Mad Fiddler @ 107,

“Now the ONLY way they can survive in any form whatsoever is for the present Marxist regime to confiscate funds from the productive class, and hand the loot to the new PRAVDA, Izvestia, and TASS.”

They’ve already engineered this mechanism, and they snuck it in way before Obama took office. The Left has taken over swaths of publicly-funded higher education PhD and Masters programs, programs that require that their students publish in order to matriculate, and coerced them into publishing reams and reams of anti-American “opposition” research. All this with confiscated tax-payers’ monies.

Look at the mouth, gut and legs of this thing. You’ve got:
1. tax-paying, productive citizens MUST pay into state revenues to finance anti-American opposition research at “higher ed.” campuses.
2. campused, soft-sciences “achievers” must publish anti-American opp. research or else lose “credits,” “degrees,” or other paper “atta-girls.”
3. once graduated, the campused “achievers” are eligible for full-time teaching positions (state employee with 3-months off/year, lectures only three times per week, but paid well with pension, and unionized).

At #1 we’ve got your “regime to confiscate funds.” Check. At #2 we’ve got the coerced publication of TASS-lich product (publish or…fail!). Check. And at #3, we’ve got your dossier’ed leftist academician’s dream: employment for “life,” serving the Green Furher (or whatever) at a virtual Der Stern, or TASS, or Arab News (Ryadh edition). Check.

A workers paradise, for sure!

Bertelsmanns would be proud. And I haven’t even explored the political roller-skates that keep the taxpayers shoveling good coal into this monster, yet.

[I've learned that a lot of this American "opp research" masquerading as Masters' Theses gets published by fringe, European publishers. Must be, it's too hot for a Penguin, or a Simon & Schuster.]

Belmont Clubbers, when you have the time click over to your local state Uni’s branch, and scroll down its list of graduating Masters and PhD’s. And then, if they’re available (and why shouldn’t they be, you paid for them?) then peruse the graduates’ theses’ titles one by one. And if, after this, you’re wondering why your taxes go to fund this horrendous glob of useless media, then you might also check your uni’s recent-hires lists to see if any of these radicals gained hire with their screeds.

If what you find doesn’t make you angry, then I’d check to see if you have a pulse next.
-S