To conquer a nation, first rob it of its history and heroes. That’s a quick summary of Marxist strategy.
President Donald Trump used the 250th-anniversary celebration of our nation’s independence to call out communism as the gravest threat we face, and to warn that Marxists are trying to cancel our heroic founders and attack our longstanding values.
“You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist, or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both,” he told the Mount Rushmore audience.
He’s right. Under communism, there are no heroes — only oppressors and oppressed groups.
More than the threat of any foreign power or global pandemic, the gravest danger America faces is the ideological takeover of our institutions and the minds of our young people. The Fourth of July was a call to action to tell the American story and ensure younger generations embrace the values that have made this country free and prosperous: individualism and respect for property rights, not group identities and utopian collectivism.
The mainstream press ridiculed Trump for taking aim at “communism,” suggesting he was intentionally deceiving the country. These critics are wrong. Marxists have taken over almost all the cultural institutions and universities in this country. They preach class warfare but have Americanized the doctrine by adding sexual and racial oppression.
Following up on the weekend’s festivities, the White House issued an official report blasting the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian, for its refusal to “celebrate the Nation and its history.” The report claims the museum instead tells a story of “regret, tragedy and shame.”
When you strip a country of its heroic past, you limit its future aspirations and achievements. Ordinary Americans get it.
Every state was invited to outfit a booth on the National Mall to celebrate its distinct contributions to America. But 10 governors, most suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, refused to participate. They played right into the hands of the Marxist nihilists.
Undaunted, patriots in these states took matters into their own hands, traveled to Washington, D.C., on their own dime, and outfitted the booths rather than allow them to sit bare.
Donna Festinger, a retired teacher from Greenfield, Massachusetts, drove nine hours to D.C. with, among other local products to showcase, 300 miniature maple syrup bottles donated by a bottler in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.
Ari Hoffman, a radio host from Seattle, handed out American flags and copies of the US. Constitution, stepping in when Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson and Lt. Gov. Denny Heck refused to do anything. “They claimed they didn’t have a booth for budget reasons, but they spent $5 million on trans surgeries for convicted felons,” the infuriated Hoffman said.
When Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont also boycotted the event, I had large portraits printed of Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth and William Samuel Johnson, all signers of the U.S. Constitution, plus the celebrated war hero Nathan Hale. On July 3, I drove down to D.C. and filled Connecticut’s otherwise bare booth with these heroes.
Then I joined Reese Hopkins of WTIC radio to broadcast that afternoon in the shadow of the Washington Monument. The next day, two state lawmakers, Rob Sampson and Gale Mastrofrancesco, joined the effort, manning the booth and greeting fairgoers.
At a rally in North Dakota on Sunday, Trump accused the far left of hiding their Marxist agendas by calling themselves “social democrats.” “Doesn’t that sound pretty?” Trump asked. “They’re actually communists.”
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dodges the issue, falsely claiming that “how a person identifies in their economic view of the world is less important to people than if we’re making their groceries more affordable.”
Don’t buy that dangerous argument. The survival and prosperity of our nation hinge on perpetuating our values, particularly free markets, individualism and property rights. Values and affordability go hand in hand. The wealth of the average adult in the U.S. is eight times that of the average adult in collectivist China, and four times that of the average adult in the highly regulated economies of Western Europe.
Candidates labeling themselves democratic socialists have scored victories in New York City primaries, unseating influential incumbents, and more victories are expected in upcoming contests across the nation.
Young voters are the most receptive. A Cato Institute survey released on Sunday shows that a staggering 58% of Gen Z voters choose socialism over competing economic systems. Vying for second place is communism, favored by nearly as many Gen Zers as capitalism.
That is a call to action — to rout out the far-left indoctrination from our education system without delay.
America has a great story to tell. Tell it well, and the Marxists will lose.
Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York State and Chairman & Founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey.
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What irritates me the most is Congress is just sitting on their hands and not doing the job they were hired for. They can outlaw communism and socialism in the United States and I am positive President Trump would sign them into law. Republicans have done nothing and their time is running out. Sickens me!
MOST OF THESE HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED!!
