Hiding in Plain Sight
In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx laid out gradual steps toward Communism. Sadly, the White House, whose agenda tracks these steps, is now teeming with unvetted, unapologetic socialists without paper trails. Obama’s hand-picked former global warming czar, Van Jones, founded the socialist group Commission for a Sustainable World Society and published a communist-oriented manifesto. Manufacturing czar Ron Bloom — who called the American free market system “nonsense” – and White House Communications Director Anita Dunn are only the latest in a long line of White House officials who openly admire Mao Tse Tung, the Communist Chinese dictator who killed 70 million people during peacetime. And let’s not forget Patrick Gaspard (ACORN czar), a former consultant at the Democratic Socialists of America; Carol Browner (energy and environment czar), a former member of the Commission for a Sustainable World Society; and Hugo Chavez admirer Mark Lloyd (diversity czar).
Shameless Leninists used to lurk quietly in dark places, but they’re not hiding anymore. If America doesn’t act, it will wake up one day soon at best resembling the Weimar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe. In July, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, directly warned our president not to follow the path to Marxism because it only leads to despair. His words fell on deaf, indoctrinated ears.
I remember the shock and surprise of many Democrats some years ago when they learned that the Communist Party was supporting Democrat candidates instead of running their own. Last month Joe Sims, co-editor of the Communist Party USA online magazine Peoples World, stated among other things “the possibility that the communists may be able to ‘capture‘ the Democratic Party entirely.” Sims admitted something that most conservatives already knew: U.S. Communists are using the Democrat Party to accomplish their goals.
The idea of a Marxist society can be alluring. The idea of “economic and social justice” and the illusion of everyone being made “equal” through redistribution appears sympathetic, caring, and even Christian in nature. However, the deficit in Marxism is obvious. Putting aside the tyranny it inevitably leads to, it doesn’t work because it is dependent on a type of human nature that is extremely rare. To succeed, there must be very little greed and jealousy and people must be willing to work hard for the good of others – even those who do no work at all.
On the other hand, capitalism, while not perfect, rewards work ethic and the moral maturity to cooperate and develop productive skills, at the same time punishing the self-interested seeking merely to benefit from the hard work of others. The free market system some say isn’t fair is precisely and uniquely fair.
We have no more right to expect our government to provide health care – another form of welfare – than we do food, housing, or education. These are not rights, they are rations of slavery; hay and a barn for human cattle. And with each comes an incremental loss of freedom. As Thomas Sowell put it, “If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.” Where are today’s leaders unafraid to point out that from little ACORNs, mighty Marxists grow?
In 1967, Ronald Reagan warned, “Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.” Too many Americans have forgotten the truth behind these words and are no longer vigilant. Perhaps we have enjoyed this miracle called “America” too long to be properly appreciative of what we have.
Like lambs to the slaughter, too many appear willing to march into slavery without a fight. If only they knew the fate that awaits them. Not this American. I intend to go down swinging. It’s time to take back our country – one Marxist spider hole at a time.
Excellent article. Why don’t more people get it? Why don’t more people think this is important? Why don’t more people speak up?
We’ve come a long way DOWN baby!
I like the way Progressives are dealt with in the new animated web movie A Not Too Grimm Fairy Tale… you’ll laugh your butt off as the truth about America is unveiled, along with a new American symbol (weapon) the Progressive “head-up-the-butt” person.
http://www.marcrubin.com/Hairmerica.ivnu
Marxism is a siren’s song. That’s why the new aristocrats use it as their “ideology”. Their real ideology, of course, is total power.
The strategy has been brilliant: appeal to the enormous egos of the media and convert them to the notion that redistribution is honorable and just. Do the same with the universities. Expand to the schools and the unions. All of those appleseed constituencies profitted enormously from being the sirens. “Journalists” made millions while feeding their egos. Professors got sinecures that could not be revoked. Teachers got pensions outsized to their contributions. Unions got the same, plus jobs that could not be rescinded, and compensation their skills could never merit. The new aristocrats raided the future of the middle classes to pay off their henchmen along the way.
