When I was younger, I began a search to find my political beliefs. I read philosophy, history, and economics, and out of everything I read, one book — Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged — stood out to me. The daring decisions of the characters to disregard public opinion and government overreach and instead boldly protest the shackles forced upon them because of their own success captivated me. Today, conservatives find themselves coerced into conforming to a self-indulgent society. But many conservatives are beginning to rebel against the perverse liberal culture that teaches us to hate our own abilities. Still, the plague of self-hatred continues to bear down on our culture, and an advocate is the Democratic Socialists of America. A tenet of theirs is the destruction of the best economic system: capitalism. Just the word capitalism brings horrors to the mind of a socialist, and the idea of a job is worse. The DSA’s only response to capitalism is renaming the crime of theft to the label of “Economic Democracy”. They describe this economic theory as “Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries to ensure democratic control and accountability to the people. Enact aggressive wealth taxes on the richest individuals and corporations to spend on public goods and infrastructure.” This, bluntly put, is theft.