America Under Communism by Tim Siggia

America Under Communism

We're Not Just Going There, We Have Arrived

By Tim Siggia

May 15, 2009

"You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands." -- Nikita S. Khrushchev

It was 50 years ago that Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev made his famous prophesy, along with his equally famous prediction of, "We will bury you." Khrushchev never lived to see that prophesy come to pass. He died in 1971, in exile from the government he once led. Roughly 20 years later the notorious Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet Union itself imploded. Communism wasn't yet dead, for it continued in China, Cuba, and North Korea, but it had been dealt a telling blow.

Or had it?

Consider what has happened not even two full decades after the statues of Lenin came tumbling down in Moscow and other major cities, and the Russian national flag once again flew over the Kremlin -- and it happened not in Russia, not in any of the former Soviet satellite nations, but, of all places, in the United States, the supposed capital of the Free World.

-- In 2008 the American people, whipped into a frenzy of hatred against their president, George W. Bush, by a biased and partisan news media, elected as their next president the United States senator with the most far-left voting record in the entire Senate, who was a known associate of former terrorists and past and present radicals.

-- Along with this new president, the American people also elected Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress, the Senate's of which, with the election of an unfunny comedian and a switch to the Democrat Party of a name-only Republican, would become filibuster-proof.

-- With no voices of prudence and responsibility to stop him, the new president would push through a bloated, overblown budget of $3.6 trillion, knowing that the money to pay for it didn't even exist.

-- Using the monies of his "stimulus package" as a weapon, this new president began systematically enacting government takeovers of private enterprise, including the banking, insurance, and automotive industries.

-- Now his sights are trained on the health care industry, as our new president, Barack Obama, now looks to fulfill another of his costly campaign pledges: to enact a system of "universal health care," the current euphemism for socialized medicine.

Think communism hasn't come to America? Consider the following Earth Day message:

"This year the country and the world celebrates a very special Earth Day.

Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22 in 1970 and is now commemorated around the world as a day of celebration of and struggle for the planet. This year, Bolivian president Evo Morales will address the United Nations, calling on the global body to make 'Mother Earth Day' an official UN holiday and to acknowledge humanity's common interest in the protection of the planet and its environment.

But what makes this Earth Day especially important is that the policies of President Barack Obama represent a dramatic turn towards green policies that have the potential to reshape the economy for the better. The White House understands what the vast majority of the American public already knows, that green jobs and green policies are not just necessary to turn back the clock on climate change, but are good for the economy as well.

Right now, we can put millions of unemployed people to work doing the essential work of building a green infrastructure: building public transit systems and components, researching and developing sustainable energy sources, insulating and repairing America's homes and offices, educating the public about environmental practices, and cleaning up our streams, bays, forests and fields.

Let us all pledge to work for and support a green job economy, and to help build a world that puts people and nature before profits."

Anybody care to take a guess at the source of this statement? Could it be perhaps from talking points of the Democratic National Committee? Or maybe from a liberal publication like The Nation or The New Republic? Maybe just a PR statement from Greenpeace?

It could credibly be from any or all of those, but it isn't. No, the source of this Earth Day message is none other than www.cpusa.org -- the official web site of the United States Communist Party. You needn't take my word for it. Call the web site up and see for yourself -- and, while you're at it, you might want to check out their positions on the issues, and compare the talking points of today's Democrats with those of the openly-avowed, professed Communists. See for yourself that the Democrat Party (I refuse to call it the Democratic Party because there's nothing truly democratic about it at all; today's Democrats are totalitarians who have no use for real democracy) is not the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, or even Lyndon Johnson. It is rather the party of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and the ever-ubiquitous Clintons. It is the party of the radical left and the ACLU, and the only real difference between it and the CPUSA is what its members call themselves. The Commies, at least, are honest enough to call themselves Commies. The Democrats might more accurately be called Neo-Communists, or, if I may take the liberty of coining yet another word into our beloved English language, NeoComs.

So communism is now in the process of being replicated on American soil. So what can concerned and conscientious Americans do about it?

Plenty.

First of all, we must not be ashamed of being Republicans -- or Libertarians, or Constitution Party (Concerned Citizens Party in Connecticut) members, or whatever else we might be -- unless, of course, we are registered Democrats who are not NeoComs, in which case, serious consideration is in order for changing one's party registration.

Second, we must make our voices heard. Attend those Tea Parties, write those letters e-mails to our elected officials, to newspaper editors, in fact, to this web site. Our good webmaster, Don Dodd, will run most responsibly-written pieces. Call in to Jim Vicevich, or to Rush Limbaugh , Michael Savage, or Glenn Beck, if you can get through.

Third, we must do the opposite of whatever Barack Obama tells us to do. We must not take our president at his word, as he has already demonstrated that what he says and what he does are two very different things. Example: Obama recently said he wants to "get out of the private sector as soon as possible." Translation: He wants to get rid of the private sector as soon as possible, and he has already taken numerous steps to achieving that end. So, then, when Obama tells us not to listen to Rush Limbaugh, that's exactly what those of us who aren't already doing so should start doing.

Fourth, we must recognize the "mainstream" news media for exactly what they are, and trust nothing they tell us without verification from other sources. These nattering nabobs of negativism, as former vice president Spiro T. Agnew so aptly called them, have long ago given up even the pretense of being objective, unbiased reporters. They are in fact nothing but spin doctors for Obama and agents of his political party and his government, and their main mission today is to keep as many Americans as they can believing that Obama is God, and, as our Ship of State continues to founder and sink, that he and he alone can save it. More than anything else we must beware this kind of thinking, for it is the very kind of thinking that heralded the Third Reich in Germany back in the 1930s.

Finally, when the time comes to vote, we must be there at the ballot box. Moreover, we should be doing all we can right now to bolster and support conservative candidates wherever they are running -- including here at home, where Sam Caligiuri is currently seeking the Republican nomination for the Senate seat now held by Democrat (and NeoCom) Christopher Dodd.

We must never allow ourselves to be seduced. Few of those who have actually lived under communism prefer it. That now includes us, though most of us still don't realize it. Today's NeoComs don't talk of things like revolution and the "class struggle," they're now far more subtle and sophisticated. Today's NeoComs talk about saving the planet, globalism, and "making sacrifices for the better good." With sense and sensibility, however, we can defeat them -- but it will be a long, uphill struggle.