Reagan Revolution 2.0: Burying Communism for Good

American Thinker ^ | 6 Dec, 2024 | D. Parker

[MtnClimber]

The time has come for the new Trump team to think about big ideas for a brighter future for mankind.

It’s always been a perennial lie of the political left to falsely claim they’re all about fresh ideas, bringing in “new” winds of change, and that communism has never really been tried before. Anyone with a passing familiarity with history knows that’s a colossal pile of B.S., but if they can bluff their way along, they can hawk their societal slavery once again. The strains of collectivist control of the economy were in the cards in the last election, and if they had won, they would be crowing about how we’re all commies now.

Thankfully they lost, and they lost “bigly,” given the long odds with the national socialist media and every leftist celebrity on their side, so now is the time to take a good hard look at the damage their genocidal dreams have wrought upon humanity over 400 years and finally declare enough is enough. It’s time to make the case for burying these collective ideologies for good.

Our headline harkens back to the 1980s; back then it was President Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher setting the communism of the old USSR and the Warsaw Pact on a path of destruction. The problem is that like roaches after atomic testing, leftists will come back propagandizing that the same ancient ideas are brand spanking new, untried, and untested, so there’s a good chance they’ll “work” this time even though they’ve failed, untold times before. Recall the Cold War boast of Nikita Khrushchev from 1956: “Whether you like it or not. History is on our side. We will bury you!”

We now know that history isn’t on their side

[MtnClimber]

This should be the goal.

[MtnClimber]

We now know that history isn’t on their side, we also know that there is a very high cost to humanity with their Utopian fantasies. Fantasies that can never work, but always end with a mountain of corpses.

[Thorium90]

That Chevron decision to neutralize the communist alphabet agencies should be a priority. Make the Congress do their job of legislation and stop deferring to the “experts” who usually are nothing more than paid off, compromised hacks.

Chevron was HUGE! This administration should take full advantage. That alone gives power back to the people.

Strictly adhere to the Constitution and Bill of Rights, take the regulatory chains off the people, and the rest will take care of itself.

I miss the Gipper! Reagan and Iron Lady Thatcher made the world a better place for sure.

[Steely Tom]

Communism will never be “buried,” any more than entropy will ever be “buried.” They are the same thing.

[DeplorablePaul]

Red China and its domestic puppets are the real threat to America. We’re one election away from disaster. Hopefully the Trump era can be extended to flush out the communist infiltration within our society.

[Openurmind]

But perspectives about reality are important going forward. This is just a positive beginning. There is still a huge Mountain to climb before we can claim we conquered that Mountain. And overconfidence can be our own downfall. It can lead us right into an ambush. It will require prudent and productive efforts to win this war. And it is not going to happen overnight. Reality is, all we can hope to do is reverse the machine in the next four years, it will take many steps and decades to actually summit that Mountain.

[Openurmind]

“We’re one election away from disaster. Hopefully the Trump era can be extended to flush out the communist infiltration within our society.”

Unfortunately you are absolutely right. One baby step at a time. This is the first step of many. We must first learn to walk before we can learn to run.

[caddie]

In a lot of ways, I agree with you in that Communism like crabgrass, B.O., and athlete's foot, will always be with us. Communism appeals to jealousy, greed, laziness, treachery, licentiousness, and other major vices. The appeal is strong, as is the human propensity for these things.

But my "Ashcan of History" optimism stems from this: When people see the natural conclusion of Communism, its death camps, its slavery, its dehumanization, its nihilism, which we ALL have seen this past century, people generally are wise enough to think about turning away from it.

This is an advantage we have now with a somewhat better informed populace and a religious revival emerging.

[aquila48]

“Reagan Revolution 2.0: Burying Communism for Good”

Not a chance! The difference between those on the right (conservatives) and those on the left (radicals}, is that conservatives look at an imperfect world and try to make the best of it using lessons learned through the millenia, while radicals look at the same world, see it full of injustices (inequalities to them) and want to blow up the status quo and replace it with their latest version of utopia.

I’m convinced there is a genetic basis for this difference, that’s why these two groups have existed throughout history and will continue to exist.

[aspasia]

I’m convinced there is a genetic basis for this difference

Unless you can explain that, consider yourself liking the radical side.

[MikelTackNailer]

[Steely Tom]

In a lot of ways, I agree with you in that Communism like crabgrass, B.O., and athlete's foot, will always be with us. Communism appeals to jealousy, greed, laziness, treachery, licentiousness, and other major vices. The appeal is strong, as is the human propensity for these things.

Yes, exactly. You've got it. Communism is just a package for human failings, like sloth and envy and the others you listed, made to look like an enlightened system of government. It fools only the stupid and those ignorant of history.

In no other system of thought are "useful idiots" an integral — perhaps even essential — component.

[caddie]

This is a great meme. For a great essay on what a lazy, unbathing, smelly, carbuncled, skanky, dirtbag Marx actually was, the late great Paul Johnson’s book, Intellectuals, is really good.