Tag Archives: Politics

Politically based stories and commentaries

Politics

The Rise of Democratic Socialism

Leave a comment

Kimberley A. Strassel

Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

My recent article ‘The Evolution of Communism in America‘ talks about the history of Marxism in America and where we are today regarding the march to communism. My approach was to show what goals were set for America and what has been accomplished over the last several decades. And to show what the Democratic Socialists of America have planned for us today.

Of special note, the goal of most impact today is goal 15 — “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States“. The level of success of this goal should be obvious by now. If not, consider that a resolution was submitted in congress a year ago stating that communism is a direct threat to our country, that it is in direct opposition to our constitution, and must not be considered viable for this country. 96 democrat congressmen out of the entire House voted that it wasn’t.

Strassel’s report is a very well written article published at Hillsdale College and distributed on their Imprimis platform. I encourage you to read it, as it is a different approach, informative, and isn’t a repeat of what I have already written. This topic is, in my opinion the most important of this century. We are at a pivotal point in our country’s history, and not just because this year is the 250th anniversary.

***

Her report starts here.

Of the many alarming statements uttered this past year by America’s rising tide of “democratic” socialists, pay closest attention to the one that landed in early August, via the godfather of this modern movement, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.Democratic political strategist James Carville had criticized Hasan Piker, the socialist provocateur who claims that “America deserved 9/11,” that the terrorist group Hamas is “a thousand times better” than Israel, that communist Mao Zedong (whose policies killed 65 million Chinese) is “one of the great leaders of this world,” and that his critics are “rabid, ultra-Zionist pigs.” Carville made clear: “I have no intention of ever being in the same political party with [Piker],” adding that he believed “an overwhelming majority of Democrats agree with me.”

Sanders shot back: “If Mr. Carville doesn’t want to be in my party, the party I belong to, that Piker, that [Michigan’s socialist-aligned Democratic Senate candidate] El-Sayed belongs to, he can start his own party.”

The “my party” construction is striking, given that Sanders has long expressed contempt for both our major political parties, disparaging them as captured interests. Since his first successful election in 1981, he has styled himself a “democratic socialist” and run as an Independent on the Vermont ballot. He’s endured the Democratic Party only to the extent that it allowed him to leverage its resources to his advantage—caucusing with it in the Senate to gain seniority and using it as a platform for his presidential runs. Always while holding his nose.

But things have clearly changed. Sanders is done raging against the machines. His goal now is to own and operate one of them. His growing army of democratic socialists are working to capture the Democratic Party from within, replace its agenda with their own, and purge it of dissenters. It’s a time-worn tactic: if you can’t beat them, infiltrate them. And the elected leadership of the Democratic Party is doing nothing to stop the takeover.

***

Before we can address the rise of the democratic socialists, we need to clarify what it is that is rising. That’s made harder by an education system that has left generations of Americans poorly equipped to recognize socialism, and by a liberal media and left-wing political establishment that are determined to play down today’s threat.

Socialism has come in many forms through history and has seemingly infinite definitions. But simply put, it’s a system based on collective or government ownership of goods and services, as opposed to private ownership or markets. It’s animated by class warfare, the claim that the “workers” in a society are kept down and exploited by wealthy, powerful forces, and that only the forced seizure and redistribution of capital will produce a more egalitarian and just society.

Its other defining feature? It always fails, usually horrifically. Historians generally agree there have been more than two dozen major national attempts at socialism, all of which ended in tyranny and economic collapse. This dismal history has inspired advocates over the ages to produce new “versions” of socialism, ones they insist will finally produce magic. Karl Marx wrote off the earliest, failed communes as “utopian socialism” and contrasted it with his own “scientific socialism.” The world has also seen “anarcho-socialism,” “market socialism,” “ujamaa socialism,” and “goulash communism.” And untold deaths.

The modern twist is democratic socialism. Its proponents chose that descriptor with care. They know socialism’s authoritarian history, and they know how deeply Americans still hold to the Constitution. Their goal with that adjective is to fool us into believing that this version of socialism really is different, that it is no threat, that it can in fact be achieved through democratic means.

Sanders is a master at cloaking his ideology in soothing geographical or historical comparisons. He has a decades-long track record of refusing to provide a precise definition of his ideology, preferring to suggest that democratic socialism is some vague version of European “social democracy,” or nothing more than “completing the vision” of FDR’s New Deal. Similarly, New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani argues that Democrats are just “going back to what the party used to be.” And New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is quoted in The New York Times as saying that she thinks it is totally “possible”—somehow—for capitalism and socialism to coexist.

These assurances are hard to square with the socialists’ proposals. Sanders, when he was active in the Liberty Union Party in the 1970s, argued for government ownership of the energy, banking, telephone, electricity, and drug industries—to name a few. After failing spectacularly to get elected four times in a row, he toned down his rhetoric. But there’s no reason to believe he’s changed his stripes, especially as he continues to demand the nationalization of select sectors, including health care and artificial intelligence. He has also called for a 100 percent marginal income tax on higher earners in order to fund cradle-to-grave government services, including medical care, housing, childcare, education, Internet, and meals.

This is government seizure and ownership of wealth and industry to facilitate government redistribution of goods and services. In a word, socialism.

Better yet, read the DSA’s 2026 manifesto, which has no time for Sanders’ nuance in laying out its overriding ambition: for the “working class” to rise up and create “a future without capitalism.” No one will have “bills,” because “food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation” will be “common goods and utilities.” The future it foresees will also include “fully abolishing the police and prison system”; “queer liberation”; enacting “reparations”; abolishing the Department of War; ending “all military and economic aid to Israel”; and legalizing “migration.”

What about the claim to be democratic? The DSA platform explains that the glorious uprising will require a few tweaks to the U.S. democratic system. First up is abolishing the Electoral College and the Senate. Second the DSA would “replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to” one supreme people’s (soviet?) congress. That congress would be dominated by blue states under strict proportional representation—a form of representation, seen in parts of Europe, that is foreign to America’s constitutional tradition. No more checks and balances. No more federalism. No more republic.

