PERSISTENT EVIL-SOCIALISM

A Warning for the Millennial Generation

Martin Capages

• Publisher: American Freedom Publications LLC
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781636252643
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Política

The Democratic Party has only one objective, to obtain ultimate power over each citizen of the United States of America. Democrats have long used "progressivism" to corrupt the American educational institutions so that the new leaders of mass media corporations have turned to the far left. The news reporting is biased in favor of socialism over free market capitalism to the detriment of the promise of Individual Freedom thought to be enshrined in the Founding documents of the Nation.It is no surprise that the Millennial Generation has been easily mislead by Marxists. If you are one of these misguided Millennials, it is my hope that this book will set the record straight on this great country, the United States of America, an experiment in government "Of the People, by the People and for the People."

The Democratic Party has been completely taken over by the far-left. Their touted political platform consists of The Green New Deal, support of anti-American organizations such as Black Lives Matter, Antifa and anarchists, open borders and the release of hardened criminals into predominately minority communities, de-funding and dismantling local law enforcement while attacking the only means of defense when there is no police, the Second Amendment.The resistance to the onslaught, the "Silent Majority" has been asleep and has been late to recognize the danger presented to their Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness by the anti-American Democratic Party. They are in the Pursuit of Socialism.Millennials beware.

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

The American Experiment in Individual Freedom is at risk with the generation called “The Millennials.” And it is not the Millennials’ fault. You may be one of those Millennials. If you are, let me assure you, you are not the cause of the looming danger to this great country. No, it is the fault of a disinterested public and a dereliction of duty by the investigative Press, the so-called “mainstream media.” I used to favor the idea that there existed, “an unbiased free press”, but that idea has proven to be a phantom if not just a non-existent entity. The Press has always been biased. The question then is “Is the Press biased to the benefit of the public at large or to the public’s detriment?”

At its elementary and historical beginnings, the American Idea was promoted by the likes of Thomas Paine and others, but Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense is an example of the writing that promoted something “good” for the Individual and the Public. Many scholars have suggested that Common Sense was a propaganda piece. Paine was most assuredly an expert at promoting through eloquent dialogue. He could even use Christianity to his advantage even though it is often argued that he was a deist. That last point is not important. Common Sense made public a persuasive and impassioned case for the independence of the human existence from the control of the state, or at the time, a monarchy. With the exception of the early Greek philosophers, this had not yet been given serious intellectual consideration. Paine connected independence with common dissenting Protestant beliefs. He used this as a means to present a distinctly American political identity and structured Common Sense as if it were a sermon. To be sure, that was the way things were done in early America. Education was provided by the Christian schools and universities. Paine just used the best medium available at the time.

The key element of this early American idea is the concept of Individual Freedom. The counter ideology is “Collectivism.”

For the Millennials, a collective can best be described in modern science fiction terminology, the Star Trek Borg Hive. As Dr. Ronald R. Cherry explains in his book, Restoring the American Mind, “Government power derives from collectivization of the people's property. When government – a small group of other people after all – owns or controls vast amounts of the people's property it is thereby empowered, like the Borg, to employ others to carry out its predictably self-serving desires, where resistance is supposedly futile.

Flush with the people's property, and thereby their power, collectivist government can also redistribute property to a government dependent, so-called proletariat class, in return for votes, while at the same time expropriating property from the laboring middle class – the social engineering of economic class struggle. Total collectivization of property into the hands of a Marxist-type government leads to total government power; thus Karl Marx, in Orwellian fashion, advocated the abolition of private property, not for social justice, but as a means to concentrate property, and thereby power, into the hands of a few . . . Resistance is futile.” (Cherry, 2018)

Today, Collectivism is best described as communism and/or socialism. There is a difference in the two terms, but the difference is negligible. Today, the true nature of Collectivism is disguised under the banner of Democratic Socialism. Millennials, represented unfortunately by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, are infatuated with this new version of an ancient evil.

