Red, White, and Bruised (part two)

Consider the following questions. What do the words “liberty” and “freedom” mean to you? Do you believe that the Constitution of the United States of America more closely represents the meanings of these words than any other governing document or set of laws that the ruling forces of the world have ever composed? Do you believe that it is wrong for the United States to continue to promote and defend the philosophical freedoms, cultural heritage, and restrictions on government that have protected and empowered the people since the nation was founded?

If you can not answer these questions without hesitation, discomfort, guilt of conscience, or internal conflict, it is because your natural ability to define the difference between right and wrong has been systematically and deliberately compromised and undermined from the time that you were first able to comprehend language. Here you will find evidence which sustains this claim, and hopefully you will come to understand why the reclamation of your own moral compass may be the only thing that can save America from falling into the prison that is communism.

You may have noticed that since the “cultural revolution” of the 1960’s, countless lives have seemingly derailed and fallen into a bottomless pit of sex, drugs, and moral apathy. But while most people recognize this to be tragic to some degree, most people are indifferent to the millions of lives which are wasted in pursuit of socially-destructive rebellion against family structure, religious observance, patriotism, and the traditional concept of civilized behavior. It is no coincidence that the disintegration of democratic society always commences after the abandonment of the social moral code. For America, the decline of national stability began at the time that the practitioners of Marxism began successfully putting into effect the infiltration tactics of Antonio Gramsci in an effort to eventually gain political control of the United States of America.

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian neo-Marxist philosopher who wrote extensively on the evils of capitalism. He suggested that democracy was merely a tool which the wealthy "bourgeois" used to coerce the lower classes into devoting themselves to a life of hard labor, whereby the rich become richer, and the poor die from rickets. In the world of democracy, as Gramsci saw it, there were two classes: the oppressed, and those who oppress them. Consider this analogy. As far as Gramsci was concerned, the oppressive class could be represented by a wealthy merchant who rides atop a wagon full of valuable goods which he hopes to transport to a nearby village and trade for monetary gain. The oppressed or “proletariat” class is represented by the hungry donkey that pulls the merchant’s wagon. In order to motivate the donkey into pulling the wagon, the merchant dangles a carrot just out of reach of said donkey, which carrot represents the idea of democracy in this analogy.

The donkey sees the carrot as a satisfactory reward for his labors and will pull the wagon indefinitely as long as the merchant waves it in front of him. In the Marxist’s concept of democratic societies, almost everyone is a donkey, duped into believing that if we work very hard we can be rewarded with the “carrot” of freedom to do whatever we want. We believe that we willingly pull the wagon because the carrot is worth the pull. But in reality we never get to experience the joy of democracy because we are so busy laboring that we never get the chance to stop and nibble on it.

So in place of the rigged game of capitalism, Gramsci argued for communism. The goal of communism is to eliminate all social classes by homogenizing the lifestyle of all people. No one can ever progress beyond the stature of his neighbors. The government accomplishes this perceived “equality” by controlling virtually all aspects of the lives of the citizens. A maximum income level is set, curfews are enforced, housing is the same for everyone, a national religion is usually established, and political parties are narrowed to one or two mega-parties. By eliminating the freedom of the people to choose how they live, there is no avenue to allow for a scheming rich person to take advantage of others. If a poor person has nothing better to work towards, he can’t be convinced to work harder. In the communist system, the only reason people are motivated to work is because they know they will starve to death if they do not. Save it be for mere survival, there is nothing else to work for.

In the eyes of Gramsci and all Marxists like him, the bullies and opportunists at the top of the democratic pyramid had to be knocked down and replaced with well-meaning and compassionate communist leaders. But where most proponents of communism advocated for a militant takeover, Gramsci was astute enough to recognize that republican ideals were too strongly entrenched in the United States to be eradicated the old fashioned way. So Gramsci suggested a Trojan horse method. He called it “the long march through the institutions.”

The plan was to plant communist sympathizers in positions as teachers, deans, professors, civic leaders, civil rights advocates, preachers, and other “noble” leadership positions that people would trust and be easily persuaded by. These leaders and teachers would then gradually introduce counter-cultural ideas, slowly building a posterity of “revolutionaries,” with each subsequent generation accepting a higher degree of anti-American values than the previous generation.

Gramsci and his contemporaries knew, however, that there would still be many people who opposed communism in principle. They also knew that a large segment of society would end up on the fence, too lazy or too indecisive to declare a preference in form of government. To deal with these stragglers and stubborn non-conformists, communists simply had to trick these people into submission. This would be accomplished by controlling the language used in reference to politics, religion, and other prominent issues of discussion. Through the use of news media, books, magazines, popular music and other forms of entertainment, as well as the curriculum used in the education system, the very meanings of words could be changed. By reassigning meanings to words such as revolution, Christianity, power, freedom, terrorist, wealth, and other politically polarizing terms, the public’s perception of “right” and “wrong” could be totally manipulated.

