Posted on 07/31/2018 11:53:37 AM PDT by BBell
How close America came to being officially pro-Moscow.
How many ways have progressives worked with the Kremlin over the years? The examples are legion. When I was researching my boo Dupes, the biggest challenge was sifting through all the self-described progressive individuals or organizations to figure out which were closet communists cloaked as liberals, and whether they collaborated with Moscow. When Congress in 1961 published its major investigation of communist front-groups, titled, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications, one of the most popular title listings in the massive index was Progressive.
Progressive here, progressive there, progressive everywhere.
In fact, if you want a case of collusion between an American political party and Moscow in a presidential election, forget sniffing around 2016. Go back to 1948, where progressives created the smelly blueprint.
That year, the Progressive Party ran for president one Henry A. Wallace.
Wallace had been FDRs vice president and was Americas preeminent dupe to Marxist-Leninists. He was horribly pro-Soviet. One of the stupidest things FDR did (and thats saying something) was to make Wallace his vice president. Wallaces public remarks defending Stalins USSR were so bad that Democrats demanded he be expelled as FDRs running mate in 1944, even as FDRs ideologically unhinged wife, Eleanor, protected him.
FDR merely moved Wallace, retaining him as secretary of commerce in another of FDRs departments penetrated by communists and Soviet agents of influence. (Long before that, in 1933, FDR had made Wallace secretary of agriculture, which was so infiltrated that the worst of all Depression-era government communist cells the Ware Cell operated out of it.)
Harry Truman mercifully replaced Wallace. It would have been devastating for America and the world if Wallace, rather than Truman, had been the sitting vice president ready to replace FDR upon the New Dealers death in
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Progressives are the Kremlin just use a different name democrat.
“Regressives”
I call progressives either regressives or communists. I skipped the socialists label as they are the same as communists. Just communist light.
Wouldn’t Chappaquiddick Ted’s activities in 1984 qualify as collusion if not outright treason?
Is nothing sacred?
Anybody notice the name of Obama’s mentor?
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