The thing about the commies currently rioting in our streets is that everything they believe is the opposite of the truth. No, really: that’s actually the case. At the heart of their General Misunderstanding of Everything is a dictum from Chapter 2 of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto: “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
When all property is held in common, Marx and Engels argued, property “loses its class character,” meaning essentially that the use of wealth to oppress certain underprivileged groups will cease and an age of universal brotherhood will begin. Just give everything to the state, and true equality will break forth like the dawn!
This is the theory currently motivating so many people to tear American cities apart. Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/ny-times-reporter-says-destroying-property-is-not-violence/">argued</a> on CBS that the destruction of private property is “not violence” but rather a means for BLM rioters to achieve justice. When a group of insurrectionists seized an “autonomous” portion of Seattle’s Capitol Hill and named it the CHAZ/CHOP, VOX breathlessly <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/ny-times-reporter-says-destroying-property-is-not-violence/">advertised</a> the program as one of “free political speech, co-ops, and community gardens.”
The people burning our cities down are all, however vaguely or subconsciously, seduced by the impossible Communist dream of a future in which everything belongs to everyone.
In fact, as has become readily apparent, the abolition of private property is not a precondition for the Age of Aquarius but a recipe for misery, resentment, and wanton violence. The reasons for this would already have been perfectly clear to our revolutionary knuckleheads if they had read their Aristotle.
When the ancient Greek philosopher Plato argued in his Republic that a perfectly just society should be one in which all things are owned in common, his student Aristotle took issue. He <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0058%3Abook%3D2">wrote</a> in Book 2 of his Politics that
<blockquote>Property that is common to the greatest number of owners receives the least attention; men care most for their private possessions, and for what they own in common less, or only so far as it falls to their own individual share for in addition to the other reasons, they think less of it on the ground that someone else is thinking about it&#8230; [This] results in each citizen&#8217;s having a thousand sons, and these do not belong to them as individuals but any child is equally the son of anyone, so that all alike will regard them with indifference. </blockquote>
In this one paragraph, Aristotle destroyed Marx 2000 years before he was even born.
What the Greeks came to understand through their philosophical tradition is this: property isn’t just stuff. It’s part of who we are and how we express ourselves in the world. Making something our own — caring for it as our own responsibility and no one else’s — is an act of love. Give everything to everyone, and that love is stretched thin, diluted like a drop of wine in a vast ocean of water.
This observation was carried forward in the Western tradition and became a core part of the American founding. James Madison, in his essay on “<a href="https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s23.html">Property</a>,” would observe that only societies which allow individuals to keep what they own — their own land, their own wealth, their own opinions, their own relationships — can be truly just. Much later, in 1833, the economist William Forster Lloyd would observe what became known as the “tragedy of the commons”: all property held in common is doomed to mismanagement unless someone regulates it.
This of course is always the tortured punch line of the joke which is Communism: once we all own everything, we must submit in everything to the judgment of state overseers, or face lawlessness and disaster.
The BLM and Antifa mobs currently tearing down buildings and statues think they’ve come up with some new idea. In fact all they’ve come up with is an ancient and profound misunderstanding about how human life, labor, and affection work. This would be hilarious if it weren’t currently threatening to unmake everything that America is, and everything that the West holds dear.
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Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published &#8220;The Devil and Karl Marx,&#8221; a careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx. The book has come out during an important time in our history since so many Americans, particularly our youth, have fallen for the seductive siren song of socialism taught to them by the academic elite.
&#8220;The Black Book of Communism,&#8221; edited by Stephane Courtois details the Marxist-Leninist death toll in the 20th century. Here is the breakdown: USSR, 20 million deaths; China, 65 million; Vietnam, 1 million; North Korea and Cambodia, 2 million each; Eastern Europe, 1 million; and about 3.5 million in Latin America, Africa and Afghanistan. These figures understate those detailed by Professor R.J. Rummel in &#8220;Death by Government.&#8221; He finds that from 1917 until its collapse, the Soviet Union murdered or caused the death of 61 million people, mostly its own citizens. From 1949 to 1976, Communist China&#8217;s Mao Zedong regime was responsible for the death of as many as 78 million of its own citizens.
The world&#8217;s intellectual elite readily focus on Adolph Hitler&#8217;s murderous atrocities but ignore those of the world&#8217;s socialists. Mao Zedong has been long admired by academics and leftists across our country. They often marched around singing his praises and waving his little red book, &#8220;Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.&#8221; President Barack Obama&#8217;s communications director, Anita Dunn, in her June 2009 commencement address to St. Andrews Episcopal High School at Washington National Cathedral, said Mao was one of her heroes.
Whether it&#8217;s the academic community, the media elite, stalwarts of the Democratic Party or organizations such as the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, Green for All, the Sierra Club and the Children&#8217;s Defense Fund, there is a great tolerance for the ideas of socialism — a system that has caused more deaths and human misery than all other systems combined. Today&#8217;s leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from those of Nazi, Soviet and Maoist mass murderers. Keep in mind that one does not have to be in favor of death camps or wars of conquest to be a tyrant. The only requirement is that one must believe in the primacy of the state over individual rights.
Kengor highlights another feature of Marx ignored by his followers. This feature of Marxism should be disturbing to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who said that she and her fellow organizers are &#8220;trained Marxists.&#8221; I wonder whether she shares Marx&#8217;s views on race. Marx&#8217;s son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, was viewed as having Negro blood in his veins. Marx denigrated him as &#8220;Negillo&#8221; and &#8220;The Gorilla.&#8221;
Marx had similar hate for Jews. He referred to his fellow socialist labor organizer Ferdinand Lasalle as a &#8220;greasy Jew,&#8221; &#8220;the little kike,&#8221; &#8220;water polack jew&#8221; and &#8220;Jewish n——r.&#8221; In 1844, Marx wrote an essay titled &#8220;The Jewish Question&#8221; in which he asks, &#8220;What is the worldly cult of the Jew?&#8221; His answer: &#8220;Haggling. What is his worldly god? Money.&#8221;
Down through the years, leftists made a moral equivalency between communist/socialist totalitarianism and democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, &#8220;Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature.&#8221; Walter Duranty called Stalin &#8220;the greatest living statesman &#8230; a quiet, unobtrusive man.&#8221; George Bernard Shaw expressed admiration for Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith visited Mao&#8217;s China and praised Mao Zedong and the Chinese economic system. Michel Oksenberg, President Jimmy Carter&#8217;s China expert, complained that &#8220;America is doomed to decay until radical, even revolutionary, change fundamentally alters the institutions and values,&#8221; and urged us to &#8220;borrow ideas and solutions&#8221; from China.
Kengor does a yeoman&#8217;s job of highlighting the evils of Marxism. The question is whether Americans will heed his lesson or fall prey to the false promises and live the horrors of socialism. By the way, while Sweden and Denmark have a large welfare system, they have market economies — not socialist economies, as some leftists claim.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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Americans have long been proud of the fact that, unlike European countries, America never went the route of totalitarianism as embodied in communism, fascism and Nazism.
This achievement may be coming to an end.
In order to understand why, it is first necessary to understand why European countries embraced — or fell victim to — totalitarian doctrines.
Until World War I, the primary beliefs that gave life meaning, both on a national and personal level, were Judeo-Christian religions and patriotism (love of one&#8217;s nation). What gave people moral guidance were Judeo-Christian values.
For most Europeans of the younger generation, World War I, with its seemingly senseless slaughter of millions, ended belief in Christianity and, in many cases, ended the people&#8217;s faith in their nations. God was deemed absent; religion was deemed unnecessary; and national identity was widely seen as a cause of the war.
That left a void that was almost immediately filled by communism, fascism and Nazism.
In Russia, World War I led directly to the Russian Revolution. Even before the war ended, in 1917, the czar was overthrown, and later that year, the Bolsheviks (the Russian communists) took over. As awful as the czar was, there was far more freedom under him than there was in the Soviet Union until the fall of communism 72 years later, not to mention the murder of more people — 20 to 40 million — under the Soviet regime.
In Italy, the rise of fascism followed World War I. And in Germany, the Nazis came to power just 15 years after the end of the Great War. Nazism conquered most of the European continent during WWII, and after Germany&#8217;s defeat in 1945, the Soviets imposed communism over all of Eastern Europe.
Though there were communists, communist fellow travelers, Nazi sympathizers, racists and anti-Semites in the United States, neither communism nor fascism nor Nazism took root here. The primary reason was that, unlike most Europeans, Americans did not lose their faith in Judeo-Christian religions and values or in America after World War I. America remained so religious that, in 1954, the words &#8220;under God&#8221; were inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance recited daily in American schools.
However, by the 1950s, faith in America, Christianity and what we call bourgeois middle-class values was largely limited to older Americans. The post-World War II baby-boomer generation was already being indoctrinated in secularism and anti-Americanism. As early as 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school prayer was unconstitutional.
By the late 1960s, vast numbers of baby boomers were attending demonstrations that were as much against America — routinely characterized as an imperialist and colonialist aggressor country with an evil military — as they were against the war in Vietnam. It was not uncommon to see America spelled &#8220;Amerikkka&#8221; or &#8220;Amerika&#8221; at protests and in graffiti.
When I was in graduate school at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I was taught that men and women are not inherently different from one another and that the Cold War was between two superpowers (equally at fault), not between freedom and tyranny.
