Fascio-Socialist Rule by Fear

 

Fascio-Socialist Rule by Fear

 This cabal around Biden is the most destructive to our founding principles and our American values ever, in history.  Virtually everything they touch turns to fascio-socialist foolishness.  This pervades both domestic, and foreign policy efforts under Biden.  The things that are working properly are those inspired and initiated by President Donald Trump, namely, Covid vaccination and Covid relief payments. Of course, the Biden bunch takes credit for both of these.

 I was not exactly enamored with either the Clinton or Obama administrations on socio-economic and political lines delineating political views.  But both of these were these were functional and rational administrations, and preserved the trappings of government.  This Biden government is hell-bent on destroying our traditional government structure, and installing a totalitarian, socialist/communist one-party system.

 One can expound on the philosophies of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Alinsky and others as applies to what the alt-left handlers of Biden are doing.  They are trying to convert America into a socialist/communist country on the recent model of Venezuela.  They have managed to “dumb down” the country to accept their “newspeak” lies and euphemisms about innocuous or positive sounding programs that contain the exact means of making this a socialist country.

 And the bulk of the population is clueless, gullible, and thinks “old Joe” is a kindly granddaddy that gives them money, vaccinates them and doesn’t tweet.  This image is burnished by a fawning media, big tech and Hollywood.  The whole result, if you can believe the biased media, is a 50+ approval rating for old Joe.

 In the meantime, Joe and his minions continue to virtue signal by wearing masks in the open even though fully vaccinated, counter to prevailing CDC medical and scientific advice.  Joe lectures his ovine followers that he may reward them by “allowing” small family gatherings by Independence Day, if they behave and also continue to wear their obedience masks outdoors.  Echoing Leon Trotsky, “Social control is best managed through fear”.  The Biden cabal’s use of the fear of covid as a cudgel is straight out of Trotsky’s activist communism.

 This is what the CDC (not Biden) says about masks.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/COVID-19-AfterVaccine.pdf

Ray Gruszecki

April 27, 2021

Brave, New Bidenite World

 

Brave, New Bidenite World

 At one time, in the not too far distant past, we read classic novels of future political dystopia, and marveled at the creativity and imagination of the authors.  Their futuristic worlds bordered on science fiction, and fueled our minds with far out fantasies.

 But take a look at our real, “woke”, Bidenite world, with its identity politics, intersectionality, and cancel culture based racial bigotry posing as social justice; and modern thought control and “newspeak”, and that 20th century dystopian fiction is not too far from the present truth.

 Biden, Harris, Psaki, Kerry, Blinken and others stand there in front of the cameras, and outright lie, lie, lie.  They don’t only gloss over facts and build themselves up like most politicians do, they just straight, outright, lie to our faces, just like in some of the dystopian novels.  As Lenin said, “a lie told often enough becomes the truth”.  And the gullible, ovine masses believe them, and are grateful for the cessation of cantankerous, brutally true, in your face, tweets.

 This is a list and synopsis of some of the better-known 20th century dystopian novels.  Do we see any parallels with this current socialist administration?  We are living the dystopian fiction of the past, as recently did, Venezuela.

 “Brave New World”, Aldous Huxley, 1932

“The Director then leads the boys to the Nursery, where they observe a group of Delta infants being reprogrammed to dislike books and flowers. The Director explains that this conditioning helps to make Deltas docile and eager consumers. He then tells the boys about the “hypnopaedic” (sleep-teaching) methods used to teach children the morals of the World State. In a room where older children are napping, a whispering voice is heard repeating a lesson in “Elementary Class Consciousness.” “

 “1984”, George Orwell, 1949

Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, where he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omniscient leader, a figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people’s history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thoughtcrime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes.

 “Fahrenheit 451”, Ray Bradbury, 1953

Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of Guy Montag, who lives in an oppressive society that attempts to eliminate all sources of complexity, contradiction, and confusion to ensure uncomplicated happiness for all its citizens. As Montag comes to realize over the course of the novel, however, his fellow citizens are not happy so much as spiritually hollow. People in this world are constantly bombarded with advertisements and shallow entertainments, leaving them no space to think for themselves or assess their own emotional states. The result is a society that grows increasingly selfish, pleasure-seeking, disconnected, and empty.

