By Douglas V. Gibbs
CNN polled Americans regarding their patriotism. 90% of Republicans said that they are extremely proud to be American. Only 29% of Democrats said the same.
Radical leftists have inhabited the Democratic Party for over a century. The drive for “democracy” (rather than a constitutional republic) began even farther back when the Father of the Democratic Party, Andrew Jackson, first took the reins. A desire to use unconstitutional concepts like implied powers and a national bank to push the United States toward having a national government with consolidated powers rather than a limited federal government existed as far back as Alexander Hamilton and his Federalist Party. But, the true drive to truly embrace socialism as a platform of the party was launched as the nineteenth century met the twentieth century.
The communists realized early on, however, that bringing about revolution in America would not be easy. Karl Marx envisioned that communist revolutions would occur spontaneously – a natural result of the Proletariat finally standing up to the Bourgeoisie. It would be an inevitable violent uprising, according to Marx, by the peasant-workers to drive things in the direction of equity, and shared ownership of the means of production. Except, in America, there was and is no peasantry. Sure, poverty has always existed, but not like in the rest of the world. The poorest in America are richer than most of the people in the world, and if they decide to participate in the free market system, and caught a few breaks along the way, they could break the chains of Serfdom and sit at the table with their former higher-ups. Success in America is achievable by anyone, no matter their starting place in life. Wealth and power is not something only possessed by nobles and government elites, but by those who took a risk, innovated, and created something that the free market culture was willing to purchase or participate in. And, in addition to those who had less, and those who had more, a curious phenomenon emerged in America: The Middle Class. You don’t have to be wealthy and powerful to have a good life. Success in America carries with it degrees that the world has never seen before.
The rise of communism is dependent upon the population desiring to achieve change, and the willingness to become violent to achieve that change, if necessary. But, how do you convince a society that is proud to be American and living for the most part better than virtually anyone else in the world that their country is broken and needs radical societal and economic change? You don’t fix what ain’t broke, as they say.
So, the communists needed to create crisis. Manufacture class warfare. Convince the people not to believe their own eyes and ears, and convince Americans that their country is flawed and filled with systemic problems that requires change at the foundational levels. They are even willing to pay children to attend “Social Justice” summer camps to make sure they are properly programmed with the WOKE communist agenda.
The Democrats began to demonize their opposition, screaming that despite their platform of limited government they were really fascists and authoritarians in sheep’s clothing, a long time ago. The “fascist” accusation goes all the way back to the sixties, with Pat Brown claiming that a speech by Barry Goldwater dripped with fascism, and the only thing missing from it was “Sieg Heil.”
They took the advice of the Fabians, and planned their takeover through a method of gradual revolution. Creeping incrementalism. Inject socialism in small doses, normalizing it piece by piece and generation by generation. The ol’ Frog in the Pot scheme. Claim that socialism already exists in America – calling basic government services forms of socialism. They have infiltrated education at all levels (and attack parental choice regarding education), they have infiltrated churches, infiltrated media, and they have infiltrated entertainment. They feed the message to the children, and keep feeding it to them through the various institutions throughout their lives. Then, someday, there will come a day when the final push for the ultimate change will no longer be on the horizon, but will fall in their laps, and the American people will be willing to raise the flag of communism themselves, willingly and enthusiastically.
The final set-up man for the final push was Barack Obama. The clean-up hitter was supposed to be Hillary Clinton. Once that dynamic duo did their thing, America would never turn back.
Except, a stick got thrown in their spokes. The whole thing came crashing down. The plan was disrupted in ways they never saw coming, and it angered them to no end. His name is Donald J. Trump.
The prize felt like it was in reach, and it got yanked away in 2016 when Donald Trump won the presidency. They did everything they could to derail him, from manipulation of the system, wild accusations, infiltration, surveillance, the emergence of various crises like COVID, impeachment, and a continual non-stop attack of lawfare. And in 2020, along with likely voter fraud, they got Trump out of office, and replaced him with one of their puppets that was easiest to pull the strings over: Joseph Biden. It would take a while to fix the damage, but they were certain they were going to get everything back on track.
In 2024, Donald Trump came prepared, and now he was no longer carrying a stick. He now had a crowbar, and he wasn’t the only one carrying one. He formulated a whole team of crowbar bearers, and they all jammed them into the spokes of the leftist machine. During the four years of the Biden nightmare, Trump learned who his allies and enemies were, and gathered his forces – equipping them each with the tools they needed to bring down the Democratic Party’s socialist leviathan. And once in office, Trump began gumming up the works even worse than the first time. The Democrats had already altered their platform so that it was dominated by hating Donald Trump – but now, it was war.
