Shocking truth about today's Democratic Party
WOW!...I am tempted to put "The Naked Communist" circa 1958 to same level of accuracy as Atlas Shrugged...just on a fact basis...there is no profound philosophy in the naked communist...just an accurately predicted agenda.
"Amazing as it may seem, Barack Obama has dragged the entire Democratic Party so far leftward over the past seven-plus years that today’s Democratic Party has become almost indistinguishable from the Communist Party."
"Amazing as it may seem, Barack Obama has dragged the entire Democratic Party so far leftward over the past seven-plus years that today’s Democratic Party has become almost indistinguishable from the Communist Party."
When the institutions that were to have served as a bulwark against the destruction of individual liberty have collapsed, that will open the door to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The 2nd amendment has been under assault for decades, and we're now seeing open attacks on the 1st amendment: threatened RICO charges against "climate deniers"; PC speech restrictions and "microaggressions" as implied criminal activity. The 4th amendment isn't so healthy, either, with the persistence and expansion of the Patriot act. Antiterrorism actions by the DOJ and excessive abuse of eminent domain have eroded the supposed protections of the 5th amendment. Big government has made a joke of the 9th and 10th amendments that were supposed to be a brake on excessive government power.
The blame for this condition doesn't just lie at the feet of the Democrat party. The Republicans have failed to slow the socialist train, even when the opportunity presented itself, aiming instead to inherit the excessive government power for themselves.
I'm not sure what he was, but he was a heluva good writer. Rarely has one been able to read books that were so much fun.
I suppose I should say I "grok" him just to show that I'm with him, but I won't.
http://www.friesian.com/heinlein.htm
In the 1980's I asked a college professor acquaintance "What will you do when.......?"
Reply: "Oh, that will never happen."
The Gulch has been aware of the Democrats marching in lock step toward Communism for quite some time, and most even before there was this forum.
This explains why she is promising everything under the sun to everyone- covers all bases.
Its disgusting actually.
Everything.
If the % fall into dereliction what do we do with them? If they want their "rights" should the rest of us be responsible? Who services the ones that become addicted and can no longer earn $ to pay what they now MUST have? Will this new environment of addiction then lead to a human right for humanitarian compassion?
God, how I hate "recreational" drugs!
Lennon and Ono co-produced the song and album with Phil Spector, who commented on the track: "We knew what we were going to do ... It was going to be John making a political statement, but a very commercial one as well ... I always thought that 'Imagine' was like the national anthem."
Copied from: Imagine (John Lennon song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine...
obvious for years? It was easy enough for me to
see resemblances between the Democratic Party
and the Communist one decades ago. The only
shocking part to me is the part about JFK's be-
ing relatively pro-free-enterprise.
They aren't even Democratic they just do what they are told to do..Can't call that participation....
The rest is as you stated.
I just requested it from the library. Thanks.
The article said that, but simply following the link to the CP shows it's not true.
Look at what Democrats are pushing for:
- socialized healthcare
- taxpayer education funding for higher education
- taxpayer-funded retirement programs
- socialized education
- replacement of parental rights with community rights
- the replacement of a middle class with a worker class where you get told how much you will make (minimum wage) and how much you will spend (zero interest rates certainly don't encourage saving).
I look at the list and compare the differences and they are miniscule or areas of degree only. It started under Bill Clinton and has been drifting left ever since. Under Obama, they are indistinguishable. The Democratic Party is not what it was under JFK. It's not even what it was under Reagan. It's shifted completely leftist.
I think people get sucked into it because they've never seen communism in action but maybe they've seen criminal people and situations claiming to be capitalists. They may be thinking but haven't given enough thought to economics and gov't. If they think they're for communism, hopefully that means they're open to thinking about it and realizing where communism leads.
In some cases maybe it's non-thinking and in others Ellsworth Toohey thinking.
"John Lennon's "Imagine" was liked by a lot of totally unthinking people."
I'm generally thinking, and I like it.
"Now, I am not calling the majority of the human race "stupid""
This reminds me of Allen Greenspan talking about this in Age of Turbulence. He talks about how open on the surface sound contrary to values that most major religions and cultures from pre-industrial times taught, leading good people to support bad policies. He also mentions talking to Ayn Rand about these issues.
Is any of that actually in the song?
You mean from communism, right? Actually I think everyone loses.
As for moderate positions of rejecting bigotry, reducing prison population, decriminalizing drugs, I'm for those things.
President Obama agrees with Communism: No (I obviously can't know what he thinks privately, but he doesn't appear to be a communist.)
Do not be so quick to reduce the prison population: We have more people in jail and under supervision of criminal justice sys than most countries. Most of them are at least partly for non-violent victimless offenses. For those serving long-sentences for violence or theft, we do not rehabilitate them or show that long sentences are a deterrent. Criminals are more concerned with getting caught than the length of their sentence if they do get caught. We build them in the interests of the prison industrial complex, not based on any theory of stopping crime.