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

Tags: Communism, Democratic-Party, Liberals, Marxism, Obamacare, President-Obama

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Comment by Phil on March 9, 2011 at 11:55am: Did anyone notice that radical Islam is using the same methods on us that the progressives used to rot our country from the inside out? It's like watching a movie on "How To Destroy a Society".

Comment by Ron Boyer on March 9, 2011 at 5:12am: If you have a child that is not doing right you cut his money off and let him fend for himself. This will work for us by cutting the money off of the companies that advertise and support the liberal media that got barry elected. Remember Warren Buffet suported barry and still does and he is ALL about power. We need to get the right people into the legislators but to do this we need to get back to a non biased media and that will be through their bank accounts.

Comment by Robert L. Voelsing Sr. on March 8, 2011 at 8:23pm: Three people said this was coming,,,2 famous,,1 unknown. Nikita Krushchev said to a US Commerce Sec years ago,,,that" We (Marxists) will not have to come for you,,,,,,,we will get your children & then your grandchildren".

George Carlin the Late Comedian,,,,said the Socialism will not come in an angry rush,,,it will come in as 'smiley faces' & everybody's happy,,,but it is coming.

My Father-in-Law,,John Arlak Sr.,,,said 30 years ago that schools should stop teaching French & Spanish as languages,,,& concentrate on where the country is going,,,,,teach Arabic & Chinese instead,,they will be needed to deal with our new task masters in the coming years. 1 because of Sharia Law influence,,the other because of our money debt to the Chinese Communists,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,THINK ABOUT IT!!!!

Comment by American Born 1947 on March 7, 2011 at 11:16am: Diddo, Joseph you are right.

Comment by Joseph DeLuna on March 7, 2011 at 9:29am: DemocRats Are Commies Through and Through!

Comment by Michael G Foote on March 7, 2011 at 8:37am: Check out the Communist Party 1963 platform (www.cpusa.org) and it reads almost identical to the 2008 Democratic Platform.

Socialist/Communist, Shirists, have been attacking our way of life for "scores" of years and YOU/I are at fault.

For to long our heads have been in the sand. Now it is time to throw this subversive administration OUT!

Roll up the sleves and get to work. Contact your Precinct Committeeman on the Grassroots level, then contact your state and federal Senators/Congressmen and keep after them relentlessly.

WE CAN RIGHT THE SHIP!

Comment by Earline Lockhart on March 7, 2011 at 6:38am: I WANTED TO PASS THIS VIDEO ON TO EVERYONE, IF WE ARE GOING TO CUT COST LETS START HERE. THIS IS A REAL EYEOPENER, EVERYONE PASS IT ON

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/index.html

Comment by Ronald DuBois on March 6, 2011 at 11:37pm: usarogue, you're right, but with all our efforts, and with the help of the same God that guided our Founding Fathers, we will defeat this evil in 2012 and change the curriculum.

Comment by USARogue on March 6, 2011 at 11:29pm: Marianne Hart,

We all feel your pain. The past few generations have been prohibited the true facts of our great nations history by Progressive revisionism. Even today I read an article about a new book questioning Lincoln's true beliefs about slavery. Progressives have no shame or honor. They will distort, embarrass, discredit or lie about any issue to promote their social justice collective. The latest Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards, approved by the FBOE begins teaching American history in grades 9-12 after Reconstruction. This obviously eliminates any further education regarding the Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, Constitution and all other events preceding roughly 1863. These are the lengths they will go to to discredit our youth the knowledge they need to apprecate the suffering which created our great nation. It is up to us to return our nation to one yearning for the greatest treasure, knowledge.

Comment by Ronald DuBois on March 6, 2011 at 11:21pm: James, I don't think we have to worry about getting to 2012, although I worry about what will happen. I suspect that the Obama folks - the unions, and the various recipients of his largesse (courtesy of us taxpayers) will use every underhanded trick in the book to try to steal the election. But all is not lost. Some forget that people like ourselves are actually in the majority by a large margin. In the past, our biggest problem was apathy. The work done by many different groups, such as the Tea Parties, has begun to have effect - witness the 2010 elections. The leftist media would have you believe we've all gone home since then, because if they can get people to believe that, they can weaken us by lack of interest. It is not true, though. In every meeting I attend, we are working to make an even greater impact in 2012 than in 2010. Our membership is growing , we are getting more volunteers, there is so much more data and information via videos that we share, and our singular goal is to not only defeat Obama, but defeat the ideas he represents. Never before have so many Americans re-read our history and our Constitution, and they are coming out of their lethargy and joining hands and voices. They have seen the damage done, they understand it, they are angry.

I believe the Progressives, Democrats, Socialists, whatever you call them, made a fatal miscalculation. They acted prematurely. They were bringing Obama along for years, and probably planned to run him in 2016. If they had done that, we would have had no chance of reversing it. Because they were so successful at trashing George Bush, and preparing the public to vote Democratic, I believe some in their power structure pushed to run Obama 8 years early. They failed to prepare the American public sufficiently, as they had planned to do , to accept their agenda. Too many of us understood what they were up to, and rebelled. By 2012, we will defeat them, and begin a process to detoxify the minds of our children, change the education system, and repair the economy. I believe we are just in time to save the country, and it was their miscalculation that helped us.

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