by
Zeno Potas
"Socialism
is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of
envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." – Sir
Winston Churchill
On
Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a
list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record. These are
the one's pertinent to this article:
- Capture
one or both of the political parties in the U.S. (Note: In his book,
"Reagan’s War," Peter Schweizer demonstrates the
astonishing degree to which Communists and Communist sympathizers
have penetrated the Democratic Party.)
- Get
control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism
and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control
of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
- Infiltrate
the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing,
policy-making positions.
-
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.
- Continue
discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic
expression.
Now,
with the accomplishment of these goals, John
Bachtell, chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party
USA, has penned a 2,000-plus-word essay explaining to his True
Believers why the party has chosen to use the Democrats
as its vehicle. It can be found on their website. Former
Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin explained in his writings that the
ultimate goal of Socialism is Communism.
They
are now seeing the results. The rise of newly elected, Communist
inspired, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who is being touted
as one of the rising stars of the “new” Democratic Party.
Ocasio-Cortez is not of the old Democratic party of our fathers. That
doesn't exist anymore. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists
of America (DSA), the largest Socialist organization in the United
States. A number of
Democratic Socialists of America leaders have
publicly
endorsed communism, an ideology that, according to some
estimates, is responsible for the unnatural deaths of 100 million
people during the 20th century. The DSA doesn’t merely want to
create new government-run social programs, it desires, in the words
of a member of DSA and the editor of the Socialist magazine Jacobin,
to “in the long run … end capitalism,” - to change the United
States into something the Founding Fathers would abhor.
At
the foundation of all of Ocasio-Cortez’s reforms is her commitment
to Socialism, an economic system that in its most utopian form aims
to eliminate nearly all private property. Ocasio-Cortez’s radical
left-wing policy proposals and her socialist ideology present a
significant threat to America’s economy and its longstanding
commitment to individual liberty. For example, Ocasio-Cortez’s
Green New Deal includes “upgrading every residential and industrial
building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety,”
a plan that would cost trillions of dollars and give government
access to every household in America. Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t simply
want to tweak our existing system, she wants to complete Barack
Obama’s goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of
America.”
How
does Ocasio-Cortez plan to pay for free education, health care,
living income, etc, these massive programs? She has called for
printing money to pay for her socialist reforms. In a “60 Minutes”
interview with Anderson Cooper that will air on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez
suggested that some of her plans could be paid for by raising taxes
on the wealthy to rates as high as 70 percent. But even that huge tax
increase wouldn’t be nearly enough to pay for her numerous policy
proposals. Raising taxes on all citizens, perhaps to 50%, would
eliminate the middle class and bring about true Progressive
Socialism.
Back
in the 1940s, Communists were also infiltrating the Democrats, but
back then, there was resistance.
Hubert Humphrey rose to national prominence as mayor of Minneapolis
when he crusaded to drive the commies out of the Democrats. He was
joined by a large cohort of anti-communist Democrats, people like
Henry Jackson. Somehow, these days, there is no expectation of
resistance to this infiltration. Ocasio-Cortez
wants to impose her radical, socialist vision on every single
American citizen, a fact most of those in the mainstream media, who
have spent the past several months fawning
over her, refuse to tell
the public. That fact is that Socialism
has two classes – the proletariat, the workers which would be 95%
of the population and the ruling class, the uber-rich, who will tell
the proletariat what they can and cannot do or say and administer to
them as they see fit. Also known as “The Nanny State.)
There
is nothing trendy, cool, or desirable about Socialism. And those who
advocate it are, well, let me be blunt, lying, deceptive jackasses –
the symbol of the Democratic Party. The ugly face of Socialism has
destroyed the beauty of Venezuela and many other countries while
murdering millions to achieve this so-called utopia These “new”
Democrats will turn our nation which could be termed a little piece
of heaven on earth into a living hell.
"Socialism
only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell
where they already have it."
– President Ronald Reagan