YOU CAN NOT VOTE YOUR WAY OUT OF TYRANNY
Posted on 12/13/2021 4:30:29 PM PST by MtnClimber
Like a small, unnoticed fire in the basement which can destroy your home, Communism is lurking in the shadows of our nation.
Americans don’t know enough about communism to see it when it starts here. Writing in the Tablet, Mary Mycio notes that we have “a certain herd immunity to Nazism and fascism.” But not to communism.
The Soviet Union fell a long time ago, as people’s memories go. It fell almost 30 years ago. That means that no one under 45 or 50 will have any real memory of communism as a living force in the world. They know about Cuba because it’s close to us and about weird little places like North Korea. They don’t seem to think of China as a communist country. A few people try to say this, pointing to the state’s genocidal wars on its people, like the Uygurs. But few seem to care.
“After a generation of forgetting,” Mycio writes, “we have few cultural T-cells left to recognize coercive unanimity, punitive group think, and other warning signs when they appear in the body politic.” She lived in communist Ukraine and watched the Soviet Union fall after 70 years of tyranny. She wrote a book about the Chernobyl disaster, which exemplified the Soviet system. “Americans and others across the West,” she writes, “have simply forgotten about it all, or never learned about it in the first place.”
As far as I can tell, most people who think about communism at all don’t worry about it. They worry more about other people worrying about it.
They Don’t See It I know what she means. I’ve seen Soviet communism face to face.
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It’s not so hidden anymore...
I can’t agree with the idea that it is hidden. They seem to be pretty much in our face with it. Now perhaps I might see it that way because I actually know what communism is because I grew up when people were taught what communism was.
its just an idea like antifa
What’s hidden ? There are congresscritters openly promoting communism
Communism in the US is about as hidden as a fire in a mostly peaceful protest.
“Hidden”?!
Communism is death, and destruction.
They now call it “Progressivism” because it sounds nice and positive forward-sounding and doesn’t conjure up images of gulags and commissars. This is directly out of the Saul Alinsky playbook, “Rules for Radicals.”
WTF is this guy talking about...
There is nothing "hidden" about communism in the U.S.
It is in near total control of Congress, most cities, half the states, federal government, education system, professional sports, news media, social media, most major corporations, and the WH...
It’s not hidden when they will not allow Cubans escaping communism to come to the US while the rest of the world just walks on in.
The Soviets called themselves progressives and declared their solidarity with “all progressive peoples”.
Hidden?
You can’t vote your way out of tyranny and you also can’t comply your way out of tyranny.
It’s no longer hidden.
“Communism is lurking in the shadows of our nation.”
What? Lurking in the shadows?
I have been watching it grow in this country since the early 50s! My guess is that it started long before that.
Hidden Threat?
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