Another generation has passed, and the post-Christian, left-wing baby boomers have come close to achieving complete success. The mainstream print and electronic media, universities, high schools and elementary schools, the arts and now sports have all been conquered by the Left. Except for sports, from the beginning of the 20th century, they were almost all liberal, but now they are Left.
We now have the answer to the question: What will happen to America if Americans lose faith in God and country as the Europeans did after World War I? What will happen to America when Christianity dies as it did in Europe after World War I?
The way things now look, America may have its bout with some totalitarian doctrine — almost surely some form of leftism. Liberty has never been a left-wing value. From Lenin on, wherever the Left has come to power, it has suppressed liberty, beginning with free speech. Already, despite a Republican president and a Republican Senate, America has less free speech than at any time in its history. Exactly one year ago, I testified before a Senate subcommittee and wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal about YouTube (owned by Google) placing more than 100 Prager University, or PragerU, videos on its restricted list.
And things have gotten much worse. Last week, PragerU was locked out of its Twitter account for retweeting a press conference of eight physicians in Washington, D.C., which had already received 17 million views, and Facebook has just informed us that if we even cite studies that show possible benefits of hydroxychloroquine (with zinc) in the early stages of a patient with COVID-19, we will lose our Facebook account.
And then there is the &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; — which is merely a euphemism for leftist suppression of dissent. People are booted from internet platforms, fired from their jobs or have their reputations smeared and their businesses ruined for differing with the Left — on anything.
We are also undergoing a nonviolent (as of now) version of Mao Zedong&#8217;s Cultural Revolution, with individuals forced to issue humiliating public recantations of their beliefs and attend reeducation sessions (we don&#8217;t yet have reeducation camps, but they should not be ruled out as a possibility if the Left is in control).
Another communist norm taking root in America is the rewriting of the American past. We are living a famous Soviet dissident joke: &#8220;In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it is the past that is always changing.&#8221;
On almost all social issues and many economic ones, the American Left is more radical than the Left in Europe. Europeans across the political spectrum are more wary of ideological fanaticism because of the vast scale of death and suffering that resulted from communism, fascism and Nazism.
One might say that Europe was inoculated against fanaticism. Europeans are more preoccupied with working less, traveling more and being taken care of than with ideological movements. But America, which has not suffered under fanatical, irrational, liberty-depriving ideologies, has not been inoculated.
Without such a vaccination, what replaced Christianity in Europe may well do the same in America.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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Democrat Rep. Karen Bass (CA), one of the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/04/joe-biden-holds-final-vp-interviews-harris-rice-bass-running/5580697002/">reported</a> finalists to be presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden&#8217;s running mate, eulogized a leader in the Communist Party USA and described him as her &#8220;mentor.&#8221;
Bass made the remarks, which were placed into the Congressional Record in January 2017, three years ago at the funeral of Oneil Marion Cannon.
&#8220;Left out of the 406-word eulogy: Cannon was a top member of the Communist Party USA for decades,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/04/karen-bass-eulogized-communist-party-usa-leader-391455">reported</a>. &#8220;That omitted detail and her little-noticed 2017 eulogy today takes on outsize importance now that Bass is on Joe Biden’s VP shortlist. As quickly as the congresswoman and former speaker of the California state Assembly shot into serious contention for Biden’s No. 2, she has come under intense scrutiny, prompting questions about whether Biden would be risking too much by selecting a politician just now coming under the glare of the national spotlight.&#8221;
Bass has faced intense scrutiny after numerous stories have surfaced about her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-karen-bass-makes-puzzling-remark-when-pressed-on-her-praise-for-fidel-castro">praise</a> of murderous communist dictator Fidel Castro, her past &#8220;radical fringe&#8221; <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/karen-bass-biden-venceremos-brigade">activism</a> as an organizer for the pro-Cuba Venceremos Brigade, and her <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/03/karen-bass-nation-of-islam-louis-farrakhan/">posing</a> for pictures with top leaders in the Nation of Islam.
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The founder and leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA announced on Monday that they were backing presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden for president.
Bob Avakian made the endorsement of Biden an email to supporters, saying, “Biden is not ‘better’ than Trump, in any meaningful way — except that he is not Trump and is not part of the move to consolidate and enforce fascist rule, with everything that means,&#8221; The Washington Times <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/3/revolutionary-communist-party-leader-backs-biden/">reported</a>.
Avakian continued, “To approach this election from the standpoint of which candidate is ‘better’ means failing to understand the truly profound stakes and potential consequences of what is involved. The fact is that there can be one — and only one — ‘good’ that can come out of this election: delivering a decisive defeat to Trump and the whole fascist regime.”
The endorsement from the Revolutionary Communist Party is not the first far-left fringe endorsement that Biden has received.
The Trump campaign <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/comrades-joe-biden-endorsed-by-leader-of-revolutionary-communist-party/">responded</a> to the the Revolutionary Communist Party&#8217;s endorsement of Biden by saying in a statement:
<blockquote>Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield just this morning made clear that “everybody who believes that Joe Biden should be president” is “welcome into this campaign.” That now includes Bob Avakian, the radical founder and leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party who <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/3/revolutionary-communist-party-leader-backs-biden/">just endorsed Joe Biden</a> and instructed fellow communists to support Biden in the election. Avakian <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/06/04/plea-bargain-ends-3-12-year-old-case-of-violent-protest-by-maoist-group/4c7e3011-fd6b-44b6-9a1f-bfe026872872/">once faced serious charges of rioting and assault</a> for protesting in favor of Chinese communist Mao Zedong’s bloody and brutal regime. Avakian also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ike-Mao-Beyond-Mainstream-Revolutionary/dp/0976023628">titled his memoir</a> My Journey from Mainstream America To Revolutionary Communist. “Bob Avakian has taken the whole idea and conception of communism to another level,” <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-Memoir-follows-author-s-road-to-2676772.php">one of his admirers once wrote</a>.
Avakian’s endorsement further demonstrates that Joe Biden is an empty vessel for the radical left. Indeed, Biden is seriously considering communist Rep. Karen Bass to be his running mate. Bass <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/will-joe-biden-put-castro-loving-communist-karen-bass-a-heartbeat-away-from-the-presidency/">praised Fidel Castro</a>, traveled to Cuba many times as part of a radical communist revolutionary group that <a href="https://es.donaldjtrump.com/noticias/joe-biden-eyes-castro-lover-karen-bass-for-vp-as-she-misrepresents-the-communist-group-she-led/">trained in terrorist tactics</a>, and eulogized a Communist Party USA member as her “mentor” in 2017. This is who Biden may put a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Joe Biden is too weak to be president and too weak to stand up to the radical left. He’s nothing more than <a href="https://twitter.com/EquipoTrump/status/1290303223522369541">an empty vessel</a> for the extremist fringe of the Democrat Party, a terrifying cabal which now includes active communist leaders.</blockquote>
Earlier this summer, &#8220;Marxist activist Angela Davis told a Russian-state propaganda media organization that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would be easier to pressure into caving to the demands of the radical Left than President Donald Trump,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported.
“I don’t see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be able to lead us in the right direction,” Davis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-famed-marxist-activist-says-biden-candidate-most-prone-to-being-pressured-into-caving-to-leftist-demands">told</a> RT. “It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement.”
“Biden is very problematic in many ways, he is not only in terms of his past and the role that he played in pushing toward mass incarceration, but he’s indicated that he is opposed to disbanding the police and this is definitely what we need,” Davis continued. “We need to re-conceptualize the very notion of public safety, but, I say ‘but,’ Biden is far more likely to take mass demands seriously, far more likely than the current occupant of the White House.”
Davis concluded, “So, that this coming November, the election will ask us not so much to vote for the best candidate but to vote for or against ourselves. And to vote for ourselves, I think, means that we will have to campaign for and vote for Biden.”
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A large chunk of the Berlin Wall placed at Chapman University in southern California to serve as a symbol of freedom has been defaced, university officials announced earlier this week.
According to <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2020/07/27/chapman-universitys-piece-of-berlin-wall-is-vandalized/">The Orange County Register</a>, Chapman University officials revealed this week that someone vandalized the memorial with brown paint, which covered the historical graffiti on the bottom portion of the wall.
“I am outraged by this senseless attempt to destroy a priceless piece of history and heartbroken that this can happen on our own campus,” Daniel Struppa, president of the university, said in a statement, reports the news agency.
Back in 1998, when the wall fragment was first put up, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-29-me-27513-story.html">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported that Chapman President Jim Doti got the idea for it after seeing another piece of the Berlin Wall standing at the Ronald Reagan Library.
“It’s a symbol of the end of the Cold War and a symbol of freedom,” Doti said at the time. “I was asking students about it and they said, ‘We were just little kids when this came down.’ Well, I was just a little kid when this went up.”
“I remember Ronald Reagan standing at this wall and saying, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,’” said a university finance professor at the time, reports The L.A. Times. “And now a piece of it is sitting in our backyard.”
“Let this terrible act of vandalism be turned into a time to celebrate how fortunate we are to be the home to an important piece of history,” said Struppa, The Orange County Register reports.
While Chapman officials have not determined a motive, the act of vandalism has emerged amidst a national trend whereby left-wing activists target statues of historical figures or national leaders in the name of fighting oppression.
For example, in the past couple of months, activists have set their sights on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-leftists-topple-george-washington-statue-burn-american-flag-on-it-twice">statues</a> of President George Washington, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-in-california-tear-down-statue-of-ulysses-s-grant-he-defeated-the-confederacy-devastated-kkk">Gen. Ulysses S. Grant</a>, who helped win the Civil War, and President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-weighs-removing-replica-emancipation-memorial-of-lincoln-freed-slave-slaves-paid-for-the-original-memorial">Abraham Lincoln</a> himself.
