The United States and the free world are in the cross hairs of not one, but two powerful political ideologies who are determined to see us become like them in the near future. If we remain comatose and are not vigilant, it well might happen.
On this Memorial Day, I think about the many millions of Americans who have given their lives, sacrificed limbs and impacted their families in the struggles to keep America great. We are living in new times, and all the fighting, unfortunately, can longer be focused solely on guns, tanks, smart bombs and aircraft carriers. We are all soldiers now. Much of that fight must take place involving each one of us at the polls.
I’ve often written about the dangers of Islamic Jihad, not only in its violent form, but more importantly, it’s stealth form because that’s the way gullible people can be lulled into semi-consciousness while our enemies invade under the cloak of deceit, much like the Trojan Horse.
What I’ve not written about often, is the other enemy, the ever looming determination of American Communist Party and their continuous movement toward fully socializing our government and eventually, implementing communism as the way of life for our grandchildren.
Both ideologies would ultimately strive for a nullification of the U.S. Constitution, to eventually be replaced by either Sharia (Islamic) Law or Communist Doctrines as modeled by the Karl Marx manifesto. Don’t shake your heads. Both have been making strong inroads, though inch by inch, so slowly it’s hardly noticeable.
This article is about the communist angle. Contrary to years past, it is no longer in vogue to denounce “communism” as a fearful threat. That will get me labeled a “right-wing nut.” Name-callers will fire epithets at me such as “McCarthyist” and “Red Scare” which is nothing more than a distraction from an intellectual argument. Those readers would do well to take a step backward and check out the overall picture and how the trends of the post-Reagan era, and particularly, the last two years, have seen a slow but certain resurgence toward that end.
In the Karl Marx Communist Manifesto, he advocated for a socialist government system without classes (wealth evenly distributed) and the elimination of privately owned property (i.e., government owned and controlled). This has been the basic doctrine of major communist nations ever since.
Many prominent communists/socialists have proclaimed a certain destiny that the west (the U.S. in particular) will be conquered from within, without firing a shot. In other words, average Americans, easily fooled, will be paying no attention as their trusted officials steer the nation in a new direction while our heads are buried in iPods. Particularly targeted for their political support, are lower-economic people who depend greatly on entitlements (welfare), labor unions, new immigrants (legal and illegal) and university campuses.
The Russian revolution succeeded by stirring the worker unions into revolt with promises of a better life for all Russians under communism, i.e. total control of government over the personal and public lives of all citizens. In essence, the promise was that everyone would be taken care of by the state, i.e., education, health, jobs, housing, etc., in exchange for limiting personal liberty, free press and free speech. As we all know, the Soviet model eventually progressed exactly as Marx proposed, and until 1989, their citizens were not allowed to own property, not allowed to communicate with the rest of the free world, and were not allowed to criticize the government. People were “assigned” living quarters and told from grade school years what their vocations would be.
Oppression was in, freedom was out, compliments of communism.
Don’t be fooled by today’s economic boon in China. It’s not much different there in today’s world. They just have more toys to play with.
We are referring, now, to the confines of the U.S. and the concept of creeping communism from “within.” Stirring up worker unions was a starting point with Lenin and other future communist regimes. Hmmm.
Recently, the Services Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest and politically powerful unions in the nation, held a rally in Los Angeles. This time, they made no secret of their alliance with the American Communist agenda, to and including support of Immigration Reform, which translates to amnesty for socialist-leaning future Americans (and voters). This took place on May 8, 2011. Please read and view the SEIU alliance with communists:
Click here: Zombie » SEIU drops mask, goes full commie
Now, here is one of the speeches made by then candidate, Barack Obama to the SEIU in 2008. Pay close attention and draw your own conclusions:
Click here: YouTube – Obama SEIU’s Agenda is My Agenda
Millions of Americans, particularly the younger set, do not understand the consequences of the drift toward a socialist/communist society. They should all do their homework, because once it reaches the slippery slope, and government gains a power grip, there will be no turning back.
Today, America is as much the target of enemies as Israel is within the mid-east, only we’re not dodging rockets and terror organizations…yet. Rather, we are quietly being subjected to subterfuge and deceit, aided by the government and the media itself.
It’s not about what they tell you, it’s about what they don’t tell you. That’s why you and I have to go digging to learn the truth.
For the young folks, some sites to learn from:
Click here: Communist Party/CPUSA Endorses Obama
Click here: Communist Party hails role of labor unions in Obama win
Click here: Communist Party USA – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mr. Frank
I cannot even begin to believe that you’ve gone and re-verified the boogeyman!
I must fervently put your comments to the test … “In the Karl Marx Communist Manifesto, he advocated for a socialist government system without classes (wealth evenly distributed) and the elimination of privately owned property (i.e., government owned and controlled). This has been the basic doctrine of major communist nations ever since.”
Mr. Frank — can you define capital? how about “surplus value” ?? Tell us … who or what creates “wealth” except “Labor” ??? And, if you believe “communism” in America has been making ground … creating a strong hold … which will enslave our grandchildren, then, you’ve obviously shown your present affiliation with the “capitalist” leeching known as the Corporate State.
Again … you blame “liberalism” … you blame “unions” … and then cite oppression as a bed fellow of communism??? My zeuz, Marshall … there must be some very powerfully altered water you’re drinking down there in Florida … which has distorted your brain to the umph degree!!
Wage-slavery is a product of capitalist society. Why don’t you look up the Taft-Hartley Act and see how “fed gov’t” implemented, on behalf of business, law which both impeded labor and representatives of labor after WWII … an act which has been in effect since 1946-7. And, to this day, some 75 years after the beginning of any sort of labor movement in America, only 7% of the private sector in America is unionized. Of course, the “public sector” … has more unionization … but, most states in this so called “free union” … are “right to work” states, all under the tyrannical aegis of the Taft-Hartley Act. And, when I think of NAFTA … and what it did … to the productivity in America … irrepairable damage done for the sake of businesses which cannot profit enough without laying off hard working Americans, only to hire wage-slaves in Mexico, and if you do not get hired in Mexico, you find yourself … crossing the border … to work for $8-10 an hour, bending and scooping in agricultural fields for farmers who cannot make a profit, hiring Americans, but decide to hire “illegals” … and then, American traditionalists claim … “hey, these illegals are not paying an income tax” … so we must deport them, which in effect, contradicts the NAFTA agreement …
Please, Marshall … we know better … and you ought to be ashamed, sir !!
Be reminded fellow Americans … that the arch-enemy of the Communist … the Liberal .. the Socialist … is the Fascist. And, Mr. Frank, if you do not affiliate yourself with the former(s) … there is but one small box in which you can pencil your affiliation.
I would dare you to read Chris Hedges “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (c. 2007) — a must read … for all of you out there who think that the Left or the Liberals are destroying America !!
Mr. Frank …
you have it totally wrong … “Not government controlled …” … Marx never said that.
