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This morning the website American Thinker has published my latest essay.  “Young People, Listen to Your Gen-X Elders: Communism Sucks!” is something that’s been percolating for awhile and  I suppose recent events in the American political realm made it time to deploy.  This article is a few things: history lesson (has it really been thirty-five years since I was a high school senior watching the attempted coup against Gorbechev?), recap of the rise of extreme socialism in this country, and finishing off with a stark warning to the young people of this land.  Take it from someone who was there during the height of the Cold War: communism is NOT something we should want to entertain notions of accommodating, much less adopting (or having it forced upon us).


From the article…

The ad begins with a poor Russian peon, bundled up for the harsh winter, cautiously asking a stern

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I was telling a friend tonight about where I am with my writing at the moment: the book, getting back into the swing of op-ed writing, what have you.  He asked me why am I writing at all: for fame and fortune or to get a message out that’s burning my bosom up from the inside.

I want a bit of all of that, to be honest.  After half a lifetime of battling demons, I still hope to find a little success as a writer.  It doesn’t have to be an awful lot of fame or acclaim.  That’s never been what this blog is about or anything else I’ve put my hand to for that matter.  I suppose if there is a gauge I’m going by, it’s that I wind up feeling like Dad would be proud of me.  He never gave up on me and I want to do ...

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Perhaps if Ambrose Bierce were still with us (and who knows, we don’t know what became of him since he disappeared somewhere in Mexico during its revolution) he might have made the following addition to his famous work The Devil’s Dictionary:

COMMUNISM, n.
A simple idea, that with innocent charm and seductive promise makes monsters of men.

“It just hasn’t been attempted correctly!”  How many times are we going to hear that one?  Looking around the past few days at the celebrations of the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, my head cannot but shake in disbelief.  That even today, there are many who will scream that communism will not only work but be a raging success… if the right people could be in charge of it.  And of course they will claim that they are the very “right people” who should be at the controls and trusted to ...

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There is some question about whether or not this is real. Having watched numerous propaganda films made behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, my gut tells me that it’s legit. That, and because this video does have that “Dear Leader/all others are inferior” tone which is a hallmark of North Korea’s regime.

It’s allegedly a propaganda video made by the North Korean government depicting life of the downtrodden proles in the United States.  Here in America we drink coffee made from snow (which is said to be in “abundance”), there are few birds because the starving masses living in tents have caught and eaten nearly all of them, dead bodies are piled up all over the place, Potemkin-ish cities disguised to look like those of Eastern Europe, unsuccessful Republican candidates are reduced to scrounging in the garbage, and it’s only because of aid from North Korea that we’re ...

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It was built by the East German government in 1961.

It completely encircled what was then West Berlin.

It was one of the most tangible symbols of the Cold War.

It was declared by communists throughout the world that the wall would last forever.

I know of no better additional commentary that can possibly be made besides this picture of the chunk of the Berlin Wall that I have owned since 1993…

Read more about the Berlin Wall on Wikipedia....

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One of the people that in the long run has most influenced and impacted my political beliefs is, without a doubt, Matt Mittan: host of the extremely popular show Take A Stand! on the radio and streaming on the Internet every Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. I count myself as a very fortunate person for getting to work under Matt when he was the editor of The Asheville Tribune. And I’ll never forget the first time I came into his office and he showed me what his weekly newsmagazine was all about…

“Most people think of the political spectrum like this,” he said, drawing a horizontal line on a dry erase board and labeling the ends “liberal” and “conservative”. “But that’s wrong,” Matt went on. “It’s really like this!” And he then drew another line: this one going up and down, with the state/government ...

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On July 24th, 1959, one of the more unusual events of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union took place. At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, visiting U.S. Vice-President (and future President) Richard Nixon accompanied Russian Premier Nikia Krushchev on a tour of a model “typical” American house, complete with all the modern conveniences of the late Fifties. It was meant to be a goodwill gesture on the part of both countries… but soon devolved (or escalated) into a rambunctious argument between Nixon and Krushchev about the pros and cons of their respective countries’ systems of capitalism and communism. The impromptu discussion reached its climax in the kitchen of the model house, where Nixon enthusiastically pointed out American household appliances such as an automatic dishwasher.

And so it was that the “Kitchen Debate” received its more-or-less formal moniker.

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You know what I find most ironic about this essay?

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

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First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the

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