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Lance Fairchok
Red Dawn Over America: Defeat & Despair
November 12, 2008
"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, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate
1940, 1944, and 1948
Nine years into the
twenty-first century, Mr. Thomas’ prediction has come to fruition; the
presidential elections of 2008 have validated his faith in “liberalism”
and its Trojan horse delivery of Socialism. After decades of slow yet
persistent desensitization in our schools, in our media, and in
government policy, Americans have become complacent to the ramifications
of Socialism upon our prosperity, our individual freedoms, and our
national identity.
We have been so
concerned with external threats that we have forgotten to watch our back
door. While we defeated Communism in much of the rest of the world, it
quietly crept into our schools and institutions, disguised as a more
palatable communitarian “philosophy.” It has now taken America. It did
so without violence, by subterfuge and stealth, but make no mistake,
President-elect Barrack Obama is motivated by the same controlling
impulses that inspire Chavez and Noriega. He is moved by the same
totalitarian tendency that animates all utopian ideologues.
"When you spread the
wealth around, it's good for everybody," Barack Obama explained to Joe
Wurzelbacher, popularly known as Joe, the Plumber. The hard lessons of
history have taught us otherwise; the application of utopian ideals by
those who would govern using them has always led to disaster and ruin.
Socialism bleeds the vitality from a nation. It dilutes the national
will and lulls the citizenry into a fatal complacency that makes it
ill-suited to survival as social programs progressively consume larger
and larger portions of the national budget for continually decreasing
returns. Its corrupting influence on cultural and national strength is
clear in the continuing struggle to rebuild the countries of the former
Warsaw Pact. Its negative effect is becoming increasingly evident in
those European nations that now experiment with it, with ever-increasing
taxes, declining populations, and decreasing productivity.
Simply put, Socialism
is a disaster.
Our new President is a
man who was bred into socialism’s fantasies; who was mentored as a boy
by communists and their sympathizers; and who was drawn to Marxists and
radicals his whole life. He is not a centrist, nor is he even truly
American as most of us define it. He does not esteem our foundational
values, but looks at them as oppressive and defective. The care he takes
to obscure and hide his associations, to present himself as an everyday
American is a façade, a ruse, and a tool to gain the power that he will
now use to deconstruct us. Our culture has already been corrupted. Our
universities are infested with radicals and progressive socialists. Our
press is drawn from their ranks and Hollywood is in lockstep with both.
Now our institutions are about to be remade.
Obama knows he does not
represent the will and the desires of most Americans, but with
monumental arrogance, he believes he knows best, and the many deceits he
has spun will be justified by the results of his enlightened leadership.
He is part of a greater plan though he may not know it, one begun many
decades ago by a Soviet Union trying to undermine the West. It is a
relentless effort to win power by working inside the system and by
corrupting it with willing dupes, agents and provocateurs. The Soviet
Union is gone, but its propaganda and misinformation campaign lives on.
Indeed, it has taken on a life of its own and to its disciples the clear
evidence of the socialist systems failures matters not. They are as
blind to reason as a religious cult, thought and intellect having fled,
the facility for critical analysis drowned in the drone of radical
chants and communitarian mantras.
Communism, socialism’s
most virulent strain, has been so spectacular a failure, it is hard to
fathom how anyone could now embrace it. Yet at Obama’s victory
celebrations, here and there, we saw the symbols of Ché Guevara and even
a Soviet flag, its hammer and sickle an ominous reminder. It is
interesting to remember where Soviet agents were placed during the early
days of the Cold War, and to whom their Marxist message most appealed.
We do not know how deeply Soviet infiltration went. The FBI records
released with the 2,900 documents known as the Venona Papers only go to
1958, but we know Soviet efforts increased in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, as
new communications technologies allowed infiltration as never before.
We do know that their
intent was not only to collect intelligence, but also to influence the
culture of America, to alter perceptions, and make their Marxist message
more acceptable. Their influence wormed its way deep into the fabric of
our nation, so much so that the Democrat Party now openly sides with
radical Marxists and promises to institute policies that are
indistinguishable from those of Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez of
Venezuela. The nationalization of private sector institutions and
resources is now happening with the Freddie Mac and Fannie May bailout,
and the redistribution of wealth through taxation is inevitable.
