Communism Revived as Globalism

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful." – C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“It’s a brave new world,” one in which radicals are elected to high office in a system more corrupt and ignorant than ever imagined possible. The voters believe in the “shiny illusions of socialist/communist hell and are racing to implementation.”

Americans are not quite sure when the surge to communism finally planted its roots in the population at large and things began to change. Some argue it was the 1950s, others the 1960s. Over time, the corrupt main stream media and the progressive-controlled education system brought us slowly but surely to today when good people are overwhelmed by manufactured news and personal attacks meant to marginalize anyone who disagrees with the socialist agenda, while the entire system of liberty and justice for all is collapsing.

The dangerous cult of personality which mesmerized an entire nation into submission to a magical black president now includes Millennials like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), who, despite her International Relations degree, is, by her own admission, totally ignorant of world politics, and two Muslim women who took their oath on a book that contradicts everything our Constitution stands for and are flinging vulgarities and anti-Israel /anti-American insults to the American public.

The same MSM that gives them ample air time to insult anyone who disagrees with them, was mostly silent when three new Congressmen, real American heroes and Purple Heart recipients, were sworn in, the “5 eyes, 5 arms, 4 legs … All American” as Rep. Mast said.  Jim Baird (R-Indiana) lost his left arm in Vietnam. Brian Mast (R-Florida) lost both legs in Afghanistan. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) lost his right eye in Afghanistan.  Nobody saw them on the evening news but air time was extended ad nauseam to the “new breed of women politicians” who offends us with overt anti-Americanism.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s strong and strange socialist charisma appeals to a large segment of the American population, liberals and Democrats alike, who have made a cult hero out of a former bartender.

Maduro of Venezuela was a taxi driver before he became president.  He appealed to low-information voters who have now managed to self-destruct under the leadership or lack thereof of a socialist, long on rhetoric, and short on the knowledge how to successfully lead a country rich in petroleum, a formerly prosperous nation, now a basket case of poverty, rationing, and hunger. He drove it into the ground, turning into the hell-hole of socialism that it is today.

The Cuban model, the Castro brothers communist dictatorship, ended in disaster in Venezuela just as it did everywhere else socialism/communism had been tried.

Should she be ignored in hope that she goes away back to the obscurity she came from? Liberals are already talking of making her president. People with real skill, intellect, sound judgment, and logical arguments must speak out with intelligence and force. But when they do, would anybody listen?
I am not at all surprised that young and old Americans alike are suddenly infatuated with the empty promises of socialism and communism and do not listen to reason. Decades of socialist indoctrination in public schools and progressive MSM are finally paying off for Democrats and their globalist fellow travelers.

In the country of my birth, where millions have suffered and died under the boot of socialism and of Ceausescu’s Communist Party dictatorship, there does not appear to exist a significant and strong conservative wing, politics in Parliament swing back and forth between socialists and communists. How is that possible when their parents and extended families lived in such hell of fear and brutal oppression for decades?

Young Romanians view any foreigners, no matter how poor in their own countries and how far left leaning they are, as rich capitalists who abuse and steal from the poor. Their parents have been told for decades under communism that capitalists exploit the working class, out to steal their rights to utopian communism that left them hungry, cold, and poor in perpetuity. It is extraordinarily bizarre to see young generations, with their smart phones, cars, plenty of food, and other electronic gadgets produced by capitalism, indoctrinated by schools and the media into believing that free-market capitalism poses a fundamental threat to their avowed neo-communism.

A young American friend, who currently lives with his wife in Romania, is considering moving his family to America. As Darius explained, “she’s fixated on the idea of living in an America that probably hasn’t existed since the 1990s at the latest.” He is afraid to discuss any conservative ideas with the young Romanians who openly and proudly express their communist affiliation, rejecting all other ideas that contradict and diverge from their proletarian ideology.

It is no surprise that such young people were indoctrinated by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who made their way into the Iron Curtain as soon as it “fell” in 1990. George Soros boasted in an interview that he was the first to be given access into Romania after Christmas 1989 when Ceausescu was executed for communist crimes against his own people. Soros allegedly met with the minister of education to discuss the new curricula post Ceausescu’s regime.  Scores of young Romanians studied abroad with financial help from his foundations, assuring their allegiance to the new world globalism.