The Democratic candidate for the Presidency, Joe Biden is a placeholder for the far-left presidency of his successor and he may be replaced by his Vice President selection in the early years of his first term.

In 1988, Biden suffered two brain aneurysms, one on the right side and one on the left. Each required surgery with high risk of long-term impact on brain functionality. In February 1988, Biden was given lifesaving surgery to correct an intracranial berry aneurysm that had begun leaking. While recuperating, he suffered a pulmonary embolism, a major complication. It is unlikely that he will be able to serve a full term.

The Democratic Black Caucus mandated that the vice-presidential candidate “must be a woman of color”, regardless of her qualifications. This is racist and gender discrimination on its face. But there is no mainstream media to point this out. The presumptive candidates for the vice-presidential office have already disqualified themselves during the primary debates. For example, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard ripped into Senator Kamala Harris as follows: “Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president, but I’m deeply concerned about this record,” Gabbard said. “There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.” She also blasted Harris for maintaining the cash bail system which, she argued, disproportionately hurt poor people. Gabbard accused Harris of keeping prisoners beyond their sentence in order to use them as “cheap labor” as well as blocking evidence that would have “freed an innocent man from death row.”

Senator Harris is a patently obvious panderer and thought nothing of throwing the basis for our judicial system, Innocent before Guilty, under the bus during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The mantra then was “believe the woman.” She then flipped and ignored the claims of sexual harassment against Joe Biden. So did the other future candidates. Harris was selected by the Biden campaign as their candidate for the office of Vice President. Of the “women of color” candidates, she was almost the worse, if not the worst candidate.

But of the panderers, the Panderer-in-Chief is Joe Biden. He places his personal gain before the National interest. He always has. He is an incompetent legislator but a premier life-long partisan politician. He has amassed a sizeable fortune for himself and his extended family as a “public servant and champion of the working man.” He made his brother and son rich with behind the scenes use of his political position. These were not “perceptions of conflicts of interest”, they were real conflicts of interest and the Obama administration knew that. There was real quid pro quo between Biden, China and Russia. Just follow the money.

Biden’s proposed legislative and cabinet assignments are ludicrous. For example, consider AOC in charge of Energy, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in charge of Financial policy, and Robert Francis “Beto” O'Rourke in some role on gun control. There will also be an important job for one of the biggest liars of them all, Susan Rice or maybe even Hillary Clinton.

The Presidential, Congressional and state elections of 2020 are pivotal for the Nation. If the Democratic Party prevails over the Republican Party, the United States of America will be on its way to becoming a collective controlled by a small group of non-elected elites. As Democrats tout moving to the light, they drag the Nation into the darkness of Socialism. The Millennial Generation can stop the downward spiral by rejecting the Persistent Evil of Socialism incarnated in the Democratic Party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 2 SOCIALISM AND PROGRESSIVISM

THE SAME THING

Socialism is the same as Progressivism according to Michael S. Rozeff. In all fairness to Mr. Rozeff, I reversed the title of his recent article called “Progressivism is the same as socialism.” Rozeff initially cites Libertarian James Ostrowski and his book on progressivism, Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America (September 16, 2014). The citation is “…that progressivism, properly understood as the belief that aggressive state violence in the form of various interventions into the market and private voluntary behavior will improve human life, is America’s ruling ideology…” (Rozeff, 2018)

Then Rozeff states, “For purposes of educating the public and understanding the gist of the libertarian and anti-libertarian positions, there’s no significant difference between his [Ostrowski’s] explanation of progressivism and my explanation of socialism. Furthermore, both are compatible with Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s definition of socialism: “…socialism…must be conceptualized as an institutionalized interference with or aggression against private property and private property claims.” (On p. 10 of Hoppe’s “A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism.”)