 “A Clockwork Orange”, Anthony Burgess, 1962

A Clockwork Orange takes place in a futuristic city governed by a repressive, totalitarian super-State. In this society, ordinary citizens have fallen into a passive stupor of complacency, blind to the insidious growth of a rampant, violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex, a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang called nadsat, which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. Alex leads a small gang of teenage criminals—Dim, Pete, and Georgie—through the streets, robbing and beating men and raping women.

 “Atlas Shrugged”, Ayn Rand, 1957

The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and her lover, steel magnate Hank Rearden, struggle against "looters" who want to exploit their productivity.

Ray Gruszecki

April 27, 2021

The Enemy of the People

 

The Enemy of the People

 President Donald Trump once called the press “the enemy of the people”.

 Like everything that Trump said, or tweeted back then, this statement was met with yowls of derision and condemnation from his detractors, mostly from the media he was dissing.

 It has become increasingly evident to any discerning, honest person, that the media in this country is “in the tank” for the democrats and the leftists.  The so-called “free press” and media not only offer left-wing opinion instead of the news, they refuse to report and try to bury any news that is unfavorable to the left.  They continue to treat, as valid news, any “fake news” or conspiracy theories that would harm conservatives or libertarians.  Past examples are the completely false “Russian collusion” hoax beat to death by the biased media, and the withholding of the Hunter Biden laptop story, that impacted the presidential election in favor of Joe Biden.

 This Biden administration, and Joe Biden himself, will stand there in front of the cameras and lie blatantly to our faces about so many things that its difficult to keep up.  These alt-left handlers of the senile Biden seem to be applying Vladimir Lenin’s old saw that “A lie told often enough becomes the truth”.

 And fully 90% of the media in the country echo these lies in the press, TV and big tech social media.  The ovine masses, spending their “free” $1400 per capita government handouts, getting vaccinated with Trump originated vaccines for which Biden is taking credit, and with their feelings no longer distressed by true, but often raw tweets from Trump, lap up these lies and give these liars a 55% approval rating.  Obviously, a la Lenin, the lies have become the truth, to the continuing erosion of our country’s founding principles.

 If it were not for an irascible old Australian fox in the 1990’s, and a patrician New Englander in the 1960’s, we would have precious little truth to counter the socialist democrats’ continuing lies assailing us daily.  Others, like the Wall Street Journal, still report the news honestly and with integrity, but our historical newspapers of record, like the New York Times and Washington Post are nothing more, these days, than left-wing, alt-left propaganda tools.  The same goes for most of the broadcast media, save for Rupert’s heritage, which is continually attacked, with attempts to shut it down.

 There are others in the fray.  Andrew Breitbart’s legacy alt-right media outlets try to neutralize what we see and hear on CNN and MSNBC, as do OAN, Newsmax, and a few other right wing media entities.  But news and opinion from the right is dwarfed by the massive leftist effort, whose propaganda and lies continue to pervade our lives daily, and keep the sheep in their leftist designed pens.

 Unfortunately, our biased media is complicit in Biden’s spurious 81 million plus votes in the last election, as well as the alt-left’s headlong rush to try to make our country a one-party, fascio-socialist totalitarian regime.  The perversion of “freedom of the press” is major factor in the abrogation of our founding principles, our heritage and our freedoms.  

Ray Gruszecki

April 24, 2021

Is America Really Racist?

 

Is America Really Racist?

 I am not a racist or white supremacist.  Nor, from observations during my long life, are most Americans at this point in time.  This nonsense being espoused by currently popular identity politics, intersectionality and critical race theory, that the majority of white Americans are “systemically racist”, is simply not true, and the product of an insidious bigotry inherent in these distorted views.  Combined with “cancel culture” and “wokeness”, this sort of thinking is destroying America by attacking our constitution, founding principles, traditions and history.

 It is a tragedy of our history that black Africans were brought to America against their will, beginning in the 17^th century, enslaved, and held in bondage as property for nearly 200 years.  A civil war, costing over 600,000 white American lives was fought in the mid nineteenth century, to begin freeing these black Americans.  Ensuing civil rights and legislative actions over the next 160+ years have ensured integration and enfranchisement of these black Americans, into our society. As of 2019, black Americans comprise 13% of our population.

