Posted on 09/01/2014 7:03:12 AM PDT by kindred
A preferred ploy of left-wing change agents is to ridicule critics when they point out the undeniable parallels between the goals of todays progressive movement, to include the Democratic Party in general, and the goals of the early, and very much still alive, communist movement.
If, for instance, one mentions the historical fact that nearly every adult who, at any time, was in any position of influence over a young, soon-to-be-radicalized Barry Soetoro was an avowed communist, to include his own parents, then one is immediately mocked and dismissed as a neo-McCarthyite hack pining for the bygone days of the Red Scare. This is an evasive, ad hominem strategy employed by those who are caught, for lack of a better word, red-handed.
To all this I say, if the jackboot fits, wear it. If it quacks like a commie and goose-steps like a commie, then a commie it is.
There are multiple layers within progressivisms pseudo-utopian, truly dystopian Marxist philosophy. The lefts lust for redistributionist statism is well-known. Less understood, however, is the progressive rush toward cultural Marxism.
Cultural Marxism entails, among other things, that secularist aspect of left-wing statist ideology that seeks, within society, to supplant traditional values, norms and mores with postmodern moral relativism. Cultural Marxists endeavor to scrub America of her Judeo-Christian, constitutional-republican founding principles, and take, instead, a secular-statist Sharpie to our beloved U.S. Constitution.
Historian and U.S. military affairs expert William S. Lind describes cultural Marxism as a branch of western Marxism, different from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known as multiculturalism or, less formally, Political Correctness. From its beginning, the promoters of cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence the use of terms such as multiculturalism.
Pastor, attorney and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively is globally admired by liberty-loving traditionalists. Conversely, hes universally reviled by cultural Marxists. He drills down a bit deeper: Cultural Marxism is a variation of the Marxist strategy to build a utopian socialist order on the ashes of Christian civilization, but through subversion of the moral culture, especially the elimination of the natural family, rather than solely through destruction of capitalism.
True though this may be, the ideological seeds of contemporary cultural Marxism nonetheless sprout from deep within the dead soil of historical communism. It is not economic redistributionism alone through which progressives seek to both fundamentally transform America and otherwise conquer the world, but, rather, and perhaps primarily, it is also through victory over the pejoratively tagged social issues (i.e., the sanctity of marriage, natural human sexuality and morality, ending the abortion holocaust, religious liberty, the Second Amendment and the like).
This is neither speculative nor hyperbolic. Both the historical record and the U.S. Congressional Record bear out this sinister reality. Regrettably, todays low-information voters as Rush Limbaugh calls them to include the useful idiots within the GOPs moderate and libertarian wings are simply too lazy, shortsighted or both to learn the facts.
Surrender on the social issues! demands the GOPs cultural Marxist-enabling kamikazes.
In 1963, U.S. Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., read into the Congressional Record a list of Current Communist Goals as enumerated by Dr. Cleon Skousen in The Naked Communist, penned in 1958. I encourage you to read the whole list, but for now lets focus on those goals that most closely align with the seditious agenda of Americas progressive movement. Its actually most of them. Though Herlong was a Democrat, the list reads like todays Democratic Party Platform.
How far has fallen the party of the jackass: Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist [or, today, Islamic] affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist [or Islamic] domination. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. Do away with all loyalty oaths. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. (An American Communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.) Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural, healthy. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a religious crutch. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principal of separation of church and state. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the big picture. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. Internationalize the Panama Canal. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
If achieving these specific communist goals was the final progressive step toward the larger goal of securing communist governance in America, then, tragically, progressives have realized that larger goal.
Look around. We are no longer the United States of America. We have become The Communist States of America.
Which means, for those who love liberty, revolution is once again at hand.
“It was like an elastic band snapping all the way from 1992,” Fife shakily admitted, upon recall of the exact moment he realized the Communist official had been telling the truth. “It was a very, very scary feeling.”
Fife, a physicist and computer engineer, had been traveling to Russia for a joint venture with a state-owned company when the shocking revelation was revealed to him. After several business meetings, Fife and his partner were invited to the company owner’s home at the end of the journey for a farewell dinner.
The owner’s wife was a Communist Party official and was “climbing two ladders”, as Fife puts it, one ladder being the KGB and the other being the traditional Russian society and business ladder. As the evening wore on, the female Communist official became increasingly agitated over a perceived slight and her emotions spilled over.
