How Did We Get From 'Then' To 'Now'?

[PoliticalChic]

Or….a remedial lesson for the ‘history challenged’….ie…Democrats.

The way the neo-Marxists, the Democrats, enlist the average working American today is to pretend it is still the early 20th century. Here’s how you learn about early modern America, when communism seemed practical.





1.I always loved the way John Dos Passos wrote about 20th century beginnings for America, and the great waves of immigration…I recommend the trilogy “USA.” One can grow up with America through that novel. But his novel “The Grand Design” offers an accurate critique of the error of believing the Karl Marx fantasy, and how American became disillusioned with Franklin Roosevelt’s flirting with communism.



2. In one passage we hear…and feel….the passion of the exploited working man willing to sign on to what many believed about Russia as Utopia for workers:

“Union? Mister you’re askin’ if we like the union.

‘Red? Mister, my mammy used to say I had red injun blood but mostly I’m red because I got so blame mad at the scabs an’ the lowdown way the Company treated us.

‘Preacher says we’re followin’ the red flag of Rooshia but I told him I’d foller the Devil’s flag into Hell if he’d give us decent livin’ an’ decent workin’. Only time we’re citizens in this man’s country is when some joker comes suckin’ around to be elected sheriff or governor or president or sumpen. They’ll promise the moon itself but all the time they got their mind on the mealticket.

If they don’t wanna strike lettem stay home. Brass knuckles an’

baseball bats is the medicine for scabs. The workin’ man’s got to stick together. The international workin’ class, tell me that’s where I swear my oath of allegiance. ‘I’m willin’ to take a chance on it, Mister. A workin’ man’s got to be a citizen of someplace, even if it’s Hell itself.’”




3. “Then” was the time for unions, for reform of working condition, for hope for the lower class. But the myth never was and never will be. History has proven it, from the Soviet Union, to Mao’s China, to the current Democrat Party.

“Now” is very different.



4. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



5. Then is very different from now. Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked.
Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.
“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “
Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib


To vote Democrat today is to enlist to fight a war that was won long ago, to claim as enemies those who aren't enemies..…the result of every totalitarian political scheme...communism, Fascism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Socialism or Nazism is ....serfs, slaves….or corpses.

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. During the early 20th century, there was a need for the sort of reforms for working Americas that communists promised. Believing the lies about the motherland of Marxism was nearly universal because most wanted to, needed to, believe them.
And the Bolsheviks used this need.



And the ‘believers’ became professors, and academics and ‘experts.’ You were fed the Leftist lies in every economics class.
In 1970 the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the author of the best-selling and most popular economics text was Paul Samuelson. Another 'brilliant' Liberal economist out to support communism, i.e., command and control by big government.


"As non-economist Tim Bethell pointed out in a 1988 article in National Review, successive editions of Samuelson's Economics showed a graph of relative growth rates for the US and Soviet economies with the Soviet growth rate rising more steeply than the American one. ....the Soviets were projected to overtake the US in about twenty-five years."
John O’Sullivan, The President, the Pope, And the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, p. 255

The 'data' was, of course, fed to this scholar by the same folks who built Potemkin Villages.

"With each new edition of the book, the date of intersection with the US economy was shifted out into the future. Samuelson's seventh edition (1967) ....put the Soviet economy at 50% of the US in 1960...with intersection ...in about 1990.
By the tenth edition (1976)....Soviet GDP had moved ahead to 57% of US........intersection point around the year 2000.

The graph has been dropped from Samuelson's ...(twelfth) edition.



BTW even after WWII believing the lies persisted.... "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable," wrote Samuelson in the tenth edition of his textbook "Economics." This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 1953 East German uprising, the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Poznan protests in Poland, the 1968 revolution in Czechoslovakia--all suppressed with bloodshed by Soviet tanks."
http://www.beichman.com/Articles/SAMUELSN.htm

Today, ‘believers’ vote Democrat.

Thinkers don't.

 

[danielpalos]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

 

[Crepitus]

Or….a remedial lesson for the ‘history challenged’….ie…Democrats.

