Hee, hee! How bipartisan of you!
Posted on 06/10/2010 7:02:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
On Monday, June 7, Nancy Pelosi was greeted by hecklers, who bordered on violence, as they began to throw items in the audience at a Washington conference for progressive activists. Only minutes after Pelosi began to speak, protesters attired in orange shirts began to shout over her. One of the protesters from Code Pink, an anti-war, pro-socialist group, shouted, “Stop funding Israel terror.”
CBS claims that the critics have “expressed anger and impatience with President Obama and the Democratic majority for failing to seemingly live up to their expectations and for failing to respond to progressives’ growing resentment.” Likewise, many in the Far Left have voiced opposition to Obama’s Supreme Court nominees, claiming that they are not liberal enough. Harsh criticism of Democrats by fringe left-wing groups have political analysts wondering, “Is there a civil war brewing in the Democratic Party?”
On yesterday’s episode of Glenn Beck, he outlined the argument that there is indeed a civil war brewing between the radical leftists and many Democrats. The extreme leftists in question are people like Jodie Evans of Code Pink and Van Jones, a self-proclaimed Marxist, and revolutionaries Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, former members of the domestic terrorist group “Weathermen.” These leftists have teamed up on liberal politicians like Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, Harry Reid, etc., who perhaps believed that they could rein in the extremists and meet their agenda halfway.
Slowly but surely, however, it is becoming evident that the Marxist revolutionaries are unwilling to compromise and are ready to throw their own political liberal allies overboard. Pelosi and company may find themselves in danger as they begin to be targeted for “betrayal” by the radicals who expected so much more from them.
Beck argues that radicals are the most dangerous when they detect that their reign is coming to an end. In the first two years of Obama’s presidency, with a Democratic majority, the progressives and radicals have enjoyed relative autonomy with little opposition to their agenda. Now, however, as it becomes clear that the Democrats will likely lose their majority in November, the extremists are radicalizing further.
On June 7, former SEIU President Andy Stern said, “American needs a 21st century economic plan because we now know the market-worshipping, privatizing, deregulating, dehumanizing American financial plan has failed and should never be revived, worshipping the market again. It has failed America and everyone that works here.” Of course, as Stern likely well knows, free markets haven't been allowed to work in the United states for years, and almost every bit of government "deregulation" came with boatloads of new government regulations, begetting the corruption and financial problems we now have.
It is language like Stern’s that truly reveals the radical Marxist agenda, especially as it mimics Marxist language. Marx wrote, “At a certain stage of their development, the material forces of production in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production … with the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed, in considering such transformations the distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production which can be determined with the precision of natural science and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out.” Marx is describing a fundamental transformation, and the way to bring about the transformation is to eradicate the enemy: capitalism and the free market.
Van Jones has admitted that he dropped his “radical pose” in favor of “radical ends.” Van Jones is the same man believed to have written the handbook for the Marxist group STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement). Just yesterday, at a conference for America’s Future Now, Jones declared, “This week will mark a historic inflection point when progressives decided to be progressives again in this country.” STORM’s handbook states, “STORM did have an agenda. We wanted to help lay the groundwork for a revolutionary period…. We could build strong organizations (and therefore power) in oppressed communities. We could promote revolutionary politics and ideas.”
In the announcement for the America’s Future Now conference, the website indicated that the conference will outline strategies to achieve the true progressive agenda and will create a “progressive majority that challenges both obstructionist Republicans and timid Democrats.”
And even as the federal government was declaring Tea Parties and Rush Limbaugh to be dangerously capable of inciting violence, an anonymous French group called the Invisible Committee published a book called The Coming Insurrection, a call to arms for a violent revolution to bring down capitalism. The movement started in France, spread to Greece (and we see how well that is working out), and found its way to the United States in August 2009.
The book declares, “Take up arms. Do everything possible to make their use unnecessary. There is no such thing as a peaceful insurrection. Weapons are necessary.” Also, “It’s a question of knowing how to fight, to pick locks, to set broken bones and treat sicknesses; how to build a pirate radio transmitter; how to set up street kitchens; how to aim straight.”
Not surprisingly, the Communist Party USA is also calling for a Marxist revolution. They’ve declared, “The main barrier to socialist transformation is the US state. The capitalist state must be dismantled or de-constructed and replaced by a proletarian state and socialist republic.”
Leftist groups against Obama have popped up on Facebook and LastFM. From June 17-20, Socialism 2010 will be holding a conference in Chicago, Illinois. The website for the event declares: “With the economy in shambles and with wars and occupations continuing, the challenge to change these conditions confronts us all. More than a year ago, millions placed their hopes in Barack Obama and the Democrats to solve these problems. But after months of broken promises and concessions to conservatives, jobs are scarce, health care reform is on life support, and full equality for LGBT people remains elusive. Socialism 2010 … will provide an unparalleled opportunity for new and veteran activists and scholars to explore questions about how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it.”
