The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and their allies in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have backed Barack Obama for many years.
So what you say? How can a couple of fringe Marxist sects with a combined membership of probably under 10,000, possibly effect a country as powerful as the United States of America?
Here's how.
In this report from the Communist Party USA's Political Affairs website, humbly entitled "Special Interest or Class Consciousness? How Labor Put Obama in the White House" the communists explain how socialist led unionists elected a president.
Political Affairs explains the importance union backing played in the Obama campaign and goes on to quote AFL-CIO President and well known DSA member John Sweeney and AFL-CIO Political Committee Chair and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee-also allegedly a DSA member.
"New polling data released this week by the AFL-CIO revealed the extent of union support for Barack Obama in the presidential election.
The data showed that a "high turnout among working-class union voters in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan formed a foundation of support for Obama." In addition, union voters in key battleground states like Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida proved influential as well, an AFL-CIO press statement on the new data indicated.
Union members supported Obama by a 68-30 margin and strongly influenced their family members, according to an election night survey conducted for the AFL-CIO by Peter D. Hart Research Associates.
According to exit polling by major media outlets, voters from union households totaled one in five voters.
Barack Obama, John Sweeney
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said, “We have taken the first crucial steps to build a better future for our children and grandchildren. And what we’ve seen – the stunning voter participation and the common call for change – is an indication of the history we can continue to make together.”
“More than 250,000 union volunteers took to the streets in the largest independent voter mobilization in history,” AFL-CIO Political Committee Chair and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee said.
Gerald McEntee
Union education and mobilization efforts turned in impressive statistics for the Obama-Biden ticket, the data revealed.
Obama won among white men who are union members by 18 points. Union gun-owners backed Obama by 12 points. Union veterans voted for Obama by a 25-point margin. In the general population, Obama lost these groups by significant margins.
In addition, labor leaders stated that an immediate goal is to pass an economic stimulus package that provides direct relief for working families by strengthening the social safety net, creating jobs through public infrastructure investments, and directing financial relief to states to help cover costs of health care and education programs.
“The election is just step one in delivering the change we need,” Sweeney said. “Working men and women are poised to keep the energy pumping to help the Obama administration lead the change we need. There will be no gap or letdown.”
The AFL-CIO mobilized 250,000 volunteers in 24 battleground states. In its final "get out the vote" push," the AFL-CIO boasted, union volunteers contacted 1 million union voters. Throughout the campaign, the union said, the labor movement made 76 million calls, knocked on 14 million doors, and circulated 29 million fliers at work sites and union households. The effort identified a total of 3 million "undecided" voters and helped convince many of them to support Barack Obama."
That's step one. Use union muscle to get who you want elected, elected.
Step two. Use front groups and unions to push socialist policy inside the Democratic Party. Make communist/socialist policies "respectable" by giving them a Democratic Party label.
Step three. Use your sympathisers, allies and secret members inside the Democratic Party to get your socialist policies passed into law.
In an adjacent article Political Affairs extensvely covers Dr Quentin Young's call for a "single payer" health care system. "Single payer", or socialised medicine is a long time platform issue for both CPUSA and DSA.
"A group of over 15,000 U.S. physicians has called on President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress to "do the right thing" and enact a single-payer national health insurance plan, a system of public health care financing frequently characterized as "an improved Medicare for all."
"Our country is hailing the remarkable and historic victory of Barack Obama and the mandate for change the electorate has awarded him," said Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program.
"In large measure Sen. Obama's victory and the victories of his allies in the House and Senate were propelled by mounting public worries about health care," he said. "Yet the prescription offered during the campaign by the president-elect and most Democratic policy makers – a hybrid of private health insurance plans and government subsidies – will not resolve the problems of our dangerously dysfunctional system.," Young said.
"The only effective cure for our health care woes is to establish a single, publicly financed system, one that removes the inefficient, wasteful, for-profit private health insurance industry from the picture," he said. "Single payer has a proven track record of success - Medicare being just one example – and is the only medically and fiscally responsible course of action to take."
"A solid majority of physicians endorse such an approach," Young said. "An April 2008 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows 59 percent of U.S. physicians support national health insurance. Opinion polls show two-thirds of the public also supports such a remedy. Now, with strong political leadership, this reform is within reach."
Young said the adoption of a single-payer health system can be a "major component of the new president's economic rescue of Main Street."
Young noted that Obama has said more than once that he is a supporter of a single-payer universal health care program, and that if he were "starting from scratch," he would favor adopting one. In 2003, Young said, then Illinois state Sen. Obama remarked that "first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House."
Young remarked: "Tuesday's election has made all of these conditions happen. In his first 100 days, President Obama has a window of opportunity to inspire the nation by championing the enactment of single-payer national health insurance under the slogan, 'Everybody in, nobody out.' Such a plan is embodied in the U.S. National Health Insurance Act, H.R. 676, introduced by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and co-sponsored by more than 90 others, more than any other health reform legislation."
"Adopting a nationwide single-payer system will build on the great achievement of Medicare, further unify our people, strengthen our country's economic competitiveness and assure President Obama's legacy as an American hero," Young said.
The article doesn't say so, but Quentin Young is a leading member of Chicago DSA. Before joining DSA in the early 1980s Young was heavily involved in Communist Party fronts and in the early 1970s was accused by a Senate Internal Security body of once belonging to the North Chicago Bethune Club of the CPUSA.
Quentin Young, Barack Obama
Quentin Young is a long time personal friend and political supporter of Barack Obama. he was present at the famous 1995 meeting in the home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, that helped launch Obama's poltical career.
Quentin Young has treated both the Obama and Ayers/Dohrn families.
"Single payer" advocate Rep John Conyers also has a long communist front record, is reputedly a DSA member and is most certainly a strong Obama supporter.
DSA and CPUSA controlled unions got Barack Obama (and dozens of other socialist Democrats)elected.
DSA and CPUSA fronts use those beholden politicians to promote socialist policies inside the Democratic Party.
By using front groups like Quentin Young's "Physicians for a National Health Program", the communists and socialists can advance their agenda under a false flag. Their sympathisers and allies in the Democratic Party can then promote and vote on those policies, claiming them as their own-leaving the public in the dark as to their true source.
The socialist threat to America, comes not from abroad, but from the DSA/CPUSA controlled unions, their front groups and their allies in the Democratic Party.
That is how a few thousand dedicated activists can influence and in some cases control, the political direction of the mightiest country on earth.
How much easier will it be, now that their man has the top job?