The way the neo-Marxists, the Democrats, enlist the average working American today is to pretend it is still the early 20th century. Here’s how you learn about early modern America, when communism seemed practical.





1.I always loved the way John Dos Passos wrote about 20th century beginnings for America, and the great waves of immigration…I recommend the trilogy “USA.” One can grow up with America through that novel. But his novel “The Grand Design” offers an accurate critique of the error of believing the Karl Marx fantasy, and how American became disillusioned with Franklin Roosevelt’s flirting with communism.



2. In one passage we hear…and feel….the passion of the exploited working man willing to sign on to what many believed about Russia as Utopia for workers:

“Union? Mister you’re askin’ if we like the union.

‘Red? Mister, my mammy used to say I had red injun blood but mostly I’m red because I got so blame mad at the scabs an’ the lowdown way the Company treated us.

‘Preacher says we’re followin’ the red flag of Rooshia but I told him I’d foller the Devil’s flag into Hell if he’d give us decent livin’ an’ decent workin’. Only time we’re citizens in this man’s country is when some joker comes suckin’ around to be elected sheriff or governor or president or sumpen. They’ll promise the moon itself but all the time they got their mind on the mealticket.

If they don’t wanna strike lettem stay home. Brass knuckles an’

baseball bats is the medicine for scabs. The workin’ man’s got to stick together. The international workin’ class, tell me that’s where I swear my oath of allegiance. ‘I’m willin’ to take a chance on it, Mister. A workin’ man’s got to be a citizen of someplace, even if it’s Hell itself.’”




3. “Then” was the time for unions, for reform of working condition, for hope for the lower class. But the myth never was and never will be. History has proven it, from the Soviet Union, to Mao’s China, to the current Democrat Party.

“Now” is very different.



4. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



5. Then is very different from now. Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked.
Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.
“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “
Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib


To vote Democrat today is to enlist to fight a war that was won long ago, to claim as enemies those who aren't enemies..…the result of every totalitarian political scheme...communism, Fascism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Socialism or Nazism is ....serfs, slaves….or corpses.

Who writes this crap for you?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Or….a remedial lesson for the ‘history challenged’….ie…Democrats.

The way the neo-Marxists, the Democrats, enlist the average working American today is to pretend it is still the early 20th century. Here’s how you learn about early modern America, when communism seemed practical.





1.I always loved the way John Dos Passos wrote about 20th century beginnings for America, and the great waves of immigration…I recommend the trilogy “USA.” One can grow up with America through that novel. But his novel “The Grand Design” offers an accurate critique of the error of believing the Karl Marx fantasy, and how American became disillusioned with Franklin Roosevelt’s flirting with communism.



2. In one passage we hear…and feel….the passion of the exploited working man willing to sign on to what many believed about Russia as Utopia for workers:

“Union? Mister you’re askin’ if we like the union.

‘Red? Mister, my mammy used to say I had red injun blood but mostly I’m red because I got so blame mad at the scabs an’ the lowdown way the Company treated us.

‘Preacher says we’re followin’ the red flag of Rooshia but I told him I’d foller the Devil’s flag into Hell if he’d give us decent livin’ an’ decent workin’. Only time we’re citizens in this man’s country is when some joker comes suckin’ around to be elected sheriff or governor or president or sumpen. They’ll promise the moon itself but all the time they got their mind on the mealticket.

If they don’t wanna strike lettem stay home. Brass knuckles an’

baseball bats is the medicine for scabs. The workin’ man’s got to stick together. The international workin’ class, tell me that’s where I swear my oath of allegiance. ‘I’m willin’ to take a chance on it, Mister. A workin’ man’s got to be a citizen of someplace, even if it’s Hell itself.’”




3. “Then” was the time for unions, for reform of working condition, for hope for the lower class. But the myth never was and never will be. History has proven it, from the Soviet Union, to Mao’s China, to the current Democrat Party.

“Now” is very different.



4. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



5. Then is very different from now. Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked.
Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.
“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “
Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib


To vote Democrat today is to enlist to fight a war that was won long ago, to claim as enemies those who aren't enemies..…the result of every totalitarian political scheme...communism, Fascism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Socialism or Nazism is ....serfs, slaves….or corpses.

Who writes this crap for you?

John Roderigo Dos Passos (/dɒsˈpæsəs, -sɒs/;[1][2] January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy.

Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture. During World War I, he was an ambulance driver for American volunteer groups in Paris and Italy, before joining the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

In 1920, his first novel, One Man's Initiation: 1917, was published, and in 1925, his novel Manhattan Transfer became a commercial success. His U.S.A. trilogy, which consists of the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936), was ranked by the Modern Library in 1998 as 23rd of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Written in experimental, non-linear form, the trilogy blends elements of biography and news reports to paint a landscape of early 20th-century American culture.

Beyond his writing, Dos Passos is known for his shift in political views. Following his experiences in World War I, he became interested in socialism and pacifism, which also influenced his early work. In 1928, he traveled to the Soviet Union, curious about its social and political experiment, though he left with mixed impressions. His experiences during the Spanish Civil War led to disillusionment about left-wing politics while also severing his relationship with fellow writer Ernest Hemingway. By the 1950s, his political views had changed dramatically, and he had become more conservative. In the 1960s, he campaigned for presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and Richard M. Nixon.

As an artist, Dos Passos created his own cover art for his books, influenced by modernism in 1920s Paris. He died in Baltimore, Maryland. Spence's Point, his Virginia estate, was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1971.

John Dos Passos - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If only you had an education, huh?

 

[danielpalos]

Or….a remedial lesson for the ‘history challenged’….ie…Democrats.

The way the neo-Marxists, the Democrats, enlist the average working American today is to pretend it is still the early 20th century. Here’s how you learn about early modern America, when communism seemed practical.





1.I always loved the way John Dos Passos wrote about 20th century beginnings for America, and the great waves of immigration…I recommend the trilogy “USA.” One can grow up with America through that novel. But his novel “The Grand Design” offers an accurate critique of the error of believing the Karl Marx fantasy, and how American became disillusioned with Franklin Roosevelt’s flirting with communism.



2. In one passage we hear…and feel….the passion of the exploited working man willing to sign on to what many believed about Russia as Utopia for workers:

“Union? Mister you’re askin’ if we like the union.

‘Red? Mister, my mammy used to say I had red injun blood but mostly I’m red because I got so blame mad at the scabs an’ the lowdown way the Company treated us.

‘Preacher says we’re followin’ the red flag of Rooshia but I told him I’d foller the Devil’s flag into Hell if he’d give us decent livin’ an’ decent workin’. Only time we’re citizens in this man’s country is when some joker comes suckin’ around to be elected sheriff or governor or president or sumpen. They’ll promise the moon itself but all the time they got their mind on the mealticket.

If they don’t wanna strike lettem stay home. Brass knuckles an’

baseball bats is the medicine for scabs. The workin’ man’s got to stick together. The international workin’ class, tell me that’s where I swear my oath of allegiance. ‘I’m willin’ to take a chance on it, Mister. A workin’ man’s got to be a citizen of someplace, even if it’s Hell itself.’”




3. “Then” was the time for unions, for reform of working condition, for hope for the lower class. But the myth never was and never will be. History has proven it, from the Soviet Union, to Mao’s China, to the current Democrat Party.

“Now” is very different.



4. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



5. Then is very different from now. Once, the rich rode in carriages, the rest of the people walked.
Today both ride in cars, whether or not they are all the same model.
“Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants. “
Cochrane's Questions About Inequality - Econlib


To vote Democrat today is to enlist to fight a war that was won long ago, to claim as enemies those who aren't enemies..…the result of every totalitarian political scheme...communism, Fascism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Socialism or Nazism is ....serfs, slaves….or corpses.

Who writes this crap for you?

She really just needs a full body massage with Happy ending to be Happier.