I was impressed by Rozeff’s perspective, so I purchased Hoppes’ book [and gave it a thorough read until my brain exploded.] Hoppe has a chapter called the Socialism of Conservatism (Chapter 5). It does not describe American Conservatism. It may even be a description of what American Conservatism is not. Hoppe’s perspective is from a view of the historical happenings of East and West Germany. It is his take on East German Soviet-Style socialism and the free-market capitalism of West Germany. Today, we have a tendency to point to the happenings in Venezuela to describe the failure of socialism, but the East and West German comparison is probably a better description of the evils that befall the practitioners of Socialism.

According to Hoppe “. . . socialism, by no means an invention of nineteenth century Marxism but much older, must be conceptualized as an institutionalized interference with or aggression against private property and private property claims. Capitalism, on the other hand, is a social system based on the explicit recognition of private property and of nonaggressive, contractual exchanges between private property owners.” (Hoppe, 2010) [Boom, brain explodes once more.]

Michael Rozeff does an excellent job of breaking these down to understandable terms in his article. His references are to Bernie Sanders and his now suspended 2020 campaign for the Presidency. The Squad, led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, nicknamed AOC, had supported the Sanders campaign then fell in behind the then presumptive nominee, Joe Biden. The Sanders-Cortez partnership was the junction of political idealism and political ignorance. Both Sanders and Cortes, as well as the previous Democratic candidate for President, Hillary Clinton professed to be Progressives. Over the course of the 2020 Presidential campaign, it has become difficult to determine what the Democrat candidate, Joe Biden actually represents. He often wanders off in the direction of the prevailing wind, starting sentences he cannot seem to finish. Perhaps, more will be revealed as the Nation emerges from the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. But before that happens, the Millennials need to understand what the previous Sanders campaign, and by default, Cortez and Biden are really proposing for the Nation.

The United States of America has been going through a significant departure from its original charter. That original charter was to have a government that had the singular, limited purpose of protecting the individual rights of its citizenry. The departure from that charter is a process called Progressivism. It began with Theodore Roosevelt, was nurtured by Woodrow Wilson and then enshrined in the Democratic Party by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The overall concept is that a government should be flexible and “progress” with the changes in “Society.” It is thought that “Society” would determine its needs and the government would provide for those needs. Over time, Society would evolve to a higher plane, one that would make every citizen’s life better and better with each evolving improvement in living conditions. The complicating factor would be ensuring that all of the improvements in living conditions would be shared equally among the citizens.

So, as a Millennial you think, “Wow, what is wrong with that?” The government should adjust to meet the evolving needs of the citizens, right? It should treat each citizen fairly, right? It sounds so easy. But it isn’t. There are people involved in the decision process. And people make things complicated.

The Democrats once professed to be liberals. Unfortunately, that association now gives the term “liberal” a bad name. There is really nothing wrong with liberalism in its purist form. Liberalism is both a political and a moral philosophy. It is based on the three pillars of Liberty, Consent of the Governed and Equality before the Law. Liberals therefore should support free markets, free trade, limited government, individual rights, capitalism, democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion. They should even support internationalism, a belief that the people of the world should unite across national, political, cultural, racial, or class boundaries to advance their common interests. While all of this sounds great to you as a Millennial, be aware that Liberalism is not to be found in today’s Democratic Party. It was never there anyway; it was always a charade.

Liberalism does exist in the Republican party. Now that probably sounds to you like an oxymoron, or maybe worse. Try out a new term I just created for Millennials to grasp, Conservative Liberalism. Liberalism has already been defined in the preceding paragraph. You will note all of that terminology that seems to center on the term Diversity. There is Diversity in conservatism, but to non-establishment Republicans, Diversity doesn’t matter. That is not a bad thing; that is a good thing. There is no grouping of the electorate into voter parcels just to retain power. That is what the Democrats always do and that is a bad thing. As a Millennial, you should be able to see through that corrupt political practice and discover its dismal results. Just pay attention to the actions of Democrats, not their words.

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