"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944, and 1948
Nine years into the twenty-first century, Mr. Thomas’ prediction has come to fruition; the presidential elections of 2008 have validated his faith in “liberalism” and its Trojan horse delivery of Socialism. After decades of slow yet persistent desensitization in our schools, in our media, and in government policy, Americans have become complacent to the ramifications of Socialism upon our prosperity, our individual freedoms, and our national identity.
We have been so concerned with external threats that we have forgotten to watch our back door. While we defeated Communism in much of the rest of the world, it quietly crept into our schools and institutions, disguised as a more palatable communitarian “philosophy.” It has now taken America. It did so without violence, by subterfuge and stealth, but make no mistake, President-elect Barrack Obama is motivated by the same controlling impulses that inspire Chavez and Noriega. He is moved by the same totalitarian tendency that animates all utopian ideologues.
"When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody," Barack Obama explained to Joe Wurzelbacher, popularly known as Joe, the Plumber. The hard lessons of history have taught us otherwise; the application of utopian ideals by those who would govern using them has always led to disaster and ruin. Socialism bleeds the vitality from a nation. It dilutes the national will and lulls the citizenry into a fatal complacency that makes it ill-suited to survival as social programs progressively consume larger and larger portions of the national budget for continually decreasing returns. Its corrupting influence on cultural and national strength is clear in the continuing struggle to rebuild the countries of the former Warsaw Pact. Its negative effect is becoming increasingly evident in those European nations that now experiment with it, with ever-increasing taxes, declining populations, and decreasing productivity.
Simply put, Socialism is a disaster.
Our new President is a man who was bred into socialism’s fantasies; who was mentored as a boy by communists and their sympathizers; and who was drawn to Marxists and radicals his whole life. He is not a centrist, nor is he even truly American as most of us define it. He does not esteem our foundational values, but looks at them as oppressive and defective. The care he takes to obscure and hide his associations, to present himself as an everyday American is a façade, a ruse, and a tool to gain the power that he will now use to deconstruct us. Our culture has already been corrupted. Our universities are infested with radicals and progressive socialists. Our press is drawn from their ranks and Hollywood is in lockstep with both. Now our institutions are about to be remade.
Obama knows he does not represent the will and the desires of most Americans, but with monumental arrogance, he believes he knows best, and the many deceits he has spun will be justified by the results of his enlightened leadership. He is part of a greater plan though he may not know it, one begun many decades ago by a Soviet Union trying to undermine the West. It is a relentless effort to win power by working inside the system and by corrupting it with willing dupes, agents and provocateurs. The Soviet Union is gone, but its propaganda and misinformation campaign lives on. Indeed, it has taken on a life of its own and to its disciples the clear evidence of the socialist systems failures matters not. They are as blind to reason as a religious cult, thought and intellect having fled, the facility for critical analysis drowned in the drone of radical chants and communitarian mantras.
Communism, socialism’s most virulent strain, has been so spectacular a failure, it is hard to fathom how anyone could now embrace it. Yet at Obama’s victory celebrations, here and there, we saw the symbols of Ché Guevara and even a Soviet flag, its hammer and sickle an ominous reminder. It is interesting to remember where Soviet agents were placed during the early days of the Cold War, and to whom their Marxist message most appealed. We do not know how deeply Soviet infiltration went. The FBI records released with the 2,900 documents known as the Venona Papers only go to 1958, but we know Soviet efforts increased in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, as new communications technologies allowed infiltration as never before.
We do know that their intent was not only to collect intelligence, but also to influence the culture of America, to alter perceptions, and make their Marxist message more acceptable. Their influence wormed its way deep into the fabric of our nation, so much so that the Democrat Party now openly sides with radical Marxists and promises to institute policies that are indistinguishable from those of Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. The nationalization of private sector institutions and resources is now happening with the Freddie Mac and Fannie May bailout, and the redistribution of wealth through taxation is inevitable.
The Soviets compromised numerous government departments, the Defense Department, the Department of Justice, the State Department, and the Office of the President. They also had various congressional representatives in their pocket and several influential members of the Democratic Party. They also enlisted journalists and editors, luminaries such as I.F. Stone of The Nation, Anna Louise Strong of Harpers and Atlantic Monthly, Ricardo Setaro and Richard Redmont of CBS, Richard Lauterbach of Time Magazine, and others. Hollywood proved a fertile ground for them also with Michael Leshing of Twentieth Century Fox, producer Boris Moros and screen writer Walter Sol Bernstein, and other influential figures. The Soviets also knew that schools and universities were fertile ground for their influence, and combined with their manipulation of popular culture in newspapers, magazines, and Hollywood, they could undermine the strength of their most formidable Capitalist opponent. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, but the fruit did not come ripe until long after they were gone.
Our new leaders, the Socialists of the Democratic Party, reject the fundamental premise of a Democratic society, that things work best with the least possible government interference. Their ideology originates from a profoundly mistaken understanding of human nature, one that misinterprets human self-interest as greed and holds human altruism in disdain, assuming it is calculated by self-interest alone. Their formula is founded on the belief that government involvement in all aspects of the lives of its citizens will create the greater good. This Statism inevitably leads to a society controlled by political elites, where citizens lose their voice and then their freedom. The Socialist state assumes it can solve societal problems and shape that society through its policies and taxes, and uses ever more draconian methods to force compliance.
We now find ourselves about to be governed by the left of unrepentant terrorists, communists, and socialists, radical academics and revisionists, the dregs of failed revolutionaries and “progressive” organizations, of entitlement activists and race scam artists, with all their hatred and contempt and disrespect. Their candidate had nothing to qualify him, no achievement, no legacy, no history of conviction and action, just a solid socialist upbringing, with communist mentors and radical friends, nurtured and promoted in the corruption of Chicago politics, and enabled by the radical rich.
They will follow a deconstructive script. In attempting to consolidate and perpetuate their power, they will dismantle many of the guarantees Americans count on for their liberty. They will regulate, restrict, punish and intimidate to get their programs through. They will use enticements such as welfare and entitlements. They will cajole and lecture and wrap their actions in moral arguments. They will come after our freedoms by changing the Constitution, by expanding and warping the role of the judiciary, and by using the press to influence the population to accept their changes. They will manipulate the 2010 census to rewrite electoral boundaries in their favor. They will restrict the freedom of speech on radio and television. They will come after the right to keep and bear arms. They will steal our 401k’s to bail out Social Security. They will place their operatives in every American institution and government department, looking to the day when they will need influence. Their goal is no less than to make America a one-party system, a Socialist Democrat monopoly, with the Republican opposition a mere stage piece.
The face of America Obama sees is a caricature, a myth found in the radicalism into which he was bred. He holds no love for us, and desires to erase what we are. Voter fraud, illegal campaign finance, manipulative litigation and lies are easy for him. He has no ethical concern, no morality beyond the morality of power. Vladimir Lenin wrote that, “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” In the struggle for the soul of America, the Socialists are counting on it. We are at risk as never before, no enemy is at our gates. They are defeating us from within. This is a battle for our survival, for our unique place in human history, for our creativeness and energy, for our strength and character. This is where we make the decision, we have battled and defeated the foreign enemy, how then will we defeat the domestic one?