Released in August, this platform caused a number of DSA-aligned candidates to scurry away, saying they didn’t agree with all its provisions. But its publication had the merit of clearing things up. Regardless of the “democratic” spin, the U.S. is facing its largest resurgence of socialism since the early twentieth century. Only this time, it isn’t labor leader Eugene Debs making his 1912 run as a member of an outsider third party. This is a socialist movement that is well on its way to capturing one of our major parties.

***

Democratic socialists were elected as mayors of New York City and Seattle last year, and Washington, D.C. voters are all but certain to elect a DSA-endorsed mayor this year. Socialist insurgents have won U.S. House of Representative primaries in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Michigan. In November, socialist-aligned candidates will be running as Democrats for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, Minnesota, and Maine.

The DSA points to dozens more 2026 primary victories in state legislative races, as well as city council and school board contests, from Vermont to California. Its goal is to swell the number of DSA members who serve in elected offices—more than 250 across 40 states in 2025. Fifteen years ago, the party had about 6,000 dues-paying members. The DSA today boasts more than 120,000 dues-paying members, via some 220 chapters nationally. That means the DSA can claim an even greater following than that of Debs, who led the Socialist Party of America to its peak of about 113,000 dues-paying members a century ago.

None of this is sudden. It’s the work of many years. Sanders’ 2016 presidential run thrust democratic socialism into the mainstream. The Vermonter was open and unapologetic about his decision to run as a Democrat. He didn’t want to be marginalized as a third-party candidate, and so he used the Democratic Party ticket to legitimize his socialist approach. Although Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton, he accomplished his aim of attracting a new, impressionable generation to his cause—and encouraging them by example to seize power from within.

This isn’t a new strategy. Stand-alone socialist parties have always found it difficult to go mainstream. (Debs finished fourth in 1912, with six percent of the popular vote.) Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s prescribed solution was a tactic he called “entryism,” which meant infiltrating larger movements, converting followers, taking charge of power centers, and then altering policies to the left. A famous example was the group Militant Tendency, which operated for a long time within Britain’s Labour Party before being thwarted by Labour Leader Neil Kinnock.

Ocasio-Cortez and Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib were elected to Congress as Democrats in 2018, though both call themselves democratic socialists. They were followed by Representatives Cori Bush of Missouri, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Shri Thanedar of Michigan, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, and Greg Casar of Texas. But these were just the highly public positions. Behind the scenes, the DSA began to grow its ranks within the Democratic National Committee and has swelled its members in state political parties. This coincided with a sharp leftward jump in the Democratic Party caucus as a whole.

Sanders further turbocharged the movement by running again as a Democrat in 2020, putting enormous leftward pressure on the entire primary field. When Joe Biden ultimately won, it was thanks to a comeback at the hands of more moderate voters. But his first act was to adopt most of Sanders’ agenda. His ensuing term as president was defined by an effort to pass $6 trillion in tax hikes and spending, “equity” policies, a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, an intentional collapse of border security, censorship of opposition views, and an unconstitutional effort to erase student debt. An agenda the DSA could fully endorse.

***

Following their party’s drubbing in the 2024 election, Democratic leaders seemed to understand that they needed to ditch far-left politics. Humbled politicians worried openly about spending-caused inflation, “cultural disconnect,” and the party’s new antisemitic streak.

Yet that same leadership remained terrified of the radical base, and the DSA crowd took full and cynical advantage. Sanders and his team began recruiting socialist candidates to run in primaries, intending to pick off sitting members of Congress in the 2026 season. Ocasio-Cortez dropped not-so-subtle hints that she’d challenge Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer in a primary if he didn’t back their agenda. Far left and socialist members used their influence within the Democratic National Committee to undermine any effort to moderate the party’s platform. Outside groups mobilized to pressure existing Democrats to stay true to DSA policies.

Today, the Democratic Party establishment stands in paralysis. Centrist Democratic groups continue to produce new ideas that the party might use to win back average voters. But leaders won’t touch them for fear of upsetting the socialists. The party center has retreated to a “resist Trump” agenda, the only cry it still feels is safe to float across all constituencies.

The DSA is aware that Americans as a whole are in an anti-incumbent mood and that the Democratic electorate is fed up with an ancient party apparatus. The DSA has endorsed more than 170 candidates this primary season, most of them young and energetic. While their ideas might be socialist, damaging, and crazy, they are at least ideas—for free, free, free everything. That’s more than a stupefied Democratic establishment is offering.

Republicans take comfort in evidence that DSA-aligned members still face rough waters in swing states. Which is true. But no one who understands the danger of socialism should be much comforted. There are an estimated 192 solidly Democratic districts in this country. And the DSA strategy is clear. Primaries are low turnout—often involving just 10 to 30 percent of the party. But they feature the most dedicated (and radical) voters. The DSA will continue to nominate candidates of the Mamdani type. Once those candidates win a primary, they are shoo-ins to win a general election since these are heavily gerrymandered Democratic districts. This is the method by which the DSA will take control of the House and grow its ranks in the Senate. And it means socialists will be calling the shots when Democrats next take the White House or Congress.

***

Which raises two final questions: Why are Americans voting for socialism, and why now? The answer to both questions has to do with education.

For all the DSA’s tripe about “working” Americans, it’s a movement comprised almost entirely of young, white, privileged Americans. Statewide socialist candidates in Michigan and Wisconsin had their highest margins in college towns. A Fox News survey in Michigan found that only 75 percent of black Democratic voters intend to vote for the socialist-aligned U.S. Senate candidate, who is also underperforming among women, independents, and suburban and older voters. Socialism is largely a youth movement.

Economist Friedrich Hayek once quipped: “If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.” And indeed, as business professor Kimberlee Josephson wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal, a poor economy doesn’t explain the fascination of young Americans today with socialism. What explains it is that on today’s campuses—especially those of the “wealthiest and most selective” universities—students are living in (fake) socialist utopias: “climbing walls and lazy rivers,” “lofts with expansive lounges,” “campus coffee bars with national brands.” Kids ride buses without paying fares; they “attend concerts, meet career coaches, reserve study rooms, download software, join student organizations, and participate in countless campus activities without ever reaching for a wallet.” Others are paying the bills, of course; the students just don’t know it. And why should real life be any different?

