Author: From a May 1937 Readers Digest; “Long Before the Communist revolution in Russia transferred power from Kerensky’s provisional government to Lenon, all rights in private property, industry, and commercial enterprises had been destroyed. Step by step the labor unions had seized the plants; in every city of Russia and in every industry, shop committees had taken over management.
What was Kerensky doing during this period? He was speaking on what he would do. He was seeking compromises. He was angling for a reunion of Socialist groups. He was secretly negotiating with conservatives and reactionaries. He was, in fact, doing nothing at all. He had created all the agencies of his own destruction, and they were at work. He had sought to be popular at the expense of righteous public morals. He had catered to the nether millions that he might listen to their cheers. Business men would make money, they felt, no matter what kind of politician was in power. In the end they had nothing. Their property, their human rights, even their lives were taken from them. The organized minority had focused its will on the seizure of property and government. The majority was engaged in every occupation but the defense of the rights of property and the rights of man. The minority smashed the majority because only the minority knew what it wanted. The majority was destroyed because it could not believe that it had to organize and fight to live.
They woke up later, but it was too late. Their chance lay in government by law when Kerensky was in power. They missed their chance to resist every suggestion of compromise while they still possessed power. To compromise, say, with a kidnapper, you dare not say of kidnapping, “Perhaps kidnapping is, after all, not altogether wrong.” Yet men will view crimes equally severe and say,”Well, maybe there is another side to this question.” From July, 1917 to March, 1918, I saw this process.
I have witnessed too many poisons mixed in the melting pot of compromise. When the sworn oath of office can become a subject for individual interpretation, when public officials ask themselves, “Must I serve the entire nation, or the pressure group that put me in power?”—-then the nation is bound to fail. Revolutions are successful when an organized minority discovers that the majority is split, is confused, is without vigilance. Then it is revolutionary tactics that will confound the majority by side issues, by beating the drums of progress and liberalism.
The minority plays upon distress, creates emergencies, ridicules fundamentals. And all sorts of people are taken in by these tricks and they bow to the golden calf of humane proposals. Too late they learn that this emphatic humanity is only a veneer, only a sham in the rise to power. The minority stand upon the shoulders of those whom they fool only as long as they need protection. When they are strong enough, they destroy the props that supported them. The American people do not yet realize that they are in the first stage of a revolution. Yet all experience with revolution shows that seizure of private property is the first major battle in the destruction of any government.” {NOTE; Spooky comparison, Mr. Sokolsky obviously had a firm grasp on history and of evil in human nature.
Do you see similarities today? I do. You would think he was writing about today! The tactics he wrote about are now being employed by ‘progressive democrats’ instead of Russians or unions, though I believe ‘progressives’ read from the same playbook. Obama has done nothing at all in his first year in office about jobs and the economy, what good is ‘health care’ to millions out of work, they want jobs! Obama has only catered to the far left pressure groups that put him in office. To be popular he is giving speeches almost daily to hear the cheers of the masses, as did Kerensky, and he has surrounded himself with appointed ‘czars’ who need not answer to the people, (something Congress must do something about) czar is Russian for ‘king.’ He has and is trying to take over private business/property on a scale that is unbelievable in scope, telling us all the time that it is the best thing for the country. Do you really believe that? I don’t.
I believe that Obama is doing his best to destroy this country in one term and that he doe’s not give a hoot in hell about a second term. He said on the campaign trail how great America is, and in the very next breath said he would make fundamental changes to America! Why would you want to change America if you think it is ‘great’? That should have tipped all of us off to his socialist agenda. He wants to treat terrorists like common criminals, give them lawyers and Constitutional rights and have us pay with taxes for their defense!
I view the ‘progressives’ as the minority trying to take over and tear down the very fabric of this nation through their lies and deceit. I view groups like the ACLU, ACORN, AARP, and the UNITED NATIONS as their accomplice’s undermining the core values and traditions of decent Americans by using our tax dollars against us, to prop themselves up as they propagate their attacks on our freedoms! The AARP is a little different, instead of using our tax dollars they take the money of their membership, the majority of which are conservative, and funnel it to the progressives without the memberships knowledge. If they found out, most would cancel their membership to AARP! The AARP was pushing Obama care hard!
If we do not study and learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. We need to cut the purse strings to ALL of these groups, that they may wither and die! This is an attack from within that we must recognize and fight before it is to late, as it was for the Russians. Thank God we are having mid term elections this November so that we may remove the progressive socialists that are bent on ruining our country.
After Scott Brown, many of them see the writing on the wall and are planning early retirement before the elections, GOOD RIDDANCE!! -Mark Shean- written 1-27-2010.
Now a note from a Founding Father; { “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”} Thomas Jefferson
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