I have met several such students in 1991, who had been brought to an all-black southern U.S. college to study for Masters Degrees in management. When the two-year university indoctrination ended, they went back to work in the recently fashioned government comprised of former communist upper echelon apparatchiks who had rebranded themselves into the new world globalists.

The “sudden” infatuation of the West with socialism/communism has been developing over decades as the communists had planned to go underground and rebrand themselves into the global communists of today, championed by the United Nations and “civil society,” meaning intellectuals, academics, and other lapdogs of liberalism who advertise and promote everything the U.N. publishes.

Vladimir Bukovsky explained these phenomena in the upcoming English version of his book, “Judgment in Moscow.” He had found documents in Russia to prove that the reason the horrific crimes of the former Soviet Union and its satellites were not punished like the Nazi crimes were fifty years before was the “Kremlin’s links to and influence over Western political parties, governments, media, and prominent individuals, as revealed in the documents. It was these powerful links, he writes, that prevented any push to prosecute the extreme human rights abuses that took place over the decades of Soviet rule. As a result, the Communist Party and KGB elite were left to regroup and re-establish their power – with new names and new methods, perhaps, but the same goal: to undermine Western democracy.”

It is with sadness, agony, and dread that I see daily evidence of Western democracies turning back to the future. Some people never learn from history and must repeat it no matter how disastrous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fidel Castro and His MSM Sycophants

Fidel Castro Visiting the United States in 1959
Photo: Wikipedia

Forbes estimated Fidel Castro’s wealth at $900 million while the country he ruled with an iron fist, 11.39 million people, lived in poverty and dignified squalor under his boot. The deceased “El Comandante” Castro left behind a huge fortune, a private island called Caya Piedra, mansions, a marina with his private yacht called Aquarama, bank accounts, an alleged gold mine, and thousands of worthless Marxist speeches.
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Celebrity guests who have enjoyed Castro’s lavish hospitality on the island of Caya Piedra included the Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the French underwater explorer, Jacques Cousteau. Nothing but the best for western elitist visitors, they were never taken to the slums where Cubans were forced to live, playing dominoes and making beautiful music to soothe their trapped bodies and souls. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2637927/Castro-commie-hypocrite-lives-like-billionaire-Hes-posed-man-people-But-new-book-reveals-Cubas-leader-led-life-pampered-hedonism-fortune-big-Queens.html

Why God would keep such an evil man alive to the ripe old age of 90 is a mystery. The longer he lived, the more people he tortured and kept chained to his utopian idea of how God’s free people should live.

Castro enslaved and oppressed his people for 59 years while giving them speeches about the wonders of Marxism and the evils of capitalism. He tortured and killed an estimated 15,000 of his own citizens who dared to object to his proletariat hell.

The lucky ones escaped to Miami and made a good life for themselves, others drowned at sea in ingenious and desperate makeshift vessels, trying to flee this Marxist paradise that kept them in chains spiritually, economically, ideologically, and physically.

After decades of brainwashing, Castro created a perfect police state of fear and terror, run by his henchmen, loyal to his failed ideology that rewarded only the top elites running this beautiful island. Evidence that this man was insane surfaced early in 1959 when he appeared in pajamas on black and white American television in his first public appearance in an interview with Edward R. Morrow. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Morrow+interview+of+Castro&view=detail&mid=D10386F88FFC88BD551DD10386F88FFC88BD551D&FORM=VIRE

The main stream media liberals who adore dictators were quick to sing his praises, ignoring the glaring reality of his Marxism that ruined the lives of countless millions, stealing their potential wealth and any opportunity of a good life. Even “60 minutes” mentioned in its short biopic that he had brought education and medical care to his people. He did bring schooling of the Marxist indoctrination type and medical care for sniffles. Why have Fidel Castro and his family sought the best doctors, hospitals, and medical care in the U.S. and Spain instead of the clinics and hospitals in his own country?

The media is lauding and glorifying the killer Castro who has imprisoned other humans for their divergent political views, their faith which contradicted Castro’s atheism, and left many of his people on a starvation diet. If the MSM loves what Castro did for his people, why don’t they move to Cuba and seek medical treatment there?

