What is the Difference Between A Democrat and a Socialist - Communist?

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       George Sontag

               

      This was the question recently asked of the head of the Democratic party Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. If there was a difference a person would logically think that there would be an exact response - but there was not. Instead the question was never answered. The subject was changed every time it was put to her - why? The explanation is simple. There is no real distinction between today's Democrats and Socialists and they know it. It's the common knowledge that no one wants to talk about. Newsweek, in 2009, ran a cover story with the headline: "We Are All Socialists Now." The silence was deafening.

                                                     Polls show that most Democrats are quite comfortable with

Socialism. A recent poll found 52 percent of Democrats had a favorable opinion about Socialism. The problem is that the word Socialism or Communism is still taboo with the older generation. The fact that older Americans vote at a higher level than other age groups was one of the reasons that they changed the name to "Progressive." From its beginning, the promoters of "Progressivism" have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence the use of the term.

      Today’s “Progressives” are pushing the failed ideas that are nothing but retreads of the notorious 19 and century command-and-control tyrannies that killed about 120 million of their own citizens.  To push these ideas their preferred ploy is to ridicule critics when they out the undeniable parallels between the goals of today’s "Progressive” movement in the Democratic Party, and the of the early, and very much still alive, Communist movement.

      Their tactics have been to discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. Discredit the American Founding Fathers by presenting them as selfish aristocrats, slave owners who had no concern for the “common man.” They belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history in our education system. They belittle it by presenting "new facts" and that it our history was exaggerated and that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.”

      The slogan of "fundamentally transforming America” has become their rallying call. The final goal is Cultural Marxism. Cultural Marxism as “a branch of western Marxism, different

from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known as ‘multiculturalism’ or, less formally, Political Correctness. Cultural Marxists endeavor to scrub America of her Judeo-Christian, constitutional-republican founding principles, subversion of the moral culture, especially the elimination of the natural family by means of government dependency programs, and to adjust, to their "new vision", the U.S. Constitution.

      

      That fact  is that the shift of the Democrat Party sharply to the left have helped to pave the way for the advent of the Progressive era. Democrats have a strategy, a battle plan they’re willing to do anything to advance. They set about changing America's culture and they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Today, the left controls virtually all of the

opinion-molding organs of American society: the media and the arts, public schools, foundations, seminaries, museums, libraries, higher education, the federal bureaucracy, and the legal profession. This era is highlighted by the willingness of the people to elect – and re-elect –the most anti-American, anti-constitutional, radically left, lawless president in American history and allow the government to pick and choose, rewrite, and selectively enforce the laws of the nation. It would appear that the progressive transformation of America is nearly complete. If we do not slam on the brakes and initiate a reversal of the transformation soon – very soon – then it will be too late and the United States of America – the most noble and successful experiment in human freedom the world has ever known.

The Truth about Vladamir Putin and Russia

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       Phillip Todd

      Today we have an interview with Angela Stent author of the book "The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russia Relations in the 21st Century.” With the anti-Putin and anti-Russia propaganda that our government influenced news media is drowning the American public in, (Ex.-In Yahoo News it is almost 40% of it's daily content) we at The American Constitutionalist feel it is our duty, once again, to dispense the truth.

AC: Ms. Stent, Angela, how long have you known Vladamir Putin?
AS: So I’m part of a group. And we have met with Mr. Putin for the last 10 years. We have had dinner with him, occasionally lunch. This time we stood overlooking the beautiful Black Sea on this spectacular terrace in his government mansion there. As we stood there he explained to us that Russia, you know, had come back, that the 1990s and all the humiliation, where the U.S. was able to — quote, unquote — “dictate to Russia” what it should do, was over. Putin’s claim to fame, his appeal to his population is that he has brought Russia back, that Russia is now again a great power, and also that Russia really offers a different model to the world.