They built a human infrastructure totally committed to revolution, not because revolution is good for the henchmen, but because they were paid off. How was it funded? More brilliance. Mostly the American middle class has funded it, with seed money and expertise from the Soviets and other Communist radicals.
It has been so successful that many of today’s revolutionaries will argue to the death that they are not marxists. Perhaps in their minds they are correct. In practice, they certainly are marxists.
And the siren’s song appeals to many, because it sounds so sweet. Sharing, just like we learned in kindergarden. Ignore human nature, just concentrate on love and giving and all will be well. Meanwhile, here are some goodies to keep you going along the way. And there’s a wonderful bonus as well. The evil whoevers who have so much while you have so little will get theirs in spades when it is all complete. Sweet revenge for lives filled with envy stoked by the overseers themselves. This is jujitsu on a global level, far too masterful to have occured by chance.
So what’s the problem? Well, it’s well known. You don’t have to be a theorist or a realist or even know very much to understand the problem.
It’s a con, a political ponzi scheme. In the end, there are only commissars and serfs, the serfs who manage to stay alive, of course. The journalists and academics will be the first to go, too dangerous to have those types around after the revolution is complete. There is no socialist system that has ever added an iota of value to the world, or even survived for more than a few decades. Russia in the 1930′s is more the norm. Too bad that 50 million deaths is just a drop in the bucket for today’s world…..isn’t the number they have already told us about 3 billion?
As Moe Lane so accurately put it, “Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people – and, believe me: if you’ve got books by Stalin in your library and you’re using those books to look for ideas… yes, you are a stupid person.”
Stupid and/or evil.
According to the Book of Revelation, which may as well be the playbook for their plans because it details what will actually happen regardless of what they intend, we’re talking upwards of half the population dying from disease, famine, warfare and various pogroms, with the surviving goats of the New World Order so fervently pledging every fiber of their being to their masters that they’re willing to perform a suicidal charge at Jesus.
yes ..too many sheep. too many easily bought with promises ..even empty ones.
the biggest threat was they control the education. that was the marxist number one goal. to control the education and they do.
Your description of our slipping into Marxism is a bit over the top, Gary, though not necessarily incorrect.
But you underestimate the nature of the American people. Collectively they are much wiser than our leadership, and act as a counterweight to the alarming trends emerging from Washington. Wm F. Buckley aptly said that he’d rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book than by the Harvard faculty. That’s still right today.
The pendulum may swing — it WILL swing — back the other way with a force too few pundits expect. The rise of the tea party is an indication the people have awoken, and that change is coming.
The radical swing left may indeed be met with a radical swing right. Perhaps the overreaching FCC, EPA, and SEC may be disbanded, or at least their powers sharply curtailed, and the Fed’s mission recast by Congress. It may be too much to hope for some Constitutional restraint from the Obama White House and the US Senate although that can be solved in 2012.
Wishful thinking? Maybe. But I was accused of being delusional only 12 months ago when I worked for Scott Brown. And who, 12 months ago, would have predicted a major conservative swing in the House?
We needed Barack Obama and his socialist cabal to “out” the true, anti-Constitutional and socialist inclinations of the progressive left. Their intentions are no longer hiding in plain sight. And now America will act.
I wish that I believed you were right, BostonShepherd…but, I no longer believe that the “pendulum” swings with equal weight in each direction.
The leftists make permanent inroads, they leave behind a trail of hidden cells and we cannot “undo” all that they have done.
First and foremost, they own the narrative. Lock, stock and barrel.
We use their words, their phrases, the lexicon of their choosing to describe and frame nearly every “hot button” issue of the day. They own the mass distribution channels of information, to the extent that we no longer can trust a single fact coming into the stream of public information. The bombard us with subliminal and overt propaganda a million times each day.
To suggest that this all simply goes away when the pendulum swings back against them, is to fail to understand the “dormant cell” concept. They have planted ideas into our culture that have taken root and even though based on a pack of outrageous lies, they have become the “truisms” of today’s pop culture.