He instead deemed that the control by the Workers would then be the advent of another economic system, namely, communism. And, if workers (labor) create wealth, and how else or who else creates wealth, except Labor, then, why doesn’t Labor keep the wealth, and distribute it to all who labor ?? Why then is it okay (in your view) …for “private ownership” of capital (which includes labor and laborers) to take the wealth for himself / themselves … and then, live long luxurious lives while those who produced and created the wealth, earn nothing more than a fraction in wages, from the total wealth produced?
You should realize that before Marx ever came into the picture, the British industrialists lobbied government to enforce laws on labor … to keep them from organizing. Marx came thereafter … and stated clearly that capitalists do not create their own wealth. The wealth is a product of labor .. only. Capitalists then like vampires, attach themselves to labor … and suck labor dry of their wealth … for their own benefit and power … and then, place restrictions on labor … to redress grievances … which the government enforces on behalf of business.
The USSR did not in any way … come close to a “Communistic” state. In a true “communistic society” … there is no need for the state, nor for “private ownership” … and in my view … “communism” and the early Christians have an affiliation:
Read Acts 2
[44] And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
[45] And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
as well as Acts 4
[34] Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
[35] And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
So you can see the parallel statement from Marx:
From each according to ability; To each according to need.
This is in essence a “christian” premise … laid out by Marx
What say you to that ??
For those of you who attempt to equate Christianity to Marxism, it would be laughable, if we didn’t understand the innate attempt made to attack Christianity and Christ. This is not new but a tired old tactic of taking scriptures out of context, without the benefit of a Bible scholar to set them straight. Please save your Christophobic comments and attempts at degrading Christ and his followers for those who are easily led by such tactics.
Anonymous
You cannot discount what I posted ….
if the earliest Christians sold and gave away their possessions so that as the scripture states, “all ….had things common” … and then I parallel this to Marx’s motto of need and ability … I think it fits perfectly and sets the stage for a huge debate whereby I would suggest that “capitalism” and “christianity” are contradictory.
Capitalism is based on greed … and christianity is based on brotherly kindness and not putting one’s heart into the making of money and profit …
This is why America is a capitalist nation … and not a christian one.
Anonymous
To discount Joel Osteen’ism … Jesus Christ didn’t die on the cross so that his would-be followers become millionaries.
To claim that people of wealth and power are blessed by God … which Osteen admits … is a fallacy, and a form of fascist idealism … and leads to racism and hate of those who have not.
The love of money is the root of all sorts of evil.
I presume a Henry Ford … or a J.P. Morgan didn’t buy into that scripture!
Your repeated and continued defense of attempting to make Christ and Christians as Marxists will no longer be tolerated by those who know the truth.
Christians are tired of having Christ ridiculed and molded into a fashion so as to demean him.
Anonymous
I bet you had never even read those scriptures from the sacred text before!! And, they often in the debates I have with so-called christians … come as a shock … in that here are the earliest known christians “having things common” … and this is in essence, a major element of Marxist thought. You cannot deny this. Didn’t call Christians …Marxists. Marx did deem “religion” as unnecessary in the grand scheme of things, but he did not deny that “communism” would inevitably take over “capitalism”. This is my main point, too.
Capitalism at its foundation is anti-Christian. And, for hundreds of years, namely via Protestantism, the Western world has believed that the “stronger you work” … “the more blessed you’ll be” … in that one’s work is a calling from God, and therefore, to even be a coal miner, working 15 hours a day in a hole, making chicken scratch, in comparison to the one who takes the coal for himself and sells it for profit (aka the Capitalist) … and yet, the miner is not to complain about a job, which God has called him to do. This is the very basis of the “Protestant Work Ethic”. This is in fact a grand illusion turn delusion.
Chris Jesus didn’t die on the cross so that people could become millionaires! So, Anonymous, what you say above has no support or buttress.
You will have lost your bet.
You know nothing about me and yet, like others who attempt to ridicule Christians and Christ, you pass judgment.
again … where is the ridicule? Stop being a self-acclaimed martyr … and show us all, or at least me, where I have stated something you deem “ridicule” ??
Strait and narrow is the way, Anonymous … and few there be that find it, proclaimed JC !!
Anonymous – there is but one right (in this context) … and that is the right of the tolerant to tell the intolerant that they are not permitted to be intolerant in our society. America is a nation founded on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, for too long fascists have scapegoated the Marxists as “destroyers” of traditional values, and I showed you a pair of verses from the Book of Acts which detail how the earliest Christians “had all things common” … “selling homes and possessions” to “re-distribute to those who had need” … and this is in fact, an element of Marxist thought.
I would even admit that Marx may not have known about those verses in Acts. And, I believe he would have agreed with them …
Why don’t you??
Mr. Frank …
Irrationalism depends on the cult of action for action’s sake!
Action being beautiful in itself, it must be then taken before, or without,
reflection. Thinking is a form of esmasculation. Therefore, culture is suspect
insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world
has always been a symptom of fascism (or Ur-Fascism) such as using expressions
like: “degenerate intellectuals”, “egg heads”, “effete snobs”, and “universities are nests for reds.”
The official fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged (and still are…)
in attacking modern culture as well as the “liberal” intelligentsia for
having betrayed traditional values.
Traditional values in America include: “freedom”, “liberty”, “pursuit of happiness”,
“choice”, “lack of restrictions”, “freedom of expression” … and it has been the role of fascism to “eliminate” these values, and then, to claim that “liberals” or “communists” or “socialists” are the ones who are in fact destroying these values – namely, scapegoating the enemy …diverting attention away from the real cause … thus giving the public reason to “imprison” and deal with the culprits as they see fit …
Is this what you foster, Mr. Frank ?? …. I think your blog today … is in full compliance with Ur-Fascism!
Marshall, as usual, you are right on target. That you have gotten so much flack already, means you are hitting a nerve. Anyone who could actually defend communism in any way, shape or form, by saying the opposite is fascim, is so deluded, or such a committed communist, that frankly, that person is an enemy of the state, or just plain nuts.
Two things to examine. First, take a look at the slogan of the raised fist that the unions now use. Take a look at the socialist and communist fist. Look similar? It is meant to.
Second…the communists and the M. B. fought Mubarek in unity. They will, of course, get along like a feral cat and a rabit rat. Ain’t gonna happen. To the victor will go the spoils. There is a big rise of brotherhood in the middle east, and that is not just Muslim brotherhood, but the unions.
The lovey dovey idealistic complete crapola “from each according to his abilty, to each according to his need” is the biggest LIE ever propogated by any political persuasion. It never happened in the USSR, and the lovey dovey communist regime killed more people “enemies of the state” than Hitler ever thought of. This insane idea has been tried and tried and tried, and so far has been a giant flop. The USSR, East Germany, Poland, and other European countries come to mind immediately. Flop, flop, flop, flop etc. The tried and true definition of insanity applies here, but I am sure our resident Karl Marx devotee will scream and cry foul, and come up with effluvia the likes of which we haven’t seen.
