Posted on 05/05/2007 11:45:23 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
Are American Democrats De Facto Socialists? by Lee Ellis Date: May 4, 2007
The only way to conquer a nation is to infiltrate its institutions and churches with strong, left-leaning indoctrination, advised the founder of modern socialism. FSM Contributing Editor Lee Ellis explores the methods by which current DNC leaders have morphed into unabashed Socialists. You can’t afford to ignore this stunning report.
Are American Democrats De Facto Socialists?
By Lee Ellis
Many people who love America and the values it has established over the years have written to me, expressing great concern about the sudden spiraling down of our nation. They ask how we could now be staring at the Socialist preparation to take over our nation, and they wonder how we ever could have arrived at such a sad place.
Yes, it is sad, but let’s review some history to help us understand how we came to allow de facto Socialists, for the first time in American history, to be the majority vote in the United States Congress. It would do us well to reexamine the teachings of Antonio Gramsci who was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy. He, and the early Socialists, believed that the only way to conquer the philosophy of a country like America was not to battle in the streets, but to infiltrate our schools, universities, institutions and churches with strong, left-leaning rhetoric and indoctrination. Do this and America as we know and love it, eventually, would fall.
But he didn’t stop there. “Gramsci…argued for a strategic distinction between a "war of position" and a "war of movement”. The war of position is a culture war in which anti-capitalist elements seek to gain a dominant voice in mass media, mass organizations, and educational institutions to heighten class consciousness, teach revolutionary analysis and theory, and inspire revolutionary organization. Following the success of the war of position, communist leaders would be empowered to begin the war of movement, the actual insurrection against capitalism [emphasis mine], with mass support.”
One can see this vision unfolding before our eyes in America today, and it is all the more worrisome that, concurrently, Russian President Vladimir Putin, a man who believes the fall of the Soviet Union was “the geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”, has become increasingly more aggressive in his verbal attacks against America. But I digress.
The Socialist followers of Gramsci did infiltrate their philosophy into many of our proud institutions over the past decades and, today, flabbergasting examples abound on a daily basis. Thus we have universities that now have produced lawyers and journalists who have bought into and helped to sell the ideals of the far left. We have lawmakers who vote for destructive socialist programs and legislation in the areas of health care, education, civil liberties, free speech and more.
As another example, the organization known as "National Council of Churches" seems to aid and abet them. According to www.discoverthenetworks.org, “At its founding in 1950, the New York City-based National Council of Churches (NCC) absorbed its predecessor, the communist front-group known as the Federal Council of Churches. At one time an overt supporter of the communist cause, NCC has today recast itself as a leading representative of the "religious Left." It claims a membership of 35 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Christian denominations, and some 50 million members in over 140,000 congregations.”
Socialists also learned that they could help to lower the standards of education - which would allow them to create a public that lacked knowledge of history, geography and civics - and therefore could be manipulated easily by liberal media; and also of morality, which would drive religion out of the country as they have been so successful in doing throughout Europe. They decided to name this new operation, “Political Correctness.”
“To attempt to point out the odious nature of Political Correctness is to re-state the crucial importance of plain speaking, freedom of choice and freedom of speech; these are the communities’ safeguards against the imposition of tyranny, indeed their absence [emphasis mine] is tyranny”, according to Philip Atkinson, author of “A Study of Our Decline.”
But do you know what? Uncle Sam sat back and let them do this after WWII. The result was that Americans and their government were taught by Socialist-dominated schools, churches and institutions always to tolerate everything, that there are no differences between men and women, that it is harmful to compete, that we should never judge others, that all corporate enterprises are based on greed, that capitalism is inherently bad and that we have to learn to accept other philosophies of life, including those of countries in Europe and around the world that are clearly and utterly inferior to ours.
Even our courts used European Constitutions to try to color and change ours. Our Supreme Court also usurped some of the duties of the Legislative branch; it even stopped the presidential use of the line item veto, thus allowing our deficit to build. And with vicious, unrelenting and oftentimes scurrilous and specious attacks (before the cameras), our Congress has weakened the very Office of the Presidency.
Disgusted with the outrageous success of their own country’s economic basis, capitalism, Socialists understood that they could not destroy the America we love by economic programs. Rather, they decided to fight the battle in a more covert way. They have used massive immigration, multi-culturalism and political correctness to brainwash our children, indeed our society, into turning this once-thoroughly unique and proud nation into the mess we see today, destined to become Socialist by nature because of its changing, and soon to be inherent, population demographics and proclivities.
