Posted on 08/22/2018 2:31:46 AM PDT by gattaca
The United States is making the same mistakes today that Russia made a century ago.
Socialists are taking over the Democratic Party. And it’s not being done in secret, but openly.
Bernie Sanders is an avowed socialist. He honeymooned in the Soviet Union, won a seat in the Vermont Senate, and mounted an extremely popular campaign against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Millions supported his call to dismantle corporations, double the minimum wage, and mandate universal health care.
Sanders lost the Democratic primary, but he may have won the Democratic Party.
Fifty-seven percent of Democrats now say they have a favorable view of socialism. That’s right: More than half of Democrats openly admit they support socialism.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a self-described socialist who won a sensational upset against a high-ranking Democrat. According to Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez, she is “the future” of the Democratic Party.
So, what is socialism?
Socialism Is Authoritarian In its purest form, socialism means that the government controls the entire economy. The government owns not only the postal service, it owns all businesses—without competition. Most modern American socialists say the government doesn’t have to literally own all businesses, as long as it heavily regulates and taxes them.
But people like Sanders emphasize that they are “democratic” socialists, which means that this enormously powerful government will be voted in by a majority of the people.
Karl Marx, the father of communism, wrote that “the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.”
Vladimir Lenin, famous Russian Communist revolutionary, wrote: “Proletarian democracy is a million times more democratic than any bourgeois democracy.”
Joseph Stalin, a famous Soviet Communist dictator, led an effort to replace the original democratic Soviet Constitution with an even more democratic version. Its bill of rights was even more extensive than the American bill of rights. It guaranteed the right to vote to every single Soviet citizen over age 18.
This is all very democratic. American liberals would support it—they did back then. But history records the end result of Marx’s, Lenin’s and Stalin’s socialism: a horrific totalitarian state where the enormously powerful government reduced its citizens to subhuman status, crushed the human spirit, and literally murdered millions of its own people.
Socialism Is Against the U.S. Constitution Democratic socialism in the Soviet Union turned into a continent-sized horror story, not because people didn’t get to vote but because the Soviets did not keep laws that limit the government’s power and protect individual rights.
What Marx called the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” American Founding Father John Adams called the “tyranny of the majority.” Adams believed the Bible. And although he might not have known it, the Bible shows that the modern descendants of ancient Israel include the United States. Isaiah prophesies that these modern Israelites will become sick in their reasoning and faint in their hearts (Isaiah 1:4-7). It prophesies that their nation will be laid desolate by civil war.
How could a dramatic prophecy like this be fulfilled? How could the most powerful and prosperous nation in human history fall into such a terrible fate as this?
One major reason that Americans will clash with one another is over this issue of government control. By its very definition, big-government socialism is directly opposed to small-government constitutionalism. Socialism is based largely on atheism, and the American Constitution is based largely on the Bible.
Today, socialism is gathering strength. What people don’t understand about “democratic socialism” is that its aim of socialism in the United States is to overthrow its constitutional form of government—by violence if necessary.
Socialists usually downplay this, but the protests and riots occurring across America today are not really against President Donald Trump; they are against the constitutional system of government he leads. How widespread and how violent will this movement get? The history of socialism—and the prophecy of the Bible—provide the chilling answer.
To learn more about how prophecies from Isaiah and other biblical books apply to America, read “Communism in America Today,” by Gerald Flurry.
Socialists took over the Democrat Party in 1896. This is nothing new.
[Gerald Flurry]
Ah, Key of David. I don’t agree with them on a lot of things, especially Herbert W. Armstrong teachings.
They can see the end of the Church Age approaching, however. I’ll give them that part.
Democratic Socialism?>>>>
No it is not. Its Nationalist Socialism.
A Utopia with no borders where everything is “free?”
The democratic party wants a Utopia which can only be fashioned in a totalitarian state.The democrat party is no longer “democratic.” Its totalitarian.
We must end their nonsense at the ballot box or alternatively, with the bullet box.
You want to read about liberal fascism?
Its all laid out here:
1)
“The QUINTESSENTIAL LIBERAL FASCIST:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
2) And here:
“Death of a Nation,” Dinesh D’Souza:
I find that term “democratic socialism” laughable. There is nothing “democratic” about a system that hands control of the means of economic production to the government. It is entirely undemocratic and unAmerican.
I see a lot of article explaining socialism, and its danger, but none (so far) on how to beat them.
The cartoonist did a bad job. The fork can not be inserted sideways. It must be rotated 90 degrees ro do harm
Actually, having the Socialists take over the Democrat Party is a good thing (if they can), because Democrats only represent about 1/3 of the American populous....the rest being comprised of Republican and Independents. The real number needed is how many voting American citizens favor socialism.
There will be universal employment.
Residents will receive 4 slices of bread, 4 slices of bologna and 4 slices of cheese per day.
Water can be collected from rain or a river.
Housing will be allocated by the State.
Pit toilets will be provided by the State.
Residents will be allowed one shower per week.
Disruptions overburden the State and will not be tolerated.
The only way to a socialist state is to impose it - because there are always far too many of us who enjoy freedom and liberty.
The only way to impose a socialist state is to adopt many fascist tactics. From Wikipedia on fascism:
...form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism,[1][2] characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy...
Aside from the ultranationalism, does this sound like modern day "liberals" to anyone else? Their hero, bammy once quipped "I've got a pen and a phone" and they cheered. They thoroughly enjoyed their rise to power. Anyone think liberals don't shout-down, attack opposition in the courts, social media, and literally in the streets and restaurants? Bammy imposed extensive regulation on the economy. The whole bammy thing was hope and *change*.
They aren't hiding folks. Modern day leftists aka "liberals" are nothing of the sort. They are not about liberty and freedom - just the opposite. They are all about power and control. They are National Socialists all over again.
I don’t really care about democracy.
I don’t really care about the republic.
I don’t really care about most of the people there in.
What I care about is getting more, and I want it all blown apart if I can’t.
At it’s primal levels, socialism is about envy and schadenfreude. Compassion and empathy for others only extends to those who I identify as being like me, and even then it’s really just a tool for the cause
Artistic license.
“Democratic Socialism Will Destroy America”
Another clueless writer who still doesn’t realize that DESTROYING AMERICA IS THE GOAL. Everything the left does is to destroy America so that they can build their Communist utopia.
They use cute little words like “Democratic Socialism”
Just call it what it is.
COMMUNISM.
We'll be Venezuela within a year or so.
Perhaps the author is right.
Perhaps Democratic Socialism really WILL destroy America.
I have the sinking feeling that we are going to find out.
Fascism is always the end result. Socialism centralizes and concentrates political power that ultimately corrupts all who are permitted to wield it.
There is nothing “democratic” about socialism.
The only difference between Socialism and Democratic Socialism is that with Democratic Socialism the people get to vote for the rope that hangs them.
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