 Obviously, there was residual resentment and bigotry against people of a different race and skin color at first, particularly since they had been held to be inferior in the past, and many were poor, uneducated and socially restricted.  These racial mores have changed with time and with advances in civil rights legislation to the point of acceptance of all races as Americans with equal rights.  In this day and age, most Americans truly believe Martin Luther King’s quote “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” 

 There are still pockets of racism and bigotry, just as there were residual pockets of “no Irish, (or Polish, or Italian), need apply” in the nineteenth century.  But racism and bigotry is diminishing with time, education and public awareness. We need to eliminate the pockets of bigotry that are still with us, but these are nowhere near the “systemic racism” posited by our alt-left Biden rulers.  Black Americans are ubiquitous in our entertainment, advertising and across all aspects of our lives.  Intermarriages are “coloring” our population, and lily-white blue-eyed blondes as symbols of beauty are being replaced by darker-skinned, sloe-eyed beauties.  

 Tragic, but anecdotal individual incidents occur, like George Floyd’s death, where a black American is killed by a white policeman, and our leftist inspired American world goes crazy.  This one incident, and a very few others like it, have been inflamed by irresponsible politicians and media into a virtual race war.  Cities are burned.  Police are reviled and “defunded”, because of these singular and anecdotal examples of “police brutality” and “racism”.  In the meantime, there is a near pandemic in our cities of black-on-black killing, including children, every week, without so much as a murmur from the same hypocritical politicians and media.

 We are all Americans with equal rights and responsibilities.  We should not be placed into identity politics “buckets” for special privileges or punishments.  We should remember our past, good and bad, and learn from it, not attempt to erase it, or rewrite it.  Statues and monuments are mementos of our heritage.  Why are we destroying them?  We should be learning lessons from them.  We should accept every American citizen, whether black, Asian, Muslim, white European, native born or naturalized, as having equal rights.  As MLK said, its “content of character” that counts.

Ray Gruszecki

April 22, 2021

Our Democrat-Socialist Government

 

Our Democrat-Socialist Government

 What is truly sad and so debilitating for our country, is how the radical Marxist left and their biased media allies have sabotaged over half of our electorate toward their extreme socialist views.  For example, “Black Lives Matter” and “Antifa” are accepted, by over half the country,  as being valid civil rights groups, rather than violent Marxist movements, as defined and promulgated by their founders and adherents.

 It seems that every time a black American is killed by a cop, the BLM and Antifa mobs are set in motion by social media and the dark web, and American cities burn.  Meantime, the almost pandemic numbers of black-on-black American killings in our major cities each week, and particularly in Chicago, goes unabated and virtually unreported, without so much as a murmur from the left-wing bigots that condemn every anecdotal shooting by a cop in performance of their duty, whether or not the shooting is in self-defense, accidental or crime prevention.

 Cries are raised by the radical alt-left socialists to “defund” or “disarm” or “eliminate” the police, to the detriment of primarily black communities in our cities.  These echo the rallying cries of the nineteenth century European communist movements to create anarchy in society in preparation for the communist revolution.  These radical policies are backed by the current, increasingly socialist, administration, and the clueless, gullible American public, seems to get on board and accept these violent, destructive movements as part of the body politic.

 When are the American public going to wake up and acknowledge how poor, old mentally deficient Joe Biden has been overwhelmed by his alt-left handlers, to issue increasingly dictatorial executive orders that are leading our country away from our founding principles, and into a Hugo Chavez style socialism?  I have to ask, did the suburban matrons and others offended by Donald Trump’s sometimes cantankerous comments and tweets anticipate the destruction of our very founding principles and the weakening of our foreign policy on the scale being executed by this socialist cabal that is now in power?  Is this what you voted for?

 These destroyers of our traditions, history and culture need to be sent packing as quickly as possible, in future elections.  We cannot succumb to the ever-increasing din of bigoted identity politics masquerading as social justice and the associated “cancel culture” and “wokeness”.  These charlatans need to be sent back to their burrows in irresponsible academia or left-wing think tanks, and away from any positions of political power. Hopefully a responsible American public will soon catch on to the harm that this destructive, socialist, Biden cabal is foisting upon our country, virtually “with every move they make”.

Ray Gruszecki

April 15, 2021

Black Lives Matter and Antifa - Background

 

Black Lives Matter and Antifa - Background

 (Some of this was written during the anti-Trump and race riots of the summer of 2020.)

 It is a chapter from the old socialist/communist playbook to attach an epithet such as “Black Lives Matter”, to an avowed Marxist movement, and then elicit almost universal acceptance fueled by guilt for the few anecdotal examples of actual racism in the country, which are blown out of proportion by BLM propaganda.

