THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 63, March 5, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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DUPED! RELENTLESS MARXIST DECEPTION
By Alan Caruba
SOCIALIST AMERICA: MOSTLY THE GIFT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & ITS LIBERAL WING -- HOW THE AMERICAN
VOTERS WERE DUPED INTO ACCEPTING THE SOCIALIST PROGRAM & ALLOWING THE CONGRESS TO TRANSLATE THE
PROGRAM INTO U.S. NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY -- HOW AMERICAN LIBERALS AIDED & ABETTED THE INFILTRATION OF
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT BY COMMUNISTS & OTHER SOVIET COLLABORATORS -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY & THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT -- CONSERVATIVES, INDEPENDENTS, & THE GROWING
POLITICAL RESISTANCE TO SOCIALIZATION OF THE U.S.A. -- RECENT FEDERAL ELECTIONS -- THE DISASTER OF THE OBAMA
PRESIDENCY & WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT
FULL STORY:
“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.”
So said Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Party presidential 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 U.S.
government of Communists, attacked those like U.S. Senator Joseph R. 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
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 U.S. Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. 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 U.S. 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,
which 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 U.S. 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 national 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 for public office, electing Republican Governors in
New Jersey and Virginia, a Republican U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and sent Florida's Allen West and Marco
Rubio to the U.S. House of Representatives, along with a host of candidates supported by the Tea Parties.
In America, Independents, along with Conservatives, 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 Hussein 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 American 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.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, & Special Interest Groups
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Communism: Longterm Enemy of the U.S.A. & Its Allies
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
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Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and public policy.
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