslims into our Government. He used our government agencies against President Trump and his Administration to stop them from exposing what they were doing and weak minded others like Comrade Madame Pelosi to do his bidding! We are still waiting to see Obummer in prisoner orange while his entire charade is exposed!He is not going to do a thing to stop this its exactly what he wants he said he was going to ” Fundamentally change America ” he is a Muslim lying is okay if it gets you the outcome you want.
“When will Obama say what’s happen to my party?” Did you not see him campaigning with Mamdani and the other Communist in New York? What’s happening is exactly what he’s wanted to happen all along. He started this garbage. Isn’t he the one that said “I’m gonna fundamentaly change this country”?…
Obama is what happened to o them!
What happened to the Democrat party? HE DID.
Obama Was Raised In Islam And Groomed By George Soros. As Long As Socialism Is Around Obama Will Be Silent.
That SOS will say, ” My Muslim brothers have made monumental gains. Should be executed for his treason.
Why does he have to ask What Happened to My Party?? He and his administration started and encouraged all this mess. His ancestry was/is coming out and showing exactly what he believed and how his relatives have been living and surviving.
The Democratic Party ot rhe Communist Party?
Why would he express that artificial concern, Mr. Elder, when his party is headed in the direction he always intended? And, with his co-incidental early childhood exposure to communinism, socialism and the Islamic ideology, it seems everything he always worked for is rapidly coming to the forefront of American social interactions and politics. And, thank you, Saul Alinsky, for illuminating the path his adherents should follow..
One of his teachers of “JEW HATRED “is Louis Farrakhan. You can check out the pictures that were taken down from the internet before his first election. OBAMA IS SHADY! MY SKIN CRAWLS EVERYTIME I SEE HIM. When ever I say something negative about him who ever is near me like family or friends I get yelled at. So I stopped offering my opinions. But I will not change my mind about him or his presidency. And after what he did to THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY,is absolutely treasonous. He is dirty..You know they say leopards can’t change its spots, and neither can a SNAKE ???? VENOM AND ALL!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA. ???????? MAGA MAGA MAGA
I very much have come to dislike the direction of the Democratic Party. Part of the responsibility for the rise of anti-Americanism rests with Obama. Obama ran on a platform that he would unite all Americans regardless of their skin color and he emphasized in his campaign that Caucasian Americans would vote for a black candidate for President. After he won the election, he implemented a policy of divide and conquer to separate Americans along racial and economic barriers in order to achieve his policy goals. America is in deep trouble and it may not recover. I hope the future is bright but it does not look to good at the current moment.
He is the one who planted the seeds for it. All evil leads to Obama.
He’s the one that started all of this! I believe he set out to destroy our country.
He WON’T! He’s only tried to destroy America for 12 years now. Continues.
Obama STARTED the whole thing with his deliberate race baiting and Muslim-friendly reign! He appeared with Momcommie just the other day! He doesn’t want ANY true American voters!
The oBama is a Muslim and his entire objective was what we are seeing, the expansion of Islam. Jihad…
Barry has a dream and this is it
One of the biggest TRAITORS of our time. He should be ARRESTED,CONVICTED and properly dealt with!!!
oboma will not criticize his party as long as they continue his legacy; of tearing down and “helping him fundamentally change America.” be it from radical Muslims, communists, or whoever. he was positioned to accomplish the goal, and the current members of congress, the senate, governors and mayors of blue states and cities, are carrying on that same vision.
Obama is loving what has happened to his party, this is what he wants.
Posh! He’s the one who really built a fire under the socialist/communist move the party is now making. OBummer care was just the first push—he had it planned out and I’d be very surprised if this new crop of hair on fire communists aren’t his choices all the way.
This IS what 0bama wanted/wants fir Amerika.
Obama s a plant, he does not give a hoot about America ,more chaos and destruction the better Like Africa, where primitive instincts took over reason.
He’s a deceiver so whatever is said is not to benefit this country or the majority of the people. He told the world what his real intentions were before he was elected. Most just foolishly assumed he meant to make their lives better.
We can stop referring to the Democrat party as “Democratic Socialists”. They were that 20-30 years ago. The Democrat party and its followers have now transitioned into the “Communist Party”, with no hint of democracy.
Their party is now holding hands with the other radical ideology culture to bring the country down. The end game goals mirror that of Islamic radicals, total control/domination.
It is easy to know which Left leaning judges and politicians are really working against our freedoms but, we also have judges and (Republican) politicians who claim to love the country that are hiding their true agenda, working to delay, and destroy efforts to clean up pervasive corruption.
Anyone who claims to be a freedom loving patriot and can’t see what’s happening to our country is in denial or living in their made up lala land.
He’s never gonna say anything because it turned into exactly what he planned. Biggest mistake of this country‘s life.
Why isn’t he, Mike and all his cronies in jail for treason?
Obama wIl never say it. Our country is right where he and the globalists want. Destroy America at any cost. Smear and discredit anyone who is brave enough to try and save her. One man cannot accomplish this. It is going to take everyone that loves their freedom to come together and stand against these corrupt idiots. They are delusional to think that they will be spared by the deep state. They are merely tools.