AC: What do you mean a different model?
AS: Putin has now claimed a turf for Russia, saying that Russia is sort of the leader of a new conservative international system. He blames the United States and the Europeans for having lost their way, that Russia is now the harbinger of traditional family values, in fact Russia is now the harbinger of true Christian values, and that it respects the absolute sovereignty of other countries. It doesn’t go around the world telling other countries how they should live or what kind of political system they should have. And he blames the United States and the Europeans for behaving like the Soviet Union and trying to impose their value system and their political system on other countries.

AC: This is not what the American people are being told about him and Russia. Has the U.S. always  been laboring under a basic misconception of Russia?
AS:  I think that is part of the problem. It’s a very big part of it, that in the ’90s we really thought that Russia wanted to become like the West, wanted to adopt our values, our political system. It became increasingly clear that it didn’t. And the Russians have always wanted from us an equal partnership of unequals. We haven’t understood that or we haven’t been willing to accept that as a condition of improving the relationship. And that’s been a huge problem for the last 22 years.

AC: After 9/11 Putin attempted to form a sort of counter terrorism alliance. What happened to that?
AS: Putin thought that the U.S. would recognize Russia as an equal, a strategic partner, that it had special rights in its neighborhood, it served privilege interests, the former Soviet states, and that we would cease to sort of tell Russia or suggest to Russia how it should run its domestic system or criticize it for its lack of democracy and human rights. This whole relationship fell apart because the Russians looked to NATO enlargement to the Baltic states which was directed towards Russia, and so that their expectations were really mismatched then.

AC: Why do you think that Russia granted asylum to Edward Snowden?
AS: Well, I think, for Putin, this was a golden opportunity, when Edward Snowden landed in Hong Kong and needed somewhere to go and went to Moscow and then stayed there, because Putin was able to say, ah, the United States, you’re criticizing us for lack of democracy. You’re criticizing us for the way we treated protesters against me, against Vladimir Putin, and criticizing us for spying on our citizens. What are you doing? You’re doing just what we are doing or even much more than that.

AC: Looking ahead to the future, to what degree do you think Vladimir Putin actually represents the aspirations of the Russian people, including all those Russians who came out to demonstrate against him? Is he a throwback, or is this really the Russia of the future that we need to get used to?
AS: I think Putin represents the aspirations of about half of the Russian population, who support a strong state, a strong leader and who want to see Russia back on the world scene, and not necessarily accepting, embracing Western values or even interests. He doesn’t represent the aspirations of the educated urban elites who would like to live in a more modern society with better governance. But even those people, even a lot of the younger urban elites do want to see Russia as a strong international player. They have national pride. I think that there will be slow evolution in Russia, that Russia will eventually become a more modern and probably a more democratic society on Russian terms. But it’s going to take a very long time.

AC: A long time indeed with the United States using them as a threat, an enemy to justify it's enormous defense budget and it's continuing interference in their allies internal affairs. Angela Stent, thank you.

What Did Your Child Do Last Summer?

Guest Column

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        Tom Purcell

      It is said that humor is founded in truth. Our children are being influenced, not only by you, their parents, but also by other authority figures that they come in contact with. Much of their tutelage comes from professionals who have taken to teach an agenda for what they see as the"betterment of mankind?" As you can see from this excerpt from Tom's book can be humorous especially when it's goes against human nature.          

- M. Richard Maxson

Dear Mom and Dad,

   It's been almost three weeks since you dropped me off at summer camp. You better come get me 'cause I'm in big trouble.

   On my first day, I was feeling homesick. So I found a piece of wood and began carving it with my Swiss Army knife the way Daddy showed me. Well, one of the counselors yelled at me to "freeze." He took my knife, then patted me down. Then he marched me off to the camp director. The director said, who did I think I was bringing a lethal weapon, a symbol of pain and death, into her camp? Then she gave me a "verbal warning."

