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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…

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I wasn’t surprised at all by the results of yesterday’s elections.  Decades of watching this sort of thing have deeply impressed this upon me: that people in densely populated areas almost always vote for the candidates who will cause the most harm.  I’ve heard various reasons why this is so.  It all pretty much comes down to stupidity in numbers.  People in big cities like New York and Chicago have itching ears for the candidates who can smooth-talk them with promises of good times and never-ending benefits.

Zohran Mamdani is going to be mayor of New York City for the next four years.  I have never seen an American candidate so ill-fitted to be put in charge of a major metropolitan area.  It seems that New York has already forgotten the lessons of 9/11.  Mamdani is a Muslim extremist who cavorts around those who cheered on Osama Bin Laden.  Mamdani ...

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To be honest, I had never heard of Zohran Mamdani until this week.  But what I’ve learned in the past few days scares me and it should scare you too.

For anyone reading this who doesn’t know yet, Mamdani just became the Democratic nominee for the office of mayor of New York City.

Here is what Zohran Mamdani is about (partial listing)…

– He is openly Marxist

– He hates Jews

– He sympathizes with the same mentality that brought about 9/11 and a lot of other acts of terrorism

– He wants to fund illegal aliens and provide them with sanctuary (as if that’s not bad enough already)

– He wants a $30 minimum wage by 2030 (which would DESTROY many if not most small businesses)

– He wants to channel funding that SHOULD go to the police department and instead pay for “social workers”, the result of which ...

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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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So help me, I’m going to show this cartoon from almost eighty years ago until I’m blue in the face, if that’s what it takes to stop people from drinking Ism!

It was in 2009 when I first came across “Make Mine Freedom”, a 1948 educational film produced by Harding College.  I was immediately struck by how prophetic this animated short was.  How it warned against the dangers of socialism.  “Ism” is a blight that corrupts and destroys everything that it touches.

Not for the first time, not for the last, there are people in this country trying to sell “Ism” to us.  But it is a bitter elixir that will do naught but poison us and rob us and our children of precious liberty.

America
is not perfect.  It never has been.  It never will be.  We have made
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Just posted a new article on my Substack.  Several times this past week I’ve been asked if I’m applying for President Biden’s student loan relief program.

And every time I’ve said no.

Those were MY student loans.  I took them out.  They’re for me to make good on. Not the government.

One day, I will have them paid in full.  And it will not be with any “help” from Biden.

Here’s the link to the article.

Bipolar disorder cost me careers, opportunities, a marriage even.  But I will not let it stop me from having this victory.  It may not be for decades still… but it will be mine and God’s.

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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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This past weekend was spent semi-unplugged.  Heck I didn’t know that Miami had beaten UNC for the ACC Basketball Tournament title until late last night!  Since all that mess was happening in Greensboro I drove a hunnerd miles the opposite direction on 220 to do ballroom dancing and general geek-ery with my girlfriend.

But even so, I have been following the mess in Cyprus, where the government is poisoned to confiscate 10% of everyone’s bank accounts in an attempt to get bailed out of the monetary mess of its own manufacture.  So much commentary could be made of this: the failure of socialism, the complete failure of the Eurozone as anything remotely a feasible concept, the failure of policies that can only lead to hyper-inflation, the failure to rein-in the “banksters” (i.e. those who see banking as not a sacred trust but an exploitable resource), the failure to hold those ...

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It’s the biggest financial bailout of a single country in history. I’m already hearing that the International Monetary Fund won’t have enough coin to put Greece back on firm footing again (if it even had that). No doubt the IMF will soon afterward be coming to the United States government for Americans to pay “our fair share” of Europe’s debt crisis.

But that’s not what compels me to write about Greece’s woes at the moment, friends and neighbors…

Greece is now forced to look at “demobilizing” much of its public sector jobs, which makes up A THIRD of that country’s workforce!

This has not gone over well with many of the natives, who have responded with angry protests throughout that nation.

And I find it very easy to envision the United States following much the same track toward economic disaster.

Our own government is too big, too unwieldy, ...

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