They have chipped away at every single brick in our foundation and made it “bad”, “evil”, “unworthy”, “discredited”, “cheapened”, “stupid” and they have made us halting and hesitant to protect the very cornerstone of our existence.
Being a devout “Christian” = “bad”, “racist”, “evil”, “homophobic”, “narrow-minded”, “simplistic”.
Defender of Israel? “Warmonger”, “intolerant”, “Isalmophobic”, “greedy”.
Patriotic? “jingoistic”, “simple”, “warmonger”, “hateful”, “intolerant”.
Pro-Business? “greedy”, “mercenary”, “insensitive”, “evil”.
The left has implanted propaganda against our military, our national defense structure, our businesses, our economy, our religious beliefs, our very borders.
To suggest that is has not taken hold, to suggest that it has made no impact, is to deny reality. The leftists wish to tear down the system and replace it and the lapdog media, Hollywood and academia are running interference for them.
That’s why we need a purge. Let’s use their own tactics against them- make each leftist look over his shoulder lest he be found out and summarily fired and blacklisted.
Bostonshepard is an example of how powerful the left has become. He sees himself as a conservative, but he only sees a pendulum swinging. He is hopelessly naive.
He says that the author is a bit “over the top”. The words could have been written by David Axelrod. Why, it isn’t even permissable to mildly suggest that Obama has socialist tendancies. If you do and you want to work in the media, you just crossed abcnbccbscnnmsnbc off your list, and 90% of the newspapers in the country.
He sees a “radical swing right”. Huh? Conservatives are being castigated for reading the Constitution out loud. Our dream, which won’t be fulfilled for at least 2 years, if ever, is to repeal the most radical takeover of private business even attempted in this country. A “radical swing right” by Obamacare standards would be to repeal Medicare and Medicaid; but that will never happen. A “radical swing right” by “Financial Reform” standards would be to tear up all financial regulations entirely. A “radical swing right” by GM takeover standards would be to instantly disband Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
There isn’t going to be any such thing as a “radical swing right”. The swing won’t even return to the position it was in as of Oct 2008. The very best we can hope for is to roll back the most significant crimes of the last 2 years of marxist nightmares. Under the surface there are thousands and thousands of encroachments on freedom that we haven’t even heard of.
I don’t want to criticize the fellow to harshly because he doesn’t have the look of a troll, but he needs to wake up and quit reading the Boston Globe.
proreason, I agree with you,
still there are a lot that voted for the obama …he probably did actually win the election even if he didn’t have the extra acorn votes.
so the marxists still have the support of many idiots.
a bit off topic but this should be front page internationally.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=247569
Agree. The very term “capitalism/capitalist” is from Marxist terminology yet is widely used even by conservatives instead of the more accurate “free market economy” as described by Adam Smith et al.
I will not let my family go gently into the night.
Semper Fideles
yes, perhaps the People act as a counterweight from time to time. However, it is arguable that they remain wiser than the leadership – after all, they voted for Obama, and I will not be surprised if they do so again. As Winston Churchill once stated, ” An argument against Democracy can be made through a 5 minute conversation wit hthe average voter.” It will be difficult for the pendulum to naturally swing with so many people holding it back against its will.
I had hope that the 2010 elections would garner worthwhile results. However, I am becoming concerned that too many RINOs and softball politicians are still in power…back to business as usual, I suppose. Yet, you can be guaranteed that Obama and crew will pull out all stops in their march to 2012.
I do agree that Obama may very well be a necessary burden to rekindle the American spirit and expose where peoples’ true intentions lay.
But I believe the general American populous is still far too lethargic and apathetic…perhaps even sympathetic…to make the necessary corrections. These people, who I will admittedly call the enemy, for they are not my fellow countrymen – have been cold and calculating, delivering a slow, creeping, infection
Churchill said: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
He also said: “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise … Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those others that have been tried from time to time.”