While not technically a national figure, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus has also been the subject of ire for radical activists, despite the fact that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-gop-senators-propose-recognizing-juneteenth-as-federal-holiday-swapping-out-columbus-day">Columbus Day</a> was first federally recognized in the 19th century as an homage to Italian Americans.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, vandals toppled a statue of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-columbus-statue-destroyed-pelosi-says-people-will-do-what-they-do-mccarthy-responds">Christopher Columbus</a> near Little Italy in Baltimore and then tossed the fragment into water connected to the nearby harbor. About a week later, a Columbus statue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-tear-down-christopher-columbus-statue-in-minneapolis-an-immigrant-built-it-gave-it-as-a-gift">gifted by</a> Italian Americans was destroyed.
Even more recently, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot temporarily removed a Columbus statue from Grant Park after dozens of officers were injured defending it against extremists the week prior. According to <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-christopher-columbus-statue-grant-park-lori-lightfoot-20200724-2hsbobbt7ndmpmkgyh6vfl7cvq-story.html">the Chicago Tribune</a>, the mayor removed the state “in part to avoid another high-profile confrontation between police and protesters.”
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On Monday, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc. and founder of SpaceX, issued two tweets tweaking the Left. The first was sure to confound members of the Left confident that their support for the current attacks on America, whether physical (riots, looting) or philosophical (the 1619 project) was shared by everyone in the so-called center of the political spectrum. Musk tweeted, “The left is losing the middle.”
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Musk followed twenty-five minutes later with another tweet attacking the father of communism, Karl Marx, writing succinctly, “Das Kapital in a nutshell,” followed by a picture of Marx with the statement in quasi-German, “Gib me dat for free.”
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Musk’s apparent rejection of leftist thought has been in evidence for some time; in May, he gave an indication of how fed-up he is with the leftist governance of his home state of California, apparently urging followers on Twitter to join the conservatives of America as he tweeted succinctly, “Take the red pill.”
In the film “The Matrix,” the hero, Neo, is offered a choice between a red pill and a blue pill; the red pill would free him from a dream-world imposed on humanity and let him see reality. Some conservatives aver that taking the “red pill” means for a former liberal or leftist to embrace the conservative philosophy. As an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liberals-sick-of-the-alt-left-are-taking-the-red-pill">opinion piece</a> in Fox News explained in 2017:
<blockquote>The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016. Now it’s overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance— the growing number of liberals “taking the red pill.”  People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing “red pill moments”—personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media.</blockquote>
In late April, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now">urged governors across the nation</a> to start opening their states for business, tweeting, &#8220;FREE AMERICA NOW,” “Give people their freedom back,” and responded to an article in the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/28/texas-reopening-restaurants-greg-abbott/">Texas Tribune</a> titled, &#8220;Texas restaurants, retailers and other businesses can reopen Friday. Here&#8217;s the rules they have to follow,” by tweeting “Bravo Texas!”
Days later, speaking on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday, Musk ramped up his rhetoric about shelter-in-place orders around the nation, calling them “fascist.” According to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science">The Verge</a>, Musk stated:
<blockquote>We are a bit worried about not being able to resume production in the Bay Area, and that should be identified as a serious risk. The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it, forcibly imprisoning people in their homes, against all their constitutional rights, is, in my opinion, breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America and built this country. What the f***!</blockquote>
He reportedly continued, “If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do&#8230; this is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.”
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is reportedly forcing people of faith to renounce their beliefs and replace religious symbols and imagery with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping.
The reports come from Bitter Winter, a publication that the U.S. Department of State has cited in official reports and <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-report-on-international-religious-freedom/china-includes-tibet-xinjiang-hong-kong-and-macau/">describes</a> as &#8220;an online magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China.&#8221;
A few months ago, communist officials in Linfen reportedly called officials from all the local towns and villages under its governance for a meeting.
&#8220;The participants were ordered to remove crosses, religious symbols and images from the homes of people of faith who receive social welfare payments and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping,&#8221; Bitter Winter <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/people-on-social-welfare-ordered-to-worship-ccp-not-god/?source=tt">reported</a> Tuesday. &#8220;The officials were instructed to annul the subsidies to those who protest the order.&#8221;
A member of a church there told the publication that the communist officials tore down religious writings and a calendar of Jesus in his home and replaced it with an image of Mao Zedong, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/03/giving-historys-greatest-mass-murderer-his-due/">most murderous</a> dictator in world history.
The communist official reportedly told the person, “Impoverished religious households can’t receive money from the state for nothing — they must obey the Communist Party for the money they receive.”
&#8220;A preacher from a house church received a visit from local officials in May,&#8221; Bitter Winter claimed. &#8220;They removed a cross and images of Jesus from his home and posted a portrait of Mao Zedong.&#8221;
“All impoverished households in the town were told to display Mao Zedong images,” the preacher said. “The government is trying to eliminate our belief and wants to become God instead of Jesus.”
The publication also highlighted several alleged examples of people who were cut off from welfare because they refused to sign a statement renouncing their faith.
Bitter Winter reports on all religious persecution in China, including China&#8217;s <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/chinas-muslims-forced-to-eat-pork-during-ramadan/">treatment</a> of Muslims, which includes being taken to <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/believers-tortured-to-renounce-their-faith-in-xinjiangs-camps/">concentration camps</a> and being subjected to <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/uyghurs-subjected-to-forced-labor/">forced labor</a>.
Reports documenting the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s attempts to get people to renounce their Christian faith have been around for some time. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/14/jesus-wont-save-you-president-xi-jinping-will-chinese-christians-told/">reported</a> in 2017:
<blockquote>Jesus Christ won’t drag you out of poverty or cure your illnesses, but the Chinese Communist Party will, so take down those pictures of Christ and put up a nice photograph of President Xi Jinping.
That’s what thousands of villagers in southeastern China have been told by local officials, in a sign of the growing cult of personality around the country’s powerful leader, as well as rising pressure on Christian worship.</blockquote>
Qi Yan, chairman of the Huangjinbu people’s congress, <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2119699/praise-xi-jinping-not-jesus-escape-poverty-christian?utm_source=HRIC%20Updates&amp;utm_campaign=57f1bb015f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_14&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b537d30fde-57f1bb015f-259197825">told</a> The South China Morning Post in 2017, “Many poor households have plunged into poverty because of illness in the family. Some resorted to believing in Jesus to cure their illnesses. But we tried to tell them that getting ill is a physical thing and that the people who can really help them are the Communist Party and General Secretary Xi.”
“Many rural people are ignorant. They think God is their saviour,&#8221; Qi said. &#8220;After our cadres’ work, they’ll realise their mistakes and think: we should no longer rely on Jesus, but on the party for help.”
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Maximo Alvarez, a Cuban immigrant who came to America over 60 years ago after escaping communist Cuba, issued a powerful warning to Americans during a round table with President Donald Trump last week, saying that the political Left in America today are &#8220;communists,&#8221; and that they are trying to destroy the nation.
Alvarez, president of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors, praised the president during the event and expressed overwhelming gratitude for the opportunity that living in the U.S. has afforded him.
During the speech, Alvarez said that he remember murderous dictator Fidel Castro&#8217;s promises &#8220;that we hear today about free education and free health care and free land.”
&#8220;My God, no freedom,&#8221; Alvarez continued. &#8220;But he never said that until after he was in power, got rid of all the police, got rid of all the military – been there for the last 60 years and counting. And he destroyed each and every one who helped him.&#8221;
Alvarez said that his father told him, “Don’t lose this place because you’re never going to be as lucky as me. Because if you lose this place, you have no place to go.”
&#8220;So with that, please keep that in mind,&#8221; Alvarez continued. &#8220;And please, people, explain that to our young people who are demonstrating out there. Don’t be useful idiots. Please understand what’s happening in our country. See what happens to our parents and see what is happening to America today.&#8221;
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>Look at the people in this table. Look at our backgrounds. Just think that in 1961, as a 13-year-old, by myself, on my way to Spain. I wasn’t even coming here. I arrived in this great country and almost 60 years later, I’m sitting next to the President of the United States talking about the American dream. The only country in the world, no other country in the world that you can start a business from the trunk of your car and within a very few years with hard work, commitment, and all the core values that we learn from this very culture of ours, we can become very important to our future. We can become those people who make the next generation better than the one before. This is the only country. Why do you think you had to close the borders?
Because everybody in the world wants to come over here. Nobody’s ever forced to come over here. We come over here, in my case because my parents chose that I would not be indoctrinated by the communist country, by the totalitarian country, by the totalitarian regime. They don’t educate children. Absolutely not. And this is something that we need to understand. What is happening in our backyard today, I experienced as an 11-year-old. I remember vividly all the promises that a guy named Castro gave, and how 99% of the people swallowed the pill.
It took many years later, after I read somebody named Saul Alinsky, that I realized that all those people were nothing but useful idiots. I remember Castro while in the mountains being interviewed and asked if he was a communist. He went crazy. “‘I dare you,’ he says,” [foreign language 00:00:31:12]” [a] Roman Catholic. Educated by the Jesuits, he was. “How dare you! We even have a priest in the mountains.” We used to have priests in the mountains. I remember, I was in Marist Brothers, Christopher Columbus here for those who don’t. And I remember the Brothers, the Marist Brothers used to send young kids to the mountains because it was the second coming of our Lord. He was going to save Cuba. I remember how he promised to the farmers, to the [foreign language 00:31:48] that you’re going to own the land. I remember all the promises that we hear today about free education and free health care and free land.