Today the liberals in the media and academia are just plain communists disguising their communism under the euphemistic term of “progressives.” There is nothing progressive about forcing everybody under totalitarian government control without any possibility of choice and free will. It is regressive to control people to such an extent that they cannot leave their own country to pursue opportunities and freedom of spirit and body elsewhere – their island utopia becomes their prison.

I’ve never seen people fleeing from western, free market capitalism to communist nations. But history has shown, time and time again, that people fled oppression at all costs, even at the cost of being shot while crossing through Checkpoint Charlie, crossing the border from oppression to freedom, from east to west, including fleeing a beautiful tropical island where buildings and streets are so deteriorated and dilapidated that they look like they have an insidious cancer dripping with decay. In a way they do, the terminal cancer is called totalitarian communism. https://www.facebook.com/MiamiHeadlines/videos/445815272209280/

The intolerant and dishonest liberal media talking heads that commit journalistic malpractice by deliberately lying to the American public are just teleprompter readers who are verbally dancing on the graves of those who lost their lives at the hands of communist dictators like Fidel Castro. There is nothing worthy of acclaim about this man. He was not “awesome, great and inspiring.” Those are not the words to describe a Hitleresque sociopathic murderer.

All unethical western media praises for Castro’s regime are nothing but slaps in the faces of all Cuban Americans who have either lost family or had to leave their loved ones in the dead of night, sometimes not even saying good bye for fear that they may be discovered and arrested; they left with only the clothes on their backs, leaving their hard-earned possessions and wealth behind when this monster took power.

The media and public schools rarely discuss the “benevolent” dictator’s firing squads used to enforce compliance and discipline, to punish disloyalty, and to intimidate any possible opposition. Such “executions continued for decades.” http://babalublog.com/fidel-castros-greatest-atrocities-and-crimes/fidel-castros-firing-squads-in-cuba/

My Cuban friends, Alexis Maria E. and Silvio C. discern the reality of what Castro did to Cuba. I know exactly how it felt to flee your own country in search of freedom, to leave everything you’ve ever known and loved behind. Freedom has a very strong magnet and no man has the right to take lives and freedom away from others just because of divergent political opinions.

 

Trip to "Cuban Paradise"

Recently the Washington Post dedicated three pages of its travel section to Cuba. Apparently, since April last year, the Treasury Department’s Office of Asset Control has issued “people-to-people” licenses to organizations such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation and tour operators such as Friendly Planet and Insight Cuba. The current administration has decided last year to reinstate licenses to touring companies for trips to the communist island previously boycotted for 50 years.

The Friendly Planet arranges group travel in “humanitarian activities throughout the world” and contributes to “people-to-people” projects in some countries:

-           Special tours to Cuba since 2010 for “volunteer-minded travelers to interact directly with the Cuban people, and to help people in need by bringing medical supplies and educational materials, which are in short supply and badly needed in Cuba”

-          Kiva Microlending (travelers loan as little as they wish to an entrepreneur of their choice in the country of their choice)

-          Clean water in Cambodia (over 200 wells in villages built by Friendly Planet and funded by some travelers as well)

-          Bicycles and supplies in Vietnamese schools donated by travelers

Visitors have to file a “full-time schedule of educational exchange activities that will result in meaningful interaction between the travelers and individuals in Cuba.” This does not sound to me like a free visit of another country but a state-controlled indoctrination tour.

Mentioning everyday Cuban life difficulties as stereotypes, the author acknowledges the multitude of Eisenhower era American cars on the Malecon, Havana’s 4-mile long boulevard by the sea. Garish murals, pro-revolution propaganda billboards, anti-United States propaganda, and Che Guevara are everywhere. All her stereotypes were confirmed.

“Che Guevara’s face was as ubiquitous as McDonald’s golden arches are here. His mustachioed mien and disheveled locks appeared on roadside signs and posters, a reassuring fist pump of perseverance.” Really? Perseverance in the imprisonment, torture, and killing of people, while oppressing the entire Cuban population for 50 years? Reassuring the rest of Cubans to better behave in lock step with the communist regime or else?

The famous Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco) are not mentioned. A peaceful opposition movement in Cuba, they protest the imprisonment of their husbands, brothers, fathers, and other political dissident relatives, by attending Mass each Sunday wearing white dresses and silently walking through the streets afterwards.

