Kerry/Edwards slogans are borrowed from Communists

"One America -- middle-class America - whose needs Washington has long forgotten"

Maybe I've forgotten my history, but didn't the Dems have lock-stock control of the government from 92-94? Both houses and the WH? How is it that utopia didn't come to fruition? How is that America flatly rejected their leadership? How is that in only 4 years we can 'ruin' America...

If GWB and the Republican congress are such a failure:
How is it that first time jobless claims are lower than when Clinton left office?
How is it that this failed leadership has produced an economy with more working Americans than EVER BEFORE?
How is that the mean and median wages are higher than EVER BEFORE?
How is that 2 terrorist regimes have been deposed, and another has capitulated without a shot?

Yes there is much work to be done, but this administration has not failed America. And to say that they have spits in the face of all those who have worked so hard over the last 3 years to rebuild and protect this great nation.

No, but Harpo Marx did.

Wow, knock me over with a feather, there are marxists in the Democratic camp.

There are fellow travelers in both parties. They may not realize what they are doing but the graduated income tax was a very progressive idea that is part of the communist religion, ala Karl Marx.

Free countries do not have such tax structures.

May 22nd, 1967 is a great day to celebrate.

Funny how those who try to vilify others often fit the description of 'The Evil One' themselves.

The Two Americas

James P. Cannon

Delivered: 1948

Source: Fighting for Socialism in the “American Century”;

Reprinted from The Militant, New York, July 12, 1948. ©

Resistance Books 2001 Published by Resistance Books 23

Abercrombie St, Chippendale NSW 2008, Permission for

on-line publication provided by Resistance Books for

use by the James P. Cannon Internet Archive in 2003.

Transcription\HTML Markup: David Walters

The following keynote address was delivered on July 1, 1948

to the 13th National Convention of the Socialist Workers

Party. It was broadcast live by the American Broadcasting

System over a nationwide network. It was published

in the Militant, July 12, 1948.

Comrade chairman, delegates and friends:

We meet in national convention at a time of the gravest

world crisis—a crisis which contains the direct threat of a

third and more terrible world war. The basic causes of this

world crisis are no mystery.

The first cause is the breakdown of capitalism throughout

Europe—and Asia—and the colonial lands. The working people

want peace and bread, which capitalism cannot give. The colonial

slaves don’t want to be slaves any more—and capitalism

cannot live without colonial slaves. The working people, the poor

peasants and the colonial slaves are in revolt against the

continued rule of bankers and landlords.

On the other hand, American capitalism—the last solvent

stronghold of an outlived and doomed world system—is trying

to prop up the hated regimes of capitalists and kings and

landlords by economic pressure and military force.

These are the two main elements of the present world

crisis.

The Wall Street money-sharks, and the brass hats of

Prussian mentality, are riding high in Washington these days. The

masters of America, drunk with power, are threatening and terrifying

the people of the world—seeking to dominate and enslave

them—striving to transform the other countries of the world

into colonies of the American empire.

Their program is a program of madness, and it is doomed to

failure. The great majority of the peoples of the world

do not want to be slaves of America. That is

to their credit and we applaud them for it. The

attempt to enslave them would be profitable only for the

small group of monopolists—and the military caste, who dream

of careers as colonial administrators of conquered peoples.

But the criminal adventure would encounter such ferocious

resistance that the American people at home would have to

pay an enormous cost in living standards ruined by inflation,

in the stamping out of democracy by military rule. And

America’s young sons would have to pay in misery, blood

and death. The American people would be among the first

victims of the insane campaign of American imperialism to conquer

and enslave the world.

To avoid this calamity it is necessary now to show

the people of the world the other America. For there

are two Americas—and millions of the people already distinguish between them.

One is the America of the imperialists—of the little clique

of capitalists, landlords, and militarists who are threatening and terrifying

the world. This is the America the people of the

world hate and fear.

There is the other America—the America of the workers and

farmers and the “little people”. They constitute the great

majority of the people. They do the work of the country.

They revere its old democratic traditions—its old record of

friendship for the people of other lands, in their struggles

against kings and despots—its generous asylum once freely granted

to the oppressed.