So help me zeus.
The Proletariat … equals … Workers or working-class people, regarded collectively
And, in a communist society … there is no state … and yes, the power and organization is done by the Labor … where there is no more “private” ownership of property (that is, of the means of production) … this is no way means, a person doesn’t own property, possessions, etc.
Stalin was no communist. He was totalitarian dictator, who in essence, betrayed the very people, who pathed the way to power.
I urge every to take this “political compass” test ==> http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
And, then post your scores …
Oh…one other thing. What difference does it make whether we have communism or facism? What difference would it make to the average joe or jane? Totalitarianism is just that. A dictatorship is just that. Freedom of speech stops existing. Any disagreement of the government is dealt with by extreme jail times, or death. Being TOLD what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and where to do it is a trademark of both insane systems. It is wrong. it is not utopian. It is control, one way or the other. All the things quoted above as American Traditional Values DISAPPEAR under Communism or Fascism. There is no defense of either system.
Christopher
1) You cannot equate communism as synonymous with totalitarianism
2) Communism is lack of the state … collectivity being the norm
3) Totalitarianism is in fact a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition — e.g. Stalin
4) In the fewest words, Anarchism teaches that we can live in a society where there is no compulsion of any kind. A life without compulsion naturally means liberty; it means freedom from being forced or coerced, a chance to lead the life that suits you best.
You cannot lead such a life unless you do away with the institutions that curtail your liberty and interfere with your life, the conditions that compel you to act differently from the way you really would like to.
Capitalism is one of those institutions. Capitalists lobby government to impede labor, and labor creates wealth. Without labor, nothing would exist. Labor therefore wants capitalists out of the way … because capitalists “curtail liberty” … and “interfere with your life” … by reducing life down to profit and mass consumption.
This is evil ..
Kevin…Your lips are moving, but I cannot hear a thing you are saying.
Christopher Jones …
You do not hear … because fascists have stuck their fingers in your ears !! Wake Up / Unplug / Be the change !!
It’s obvious that Kevin is a commited ideologue of the left if not a dedicated marxist otherwise he wouldn’t waste his time here. The fact is that communism and fascism are the same – national socialism and differ only in degree.
I would rather focus on the the wonderful republic we have inherited and on efforts to keep it from the clutches of those who would destroy it. This is why we must turn
president (small ‘p’ intended) Obama out.
The only reason to continue the madness of borrowing more than 40 cents on the dollar and then giving it away is to collapse our republic under the weight of debt. I don’t care ‘who pushed willie’ both parties are responsible, that’s why the only alternative is grass roots representation provided by the Tea Party. Take over the party and remake it. Run Conservative alternative in primaries and kick out the RINO’s.
fjf …
those who would destroy the Republic …are not communists.
They are fascists … corporate state affiliators who believe capitalism is the best man can think up … and to remove such an economic system is in fact … inevitable … if society is to continue and to flourish.
Permitting those who do not produce or create wealth to keep wealth, is basically being a slave to the system … and then, you get diverted by the fascists who tell you that it is the Liberals, and the Communists, and the Socialists, and the homosexuals, and the Jews, Religious boobs and quacks, who are destroying traditional values.
That is reality …
Thank you Marshall for continuing to have the courage to write your blogs. It’s unfortunate Kevin didn’t include a video with his endless horse-crap. I have no doubt it would show him pounding his shoe on the table, much like his idol/compatriot/buddy, First Secretary Nikita K. Kevin, if you don’t like our country…you know, the one most of the rest of us fought to preserve, don’t let the door hit you in the ass. If you think we are interested or are willing to listen to you spout senseless B.S., then you really ARE delusional. p.s. This blog is not a vocabulary contest nor meant to be a platform for you to “try” to demonstrate or prove your “brilliance.” By the way, did you ever forgive Marx and Engels for not giving you credit for your contributions to the Communist Manifesto? Where in hell is Joe McCarthy when ya really need him???
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Joe McCarthy was a christian right wing quack … whose light burnt out as quick as it was lit … McCarthyism did more to impede civil liberty in America than any Communist ever did …
BTW Darrell …
if you must stoop to the level of profanity in this blog, by suggesting that I not let the door hit me in the ass, which is in essence, that I should leave America… ?? Hey pal … I ain’t going no where … this bit about “the one most of the rest of us fought to preserve” … is the typical reply of those who believe just because you were in the Military, you are entitled to the ticker-tape parade … and life-time pensions … and life-time health care services …. and perpetual salutings … oh, btw … that’s socialism!!
And, if you really want to hear the key element in all of this …
i say raise taxes on rich folks(as taxes are at their lowest rate in 60+ yrs), and if they don’t like it, then ….they can go find a better deal somewhere else…..letting the door hit them in the ass!!
Kevin Childers aka Michael Moore. You are a zealot who espouses your vitriol as a scholar and it doesn’t pass the smell test.
Why are you still living in a country which you despise?
Frank M …
I live in America because America’s founding principles are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness … which are in opposition to the Corporate State, which on behalf of business, impedes liberty and labor and the pursuit of one’s own best interest.
That is why I live in America … and when these are downtrodden and taken away by government run by a bunch of “tea partyers” … then, I will move and seek out a country where life and liberty are still held dear to one’s pursuit of one’s best interest.
Remove the institutions in America that impede life, liberty and pursuit of happiness … and society will flourish !!
Chapter II. Proletarians and Communists. 7th paragraph. From the ORIGINAL German.
Mr. Childers…….I quote!
“The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.
It is “YOU” sir who should reread the “Manifesto” if you want to be a good little Commie & follow the party line.
hey Dr. Marlowe …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat
If the Proletariat is in power … then the Labor which produces wealth … keeps and spreads the wealth … while the Capitalists do not produce wealth, and then steal it from the Labor … and then, controls government … getting huge corporate tax cuts … and then, points the fingers at unions for destroying america !!
That is it in a nutshell, sir.
Right on Marshall. Kevin Childers is one of the type that has their head stuck in the sand while their freedoms are taken away. He needs to read THE CONSTITUTION and if he does not like it go to one of those countries that are governed by communists and enjoy life there.
Jim
If Freedoms are taken away … which ones?
And, by whom are they taken away?
Liberals? No.
Communists? No.
Socialists? No.
Corporate Statists? Yes.
Christians? Yes
Radical Tea Party Folks? Yes
Hey Jim … should I listen to ole’ Hermann Cain about re-reading the Constitution and then, instead, read the Dec of Independence? I mean, honestly, businessmen running for President??? Cain would deal far better hand-tossing pizzas!!
My test score:
Economic Left / Right = -8.12
Social Libertarian / Authoritarian = -6.05
I honestly would like to see the scores of those among you who have ridiculed me because I defend and support “liberty” and “pursuit of happiness” … and the right of those who Labor to keep the wealth they alone have produced / created.