Once the communist posterity is raised and all others are tricked into believing that capitalism is evil and/or doomed to failure, enough people will either openly support communism or unknowingly support communist agendas in disguise to allow for communism to quietly replace capitalism through the election process, thus rendering any violent takeover unnecessary. So, to refer back to the thesis of this series, right and wrong have traded places. By changing the way the public views our enemies and our threats, as well as demonizing the values and principles that have made our country strong, the supporters of communism have undermined your ability to judge what is good for the country and what is bad for the country. They have created a culture where conservative values are demonized and sexual promiscuity is promoted. They have convinced the people that it is right to do whatever feels good, and the only thing that is wrong is to deny yourself and others the right to openly party and fornicate. They have deliberately produced a society in which “morality” is considered an outdated tool of the oppressive class, and in so doing they have undermined the sustainability of the United States as a democratic nation. By erasing the traditional concept of what is right, and replacing it with an acceptance of carnal indulgence, the enemies of liberty have eliminated the threat of opposition from those who otherwise would still believe in the conservative values that sustain democracy.

If you think I’m paranoid or even intentionally lying, just consider these indisputable facts. The politicians, lawyers, soldiers, border agents, investigators, and all others who have actively fought the rise of Islamic terrorism are now being categorized as dangerous enemies of freedom by the new president and those who work with him in the government. At the same time, hundreds of terrorists are now anticipating liberation from our detention centers, and those who remain detained will now enjoy a comfortable existence devoid of any harsh interrogation tactics that have previously saved countless American lives. Our old democratic allies are being cut off, while new friendships are being forged with rogue states such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, and others who have openly professed their hatred for America. The current president has stated numerous times that the Constitution is generally worthless, and if he could, he would trash it. And to show that he means business, his newly reorganized Department of Homeland Security has labeled as “extremists” all Americans who openly fight to maintain and support the Constitution.

If we as Americans do not come to our senses and boldly declare the constitution as valid, re-establish the boundaries of right and wrong, and get back to our cultural and political roots, the world’s greatest beacon of hope and liberty will be no more. The flag is being torn apart, trampled under-foot, and burnt in the streets. If we do not protect it, then the rights and liberties it symbolizes will be lost with it.

Red, White, and Bruised (part one)

Once upon a time there was a man who craved great power. So to obtain it, he began to campaign and seek election. He knew that if he wanted to win favor with the majority of the people, he simply needed to promise them everything they wanted. He knew that the masses were uneducated, lazy, and extremely gullible, and that they would never question the feasibility of his promises. He knew that the people were tired of war, that they were hungry for change, and that they wanted to be taken care of. So, equipped with his charisma and his gift for oratory, he used every forum of communication available to broadcast his clever message and mesmerize his followers. He used these same tools of cunning and charm to trample and embarrass his opponents, who were not as skilled in the art of language and who resembled the "old fashioned" form of government too closely for the liking of the voters.

This man built his candidacy on a foundation of deceit, fear mongering, popular fashion, and catchy body language. Simply by acting in a way that he knew people would relate to, he was able to take control of his country and execute his agenda. By promising change, protection, jobs, food, and a sense of destiny, he was able to take the election. But almost immediately after he assumed his new position, he began abandoning his promises. Not only was he unwilling to be the "people's leader" that he claimed he would be, but he began governing in a manner which was more totalitarian and dictator-like than his opponents ever threatened to be. He went to work on issuing order after order, appointing countless czars, building a civilian security force to rival the military, and robbing his people of power and liberties. He began spying on ordinary citizens, listening in on private conversations, and pressuring the media to silence any voice of opposition.

Who am I talking about? Is it Adolph Hitler, or perhaps the current U.S. President? What is terrifying is that both of these men fit comfortably within these characteristics. Because this is the pattern that virtually every single dictator, tyrant, and despot in the history of human governance has used to gain political prominence. The media wants us to believe that this era in American history is historic. Perhaps it is. Only it is not historic in that it is unique or fresh or enlightened. This era is historic because for the first time in the United States of America, we are repeating a pattern of history which is in direct conflict with the principles upon which this nation was founded: we are willingly walking into a trap of total government control.

Recent polls show that less than 60% of Americans prefer a free market over communism. The people have elected a Marxist to the office of president. The government has declared all conservatives and patriots to be a threat to the security of the nation, a measure that seeks to enforce not just rules against actions, but restrictions on thoughts and ideals. The president promised that things would "change" in America. So far, the greatest change that I can see is that right and wrong have traded places.