Clearly, the radicals do not believe Obama is the solution, despite his lean toward socialism and Marxism.
Determining which of the liberal politicians are in fact Marxist revolutionaries is a conundrum in some cases. Do people like Pelosi and Biden understand the movement within their own party, or are they blind to it? Do they seek a Marxist revolution? Americans need to do their homework to find out the truth.
What Americans need to realize, unfortunately, is that if the alleged “civil war” is taking place within the Democratic Party, the fate of the country may well be determined by the winner.
Here’s how. President Obama has been the most progressive President in American history — a quick overview of his 19 months in office proves it. As an example, if passed, the financial regulation bill will place 70 percent of the economy in government control. Freedom of speech and press and Internet freedom is under attack. American citizens are losing their rights of “habeas corpus.” The movement toward global government through American affiliation with the United Nations, Council of Foreign Relations, and the International Monetary Fund is underway. Yet, the radicals are not happy. Why? Because they seek a revolution — a Marxist revolution. If the radicals win the “civil war,” all bets are off.
The question remains: Is there a civil war brewing within the Democratic Party? It is likely that the answer will soon reveal itself.
Circular firing squad.
Yeah? Well when we start shooting back, we'll see just deep their beliefs run. These commies think all they have to do is bring down the government. They had better be more concerned about us. The irony is that the current government is much more to their way of thinking.
If these people push this country into civil war, they will be very surprised at the strength of the sleeping dragon they will have awakened.
Just imagine how whacked you’d have to be to consider Pelosi not left enough.
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See my tagline.
I mean, some of them republicans are rinos, don't you know?
Also, some don't brush their teeth, and even (I hear say) some pass gas in public.
There are no nominees that mirror my thoughs and principles to the T.
So, I guess I will, and justly so, rebel.
Besides, it is better to go ahead and let this country crumble and destroy itself.
Then, then people will finally wise up and see what I was talking about, and bring this country around,....to my way of thinking.
Does that just about cover all the bases or did I leave some out?
There is a civil war brewing in the country.
> In the interests of common ground, I believe we can all agree that President Obama is doing a lousy job.
If he worked for me and his performance was this bad I’d fire him.
I’d say he works for the citizens of America, but in this case that isn’t quite right. He works for himself.
The good news is, these people are getting pretty long in the tooth, and IMO Obama was their “last best hope” before they take a well-deserved dirt nap.
Oh, I don't know. He rarely misreads his teleprompter.
“The radicals are getting scared. They see their window of opportunity closing.”
I hope that is true. But we can’t stop with winning an election or two. We have to clean out the government bureacracies, the universities, the ACLU and the media. . . .literally hunt them down with dogs and hang them where we find them. There shoud be no place for them to hide because they have almost destroyed the most free and virtuous nation on earth.
But it’s not very civil.
Interesting strategy. Just who are they planning on turning those weapons on? Do they think that some sort of urban insurrection will lead the revolution? This BS doesn't sound like much of a plan to me.
Just off the top of my head I can think of about a dozen quick, cheap and easy solutions to the problem of a commie revolution in America.
Exactly. Who knows what “National Emergency” may arise giving BO no other choice but to suspend the ‘10 elections and declare Martial Law??
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I don’t think the nomenklatura would survive in the wake of such declarations.
In a supreme irony, the left would go the way of the Czarists.
This is exactly what is happening. Obama has a problem. When Obama-care passed the progressives who hated it temporarily lined up behind Obama for beating Republicans, you know the horse race syndrome. But it didnt last. Now they are madder than hell and the list grows: Obama-care, oil drilling, cap and trade, immigration, Senator Lincoln(10 M$ union campaign with Obama lecturing them) , Israel.... They know they will lose in November and are livid Obama is not using his power to ram more things through. I know this sounds odd to many here but not to me. In November democrats need to get out the base voters and right now the rats are shooting each other on the sinking ship.
I have to admit it that I love watching it. I always told you :"Democrats could not survive without Bush"
Just a few thoughts:
1) If the economy stays stagnant, the Dems are toast. Odds are it will (unfortunately) simply because our Dear Leader’s policies will not enable a weakened economy to grow.
2) Remember, 50% of Americans are fools. Half of America was so distressed over the economic turndown in late 2008 that they were willing to give up more liberty and freedom to a Marxist, simply to save their 401K. If they were that stupid once, they still are.
3) No matter what happens between now and November, you can bet the Dem voters will be back on the plantation and vote straight party ticket.
“...now the rats are shooting each other...”
Gee, what beautiful imagery you paint...made my day thinking of it.
No. It is all an act.
” “...now the rats are shooting each other...”
Gee, what beautiful imagery you paint...made my day thinking of it.”
Too bad it isn’t “literally”
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