The way you all seem to view “communism” … is simply authoritarian and impeding freedom of choice, and expression. This is not Marxist by any means. Marx stood for liberty and freedom of choice, etc. Those who took control of the Russian Revolution, and turned the Working Class into Soviets, and then, controlled them by hierarchy, do not represent “communist” ideology. This is fascist … and it is “Corporate State” … which seeks to impede civil liberty.
I mean — honestly .. I read all of your comments, folks, and I get a strong impression that you all loathe “liberalism”, which in essence, is the arch enemy of fascists.
That leaves me thinking only that you all are affiliated with the Corporate State which is fascism.
My heart is saddened by the lack of insight and understanding prevalent today. Communism, socialism and fascism are just so many words to many people. And there are still the committed idealists who are so enamored of their own words and intelligence that they never take the time to truly understand what they are saying! So much bile and vitriol! And so little sense!
Usually, I just ignore such people who are too narrow minded and infatuated with themselves to see truth but after the last presidential election, I’m finding more and more people are like Mr. Childers. Determined, despite reality, to follow their beliefs to the utter destruction of this country. How laughable to equate communism to Christianity. Poor Marx, he would be having hysterics in his grave, if such was possible! Communism is the absolute antithesis of Christianity, despises Christianity and outlaws Christianity, just for starters!
My only point in covering this old ground is to demonstrate how little understanding people have of a very old and very subtle enemy. This is scary because so much of the American public doesn’t recognize how much the current incumbent’s agenda aligns precisely with the old communistic agenda. We are definitely on the precipice of the long slippery slide into the oppression of socialism and I fear the overwhelming burden of public debt that is being amassed is going to prove to be the proverbial banana peel.
The American public rushed to jump on the bandwagon of “change” without analyzing or understanding what that “change” truly was. And, Mr. Childers is such a good example of grabbing what he wants to believe and throwing a lot of muck around to scare others into swallowing the lines he hands out without listening to their lack of substance, their contradictory nature and pure fallacies.
If a tree falls in a silent wood where there’s no one to hear it, does it make a sound? Keep talking, Marshall. There are still people to hear and listen and your sound is very needed.
Hey Karen
Your comment — Determined, despite reality, to follow their beliefs to the utter destruction of this country.
What is truly sad … is that you equate what I am saying here in this blog with “destruction”. Tell me … did communists and socialists amass all of this debt ??
Are we to blame “liberals” for the destruction of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness??
I mean honestly … do you hear yourself when you type those words? Liberalism has failed in America, because American Fascism (Corporate State) … and the Christian Right … have secured their place, which is in opposition to freedom of expression and choice and the power of labor. And, again .. .look up the Taft-Hartley Act … which on behalf of business in American, government initiated to impede the power of labor and labor representation.
again .. Karen … Labor creates wealth. Capitalists do not create wealth. They steal it from those who produce it … and then, lobby the government to hinder those who create it from “redressing grievances” … (Taft-Hartley Act example) … and then, you claim that the things I am saying, the beliefs I hold … are out to destroy America ??
America and the American Dream have been brought down to the cesspool, not by communism, not by liberalism, but by the Corporate State, which is capitalist in nature, and authoritiarian in nature. Obama is of course … part of that Corporate State. He goes and allows companies to extract tons of coal from Wyoming just in the last few months (out of federal lands) … which then are shipped to Washington state, and then, sent to China … for the Chinese to utilize in anyway they see fit.
What I am getting at here … is that Obama is a marionette of the Corporate State. And, the Right Wing Authoritarians cast him as a liberal, or a socialist, or whatever … on the Left ….when he’s a “Centralized Government” … which is Fascist.
That is to say … our government is already Fascist … and the power of the American people to stand up against this government controlled by Corporations, who have in fact bought off the US Supreme Court …
And, the rIght says … “look how unions are destroying American business” … when the private sector unionization is at its lowest in 75 years (a mere 7%) … and public sector unions have no rights to redress grievances, nor to organize and strike … if these public sector jobs are affiliated with Homeland (that is Fatherland) Security.
Stop blaming the Left, the Liberal, the Communist and the Socialist … for the destruction of America … when the Right and the Christian and the Capitalist have been in control of America since 1945 ….
Good golly Marshall. You stuck a big stick in the hornets nest with this blog. The little professeur is about to implode, or explode. He is fighting all the bloggers.
Now, about all the usage of the word a** and some of the other things, it really sound like…. well, you can fill in the blank.
What a convoluted world some people live in. Up is down, right is left, fascists are bad but communists/socialists/extreme liberals are good because capitalists are bad. Gee, I am confused. I must be a tool or the capitalist pigs out there…because I am a member of labor now. Weep weep. I am so pitiful.
Well, I guess I will get in my Yugo and drive down to my local bar and drown my sorrows in some beer made by a hard working person who is getting screwed by the owner of the brewery.
Can I get an amen????????????
Marshall …
Mr Jones is in fact a fascist conspirator … it is obvious. The way he mocks and laughs and criticizes. It is quite frankly as if he’s reading directly from Mein Kampf …
Mr. Jones … again – what is capital ?? How is wealth created ?? What is surplus value ?? If you can define and identify these terms and ideas in a coherent fashion, then, come back for a discussion. But until then, you’ve got your nose stuck in your own a** …. or should I say, in the middle of “Mein Kampf”
I never laughed as hard as I did when I read I was a fascist conspirator. OMG, mein Kevin, you missed your calling. You should not have been a teacher, you should have been a stand up comedian. The fact that you could have made that conclusion, when you do not know me, never met me, have no idea how I live, or how I got to this stage in my life, has to be the best example to everyone who reads this blog that your are this great comedian, or not wrapped too tight. No…maybe wrapped TOO tight.
No Kevie…I am not biting. I am not going to climb down into the whole you have dug for yourself, and fight you on a level which is beneath me.
Mr. Jones
All I can see in your comments is someone who seems to think anything “left” in culture, politics, society, etc. is the true culprit destroying America. And historically speaking … the fascist is the arch-enemy of the Liberal. No, I do not know you, but I know you by your words … and your words speak loud and clear, to the point of “Sieg Heil” …
No need to stoop to any level … but I assure you that lowest level is where the work gets done, as those who rest at the top of all levels, are the rich and the capitalists who do nothing but leech off of those who labor and support civilization, e.g. Coal Miner.
Just yesterday in the USA Today – I saw that 2010 Fossil Fuel Emissions set a record, including 44% of those emissions coming from Coal. And, as Orwell said in the Road to Wigan Pier, besides the man who ploughs the soil, the Coal Miner is the Caryatid of Civilization. Without miners extract billions of metric tons of coal …. capitalists who rob the labor of their wealth … would have no where to go except down to the level of the Coal Miner.
So, to contradict your “I’m not going to climb down in the hole” comment … perhaps, you ought to come on down and see where the real labor gets accomplished!!