Too few of our K-12 schools, colleges, and universities teach real history or civics any longer. We fret constantly about our falling math and reading scores, and we should. But a nation that does not teach successive generations about the differences between capitalism, socialism, and fascism, or about the horrifying carnage of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Hoxha, Ceausescu, and Tito, or about the basics of personal finance and business, is a nation defenseless against the pull of fantasy ideologies.

We can do better. Go online, right now, and look up the “1912 Eighth-Grade Examination for Bullitt County [Kentucky] Schools,” which is maintained online by the Bullitt County History Museum. This is the knowledge we once expected of our 13- and 14-year-olds—most of whom were, with this exam, finishing their education and embarking on adulthood. Look at the questions these young Americans were able to answer—especially those in geography, civil government, and history.

That exam is a one-document explanation for why our country faces a socialist threat today—and a one-document roadmap for what we need to do to fix it.

Politics

The Evolution of Communism in America

1 Comment

A Brief History Leading to America’s Attack

10/03/2026 – 6:00pm

Marxism started with Karl Marx’s manifesto (co-authored with Friedrich Engels) The Communist Manifesto (1848).  Marx and Engels worked on perfecting Marx’s plan for several years (until Marx’s death – 1883).  Engels was Marx’s financial support the entire time they were together because Marx never had a job.  (He did in fact come from a wealthy family, but his father did not support Marx’s ‘grand endeavor’.)  Instead, Marx let his children live in squalor and starve to death shortly followed by his wife dying of starvation also.

Lenin, Stalin, Mao, et al carried the ball for Marx creating Russian and Chinese countries. They also managed to murder over 100,000,000 of their own people in the process.

Communists believe that you cannot convert a country to communism without a revolution.  The stages are: work underground as long as possible; when support (typically radicals) are sufficient, then create chaos in the streets and turn up the heat until everyone is ready to fight.  Then, when people realize their country is in trouble, they will do anything to stop the ‘pain’.  This means that communist success is done and there’s only ‘clean-up to do’ in order to have complete control of millions of people.

Antonio Gramsci, an Italian immigrant, however developed a slightly different philosophy – ‘Cultural Communism’.  His approach was extremely different from Marx.  His plan was also to work underground, but not to create chaos.  His plan was to erode the values, beliefs, and culture of the target country. 

Example: Attack the common elements of the society; Create disbelief in everything to confuse the public; Infiltrate government and gain access to powerful departments to control and gain power; Create a new immoral set of values in everyone possible; Destroy the family nucleus causing divorce and children with little or no guidance; and lastly, impact as many other elements of society as possible.

The result of Gramsci’s approach was a slower ‘decay’ of society where no one trusted anyone and there was no standard for anything.  Groups of people (races) and any other way of separating people was the objective just as long as there was no agreement on what was right, fair, or just.  Does this sound similar to America’s situation today?

Marx, Gramsci, et al died decades ago.  But evil still survived in the world.  Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of Russia during the Cold War (1950’s).  He made a statement regarding the U.S. that Russia would destroy the U.S. without firing a shot.  It should be obvious that Gramsci’s plan was a success in the U.S. because of the things done to the U.S. for decades – and continue to escalate today.

The Communist Goals for America

I first learned of the communist goals for America by reading the book “The Naked Communist” written by Cleon Skousen.

Before we go to deep into the goals, it is important to really know who Skousen was during the 1930’s – You’ll see why further down this article. 

Cleon wrote several books of deep thought and value.  E.g., Six-Day War, New World Order conspiracies, The Five Thousand Year Leap, and The Naked Communist.  Like most young men he had to find his niche in the world.  He went to school to become a lawyer, graduated, and passed the Bar.  After a few less important positions, he was hired by the FBI to be a clerk.  But he didn’t stay there long.  He rose to the rank of Special Agent rapidly and began leading a team of agents to investigate communists inside the U.S.

During the 1950’s communism started to catch on (underground).  After a short time, Cleon got noticed by his boss J. Edgar Hoover who was impressed with him.  From then on, Cleon and Hoover were on a first name basis which really got the attention of the other investigators. 

To summarize, Cleon stayed with the FBI for 16 years as a Special Agent and took time to write his book “The Naked Communist” while still working at the FBI.  He wrote the book to educate the American people on what was going on right under their nose.  But it took awhile for the subject to really catch on in the news.  The American public had trouble believing communists could be in America.  But soon things began to catch on very quick due to McCarthy coming on scene.

Once the topic became popular in our society, that led to the ‘McCarthy era’.  Joseph R. McCarthy was a U.S. Senator during the 1950’s.  He began to investigate a lot of people who were involved in communist activity and plots, etc.  Even Hollywood got in the act.  A Hollywood producer turned out to be a communist member and was tried for treason, but it didn’t stick.  However, this activity continued to raise awareness.

In 1963 Clean Skousen wrote his book – “The Naked Communist” – which after the second publishing, a U.S. Senator learned of a Mrs. Patricia Nordman of Florida.  She published the De Land Courier which was dedicated to alerting the public of the danger of communism.  At the request of Senator Herlong (Florida), she read the “Communist Goals for America” into the Congressional Record in congress which was documented for posterity.  (Goals listed in appendix dated January, 1963 pages A34 and A35.) 

These 45 goals of the communist party (in Russia) were designed to destroy our culture.  If you read them, start with the yellow text flagged on page A34. It is suggested that you read them after finishing reading this complete article. It’s not that they’re a long read, but require some thought while doing so.

Note: It took a call to the congressional library and begging on my part to get this information! To my knowledge these pages aren’t accessible anywhere else. I’ve searched relentlessly with no success.

These goals reflect a massive onslaught of people taking action over decades involving almost every area of our lives worth caring about – particularly our freedom!  It is highly recommended that you read them.  Although not all of them are related to today, 90%+ are, and that 90% +‘ are all done’!

