Hi everybody, Cheryl Akison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl

Ackeson podcast. In today's podcast, America's silent socialist shift, 11 socialist

features the founders never imagined.

The United States, as you probably know, was founded as a Democratic Republic

with a constitution that explicitly limits federal power, protects individual liberties,

and restrains government from overreaching into private life and the economy. The framers emphasized enumerated powers, separation of powers, federalism,

and checks and balances to prevent the concentration of authority that they thought could lead to tyranny.

Yet over time, particularly since the progressive era and accelerating through the New Deal,

great society, and subsequent expansions, American society has adopted numerous features

of socialism and communism.

These include centralized government control over key sectors, heavy redistribution of resources

from producers to non-producers, expansive regulatory bureaucracies, and a cultural shift

toward viewing the state as the primary solver of social and economic problems.

While the U.S. retains capitalist markets and

democratic elections, these developments represent a gradual drift toward collectivist principles,

state ownership or heavy direction of production from each according to his ability, to each

according to his need.

These contrasts with the founder's vision of limited government.

Today I'm going to outline 11 notable examples of America's silent socialist shift.

Number one, government as solver of all problems.

The U.S. Constitution aimed to create a limited federal government with only specific enumerated

powers, leaving most authority to states and individuals under the 10th Amendment.

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