My God, no freedom. But he never said that until after he was in power, got rid of all the police, got rid of all the military – been there for the last 60 years and counting. And he destroyed each and every one who helped him. The Catholic church, everybody. And why do I know that? Because I happened to come to this country with a very last nine cloister nuns from Convent Santa Clara, because he had taken over the convent. And I was on my way to Spain, I wasn’t even coming here, because I was going to join my brother, who my parents had already sent a few months before because he was in the age where the government will take him for indoctrination purposes.
My dad, who had experienced the same thing coming from Spain at the turn of the century, running away, not from socialism, communism. He knew better. I remember when he used to tell my mom, “Fefa, this SOB’s a communist.” My mother says, “Luca, how can you say that? He’s Catholic. Look, he’s [wearing] …” He had rosary beads all over his neck. It just so happened that when I was on my way to Spain to meet my brother, I was going to go to the Marist Brothers in La Coruna, Spain. Same brothers here at Christopher Columbus, by the way. My brother died, and I was kept in this country. Greatest blessing I ever had. But imagine what happened to mom and dad.
One day, you lose both kids. This is a family who had never been involved in politics. My father came at age 18 from Spain, running from communists. By himself, never went back. After a long, long life of sacrifice, when he was about to enjoy the fruit of his labors just like a president that is helping us today, because he could have been just having a good time, one of his many beautiful golf courses. But no. But yet he gave up enjoying the fruit of his labors to do this. So did my dad, that’s why I love you. Exactly the same. So when they’re about to do that from one day to the next, they end up in this country with the shirt that he was wearing on his back. And they did maximum, have been here already for years. But thank God for Pedro Pan.
Talking about socialism, Catholic church, 14,000 kids who came like me in this country without parents. And we were provided an opportunity. This is what makes our country great. They didn’t give me free nothing, they gave me the opportunity. That is the most valuable thing in the world. Now, when I said they didn’t give me any free something, please understand that at 13 years old, I had to be provided with a home, had to be provided with food, and an education. That is socialism, that’s Americanism, that’s the America that these people are trying to destroy today by using funny terms like socialism. They’re not, they’re communists. Don’t ever forget that. I know our president understands that because he knows, he’s been all over the world. And you’re surrounded with great people, very loyal people, and we have our back.
I remember the first time I gave little speech about something like this, tell him about I came from Cuba, blah, blah, blah. I remember this was around October 2016. I thought you were a little crazy for the sacrifice you were about to take, but I predicted that we were going to elect you in November, and I was going to see you in the White House in January. Thank you very much. Because of the situations right now, I cannot give you hug. Otherwise, thank you very much. And I going to leave you with one last thing. Never forget about my dad who only had a sixth grade education, but I think he was the greatest philosopher I ever met. He used to tell us how lucky he was because he was able to come from Spain to Cuba. And then he came from Cuba to United States. And he saw me graduate from college, and that was the biggest prize he ever had. And he said, “Don’t lose this place because you’re never going to be as lucky as me. Because if you lose this place, you have no place to go.”
So with that, please keep that in mind. And please, people, explain that to our young people who are demonstrating out there. Don’t be useful idiots. Please understand what’s happening in our country. See what happens to our parents and see what is happening to America today. Mr. President, thank you very much. And thank you for your hard work.</blockquote>
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The vast majority of us know who Adolf Hitler was. Even with the slightest level of historical understanding, we know that he was an evil man with an evil ideology responsible for millions of deaths. As a result, anyone who is accused of holding even a fraction of Hitler’s political views is judged with an understandable level of scorn, and those who openly align themselves with such an ideology are rightly exiled from mainstream society.
This is an easy position to understand. After all, one only has to look at the unimaginable violence ushered in by the totalitarian fascism of Nazi Germany to know that such an ideology is based on entirely immoral principles. However, if death tolls mean that Nazism, fascism, and white supremacy are evil ideologies, why is the same basic logic not applied to the politics of the far Left?
Under the ruthless communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union alone, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810">Wall Street Journal</a>, “victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror (1918-22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937-38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the Gulag, labor colonies and special settlements.”
After the murder of at least 16,600,000 civilians, surely those with even a tangential connection to this regime would be wholeheartedly rejected by a political party who claim to advocate for peace and tolerance? Quite the opposite! Bernie Sanders, who has praised dictators and leftist regimes on multiple occasions – and even <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6989969/Topless-Sanders-banqueting-Soviet-Union-attacked-U-S-foreign-interventions.html">spent his honeymoon</a> in the Soviet Union – now leads the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party, which represents the party base.
If we take other communist and socialist regimes into account, including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, and Venezuela, the estimated death count rockets to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=H1jsgYCoRioC">almost 100 million people</a>. This number is more than five times greater than that of Nazi Germany, and yet the continued promulgation of the politics of communism, socialism, and Marxism is permitted in a way that would be (thankfully) unimaginable if it were applied to Nazism or fascism.
The shocking acceptance of radical Leftism simply must end if we hope to prevent continued damage in the wake of this evil ideology. When politicians such as Bernie Sanders praise or effectively apologize for the actions of murderous dictators, they should be cast out of polite society with the same fervor as if someone said, “Hitler may have killed lots of Jews, but the roads sure were pretty!”
Sanders <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/bernie-sanders-fidel-castro-florida.html">said</a>: “When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
This problem exists even at the pinnacle of American Leftism. The fact that a potential vice presidential candidate survived <a href="https://youtu.be/t8ZWtqIzmQI">refusing to reject Marxism</a> – while offering a disingenuous apology for praising Fidel Castro – should terrify anyone who values freedom and liberty.
The number of graves beneath history’s bloodthirsty communist and socialist regimes is staggering.
Had it not been for the United States, these numbers would have continued to rise as radical Leftism spread across the globe. The United States must continue to stand as the world’s greatest single force against totalitarianism and tyranny. This crucial moral battle will become impossible if we continue to allow these ideologies to fester within our borders.
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Dr. Melina Abdullah, who leads the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter, has often been described by the media as a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State L.A. But don’t make the mistake of marginalizing her as a mere academic. Her street-cred is hardcore, and her familial and ideological roots trace back through generations of Marxist organizers, reaching back a hundred years to the Communist Party of the German Reich.
A founding member of what would become the Black Lives Matter Global Network, Abdullah has grown the L.A. branch to 500 members since its inception almost seven years ago. While many subscribed to a misconception that BLM had lost its relevance in recent years, local chapter leaders had moved on to another stage of an organizing strategy that was less visible than traditional publicity stunts like blocking traffic. By the time video of George Floyd’s tragic death sparked nationwide protests and outrage, mechanisms were already in place to advance BLM-inspired movements like defunding police departments into the mainstream.
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This uprising is about more than <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GeorgeFloyd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GeorgeFloyd</a>. He was the spark. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a>
&mdash; #BlackLivesMatter-LA (@BLMLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/BLMLA/status/1266922907462062081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Abdullah, 47, believes law enforcement agencies exist to maintain America’s capitalist social order, which in turn is the root cause of police misconduct against black people. She says racially biased policing and capitalism are connected structures of oppression that must be dismantled.
“White capitalism requires racist, violent policing to protect it,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-launches-6th-annual-black-xmas-campaign-to-divest-from-white-capitalism">wrote</a> Abdullah. “In order to eliminate police violence, and the killings of our people at their hands, we must also target the economic systems that built it and rely on it.”
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The sys of Wt supremacist heteronorm patriarchal capitalism is extremely fragile. Their pwr is false &amp; easily toppled when the ppl rise up.
&mdash; Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) <a href="https://twitter.com/DocMellyMel/status/631504135582433280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Abdullah, who uses her ex-husband’s last name, was raised in a family that has been organizing against capitalism for at least 100 years.
For most of her life, she was known as <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/21/local/me-55154">Melina Reimann</a>. As The Daily Wire exclusively reported in 2017, her paternal grandfather was a world-famous Marxist economist named <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/obituaries/guenter-reimann-economic-publisher-is-dead-at-100.html?_r=0">Günter Reimann</a>. He joined Germany’s Communist Party around 1920 and was part of the resistance to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.
When he died in 2005, an obituary <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/01/guardianobituaries.germany">explained</a>, “Reimann’s understanding of capitalism derived from the position of desiring its overthrow.”
Long before Reimann advised governments, central banks, and CEOs from all over the globe, he was a 17-year-old rebel writing for Rosa Luxemburg’s Die Rote Fahne, which translates to The Red Flag. It was a communist newspaper <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/obituaries/guenter-reimann-economic-publisher-is-dead-at-100.html?_r=0">described</a> by the New York Times as “a party organ.”
The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/01/guardianobituaries.germany">reported</a> at the time of Reimann’s death:
<blockquote>…he worked underground with German social democrats and communist resistance fighters, fully aware that this might prove a terminal decision. Indeed, by 1934 the Gestapo was closing in. Nazi officials raided his house and arrested his student guest, Hu Lan-Xi, who would go on to become the Red Army’s first female general.</blockquote>
Reimann soon left Berlin and went into exile. By 1938, he was living in New York City with political refugee status, then acquired U.S. citizenship in 1944. Two years later, his son, John, was born.