Note:  If you have trouble reading the images above, you can Google ‘Communist goals for America’ and you’ll get several listed. Others who couldn’t get the actual document pages merely copied them. But from what I’ve seen, they are all accurate.

2007 Presidential Election

During the election process in 2007, Barack Obama made a historical quote:  “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming America”.  In general, the public had no idea what that meant, but everyone cheered wildly!  But anyone with any knowledge of Obama’s background knew that his quote meant something very ominous.

I however, having read Marx’s manifesto, knew very well what he meant – to fundamentally transform America into a socialist state and ultimately to communism.  That, in my opinion, is where the acceleration of communist activity began to move very fast. 

The Biden Era

These were the dark days to anyone who had clear thinking – but it became clearer than ever in my life how dark a political party could get.  If you read the articles under the category of ‘communism’ on this site, you’ll find several articles talking about things that happened of a very dark nature related to communism in our history.

The darkest of those articles (to me) was the Afghanistan retreat.  You can get to it via this link.

Fortunately, Biden is now eating ice cream somewhere and not making life and death decisions. 

The Trump-#2 Era

Trump’s second term has been a flurry of positive actions by the presidential branch and exceeds expectations for all other presidencies. His accomplishments in the last two years have been exemplary of the commitment he has demonstrated for getting America back in the positive limelight.

America isn’t just another country.  It is the world’s leader.  Not because we want it to be, but because the world wants it to be!  Without America setting standards, what country stands out as even a close second in the world?  Russia?  China? 

This season, right now, is one of the most important times in our history.  Why?  1 – Because of years of Gramsci activities eroding our society’s values.  2 – Because the communists have now ‘come out’ and are declaring their leadership.  “We shall do what they want.”  Everyone will get free groceries, cheap gas, low-cost medical care, a chicken in every pot, and whatever other nonsense they can think of.

And who will pay for all of this great change?  YOU!  Yes, anyone with some money will be paying for everything.  i.e., “Take from the rich, and give to the poor!”  Except the real target is the middle class which isn’t rich.  (50% of all businesses are small ones which are created by middle-class people!)  They’re taxed to death with less discretionary money every year.  Which is part of the communist great ‘plan’.

Look at New York and ask yourself, “Do I want to live there?”  A normal person would say, “absolutely not!”.  Why?  Mayor Mamdani’s plan is falling apart and it’s only a few months old.  He is destroying that city.  But I say, “Yes’!  Help yourself to a city that has been trying to destroy itself for a long time.”  (Sorry, Mr. Giuliani not you.)  High taxes seem to be a way of life there. 

Why would I have such an opinion?  Because Mamdani will demonstrate to the country what could happen to their city! I’m glad the communists are coming out. Hopefully the less informed will finally catch on that they are in danger of having an even worse life with a Marxist-Islamist making decisions for them. I am also very happy that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are documenting their goals.

DSA — “What We Fight For”

  • Expand public resources for recreation, learning, and social spaces;
  • paid family leave;
  • A 32-hour work week with full pay and benefits;
  • A living minimum wage;
  • Free public education from pre-K to college;
  • Cancel all student debt.
  • Guarantee universal healthcare at no cost to individuals, including reproductive and gender-affirming care; expand public hospitals and clinics; make medical education and training public and free.
  • Housing is a human right; build publicly owned social housing; regulate investment properties; universal rent control; right to counsel for all tenants.
  • End the legacies of slavery and colonialism; reinforce anti-discrimination laws; honor treaties and tribal sovereignty; enact reparations; invest in jobs, housing and infrastructure in neglected minority communities.
  • Demilitarize police departments; disempower police unions; redirect funding to public services; fully abolish the police and prison system; treat drug addiction and mental illness as health issues, not crimes; end qualified immunity; empower civilian police oversight.
  • Socialist feminism; queer liberation; stop gender violence; end restrictions on abortion, childbirth, childraising, gender expression and transition, marriage and divorce; ban sex discrimination; support and fairly compensate care work.
  • Federal jobs guarantee; massive investment in sustainable, publicly owned energy and transit; phase out fossil fuels; reclaim and repair the earth’s resources.
  • Defund the Department of War; end all foreign wars; close overseas military bases; support and fully employ veterans; end immunity for U.S. war criminals; support International Criminal Court prosecution of war crimes.
  • Free Palestine; recognize Palestinian right of return, right to resist military occupation, and right to self-determination; end all U.S. military and economic aid to Israel; prosecute U.S. and Israeli leaders responsible for what DSA calls the genocide in Gaza. End economic warfare against countries whose governments act independently of the United States, including Cuba, Venezuela and Iran.
  • Abolish ICE; end ICE detention and deportations; punish federal agents’ brutality; legalize migration; grant amnesty to all immigrants regardless of status; citizenship path for permanent residents; end visa caps and quotas.
  • Extend full voting rights to all permanent U.S. residents; restore voting rights to incarcerated people and people with criminal convictions; D.C. statehood; self-determination for U.S. territories and colonies; end voter suppression.
  • End political corruption and legalized bribery; eliminate lobbyists, dark money and Citizens United; publicly finance elections; abolish the Electoral College;
  • Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
  • Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy; expand the House; proportional representation; ranked-choice voting in all elections; abolish the Senate.
  • Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries; democratic control and accountability; aggressive wealth taxes on the richest individuals and corporations.
  • Empower workers to organize and fight employers; protect, expand and enforce the right to form, join and strike with unions; democratize unions; support union reform caucuses; take political action.

Note: All DSA goals were collected by ChatGPT from DSA internet sources.

The above list demonstrates the insanity of their objectives.  Doing half of this list would turn our society upside-down and put us into a state of total chaos.  Which sounds like their original objective!   

What’s the bottom line?

We are at, as they say, a pivotal point in our history.  If Marxists and Islamists get enough positions in government with enough power, we’re all toast!  Any country in history that has turned to communism for ‘relief’ has had a lot of people die as a result. And if that happened here in the U.S., it would mean all our lives will be changed for decades. No country has ever turned back from communism without a lot of dead people to show for it.

