As I watched millions of well-fed, educated Americans dancing in the streets, cheering, and gloating over their hard-cheated pyrrhic presidential win to install the much-desired socialism, touted in the press and academia, all I could think about was the 100 millions of people who had lived and died under a socialist dictatorship ruled by the Communist Party and other millions who risked their lives to flee such a socialist society. And I was numb that people can be so naΓ―ve and easily swayed by clever rhetoric, just like people were enchanted a century ago by the Bolsheviks. I never once met an American who fled to Cuba or North Korea unless they were criminals sought by the law. But I sure met a lot of defectors and refugees from tyrannical regimes who sought shelter in America.
While a
student in the 1980s at a southern university, I met dozens of people from Iron
Curtain countries, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Soviet Union, East Germany, Romania,
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, who had left everything behind in order to escape to the freedom
of the west.
We formed a
union of sorts, sharing food from our respective cultures, learning about our
new country, loving and respecting America who took us in, and speaking against
the oppressive regimes we had fled from with just the clothes on our backs in
some cases.
Now it is entirely
different. Americans have been convinced that socialism is great, and they must
have it at all costs, including a pyrrhic election victory. What is a pyrrhic
victory? It is a victory won at such a damaging toll to the victor that it
looks more like a defeat because it will destroy any long-term progress.
Pyrrhus of
Epirus was a Greek king who opposed the expansion of early Rome, often compared
to Alexander the Great in his tactical war efforts. But some of his victories
were won at such a great loss to his troops and kingdom that history remembers
him as having won battles with such unacceptable losses that the term “pyrrhic victory”
was coined in his name.
Which brings
me to the presidential election – a pyrrhic victory won at all costs, losing
the soul, honor, integrity, and Constitution of a nation in order to achieve the
promised socialist utopia of a globalist cabal who stopped at nothing to fundamentally
alter its foundations and Constitution through technology, hacking, deceit, mass
media indoctrination, unethical activist judges, utterly corrupt politicians, and
fraud.
While
America’s young generations are dancing in the streets with joy that a man with
incipient dementia and a Marxist have won the White House, I see pictures
flashing through my mind of people escaping from tyrannical socialist societies
through Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, cutting through barbed wire, dodging
bullets, flying low in makeshift aircraft, stealing a train and braking through
a barrier, digging tunnels, swimming across the Danube and other treacherous
rivers, floating in makeshift boats, a dingy, fighting sharks across 120 miles
of ocean from Cuba, stowaways on ships, on plane cargo holds, fitted inside the
seats of cars, or too close to the engine compartment, all to flee to the freedom
of the west.
I see a
young woman holding her breath while the airport checkpoint officer discovers
that she has not signed her legal passport. Instead of being turned away, the
guard demands a carton of Kent cigarettes to allow her to sign the passport in
front of him. And she complies – the $20 carton of cigarettes at the time was a
cheap escape from imprisonment within socialist borders.
I see another
woman being stripped of her jewelry because the socialist law does not allow
anybody to leave the country with any gold and silver except a tiny wedding
band.
I see people’s
homes, personal belongings, savings, and land being confiscated by socialists
and distributed to their Communist Party activists for their personal use. I
see people being hauled to jail for non-compliance, protesting their
incarceration until the prison door is slammed shut.
I see people
standing in line to find food, toilet paper, paper towels, and sanitizing
products, just like the recent lines we had to stand in at our local grocery
store for months after Covid-19 lockdown. People were irritated and impatient,
herded like cattle behind yellow lines, set arbitrarily six feet apart. Shelves
were bare for a while but imagine doing this every day to get food?
Imagine the
online ordering and curbside pickup going away if there is no adequate
production planning, manufacturing, and delivery because the government is run
by inefficient socialists in the same vein as Venezuela?
Starry-eyed
people who get mad because their latest XBOX supply runs out before they can
hit the order key on their computers, will discover a new reality, a reality of
shortages of essentials.
A good
friend, who read my first book, Echoes of Communism, was skeptical and could
not understand how the entire population was so deprived in their daily lives
by a small percentage of activists who belonged to and were loyal to the
Communist Party who indoctrinated everyone initially into the “wonders” of
socialism.
