Watch this prescient video and ask yourself "where was everyone while the conquest was well underway in America?
Judging from its own dismal track record, communism had been one of the most detrimental "isms" in human history.
Alas, so many fellow citizens act like sheeple. Willingly moving towards the edge of the cliff as though in some sort of zombie like trance.
Ironically, it is the supposedly "well educated" people who seemed to have been separated from good ole commonsense, aka intuition, aka gut sense. And this is happening in our "finest" universities which have been co-opted by Marxists since the 60s, especially political "science" and other social "science" departments.
I should know. As someone who managed to survive/complete a PhD in political science (although choosing Utah for my PhD was in no small part in order to get away from the "liberal" East Coast) but only by keeping a very low profile, and carefully picking my classes and teachers.
Few students or faculty really knew much about me. Partly personality, partly self preservation. Rarely participating. Unlike UVA.
Wanted to be a teacher, an academic, a scholar. But I could not, in good faith, compromise my integrity for a tenured track faculty position.
Deception can eat away at your soul.
Can you imagine living a lie just to get tenure? Can you imagine trying to teach American Politics that distorts the historical record that is America, and/or working to indoctrinate students to hate their own country, not to mention question their own existence in society? Couldn't do it. Not for a single day.
Judging from my student reactions at the University of Mary Washington, where I was an adjunct professor, I was an anomaly. Here's a tid bit: my students in American Politics were amazed --yes, AMAZED-- that I defended these United States and, given my own background, told them we were all privileged (especially females) to live in a free country where anyone can succeed (since there was no established class structure, although today one could argue that point) if they worked hard and never gave up i.e. persevered. Not so sure about the "free" part these days.
You should've seen the looks on their faces. I might as well have been a Martian. An alien.
Many told me no other professor had praised America in any other course. There you have it. Academia in America. In a nutshell.
Needless to say, one feels angry at oneself for not getting into the fight. Utilizing deception, like the hard left has done, to wiggle into a tenured position in order to then encourage students to look at things from different prisms than the only one allowed by the so-called "leftists;"to read history (you cannot separate political theories from the historical record); to not fall prey to the wonderful sounding propaganda spewed by the so-called "socialists" who are actually "wolves in sheep's clothing," or worse, spewed by wolves many useful idiots (i.e the sheep).
I fear for the next generation. How betrayed and deceived they have been by the very entities they intuitively trusted (to include their well indoctrinated --school/college-- parents).
The vile indoctrination begins in our schools and then our universities. Those are the "ground zero" of this not so invisible war. Enemies of individual freedom (and I don't mean the "feel good"pseudo slogan type either but REAL freedom to choose to live our lives as we so wish without impinging on other's right to the same) are the communists.
One must struggle against this insane effort to brainwash the minds of our children. To recognize that inherent in the ethos of "communism" --which deceptively proclaims all will be "equal" and have access to "equal" resources if they submit to the absolute power of the state and its "leaders"-- there is the goal of absolute control of the so called "masses" by the elite/rulers/leaders (in various forms). The same leaders who lie and proclaim that "there will be a dictatorship of the proletariat" when, in reality, just like in the Soviet Union or China, a select few in power will lord it over the rest.
At least under feudalism, the serfs were under no illusions as their lords didn't try to deceive them about the brutal reality i.e. the lords weren't hypocrites.
Since I never drank that "socialist" kool aid (my parents did), and took the time to read up on communist/socialist societies like Mao's China, Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Castro's Cuba etc, the proof was right there in the pudding. A shit sandwich, no matter how much mayo you apply, is still a shit sandwich. Ditto with communist countries. No matter how neo-Marxists try to dress them up, they are still shit holes. No utopias these. NONE.
Advocates of socialism (communism lite) stress that state control is mandated to ensure everyone has access to medical care and other free goodies.
News flash, and excuse the much used, and abused, sound bite: "there ain't no free lunch." Someone will have to pay. And WHO gets to be in charge to determine allocation of finite resources. No surprise that everywhere there is a "socialist-lite" government (California, New York, Illinois etc) their state employees have the best of the best (pensions etc) which are bankrupting these states, among other things. Who pays? That is the question when the lunch ain't free.
Judging from their high state tax rates, some citizens are "more equal" than the rest. And, the ones paying the piper are the lifeblood of these "liberal" states. Those paying the taxes are the hardworking, vital, segment of these states who the government bureaucracies (among other parasites) depend on for sustaining their lifestyles.
In a sense our whole edifice is a fragile ponzi scheme, sustainable as long as there are more at the bottom of the pyramid, in terms of numbers, paying taxes to sustain those on top.
This isn't Free Market. More like an "Enslaved" one since no one is allowed to opt out of the system. This is like a "rentier state" situation. However, instead of dependence on foreign aid and/or foreign revenue, these state governments hold hostage their productive citizenry for payment of "rent."
So is capitalism with a upper case "C" the solution? Unchecked capitalism IS a problem too. Note the global conglomerates and the periodic monopolies; and the dying family farms and mom and pop stores. Small and medium size businesses are the life blood of a genuinely competitive society. As are the family farms. Thomas Jefferson would agree.
There is a role for government oversight of a genuinely "Free Market," otherwise it may be slowly back to a Hobbesian "state of nature." But who watches the watchers? There is always the risk of the Iron Law of Oligarchy*, whatever the system, which is why our Founding Fathers designed our Republic as a system of checks and balances by distributing power between the three branches of government, and later with the creation of the Electoral College.
*The "Iron Law of Oligarchy" states that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic they are, may drift into oligarchic tendencies, thus making democracy theoretically and practically impossible.
One could argue that in America we currently have at the state and federal level an "Iron Law of Bureaucracy," which seems to only work for self preservation at the expense of the rest of the populace. Note, during government shutdowns, federal employees always get paid. Not the case in the private sector.
As we muddle along in dangerous fluid times, it sometimes seems like our country is the Titanic and we've hit an iceberg; or we're about to hit an iceberg.