We have let some Socialists get elected to Congress, some by masquerading either as Democrats or RINOs (Republicans in Name Only); we have also let them infiltrate Hollywood, replacing great American actors and directors who fought for this country in WWII and who made great patriotic films to help us win that war. Now the films, including TV dramas, are directed, produced and acted by staunch Leftists. This “entertainment” has helped subtly to disseminate Socialist (and Communist) messages to Americans, has greatly lowered youth standards of behavior and responsibility, and ultimately, has helped the terrorist regime come close to defeating us. Perhaps we misjudged Senator Joe McCarthy.
Yes, America’s conservatives are losing the war of public relations and mass communication without realizing that verbal and mental ammunition is far stronger and more deadly than the bombs and bullets of all other wars. While we won against Saddam Hussein through our military power, the terrorists have boasted that they have been able keep Iraq unstable through fear and effective use of the media ---theirs and ours! Beyond the complicity of al-Jazeera, Osama Bin Laden himself has said he will win this war in the American media, not on the battlefield.
This frightening concept is underscored by James Q Wilson in his article, The Press at War, “whenever a foreign enemy challenges us, he will know that his objective will be to win the battle not on some faraway bit of land but among the people who determine what we read and watch. We…are in danger of losing in Iraq…in the newspapers, magazines and television programs we enjoy.”
Hitler and Castro took over their countries with hypnotic words. Now we are losing our battles because we let our children be taught by our own "madrassas" where ultra left wing professors rail on about how America and conservative values are the cause for all the woe in the world. We are so naive and uninformed that we actually finance this subversive “education”, including the professors’ salaries, with high tuitions paid for from our own wallets or purses and through American taxes as well!
Other very large democracies, such as India, are having similar problems as this new form of intellectual and emotional warfare escalates, outdoing the old form of bullet warfare. A combination of terrorism and verbal manipulation through schools, universities, churches, media and entertainment work as a powerful, toxic force to mix fear and brainwashing together so that this clever propaganda can conquer powerful nations in the 21st century without one bullet fired.
How? This is the frightening part of it: once these verbal bombs explode amongst us and then are disseminated by television, radio and newspapers, many of our people are infected and, in turn, become deadly carriers of this disinformation to others via word-of-mouth at coffee breaks, in the workplace, in our universities, over the back yard fence, in letters to the liberal press, in e-mails on the internet and more. This virus also shows its results in the voting booths. We almost saw Gore or Kerry win the presidency in the elections of 2000 or 2004, and many tell us now that Hillary Clinton, who wants to socialize, and thus destroy, our world-renowned and -revered American medical and health care system, could be our president in 2008.
The intensity of this plague has increased to such an extent that we may see our beloved Republic turn into a plain democracy where we no longer use the Electoral College, thus causing the people in the Heartland to lose their votes, as only Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Detroit always would decide who will occupy the White House as a new President of the USA! We could even become a Socialist nation starting in 2008, depending on whom we elect. With the polls now showing that the seesaw has tilted slightly in favor of the Left (if one can believe the polls), is it too late to save our nation?
Not if we, who love what our forefathers founded, emulate the American spirit at Concord that fired the shot heard ‘round the world. This proud spirit can spread and counteract any leftist propaganda if we really make an effort to show it and get others to do so, too. But -- we are running out of time. The 2008 elections are just around the corner and we are now truly staring at the Socialist preparation to take over our nation.
Can we really wake up to what is happening to us and once again build up our grass roots to take back our nation? Can you speak up? Can you write letters? Can you meet with your representatives?
Can we save this Republic of ours? We shall soon have this answer.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and radio narrator, formerly a Vice President with both CBS and Gannett (USA Weekend). He is also a combat veteran of WWII, having fought in the South Pacific invasions. He can be contacted at indiolee@dc.rr.com.
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Re: The article.
Duh. Ya think? Barbara Boxer is more than a socialist. I’m sure she carries a manifesto where ever she goes.
“We Must replace balance of power politics with world order politics” Jimmy Carter
[The Major Goal of the Clinton Administration is] “the remaking of the American way of politics, government, indeed, life....Let us be willing to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the late 20th century, moving into the new millennium”
Hillary Clinton
Quigley’s book can hold up a coffee table or car with a wheel missing. Had to read it in college, years ago. Did you know that Professor Quigley is a friend and has a big fan in William Jefferson “Bubba” “Willie Boy” Clinton?