If you’re convinced communism is the best way for our country to survive and have a ‘normal’ life, you are sadly mistaken. If you don’t believe this article’s point, just try and find a communist country with a lot of groceries in their grocery stores! You won’t. Empty shelves are normal in a communist country. Also, if you think health care is poor here, you probably should focus on groceries again. Health care will be effectively the Canadian ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’ (MAID) plan. i.e., Get the old and medically challenged off the healthcare roles — Canada says, “We can’t afford them.”

“What’s your point?”, you ask.

VOTE!!   

And do so intelligently.  Study up on what is real.  Don’t just buy anything someone says, do your own research and decide what is true.  And that includes my writings.

If the Marxist and Islamists take charge in November, you will start to see things of critical and devastating importance occur progressively faster and faster. And once there’s no one fighting for you, that only leaves you to fix your own situation. But your situation at that point will be with few solutions available to address those issues.

Act now, while you still have time with solutions to help you and your family to survive. Once the Red and Green (Marxist and Islamists) get a strong enough hold on this country, it will be a short time before the constitution is dead in America…

P.S. Learn to pray to God for help…  we’re going to need Him if the Left wins this battle.

Politics

The Biden Economy – Disaster With a Purpose

1 Comment

Recession ahead - road sign warning concept

During the Trump administration, we all felt like the ‘real’ America was coming back.  “Go MAGA!!”  Hundreds of positive changes were being implemented quickly, and the future was looking brighter every day.  And then 2020 came, and with it came Joe Biden (along with his Marxist ‘advisors’).  It would seem as if the new dark ages had fallen upon us.  Almost every week we saw changes made by the administration that were having a horrendously negative impact on our economy. 

Since, those changes have been collectively demonstrating themselves as a coming disaster.  Lives are being impacted and most families are finding it hard ‘to make ends meet’.  Yet with all of the outcry, it continues to this day.  So, what is going on?

By now you think that you could do a better job than this administration.  After all, no one could make that many ‘mistakes’.  And without obtaining a Masters degree in economics, I believe many logical thinking people who have this country’s best interest in mind could do enormously better!

Then why is the administration making so many ‘mistakes’?  If this continues, we can find ourselves in a recession or worse.  The answer to this question may be that they aren’t mistakes, that they are accomplishing what they have set out to do.

How does one generally create a thriving economy?  By creating jobs (the government does not create jobs, they influence job creation), reducing regulations, lowering taxes (burden), increasing production of goods, and incentivizing corporations to create more new businesses.  Altogether, wealth is created to improve the lives and futures of those in this country – plus, to make an even better future for our kids and grand-kids.

Where does energy play a role in this better approach?  It takes energy – that is, cheap energy – to power industry in America (and at least any successful country).  The industrial revolution required massive amounts of energy to take America from an agricultural age into the future we enjoy(ed).  What does the Biden administration do on day one of his first term?  He crippled the oil industry by: closing down the oil pipeline from Canada; stopped drilling on federal lands; stopped signing permits for any new oil leases; and anything else he could do to cripple the oil industry. 

Shortly after, he ordered that all coal powered facilities be shut-down and ‘destroyed’ ASAP (which is still happening).  (That also included all efficient coal plants.)  And one should ask why electrical power facilities driven by water (natural streams) are under attack considering they are the ‘greenest’ electrical power you can generate!  And to insure that the American public are and shall stay uninformed, dams are being shut down across the U.S. without notoriety. 

So now our country is rapidly going downhill with just these few sources of money and power.  “Wait a minute”, you ask.  What started the inflation that we are dealing with? 

The answer is simple at its core – too much money chasing too few goods.  “Where did the excess money come from?  Biden & Co. of course.  It’s called quantitative easing; aka, printing of money (digitally); aka, pulling a rabbit out of your butt!!? 

Every time we ‘print more money’, we dilute the American dollar.  Here is a brief example to explain.

If say you have 1000 troy tons of gold and it has a very large value, say $10 trillion dollars.  And you printed $10 trillion worth of U.S. dollars (notes).  Then that $10T dollars = $10T gold.  Obvious.

Now if you printed another $10T in currency, what would each dollar be worth? 

(i.e., $10T gold [a fixed amount]/$20T in newly printed dollars – that would mean each U.S. dollar would be worth $0.50.)

Ask yourself: with our debt being $31.4T; our current annual deficit (debt created annually) being $1.2T; and our unfunded liabilities (things we owe someone that we have no money for) being over $100T; what do you think our U.S. dollar would REALLY be worth today?

Answer:  “Not a hell of a lot!” 

Does that help explain why a new car costs what a house did just a few years ago?

And now to add to this enormous, and catastrophic situation, we throw in inflation!  What do you propose that would spell? 

V-E-N-E-Z-U-A-L-A 

You might ask, “Who is supposed to be in charge of this subject within the federal government?”  That would be congress, except for the fact they gave up that ‘constitutionally assigned task’ and allowed it to be assumed by the executive branch!  And who would that be?  Biden & Co., of course. 

Think of any decision that the executive branch has implemented in the last two and a half years and ask yourself, “Is it possible that they have a different agenda than us?”  You bet. 

But let us be charitable.  Joe Biden may be ‘running’ this country, but to a 10% degree at best.  It should be obvious by now that he has some of the most radical Marxists behind him ‘reminding him’ of what his current decision is and what’s next.  This is not a string of mistakes; it is a list of positioning moves. 

If we were playing chess, we’d just have a king, and at best a pawn left on the board.

I’ve said it before, but I submit this article to drive home the truth and update my many times I have repeated the statement, “Their objective is to destroy the American economy and subsequently destroy the country”.  Why?  To allow the ‘one world government’ to take over the decisions of ALL countries in the world.  And we are #1 on the list to destroy.  Because as America goes, so goes the world.  We have been the world leaders for almost 250 years.  Or at least we were.

For the sake of brevity, I didn’t go into the shortages we’ve had recently.  e.g., thousands of chickens burned to death in mysterious fires; thousands of cattle which also died in unknown source fires; etc.  All of which wreaked of terrorism occurring on U.S. soil without any media fanfare. 

