By Robert Steven Ingebo

When President Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic Party could not and never will accept him. There are several reasons for this. Bernie Sanders said, “To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.” Even worse, Harry Reid, a Democratic politician, openly called President Trump a racist: “It’s time for reporters and journalists to be honest with the American people,” warned Harry Reid on the floor of the Senate. “They owe America the truth. Through his words and deeds, President Trump is a racist.”

The underlying reason for the identity politics is that the Democrats rightly believe Trump will attempt to dismantle the U.S. welfare state, something they cannot tolerate because of their adamant belief in social justice.

In an article posted on Politico.com in October 2016, Michael Grunwald said that Barack Obama has spent the last eight years “pushing for incremental expansions of the welfare state”, and Hillary Clinton implied in her election campaign that she intended to complete the transformation. “Clinton hopes to check off the to-do items that Obama couldn’t get past the GOP Congress.”

Now that Hillary has lost the election, the Democrats’ hopes have been crushed, resulting in their hatred of President Trump and his supporters. In an article posted on Politicususa.com in November 2016, John Easly said, “The Democratic base feels like their country has been stolen from them. They feel like their progress has been hijacked.”

Throughout President Trump’s first term as president, the Democratic politicians will use the mainstream news media and other forms of communication to pander to the non-white citizens of the U.S., saying that under a Trump presidency the minorities will be victimized by high levels of institutional racism and economic inequality, and that the progressives’ top priority is to fight against these forms of oppression. The Democrats’ purpose in using this narrative is to win the majority of the non-white vote in the upcoming 2020 presidential election.

The Democrats are expanding upon this narrative, accusing President Trump and the Republican Party of embracing free market capitalism, the root cause of economic inequality, institutional racism and criminal injustice, resulting in a system of white privilege, where whites have so many more opportunities for economic success through education and jobs and are generally wealthier than non-whites that many of them are wealthy business owners who exploit the non-white working class.

In their final effort to delegitimize President Trump’s presidency, the Democratic politicians and the liberal college professors will unite, making the case that the president is the racist leader of a white supremacist government, supported by the fact that our Constitution was originally created by white slave owners.

In April 2016, Chauncey Devega said on Alternet.org, “In the most basic sense, white supremacy is a philosophical, material, ethical, economic, scientific, religious, and political system that works to maintain the dominant and relative superior group position of those identified as ‘white’ (and their allies) over those marked as ‘non-white.’”

Many minority voters are in agreement with this. According to Pew Research Center, 73% of blacks think racism is a big problem, along with 58% of Hispanics and 11% of whites. A Suffolk poll showed that 44% of Americans believe President Trump is a racist.

The constant repetition of the Democratic Party’s narrative — that President Trump and the Republican Party are engaged in the expansion of a capitalist, white supremacist government with the goal of victimizing minorities for the purpose of wealth and power accumulation — will eventually cause many minority Democratic voters and Millennials to realize that the Democratic Party is built upon the same foundation of capitalism and institutional racism as the Republican Party. When these voters conclude that they are being victimized by their own party because of capitalism, they will reject it.

This explains why House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was confronted by pro-immigration protesters in her hometown of San Francisco this week at an event featuring fellow California Democratic Representatives Barbara Lee and Jared Huffman who, along with Pelosi, called on Congress to immediately pass a new version of the DREAM Act.

About 40 people who identified themselves as “undocumented youth” demanded faster action, telling Pelosi that they “are not your bargaining chip for Donald Trump.”

“Democrats are not the resistance of Trump. We are!” they shouted. “First you said you supported a clean DREAM Act. And last week you announced that you had agreed, and I quote you, ‘To work out a package of border security.’ Your words. Or were you misquoted? We cannot say, however, that we are surprised.”

“Do you want answers?” Pelosi tried to respond, with no result.

“Hey! Stop it!” she continued to yell at them. “Just stop it! Just stop it now! Just stop it now! Just stop it now! Stop it!”