The Democrats are not stupid people. They’re successful and respected in their particular groups. They’ve spent years in politics, diplomacy, and economic circles. They have their people slithering throughout the bureaucracy and the Halls of Government. They’ve convinced themselves that America is the enemy, socialism is the next step, and they are willing to drive America into the ground to get what they want. Socialism teaches equity and shared ownership. Therefore, that makes Trump evil because he wants America to be great, our country to look beautiful, and the people to be proud to be American. In their eyes, Trump is evil because he wants to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool beautiful again, so they have slashed it with blades and celebrated when algae formed in the water after the initial stage of pool restoration. Trump is evil because he roots for America to win FIFA, and is excited to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary in grand style. He’s evil for using leverage as fuel for his foreign policy. He is evil if he wants America to be a leader in the world, and because he refuses to dismantle America’s wealth and power and redistribute it throughout the world so that everyone can be an equally miserable part of a globalist brotherhood of socialists.
They argue with him, “What outcome are you trying to achieve?” And, they fume when he says, “National security, greatness, liberty and prosperity.” Making America Great Again is a disgusting thing to these people because they’ve convinced themselves that greatness and winning is evil. Patriotism is fascism. Wealth is poverty. Greatness is arrogance. Liberty is slavery. Forward progress is regression towards Jim Crow and America’s alleged flawed past.
The problem with Americans, from the point of view of the communists, is that they don’t see the need for revolution. They need to be encouraged. They need to be shown the way. So, the left has manufactured crises, and the protests against anything good for America. Leftwing money has promoted anti-ICE protests just as they fueled the Defund the Police riots, and the anti-Trump attacks that go all the way back to 2015. Then, to make sure these protests get violent enough for the media to make it all look revolutionary, groups like BLM and Antifa have been created, and inserted into the mix. They have targeted the National Mall with “8647” markings, wrote blood-written messages on the Washington Monument, and have generated consistent damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It’s all a part of the inner workings of a massive conspiracy to bring down the American System – one agency at a time. Clashes in the streets, in order for it all to work, must be televised and a become frequent part of American life. Americans must believe that the country is in upheaval. Without violence and protests there is no revolution. America, from their point of view, must be dismantled and left smoldering in the aftermath of an internal war, and then built up from the rubble, brick by brick, so that it may be recreated in the image of its destroyer – communism.
It’s all a smokescreen, however, and most Americans see it. Violent protesters are being inserted into non-violent protests, and media figures are screaming at the top of their lungs how authoritarian any resistance is. But, most Americans see that it is all a production – manufactured for the cameras and the journalists. It’s designed to force federal personnel to don bulletproof vests and carry their firearms in the open. It’s designed to create an image of jackboots marching in the streets. Boots on the ground – in America. “See?” they yell. “They have guns and riot equipment on! Proof that they are the authoritarian tools of a dictator wanna-be king!”
On some scales, it’s working. The Democratic Socialists of America, the communist wing of the Democratic Party, swept this year’s Democratic Primaries in New York. The driving force behind it was commie New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who endorsed the candidates behind the socialist upset over establishment candidates. It’s a signal that despite the majority of Americans rejecting socialism, the wave of socialism is alive and spreading beyond New York City, with many of those offices that socialist Democrats will be running for in November leading to the United States Congress. These candidates hold far-left views that were once only whispered in the Democratic Party, but now they are out and about shouting their views from the mountaintops, and they are getting elected. These candidates are calling for the abolition of law enforcement at both the federal and state level, calling for socialized medicine and government-funded housing, and they are calling for full-on government ownership of grocery stores and anything else that is privately owned. Oh, and they hate Israel.
They have radicalized the youth, and the hippie grannies are on the march. They are willing to use terror and violence to achieve their ends. A recent foiled terror plot combined radicalized American youth with an illegal alien ringleader. And all of it is being launched in the name of standing against “capitalist elites.” It is the same revolutionary, radical-left rhetoric that led to the Bolsheviks to launch Russia into a murderous journey to become the Soviet Union, and the greatest communist threat throughout most of the twentieth century. And let’s be reminded: the Bolsheviks that carried out the October Revolution, which was the second phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917, were only a relatively small fraction of Russia’s population. The Bolsheviks were particularly effective at controlling the media, communications, transportation hubs, and key urban areas – allowing them, despite being a small minority of Russia’s population, to carry out their revolution and seize power.
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