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Could It Happen Here? It Is Happening Here
American Greatness ^ | 3 Apr, 2023 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 04/04/2023 5:07:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

It was only a matter of time before the Left arrested a former president of the opposition party.

My field of study in graduate school was communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia’s School of International Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in the entire university to major in what was known at the time as “Communist Affairs.”

I cite this in order to make this point: In my wildest dreams, I never imagined what I was studying would ever apply to the United States of America, the freest country in world history.

I assumed that communism was, for various reasons, something that happened elsewhere—most obviously, Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Cambodia, and North Korea.

What were those various reasons? One was the absence of freedom in the history of those countries. Another was that all those countries were, with the exception of Cuba, outside of Western civilization.

All these years later, I see that I was wrong. Communism—or, if you will, left-wing fascism and totalitarianism—is coming to America and Canada, and (a bit more gradually) to Australia and New Zealand.

Incredibly—or maybe not so incredibly—more than 200 years of unprecedented and unrivaled liberty and commitment to Judeo-Christian values and reason, and all the unparalleled achievements of Western civilization, have come to mean nothing to about half of the American people and to virtually every one of its major institutions.

Our universities have become moral and intellectual wastelands—almost as ideologically pure as Moscow State University was in the Soviet era. As of December 2022, there were seven times more administrators (15,750) at Stanford University than faculty (2,288).

Our medical schools are embracing Soviet-like science. In more and more of them, incoming doctors are instructed not to use the terms “male” and “female.”

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: australia; canada; china; communism; cuba; dictatorship; fascism; newzealand; russia; vietnam
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1 posted on 04/04/2023 5:07:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

We know from history what can happen next.


2 posted on 04/04/2023 5:07:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

bkmk


3 posted on 04/04/2023 5:14:38 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: MtnClimber

“We know from history what can happen next.”

I would change one word in that sentence. ‘Can’ to ‘Will’


4 posted on 04/04/2023 5:20:27 AM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: MtnClimber

Which is why they either stop teaching it or rewrite it.


5 posted on 04/04/2023 5:29:27 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MtnClimber

Many Americans think that it can never happen here.


6 posted on 04/04/2023 5:30:36 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: MtnClimber

The Law and Order President™ refused to go after Biden, Hillary, Soros, et al. in any material way during his administration. They will not be as forgiving as he was.

7 posted on 04/04/2023 5:35:18 AM PDT by conservativeimage (Join Your State Assembly - states.americanstatenationals.org - Bring Back Constitutional Law & Order)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk...regretfully.


8 posted on 04/04/2023 5:37:11 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: MtnClimber
I never imagined what I was studying would ever apply to the United States

He apparently never read that familiar adage, "He who ignores history, etc..."

9 posted on 04/04/2023 5:40:13 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: MtnClimber

And our Republican elected officials sat on their thumbs, while it happened.


10 posted on 04/04/2023 5:47:04 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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11 posted on 04/04/2023 5:48:24 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Eagles6

They’re part of the same party. It wasn’t sitting on their thumbs, it was part of the uniparty plan.


12 posted on 04/04/2023 5:49:06 AM PDT by Codeflier (My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard.)
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To: Eagles6
The GOP's job is to give the appearance of a 2-party system, to mollify the masses.

Just like it's Biden's job to make a controlled demolition look like incompetence.


13 posted on 04/04/2023 5:51:33 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: logi_cal869

They really don’t teach history anymore - if communism is even taught it is very watered down. My boys were homeschooled and they are stunned at how little their friends know about history, especially the atrocities committed under communism.


14 posted on 04/04/2023 5:52:42 AM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: Eagles6

Linda Graham and the other RINO’s are too busy trying to get World War III started than to bother with such measly things as the destruction of the American Republic.


15 posted on 04/04/2023 5:54:22 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Travis McGee

Yep.


16 posted on 04/04/2023 6:01:25 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Codeflier

Yeah, I know, sadly.


17 posted on 04/04/2023 6:03:09 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Deo volente
Linda Graham and the other RINO’s are too busy trying to get World War III started than to bother with such measly things as the destruction of the American Republic.

They might want to start thinking about how Civil War II is going to get started.

What will be the straw that finally breaks the camels back?

18 posted on 04/04/2023 6:05:15 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s already happened but we feel since it’s not called”communism” it hasn’t happened yet. None essentials are crushed. The government decided which stores open and close, which churches, who can be helped in medicine, who dies and is castrated via Marge Sanger’s Planned Parenthood.

The farms and ranches are told what to grow and what to kill. The “science” of the climate is telling you you are mere carbons, worthless to the planet.
All hail the government that knows all, that feeds you, and clothes you from select few who is above and lives in gardens behind the walls.
All HAIL HAIL the daft. powerful effigy’s of greatness.

It’s been here awhile like Cyrus under the walls of Babylon and the people of the great city didn’t even know they were conquered...look at our Southern border and the fools running to a foreign border.
It’s all been here for three years.
Tell me what you can write and who you can write about. Who you can criticize without whispering or not saying it at all.
Show me we have no political prisoners of thought crimes.

Lord, please open the eyes of the fools to see the prison we are living.


19 posted on 04/04/2023 6:05:29 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Travis McGee

Two great posts! He could have had the name “Pretty Boy Joe”, back the.
Now he’s just an old pervert.


20 posted on 04/04/2023 6:13:16 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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