Renee Parsons
As a multitude of catastrophes and mini-calamities combine to shock the country and question its stability, there is no doubt, especially since the 2020 election, of the profound upheaval that has spread throughout the country at almost every level imaginable affecting millions of Americans. Once universally believed to be the best damn country in the world, Americans were suddenly overtaken by an unfamiliar surge of negativity, pessimism, cynicism and antagonism in a rude disruption of the civil bond that had created a once solid and confident Constitutional nation whose love of country was never in question.
The undeniable source of the civic anarchy has been the Democratic party which set a new standard for campaign ethics beginning with its unparalleled sabotage of the 2016 Trump Presidency before, during and after his election and which continues as the 2024 election approaches.
In an unprecedented effort, the Democrats began with RussiaGate which alleged Russian – Trump collusion as the Dems partnered with the FBI to create Operation Crossfire Hurricane. The Democrats continued to derail Trump’s administration with false accusations of spreading hate, being a racist and an extremist whose candidacy was an existential threat to democracy.
For the next four years, the Dems cultivated a mockingbird media campaign to condition the American people to accept an unabashed hatred of Trump as a campaign weapon that had never before been experienced in American politics. Those efforts, however, went beyond Trump as deep levels of institutional corruption were exposed, undermining the very founding concepts of a Constitutional Republic based on the Bill of Rights with its First Amendment protection of free speech.
While many Americans think of communism as a foreign concept without recognizing its ability to disguise itself as an alternative to capitalism; they remain unschooled in its history in Russia in 1917 or how to identify Marxist policy.
In the intervening years and as a result of a totalitarian political strategy, the country experienced a dramatic increase in hostility and civil unrest and anxiety with the influx of millions of undocumented illegals, impending detonation of WW III in either Ukraine, the ME or both, ‘domestic tranquility’ deteriorated to an all time low as there is an overwhelming certainty that the country is headed in the wrong direction.
As a warning sign that many activists may have missed, it should surprise no one that Democrats are no longer the party of Thomas Jefferson or Andrew Jackson, especially as the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner which has been a revered event for decades has been eliminated as well as references to the legacy of the country’s most influential and revered Founders like Jefferson and James Madison and the America First principles that each famously espoused.
Democrats are now promoting policies and principles that no longer represent their long held historic principles but more especially, Democratic policies no longer represent the American people.
In recent years, the DNC undermined the spirit of democracy of letting the People decide when Sen. Bernie Sanders was deprived of the Presidential nomination in 2016 and again in 2020 as the DNC lined up to trick Biden’s nomination as well as the most recent dictatorial appointment of Kamala Harris as its Presidential candidate.
Democrats no longer deserve to call themselves Democrats; as if they still advocate traditional core principles of free speech, civil liberties and democratic liberal code words.
Accustomed to have their own way and convinced of their own virtue and moral certitude, denied Democrats react like spoiled children. Once termed the ‘conscience of the nation’ during the 1930s Great Depression, Democrats took credit for ‘saving’ the nation from the stock market crash and massive bank failures by the same people who created the fiscal mess in the first place
The Dems allow the country to be torn apart by puppets of the wicked and reprehensible George Soros, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab who display nefarious tactics to drive the political narrative including allegations that active depopulation will solve the country’s problems.
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As famed prognosticator of the American condition George Carlin once warned “When fascism comes to US, it won’t be in brown shirts; and not be with jack boots. It will be nike sneakers and tee shirts.” In a surprise to no one, the Revolutionary Communist Party of America has come out of the closet recently in a NYC march chanting: “there is only one solution” – “a Communist Revolution.”
Whether the US has fully descended into Fascism or Communism outside its Constitutionalist roots is beyond the scope of this essay. There is, however, little doubt that the US has evolved into a totalitarian state which shares some Fascist and Communist aspirations. As defined by Hannah Arendt and others as ‘brutal, soul-killing Orwellian regimes,’ Mussolini believed totalitarianism ‘took care of everyone.” Totalitarianism may also be defined as a political system exercising control over the freedom, will and thought of its population by a centralized autocratic authority.
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In 1958, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover published “Masters of Deceit” to warn Americans of a communism that is so subtle and invasive as it has infiltrated the minds of progressives, liberals and socialists who barely recognize its tactics of subversion. As Hoover described it, most Americans fail to understand that communism offers a multitude of aspects: it is more than an economic system. It is a philosophy and a political creed as it is psychological conditioning as well as an educational indoctrination and a directed, controlled way of life spreading a materialist agenda. Its strategy is to disrupt the established order, to spread hate as it creates dissension, divisiveness and controversy in order to justify rejection of the established order.
Some of its favorite tactics include confiscation of personal property including bank accounts and personal possessions since under communism, everything belongs to everyone as it demands full personal conformity in all areas of life. American expression of freedom and liberty protecting each individual as an individual would be banned. Muzzling of a free press has already occurred with a corporate media spinning widespread censorship as churches and families are to be liquidated as in conflict with American communism. In addition, partisan political parties would be eliminated including other examples of bourgeois rule such as community clubs and institutions/labor unions and fraternal organizations.
Under communism, industry would be nationalized with farms being confiscated from its owners as private property is eliminated as Democrat plans to ‘reform’ the Supreme Court would eliminate the Constitution, decimating its rule of law as seen during the recent lawfare attacks on Donald Trump. Today’s transgender agenda and parental rights debate fit as Communists seek total and absolute control of aspects of life that are fair game for state ‘supervision’.
Communism’s goal is to achieve a stateless, class less and godless society with all property held in common as in a ‘perfect’ society. Its goals may legitimately appeal to sincere idealists impatient with economic progress including such targeted classes as defending minority rights, the Democratic party, the National Teachers Union, Hollywood elites and ivy league academics who believe in seizing power to guide the transition to a socialist society.
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In “Liberal Fascism” Jonah Goldberg argues that American liberalism is on a par with a totalitarian political religion. Goldberg reminds us that fascists were originally on the left, that President Woodrow Wilson, FDR and HRC had all advocated policies and principles common to Hitler’s National Socialist and Mussolini’s Fascism.
Goldberg points out that Hitler was a strict vegetarian while SS Heinrich Himmler was an animal right’s activist. The Nazis oppose the free market, were ardent socialists who believed in free health care, abortion rights, gun control, pensions for seniors citizens, organic farming, alternative medicine and guaranteed jobs. Fascists also supported anti smoking campaign as it promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, purged the churches as it inserted government in every possible nook and cranny of American life. Does any of this sound familiar?
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A country born more than 250 years ago with its Founders devoted to Christianity as a religion in what became the Judeo Christian religious tradition; They were advocates for civic virtue that was devoted to the common good of the nation as they practiced a morality of faith and belief that, according to God’s law, gave life to the American tradition of individual rights, personal liberty and religious freedom.
Prominent in opposition to America’s founding as a Christian nation is Freedom from Religion, a nonprofit organization that advocates for atheists, agnostics, and nontheists as it promotes the separation of church and state and challenges the legitimacy of many federal and state programs that are faith-based.
Renee Parsons served on the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC.