So....Calypso
Franklin.... ".... his extraordinary capacity for prevarication" on view.....he used the same methods that Caribbean Voodoo used to hide his true worship!
The object of Frnklin's worship?
Let's leave this happy land, the West Indies, for a moment and see a different land, where fakery was perfected:
Russia!
Let's review the Soviet machinations.....
7. In the early years after the Bolshevik Revolution, the communists used manipulations, such as
the Potemkin Villages, to persuade the world how admirable and successful the revolution had been. One technique was to invite prominent American and British leftists to take carefully planned tours. And these
‘Potemkin Progressives,’ for the most part, behaved and thought just as they were meant to. Woodrow Wilson wouldn’t recognize the Bolshevik regime, nor would the contemporary British government (Churchill had famously told Lloyd George, ‘You might a well legalize sodomy…’)
Roosevelt, as one of his first performances in office, recognized Russia.
a. Lenin, and then Stalin, carefully arranged the tours so that these progressives would then go back to their countries and praise Soviet Russia, and have the citizens demand that Russia be recognized.
8. Not everyone was fooled. English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge took the tour in the early 30’s, and wrote about
how gullible these Potemkin Progressives were.
“They are, unquestionably, one of the wonders of the age, that I shall treasure ‘til I die, as a blessed memory! The spectacle of them traveling, with radiant optimism through a famished countryside, wandering in happy bands about squalid overcrowded Soviet towns,
listening with unshakable faith to the fatuous patter of carefully trained and indoctrinated guides, repeating like schoolchildren a multiplication table, the bogus statistics and mindless slogans endlessly intoned to them.
There, I would think, an earnest office-holder in some local branch of the League of Nations Union, there a godly Quaker who once had tea with Gandhi, there an inveigher against the Means Test and the Blasphemy Laws, there a staunch upholder of free speech and human rights, there an indomitable preventer of cruelty to animals; there scarred and worthy veterans of a hundred battles for truth, freedom and justice--
all, all chanting the praises of Stalin and his Dictatorship of the Proletariat. It was as though a vegetarian society had come out with a passionate plea for cannibalism, or Hitler had been nominated posthumously for the Nobel Peace Prize."
Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes Author of Something Beautiful for God
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chanting the praises of Stalin and his Dictatorship of the Proletariat..." sounds deliciously like Calypso Franklin.
a. Muggeridge was mystified by
the naïveté of these progressives, the unbelievable credulity of these mostly university-educated ‘tourists’- and it astonished even the Soviet officials! “These fellow passengers provide my first experience of the progressive elites from all over the world, who attached themselves to the Soviet regime, resolved to believe anything they were told!
"...resolved to believe anything they were told!" There's an echo of Roosevelt, again.
b. Yuri Bezmenov, Soviet journalist, recounted,
no matter how outrageous the line of Soviet propaganda they fed them, they swallowed it!
So.....Roosevelt was a liar who believed greater liars!