On the Death and Rebirth of Communism

Today, December 23, 2009, is the 20th anniversary of the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate. For you Millennial kids, that was the perennially locked passageway through the Berlin Wall--the infamous symbol of the Iron Curtain separating East and West Germany. Back in November we saw how much this event bothered President Obama, and how many backflips he had to do to try and avoid giving President Reagan his due, but that’s not what really concerns me now.

What I haven’t heard anyone in the news media pick up on yet is the elucidation the Berlin Wall gave on the debate between Communism and Freedom. I recall that Ayn Rand mentioned in one of her essays the value the two Germanys had as a literal test country. She explained how in a nation of the same people and same culture, with the only major difference being political structure, West Germany thrived while the old GDR (that’s East Germany, for you Millennium babies) was stifled into third-world status. Who would be stupid enough to ever again suggest that statism would lead to productivity and bliss?

I’ll tell you who’s stupid enough: we are. Congress is preparing to pull off this healthcare stunt tomorrow--on Christmas Eve, no less--which will drive us even farther down the road to serfdom than Obama has already taken us. I’m not about to get into a discussion of healthcare policy or any of the other country-devouring tactics Obama and the Congress have already used. My point is simply this: We are approaching, and possibly by tomorrow night will have reached, the threshold of what Reagan warned about in his farewell address. Why? Because we don’t have the old Soviet empire--the Communist’s North Star--to steer us away from the same kinds of mistakes which built it. There is nothing anywhere in the world today which can clearly illustrate the fallacy of socialism the way the Berlin Wall did, by contrasting the stable, peaceful, advanced West Germany with the miserable, starving East Germany. Because of the naïvete and historical illiteracy of the American people, we are now doomed to repeat the mistakes the Brits made after WWII, the Russians made after WWI, and--yes--the Germans made in between. I hope I don’t have to tell you how that turned out.

Meltdown: the End of the Climate Change Hoax

Okay, so now that someone has finally been able to conclusively expose the perpetrators responsible for the global warming hoax by releasing their unredacted e-mails, we can all relax, right? The politicians would never try to circumvent all logic and real science by doing something drastic at Copenhagen after the lid has been blown off their scandal, would they? Not so fast. I’ll reiterate what I discovered in the global warming report I did in college a couple of years back.*

The bottom line is that if you think we’re safe now just because the science has been proven fraudulent, keep in mind that global warming never had anything to do with science. This whole circus started in the late 1980s as Communism was fizzling out, and the Marxists soon found that scientific alarmism, however preposterous, could be more effective at enslaving naïve Western democracies than outdated Leninist agitprop. That’s all we need to know. None of the IPCC’s assessment reports is worth the paper it’s printed on, and I’ve got the proof. Check it out if you like.

As for this week’s shindig at Copenhagen, I still anticipate some kind of treaty or agreement to further weaken what is left of American industry, thereby strengthening Obama’s hand and speed-rushing us into the era of One World Government. Remember that every sector of the economy that falters under excessive regulation is going to end up being owned, not ‘bailed out’, I mean totally owned by Obama. In a short while, we will debate the merits of socialism from prison or underground bunkers while all of our nation’s private wealth has already been gobbled up under the guise of “not allowing critical sectors of the economy to fail.” George Bush had already secured the banks and financial houses for his successor, and if Obama plays his cards right a climate change agreement should guarantee his theft of at least two more crucial sectors: energy and transportation.

Lastly, do not put your faith in democracy; the government doesn’t require our approval. Just because the entire informed electorate are against them, that will not stop the political hacks from doing whatever the hell they want at this climate summit. After all, less than 35% of Americans wanted socialized healthcare; will that stop them from ramming it down our throats?

*The full text of that paper is still available in this blogsite’s Technical Supplemental: www.americathefinaldaysts.blogspot.com.

How to make the people accept, nay, DESIRE socialism

The only thing which surprises me about the socialist transformation of my country is the lack of any kind of resistance to it from the educated class who should know better. Here’s a little story: I have a college-educated family member who recently found himself unemployed. This individual had always been a liberal but lately he supports the Marxist policies of the president even more, and I suspected that his dire economic circumstances had something to do with it. Since I am someone who knows that socialism only destroys jobs and lowers wages, I couldn’t figure out why he bought into the president’s Red propaganda. After thinking about a visit I had with him the other day, I believe I have the answer.

“Duh!” was what finally popped into my head. “Of course the radicals in the current administration want as many Americans out of work as possible,” I thought. “Think of how much easier it will be to make people permanently dependent on government!”

I have good reason to believe that President Obama is purposefully increasing the unemployment rate to create an army of desperate, easily controllable people like my relative in the above story. Folks with full bellies are not so eager to become slaves; they have the strength to resist totalitarianism. If the history of the 20th century has taught us anything, it is that a starving populace will bow down to virtually any type of dictator who promises food. With every percentage increase in the unemployment rate, disasters like socialized healthcare, massive taxes, forced unionization, and anything else the tyrants desire creep that much closer because hungry people will swallow anything, even the kind of garbage we are being fed by this administration.