But … no Fascists instead go around and exhibit their intolerance by pointing fingers of suspicion at the “other” … and I will tell you, by force, those who tolerate, will put an end to your sort of intoleration.
Tell me, what is Liberalism?
What is liberalism?
It is the utopian ideal that everyone gets the same deal. It is against the very nature of mankind. It quietly encourages laziness, sloth and ultimately, avarice and greed by the ones that end up “ruling” the serfs who are down at the bottom. It assumes that everyone’s labor is of equal value, regardless of what that individual produces, BUT it always will go after the one that the “rulers” feel is not producing enough. There is NO reward for going above and beyond what is expected of them. It is one sad condition.
Don’t you, you pissant, ever presume to tell me to get down into the trenches and find out what labor is. I have done more labor in my life than you will ever do. You think because I write in defense of the BEST SYSTEM ever conceived by man, that I am one of the elite? That is as far from the truth as it can be. I do not need, however, to defend myself. I paid my dues over the years, and you sit in your silly inconsequential bully pulpit and tell the rest of us how it is going to be. Yes, you already have the makings of a good czar…or block leader, or whaever you fine young communists call yourselves.
No…you have no idea who I am. And you don’t want to.
Pissant ?? Nice Mr. Jones, real nice.
It is indeed obvious that you yourself know very well what you want, but so does your neighbor.
You want to be well and healthy; you want to be free, to serve no master, to crawl and humiliate yourself before no man; you want to have well-being for yourself, your family, and those near and dear to you. And not to be harassed and worried by the fear of to-morrow.
You may feel sure that every one else wants the same. So the whole matter seems to stand this way:
You want health, liberty, and well-being. Every one is like yourself in this respect.
Therefore we all seek the same thing in life.
Then why should we not all seek it together, by joint effort, helping each other in it?
Why should we speak down, and cheat and rob, kill and murder each other, if we all seek the same thing? Aren’t you or am I not entitled to the things you / I want as well as the next man?
Or is it that we can secure our health, liberty, and well-being better by fighting and slaughtering each other?
Or because there is no other way?
Hmmmm. You call me every nasty name you can think of, and are angry that I called you a pissant? The definition says it all.
You write a nice little piece above. Yes, it is true that we all want what you wrote. However, I am tired of YOU villifying my way of going about it. I am tired of you assuming things that are not true.
We will never be able to seek doing things together if you are a communist. I am so opposed to that kind of system, that there is NO reconsiliation possible. But I have, and will continue to defend anyone their right to express an opinion that I disagree with.
Mr. Jones …
Never said I was a communist …
but … in a “communist” society, in the general sense of the term, institutions which impede liberty and pursuit of one’s own best interest, are removed …
while … in a capitalist society … the market is not free flowing … as government steps in on behalf of business to impede Labor … from taking control of production and the wealth which it alone creates. Nothing else creates wealth except Labor.
Those who take wealth from labor, having not been part of the productive process, are capitalists, aka, blood sucking leeches !!
You cannot in any way, Mr. Jones, defend the capitalist system as a moral one, because it is exploitative of labor … and is as immoral a system as man has ever devised … and then, you sir, turn and claim that everything but capitalism is evil …
You need to take an Economics 101 re-fresher course … for the basics.
You cannot equate communism as synonymous with totalitarianism
Stalin was no communist. He was totalitarian dictator
To all, including you Kevin. Both statements were written by you in above responses in this blog. The first one was written to me by Kevin, answering my charge that there is not a whit of difference between the isms. The second was a response to someone else. Now Kevin, really. Stalin was no communist? Really? Comon, even for you, this is beyond the pale. Stalin was indeed a communist, but like many of them,
Christopher …
Look up as much as you want on “Communism” … and you will find that the key aspect of this “ism” … the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat / The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly / The proletarian works with the instruments of production of another, for the account of this other, in exchange for a part of the product — the other is the capitalist. / ‘the proletariat’, who collectively constitute the main producer of wealth in society, and who are perpetually exploited and marginalised by the capitalist class, must overthrow the capitalist system / “communism” is the idea of a free society with no division or alienation, where mankind is free from oppression and scarcity. A communist society would have no governments, countries, or class divisions — this is in fact better defined as “Anarcho-Syndicalism” — which seeks to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery, and state or private ownership of the means of production.
I could continue … but what I want you to realize is that Stalin didn’t stick to this plan whatsoever. He put himself at the top of the hierarchy. Made everyone else a pawn under his rule … and this, Mr. Jones … is Totalitarianism (of which Orwell speaks in his novel, 1984)
One need not “look something up” to know it is wrong. Like dog poop. You can see it, and avoid it. You do not have to pick it up, smell it or taste it to know it is bad. It is bad. Your defense of communism, once again, is the defense of a system which has ALWAYS been corrupted, and therefore, to me, I will avoid it, like the dog poop that in on the sidewalk or yard.
Herr Jones, the fascist conspirator
(OMG, that is funny)
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HE WAS ONE CORRUPT S. O B. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOUR FORM OF COMMUNISM IS BETTER THAN SALINS FORM OF COMMUNISM? DOES YOURS COME WITH A GUARANTEE THAT CORRUPTION WILL NOT HAPPEN? JUST HOW NAIVE ARE YOU???
True — Totalitarianism at its core is corrupt. And, I can say the same thing about Corporate State Capitalistic Economies … where people work and work and work … and make someone else rich, instead of themselves.
The true corruption resides in the man who has reduced the totality of life down to profit.
All you need to do is get some real photos of demonstrators and their signs at various large financial meetings around the world and in the U.S. Google some of the organizations and find that most are allied with the CPUSA in some fashion. The media seldom reports on the violence and deviant behavior displayed let alone their Communist and socialist affiliations.
Someone needs to read the truth about McCarthy. His history about dealing with and pointing out Communists in the government was actually underwhelming compared to what was really going on. The media myths about him are in the same vein, although opposite of those concerning Alger Hiss.
Roger
If you are old enough to have seen live footage of E.R. Murrow on TV … then, you would also know full and well, that McCarthy stood up and defended the suppression of civil liberties. If a man in America wants to be a communist … and speak out on a main street corner in any town or city in America, constitutionally, he has a right.
So … whatever it is you think that McCarthy did that was good for America, is a fascist lie. McCarthy was a modern day “witch-hunter” … in the sense that he found some form of Puritanism and developed it into a present context to ‘scapegoat’ people who were liberals or communists.
So what if they were. This is America, for God’s sake … not some fascist dictatorship!
Fascists and Nazis rounded up Liberals, Political Dissenters, Communists long before they rounded up Jews (who were the former as well) … to be led to extermination camps. And, in essence, McCarthy was a quasi-fascist thinker .. .believing that anyone who didn’t accept the conventions of capitalistic society in America during the 1950s … was a traitor to America. How ludicrous! How arrogant on his part !!