This is the America which must and will solve the world

crisis—by taking power out of the hands of the little

clique of exploiters and parasites, and establishing a

government of workers and farmers. The workers’ and

farmers’ government will immediately proceed to change

things fundamentally -

Throw out the profit and rent hogs, and increase the living

standards of the people who do the useful work.

Assure freedom and democratic rights to all, not forgetting

those who are denied any semblance of them now.

Call back the truculent admirals from the seven seas—and

ground the airplanes with their dangling bombs.

Hold out the hand of friendship and comradely help to the

oppressed and hungry people in the world.

These people don’t want to fight anybody. They only want to

live. There are two billion people in the world—and more

than half of them don’t get enough to eat. These people

should be helped—not threatened, not driven back into slavery,

under the social system that has kept half of them

hungry all their lives.

It is well to recall now that America was born of

revolution in 1776, and secured its unity as a nation

through another revolution—the Civil War—which smashed

the abomination of chattel slavery in the process. Our

great, rich, wonderful country was once the light and

the hope of the world. But our America has fallen

into the hands of a small, selfish group, who are trying to

dominate the world—and to set up a police state at home.

These Wall Street money-sharks are just as foreign to the

real America as were the despots who ruled the land

before the revolution of 1776. They are just as foreign

as were the traffickers in human flesh and blood—the slave

owners—whose power was broken by the Civil War—the

blessed second American revolution. These imperialist rulers of America are

the worst enemies of the American people.

American democracy, under their rule, is slipping away. The

fear that oppressed Mark Twain, the fear that America would

lose its democracy, is steadily becoming a reality. The Taft-Hartley

Law is but the most recent instance of this ominous

trend. The divine right of kings has reappeared in America—disguised

as the divine right of judges to issue injunctions and

levy fines against labour organisations.

Only three years have passed since the imperialists

finished the last slaughter. And now they are drafting the

youth for another. Militarism is becoming entrenched in America.

Militarism—so long synonymous with goose-stepping Prussianism—is now

to be made synonymous with Americanism, if big business has

its way. A large section of the sturdy immigrants who

helped to build this country came here to escape militarism.

Now their grandsons face the same brutal regimentation here.

All this is part and parcel of the development of

capitalism—the system which puts profits above all other

considerations. The capitalist system has long outlived its usefulness. Capitalism

offers no future to the people but depressions, imperialist wars,

fascism, universal violence and a final plunge into barbarism.

To avoid such a fate, the workers of the United States must

go into politics on their own account, independent of all

capitalist politics. They must take power, establish a workers’ and

farmers’ government and reorganise the economy of the country on

a socialist basis. Socialist economy in the United States, eliminating

capitalist wars, profits and waste, will be so productive as

to ensure a rich living for all who are willing

and able to work, and provide security and ample means

for the aged and infirm.,p. We should also help the hungry people of the world to

improve their standard of life. Socialist America will rapidly make

that possible by helping them to secure their own freedom and

develop their own economy. Eventually, the economy of the entire

world will be united and planned on a socialist basis.

This will bring universal peace—and undreamed of abundance for all

people everywhere. The real upward march of humanity will

begin.

The American working class can open up the way to this new

world. They are the majority. They have the power in

America. All that is necessary is for the working class

to understand it—and to use it.

We firmly believe they will do so. We firmly believe the

real America—the America of the workers, the people—will

help save the world by saving herself.

We, the American Trotskyists—we, the national convention of

the Socialist Workers Party, summon our America to her great destiny—not

as conqueror but as liberator of the world.

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Trotsky was the hair guy, can't beat this.

Kerry has the trotskys.

Looks like Brezhnev didn't give back any of his medals.

Did Karl Marx have good hair?
Who cares, he's dead. Dead commies, that's all we care about

"Dead commies,
Dead commies,
Dead commies aren't much fun..."

Dr. Demento fans will understand.

Now I know where Bug Eyed Earl comes from!! It figures that he is the front page character on RED Meat.

My commies died, late last fall...
Once great fans of the Berlin wall...
Dead Commies aren't much fun...whoah whoah whoah!

The actual link:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110005340