John Reimann, who is white, would relocate to Oakland, California, during the turbulent 1960s, where Melina was born in 1972. Abdullah’s mother, who is black, was an elementary school teacher and volunteered at a breakfast program run by the Black Panther Party. Abdullah told <a href="https://thelandmag.com/the-people-v-melina-abdullah/">TheLAnd Magazine</a> that she was raised mostly by her mother, and her oldest friends and mentors are former Black Panthers.
Abdullah’s father, John Reimann, is a self-proclaimed <a href="https://www.laweekly.com/these-savvy-women-have-made-black-lives-matter-the-most-crucial-left-wing-movement-today/">Trotskyist</a> – a philosophy that advocates global socialism through continuing revolution. He worked for the Carpenters Union in the Bay Area, retired, and was part of Occupy Oakland at its beginning stages.
In 2012, he <a href="https://archive.iww.org/PDF/history/library/Reimann/Politics%20of%20Occupy%20Oakland.pdf">wrote</a> “The Politics of Occupy Oakland – A Marxist Viewpoint,” predicting:
<blockquote>Occupy Oakland and the Occupy movement in general is the warning of a far wider movement yet to come. As with Occupy, that wider movement will ultimately rise or fall, it will live or die, based on bold, defiant action and clear ideas. First and foremost must be opposition to capitalism itself.</blockquote>
The following year, the Black Lives Matter movement was born after a neighborhood watch volunteer was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin on July 13, 2013.
Since then, Abdullah has consistently spoken out against capitalism while building the L.A. chapter, often encouraging supporters to “disrupt white capitalism” at BLM demonstrations organized around officer-involved shootings and alleged police misconduct.
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Capitalism makes us&#8230;working class folks&#8230;believe that we are in competition with one another because viewing each other as adversaries allows capitalism to thrive. We topple capitalist oppression when we work in cooperation. Solidarity.
&mdash; Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) <a href="https://twitter.com/DocMellyMel/status/1033376619778400256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Under her leadership, BLM-LA has <a href="https://www.blmla.org/who-we-are#ourteam">established</a> an action team to guide protests. A policy team engages in local and statewide initiatives “that disrupt practices of state violence.” An education team targets public schools, and a communications team that works with professional media consultants to shape news narratives and amplify BLM’s signal to a wider audience. Abdullah has also forged alliances with several other activist groups, the ACLU, SEIU, the largest teachers union in town, and woke celebrities.
Abdullah has involved her two teenaged daughters in her organizing efforts in L.A. public schools, continuing the family legacy of community organizing going back four generations. The sisters co-founded the BLM Youth Vanguard in 2015, which consists of children and adolescents ages 6 to 18. The student-activist group has focused on abolishing cops from the nation’s second-largest public education system, which has its own police department. Time Magazine <a href="http://time.com/5463721/most-influential-teens-2018/">honored</a> one of Abdullah&#8217;s daughters, then 15, as one of the nation’s most influential teens in 2018.
Abdullah isn&#8217;t just a hardcore Marxist ideologically, her tactics follow the radical Marxist playbook. And sometimes, as her rivals in the black L.A. organizing scene <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-l-a-activist-demands-blm-leader-step-down-after-cheap-publicity-stunt-at-d-a-s-home">say</a>, those tactics cross the line into public acts of intimidation.
Case in point, BLM-LA has constantly bird-dogged the top law enforcement official in the region, L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who is up for reelection in November. Abdullah and other demonstrators showed up at her home earlier this year, banged on a drum, and rang her doorbell around 5:30 am.
The incident culminated with Lacey’s husband pointing a handgun out the couple’s front door. He then threatened to shoot Abdullah and ordered the trespassers to leave his property. BLM-LA’s communications team ensured <a href="https://twitter.com/Jasmyne/status/1234477040365031424">partial video</a> of the encounter went viral.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> This morning Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s husband pulled a gun out on Black Lives Matter activists who protested his wife in front of their house. <a href="https://twitter.com/BLMLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BLMLA</a> <a href="https://t.co/wnCFMMvaWV">pic.twitter.com/wnCFMMvaWV</a>
&mdash; Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jasmyne/status/1234477040365031424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“Are you going to shoot me?” Abdullah can be heard asking.
“I will shoot you,” David Lacey responded. “Get off of my porch.”
The California attorney general’s office is currently <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-29/california-attorney-general-reviewing-gun-incident-jackie-lacey-husband">investigating</a> the case to determine whether Mr. Lacey committed a crime.
Abdullah and other Black Lives Matter members have also made uninvited visits to the homes of an LAPD commissioner, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and organized several protests outside Mayor Eric Garcetti’s house.
While demonstrating against a police shooting in 2016, Abdullah appeared to taunt Garcetti from his front yard. She posted a video to Instagram, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BLDH6m9jCov/?utm_source=ig_embed">saying</a>, “You don’t get to kill our kids and think your kid gets to sleep in peace…we’re bringing the hood to you.” Garcetti’s daughter, Maya, was four years old at the time.
Last summer, the L.A. City Attorney’s Office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-drops-all-criminal-charges-against-jeffrey-cawood">dismissed</a> eight criminal charges against Abdullah that stemmed from her disruptive antics at LAPD Commission meetings, including alleged battery on a cop. She could have faced more than a year in jail if convicted. Prosecutors had agreed to drop all charges if Abdullah adhered to behavioral guidelines for six months. Her pro-bono legal team is headlined by Carl E. Douglas, best known as a member of O.J. Simpson’s “Dream Team” of defense attorneys and a 12-year protégé of the late Johnnie Cochran.
After the charges were officially dismissed, Abdullah’s counsel <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-11/black-lives-matter-leader-sues-city-ex-police-chief-beck">filed</a> a federal lawsuit accusing the city attorney’s office of malicious prosecution and the LAPD of wrongful arrest.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-and-teachers-union-work-as-partners-to-end-repressive-policing-in-schools">Black Lives Matter And Teachers Union Work As Partners To End ‘Repressive’ Policing In Schools</a>
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A far-left political group unveiled a new statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in Western Germany over the weekend which comes as numerous statues worldwide have been toppled in recent weeks.
&#8220;The installation of Germany&#8217;s first large public statue of Lenin outside the former communist East Germany was fiercely opposed by many Germans,&#8221; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/germany-marxists-lenin-statue-germany/30681737.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The 1.3-ton, cast-iron statue was made in the former Czechoslovakia in 1957 and bought by the MLPD in an online auction for 16,000 euros ($18,000).&#8221;
Gelsenkirchen&#8217;s city council opposed the move by the far-left Marxist-Leninist Party Of Germany (MLPD) but was defeated in court because the statue was being erected on private property. The irony there is that Lenin, a communist, did not believe in the private ownership of property as his regime <a href="https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-vladimir-lenin">abolished</a> private land ownership on his first day in office.
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While statues of heroes such as George Washington, Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt are being vandalized knocked down or removed, Vladimir Lenin’s statue is being erected of all places in Germany that suffered years of communist oppression while it was divided. Pathetic! <a href="https://t.co/C7EuC5YxNL">pic.twitter.com/C7EuC5YxNL</a>
&mdash; Amir Tsarfati (@BeholdIsrael) <a href="https://twitter.com/BeholdIsrael/status/1275014492380938241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Lenin, head of the Bolshevik Party, rose to power during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and later went on to found the USSR, the world&#8217;s first communist nation. History <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/russia/vladimir-lenin">provides some background</a>:
<blockquote>[In April 1917] Lenin began plotting an overthrow of the Provisional Government. To Lenin, the provisional government was a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” He advocated instead for direct rule by the workers and peasants in a “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
By fall of 1917, Russians had become even more war weary. Peasants, workers and soldiers demanded immediate change in what became known as the October Revolution.
Lenin, aware of the leadership vacuum plaguing Russia, decided to seize power. He secretly organized factory workers, peasants, soldiers and sailors into Red Guards — a volunteer paramilitary force. On November 7 and 8, 1917, Red Guards captured Provisional Government buildings in a bloodless coup d’état.
The Bolsheviks seized power of the government and proclaimed Soviet rule, making Lenin leader of the world’s first communist state. The new Soviet government ended Russian involvement in World War I with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.</blockquote>
The Bolshevik Revolution sparked a three-year civil war inside Russia between the Red Army and the White Army, which was supported by capitalists and supporters of democracy. Lenin instituted &#8220;War Communism,&#8221; which was a series of policies that essentially nationalized all industries throughout Russia. History notes:
<blockquote>These measures proved disastrous. Under the new state-owned economy, both industrial and agricultural output plummeted. An estimated five million Russians died of famine in 1921 and living standards across Russia plunged into abject poverty.
Mass unrest threatened the Soviet government. As a result, Lenin instituted his New Economic Policy, a temporary retreat from the complete nationalization of War Communism. The New Economic Policy created a more market-oriented economic system, “a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control.”</blockquote>
In 1918, Lenin was shot in an assassination attempt by a member of a rival party and his secret police force, the Cheka, responded by what became known as the &#8220;Red Terror,&#8221; a period of time in which mass executions were carried out against those who were not loyal to the communists. History reported that some estimates suggest that up to 100,000 people were killed as a result of the campaign.
A Wall Street Journal op-ed from 2017 <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810">noted</a> that the events that were set in place by the Russian Revolution of 1917 ended up leading to a century where communism was responsible for the deaths of approximately 100 million people.