SAUL ALINSKY’S RULES TO TOPPLE A NATION;
1) Healthcare — Control healthcare, and you control the people
2) Poverty — Increase the Poverty level as high as possible; poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt — Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control — Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare — Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6) Education — Take control of what people read and listen to — take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion — Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools.
8) Class Warfare — Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
I myself and a lot of Baby Boomers will NEVER forget our glorious history and illustrious heroes. What is most disturbing is the fact so many young people who have been indoctrinated to a bunch of Marxist crap and many other idiotic and dangerous ideologies. They start indoctrination in pre K and it goes on through college. This country is in DEEP trouble! Let’s make sure our generation gets out and make our votes count!
two comments: 1. if anyone is intentionally misleading the country, it;s the Marxists. 2. someone should AOC that her party’s policies are the reason why we have an unaffordability crisis,
This is why the left HAD to kill Charlie Kirk. Luckily it seems to have backfired and 1,000 TPUSA chapters later, young people are stepping up to fill in and help to push these young people to question what they are being taught. Go Charlie, go!!
These Marxist are rewriting our history. In museums, in schools and universities. This morning at breakfast many said they were sick and tired to hear about the founding of America because after all Washington, Jefferson all were atheist and Jefferson a womanizer. They missed the point. They established a country where everything is possible for anyone to succeed. Only these Marxists don’t want to work for it. They want the hardworking people to give them everything so they can live off them. After all, they say, they have enough. These takers are the ones that are tearing this country down. You have millionaires and billionaires in communist countries. Only they didn’t work for it they took it from the working class. There will always be very rich people and very poor people. But under communism the poor will never have the opportunity to become rich. In America you can. These young people think that they are worthy of a handout from those that are working hard. They don’t realize that those working hard make it possible for them to live in a country where they can demand these handouts. Under complete communism no more handouts will be possible because they will be working in government companies with government wages. With government rules and regulations. In a capitalist system you can move and go work someplace better. Under communism not. But they don’t understand that because these teachers and professors like the democrat leadership never see beyond the plans they propose. They work on paper only, not in the real world. Look at the face recognition in China. They use a FICO score on your behavior. You did a wrong your FICO score goes down and privileges like travel is curtailed. Every move you make they know and control. All these Gen Z kids should be made to live in China for a year. They would be back here in 3 months. Even living in Socialist Europe. See how the fans of the World Cup were reacting to America. The freedoms we have. The food our AC. Only the MSM keeps brainwashing these kids. All those celebrities that left America and what happened they all came back. Those on TikTok who talk about leaving, things are so bad, they scream. But nobody leaves. There is more movement out of the states where these Marxist rule than people actually leaving America. 25 million people Biden brought to this country with our tax money and we are still suffering supporting these people who would kill us faster than assimilate into this country. They are here to take over this country. Obama started it and the DNC has lost control of the party and the Marxist’s have taken over.
In the end, only one kingdom will prevail and it won’t be the U.S, China, Russia, (or any other nation). It won’t be Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism or any other “ism”. It will be the kingdom of God led by Jesus the Messiah.
Communists [hiding as “socialists”], just like Adolph Hitler, have to erase the past so they can “start over” with their utopias! If you cannot compare their “wonderlands” with what was here to begin with, you MIGHT believe their load of BS!
What I do not understand is why these doctrines which have failed everywhere that have been implemented still so popular. People are flying out in drones out of these countries. When you start to provide everything for free nobody wants to work anymore, why should? You give all the power to the government and just give up! It makes no sense!
I think those who don’t like our country should not be here. They need to emigrate to a country that fits their ideals and their spoken language. This country has so much latitude that those who care can pursue almost anything they desire. Is this not enough?
The Democrats, whatever their stripe, are tyrants, despots and dictators. They are opposed to liberty in any form. History teaches that the only way to end despotism is the death of the dictators.
I am very disturbed at what I see happening now in this country. I have emailed both of my NC Senators. Crickets! Neither one has answered. People are in this country winning elections who have nothing but harm and difference to the US Constitution. They are Marxists, Socialists, Communists (many Muslims). The majority are not native born but foreigners who have US Naturalized citizenships. My opinion is to denaturalize them and deport them now before we have real problems. These people are ungodly, uncivilized and are telling us what they intend to do in this country.