Obama not only couldn’t bear to have Churchill’s inanimate bust in the same room, he had to insult the Brits and the Americans by sending it back to the UK. (Has the man never heard of a cupboard?) This action, as so many others, gives us the measure of this man who would be president.
“The pendulum may swing — it WILL swing — back the other way with a force too few pundits expect. The rise of the tea party is an indication the people have awoken, and that change is coming.”
Sorry mate, I do wish I could agree with you, but the steadily declining numbers of Americans who vote speaks a much louder truth than yours. Too many Americans are distracted by the shiny baubles in their lives and they issue forth mighty streams of Twitter protest when a State of the Union speech pre-empts American Idol or Jersey Shore.
I’m not saying I think there’s absolutely no hope, but I’m a lot less hopeful than you about our possible return to our better days. The best I can muster is very guarded optimism.
Things will get worse before they get better- no denying that. What we are saying is that we’re on the counterattack.
“These are not rights, they are … hay and a barn for human cattle.”
So wonderfully said.
“These are not rights, they are … hay and a barn for human cattle.”
So wonderfully said that it should be in every new edition of books of great quotations.
Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pravda.asp
It’s not Pravda. It’s a website that calls itself pravda. I used to be a fan because it was always good for a chuckle – it’s usually pure tabloid, with stories of aliens, mystical cures and lots of galleries of scantily-clad girls. They had some awesome conspiracy theories, too. Then it tried a make over and started to attempt to look like a straight (but weirdly nationalist) news service and the fun went out of it.
Meanwhile, the non-pravda that published this was just copying it from some guy’s blog site.
Not like you actually read what Snopes said, did you? It is the Pravda site, but not the Pravda of Communist days. The Snopes piece makes this clear. Calling it non-Pravda is a pretty lame spin attempt.
I’m sorry, but if a culture warrior is saying “Russia’s Pravda says …”, then they’re assuming you’ll think it was the original. What I don’t quite understand is … why not just link to the page itself? Why the mucking about with google?
If I create a web site call “kremlin.ru”, I think you’d agree it would be a stretch to call it “Russia’s Kremlin”. There is only one Kremlin, and there will only ever be one Pravda.
I’m not the one spinning this. It definitely isn’t “Russia’s Pravda” – for one thing, it’s a private company. It’s not even left-wing, although it IS quite nationalist.
So I think it’s fairly likely they you were gulled. The real question is – did Gary know this?
Yeah…
First, like Matthew says above, pravda.ru is not associated with the newspaper “Pravda.” It’s a sensationalist online tabloid.
Second, the piece was published in pravda.ru almost two years ago. I guess the word “recently” is accurate if you view it in geologic time. But in the blogosphere it’s an exaggeration.
Third, the author of the piece in pravda.ru is a nutjob. Read his blog — http://mat-rodina.blogspot.com/. There’s some great stuff about how the United States will be in a civil war with the Republic of Texas within the next year.
Thanks for this article. We’ve been through tough times before, and in today’s world transparency and good investigative reporting exist on the internet.
In the Great Depression, people had very little access to the truth about government. The book “New Deal or Raw Deal” is the result of research into FDR’s presidency, using materials not available until the old supporters had passed and their diaries/records were made public. In 1937, Gallup polls showed half of Americans believed the govt was headed into a dictatorship. The book exposes Roosevelt’s strategy for votes, getting people into a dependency status and union support in corrupt elections. The unemployment in 1939 was over 20%. He used FDR’s trick of getting everyone into a dependency status. Yet, we have been told Roosevelt ‘saved the nation’ in the 1930′s…..The book’s excerpts from advisors show he became a power-mad despot who stopped at nothing. After reading about FDR, I’ll never again see unions and dependency programs like social security and Medicare/Medicaid as anything other than gimmicks for increasing power.
Many people just don’t know what’s going on, because there is no real news source except the internet and Fox News on cable/satellite. They just cannot imagine we would be this far into communism/dictatorship, because they trust their local newspaper and the old DBM (drive-by-media). When I told an acquaintance of many years at a New Years party last week that I have recently gotten involved in politics because seeing Mao’s picture on the White House Christmas tree had been painful. She said she did not believe me; that would never happen. I said, “Look it up for yourself.”