Like I said originally, someone needs to read the truth about McCarthy. Your diatribe is meaningless and ignorant.
I did see Murrow live on tv. One of the early reasons I learned to distrust the media.
I’m surprised you left out the word racist.
Roosevelt not only rounded up Japanese Americans, many of them citizens, but also thousands of Germans and Italians to be placed in detention camps. He also traded Central American Jews to the Nazis in exchange for American POWS. He pardoned the Italians in camps on Columbus Day 1944. One month before the Federal elections. I wonder if it was because Italians are one of the largest ethnic voting groups?
I do not doubt what FDR did. Wasn’t defending him.
But, he also gave you elders of America … Social Security … one of the finest pieces of Socialist policy on the planet.
Are you talking about the same Social Security that does not exist except on paper? The one that a liberal democrat with his liberal democrat pals in congress decided to RAID, stripping it out of the account it was in, and putting an IOU in its place? The same SS that liberal democrat Billious Clinton started taxing? The same SS that right this minute takes in less than it pays out, a good deal of which is because Americans are NOT working due to the policies of the liberal democrat Barack Insane Obama keeps instituting?
Besides, since when is it a socialist policy to save money? I thought that was a capitalist policy. Oh, I get it, it is a socialist policy when the money saved is stolen out of the system, used to pay other bills, and not paid back. Sounds like corruption to me. Sounds just like every other socialist system in the WORLD to me: CORRUPT.
Tell me, if you can, ONE COUNTRY THAT HAS MADE COMMUNISM WORK, AND NOT HAD TO RESORT TO TOTALITARIANISM, OR VIOLENCE AND OPPRESSION AGAINST IT’S PEOPLE. China? I don’t think so. Cuba? Yeah, right. Venezuala? What a joke.
Former President George W. Bush signaled that he sees not reforming Social Security as his greatest failure from the eight years he served in the White House — that is, not Privatizing Social Security. He
pushed a plan in 2005 that would have allowed younger workers to invest part of their Social Security tax payment in private accounts that would make money off stocks, bonds and other investments (turning a socialist policy into a capitalist one)
And no, Mr. Jones … Capitalism is not about efficiency, it is about wastefulness, because the more waste we Americans produce, the more stuff needs to be produced … and of course, resources ARE finite.
And, understand my view that Obama is no liberal. In Feb 2009, he began addressing the retirement system’s looming financing shortfall, in part by seeking to apply payroll taxes to incomes above $250,000. But ignited intense opposition from Republicans. Despite the long-running partisan divide over benefits and taxes, the advocates for a compromise see an opportunity now given the fact that the stock markets’ slide has discredited the idea of carving private accounts from Social Security (that is Bush’s failed plan).
Obama has no way to resolve this … taking on Social Security overloads a legislative system already strained by the economy and war.
Wars he didn’t start … except Libyan airstrikes. An economy in the cesspool, not because of Liberal policies, but because of capitalist policies … including outsourcing, suppression of labor, and of civil liberties, and of course, invasion of countries for their resources — invasions which have cost the eldest in America their social security.
Can’t pass gas, Mr Jones without somebody noticing you did !!
Mr Jones and all who have participated in this particular blog:
In Clear Plain Language:
Washington, DC — How the Rich get Richer and How Political Parties turned their backs on the Middle Class …
The GOP = the “Guardians of Privilege” who with one strategy – have locked into place privilege and power for the Rich while slashing public spending to deal with the budget
The Democrats = Sold their souls to financial elites and abandoned working people and the middle class
It is time to end this “one-party” dictatorship … and turn this “paradise” built in hell …that is the United States of Inequality … into the United States of Practical Solidarity
Fellow Americans — there is no “apparent separateness” … we are not at odds with each other, we are told we are at odds with each by the “one-party” in Washington … and we are not members under the Law of the Jungle … we are not the wildebeest to be devoured by the political and corporate hyenas !!
We must overturn this fact / statistic — that the top 1% households’ net worth exceeds that of the bottom 20 million households in America!
Let us do the best of things in this worst of times!!
Fellow Americans … the wealth at the top being held by the privileged … is greater than the amount held by the same privileged in 1928 …and when the collapse occurs … and the Rich lose their wealth, they will do nothing less than bring the rest of us down with them …
yada yada yada yada.
Same stuff, different day.
Give it up.
We do not believe you.
Reminds me of a “LEFTIST” Professor I had teaching Social Sciences 101 back when I was a freshman. There is NO “reasoning” with Leftists.
Marshall, (good for you) ….you sure flamed the fire of our Republic with this blog.
I have never seen any opinions from “Karen Sampson, May 31, 2011 at 2:08 pm” but, she sure has my attention. Good job of rendering your point Ms. Sampson. I’ll (with relish) look for your opinions in the future. Good for you.
Mr. Frank and all who have replied to this blog by Mr. Frank,
i think that the ultimate question for those who would associate unions with communism, is how do you stop unions….without stooping to the point of outlawing them?? I believe that if Americans want to outlaw unions, I must simply take them to task for, (1) out of one side of their face they condemn the govt for interfering with their lives, (2) then out of the other side, they want the govt to take away someone’s right to freely associate with their fellow citizens. It is my believe that there are Americans who obviously want rights for only a certain group of people…and to oppress another (viz., workers).
Mr. Frank, then, how do they talk of freedom when they really mean oppression???
BTW Mr. Frank …
Tell us … if unions are so bad, and destroying America, how do fascists hold to this argument when only 7% of the private sector workforce is unionized? If that be the case, then 93% of businesses should be thriving, shouldn’t they??
To all those who continue to defend Communism and ridicule Christ and Christians with their false assumptions – America is on to you.
You are not new. We have heard these same, tired, Alinsky-style ridicule tactics before and recognize them for what they are.
We know our history and know where these false arguments and anti-Christian falsehoods lead.
Anonymous …
Tell me … is your way of dealing with the “tolerant” to be “intolerant” ??
Where have I said anything “anti-Christian” ?? Capitalism is not synonymous with Christianity … and yet … you see them both as “traditional American values” … at least, that is what I see in your comments.
The question remains … “we know our history” …. means, I am part of the we just as much as you are … “communism” is in fact a philosophical doctrine in which the state (government) does not exist. But you continue to equate this ism with “Totalitarianism” as conducted by Stalin and his followers until the end of the USSR.
Sure … the facts are there … they called themselves “communists” … and in the meantime here in the USA, the land of liberty and freedom, witch-hunters sought out the “boogeymen” … and exiled them, for pursuing their own best interests, which is an inalienable right of every American, yes??
I could continue … but what appears to me as ludicrous is the idea that you believe I am ridiculing “Jesus” … who by the way did not come to the world and die on a cross to make Americans a nation of millionaires!