Preparation Suggestion:  Get out of debt, prepare for the worst, pray for forgiveness, and ask for divine help.  Because what’s coming will be MUCH worse than 2008-2009.  Think 1930’s…  not tomorrow, but very soon.

For more statistics and good reading regarding our economy, please see the following newsletter from Hillsdale College.

Hillsdale College Newsletter

PLEASE forward this article to those you know.  My articles are not searchable via Google since they have ‘cancelled me’.  Which, is a badge of honor I accept.  Especially since there’s nothing I can do about it… 

Feel free to comment on this article or any others posted because your suggestions are welcomed.  If you are not reading this article from an email, click on the title of the article at my webpage (Justice4USA.wordpress.com); Scroll to the bottom of it; and enter your comments into the box after the words “LEAVE A REPLY”.

If you wish to receive notices whenever I release a new article, merely click on the word FOLLOW (generally on the right) and then enter your email address.  New articles come out immediately after their posting.  And do not be concerned about being flooded with mail.  Only one or two posts are entered per week — AT MOST.

 

 

Communism, Financial, Politics, Public Interest, Technology

America Under Fire – Inside and Out – Part I

2 Comments

USSA Flag

For the reader:

Please give some thought to the questions in this article.  Consider your view.  I typically analyze data by a ‘connecting the dots’ process through observation and considerable evaluation.  I hope you see the ‘sense’ I am making out of the ‘nonsense’ we hear daily from the media.

Phase II of the ‘Fundamental Transformation’

Phase II because Barack Hussein Obama jump started in 2008 what we are experiencing today!

Since the election of Joe Biden, we have seen numerous changes made in our country starting on the first day of his presidency.  Of all the changes made since then, how many do you remember that were advantageous to America?  Or maybe even good for you?

One must ask oneself; how could an administration be so incompetent?  One answer is that incompetency isn’t the issue.  Consider the idea that everything that has happened in the last two years was carefully planned.

You see, the trick to ‘unwinding’ the mess that the administration has created is to start with their objective – what is it?  Next, the targets of these actions need to be identified by ‘category’.  e.g., economy, employment, immigration, etc.

If you read any of the hundreds of articles on my website, it quickly becomes clear that I have been writing about communist activity in America since 2014.  A great place to start is to do a Google search for ‘communist goals America’.  (If you do, you will find the following document link pointing to the January 10th, 1963 congressional library appendix pages A34 and A35.)

Communist Goals for America

Focus on goal #15 – ‘Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.’

Although we witness a lot of ‘mudslinging’ in congress, we ultimately see both parties feckless.   The result is we typically get the short end of the stick on almost every topic or issue presented to this corrupt group of alleged ‘representatives’.  Could it be that the communists in America have in fact infiltrated the government’s House and Senate?  Would that not, for example, explain the recent disastrous two years we’ve endured so far?  Do you expect any changes to this process in the near future?  Do you see democrats changing their strategy?  Or the republicans?

We are constantly watching a kabuki show of clowns (aka, representatives) who are playing us for fools, while doing what is good for them.  Isn’t it ironic that these people get elected to office with moderate incomes and personal budgets?  Later they own multiple homes with millions of dollars in the bank.  It’s hard not to believe that at least some of the bad decisions they are making (voting) are being done on ‘purpose’!

Consider reading this article – The Sinking of America — The Afghanistan Debacle – and then ask yourself if I make the case for that action being done on purpose, and not in error.  Then consider the things we are experiencing today.  How can any reasonable person not conclude that this is all part of a larger plan?

That ‘exit’ was anything but a well–planned exit.  It was a debacle from the initial planning stages.  And don’t be fooled by the lies told to you today.  The vast majority of American and Afghan people were spirited out of the country by private NGOs with horrendous opposition from the State department.  Their plan was to trap Americans and friendly Afghan military supporters in country with the Taliban lurking close by.  Too hard to believe?  Consider checking out Glenn Beck’s Mercury One organization.  They are the ones who saved literally thousands of lives over several weeks of fighting our own government – the State department!

What is the Big plan?  Destroy America!  (As we know it.)

What are the things that the current administration has been attacking since taking over the presidency?

  • Actively making the constitution irrelevant by ignoring and violating it since day one (passing executive order in direct violation of the constitution).
  • Supporting the making of laws in many cities irrelevant by downgrading crimes, not requiring bail, and criminalizing innocent
  • Influencing corporations, organizations, and points of power for the purpose of devaluing the country’s morals and values.
  • Incessantly trying to disrupt the social order with the intent of bringing chaos in larger cities.
  • Doing everything possible to destroy our economy starting with killing our oil production and oil reserves.
  • They have actively and aggressively made our military a shadow of what it once was, and our security is the worst it has been decades.
  • And now they are supporting surgical procedures on our children to alter their sex – with the intent of supporting their dysphoria!
  • And many more …

All of this (and more) says their objective is to weaken America to a point where we reach critical mass – the Left would then turn us into, not the USSR, but the USSA or the ‘United Socialist States of America’.  Although we are already effectively a socialist state, they are now trying to grab control of resources and means of production – to insure we become a communist state.

What are their short-term objectives?  (18 months)

Destroy Donald Trump and then Ron De Santis.  Both of these men are a threat to the Left’s game plan and could seriously delay their ultimate goal.  Because they are so close to that goal, they will become more like rats in a corner and strike out even more viciously in the immediate future.  When did you think you would ever see Americans incarcerated in federal prisons without judicial review or charge?  Does that not at least sound like an administrative state?  Or potentially a totalitarian government?

We see the administration actively destroying the American dollar and economy.  Why would anyone do such a thing – intentionally?  The obvious conclusion is to gain power and control.  (Which is a common objective of many elites.)  The reason for this action is in line with the major objective of the Left – American domination (serfdom) and loss of world power.  Why?  Because America stands in the way of “The Great Reset”, which translated, means converting the world into a communist state – and potentially returning the entire world into a state of serfdom.