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Statue Of Communist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin Unveiled In Germany

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The most deadly form of the Chinese Flu may not be physical, but intellectual.
An article published on the Atlantic website this week displayed a kind of oppressive and tyrannical Chinese-style thinking that seems to be spreading through our intellectual classes like the Wuhan Virus itself.
The piece – co-authored by Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Arizona Law College professor Andrew Keane Woods – was so repellent to any Western sense of morality, ethics, or indeed law, that I wondered if some philosophical mutation of the Kung Flu hadn’t erased the mystic chords of memory from the professors’ brains.
The idea of the piece was that during this Courtesy-of-Wuhan crisis, American tech companies “are proudly collaborating with one another, and following government guidance, to censor harmful information related to the coronavirus. And they are using their prodigious data-collection capacities, in coordination with federal and state governments, to improve contact tracing, quarantine enforcement, and other health measures.”
Far from regarding this as an evil, or at least as an emergency contingency that needs to be walked back when the crisis ends, the professors believe that big business’ censoring and surveilling of Americans should become the new normal.
“In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong. Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values,” the piece reads.
Really? Is it too much to ask: Which society’s norms and values are these Chinese-style measures compatible with? If government and big business are colluding to censor speech and destroy our privacy, in what way are their actions compatible with anything resembling American norms and values?
This week on my podcast, I interviewed Steven W. Mosher, a conservative China expert and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.” Mr. Mosher gave a heartbreaking eyewitness account of forced abortions he witnessed in the 1980’s. (Under strong pressure from China, Stanford University expelled Mosher in 1985 for publishing these and other accounts.) Listening to his description of a 9-months pregnant woman being dragged off screaming to have her baby murdered and herself sterilized made it difficult for me to continue the interview.
Mr. Mosher also lent credence to almost inconceivable reports that the Chinese are forcibly harvesting the organs of dissenters and other marginalized groups in their concentration camps. These reports – which sound like something out of some preposterous thriller novel – were confirmed by an international tribunal last year. Mr. Mosher says the Chinese are using technology culled from America to render these prisoners brain dead in order to keep the organs fresh.
And yet, many in our academies continue to share our technology and research with China as if they were just another international neighbor. In January, the FBI arrested 60-year-old Dr. Charles Lieber, Chair of Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Lieber, regarded as a future Nobel Prize winner, was charged with lying about his participation in China’s Thousand Talents Plan. And there are plenty of other top scientists participating in that plan, which the Department of Justice now regards as an espionage operation bent on stealing protected research and technology.
This is deeply disturbing. But just as disturbing is the sickening capitulation to Chinese economic power and intellectual influence among our chattering classes. The New York Times this week ran a typically slanted “news” article, hitting the Trump Administration for its moves to investigate the Chinese sources of the virus. Why shouldn’t they? We’ve seen movie studios, the NBA, and the NFL curtail their support of freedom fighters in Taiwan and Hong Kong to serve their Chinese masters. And, of course, the sort of “if we could only be China for a day” authoritarian longings of writers like Thomas Friedman show an almost complete disconnect from American “norms and values.”
The Chinese – by which, of course, I mean the Communists who run the country – are not our moral equals. They are not just a business enterprise we can compete or collaborate with, as we wish. They are a wicked and oppressive entity with imperialist aims. We cannot allow the intellectual version of the Chinese Flu to extinguish that truth in our minds.
We are going to have to fight these people – hopefully in a Cold War rather than a hot one. And for the good of humanity, we damn well better win.
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) jailed a former Chinese state media journalist who turned into an anti-corruption journalist because he &#8220;attacked and vilified the Communist Party and government.&#8221;
&#8220;Chen Jieren was convicted on Thursday of &#8216;picking quarrels and provoking trouble, extortion, illegal business operations and bribery&#8217;, a court in central Hunan province said in an online statement,&#8221; The South China Morning Post <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3082463/chinese-journalist-jailed-15-years-attacking-communist-party">reported</a>. &#8220;The charge of &#8216;picking quarrels and provoking trouble&#8217; is a catch-all that Chinese authorities often use against people who criticise the regime.&#8221;
Chen was jailed two years after he published two articles on his personal website that accused CCP officials of being corrupt.
&#8220;China is the biggest jailer of journalists in the world, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and tightly controls the press at home while censoring most foreign media outlets via the Great Firewall, its vast online censorship and surveillance apparatus,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/asia/china-censorship-chen-jieren-intl-hnk/">reported</a>. &#8220;In March, China expelled journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, in an unprecedented move against the foreign press.&#8221;
U.S.-based Chinese news site Radio Free Asia reported that Chen was forced to state: &#8220;I abused my own influence and the trust of my social media followers. I used wording that evoked fairness and justice to cheat my readers; to deceive the people. I am a classic example of a fake guy on the internet.&#8221;
RFA reported that neither Chen nor members of his family, who were also taken away by the CCP, have been allowed access to a lawyer.
The news comes as China deals with global fallout over the coronavirus pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China, and that spread in part because China tried to cover-up the outbreak and repeatedly lied in subsequent statements about how dangerous the virus was.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-gates-attacks-u-s-praises-china-china-did-a-lot-of-things-right-at-the-beginning">highlighted</a> just a few examples of China&#8217;s mishandling of the coronavirus at the start of the outbreak:
<blockquote>China has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html">falsely claimed</a> that the coronavirus came from the United States Army; tried to cover it up by <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early-coronavirus-missteps-11583508932">silencing</a> doctors and journalists who were trying to warn the world; <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/world-health-organization-blame-pandemic-coronavirus/609820/">told</a> the world that there was not evidence the coronavirus could be transmitted person to person when they <a href="https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9">knew</a> for a fact that it could; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says">intentionally lied</a> about how bad the outbreak was and tried to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000">cover up</a> deaths; and is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-still-misleads-the-world-on-the-coronavirus-11586818132">allegedly</a> continuing to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-still-not-letting-u-s-in-to-study-coronavirus-mike-pompeo-says">withhold</a> critical information about the outbreak.</blockquote>
U.S. officials have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-crafting-retaliatory-measures-against-china-for-pandemic-scandal-potentially-have-evidence-virus-came-from-lab">crafting</a> retaliatory measures for the Trump administration to take against China ranging from demanding financial compensation to imposing massive tariffs to canceling debt that the U.S. owes China.
One top official cautioned to The Washington Post that right now was not the right time to punish China for what it did, but added that “there will be a time to do it.”
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Chinese Anti-Corruption Journalist Jailed 15 Years For ‘Vilifying The Communist Party’

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On the latest episode of the “Verdict with Ted Cruz” podcast uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) discussed with co-host Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire the danger that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to the world.
After stating that he hopes the United states and the world will have a “fundamental reassessment” of their relationships with China, Cruz outlined several of the reasons the communist nation is so dangerous:
<blockquote>I&#8217;ve been saying for a long time, China is the single most important, the most significant geopolitical competitor to the United States for the next century. They’ve got 1.3 billion people; they&#8217;re governed by a communist government that lies, that murders, that tortures its citizens; they invest billions in their military, billions in expanding their economic influence – and I think this pandemic really illustrates just how dangerous that repressive regime of lying is.</blockquote>
Later, Knowles asked Cruz about the CCP’s influence over Hollywood, which is vast.
Cruz replied: “Hollywood is almost entirely bought and paid for by China. It’s such a big part – if you&#8217;re making a movie, you don&#8217;t want to tick off China because it&#8217;s too big a part of your global revenues, and so the great free speech warriors of Hollywood are perfectly happy to let China edit out portions of their movie they don&#8217;t like.”
The senator offered two examples. He first cited the 2018 Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which was reportedly edited for Chinese audiences to eliminate subject matter related to Mercury’s sexuality. He then talked about how the upcoming Tom Cruise film “Top Gun: Maverick” removed the Japanese and Taiwanese flags from the main character’s jacket so as not to anger China.
Cruz stated that he has introduced legislation called the Script Act, which “says if any Hollywood producer, if any movie maker lets the Chinese communist government censor or edit a film, that they can&#8217;t have access to our military, to our ships, to our planes, to everything they use to film movies like ‘Top Gun.’”
After discussing the security issues surrounding Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, which “is essentially a global surveillance outfit,” according to Cruz, Knowles noted how “addicted” the United States has become to Chinese goods and services.
Senator Cruz then spoke about the “host of strategies” the CCP employs, including lying, “murder,” detainment and “torture” of more than a million Uighurs in “concentration camps,” and the mass theft of intellectual property.
<blockquote>They steal on a widespread level, on a military level, on a commercial level, on an academic level, they censor, and they also extort. They use access to their market – there&#8217;s a reason Hollywood&#8217;s terrified of ticking them off; there&#8217;s a reason the NBA is terrified of ticking them off &#8230; because they&#8217;ll close off their market to anyone who does.</blockquote>
Cruz then noted that during a tour of friendly countries Taiwan, Japan, India, and Hong Kong last fall, “every one of [the] meetings and discussions there where, what do we do about China? What do we do about the military threat? The diplomatic threat? The economic threat?”