   One day, Billy Johnson and I got bored, so we went into the woods to play. We turned a couple of branches into guns and made bullet noises as we fought the bad guys. Sure enough, we got marched off to the director. The director said there's so much war in the world because boys like us are taught to "celebrate" it from an early age. She said we should be ashamed of ourselves and that we were lucky she wasn't sending us home.

   So I figured I better stay out of trouble. But then I got in trouble at lunch. I began to say grace out loud, just like you taught me, and I was carted off to the director again.

   She wanted to know who I thought I was imposing my beliefs on others. She said my actions showed how "ignorant" and "insensitive" Americans are to other cultures; then she gave me another warning.

   Believe it or not, things got even worse. We were weaving baskets and I was sitting next to Mary Allison, the prettiest girl I ever saw.

   "Mary," I said, "you're so pretty you make me smile from ear to ear."

   Well, sure enough, I was carted off to the director again. She said I really crossed the line this time. She said my behavior was not only "boorish," but against the law. She said I should be sued for sexual harassment.

   By the way, what is a "gender terrorist"?

   I was pretty uptight by that point. But I was able to forget about played kickball. I kicked the ball really far and I got a grand slam. I was so happy,

I said, "We win! We win!"

   Sure enough, that got me another trip to the director's office. This time she said I was "insensitive" to the players on the other team. She said I hurt their "selfesteem." Then she asked me if you and Daddy are Republicans.

   By this point, I figured I'd better just keep to myself. So I got a jar out of the cafeteria and went into the woods. I caught a bumblebee in the jar and put some flowers in there to keep him happy. I was poking holes in the top to let fresh air in when I was hauled off to the director again.

   This time, she was really mad. She said, who did I think I was giving a "death sentence" to an innocent bee? She said I had no respect for the Earth and that it was people like me who were responsible for climate change. She said I'll be lucky if the world doesn't end before I collect Social Security.

   She said I better get with the program — that there is no place in this world anymore for "thoughtless," "restless," "insensitive" boys like me. She said if I mess up one more time, she was kicking me out of the camp.

   By the way, what is Ritalin?

   Anyhow, you better plan on coming back to get me. Tomorrow everybody is going for a hike in the woods. And I already picked some flowers to give to Mary Allison.

Your son,

Tommy

*Editor's Note: If you run this column, please mention that it is an

excerpt from Tom Purcell's new book, "Comical Sense: A Lone Humorist

Takes on a World Gone Nutty!"

The Difference Between a Republic and Democracy

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       M. Richard Maxson

      A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the United States Constitution). A Democracy is government ruled by the

majority (mob rule). A Republic recognizes the unalienable rights of individuals while Democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs for the good of the public, or in other words social justice. A Republic is what the Founding Fathers envisioned, as a matter of fact, almost to a man, they feared a Democracy. They understood that Democracies always self-destruct when the non-productive majority realizes that it can vote itself handouts from the productive minority by electing the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury. To maintain their power, these candidates must adopt an ever-increasing tax and spend policy to satisfy the ever-increasing desires of the majority. As taxes increase, incentive to produce decreases, causing many of the once productive to drop out and join the non-productive. When there are no longer enough producers to fund the legitimate functions of government and the socialist programs, the democracy will collapse.

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” 

                                                                                      John Adams

      The Constitution is very clear on the subject: Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion". The word democracy is not mentioned in the Constitution at all and for good reason.

"Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths... A republic, by which I mean a government in which a scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking." 

                                              James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10 (1787).

      Listening to our media and acadamia nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a democracy. It is absolutely not true. The Founders knew full well the differences between a Republic and a Democracy and they repeatedly said that they had founded a republic. Their views on democracy are undeniable.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"

                                                                                        Ben Franklin

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

                                                                                        Thomas Jefferson

      As you journey through your day and you continue to hear that we are or should be a democracy exposing democratic ideals remember that this narrative is anti-American as it was our Founding Fathers. Democracy is, politically speaking, to the left of the Constitution that this country was founded on. It is the slippery slope that tilts society towards Progressivism, Socialism, and finally a Communist form of government.