 

[22lcidw]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

Our welfare clause was brilliantly used by the establishment and elitists who have massive power on us. On just one agenda with many tentacles we are well in our 6th decade of just The War on Poverty! Concepts and suckerism can be intertwined. And the worst thing is it destroys tens of millions of people involved in it and outside of it and then they end up in it

 

[schmidlap]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

Ideological fanatics are often doctrinaire dogmatists, constantly enraged by the reality that self-governance is a pragmatic matter, democratically determined (despite the rare goon attack upon our Congress to defeat it) by the will of the People.

 

[schmidlap]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

Our welfare clause was brilliantly used by the establishment and elitists who have massive power on us. On just one agenda with many tentacles we are well in our 6th decade of just The War on Poverty! Concepts and suckerism can be intertwined. And the worst thing is it destroys tens of millions of people involved in it and outside of it and then they end up in it

Despite the chronic malcontents and a plethora of challenges, the democratic will guides our self-governance.

 

[danielpalos]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

Our welfare clause was brilliantly used by the establishment and elitists who have massive power on us. On just one agenda with many tentacles we are well in our 6th decade of just The War on Poverty! Concepts and suckerism can be intertwined. And the worst thing is it destroys tens of millions of people involved in it and outside of it and then they end up in it

All we really needed the whole time was equal protection of the laws. Besides, with the perspective of history, it is easier to distinguish the cognitive dissonance of black codes and an alleged war on poverty.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

p fanatics are often doctrinaire dogmatists, constantly enraged by the reality that self-governance is a pragmatic matter, democratically determined (despite the rare goon attack upon our Congress to defeat it) by the will of the People.

Dos Passos personified same....

Dos Passos is known for his shift in political views. Following his experiences in World War I, he became interested in socialism and pacifism, which also influenced his early work. In 1928, he traveled to the Soviet Union, curious about its social and political experiment, though he left with mixed impressions. His experiences during the Spanish Civil War led to disillusionment about left-wing politics while also severing his relationship with fellow writer Ernest Hemingway. By the 1950s, his political views had changed dramatically, and he had become more conservative.



If only you were capable of learning.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

Our welfare clause was brilliantly used by the establishment and elitists who have massive power on us. On just one agenda with many tentacles we are well in our 6th decade of just The War on Poverty! Concepts and suckerism can be intertwined. And the worst thing is it destroys tens of millions of people involved in it and outside of it and then they end up in it

Despite the chronic malcontents and a plethora of challenges, the democratic will guides our self-governance.

Don't worry....I'm here to help you:


The Founders, classical liberals, conservatives
a. individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
“free markets, free voices, free people”

Fascists, Nazis, Liberals, Progressives, Socialists, Communists, Democrats
b. the collective, command and control regulation of private industry, and overarching government that can order every aspect of the private citizen's life....right down to control of his thoughts and speech.


None of the totalitarian forms of political plague have the slightest concern for human life: not communism (gulags), not Nazism (concentration camps), not Liberalism (abortion), not Progressivism (eugenics), not socialism (theft), not fascism (murder).

The Democrats check every one of those boxes.



They only differ in the final outcome: slavery, serfdom, or death.

They all follow Trotsky: "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life."

 

[PoliticalChic]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

Our welfare clause was brilliantly used by the establishment and elitists who have massive power on us. On just one agenda with many tentacles we are well in our 6th decade of just The War on Poverty! Concepts and suckerism can be intertwined. And the worst thing is it destroys tens of millions of people involved in it and outside of it and then they end up in it

"Our welfare clause was brilliantly used by the establishment and elitists who have massive power on us."


They simply lied about its meaning and interpretation.


Democrats lie about everything.

 

[Dadoalex]

Or….a remedial lesson for the ‘history challenged’….ie…Democrats.

The way the neo-Marxists, the Democrats, enlist the average working American today is to pretend it is still the early 20th century. Here’s how you learn about early modern America, when communism seemed practical.





...

From the land of "It's still 1960" and MAWA - Make America White Again

BWAHAHAHAHA

The irony combined with the complete lack of self awareness is hilarious!

 

[danielpalos]

Our welfare clause is General; there is no contingency it can't cover.

Right wingers simply don't understand the concepts.

p fanatics are often doctrinaire dogmatists, constantly enraged by the reality that self-governance is a pragmatic matter, democratically determined (despite the rare goon attack upon our Congress to defeat it) by the will of the People.

Dos Passos personified same....

Dos Passos is known for his shift in political views. Following his experiences in World War I, he became interested in socialism and pacifism, which also influenced his early work. In 1928, he traveled to the Soviet Union, curious about its social and political experiment, though he left with mixed impressions. His experiences during the Spanish Civil War led to disillusionment about left-wing politics while also severing his relationship with fellow writer Ernest Hemingway. By the 1950s, his political views had changed dramatically, and he had become more conservative.



If only you were capable of learning.

Our Founding Fathers did an excellent job at the convention with our federal Constitution and supreme law of the land.

This is what we are supposed to be doing with our form of federal Government:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. Throughout the book, 'The Grand Design,' there are hints in the dialogue, that FDR's efforts may not lead where the well-intentioned intended.




“… The trouble with bein’ a dogooder is you find yourself in some strange company … Times I’ve shelled out for some humanitarian purpose I’ve found I was doin’ more harm than good mor’n once right to the people I was tryin’ to help … “

‘I don’t object to your principles,’ Nat shouted after McConnell who had dodged out of the way smiling and stood behind Marice’s chair. ‘What worries me is the way you idealists work it out in detail … Half the time you get the opposite results.’





“The minute they were out of the door walking across the too green grass of the

Mall in the stagnant afternoon heat, he started to talk. What was worrying him in this business, he explained scowling, was that there seemed to be something incommensurable between what went on in the agency office—the policy level— and what went on in the field. We had in government today, at least that was his guess, the most well intentioned crowd of people since the very early days of Washington and Jefferson.



There were hundreds like him. … something that was not entirely selfinterest.



Anyway grant ’em all a hundred percent patriotism from the gentleman in the White House down and the best possible plan of operations that could be braintrusted out and you would still have this gap between the plans at the policy level and the poor devil in the field being moved around by forces too big for him to understand.

In a business, no matter how huge, Standard Oil say, the problem was simple. The aim was to make money. You could tell, at least a good accountant could tell, what every smallest branch was doing. But the aim of government enterprise was presumably to secure the well- being of the population. That wasn’t so easy. Did she think reform ought to start at the bottom instead of the top? He didn’t wait for her to answer. ‘I know those poor whites like my own kin,’ he said. ‘They are my kind of people. I feel humiliated for them. For some reason it humiliates people to be helped by a government agency. These damn dogooders are always sticking their fingers in people’s sores. Sometimes I think they enjoy it … I went down there to explain to the men in the field what we’re planning up here and I came back confused and humiliated … Are we going at this thing the wrong way?’



“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

~ Ronald Reagan

 

[PoliticalChic]

8. An interesting discussion between two of the book’s characters that’s about the socialism of the New Deal. The proponent of government farms, similar to Obama’s exchanges, stops in at an independent farm owner, who is doing well.....and gets a lesson on capitalism.



‘Hullo Ed … Mr. Graves meet Mr. Hodgins,’ shouted Gibbs. ‘Ed we’re inspectin’ our little resettlement project an’ we thought we’d look in to see what the malefactors of great wealth were up to.’ ‘You’ve come to the wrong place Gibbs,’ Hodgins said quietly. Then he turned genially to Paul. ‘Mr. Dupee here, he can’t forgive me because I’m doin’ the same thing he’s doin’, only what I do don’t cost the taxpayer a cent. In fact I make money and pay taxes on it. That’s treason to the New Dealers. Talk about resettlement. Well I’ve resettled four tenants on the ruins of an old family plantation. I sell ’em the farms and buy their milk from ’em. I got a boy come over from Georgia, can’t even read and write, in five years he’s bought his place and a herd of pretty fair milkin’ cows and now he has twentyfive hundred dollars in the bank and I’ve made a profit on him right along. Of course I wouldn’t be expandin’ my business if it weren’t that the wars and rumors of wars were buildin’ up employment in the valley so that folks have money to buy more milk than they did.’