Cruz also offered a stunning analogy:
<blockquote>Something I&#8217;ve said many times is Hong Kong is the new Berlin. Just as Berlin was the outpost of freedom against the Soviet Union, against communism when Reagan said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” Hong Kong is where we&#8217;re seeing the touch points of this battle against China.</blockquote>
He then said what he hopes will happen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic:
<blockquote>I hope that Americans are waking up. I do think – for a long time, when I would lay out the harms of the Chinese communist government and the need to fight against it, the need not to be dependent on China, you would get almost crickets in the Senate from both Democrats and Republicans &#8230; their lying, their cover-up on coronavirus has now taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and cost trillions of dollars in poverty and suffering. I hope that really causes people to open their eyes to what the danger is here.</blockquote>
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The Chinese Communist Party, which is known for its predatory practices, now reportedly has its sights set on taking natural resources from African nations that are indebted to China and that are struggling financially as a result of the coronavirus.
The extent of the coronavirus outbreak, which originated in Wuhan, is largely China&#8217;s fault because they lied to the world about it and tried to cover it up, thus preventing it from being better contained, and allowed international flights out of the affected areas despite restricting domestic travel.
China has been widely criticized for President Xi Jinping&#8217;s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), about which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has &#8220;repeatedly warn[ed] of unsustainable debt levels, predatory lending, and the lack of project transparency,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.csis.org/npfp/its-debt-trap-managing-china-imf-cooperation-across-belt-and-road">Center for Strategic International Studies</a>.
China is now reportedly looking to exploit African nations that are struggling as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, demanding that they turn over natural resources if they can&#8217;t pay up. The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-africa-groans-under-debt-it-casts-wary-eye-at-china-11587115804">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Wealthy countries from the U.S. to Japan—watching their own economies lurch toward recession—are loath to forgive African debt if they think the money will indirectly support Chinese creditors, including the government, banks and contractors. At the same time, Beijing is worried about setting a precedent for widespread forgiveness. &#8230;
But some African governments already bilaterally petitioning China for relief say Chinese envoys are citing provisions in loan agreements that would transfer collateral, in some cases strategic state assets, into Beijing’s hands.
Officials in Zambia, for example, say Beijing is demanding collateral in exchange for debt deferral or forgiveness. Two senior Zambian officials on a government panel negotiating with China said they are considering giving the Chinese copper-mining assets including the country’s third-largest mine, Mopani, owned by Glencore PLC, a London-listed mining company, in exchange for debt relief.</blockquote>
The Journal noted that President Donald Trump has warned African countries that if they take money from China that could mean that they lose control of strategic assets in the future because the Chinese Communist Party is predatory in nature.
The Journal added:
<blockquote>When Sri Lanka was unable to repay a loan for a Chinese-built port in 2018, the government granted a state-run China-based shipping group a 99-year lease on the facility. Chinese port operators last year tightened their grip over a strategic naval port in the East African nation of Djibouti, where debt to China is equal to nearly 100% of gross domestic product. &#8230;
An estimated $143 billion of African debt to Chinese lenders has been racked up over two decades of record lending, according to Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Much of that has financed large-scale infrastructure projects from light-railway systems in Ethiopia to airports in Zambia and ports in Tanzania.</blockquote>
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African nations seeking debt deferral or forgiveness from Chinese gov are being told they have to give up strategic state assets
Zambia may give a copper mine to the Chinese gov
As if Africans haven’t already had so much stolen from them<a href="https://t.co/j1oqo5oOH9">https://t.co/j1oqo5oOH9</a> <a href="https://t.co/e1VRa3IRzk">pic.twitter.com/e1VRa3IRzk</a>
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Back in the U.S., calls continue to grow from U.S. lawmakers to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawmakers-call-for-china-to-face-accountability-as-suspicion-grows-virus-leaked-from-lab">investigate</a> China and to make China <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-introduces-bill-to-investigate-chinas-coronavirus-cover-up-demands-china-pay-for-damage">pay</a> for the pandemic because they lied and covered up the extent of the epidemic. One study <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-coronavirus-outbreak-could-have-been-reduced-by-95-if-china-acted-sooner">found</a> that had China acted three weeks sooner, which still would have been after they learned about the outbreak, then the outbreak would have been 95% smaller and would have likely been regionally contained.

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Socialist Bernie Sanders told Fox News on Monday night that he did not regret defending murderous communist dictator Fidel Castro or communist China last month, comments that many have said hurt his campaign.
“You mentioned Cuba and authoritarian regimes,” Fox News’ Bret Baier said. “There are few moments in races that seem like turning points and many experts looked at that moment on ‘60 Minutes’ when you talked about Fidel Castro’s literacy program as a turning point in this race.”
“Do you regret at all saying what you said at that time in this race?’ Baier asked.
“No,” Sanders responded. “Look, I have spent my entire life fighting for working people and fighting for democracy.”
“So if you look at a country like China for example, is China a democracy? Of course it’s not a democracy,” Sanders said. “It is an authoritarian country and Xi is taking it in a bad direction but what can we say about China in the last 50 years?”
“Would anybody in their right mind deny that extreme poverty in China has been reduced? Can anyone deny that?” Sanders continued. “Of course not.”
When pressed by Baier about Democrats who responded negatively toward Sanders’ praise of communist Castro and China, Sanders replied, “So, what? Believe me, I’ve got a lot of Democrats who are attacking me as well. Nothing new there.”
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The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-bernie-sanders-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">highlighted</a> some of Sanders&#8217; extreme policy stances in a profile piece last year:
Economy: Sanders holds far-left views on economics that place him barely, if at all, to the right of an authentic European-style socialist. He supports punitive taxation and massive redistribution to mollify the purported scourge of wealth and income inequality in America. He has consistently supported substantial tax hikes on income, capital gains, and estates alike. Sanders supports substantial regulation of the financial services sector and large-scale government spending on infrastructure programs. He has generally opposed free trade due to reasons of labor protectionism. He has been critical of the Federal Reserve for allegedly empowering the wealthy. Sanders supports increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15. He has taken a heavy-handed view of antitrust enforcement.
Health Care: Sanders is a longtime support of single-payer socialized medicine, and in many ways is the intellectual progenitor for the current Democratic Party candidate trend of favoring “Medicare for All.” He has often been critical of Obamacare for not going far enough with respect to health care coverage for all uncovered Americans. Sanders has never indicated any willingness to structurally reform fiscally ruinous health care-related entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Immigration: Although Sanders once was sympathetic to restrictive immigration measures due to reasons of labor protectionism, he has emerged over the past decade as a reliable vote in favor of pro-amnesty, pro-illegal immigration policies. He supports a pathway to citizenship for large swaths of illegal aliens. He has often been very critical of the Trump administration’s efforts at border security and immigration law enforcement.
Foreign Policy: Sanders has consistently opposed an aggressive overseas posture for U.S. foreign policy, and has routinely opposed large-scale U.S. military deployments overseas. He has been skeptical of or outright opposed to U.S. foreign policy missions against a wide variety of hostile actors — both state and non-state actors — across the Middle East. Sanders has long been deeply sympathetic toward communist Cuba — including the open <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/heres-the-full-1985-interview-where-bernie-sanders-praised-castro-slammed-reagan-and-more/">praising of Fidel Castro</a> — and applauded the Obama administration’s efforts at détente with Cuba. He supported President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal and has usually been more sympathetic to the Iranians and the Palestinian-Arabs than he has been to the Saudis and Israelis, respectively. He supports a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has often been very hostile to Israel’s defensive measures against the radical Islamic terrorism that engulfs the Jewish state on all sides. While running for president in 2016, Sanders <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-Jewish-group-slams-Bernie-Sanders-for-misstatements-on-2014-Gaza-war-450507">cited a blatantly false number</a> of Palestinian-Arab deaths that had allegedly resulted from the 2014 Gaza Strip war between the two sides.
Abortion: Sanders is fully pro-abortion, has never voted in favor of any piece of legislation that would restrict abortion, and has recently refused to identify any piece of legislation that he might support that would restrict abortion in any conceivable way. He supports <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1136285225632370688">ending the Hyde Amendment</a>, which has historically banned taxpayer funding of abortion, and has vowed to never nominate anyone to the U.S. Supreme Court who is not adamantly in favor of Roe v. Wade.
Guns: Although Sanders’ tenure in the House was marked by his opposition to various gun control measures, his tenure in the Senate has been marked by consistent support for gun control policies. Sanders supports a federal ban on “assault weapons,” supports “universal background checks” (i.e., background checks even for private firearms transfers), and has often criticized Republicans’ purported fealty to the National Rifle Association. Sanders supports a ban on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called “assault weapons” — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.

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The Soviet Union reportedly viewed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as a person that they could exploit to promote their propaganda because of his political views and his positive views of the communist nation.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/bernie-sanders-soviet-russia.html">reported</a> on Thursday night that newly discovered documents from Russia showed that Soviet officials sought to &#8220;exploit Mr. Sanders’ antiwar agenda for their own propaganda purposes.&#8221;
The Times noted that the Russian communists sought to exploit Sanders while he was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, after he wrote that he wanted the U.S. and the U.S.S.R to “live together as friends.”
&#8220;They also show how the Kremlin viewed these sister city relationships as vehicles to sway American public opinion about the Soviet Union,&#8221; the Times reported. &#8220;Nothing in the documents suggests that Mr. Sanders was the only local American official targeted for propaganda, or even that he was particularly receptive to it, though they do describe him as a socialist. But the documents do show the Soviets’ intensive preparation to use Mr. Sanders’ interest in their country to their advantage.&#8221;
A Soviet Foreign Ministry document discovered by the Times stated: “One of the most useful channels, in practice, for actively carrying out information-propaganda efforts has proved to be sister-city contact.”
