It's Memorial Day again and our thoughts turn to our brave soldiers and sailors who have, over the years fought, and in many cases, died for our freedoms. However, there are elected officials in both our state and federal government that scare me and many like thinking people who have an eye on history.
Eduard Bernstein, an intellectual communist philosopher of the 19th and early 20th centuries maintained at that time that capitalism was not showing signs of collapse, as Marx had predicted (time had indeed proven Marx wrong). Bernstein along with other Utopian intellectual thinkers proposed that all that was required was a progressive and peaceful transition toward socialism with the working class “slowly learning the process of democracy and liberty.”
Those further left of Bernstein politically such as Lenin, Nacheav et. al. believed it took revolution with terror and the other things associated with it. Nacheav, at that time wrote… “No one who feels pity for anything or anyone can truly be called a revolutionary.” Sounds a bit like the terrorists of today. Thank God this latter form of communism has proven an utter failure throughout the world with only North Korea and Cuba still holding on to the last remnants of this awful form of government. However, Bernstein’s form of communism has made inroads with the modern left intellectuals and politicians. This modern day socialism has been making some dramatic advances in to our lives through the election of democrats who are off the chart to the left politically. The new left social democrats are following Bernstein’s form of communism to a “t”. We are indeed now making that “peaceful transition towards socialism for the working class”. This is affecting our lives and our freedoms. The left have persuaded many in the middle class that taxes are good. As a result many tax crazed politicians were elected this past November. Our freedoms, fought for so gallantly by our veterans, are being attacked daily. The left is going after our Bill of Rights. Their skewed idea of freedom of speech has made shambles of the 1st Amendment. The new crop of leftist now presiding in Washington DC are determined to disfigure the wording of this amendment also. They would like to change, to their liking what is left of the citizen’s right of protection and sport. The horrid practice of partial birth abortion has made a shambles of those beautiful words…”The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We must protect and defend our beautiful constitution. We must stay vigilant. We must hold on to the rights that we have left. We cannot afford to give a power base to the leftist social democrats. Think of our war veterans the next time you enter a polling booth!
