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 Neil Thomas Goeckerman on March 6, 2011 at 2:56pm: A call needs to be sent out from a major Republican figure calling on the "Kennedy" Democrats to identify themselves, separate themselves from the "Pelosi/Reid" Demunists and work with the Conservatives to fix the problems.

Comment by Mr Jean S Curtiss on March 6, 2011 at 2:49pm: The loss of our liberties is the result of each of US abdicating their responsibility to participate in our political system. If we understand nothing else, we must understand that form 1500 to 1700, people on this continent moved and lived in freedom only because there was no abusive overlord in close proximity that could direct each facet of life.

When it began to become apparent that such an entity, the King was ever tightening the noose, t he dialogs began. Does anyone ever stop to consider how many "heated" opinions were exchanged from 1700 to 1776?

I can remember my grandmother saying, "stay out of politics...it is dirty". "You can not talk about politics or religion".

Well folks, do you still wonder what happened? We CAN BE both civil and assertive...so lets be about it.

Comment by joseph C Avila on March 6, 2011 at 2:44pm: Alan: I don't care if there is a Republican controlled congress. I want a congress is controlled by the states not by a poltical party.

You obviously have not read my blogs.

I have come up with the only sensible solution.

Read "Some People Just Don't Get It". Then go to my blog page and you will see that I have been attempting to inform the Tea Party members where we must focus if we are serious. Otherwise your just spitting into the wind.

http://teapartypatriots.ning.com/profiles/blogs/some-people-just-do...

Comment by Barry Gabrielson on March 6, 2011 at 2:42pm: Carter, Clinton, Dole, Gore, Kerry, Bush, McCain, Edwards, Obama. America, is this the best we have?

If so, we are in deep deep trouble. We have no honest and moral leaders today, lets face it.

Comment by Barry Gabrielson on March 6, 2011 at 2:37pm: The youth come from Dad/Mom supporting them to the government. They look for a big brother, someone there to support them in case they cant find work. Governments job is to feed, educate, control their lives. It goes from parents to government. Why not if government is there to pay for their votes to stay in power.

Comment by cgtexas on March 6, 2011 at 2:33pm: The reason a lot of older people voted for Obama most likely they were afraid McCain was going to raise their premiums on medicare.Also,Bush left an extreme mess.I myself voted for McCain but I did not feel good about him either.I do not care for him,but at least he's not gay or a muslim.I'm quite sure he would not have done all of this spending .He probably would not have fixed anything,but he would not have made it worse as Obama has done.

Comment by Albert M. Bryson on March 6, 2011 at 2:09pm: We need to very concerned about the youth vote between 18 and 30. They are still indoctrinated by liberal progressive teachers and professors so we really need to do a massive education campaign to reach them and hopefully convict them to do the right thing. We need to learn how the left wing has done it for years but do it in a peaceful manner.

Comment by Barry Gabrielson on March 6, 2011 at 2:08pm: Its difficult to win against progressives who lie and fabricate as a part of their nature. When the facts are against them, they lie directly to your face, then change words and meanings of words to forward their agenda. Go to any court and see who wins, Subjective lies or Facts. Its a 50/50 chance.

Progressives look up to all those who lie to win the game. Look at our current President. Hope and Change lie won him the Presidency, without anyone invetigating what the real meaning of his "Hope and Change." If he came out and said, "Im here to payoff my friends, reporations for all I deemed oppressed, support unions and hate big business, allow illegals to invade our country, ignore the Constitution, promote socialism, he would have lost. Instead, he floated a visions of real honest change, which is a complete lie. He is for black theology, redistribution of wealth, government role is to steal from the producer and give it to the nonproducer, his collective salvation. In order to accomplish this, we must have marism, communism and socialism, government in charge of everyday life. We have been conned by a great deceiver.

Comment by Genevieve J. Douma on March 6, 2011 at 2:04pm: During and after the election I could not believe how many older people was for Obama . I gave them more credit then they deserved,I thought they were smarter then that growing up in a era that was tolally against every thing Obama stood for. I hope the next time they have come to their senses and vote for America and not some commie that wants to destroy our way of life. How could anyone in their right mind would want to live like they do in Cuba,Iran and Russia,young people wake up you are being led into a life you will be very disappointed with and will never again know all the good you have now.

Comment by Karen Schoen on March 6, 2011 at 1:56pm: The game plan is on agenda21today.com

See what the left is is doing and how the left is doing it. Once you understand teh game plan, it makes it easier to fight.

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