Once Upon a Time
By: Obie Usategui
8/13/2025

I guess you all have heard that stock famous phrase “once upon a time” extensively used to introduce narrative of past events, most typically applied as starts of children’s fairy and folk tales.

Well, let me tell you my friends, once upon a time, our great nation was a Constitutional Republic. The old United States, was a vibrant democratic system, where, over time, two prominent political parties emerged each offering their distinct visions of the country’s future however divergent these visions were, still, both were ultimately confined to preserving the individual freedoms enshrined in our Constitution while, at the same time, offering all individuals a chance to live the “American Dream” in a capitalistic economy characterized by private ownership of the means of production and the opportunity for anyone to profit and prosper accordingly.

Whether we realize or not, whether we want to accept it or reject it, this is a new United States of America. I am thoroughly convinced that the election of Donald Trump, first in 2016 and now in 2024, as the 45th and 47th president of the United States, both served as breakthrough milestones in the dismantlement, in the collapse, in the disintegration of the old “Bipartisan” system as we once knew it. It served in the effacement, the dissolution, the destruction of the old “Democratic” Party, as the later reinvents itself and openly resurfaces for the first time in history as a Marxist / Communist Party, thus the emergence of a Zohran Mamdani – a discernible, a conspicuous Communist, that maybe for the first time ever in American politics, does not apologize for his Marxism, as well as the Party itself [Democrats] seemingly wanting to wanting to back Mamdani and make publicly known what they really stand for.

Here is the point that I am trying to make, yes, for the more literate amongst us, we have known for a while there was a radical movement to the Left, which began long before Mamdani was even born. We all realized that Barack Obama’s commitment to fundamentally transforming the United States of America as he proclaimed just before his presidential nomination in 2008, was, no more no less than his firm pledge to subtly, inconspicuously, and unassumingly transmute the United States into a full-blown Marxist State.

We all knew damn well that the terms Progressive, Radicals, Leftists, and Socialists were all cherrypicked pseudonyms all designed to camouflage, to disguise, to cover-up, the real truth that lay behind them, to wit, the emergence of a Marxist / Communist system, known as [the] evilest system known to mankind bar none. During the four years of the Biden presidency, if you think about it, the “cat was out of the bag.” Biden was, but the figurehead behind a movement by the Democratic Party to dismantle the nation as we once knew it. They [Democrats] all thought they that they were holding the reins of the nation for good.

The plan was as simple as abolishing everything that this nation stood for, to pave the way for the Marxist doctrine, and doing it all without causing alarm, inciting fear – without firing a shot. This explains the madness and answers the question on why a Party would root for everything that does not make sense – why open borders, why defund police departments, why promote transgenderism, why reverse roles of victims and victimizers in crime, why stand for everything that is wrong and attack everything that is right.

One day, they hoped, we would all wake up and we would be in a new United States where the hammer and sickle would be the nation’s new symbols in our flag. Only problem, the only thing they did not count-on, the only thing they were not able to foretell was a Donald Trump that miraculously, mystically even, went on to win the November 2024 elections, after eight years where he was subjected to every single possible hoax aimed to destroy him, including but not limited to two unsuccessful attempts on his life.

Yes, all changed on November 8th, 2016, when Donald J. Trump was re-elected president of the United States and, yes, that was the beginning of the end of the Democrat Party as we once knew it. We have seen how the Trump derangement syndrome has thrown the Party into a complete and total frenzy to where the so-called leaders of the Party are coming on our T.V. screens looking like complete and total lunatics, as complete nutcases. You can now begin to understand why a young Communist in New York City rose from the tombs of the unknown to the Mayoral candidate of one of [the] most iconic capitalist cities in the world.

I have no doubts, none whatsoever, that Zohran Mamdani will be the next Mayor of New York next November, as well I am sure that, in short, there will no longer be a Democratic Party as we once knew it. We are well on our way to having a new bi-partisan United States where one Party represents our old Constitutional Republic, and the other a Marxist / Communist State – you figure which is one is which. And, yes, like the children’s fairy tales, as time goes back, historians will reminisce on our transformation, and the Democratic Party will be referred to as “once upon a time.” God save us and God save the United States of America.