For what reason?  To have most wealth in the hands of the world’s elites and the remainder of the world’s population owning ‘nothing’.  i.e., The road to serfdom!  (This all fits the intent of the recent quote from the World Economic Forum – “You will own nothing and be happy.”

You are already seeing activity (discussed earlier) destroying the petro-dollar and other American riches.  But soon we are about to see the next phase of this process – the implementation of FEDNOW.  This is a banking computer system intended for primarily smaller banks in America.  The following is a brief explanation of this system and the CBDC.

When computer systems are designed, they are often broken up into ‘functional’ elements of a greater system.  The typical rationale for this approach is to address load distribution (on computers) and system performance.  Trying to create a computer system that will handle transaction rates coming at blinding speeds from all over the country and/or world would impact system reliability and performance.  The modular approach distributes load to multiple systems and/or platforms which creates that reliability and performance.

FEDNOW is one of those functions which is available for banks in the U.S.  The marketing plan is to address the need for speed with the smaller banks.  Currently, money transactions take too long, often due to manual intervention.  FEDNOW automates this transaction process and is seen by the smaller (retail) banks as a means to serve their customers faster with 24 hour by seven-day availability. No more closing for the weekend!  Why close, the banks have laid off the employees.  TV commercials are being presented to the public…  NOW!

Don’t believe them if they tell you this has nothing to do with digital currency.

Next, we will see the implementation of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which by the way has been in beta test for over a year on the east coast!  Four of the leading banks have been using it for that long with ‘live’ transactions.  It is my estimate that CBDC will be available within the next 18 months – or sooner.

The question you have in mind may be, “Why would we need this new digital currency?”  This is a huge topic, so to be brief, it gives the federal government the ability to track every dollar that you receive and spend – a scary thought.  But wait, there’s more!

Another part of money control is: Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG).  The purpose of ESG is to have a ‘scoring system’ similar to the communist Chinese.  With this control, the government can manipulate the public.  By using ESG with the CBDC, it allows the feds to control all money and your spending (how much you spend, on what, etc.).  Which allows them to control not only the economy, but the people.

Our government has been controlling our economy for years – keeping interest rates low for the rich to get money cheaply, which is one reason why we are fighting a recession and inflation today.  With the control of spending and the ability to control lending rates, they can and will control the economy even tighter than they do today.  And if your ESG score is low enough, you might find yourself with no food, home, etc.

Put all of that together with the continued dilution of our constitution and bill of rights; the printing of money in the ‘trillions’ eroding the value of our dollars; combined with the further erosion of our electoral process; you should see how they can quickly create an environment for an American dictatorship!  So much for democracy.

Long-Term objective (2-6 years)

The Left’s key objective is to ‘flip’ America from being the USA, to not the USSR, but to the USSA (United Socialist States of America).  Once they have implemented the last phase of their plan, they will have collected enough power and control to be able to do almost anything.  And if the government takes power, it typically comes from ‘the people’.  The only way we got power back from ‘the government’ in the past was to take it back – meaning the war with the British.

The question is, if all of the above were to be accomplished, who or what could turn this objective around?  For that answer, and for the sake of brevity, you will need to read part two of this article.  In part two I will point out further issues that we may face of equal or even bigger impact.  But on a positive note, I will state some ideas on how America can become the country we once knew.

To be continued… 

Stay tuned, turn back to God, pray for forgiveness and help for America – for we are not fighting man, but evil.  I am not suggesting that America is evil, but that many of the actions mentioned here are evil.

If you haven’t seen evil in this country by now, look around.  Because today evil is everywhere!  Trust me, you shouldn’t have to look far.

Feel free to comment on this article or any others posted, because your suggestions are welcomed.  If you are not reading this article from an email, click on the title of the article; Scroll to the bottom of it; and enter  your comments into the box after the words “LEAVE A REPLY”.

If you wish to receive notices whenever a new article is released, merely click on the word FOLLOW (generally on the right) and then enter your email address.  New articles come out immediately after their posting.  And do not be concerned about being flooded with mail.  Only one or two posts are entered per week — AT MOST.

Politics

Donald Trump & The Feds

Leave a comment

It’s getting to be that few people care for the feds.  We are facing a tyrannical government which tramples on the rights of free American citizens.  (Certainly not congress’s though.)  One of the ways they do so is by ‘taking‘ privately owned land from citizens.  The following link points to a story which typifies that process — eminent domain.  Which by the way is a fun ‘tool‘ used by none other than Donald Trump.  He has demonstrated by his actions that he has no problem taking land/property from old ladies — much less burly men.

It’s not bad enough the ignorant people of this country put a dictator in office to destroy…  ‘er fundamentally transform this country.  But now the other half of the country (the sane people?) are actually considering Trump for the replacement dictator.  What a crazy world!!?

Texas Rancher Land No Longer Belongs to Him

.

Inspirational, Public Interest

‘Mega’ Agenda 21 — You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet!!

Leave a comment

Far too many people in this country are totally unaware of Agenda 21, much less, know what it stands for or where it came from.  But now, the U.N. has come out with ‘Agenda 30’!!  The ‘new and improved’ Agenda 21.

Although these sound very innocuous, they could spell the end of the world economy as we know it.  In brief, they are wealth distribution on steroids!  The goal is to eliminate poverty throughout the entire world!  And the only way to meet such an extreme goal is to take from the rich (that’s you) and give it to others in another country.  (If you think you’re struggling now, just wait.)  Generosity and free contributions to those in need will no longer be required — your money will be taken from you.

As if this isn’t hard enough to believe, the current pope will be pushing this agenda.  Read the following article to learn about this world plan and how it will more than likely be part of our future.

‘Mega’ Agenda 21

 

Postscript:

It should be noted of import that our current pope is the 268th pope in history.  But of greater interest, he has been mentioned in prophecy as the ‘last pope‘ (112th) by St. Malachy.  (See BibleBelievers and read the last entry on the page at the bottom.)  What makes this even more curious is, Nostradamus predicted the same thing.  If you read this webpage toward the bottom, you’ll see what I mean.

Stay tuned folks…   we’re in for one hell of a ride over the next few years..?