Talk about a “no-brainer”!
Not as long as hearts beat with idealistic fervor
Not as long as grown men tremble at the sound of the national anthem
Not as long as young warriors say, "Here am I"
Not as long as we teach our children the Superman motto, "Truth, Justice and the American way
Not as long as we can look on our little boys and girls and dream great dreams for them and truly expect them to be fulfilled
Not as long as we remember and enact "From my cold, dead hands"
naw...you mean this Billy Bubba Clinton....?? :) What a tangled web we are in.........
“As a teenager I heard John Kennedy’s summons to citizenship. And then, as a student at Georgetown, I heard that call clarified by a professor I had named Carroll Quigley, who said America was the greatest country in the history of the world because our people have always believed in two great ideas: first, that tomorrow can
be better than today, and second, that each of us has a personal, moral responsibility to make it so.”—Bill Clinton, “A New Covenant” (Clinton and Gore, 1992: 231)
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol1/v1_n1.php
bttt
That’s the guy.
Of Special Interest: Carroll Quigley and Bill Clinton
[http://www.draftymanor.com/bart/h_quigle.htm]
While doing research on the Web for this essay, I found a remarkable article by David Wilkinson of UCLA. We know the facts: Bill Clinton was a student of Carroll Quigley, considered him one of his two most influential professors at Georgetown, praised Quigley in his first nomination speech, and read The Evolution of Civilizations again in 1994 (if a review of that book on Amazon.com by a Clinton associate is to be believed).
Given these facts, Wilkinson asks the obvious question: How much of what Quigley taught was put into practice by his student, Bill Clinton, when that student became President of the United States?
Wilkinson’s article addresses that question up to 1995. It is a somewhat long but absolutely fascinating bit of writing, with insights into not only Clinton but Quigley as well. My “bias” antennae were fully extended, but I found Wilkinson’s discussion to be fair, objective, grounded in facts, and even funny in places.
It should be added that this article is written at a fairly high level of erudition. But if you’re willing to accept the occasional Buckleyisms (such as “praxis” and “oikumene”), you’ll be rewarded. There is some really first-class thinking and communication here, and I encourage anyone interested in seeing historical analysis put into action (or not, as their political beliefs may incline them) to take the time to read this piece.
You can read Wilkinson’s article here [http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol1/v1_n1.php]. The full title is: “From Mesopotamia through Carroll Quigley to Bill Clinton: World Historical Systems, the Civilizationist, and the President”.
Yes, Democrats are socialists. So are a great many Republicans.
just found it about the same time you did....:) rock and roll, interesting times ahead, especially in Kosovo.
“Hitler Said It Best”
“When an opponent declares,
‘I will not come over to your side.’
I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already…
What are you? You will pass on.
Your descendants, however,
now stand in the new camp.
In a short time they will know nothing
else but this new community.’”
~ Adolf Hitler
“Each day I am reminded that the collectivist agenda behind public ‘schooling’ is not a myth, and that it has accomplished more of its goals than we would want to believe.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/taylor/taylor13.html
self bump to read when I get home
ping
Is the Pope Catholic?
With so many RINOs willing to grovel for scraps from their totalitarian masters
I think a very important point is being missed. Namely, there is an advantage to EVERY politician in BOTH major political parties to foster a socialist agenda.
Keep in mind that wherever there is a socialist/communist form of government there is also a very privileged elitest class that lives a very, very rich lifestyle completely unchecked from examination.
It has been very damaging to this agenda to have a huge swelling of home ownership and standard of living improvement among the ‘masses’ during the past several decades. Massive immigration is the ‘friend’ of ALL politicians because, if and when a credit implosion occurs, socialism, driven by politicians of BOTH parties will step into the breach. Having the ‘masses’ undereducated and all living in pretty much the same economic condition is a great benefit to ALL politicians because it insures their positions in the elitest class.
[The Major Goal of the Clinton Administration is] “the remaking of the American way of politics, government, indeed, life....Let us be willing to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the late 20th century, moving into the new millennium”
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This shows, to any sane person, what an HUGE DANGER these socialists are to American life, freedom, and INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY. They are totally against anything but a state-controlled existence, run by them of course...they are power mad, and absolute enemies of the American Constitutional Republic. They MUST be stopped.
Good post devolve, think the lettering on that is new!
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