“You Americans like to think you’re so perfect!” she snarled. “Well, what if I told you that very, very soon you’re going to have a black president… and he’s going to be a Communist!”
The KGB operative was not finished. As she had now dropped this bombshell on the entire gathering, she felt compelled to continue.
“His name is Barack,” she sneered. “His mother is white and his father is an African black. He has gone to the best schools, he is what you would call ‘Ivy League’.”
Fife recalls being stunned and shocked at the words flowing from the Communist’s mouth as she continued to rattle off an incredibly precise set of details about this Communist operative who was to supposedly become president of the United States.
The Communist official then stated that he was from Hawaii, but would very soon be elected to the Chicago state legislature. This has turned out to be an eerily prescient prediction, as Barack Obama was not elected State Senator until 1996, a full 4 years afterwards, as he took Alice Palmer’s seat.
In 1992, Obama had recently graduated from Harvard Law School and accepted a position as a Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.
Perhaps the most shocking revelation is how deep the Soviet Communist network has embedded itself into American political and educational culture. A quick review of Obama’s political “career” shows a track that wasinexplicably greased, from his tuition payments at Columbia and Harvard, to a position at UOC Law School, to his eventual electoral “victories” at the Illinois State Senate, United States Senate, and U.S. Presidency.
Barack Obama’s parents ostensibly met in a Russian language class. This could have been where his mother was recruited by Barack Obama Sr, who could have already been working undercover for the KGB.
In order to brainwash the child from an early age, they surrounded him with diehard Communists and fellow KGB agents, such as Frank Marshall Davis, a known Communist Party USA official. The Soviet KGB directly funded the CPUSA. This would fit directly into what the Russian Communist said about ‘Barack’, boasting “He has been raised to be an atheist and a communist.”
“He will be a blessing for world communism,” Fife recalled her saying, after getting over the initial shock of hearing the current president was a KGB agent.
The creepy prediction stayed with the physicist upon his return to the United States, although he paid it no mind until he began to hear of an swiftly rising political star named Barack Obama. When Fife learned that this same Barack was running in the 2008 presidential election, everything snapped into place and he knew he had to tell someone.
Today, Fife admits that it deeply disturbs him and that he has never been able to shake the ominous feeling of foreboding about what comes next, now that the KGB official’s prediction has come true.
“It never leaves you, having someone tell you that they’ve engineered the takeover of your country,” he admits. “It’s really quite scary.”
The DemocratsNational Socialists, and FASCIST Obama are DOING IT ON PURPOSE!!!!
I can’t disagree with anything you say in this post.
It seems probably the grandparents were “liberal” in their POV, since otherwise it’s unlikely, at the time, that Gramps would have been close friends with any black man, much less a commie black man.
However, there seems to be a dearth of evidence as to the grandparents political activities, which, given the last few years of people searching for it, probably indicates that they weren’t very politically active at all.
Mom was obviously leftist, but that’s pretty different from being an “avowed Communist.” Given her her marital and employment history, she seems to have been more of a multiculturalist and ethnomasochist than Communist as such. Very common in her time and group.
There were (and are) lots and lots of Red Diaper Babies out there, some of whom later became leaders in the fight against Communism. But Stanley Ann does not seem to be among them.
“The question begs, where is the Counter List to restore Liberty ans strengthen us? “
I’d suggest that the Declaration of Independence is a good counter-list to the communist goals. Yes?
We can move from there onto Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” pamphlet.
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Are you stuck in Plato’s cave?
“Ive never seen any, but I wont claim it cant exist.”
This has been a very weird thread for me.
Someone says, “X is Y.”
I reply, that’s interesting. I didn’t know that. Do you have evidence that it’s true?
And then I get accused of defending X, or of saying that X is NOT Y. Which is not what I said at all.
Then links are posted about how X used to be friends with someone who was Y, or (weirdest of all) X went to high school in a school district where the chairman of the school board used to be Y, but had repented. What possible relevance does that have to whether X was Y?
If I smell smoke and see flames, I reach for the fire extinguisher. I don’t put my face in the flames looking for proof.
“This has been a very weird thread for me.”
What can I say, FRiend?
Go to Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Watch the crabs try to climb out of the bucket. Maybe you can discover Shunryu Suzuki’s enlightenment. Good luck.
Good idea.
true sign of mental illness - can’t expect anything healthy out of very sick people.
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