Spreading the word is necessary to awaken people; when enough people realize what’s been going on, the radicals will be forced out.
Great discussion. In reference to the number of Americans who act like the sheeple they have been trained to be, I want to remind you all that only 20% of the people identify as “liberals”(communists). Additionally, historians estimate that only 30% of the population of the 13 colonies supported the Revolution in 1776. Obviously, then, it seems that enlisting the support of a majority of the population is not a requirement for the pendulum to swing or to be swung in any particular direction.
The health care law is no more socialist or communist then you are. all it does it level the playing field and won’t allow Big insurance companies to denies us if we are sick. or raise the premiums unfairly. And yes we want the health care reform bill because it protects us from the death panels of insurance companies.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbWw23XwO5o and this too.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWN5jaXcbao.I'm nor against them making a profit. but i’m against them turn down the sick just for profit sake alone
Ah-hah. Ummm, right.
Are you serious? Do you expect the rest of us to give your comment any respect? A five-year old can make a better argument than you just did.
But like all leftists, you think that whatever you say is the truth and fact just because–you said it.
Level what playing field? What a load of horsecrap.
The amazing thing is that some of these people have swallowed this propaganda whole.
If it was so great why the hail of lies about it?
Get a brain.
No Arnold, that’s not “all it does”. If that were all it did, it wouldn’t have taken 2000 pages to spell it out. It does much more than that. It does thing like take control of one fifth of the US economy. It destroys the personal relationship I have with my doctor. MY doctor. You know, the one I choose, not the one some bureaucrat chooses for me. And it forces American citizens to purchase something whether they want to or not. And it takes from me, the fruits of my labor, and then gives it to others who have not earned it- Based purely on yet someone else’s definition of need. That’s not such a level playing field when you are the one whose property (money)is taken by force. If all you want is for insurance companies to be forced to insure people with pre-existing conditions then urge your elected officials to write a bill that addresses that issue alone. I’d wager it could be done in less than 5 pages, and without forcing me to pay for it.
foolish man !!
nothing is free. even when you steal it from your neighbor.
good day
the marxist will never stop. it is the ultimate forever war .
I have know of these methods since my childhood and the people wont accept that this is happening.
It’s because they spend more time covering their tracks than they do subverting. It works.
Note that little lenin’s excuse whenever he doesn’t meet the expectation of the liberals’ media is that he didn’t “communicate: well enough.
And by “communicate” he means he didn’t lie about his intent well enough.
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“Level the playing field,” arnold?
Pure socialism.
And a fun fact for you: my insurance premiums just went up 42 percent. That is more of an increase than the last 12 years combined.
Now let me think, what could have been the cause? Greed. Not likely as there was plenty of time for “greed” over the last 12 years.
Could it be the ObamaCare bill that was promised to lower rates by 3000 percent is really a big sham?
Food for thought, arnold.
You made your points well, but overall the article is more than a bit pessimistic.
It’s to be expected of Democrats that even after losing big last November they would lose none of their self-confidence or bravado. They are a self-brainwashed bunch. The leftist nonsense they imbibed during their college years became a great deal more than an ideological framework for their thinking; it became their thinking, animating their mentally sterile lives. They will go through with their attempted socialization of America even if at some point the term ‘dem’ becomes an alternate definition in the dictionary for ‘brain-dead’ or ‘retarded.’ Nothing but death will deter these people.
No one should doubt that the majority that shellacked the dems last November is prepared to do it again in 2012.
Wasn’t it Kruschev who, at the UN, said that they will bury us? They have an undertaker in Obama. He learned well from listening to Jeremish Wright for 20 years.
Dear Arnold, dear, stupid Arnold,
May I ask, why does an insurance company exist? Why does any company exist? Were it not for the pursuit of profit, why would anyone take the risk of starting any enterprise at all? I won’t hold my breath waiting for your answers.