If you were in school in the 1950s and 60s, you were required to learn about America’s greatest outside threat, Communism, the “Red Menace,” which took over Russia in 1917 and began to spread.
You learned how it worked so that you could protect this country from it. You learned that it promised to make every person equal and meet everyone’s needs, but that to accomplish those lofty goals it destroyed individual rights. You learned that its citizens had no individual rights—they must subjugate their needs to the needs of the “collective,” the group. You learned that anyone who disagreed with the system died or got a one-way ticket to Siberia.
In fact, the Wall Street Journal estimated that 65 million people died under communist regimes. “The deaths were the result of ‘mass deportations, forced labor camps and police-state terrorism, but mostly from starvation as a result of its cruel social engineering.’”
Strange that if a system is so great, it has to kill so many people to shut them up about how wonderful it is to live “for the good of the collective.”
Under communism, there was no one to defend you if the government did target you. Instead of defending you, they sent the dreaded KGB after you, which is how complainers often died. The justice system was restructured not to defend, but to punish anyone who didn’t agree with the communist creed— “from each according to ability, to each according to need.”
It sounded good, but some people objected to working as hard as they could to support people who weren’t working at all. It seems that workers who were guaranteed a job and a wage soon learned that they didn’t really have to work.
The government took over all businesses in order to strip owners of their profits and redistribute them to the workers. But since governments know more about regulations and red tape than they do about production, the economy of the communist nations declined, and shortages set in.
So, despite all the Russian propaganda films showing happy workers in the field, there wasn’t enough work being done well to keep the economy going, and everyone did get to be equal eventually— equally hungry and poor.
There was only one political party, the Communist Party, so you couldn’t vote anyone out of office for mis-running the country. Those who belonged to the party fared much better than those who refused to join, and those who led the party were a little more “equal” than everyone else.
The education system was converted to a propaganda machine for communist ideals. Children were removed from their parents and spent most of their day at school, where teachers following the Communist Party line stripped them of any stray democratic or religious values they might have absorbed at home. The government’s motto was “Give us your child for the first six years of his life, and we will determine what he believes and does for the rest of his life.” It worked, and the schools turned out good little Communists who were taught to believe that government was god, and thus was smarter than they and knew what they needed better than they did.
And because government was god, churches were closed, children were taught that God was an out-dated myth, and 200,000 clergymen died under the Communists.
As they had no rights, the people also had no private property. All property was confiscated by the government and redistributed to “the people.” So you no longer owned the farm that your ancestors worked for and passed to you. You no longer owned the shop your parents had struggled to start. You no longer owned the home you paid for—the Kremlin turned it into an apartment house and moved five families into it with you.
Americans saw how communism ruined lives, we saw people dying trying to escape from it during the Cold War, we heard the horror stories. So we were sure that this political system would never flourish in America.
But I am beginning to wonder about these progressives who have taken over our government.
We aren’t sent to Siberia for disagreeing with them, but Cancel Culture is allowed to strip us of our reputations and our right to make a living.
The once-respected FBI has allowed itself to be used to enforce liberal political aims. If they can help fabricate the Great Russian Collusion Hoax and break into former President Trump’s home to get (or plant) evidence, they can do the same to you and your house.
Our Department of Justice puts criminals back out on the streets but prosecutes parents as terrorists for daring to question what a school district is teaching their children.
In some states the curriculum focuses on social re-engineering rather than education. Kids are fed a steady diet of Critical Race Theory, race shaming, gender re-identification and other such claptrap designed to turn them into the kinds of confused citizens that will support the Brave New World the liberals are planning for us. Fortunately, Mississippi has so far resisted most of the efforts to infuse our curriculum with such mumbo-jumbo and non- knowledge.
In many of our colleges, though, the liberal agenda is the only agenda. Little Bubba will come home from the university spouting all kinds of nonsense that you never taught or permitted in your home. But his professors all seem so much smarter than you that you won’t be able to argue him back to reality. And you’re paying for this “education”!
Our smart Big Brother thinks we need electric cars, and we’ll have to get them, like it or not.
We’ve all gotten addicted to government subsidies, but Covid upped the ante. Some states are still paying adults not to work, and now a generation is growing up expecting such support.
And, as I predicted when those subsidies started, just wait until you see your tax bill in 2023! Talk about confiscation and redistribution of assets!
And as if all these signs aren’t clear enough indicators of where the liberals want the country to go, a few days ago I heard VP Kamala Harris say that we might need to mask up again. “You may have to make the sacrifice for the collective,” she said. Collective was a favorite communist term. A slip of the tongue maybe?
Oh, but surely I’m wrong. Anybody who knows anything about communist or socialist countries knows that they don’t work. We value our freedom too much to be fooled into adopting such a system... Don’t we?