Obama will never speak out against this. It is everything he strived for; it is exactly what he wanted to happen. His horrible antisemitic treatment of Netanyahu and Israel, his identity group pandering politics, his promise for “Fundamental ‘Change,” his friendships with his pastor who preached against white ppl. & the U.S. (God Damn America)and with Ayers the bomber, his racist outreaches … How did American voters fall for his sleaze without knowing what he intended?! He said, “I will always stand with the Muslims.” His friends and many in his family bkgd were Communists or Communist sympathizers. He worked for this when admitting thousands and thousands of Muslim immigrants and placing them in areas together to construct voting blocs such as he did in Michigan and Minnesota and yes, even NYC, bring us Tlaib, Omar and Mamdani. He continued this travesty in his 3rd presidency, handling Biden and insuring Open Borders. He is the most dangerous and destructive president in American history. He created what we are now seeing so clearly. It may be too late.
Just my take: Obama’s allegiance is to the Muslim Brotherhood, who are working with but totally using DSA and progressives for their continuing takeover of America from within. He’ll do as directed. Perhaps he was promised a position of prominence, which he’d feel he deserves, but more than likely obama will be tossed aside with DSA should the Islamists succeed.
Obama might say he is not a socialist but he certainly is against capitalism. His father was a communist who hated America. Has Obama ever talked about his white mother and her family. I have never heard him say one word about his white mother or white grandparents, aunts and uncles. He is okay with these communist who talk Utopia over the backs of the upper middle class. Once they are taxed to the max the millionaires and billionaires have left the country and put their money abroad somewhere. Jobs will disappear. Criminals let out of jail will take care of those opposing them. Communism doesn’t work, socialism doesn’t work. Here in Colorado they voted in a barista like AOC. These candidates can be trusted to spout the communist message and progressive democrats message. But do nothing for the country the state or its citizens. Obama is all in agreement with it. Schumer, Pelosi, Warren, Sanders et al go along with these communists, Nazis. Whatever name you want to give them. Biden got them here made them citizens and now they are overthrowing our government. January 6 was not a storming of the capital. That was the story Biden was told and his incapacitated brain never understood why the people gathered at the capitol. Their was no attacking of police. Everyone was sightseeing. So what if someone put his boots on Pelosi’s desk. It was about time an average citizen could enter her office to convey a complaint. The FBI agents and other dem agitators in the crowd attacked the police and broke windows. Pelosi knew that this would happen and therefore no national guard troops were called in. Joe Biden should be arrested for his sedition speech the other day. His hatred for MAGA supporters is evident every time. His lies he repeats every time he moves his mouth. Obama says nothing and confirms what we all know he hates America the most.
What has happened to my party? Really?? He is at the top of the list of reasons of ‘what has happened to my party! This man is one of the most dangerous people in America but is still a rock star to millions. He is very believable which makes him even worse. He is a pro Muslim anti American racist… anyone remember ‘in times of political turmoil I will stand with the Muslims’. He is responsible for placing millions of them around the country, now becoming a part of all levels of government, all by design, all part of a plan. Billions in cash to terrorist supporting Iran. Treasonous acts and he will never be held accountable. And like Biden in 2020, he was put in the White House in 2008. And the impact of that 18 years later is now being felt across America, and getting worse. Happy 250th everyone.
Everything Obama has said, or not said, was carefully crafted to hide his Communist ideology. It has always been there. He’s a master deceiver – that’s how he got elected. Secretly Obama supports everything these “Democratic Socialists” stand for!
Like them or not, I can’t believe the Democratic party has allowed the DSA to over take their organization. Where is their leadership? So, i say they don’t care, and secretly want to go that route. I pray that when voting time comes, we have the strength to keep them at bay. God help us if it goes to the left. We will fall, and live under strict oppression. We will become another third world country. Wake up sleeping giant.
The 12th of Never. His neo-Marxist leanings and pro-Islam ideology created what now passes as the dem party. The Red/Green assault. The first POTUS that actually hated America and patriotism.
What are you talking about…..THIS IS HIS PARTY!!!! He said from the beginning that he wanted to fundamentally change America……and moving toward Communism is how he wanted to do it. He was the one in charge through his proxies during the Biden administration…..If you think Biden was in charge of ANYTHING you are very misguided.
YOU are what happened to “your” party! you let the commies in on purpose! Worst President EVER!
obama is a fraud oppertunist never worked in his life look how rich he is the elites put him in all these positions who could fail
Democrats and especially Obama are masters of gaslighting. Tell them what they want to hear. Pivot when the narrative changes. Obama has accomplished what he was sent here to accomplish, drive a splitting wedge into this country. Undo what Martin Luther King Jr set out to accomplish.
[Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) said it best about politicians:
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”]
He won’t speak out because this is the party that he built, he desired and now it is being bad fruit. He won’t speak because he wants to slip the blame.
Obama doesn’t care about our country.
He’s got HIS $$$, and Mike has HER $$$.
Life is good for an Obama…..
NEVER! These were his beliefs all along, 100%.
To be clear, barry says something to his public (the dems) when mike tells him to. He didn’t do squat for four years, and finally got his chance with four years of creepy joe.
Didn’t work out there either…
Avila chevy is upset that some men are in interracial relationships. I would too if my only option would be THAT miserable POS…
why does not obama take the money and STFU?
he did the job his masters told him to do!
he and his wife should sit on the porch in their rocking chairs and realize that they are no longer needed/ wanted by their party!
He happened to it.