“Yes or no?” they chanted back at her as she asked: “To what?”

They responded: “This is our democracy. We did not vote for you, or for any politician. We don’t owe you nothing. This is what democracy looks like.”

The confrontation reportedly continued for more than 30 minutes, until Pelosi was chased from her own event.

The Democratic Party will be unable to stop the mass exodus of minority voters, which has already begun, because the Democratic politicians, including those in the Obama administration, have done nothing to stop the victimization of this group of voters from institutional racism, economic inequality and police brutality, especially in the inner cities.

The wealth gap has also grown larger under Democratic rule. According to federal data, the median wealth for white families in 2013 was around $141,900, compared to Hispanics at about $13,700 and blacks at about $11,000.

A new study projects that in the years ahead, the gap will widen even further. Black family wealth will decline 30% from 2017 to 2024. Latino households will see their family wealth fall 20% while white households will experience a 5% increase by that point.

The biggest problem for the Democratic Party is that its welfare state is built upon the same framework of capitalism as the Republican Party.

A Harvard University survey, which polled Millennials, found that 51% of the respondents do not support capitalism.

In February 2016, a post on Blackleftwing.org said, “The Black left is fighting on all fronts against all forms of oppression. A central point of unity is that all of our struggles can advance only to the extent that we mount a full assault on the capitalist system. Capitalism is the basis for the 1% control of this society and the source of our misery.”

For many minority voters, the perceived root cause of institutional racism, racial criminal injustice, income inequality and white privilege is capitalism.

The non-white Democratic voters will eventually conclude that their party has been unable to end these sources of oppression precisely because the welfare state of the Democratic Party is based upon capitalism.

When these disaffected voters finally reject the Democratic Party, they will also reject the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party and the Green Party because their ideologies all embrace some form of capitalism.

The only reasonable alternative for the minority Democratic voters is socialism, because it destroys and replaces capitalism. Socialism also features the same entitlement programs as the Democratic Party’s welfare state, such as government subsidized education, health care, and social welfare programs.

According to Socialistparty-usa.net, all socialists believe in political and economic democracy, another major part of the minority Democratic voters’ belief system.

To summarize, socialism is made to order for the non-white Democratic voters because it eliminates capitalism, the perceived source of their victimization, while offering all the entitlement and welfare programs they could possibly desire.

According to a February 2017 telephone poll of 1,000 likely Democratic primary voters fielded by Republican firm OnMessage Inc. and commissioned by AAN, which is tied to the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC dedicated to House Republicans, Democratic voters in every age group, every gender, and every race viewed socialism favorably. Among the age 45 and under group, socialism was preferred to capitalism by a margin of 46% to 19%.

Although the polls favor socialism, the U.S. doesn’t have a socialist movement. Two reasons for this is a lack of a strong, organized labor movement and a lingering mindset in society, left over from the days of the Cold War, of American capitalist supremacy over socialism.

As for the first obstacle, the widening wealth inequality and the severe job losses under the Obama administration has created a greater desire among the non-white working class to build up the labor unions.

As for the second one, the identity politics of the Democratic Party will eventually create enough disaffected minority voters to reject the mindset of capitalism over socialism, eliminating the social stigma surrounding it in the process.

That leaves one remaining obstacle. The greatest obstacle preventing the minority Democrats from joining the socialist movement is simply their lack of understanding of its true ideology. A CBS/New York Times survey found that only 16% of Millennials could accurately define socialism, and only 30% of Americans over the age of 30 could.

When the number of minority Democratic voters and Millennials rejecting capitalism exceeds the number who believe in it, charismatic politicians will emerge, eloquently extolling the virtues of socialism and revealing its true ideology. Once these voters understand socialism, they will leave the Democratic Party and flock to the socialist movement in large numbers.

This article was written by Robert Steven Ingebo, president of FRI Corporation.