 This is what happened with “Black Lives Matter”, which is accepted as being a viable social justice or civil rights movement by 55%, (once 67%) of all Americans, in spite of its Marxist origins and background.  Responses by concerned Americans that “All Lives Matter”, were immediately twisted by BLM propagandists as “racist”, and this view continues in the opinion of a majority of Americans that have been brainwashed by BLM.

 The name “Black Lives Matter”. on its surface, signifies a beneficent social justice, civil rights movement that values the lives of black people.  Similarly, “Antifa”, or its German origin name, “ Antifaschistische Aktion”, denotes an anti-fascist connotation.  Again, on surface, who could say that black lives do not matter, or that they are pro-fascist, considering fascism’s contemporary dark reputation?

 But an honest and deeper examination of these two groups shows them not to be the positive groups that the names imply. Both groups have Marxist origins and espouse anti-capitalist, Marxist/Leninist socialist/communist principles.  This is obvious from their founding principles, and also from the continuing pronouncements of their leaders.

 Black Lives Matter, particularly, have seduced a good part of the gullible and clueless American public, and also the corporate world, and have convinced them, that they are a positive force to mend the evil “systemic racism” that they claim is endemic in modern America.  They have glossed over their revolutionary Marxist philosophy in order to ingratiate themselves into modern society.  They have used “woke” and “cancel culture”, and a sympathetic leftist media, to ensure acceptance by much of the public. “Black Lives Matter” signs are painted on New York City and Washington, D.C. streets and massive signs appear outside of iconic baseball parks.

 Yet, their violent actions in our streets in concert with Antifa thugs, belies these claims of respectability as a bona fide civil rights movement.  Instead, they are destroying our history culture and heritage by violent actions, ostensibly to end “racism”, but these radical groups equate “racism” with capitalism, in other words, with western values.  They follow the Marxist/Leninist formula of tearing down the bourgeoise civilization, and rebuilding it in a socialist/communist image.

 BLM is not an innocuous, beneficent civil rights movement.  It is a decentralized, neo-Marxist based, George Soros funded, domestic terrorist organization.   BLM happily self-identifies as a neo-Marxist movement with various far-left objectives, including defunding the police, dismantling capitalism and the patriarchal system, disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure, seeking reparations from slavery to redistribute wealth and via various offshoot appeals, to raise money to bail black prisoners awaiting trial. The notion of seizing control of the apportionment of capital, dismantling the frameworks of society, and neutralizing and undermining law enforcement is not just Marxist, but anarchic….”

 In way of background, BLM was founded by three women with Marxist backgrounds in 2013.  Alicia Garza, a black woman from Oakland, California, posted to Facebook what she described as a "love letter to black folks." She wrote: "I continue to be surprised at how little black lives matter. Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter." Patrisse Cullors, a black woman from Los Angeles, California, then put Garza's Facebook post on Twitter, with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. After seeing the hashtag, Opal Tometi, a first-generation Nigerian American woman from Phoenix, Arizona, partnered with Garza and Cullors to establish an internet presence. Tometi purchased the domain name and built BLM's digital platform, including social media accounts, where they encouraged people to tell their stories.

 In their own words:- "We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia [Garza] in particular, we're trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super versed on ideological theories." — BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, July 22, 2015.

 Lest there be doubts, attached are links that reference the true nature of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, rather than the sugar-coated commentary we normally hear.  It is important to provide background for comments and allegations about a subject, and the following links provide this if anyone wishes to research the BLM/Antifa issue for themselves.

 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16181/black-lives-matter

 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16104/antifa-history

 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16149/antifa-history-part-2

 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/biography/Soeren+Kern

 https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/06/12/amid-protests-majorities-across-racial-and-ethnic-groups-express-support-for-the-black-lives-matter-movement/

 A.P. Dillon - Lady Liberty

https://ladyliberty1885.com/2016/11/28/black-lives-matter-not-what-it-claims-to-be/

https://ladyliberty1885.com/2017/01/04/black-lives-matter-cofounders/

 Black Lives Matter and Marxism “In their own words”

https://www.socialistalternative.org/marxism-fight-black-freedom/black-lives-matter-marxism/

 Independent Sentinel

https://www.independentsentinel.com/neo-marxist-black-lives-matter-seeks-to-overturn-america/

 BLACK Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome warned that if America does not cooperate with the movement's demands they will "burn down this system and replace it."