The day his
wife called him in a panic that the shelves of their local grocery store in
Virginia were bare because of the first Covid-19 lockdown, disruption of
production and delivery in March 2020, subsequent hoarding of essentials, and when
their refrigerator was nearly empty, he understood. They felt for a few days
what we felt every day for 49 years of oppressive socialism. Once installed, the
socialist republic rule of the Communist Party did not go away, the suffocating
control grew like kudzu, one foot per day.
The Silent
Wedding, a movie made in 2008, artistically wove the alleged “real” story of a
couple’s wedding from an isolated village in Romania. The ceremony and the
reception that followed, held in March 5, 1953 (a Thursday), was allegedly
interrupted by a communist activist from the city and a Soviet officer who brought
the news that the USSR tyrant Joseph V. Stalin had died and thus seven days of
international mourning were decreed in which public celebrations of any kind were
prohibited. The celebrants held a mute wedding.
Likely a fictional
event, this artistic story brings to mind the fact that Americans are not
allowed to celebrate Thanksgiving this year in their homes with more than six
people as guests, a breaking of familial tradition disrupted and imposed by state
governments around the country. Neighbors
are encouraged to snitch, [and they did already in New York] if such draconian executive
orders are violated.
Ten months
since the first Covid-19 lockdown, healthy people are still forced to wear
masks for the good of the collective, not for their own protection, since masks
are not really effective as it is stated on the manufacturer’s packaging.
This is
America, of course, shortages of food and necessities cannot happen here, we
have an abundant economy, optimists and the naΓ―ve repeat ad nauseum. What will
happen to this horn of abundance when the socialists just elected will enforce
their New Green Deal, and solar energy and wind power will not even begin to
supply our country’s huge energy needs? How will cars run? How will truckers
deliver food? How will products be manufactured and hauled? Joe Biden’s fairy
dust?
When Joe
Biden’s rhetorical pixie dust, which blinded many to choose socialism, will
lift, they will be left with very little to go on and will be begging the omnipotent
government to feed them and house them. Computers, technology, social media,
politicians, and the mass media produce nothing of consequence that sustains
life, they manufacture hot air, advertising, socialist indoctrination, and are
quite good at spending trillions of other people’s money.
God is Sovereign. He controls Satan the demons you and I and Trump and all the evil perps out there even Stalin.
ReplyDeleteWe all deserve hell and damnation because of our sin in Adam and our own personal sin. Everything that happens in this world is for the gathering in of God's elect His Church the bride of Christ.
We cannot worship God truly when the psychopaths and Satanists are in control of our institutions and government. Trump is being used by God to bring this whole corrupt system down. I know this because as a child of God I have been given wisdom and have faith that can move mountains.I do research and study the behavior and words of men. At the moment the evil is getting exposed and they hate it and the light.
Once they are exposed their power and hold over the masses is substantially mitigated. We will have freedom across the globe because of what Trump is doing.
You will see. The most important thing in this world is not earthly peace but the peace that passes all understanding namely salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ. Then we can truly face this life and death if necessary.
We cling to this sovereign Creator because our life is but a breath and trust in oneself or anybody else is futile and vanity. Plus we will have eternity to enjoy Him and glorify Him forever. Amen to that.
Pick up the Bible and read it. It is our only hope in this corrupt and perverse world.
Communists have chased me all my life....for 20 years behind the Iron Curtain, for 10 years in Africa and now for the past 4 years in Texas....If they are not destroyed at their roots (Moscow-Peking-Havana-et al) they will always come after freedom lovers such as myself....God save America, the last bastion of freedoms and God save Donald Trump, the last true American POTUS!
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ReplyDeleteIt is good to know that you are still available as a prolific author. I miss your articles and would like to be considered for any and all your articles.
I find myself in almost total agreement with the many writings you have fostered on this site and am anxiously awaiting the next. Best regards, Bob Slowik
P.S. God bless and have a Happy Thanksgiving day