Posted on 01/01/2017 4:33:10 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
Now, here we are in the US in 2016. When I'm at the airport, I have to pass through batteries of surveillance and examination, and I'm under observation all the time, in traffic, in the mall, on the street. My license plate is scanned automatically by the police to make sure I'm not “wanted” for some infraction. Our media, and president, spout outrageous lies and expect that if we hear them long enough we will believe them. Sadly, many do. People are being prosecuted, run out of their jobs or even attacked on the street if they express language that favored groups like BLM or find unacceptable. Our shortages are just beginning. More and more we are shopping in Walmarts and Dollar stores for cheap goods made in China, as many of the stores we relied on years ago to sell us quality goods are gone, and we are left with inferior, shoddy merchandise and fewer choices.
It's becoming clear to me that there has been a purposeful plan to steer us towards a socialist nightmare, and that has never been so evident as now, when we are being ruled by people with known Communist leanings, starting at the top, with our own president. The bible states repeatedly that you can tell the tree by its fruits—and the shape of that tree has never been more evident.
“We were the last of the Soviet breed. Not of the New Man breed, though, because the promised New Man of Communism - the selfless, multitalented altruist - never emerged despite the seven decades of painstaking indoctrination.”
And only a God-fearing (& loving) person is likely to become the altruist that the communists thought they could create. How ironic.
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He's probably kicking himself for the failure to get the designated successor elected this time around.
It felt like the obama presidency.
Today’s left-wing radicals in the Democratic Party owe Russia a large debt of gratitude for their unearned power. Seeing Russia turn against them in the last election must have felt excruciatingly scary and painful; they still seem to be in shock.
What IF: Reagan made a deal with the descendents of the old Tsars and said: I’ll take out what ails you (Communists) if you help me take out our Marxists when the time and opportunity is right.
Talk about the LOOOOOOOOOONNNNG game.
Excellent article - well worth the time to read...
Not likely, but it would make a great book.
Officially, the Soviet Union was a model of international solidarity and brotherly love. Unofficially, it was a prison of nations. Any non-Russian nationalist sentiment was viewed as treason and as an attempt to escape.
Excellent and most interesting post. Thank you.
Paradigm shift, a real one, not the changes in political cosmetics passed off as them in popular culture today. One thing about it is that in these, people have more of a chance of getting things wrong than right and we should be grateful for what we ended up with, however imperfect. It's like a sled in an avalanche: if you manage to get to the bottom in one piece there isn't much point in complaining about the route. The transition from Soviet oligarchy to a similarly oligarchical "crony capitalism" (there isn't actually a precise definition for the latter anyway) meant that the commonality turned out to be the oligarchs. Bad enough, but believe me, it could have been worse.
Part of the reason for the increase in the influence of the Soviet Left in the United States is that they have never had to take responsibility for the follies of placing their theories into practice as the Russian Soviets finally had to face. Part of it also is who is involved: just as in the Russia of the early 20th century, it isn't peasants or industrial workers, it's privileged academics, students, and well-heeled societal elites, none of whom have ever had to take that responsibility. It is laziness as well: The Narrative is always easier to grasp than the messy compendium of fact that is real history. How lucky to be the ones to get to weave The Narrative! Pity you can't eat it.
My generation was luckier than others - we were still young, in our early thirties, when we stepped out of the bomb shelter and walked on our shaky legs into the forbidden sunshine.
The one to come, at least in the United States, was luckier still, having avoided most of the bloodshed that stained the one before. It also enjoys the freedom that is such a dangerous, two-edged gift: it confers the ability to recast the past into a Narrative in which there were no mistakes, and the ability to re-make the old ones. As the author relates, the preference for thought and speech control is not new, the tendency to force the course of one's country's history down a path where pretty flowers conceal the land mines is not new, the tendencies to enforce The Narrative over experience is not new, nor is the childish, wasteful, and ultimately futile temptation to accomplish the whole thing through totalitarianism. If Marx was right and this iteration of history is farce, it isn't either a funny one or one likely to result in a different and happier ending.
Excellent article, thanks for posting that and compelling some awesome posts from FReepers.
“...a messianic empire ...subjected to absurd social experiments.”
As apt a description of communism as any. Thanks for posting this great article!
My long ago Russian history professor nailed Communism as “bastardized Catholicism. You kick out God, put the government in His place, and there you have it.”
He also was a proponent of the convergence theory of US-Soviet relations. He said the Soviet Union would inevitably turn back to capitalism in order to survive economically, and would let God back in, in order to survive socially and spiritually.
Meanwhile, the US would be taken over socialism/communism.
IOW, we’d eventually trade places.
Ha! This could explain the American left’s recent antipathy toward Russia.
The Russians have tried the experiment, and rejected it.
Great post, btd!
“The European Union didn’t exist...”
Ummm, no, not really. Maastricht was signed in February 1992. That was when we started calling it the EU. But even before that, there was the EEC, and before that other predecessor names. It was more of a process, rather than a singular event. So sure for perhaps the first two months of 1992 the “EU” didn’t “exist”. But it did for most or 1992, and thereafter.....
In any event...
I remember telling a colleague (neither of us was in the intelligence business) around 1985 that if Time Magazine were freely available in Russia, the Soviet Union would collapse in five years. He was clueless. In the event, it didn’t take that long.
Thank you for your comment. Might I ask what the 4th thing was?
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