Christians are far as I know … according to Acts 2 and 4 … were people who held a “commonality” … The state of sharing features or attributes, especially of purpose. This then presents the idea of “collectivity” — and it seems to me that the earliest Christians had … a common base; shared intellectual interests, agreed tools and methods, aesthetic sensibilities, and most importantly, care and love for each other.
In a capitalistic society … individualism is the norm. And, therefore, capitalism is contradictory to Christianity … which is “collective” … You by yourself … cannot form a “church” … for the “local Church” … has members … with same mind, same judgment, etc.
So, what then is the problem with what I am saying, Anonymous ??
i see where the jobs market is exploding under the obamareich. Ooops, job growth DROPPED to about of 1/5th of what it was the prior month, the last worst month also occuring under herr Baracky’s administration. America’s has twice tried to slide into socialism…under Roosevelt, and now under ohaha. Roosevelt presided over us in an unprecidented era of ludicrous high taxation, and a depression that just did not end. (Was worse in the later 30′s than when it began). The only thing that bailed us out of it was a war. Bad reason, but it worked.
Then along comes ohaha. Now, we are accelerating down a very dangerous path, and lookie here…the unemployment rate once again is going UP, and new jobs created by the private sector is going down. Put 100,000 people into the work force each month, and create 50,000 jobs, and, well…
An old (capitalist) auto salesman friend of mine used to say if you lose money on each car you sell, you have to do it in volume, to make up for the losses. (then he laughed). Well, the same goes for new jobs being created. If you create fewer than are needed, guess we have got to do it in volume.
The private sector (most of which is small business) is scared to expand, with the government controls (ohhh…that word, control) and regulations and higher taxes they confront. Gee, I guess if the evil small business owners cannot hire anyone to create wealth for them, labor is the big loser. Guess it sort of sets us up for ohaha to take over more business, crucify owners, and hire union thugs to run things. That will make our economy grow. Right.
Mr. Keven, are you a country boy? I know you have been to college, THATS obvious…….I havent, does that me I’m my opinion doesnt count? I think you are a lazy idiot who thinks you are “entitled” to everything! Welcome to the land where you dont have to work for a living, just fill out a form!
I grew up in a city that once had so many skilled jobs, now I live on a river not too far from the same delapitated city that I am now ashamed to admit i grew up in. Is that the american dream? perhaps I sould apply for government help??? NOT
Steve. YOU have nailed this topic in three lines. Unions don’t create wealth or create jobs. They RUIN things, because of greed and corruption. Labor needs to be spoken for. They do NOT need to rule.
MR. Jones …
Please … please … spare us all your idiocy !!
For it truly runs deep in your comments!
Name one thing in this world … besides what nature creates … that did not come from labor ??
If you can get away from your coloring books, maybe you could answer that one for us all …
Kevin: I’ll bet you thought I forgot about you! Nope. Been away. You really don’t need to write any more; many comments ago you conclusively proved your determination to demonstrate you’re smarter than everyone else and that our opinions mean nothing.
Regarding my military service (as a Navy SEAL), those of us who PROUDLY served, understood one of the primary reasons we did so was to preserve freedom of speech for everyone, including “people” like you. If you understood anything about the military you’d know veterans get paid peanuts risking their lives and it’s not a get rich scheme. Comrade, you can condemn vets and make ASSumptioms about everyone who doesn’t share your viewpoint, but you continue to prove to me why I was willing to risk my life for 16 years (and of course raking in millions while doing so) to keep hard drugs out of America. Be careful; that stuff causes brain damage, diarrhea of the mouth (via the keyboard), thoughtless pontification and illusions of grandeur. On second thought, my warning has obviously come too late for you.
“We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
Sorry – I have never in my life thought that those who serve or have served in the military have not defended the USA – but I would like to know where the military shows up when civil liberties are being taken away, e.g. the National Guard shows up … and defends the government position which is in bed with businesses and corporations … and therefore, sir … you have in your military career not served Americans’ interest, but the interest of your employer – which is the Corporate State.
And, when it comes down to the gist of whether a gay man should serve or not serve in the military – I think to myself … if any man or woman is willing to join the military, and be put through what men and women go through to be in the military, then, do not deny a single person!!
And, it is my belief that there are other entities in this world which protect and defend freedom besides the military – sorry, the military is not the only one!
Darrell … I sleep safely at night .. not because of the military … but because I have a clear conscience and can rest … but I will not and cannot ever believe that we Americans can sit back and drink mojitos at the pool, because we all know the military has our backs and is protecting our right to freedom of speech!! That is bs and you ought to know better!
Freedom to speech is a right every person on this planet is born with … and requires no military to protect it !!!
Dear legend in your own mind, my apology; although you are clearly well beyond being helped by an intervention, the phone number for the Free Addiction Helpline is 866-535-9821. Also, for our benefit and the safety of our children, PLEASE contact Planned Parenthood at “plannedparenthood.org” and talk to them about a vasectomy. Finally, it should give you comfort to know I perform frontal lobotomies (using a hot coat-hanger) and water-boarding sessions on my garage workbench for free on all commies. Step right up; I’ll put you at the head of the line.
Comrade, you previously suggested I was probably sitting on my fanny and accepting handouts. Nope, unlike you, I’ve been busy spending the billions I made in the military, helping vets in the Wounded Warriors project, acting as a supervisor during numerous national emergencies for the American Red Cross, recovering bodies following hurricane Katrina, fighting fires in CA and AZ, running the busiest search and rescue team in the country, founding and commanding a sheriff’s dive team and working for Habitat For Humanity, ALL as an unpaid volunteer for the last ten years. I suggest YOU do something worthwhile for a change…and, I’m sorry to break your balloon, but “serving” on your homeowners ASSoc. and joining the ACLU as a lifetime member don’t count.
I almost forgot, Nikita, how’s your house arrest working out for you?
“We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
Darrell. Words escape me as to how elequent your words are. I have been in a foul mood for the past several hours, but reading your two posts made me smile. BTW, wimpy has been sitting in the corner sulking because everyone is picking on him. He keeps reading the manifesto, and cannot come up with why communism always is corrupted. That, and someone took his pink nightie away from him. But hey, he could always twitter congress(man?) weener…Wiener from New York, and gaze longingly at the man in the brief briefs.
BTW, after your pals took out osama bin deadman, Seals have become my new heros. Thanks buddy…very well done.
Thanks Christopher. I have total respect for you, Marshall, Dr. Marlowe and several other frequent contributors to this blog. Any bets on whether our the commie “friend” has ever had a “real” job, voted for “bo,” burned an American flag, wants all reference to God taken off our money, favored the elimination of “don’t ask, don’t tell, thinks same sex marriage is a great idea, favors giving social security benefits to illegals and would like to see Israel destroyed?” I’d bet his worthless life on it! Thank God we still have men and women in America who are willing to stand up to jerks like him. If America ends up in a real war inside our borders in the next few years with socialists and/or radical Muslims, as I expect, it would be prudent for them to read Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War,” because throwing erasers, flip-flops and copies of The Communist Manifesto at us just ain’t gunna cut it.
