Saturday, March 5, 2011

Duped! Relentless Marxist Deception


By Alan Caruba

“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, former U.S. Socialist Party president candidate

Those of my age—I am in my seventies—have a strong recall of the Cold War, fought from the end of World War Two in 1945 until the fall of the infamous Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We grew up knowing that the Communists—Marxists—were the enemy.

All throughout that period, American liberals—Leftists—did what they could to ridicule efforts to rid the government of Communists, attacked those like Sen. Joseph McCarthy who spoke out against them, defended the likes of Fidel Castro who turned Cuba into a prison-state, and worked to “improve” U.S.-Soviet relations.

A book I wish everyone would read, liberals and conservatives alike, “Dupes” by Paul Kengor, went into a second printing in January of this year (ISI Books, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, DE). Kengor, a PhD, is a professor of political science at Grove City College. His book runs just over 600 pages, all thoroughly documented, and tells the history of the effort to impose communism on America and worldwide, dating back to the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.

One of the characters in the book is Whittaker Chambers, a former Soviet spy who came to realize how evil Communism was and who revealed how the administrations of Roosevelt and Truman were shot through with spies and those cooperating with the Soviet Union, the most famous of whom was Alger Hiss, a high-ranking State Department official. Richard M. Nixon first came to public notice as a Senator from California who ran on an anti-Communist platform.

“While Communists make full use of liberals and their solicitudes, and sometimes flatter them to their faces, in private,” wrote Chambers, “they treat them with that sneering contempt that the strong and predatory almost invariably feel for victims who volunteer to help in their own victimization.”

Socialism has had a long, hard time establishing itself in America and has mostly been the gift of the Democratic Party that held control of Congress for forty years until that grip was broken in 1995. Despite that, Bill Clinton was reelected and, halfway through George W. Bush’s second term, congressional power returned to the Democrats.

Then, in 2008, a virtually unknown Senator who had not even served a full term, who had no paper trail of documentation regarding his life, who had written two memoirs that hinted at his far Left upbringing and associations, was elected President. Putting it bluntly, Americans were duped.

As Kengor points out, Americans “in poll after poll, year after year, have described themselves as ‘conservative’ over ‘liberal’ by a margin of roughly two to one, by approximately 40 percent to 20 percent.”

The political environment of America is conservative, but it has been the growing number of independent voters that have determined election outcomes. That says something about the disappointment that both political parties have created with their emphasis on enlarging the federal government, excessive spending, questionable wars, and general indifference to the voters.

The independents also reflect the sudden emergence of the Tea Party movement that occurred to protest Obamacare. They and others have swung back toward conservative candidates electing Republican governors in New Jersey and Virginia, a Republican Senator from Massachusetts, and sent Allen West and Marco Rubio to Congress from Florida, along with a host of candidates supported by the Tea Parties.

Independents along with conservatives in America have been demonstrating a level of political resistance to senseless spending and the rough-shod imposition of leftist legislation that suggests the 2012 elections will “save” America from Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their far Left minions.

The election of Barack Obama was the result of the greatest act of political deception in the modern era. It was aided by a news media that not only ignored all the obvious signs that Obama was a denizen of the far Left, but was surrounded, not only by Leftists, but Communists like Van Jones whose Apollo Alliance helped write Obama’s budget-bursting $800 billion ‘stimulus’ bill.

The revolutionaries of the 1960s had mostly migrated to positions in higher education where they could influence a new generation, oblivious to the carnage that has always accompanied a Communist revolution, killing millions. Younger Americans in 2008 meant that those aged 18 to 29 made up nearly one in five voters or about twenty-five million ballots. They preferred Obama by a margin of more than two to one, 66 percent to 32 percent. They had no memory of the Cold War.

Seeking to dupe Americans Obamacare was an act of raw political power that ignored the same widespread rejection that an earlier version, dubbed “Hillarycare”, had encountered. “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it,” said then Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Its purpose was to completely socialize healthcare in America.

Americans, old and young, must not be duped again. The very future of the nation depends on the actions of a Republican-controlled House in the years remaining as America’s first Marxist President works his way, seeking always to make dupes of us all.

© Alan Caruba, 2011

8 comments:

Dave's Daily Day Dream said...

Got it last Summer, Alan, and I couldn't agree more!

Ronbo said...

The American Left will rue the day they attempted this putsch to overthrow the Republic under Obama, because all they have accomplished is to have awakened the sleeping giant of American patriotism that will crush them.

Harry Dale Huffman said...

It is a mistake to label Obama as anything other than without character (likewise, for all those who voted for him). Maybe you could call him the Manchurian Candidate, himself an unwitting dupe of clinging Isms, old dogmas. There is nothing there that can honestly lead -- He is all mask, even to himself. He cannot be honest in anything beyond his own creature comforts (recognize yourselves, America?), because he is at bottom just a self-ambitious man, lean and hungry in appearance, ineffective in action. He was elected because the majority wanted revenge, the only real change they could believe in. The American electorate was wrong-headedly angry, unlistening and incompetent, not the innocent dupe of Machiavellian evil. The American people need to reject hate, and feelings of self-victimhood. They need to rise above themselves, because they have only gotten what they petulantly demanded, as spoiled children: others to blame besides themselves, of little or no character.

Unknown said...

That the Hard Left would kill those who disagreed or resisted their ideas told me all I needed to know about that Collective of Evil known by the various names from Liberalism to Communism. That dab of knowledge came to me somewhere in the 1940s.

Then came LBJ and I did a "Cherchez le moolah," and said to myself, "Self, we're in deep doo-doo." But, hey, the dupes bought into the deal.

Then came 2008 and it became obvious that Dupitis was a nationwide phenomenon. That brings us to the American condition: Perception outweighs reality and facts.

Got gold? Silver? Food? Some other "clutchables"?

joetote said...

@Harry:

Obama as you state definitely is without character. However, do not think for one moment he is an unwitting dupe as in the Manchurian Candidate. His words and actions (heck read his book! It's all there)are indicative of a hard core Socialist with Anti-American, Anti-Semite and pro-Muslim leanings.

It's bad enough we don't learn from history as it is, but it's ten times worse when the people refuse to acknowledge what is in fron of htem.

Alan, as always you are spot on. I have that book and it's great.

Conway said...

I've known all this for decades; liberals and their ilk are what were deemed useful idiots by Mr Ulynanov, otherwise known as Lenin. Unfortunately, when I voiced this opinion to others, I was derided and even compared to the likes of Hitler - labeled paranoid, intolerant, crazy, etc.

America may survive, though I doubt it will, and America will only survive via a prolonged bloodbath that will make Mao's Cultural Revolution of '68 seem tame by comparison.

joetote said...

Another thought on this.

Everything coming from this administration are actually outright lies and deception with a good dose of Marxist propaganda. The take over of health care is just another example of this man’s socialist leanings, all of which were very apparent early on before he was elected! That is apparent if the majority of the electorate had bothered to READ!. As such, this is only the tip of the ice berg. As seen in Wisconsin and around the country now, the left is openly asking what right someone has to their own hard earned income! The health care fiasco is just one chapter of the redistribution of wealth that this administration is pursuing in chasing what has always been and will be a failed socialist pipe dream!

retch said...

Sorry Alan, while realizing these thing swing back and forth, up and down, it's still too much to ask me to look at Joseph McCarthy as a national hero. I agree with Joseph M. Welch that he didn't have "a sense of decency." Remember McCarthy chased Charlie Chaplin out of the USA, and helped blacklist Dalton Trumbo (who came back to write 'Exodus') and many other good, if at times mixed up — who isn't?) men. The loss was ours.
We don't need the likes of McCarthy back.