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1038618/hank-newsome-black-lives-matter-fox-news-martha-mccallum/

Ray Gruszecki

April 14, 2021

FDR and Biden

 

FDR and Biden

 Joe Biden evidently fashions himself as an FDR surrogate when it come to the expansion of an intrusive and invasive government into the very fabric of all Americans’ lives.  This is Joe’s most recent political incarnation after myriad others in the past, depending on the prevailing political winds.

 FDR’s actions in the 1930’s were informed by such figures as his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, John Dewey, Endicott Peabody, Henry George and others.  Also, FDR surrounded himself with thinkers and doers such as Harold Ickes, Henry Wallace, Harry Hopkins, and his “brain trusts”, first Raymond Moley, Rexford G. Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr., all professors at Columbia University, and later, Cohen, Corcoran, and Frankfurter of The Harvard Law School.  All of these people were intellectually and politically astute and experienced operators, who reflected the progressive philosophies of the time, and contributed substantially to Roosevelt’s “New Deal”.

 Joe Biden’s handlers seem to consist of either 1960’s hippie and flower child retreads on the Alinsky model, or young sociology or gender studies majors who are versed in the theories of identity politics, cancel culture and “wokeness”.  Biden haltingly reads from the teleprompters prepared for him, but there does not seem to be much intellectual depth in his presentations, just “frothy emotional appeal” that seems to be “lapped up” by the ovine masses, even though Biden lies boldly and constantly to the faces of America.

 This is From the Mises Institute, which is a libertarian nonprofit think-tank located in Auburn, Alabama, on FDR:

 “And now Franklin Roosevelt, too, has come to represent a certain conception of America, one that is worlds apart from Jefferson's vision, and different from anything that even Lincoln could have imagined. Roosevelt stands for the national government as we know it today: a vast, unfathomable bureaucratic apparatus that recognizes no limits whatsoever to its power, either at home or abroad. Internationally, it gives every evidence of intending to run the whole world, of extending its hegemony — now that the Soviet Union is no more — to every corner of the globe.

Domestically, it undertakes, through an annual budget of close to $2 trillion, to assuage every real or invented social ill and thus enters into every aspect of the people's lives. In particular, it is engaged in what even a couple of decades ago would have seemed fantastic — a campaign to annihilate freedom of association, subjecting the American people to a program of radical social engineering, in order to transform their voluntarily held traditional beliefs and values and way of life.  More than anyone else, Franklin Roosevelt is responsible for creating the Leviathan state that confronts us today.”

 

Joe Biden is no FDR, by any means, even discounting his obviously diminished mental abilities.  Love him or hate him, FDR was a giant.  By comparison, Joe Biden is a gnat, with delusions of grandeur, but with minions and a propagandizing media who are exceedingly dangerous to our constitutional freedoms, to our economy and to our foreign footprint.

 In their hatred-fueled anti-Trump free-for-all, the Biden cabal has rushed back toward past practices that have been proven to be destructive and detrimental to the country, to wit:-  opening our southern border and the ensuing massive crisis, closing the Keystone Pipeline and loss of 11,000 jobs, irrational EO’s on gender, virtue signaling returns to the Iran nuclear deal, Paris climate accords and WHO, all to the detriment of the USA, massive, multi-trillion dollar tax and spend programs coached with attractive sounding euphemisms like “American Rescue Plan”, “Infrastructure Plan”, American Jobs Plan”, where the bulk of these plans is tax and spend, “Green New Deal”, and other democrat pork, instead of what the title implies.  Also, fascistic attacks by “executive order”, on our first and second amendments, concertina wire lockdowns of the capitol because of an imagined “insurrectionist” threats, while neglecting a summer of Marxist inspired rioting and destruction in our cities.

 Many fault FDR for implementing socialism, (social security, et al), in the country.  Not to argue the point, but FDR’s world, with the country just emerging from a debilitating economic depression, and entering a world war against regimes bent on world domination, dwarf our relatively comfortable and peaceful world. 

 The opportunistic Biden cabal is rushing headlong into implementing far-left principles incubated by leftist thinkers over the past 70 years.  The fact that they are attempting to rush toward an alt-left, one party system, using dictatorial executive orders and meager majorities in congress, stress that their goal is some form of fascistic, one-party government for the country.

 These alt-left radicals need to be curtailed, and the ovine masses, held in thrall by the propagandizing media, needs to wake up, and acknowledge the destruction of our constitution, our history and our heritage.  The thieves of our freedoms need to be voted out, and we need to return to the fundamental founding principles of our republic.

Ray Gruszecki

April 11, 2021