All controversial topics were answered with “according to the government,” or “things work this way in theory.” A Cuban teacher earns 450 pesos a month ($17).  I wonder what the teachers in Wisconsin would think if paid $17 per month. They protested the loss of collective bargaining for salaries upwards of $100,000 per year. Communism is coming this way, with Marxist remunerations “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” needs decided by the government not the free market system.

In the Plaza de Armas square, “vendors sold books and souvenirs celebrating Che, ‘the face of Cuba,’ and the revolution.” It is as nauseating as the American high school and college students wearing Che Guevara t-shirts and bandanas.

The appearance of an old woman begging prompted the official of the City of Havana to explain, “Mainly, they don’t want to work. There is plenty of work to be done, construction, and agriculture. It is hard to find homeless. Maybe one or two people in the evenings, a drunk person.” (Isabel Leon Candelario)

“The government – socialist in its politics, communist in its ideals – guarantees housing and jobs, plus provides free health care and education. Despite ration cards, the Cubans’ biggest expenditure is food.” (Andrea Sachs)

Since this is a travel diary, Andrea does not explain the dismal state of the economy, the tiny dilapidated and shabby state-provided apartments, the communist indoctrination in schools, and the sub-standard and downright dangerous medical care or the lack of basic medical supplies, drugs, and sterile hospitals. Neither is the education of their doctors on par with western doctors in spite of Michael Moore’s propaganda movie, “Sicko,” which presents a state of the art picture of Cuban medicine. The reality is quite different.

Most Cubans cannot support themselves on the government’s wages so they resort to black market dealings, accepting gratuities from tourists, tutoring, translation work, or performing in the streets.

Visiting an elementary school on a “chewed-up street with flaking facades and chipped doorways,” the visitor was enchanted by a bust of the national hero Jose Marti and by a recitation of a Marti poem by fifth graders “by heart and from the heart.”

Jose Marti was a writer and political activist called the “Apostle of Cuban Independence.” He was a symbol of Cuba’s independence from Spain and of Cuban revolutionaries and those reluctant to start a revolution. Marti fought against the threat of U.S. “expansionism” into Cuba. His poem, “Versos Sencillos” (Simple Verses) was adapted to the song, “Guantanamera,” which has become the patriotic song of Cuba.

The fifth graders’ poetry recitation brings to mind the poems we had to memorize by heart glorifying the communist revolution in Romania. I can honestly say, it never came from the heart for most of us. It was something we had to do in order to survive another day.

The author continues, “The first graders were ‘glued to their seats.’ I can attest from experience that we were not allowed to move from a straight, at attention position, in our seats, with hands clasped behinds our backs unless the teacher gave us assignments to write or we had to raise our hands in order to ask questions. Wiggling, giggling, or note passing were not allowed. Behavior was graded harshly on monthly report cards.

The touted Cuban economic reform is dust in the eyes of the Cubans. A few restaurants opened to cater to tourists and their foreign currencies. Cuba, as any current or former communist state, charges a high 10 percent tax on exchanging dollars to peso but none for Euros or Canadian dollars.

Toilet paper is in short supply and tourists are encouraged to bring their own. I remember we had rough toilet paper when we could find it and some of it had visible splinters.

Tourist donations were encouraged to schools and medical centers in the form of pens, notebooks, toiletries, and other necessities. If communism is so exceptional and superior to capitalism, as Castro and his lefty supporters present it, why do they need donations and help from the “evil enslaving capitalists” of the free world?

 
Part of the dictated tour was the Museum of the Revolution, with its collection of “decrepit newspaper clippings, bullet pocked tanks, and Granma, the fishing boat that brought Castro from Mexico to Cuba in 1956.” The next stop was “a sharp pinch of reality” to an apartment complex on the outskirts of town, what “HUD would call a project.”

“The government had relocated a family recently to a two-bedroom apartment in the projects after their colonial domicile in Havana collapsed like a dollhouse made of dry crackers.”

Many beautiful colonial homes in Havana had collapsed from lack of maintenance under the Castro regime. They were confiscated from the previous owners and allocated to families who lived together, sharing bathrooms and kitchens. They did not have money for upkeep and the government did not provide much maintenance if any.

The tropical paradise, the island with so much potential, brought to its knees by an oppressive “revolutionary” communist government, has a long way to go before any anemic government enacted economic reforms can bring it back to its former glory.