This past weekend there was an event that took place that many Americans might not be aware of. And just what might event have been? Well it just so happened that it makrked the Communist Party USA opening its national conference in New York and the many speakers present were far from shy about laying out their plans for the United States of America. In what constituted a very clear step-by-step and slightly underhanded scheme for achieving its objective, Sam Webb, the party’s chair, opened his remarks by saying that the upcoming elections are only be part of “a grander design [that] will connect the dots between our immediate and longer-range political task.” “To put it differently,” he went on to say, “we hope to connect the struggle at the ballot box today with the struggle for socialism tomorrow.” This sick mentality cannot go ignored.
Webb continued to rant about the supposed “catastrophe” that would befall humanity if we did not begin living in a more environmentally friendly manner, before declaring socialism to be “imperative…to preserve peace and our planet, expand democracy, eliminate gross racial, gender, and other forms of inequality, and to provide a secure life for the billions living on this earth.” But how, exactly, does the party propose to transform America’s system of governing? The first step, at least according to People’s World, where the official Communist Party USA Twitter page directs readers, is to defeat right-wing “extremism” (presumably at the aforementioned ballot box). One such Republican ikely marked for defeat is Rep. Allen West of Florida, who has been criticized for noting that there are likely 80 members of Congress who may be Communists. Probably a low estimate.
Rather than deny the charge, Communist Party Vice-Chairman Libero Della Piana proudly declared: “Is he saying that he would not support the democratic right of the people to elect communists to Congress if that was, in fact, what they wanted to do at some point in the future?” Webb seems to believe that once Republicans are successfully subdued, communists will then join with workers in an “anti-corporate” struggle. “[But] this stage of struggle doesn’t supplant capitalism,” he explained. Rather, it “brings the socialist stage closer as tens of millions become convinced in the course of the struggle that capitalism doesn’t work for them.” I’m curious which “workers” that he might be referring to. Who besides the majority of overpaid and under worked union members come anywhere near to supporting the anti-American pabulum being spewed here?
Finally, according to Webb, after a shift among the “core forces” for social change, the Communist Party and other leftist organizations will finally succeed in becoming “the people’s government.” In this stage, Webb explained, it is important to “control the movement of capital, [institute] a tax policy that weighs heavily on the wealthy, and [place] under democratic control sectors of the economy, such as finance, that are a threat to the peoples’ government and a socialist revolution.” Sound the least bit familiar? Like maybe what’s been going on for the last three years? While many have long-dismissed the Communist Party and other leftist organizations as fringe political movements, their influence among vocal groups like Occupy Wall Street has granted them more consideration in recent months. “We are still too small,” Webb said, “but the good news is that we’re growing."
I have to ask, what is the allure for moving this country in the direction of socialism and ultimately toward communism? Where is it, exactly, that communism has ever been put into practice where the result has been that which was espoused by its supporters? Or even close to it? The evidence literally surrounds us that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that all it has ever accomplished is nothing but abject misery and rampant poverty for all but the elite. Millions upon millions of people have been murdered at the hand of those who wished to advance the cause of communism. While I am not claiming that such a thing is possible here, yet, it does make quite clear that following those who tout the benefits of communism is very dangerous. And yet millions of Americans continue to allow themselves to be convinced into acting as willing accomplices to the likes of Barry “Almighty”.
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