{"id":31155,"date":"2026-07-22T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/?p=31155"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:05:38","slug":"socialist-sanders-and-fascist-trump-two-sides-of-the-same-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freethepeople.org\/socialist-sanders-and-fascist-trump-two-sides-of-the-same-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Sanders and Fascist Trump: Two Sides of the Same Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to creating ways to rein in some of the enormous financial windfall being realized by the tech bros who make up Trump\u2019s inner circle, J.D. Vance \u2014 Big Tech\u2019s handpicked choice for the VP job \u2014 recently revealed that the socialist ideology of Bernie Sanders and the fascist politics of Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin when it comes to the idea of letting the US Government take controlling ownership of AI companies.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Vance said that Trump \u2018likes\u2019 one of Sanders\u2019 ideas for redistributing wealth \u2014 why does that sound familiar? \u2014 being realized from the massive profits of artificial intelligence companies (via The Mirror<\/a>):<\/p>\n

The vice president was discussing the impacts of artificial intelligence during an appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast when he was asked about his views on tackling the wealth inequality it is creating. \u201cWe already have crazy, crazy inequality. How do you think about redistributing that wealth? Bernie Sanders is saying people need to own 50% of these AI companies,\u201d podcast host Stephen Bartlett asked the vice president.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich the president, by the way, likes that idea too, he likes that idea,\u201d Vance interrupted to reveal. Bartlett appeared surprised by the fact that Trump agrees with the prominent leftist on the economic policy. \u201cI don\u2019t know that he would say 50%, but he does like that idea,\u201d Vance confirmed. (Emphasis mine)<\/p><\/div>\n

Vance, who is currently promoting a book about \u201cfinding [his] way back to faith,\u201d took his pro-socialist\/pro-fascist approach to the AI problem a step further by linking religion to the issue: \u201cI think there\u2019s like a deeply Christian concept to this,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a very deeply Christian concept that you have to give everybody in the country a seat at the table,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

While Trump, Vance, and MAGA will tell you that Trump and Sanders have nothing in common politically when it comes matters of corporate profits and wealth redistribution, it\u2019s simply a fact that they are very simpatico in a host of areas.<\/p>\n

For example, Trump announced the formation of the \u201cU.S. Tech Force\u201d<\/a> in December 2025 to build out AI infrastructure using direct partnerships between private-sector tech giants and the federal government. The \u201cU.S. Tech Force\u201d consists of engineers and other specialists who will perform their tasks on behalf of the federal government, and includes nearly every Big Tech company you can think of (via Technocracy News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Participants will commit to a two-year employment program working with teams that report directly to government agency leaders in \u201ccollaboration with leading technology companies,\u201d according to an official government website.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s list of \u201cprivate sector partners\u201d reads like a who\u2019s who of the most monopolistic corporate tech giants on earth: Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google Public Sector, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Palantir, Salesforce and numerous others, the website says.<\/p>\n

This is a remarkable example of how America has become less of a republic and more of a fascist system, where a centralized government collaborates with big corporations to create a staggering web of all-powerful public-private partnerships.<\/p>\n

This may be one of the clearest examples yet of how Trump envisions the future of America. Where the government and the biggest, most monopolistic corporations run the show and have the complete favor of the government on their side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to reshape the workforce to make sure we have the right talent on the right problems,\u201d U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box.\u201d (Emphasis mine)<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking at the features of socialist and fascist ideologies, it\u2019s quite clear that they have a specific common thread that links their desires for society (via Libertarian Europe<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Socialism and fascism have been created in the same historical and social period, the one in which the power of Christianity started to lose its ability to affect the masses, and States needed to have another instrument to control the rising public policy (mass grass-roots movements).<\/p>\n

According to those doctrines, the individual should lose its peculiarity and it should be reduced to a collective dimension in which it is no more a unique representation of itself but it becomes part of organic society, where its individual rights are bent in favour of collective ones.<\/p><\/div>\n

Regarding these similarities, Ayn Rand wrote:<\/p>\n

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights; under socialism, the right to property (which is the right of use and disposal) is vested in \u201csociety as a whole,\u201d i.e., in the collective, with production and distribution controlled by the state, i.e., by the government.<\/p>\n

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics\u2014or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany.<\/p>\n

Theoretically, the differences [between socialism and fascism] are superficial; practically, they are only a matter of time. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same. (Emphasis mine)<\/p><\/div>\n

As I make clear in Chapter 14 of my book The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty<\/a>, the marriage between Sanders\u2019 socialism and Trump\u2019s fascism isn\u2019t all that unusual. In fact, it has been a reality for every president \u2014 Republican and Democrat \u2014 since 9\/11. George W. Bush. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. Joe Biden. These four men \u2014 I refer to them as the founders of America\u2019s police state<\/a> \u2014 have worked in bipartisan fashion to destroy liberty.<\/p>\n

The Big Tech\/US Government partnership being promoted by the socialist ideology of Bernie Sanders and fascist policies of Donald Trump will ultimately give rise to an immortal dictator<\/a> \u2014 a person who will have complete control of AI\u2019s surveillance state.<\/p>\n

While the scientific community has a lot to say about the world-altering impact of artificial intelligence on every aspect of our lives, they are eerily silent about its growing role in government and its destructive effect on our liberty, especially \u201cthe core democratic principles of privacy, autonomy, equality, the political process, and the rule of law.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has been quick to avail government of AI technology, but he has done little to nothing to ensure that the rights of the American people are protected. In fact, Trump\u2019s AI ambitions have been marching on without any guardrails for transparency, accountability and adherence to the rule of law when it comes to the government\u2019s use of the technology.<\/p>\n

How do we protect liberty against the socialist ideology of Bernie Sanders and the fascist policies of Donald Trump when it comes to the development AI technology? The ability to do so may already be out of our hands. Here are just two examples:<\/p>\n

In one of his first acts as president, Trump created the $2 trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), via executive order, to \u201chelp maximize the stewardship of our national wealth\u201d and to \u201cinvest in great national endeavors for the benefit of all of the American people.\u201d We have since learned that the SWF has the end goal of implementing Universal Basic Income in response to massive job displacement due to AI advancements<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump and the Deep State he claims to be dismantling turbocharged the surveillance state when he equipped the FBI with AI surveillance drones with facial recognition and other spying technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever you choose to call Bernie Sanders (leftist, socialist, Democratic Socialist, Communist) and Donald Trump (dictator, authoritarian, fascist, king) the creation of a government-owned tech sector is the likely future facing America unless we rein in the Republican\/Democrat duopoly… NOW!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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