The Soviets compromised
numerous government departments, the Defense Department, the Department
of Justice, the State Department, and the Office of the President. They
also had various congressional representatives in their pocket and
several influential members of the Democratic Party. They also enlisted
journalists and editors, luminaries such as I.F. Stone of The Nation,
Anna Louise Strong of Harpers and Atlantic Monthly, Ricardo Setaro and
Richard Redmont of CBS, Richard Lauterbach of Time Magazine, and others.
Hollywood proved a fertile ground for them also with Michael Leshing of
Twentieth Century Fox, producer Boris Moros and screen writer Walter Sol
Bernstein, and other influential figures. The Soviets also knew that
schools and universities were fertile ground for their influence, and
combined with their manipulation of popular culture in newspapers,
magazines, and Hollywood, they could undermine the strength of their
most formidable Capitalist opponent. They succeeded beyond their wildest
dreams, but the fruit did not come ripe until long after they were gone.
Our new leaders, the
Socialists of the Democratic Party, reject the fundamental premise of a
Democratic society, that things work best with the least possible
government interference. Their ideology originates from a profoundly
mistaken understanding of human nature, one that misinterprets human
self-interest as greed and holds human altruism in disdain, assuming it
is calculated by self-interest alone. Their formula is founded on the
belief that government involvement in all aspects of the lives of its
citizens will create the greater good. This Statism inevitably
leads to a society controlled by political elites, where citizens lose
their voice and then their freedom. The Socialist state assumes it can
solve societal problems and shape that society through its policies and
taxes, and uses ever more draconian methods to force compliance.
We now find ourselves
about to be governed by the left of unrepentant terrorists, communists,
and socialists, radical academics and revisionists, the dregs of failed
revolutionaries and “progressive” organizations, of entitlement
activists and race scam artists, with all their hatred and contempt and
disrespect. Their candidate had nothing to qualify him, no achievement,
no legacy, no history of conviction and action, just a solid socialist
upbringing, with communist mentors and radical friends, nurtured and
promoted in the corruption of Chicago politics, and enabled by the
radical rich.
They will follow a
deconstructive script. In attempting to consolidate and perpetuate their
power, they will dismantle many of the guarantees Americans count on for
their liberty. They will regulate, restrict, punish and intimidate to
get their programs through. They will use enticements such as welfare
and entitlements. They will cajole and lecture and wrap their actions in
moral arguments. They will come after our freedoms by changing the
Constitution, by expanding and warping the role of the judiciary, and by
using the press to influence the population to accept their changes.
They will manipulate the 2010 census to rewrite electoral boundaries in
their favor. They will restrict the freedom of speech on radio and
television. They will come after the right to keep and bear arms. They
will steal our 401k’s to bail out Social Security. They will place their
operatives in every American institution and government department,
looking to the day when they will need influence. Their goal is no less
than to make America a one-party system, a Socialist Democrat monopoly,
with the Republican opposition a mere stage piece.
The face of America
Obama sees is a caricature, a myth found in the radicalism into which he
was bred. He holds no love for us, and desires to erase what we are.
Voter fraud, illegal campaign finance, manipulative litigation and lies
are easy for him. He has no ethical concern, no morality beyond the
morality of power. Vladimir Lenin wrote that, “A lie told often enough
becomes truth.” In the struggle for the soul of America, the Socialists
are counting on it. We are at risk as never before, no enemy is at our
gates. They are defeating us from within. This is a battle for our
survival, for our unique place in human history, for our creativeness
and energy, for our strength and character. This is where we make the
decision, we have battled and defeated the foreign enemy, how then will
we defeat the domestic one?
“In addition to its
external enemy whose intellectual energy and economic power are
primarily destructive, democracy faces an internal enemy whose right to
exist is written into the law itself.
Totalitarianism
liquidates its internal enemies or smashes opposition as soon as it
arises; it uses methods that are simple and infallible because they are
undemocratic. But democracy can defend itself only very feebly; its
internal enemy has an easy time of it because he exploits the right to
disagree that is inherent in democracy. His aim of destroying democracy
itself, of actively seeking an absolute monopoly of power, is shrewdly
hidden behind the citizen’s legitimate right to oppose and criticize the
system. Paradoxically, democracy offers those seeking to abolish it a
unique opportunity to work against it legally. They can even receive
almost open support from the external enemy without its being seen as a
truly serious violation of the social contract. The frontier is vague,
the transition easy between the status of loyal opponent wielding a
privilege built into democratic institutions and that of an adversary
subverting those institutions. To totalitarianism, an opponent is by
definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents
for fear of betraying its principles.” --Jean
François Revel, How Democracies Perish
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