What Fools These Liberals Be….

Ed Rogers posted an article in Jewish World Review, which was picked up and posted by the Washington Post and by my morning newspaper.  http://jewishworldreview.com/0518/ed_rogers051018.php3

In the article, he reports that Hillary Clinton whined that being a capitalist “probably” hurt her when campaigning against democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in 2016, that maybe she should have used the word socialist.

As he indicates, Republicans are chasing their tails, trying to avoid that ‘deer in the headlights” appearance and Democrats are wondering if they’ll have to answer questions about whether they support capitalism or socialism when 2020 campaign season comes up. He also takes a look at the current crop of millennials.

I’ve been wading through a biographical account of Ernest Hemingway’s involvement in spying for the nascent Soviet Union when he was a journalist in the USA and following events in Spain during the Franco Revolution, at the outbreak of World War II. It’s written by Nicholas Reynolds, (Writer, Sailor, Solider, Spy) a curator for the CIA’s museum (yes, they have one, but can you get tickets to it?) which follows Hemingway’s journey from the aftermath of the 1935 hurricane that whacked the Florida Keys and his discovery that War Bond soldiers who had been recruited to go to the Keys to do housing construction had not been evacuated, and almost all of them had died when the hurricane struck. He was outraged. He began to hate Roosevelt (a New Deal socialist if there ever was one) and was easily persuaded by the editor of The Masses, a Communist publication in the USA, to write articles for them – and later, to spy for the NKVD, the precursor to the KGB. At some point (I haven’t arrived there yet) he was also recruited by the OSS (pre-CIA) to work for them.

He spent time with the Castros during their ouster of Batista. He thought they were buddies. He believed Fidel when that goat told him he carried a copy of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ in his backpack. It  was not until Fidel Castro confiscated Hemingway’s beloved home La Finca in Havana and kicked him out of Cuba, that Ernest Hemingway, the brilliant author, WWI ambulance driver, and hard-driving war correspondent, realized that he had been hosed.

While Hemingway was being led around by the nose, mostly because his contacts knew how to feed his massive, expansive ego, Josef Stalin was executing anyone he perceived as a threat to his position. When he’d gotten rid of Trotsky,  he turned on his senior Army officers, which included Massiliev, the most senior and most experienced of them. This comes from Robert Conquest’s ‘The Terror: a Reassessment”, which I have only glanced through. Twelve senior, experienced, loyal Russian Army officers were executed, while Hitler was just beginning his rampage through Europe. The mass grave was found near St. Petersburg a while back.

Conquest wrote the first edition of ‘The Terror’ based on eye witness accounts. When the Iron Curtain fell, when the Soviet Union was disestablished, he went to Russia to research those accounts and provided back up for them in the ‘Reassessment” edition.

I think it’s a good idea to have both of these titles on your bookshelves. They are thoroughly researched works.

Why am I writing about this? Because the mind-numbingly blasé attitude of the socialist side of the millennial crowd is that it wasn’t done right. It isn’t done that way.

Wrong, kiddies. Very wrong.

Stalin did it exactly right: eliminate any and all who may even vaguely oppose you, quickly and thoroughly. All he needed was unquestioning obedience, which he got through fear, mass murder, forced labor at gulags, and starvation. Thanks to his embracing Lysenkoism and outright mass murder, 27,000,000 people died of starvation, execution, hard labor in the gulags, and just plain freezing to death.  Hitler did it right, putting Germany first, and slaughtering 14,o00,000++ German and European citizens, just because he could.  Mao Tse-Tung did it right, letting 30,000,000++ Chinese people starve. Why would he care? They breed like rabbits, don’t they? You always need more laborers. Pol Pot did it right: get rid of the older generations because they knew too much and resisted him and his Khmer Rouge. Ask the survivors of his rampages.

Ho Chi Minh was a Communist. He blackmailed the French at the end of the French-Indochina War into forking over ransom cash for their 15,000 prisoners of that war. He knew exactly how to do it right. The Viet Cong meant nothing to him, so he used them. That spilled over into the 1960s and became our war when Kennedy sent advisers to the South Vietnamese government, and you know the rest of that story. But it wasn’t really over. When the NVA rolled their tanks into Saigon in April, 1975, the city was rapidly being abandoned because the South Vietnamese knew what they’d face if they stayed. And that is what it is: a Communist country, following China’s economic model. You can run a business and make a profit and they love tourists there. But if you speak out against the government in anyway, you will be sent to a re-education camp, so shut up.

The point is that they ALL knew how to do it right: get rid of any people with opposing ideas, independent thoughts, etc., and squelch the rest through Pure Terror. That’s how it’s done right  (I can hear someone squawking now!) Ask Vlad Putin about it. He was the head of the KGB for a very long time.

As you’ll see when you read the article linked above, the millennials who belong to the Bright Idea Club all have these wunnaful-a, wunnaful-a ideas about things like a monthly stipend for everyone and guaranteed jobs – all things you get in a Communist world – but all cooked up with no idea where the money comes from to pay for these things. What they need is a harsh lesson in the reality that it creates. When have any of them gone hungry, frozen or exhausted from hard labor – ever?

When I watched the demise of the Soviet Union, when Mikhail Gorbachev was quoted on the news as saying “We can’t do this any more. We are broke,” and he dissolved the Politburo, I realized that there would be future generations who never had to face the possibility of missiles launched from Cuba toward their homes in the northern Midwest. And they would take this safety for granted.

Sometimes, I detest being right.

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