Let's accept the utterly false premise that Dems want Socialism
What? How in the seven seas is that false? The democrat base, led by the kossacks, practically screams for socialized health care and a thousand other implementations of socialism while fighting any sort of school vouchers.

Most ordinary democrats may not want it, but the democrat party is now led by the nose by the fringe.
Frankly, I think current Republican leadership is far to the right of the founding fathers; if Ben Franklin or George Washington tried to speak up on Fox News, I have no doubt they would be shouted down as traitors and soft-on-terror weenies.
Republicans are far more authoritarian than the founding fathers, but in terms of gun rights and other freedoms (taxes, business, property) they are practically socialists. Shouted down as traitors? That's hyperbolic.

Which end-point is more dangerous? How long does it take a country to recover from Socialism? How long does it take a nation to recover from theocracy?
Hmm - let's look at North and South Korea. Or maybe even realize that back in 1780, the nation was much more of a theocracy, despite what ignorant, whining democrat activists may say about the present.

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