Christopher, thanks again and have a terrific day! We need to talk…really. You can get my contact info from Marshall if you agree.
Scoreboard:
Navy SEALs: 2, pirates: 0, OBL: 0
“We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
Total agreement.
I would love to see a bunch of limp wristed communist wanna bes start throwing hissy fits and slapping people, when the war begins. After living near and working in the real Woodstock for more years than I care to remember, cleaning up after the hippies, whippies, dippies, and their followers, sorting through the smell, bugs (lice, roaches and other vermin), unbelievable filth both on and off the human body, watching wasted humans eat while dribbling mayonaise down onto their beards while they trash talked the cops…well, I could go on, but anyone who thinks that the experiment of communal living…aka communism…works, is a deluded pissant who needs to be de-loused, inspected and injected.
Amazingly, the real Woodstock NY was 65 miles away from the famous festival of its name, because back in 69, even the town board of Woodstock knew better than to sponsor such an event in their little town. Unfortunately, it drew every kind of scum to Woodstock, and still does.
After years of being away from the famous Woodstock, sometimes I can still smell the crud of it. It is not unlike a dead body…a smell you cannot ever get over.
Have a great one, Darrell, and btw, I forgot about the pirates. Even better. Can’t believe der obamamiester allowed both the pirates and bin deadman to be terminated by the good guys. Must be sucking up for votes. News flash to him. It be too late.
I will get your email from Marshall, and of course he has permission to give you mine.
Comrade Kevin…If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and poops like a duck (all over the place), it is a duck. Your tirades against capitalism, and your intense defense of communism tells it all. You don’t have to tell us what you are. I am amazed that you would sort of prickle at being called a communist. After all, you have called me about every name your finite mind could come up with…including on several occasions a “fascist conspirator”, (see above). That was a classic. I am thinking of having a tee shirt made up with those words on it. Something like “Since I am not a communist, I am a fascist conspirator”. Just like breath causes death. I breath. I am going to die. Therefore breathing causes death. Your logic, not mine.
I find it incredible that the faculty at WCU would employ someone whose political make up is so radical. I find it incredible that parents would send their kids to a college PAYING TUITION TO DO SO which teaches those kids the mind numbed crap you teach. It shows Americans remain ignorant to what is happening to us. It proves the very topic we write on.
We are, Kevin, a capitalist country, in spite of MANY of the things that Ohaha has done to tip the scales unfairly towards labor. I have told you repeatedly, and will state once again, that I have been a “laborer” all my life. I do not have wealth. I do not have health insurance. I live in a modest house. I have gotten what I have earned over the years, and still work. IN NO WAY, DOES THE GOVERNMENT OWE ME ANYTHING. In the same token, I will fight to the death any attempts by the government to resort to communism. If the shoe fits…
You gallently say to Darrell that you sleep safely because of a clear conscience, or some such crap, not because of the military. I will add that you sleep safely because of the police, who are the thin blue line between you and anarchy. Sometimes, I think you who have the gall…the audacity to believe your crap, ought to live through a riot or insurgency. Actually, you may have that chance. Just look at what is happening in Chicago. The cops cannot guarantee the safety of tourists who want to visit one of their very busy malls. Cops in San Jose responded to a shooting or stabbing about 2 hours after it happened at a MCDONALD’S of all places. (Cut backs, staff reductions). So you sleep safely with your clean conscience, while someone breaks in your back door, steals everything you have, and shoots you in the head, because when you called 911, you got put on hold, or were told the officers were busy on the other side of the city or country. Right.
There are a multitude of writers on this blog who will pick up arms if necessary. If you wish to live in a communist country, or in a communist society, I say go to Cuba. It has been a remarkable success story, hasn’t it? Don’t worry about dissenters going to jail. Don’t worry about people being kicked off their property…heck…that was all about “redistribution of wealth.” Where have we heard that term before? DO NOT have the gall to defend the Cuban regime based on what it was BEFORE Castro. That is like saying “we cured the pneumonia, but to do so, we had to give the patient aids,”
If anything, I ought to be one of those who thinks redistribution of wealth is good thing. it would benefit me. I say, if I did not EARN it, I do not deserve it. Then, I say that about all the stupid programs the government has, that redistribute what very little I have to people who sit on their butts and do nothing. We could, of course, take even more from the “rich”, a favorite mantra of Ohaha’s. Well, ain’t that sweet? Sounds like a utopian idea to me. Just more redistribution of wealth. Sounds like… hmmm…communism. A great anti-dote to capitalism. I knew you would like that.
I do not have to defend capitalism to you, or anyone. Capitalism will self regulate, IF THE GOVERNMENT WOULD STAY THE HELL OUT OF IT. Neither Bush or Ohaha did us any favors with the stupid ill advised bail outs. They propped up crooked businesses and financial institutions who should have gone bankrupt. They did so, because they failed to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac..and the truth about how corrupt those entities ARE, was coming out. It would have made politicians and the political appointees who run those organizations look bad. It doesn’t matter which party they were, they should all go to jail. Crooked things have a way of exposing themselves, and that is exactly what should have happened. Tarp covered it. Hmmm. Interesting name for the “bail out”.
While I do not need to defend capitalism, I will slam communism every chance I get. So far, the old insantiy definition applies. Do the same thing that does NOT work over and over again. All communism has done is lead to EXTREME repression of anyone who disagrees with it. Show me a country where communism works, where there has been no EXTREME government repression.
One other thing Comrade…
I was going to ignore defending our system of capitalism. Maybe I can toss out a few things for the heck of it.
What country comes to the aid of the rest of the world, repeatedly, and shares it’s bounty? Who repeatedly will feed a starving world, or people? What country has given more to the world in advances in medicine, as well as technology?
Is there a country whose people are more generous than Americans? Tell me about those utopian communist societies that GIVE so much in a time of crisis. How much aid do we send when a Tsunami stikes? Who sent miners to a south American country, when miners were trapped underground? What country stood back, when the miners were freed, and let the home country take credit?
What country bailed out England and of course France, during the 40′s, in a little event called WW2. What country lost untold men and women, in doing so? What country did it about 20 years earlier, too? And at what cost? And finally, when have you seen a Muslim country do anything remotely close to what the United States has done for the world? Just thought I would toss that one in.
Nope, we are not perfect. We are just Americans. We do what we do, because we are pretty good people, and are allowed to be laborers, doctors, lawyers(ugh), engineers, nurses, cops, restaurant owners and operators, and even teachers. We do these jobs, knowing full well what we sign up for, before we do them. We choose to get whatever education we need for whatever job we want. We know, that the more education we achieve, the higher up the pay scale we can go. If one has the ambition, one can have the gold ring, if he or she wants it. You can rail against capitalism, but it works for me, and thankfully, for the majority of the people in the country, greedy s o b’s notwithstanding.