The Times noted that Sanders aggressively sought out the sister-city program with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Sanders even led a Burlington delegation to Yaroslavl to try to establish the basis for the sister-city relationship.
&#8220;But the trip wasn’t enough to cinch the sister-city relationship,&#8221; the Times added. &#8220;Mr. Sanders still had to convince Soviet officials in Moscow to grant their approval and allow Yaroslavl representatives to travel to Burlington. He offered glowing reviews in public and ratcheted up his lobbying effort in private.&#8221;
Sanders, still aggressively pursuing the program, wrote a glowing review about the communist nation, saying, “People there seemed reasonably happy and content. I didn’t notice much deprivation.”
Soviet officials coordinated all their responses to Sanders with Soviet officials in Moscow.
The Times reported that the Soviets created a seven-point “plan for information-propaganda work” for their trip to Burlington.
The document said, &#8220;When carrying out propaganda measures abroad, the forms and methods of the information-propaganda work and its concrete contents must be approved by the Soviet Embassy and take into account the Soviet Union’s relationship with the given country.”
Last Month, The Washington Post reported that the Russians were reportedly engaged in trying to boost Sanders&#8217; campaign.
Top officials “have repeatedly warned that Russia has ongoing plans to interfere in U.S. elections and foster divisions among Americans, part of a strategic goal to undermine U.S. standing in the world,” The Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bernie-sanders-briefed-by-us-officials-that-russia-is-trying-to-help-his-presidential-campaign/2020/02/21/5ad396a6-54bd-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html">reported</a>. “Some analysts believe that the Kremlin’s goal is to cause the maximum disruption within the United States, and it throws the support of its hackers and trolls behind candidates based on that goal, not any particular affinity for the persons running.”
The Post highlighted Sanders&#8217; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/03/bernie-sanderss-foreign-policy-is-risk-democrats-against-trump/">connections</a> to Russia early last month:
<blockquote>One issue involves Sanders’s stance toward the former Soviet Union, a record that could undercut Democrats’ ability to criticize Trump for being too close to Russia today.
The documents from the Sanders archives include a letter from Soviet Embassy First Secretary Vadim Kuznetsov in March 1983, congratulating Sanders on his reelection as mayor and thanking Sanders for receiving him in Sanders’s office. Kuznetsov had been in Burlington to attend a conference on nuclear disarmament at the University of Vermont a few days earlier. Neither Sanders nor conference organizers appear to have read a 1976 Time magazine article that identified Kuznetsov as a member of a “Soviet intelligence squad” posing as diplomats to infiltrate U.S. politics.
In 1988, Sanders traveled to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon and forged a “sister city” cooperation program there. Many believe he gave a rosy depiction of conditions there just a few years before the communist system collapsed.</blockquote>

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Communist Cuba praised socialist Bernie Sanders, the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination for president, for his recent praise of the communist nation.
&#8220;Granma, the Communist Party newspaper, prominently displayed a report about Sanders and his praise of &#8216;some of the social programs implemented by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro,'&#8221; The Miami Herald <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article240626672.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Adding its own analysis of the Democratic race, the newspaper said Sanders seemed &#8216;unstoppable&#8217; in his move towards the nomination.&#8221;
&#8220;Granma and several state media outlets reported the comments made by Sanders in an interview with Anderson Cooper for &#8217;60 minutes&#8217; on Sunday, in which the senator said it was &#8216;unfair&#8217; to say that &#8216;everything is bad&#8217; in Cuba, and praised the literacy campaign implemented by Fidel Castro shortly after he rose to power in 1959,&#8221; the Herald added. &#8220;The report also mentions that Sanders had recognized the role of Cuba in sending &#8216;doctors all over the world,&#8217; another Castro initiative, but incorrectly attributed these comments, made during a debate in the 2016 elections, to the interview with Cooper.&#8221;
The newspaper then attacked Cuban Americans who had escaped the communist nation, writing that Sanders&#8217; “comments sparked the anger of the most extremist sector of Cuban-Americans in South Florida, who oppose any rapprochement with the Caribbean island.”
Sanders&#8217; remarks were widely condemned by Cuban Americans, Republicans, and Democrats who found his praise of a brutal, dictatorial regime appalling.
&#8220;Fidel Castro left a dark legacy of forced labor camps, religious repression, widespread poverty, firing squads, and the murder of thousands of his own people,&#8221; Michael Bloomberg said in a tweet. &#8220;But sure, Bernie, let’s talk about his literacy program.&#8221;
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Fidel Castro left a dark legacy of forced labor camps, religious repression, widespread poverty, firing squads, and the murder of thousands of his own people.
But sure, Bernie, let’s talk about his literacy program. <a href="https://t.co/3Xqu435uoA">pic.twitter.com/3Xqu435uoA</a>
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Pete Buttigieg tweeted a link asking for donations, writing, &#8220;Chip in if you don’t want to have to defend Fidel Castro.&#8221;
Tom Steyer tore into Sanders during a CNN town hall, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-steyer-unloads-on-bernie-sanders-socialism-never-worked-we-stand-for-freedom">saying</a>, “I don’t think it’s appropriate to look at a dictator in Cuba who’s been there for 60 years, who has really done a terrible job for the Cuban people, who’s an autocrat who’s never allowed dissent or elections and who has done exactly — he’s had the government own the economy and people are hungry and he’s been a cruel controller of the country.  don’t think it’s appropriate to be giving him a lot of compliments.”
“If you’re asking me, will I ever compliment a regime that’s unelected, that rules without the rule of law, that is — that dominates its country without the kind of democracy and — that we have?” Steyer later added. “No, I’m never going to compliment that system. I don’t approve of it. I don’t think it works. I think we stand up for who we are around the country because we’re trying to be the best value driven country in the world. That’s who we are. We should be proud of it and we should never give in to somebody else’s view.”
Left-wing CNN commentator Ana Navarro tweeted: &#8220;I was born in Nicaragua. My parents live there. My husband was born in Cuba. Castros &amp; Ortega are corrupt, anti-American, murderous thugs. They jail, kill, torture, starve, beat, persecute political dissidents while enriching themselves. There is no f***ing bright side. Period.&#8221;
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I was born in Nicaragua. My parents live there. My husband was born in Cuba. Castros &amp; Ortega are corrupt, anti-American, murderous thugs. They jail, kill, torture, starve, beat, persecute political dissidents while enriching themselves.
There is no fucking bright side.
Period.
&mdash; Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1232496056048291841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the socialist Democratic presidential front-runner, made waves when he merely reiterated his lifelong warmth toward the viciously evil Cuban communist regime.
Brushing off the human rights violations of Fidel Castro — a man whose revolution ended with the murder or imprisonment of tens of thousands of his countrymen, and decades of impoverishment and repression for millions — Sanders explained: &#8220;We&#8217;re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but you know, it&#8217;s unfair to simply say everything is bad. &#8230; When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing, even though Fidel Castro did it?&#8221;
But, of course, Sanders hasn&#8217;t merely praised Castro&#8217;s literacy programs (which, by the way, were propagandistic exploits. Cuba had an 80% literacy rate before Castro&#8217;s coup). Back in the 1980s, Sanders explained that he was &#8220;physically nauseated&#8221; by former President John F. Kennedy&#8217;s &#8220;hatred for the Cuban revolution.&#8221; In 1989, Sanders stated after visiting Cuba: &#8220;I did not see a hungry child. I did not see any homeless people.&#8221; He said that the Cuban people &#8220;had an almost religious affection&#8221; for Castro.
As it turns out, there is hardly a single communist regime of the past half-century for which Sanders has not expressed some level of moral support. This week, Sanders went out of his way to praise China, explaining: &#8220;It&#8217;s is an authoritarian country. &#8230; But can anyone deny — I mean, the facts are clear — that they have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any country in history?&#8221; Naturally, Sanders neglects to mention that China&#8217;s embrace of free trade and profit margin in the 1990s was responsible for that rise from poverty. That would cut against his socialist worldview.
Then there&#8217;s the Nicaraguan communist regime of Daniel Ortega, which murdered thousands. Sanders celebrated the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s (he attended a rally at which protesters chanted, &#8220;the Yankee will die&#8221;), visited Nicaragua and returned to tut-tut Ortega&#8217;s human rights abuses by citing Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s suspension of habeas corpus. It&#8217;s no wonder Ortega has endorsed Sanders for the presidency.
Or how about the Venezuelan regime? Sanders refused to call socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro a dictator as late as last year, and refused to call opposition Juan Guaido the legitimate leader of the country. The Sanders Senate website carried an editorial for years that favorably compared the regime of Hugo Chavez with the poverty record of the United States.
And, of course, there&#8217;s Sanders&#8217; long record of propagandizing on behalf of the Soviet regime. Not only did Sanders visit the Soviet Union for a honeymoon/business trip with his new wife in 1988; he returned and declared that Moscow had &#8220;the most effective mass transit system&#8221; he had ever seen. He then celebrated that the Soviets were moving &#8220;forward into some of the early visions of their revolution, what their revolution was about in 1917.&#8221;
Sanders isn&#8217;t a European social democrat, warm toward Denmark and Norway. He&#8217;s a lifelong communist — a man who declared himself fully on board with the nationalization of nearly every major American industry in the 1970s — and an advocate for anti-Americanism abroad. The fact that it has taken until the verge of his nomination as the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee for members of the media and fellow Democrats to take note of this rather important truth demonstrates that the left&#8217;s gatekeeping function has been irrevocably broken.

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