Socialism (communism) is a “soft sell.” However, once one gets lulled into thast milioeu it becomes VERY difficult to get out; and here’s where “higher” education has failed us.
The DSA is no longer hiding their communist goals. Posted on X: David Jenkins, of DSA’s National Political Committee and a figure involved in Mamdani’s rise, put it simply: “Our goal is communism.” There is a video on X of him pronouncing their clear objective.
Thats what Marxists have been doing since day 1
I want to know why these Islamic terrorists aren’t getting arrested. And why the hell are they still in congress? And holding office in big cities? How stupid are we???
The National Museum of American History’s refusal to “celebrate the Nation and its history,” instead telling a story of “regret, tragedy and shame” about America, purposely presented a false view of America. Omission of truth is also a form of falsehood. What they neglected to add was that our founders’ lives and founding documents were what guided us as a people and governmental institution to correct these wrongs! Leaders in a Communist governmental system NEVER even try to correct the wrongs they impose upon the people. Communist leaders are the Oppressors, their people of the Oppressed. We must educate ourselves enough to sound the alarm to those who have been kept from knowing the truth. We can also start by sharing the gospel and our faith, and remind our fellow Americans of the goodness of God.
A lesson from history: “More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
….Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheavel…
…But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’ “
ALENXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Templeton Address, 1983
“Templeton Lecture, May 10, 1983” in The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
Country took a sharp turn to the left, it was enthralled with communism from the at least early thirties , not the working class, intellectuals and Hollywood, elites attending soires, sipping champagne , discussing the plight of a working man, how many would part with their money in the name of the cause, how many would be willing to risk everything for the cause we don’t know, it never came to that, just empty blather, so thrilling , today the same ilk is doing the same, ask them to part with their fortunes in the name of the cause and see them run. Working man is an idiot for not figuring this out decades ago and allowing himself to be a patsy. Instead of kicking them out on their butts he listens .
We have a whole generation of young people who were never taught the TRUE history of our great country. The Communists who were raising hell in the 60’s became professors and teachers in our schools and taught our kids to hate America. It is really showing now if you are paying attention to the current class of people who are being put into our government by the radical liberals who have now gone Communist. Our schools need to be required to use materials that teach the TRUE history and what makes our country the best on the planet. Get your kids out of public schools if a all possible. If not that, then you need to be teaching them about our history and our government and why it has worked for 250 years.
We have some very patriotic members of congress, 99.9% republicans and some worthless communists, socialist/democrats, democrats and RINOS. We, the electorate must get off of our dead a—s and determine who will represent us in congress and the administration by learning about the wannabe candidates and voting in the primaries. We must cease permitting special interest money from hand picking the candidates they want, VOTE!
Put an end of all our enemies! I don’t discriminate the Marxist, Socialist , Muslims/Hamas, Communist CCP, etc!
There is one solid cure for communism/Marxism, etc. But as it is illegal at this time, all we can do is fight as hard as we can within the law….
only a idiot media, education system, and government can do that and of course the people that want to be stupid
The DSA have been very candid about their intentions, they intend to destroy our country, Constitution, rights, and way of life. Even though some of them have been elected to office and taken an oath of office, they still spout seditious ideals. We have a right to hold them to the Oath they took and prosecute them when they do as they have said.
We do NOT have to allow them the ability to change this country to their desired tyrannical Communist, shared misery, treating us as government owned slaves.
Stand up to them whenever you can.
NEVER VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT OR SOCIALIST, AND CHOOSE YOUR CONSERVATIVES WISELY.
Our public schools are filled with New Age ideas and Socialism so it is not surprising that this is all the kids know. A lot of them don’t understand free enterprise. I know because I am a sub. So I try to discuss the dangers of Socialism whenever that topic comes up, especially on the high school level.
It’s not the majority of the American people who are pushing the Marxist agenda. It’s the communist who have hijacked the democrats who are pushing the agenda. Along with their ever useful partnership of the major media.