 

.

Politics, Public Interest

Islam In America — It’s Real, It’s Here… Now!

Leave a comment

A friend of mine recently commented that we don’t have to worry about Islam coming to America and that Shariah law will never be implemented here.  I beg to differ.  There is an abundant amount of evidence to the contrary almost everywhere — if you merely open your eyes to the truth.

During a public speaking engagement I was giving a talk on Islam.  A gentleman in the audience asked to speak during the question and answer session.  He started with saying that he recently moved to Texas from Dearborn, Michigan.  He went on to say that we was effectively run out of that area because of the ‘Muslim influence’.  His description of his environment there sounded very similar to a gang infested area in south central Los Angeles.  The Muslim ‘immigrants’ would intimidate American citizens and block their path on sidewalks, etc.  Not a friendly environment.

The Islamist movement is a very insidious one which is moving not so slowly in this country — and is often ‘in your face‘ obvious.  The following graphic is of a marque in front of a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan.  I must ask, how much evidence do Americans need.??

[]

.

Politics, Public Interest

Stop The Iran Deal Rally

Leave a comment

Yesterday there was a rally in D.C. with several speakers addressing the horrible deal we’re about to make with Iran.  Today only 20% of the American public (per Pew Research) are ‘for’ this deal, yet our representatives persist on pursuing this catastrophic deal which will endanger the world ten fold.

Click on the following link and then use the right or left arrows (on the picture at top) to bring up the speaker you wish to hear.  Glenn Beck made a great speech on this topic which I’m sure ‘resonated’ with the progressives..?  (They actually started playing music to cut him off.)

Rally Speakers

Stay tuned…   Friday they vote for the destiny of this country.  Which, ironically is the 11th.  i.e., 911  Scary isn’t it..?

.

Politics, Public Interest

America Under Sharia Law — The 11 Requirements of Sharia

Leave a comment

If you ever wondered what America would be like if Islam took over this country, the following is a brief explanation.  In summary, we would have to adhere to eleven requirements based on Sharia law.  They are:

  1. Christians may not build churches, monasteries, or hermitages in the city or in the surrounding areas.
  2. They may not show the cross or any of their books in the Muslims’ streets or markets, and may not use amplifiers when worshiping or during prayer.
  3. They may not make Muslims hear the reciting of their books or the sounds of church bells, which must be rung only inside their churches.
  4. They may not carry out any act of aggression against ISIS, such as giving refuge to spies and wanted men. If they come to know of any plot against Muslims, they must report it.
  5. They must not perform religious rituals in public.
  6. They must respect Muslims and not criticize their religion.
  7. Wealthy Christians must pay an annual jizya of four gold dinars; middle-class Christians must pay two gold dinars, and the poor must pay one. Christians must disclose their income, and may split the jizya into two payments.
  8. They may not own guns.
  9. They may not engage in commercial activity involving pigs or alcohol with Muslims or in Muslim markets, and may not drink alcohol in public.
  10. They may maintain their own cemeteries.
  11. They must abide by ISIS dress code and commerce guidelines.

Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/09/06/would-you-sign-this-contract-and-conform-or-be-killed?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link

So now, how serious an issue do you think the threat of Islam is to this country!?

For a great, quick, and complete education on this subject, try reading “It IS About Islam” by Glenn Beck.  You’ll find his factual account of what the reality is about Islam stunning and worth knowing for your future survival.

.

Public Interest

Jobs in the U.S. — Lot’s of Statistics..?

Leave a comment

As a high profile person once said, “At this point, what difference does it make?!”  That can be said about the ‘wonderful‘ 5.1% unemployment numbers we’re currently experiencing.  But tell that to the 90M+ people who are unemployed today in this country!

Here’s a thought for you…  If 10,000 plus seniors are turning 65 daily, would that not be about 300,000 people per month?!  May I assume that those people are not counted against the unemployment numbers?  However, you must ask, is that correct?  If a senior retires, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t need money/income any longer.  He may have been laid off and took retirement in lieu of unemployment.

My point is, I find the 5.1% number government propaganda and very hard to believe.  We are told that job creation has gone down, but unemployment went down also..?  Rather hard to believe since it takes 250K jobs per month to just keep up with population growth.?!

Here’s some more information for you regarding jobs that you may find of interest.  It’s not bad enough we have a shortage of jobs, we have to give what jobs are left to non-U.S. citizens??!  Talk about insult and injury..?

698K Native-Born Americans Lost Their Job In August: Why This Suddenly Is the Most Important Jobs Chart

Zero Hedge
September 8th, 2015

unemployment-greatdepression

After the Fed admitted over a year ago that the US unemployment rate (which in 2012 was supposed to be a rate hike “threshold” once it hit 6.5% and is now at 5.1%) has become irrelevant in a country where a record 94 million people have left the labor force, and with the Fed poised to hike rates even though US hourly wages have not only not increased for the past 7 years, but for the vast majority of the labor force continue to decline, some have asked – is there any labor-related chart that matters any more?

The answer: a resounding yes, only it is none of the conventional charts that algos and sometimes humans look at.

The one chart that matters more than ever, has little to nothing to do with the Fed’s monetary policy, but everything to do with the November 2016 presidential elections in which the topic of immigration, both legal and illegal, is shaping up to be the most rancorous, contentious and divisive.

The chart is the following, showing the cumulative addition of foreign-born and native-born workers added to US payrolls according to the BLS since December 2007, i.e., since the start of the recession/Second Great Depression.

The chart is especially important because what it shows for just the month of August will be enough to provide the Trump – and every other – campaign with enough soundbites and pivot points to last it for weeks on end: namely, that in August a whopping 698,000 native-born Americans lost their job. This drop was offset by 204,000 foreign-born Americans, who got a job in the month of August.

But the punchline: since December 2007, according to the Household Survey, only 790,000 native born American jobs have been added. Contrast that with the 2.1 million foreign-born Americans who have found a job over the same time period…

… and you have a combustible mess that will lead to serious fireworks during the next GOP primary.

Delivered by The Daily Sheeple