As he talked he led the way into a big white airconditioned dairy building back of the barn. A young man in blue overalls brought them out icecold buttermilk in paper cups. ‘No,’ Hodgins went on. ‘I want to see your project succeed. There’s an element in this country that can’t help themselves. If the government can manage to show them the way to get on their own feet I’m all for it … after all milk is milk and that’s what we need to raise healthy kids the wide world over.’

‘Suppose our cooperative undercuts your prices?’ asked the Reverend Green in his sharp voice. Hodgins laughed quietly.

‘You try,’ he said. ‘Why, if you gave it away, I’ll still have a better product and a market for it.’ ‘Why?’ asked Paul. ‘Because everybody’s business is nobody’s business,’ said Hodgins dryly.”



Can I get an 'Amen!'


That’s what my father would have said.’ Her voice was low and almost apologetic. ‘Who was your father, Facts and Figures?’ ‘He was a college professor … He was a belated nineteenth century liberal of the Manchester school.’”

 

[danielpalos]

...not enough women actually believe in equality?

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. There is one way in which the ‘then’ is the ‘now.’ Dos Passos provides insight into how common, how widespread, the identification and association with communists and communism was then….and it has morphed into the current Democrat Party.

The Soviet Union was ally and provider of resources to Hitler.....until June 21, 1941.
Until that time FDR and American workers were pro-Bolshevik.



First was the fear of Hitler’s march across Europe, driving Americans into partnering with Soviet Communism:

‘They’ll fight when they’re ready. This reign of terror, this crazy anti-Semitism is already spreading through Europe like a plague. Glenn understood it and he gave his life to stop the spread of that plague.’ He had to blink fast to get the tears out of his eyes. ‘Tough, tough, it must have been tough on you old man …’ Charley’s kind face was pursed up with sympathy. ‘He was no communist. He died a soldier in the cause of decency, of Christian civilization … The least I can do is to give what few years I may have left to carrying on the good work. The American people have got to be awakened. It was a wrench I can tell you to leave Geneva.’

‘We all got to sacrifice in wartime,’ ….We’ve all got to make sacrifices.’ He talked faster and faster in a low mumbling voice. ‘Those Russians they’ve made sacrifices … You ought to go to Russia, Paul. I think the President has something in mind for you in that connection, not now but later … Are they fighting this war to spread communism?’ He waited breathing hard for Paul to answer, then he shuffled his feet and went on emphatically: ‘They are not. They are fighting to repel a barbarous invasion. They have sacrificed their private notions of what sort of world they want to build to the common business of killing Germans …”



They were seen as enemies of our enemies. Yet to Democrat voters, we’re still allied with communists: the Democrat Party today stands for everything the Bolsheviks did,



"MARXISTS AND EXTREME RADICALS SEEK TO TAKE OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
DNC chairman Tom Perez said Democratic Socialists of America member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “represents the future of our party.”

DSA chapter chairs have agreed that “communism is good.”

One DSA caucus calls its members “revolutionary Marxists.”

A far-left group behind rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rife with Marxists and other far-left radicals.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which includes Ocasio-Cortez, is creeping its way into the mainstream of American politics.

What Perez didn’t mention is that the group behind “the future” of the Democratic Party is teeming with radicals openly dedicated to dismantling and overturning the economic and social foundations of the United States."
Marxists And Extreme Radicals Seek To Take Over The Democratic Party

Marxists And Extreme Radicals Seek To Take Over The Democratic Party​

The Democratic Socialists of America behind rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rife with Marxists and other far-left radicals.
dailycaller.com

 

[danielpalos]

There are simply not enough morals to go around on the right-wing for a Commune of Heaven on Earth.