September 2, 2023
In a little-noticed Congressional skirmish from earlier this year, something remarkable — but hardly surprising — occurred. If anything was a defining moment in these degenerated times, this was it. Florida Representative Maria Elvira Salazar, daughter of Cuban exiles, introduced a House resolution: Denouncing the horrors of socialism. House Concurrent Resolution 9 passed on February 2, 2023 with a vote of 328-86. 14 Democrats voted present, 106 voted for the resolution, while 86 voted opposed. All Republicans voted in favor. The resolution clarifies that opposition to socialist policies does not include existing federal programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
Its 445 words are straightforward:
Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships;
Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide;
Whereas many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolas Maduro;
Whereas tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at least 10,000,000 people were sent to the gulags in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and millions more starved in the Terror-Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine;
Whereas between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved to death in the wake of famine and devastation caused by the Great Leap Forward in China;
Whereas the socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely murdered;
Whereas up to 3,500,000 people have starved in North Korea, dividing a land of freedom from a land of destitution;
Whereas the Castro regime in Cuba expropriated the land of Cuban farmers and the businesses of Cuban entrepreneurs, stealing their possessions and their livelihoods, and exiling millions with nothing but the clothes on their backs;
Whereas the implementation of socialism in Venezuela has turned a once-prosperous nation [the most prosperous in South America] into a failed State with the world's highest rate of inflation;
Whereas the author of the Declaration of Independence, President Thomas Jefferson, wrote, “To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.”;
Whereas the “Father of the Constitution,” President James Madison, wrote that it “is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest”; and
Whereas the United States of America was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America.
You already know where this is headed: it went to the Senate to die: February 7, 2023: “Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.” Crickets ever since. But this was no surprise on the part of the operators of the DC J6 gulag, who count the RINO sentators as fellow travelers.
In denouncing the resolution, Maxine Waters, congressional poster child for demagoguery, inciting violence, and aligning with communist front groups, argued in her comments from the House floor:
This resolution today, in fact, does nothing except spread lies and fear about a threat that does not even exist. The rightwing extremists who are running this House have forced my committee to consider as its very first piece of legislation a bill that tries to say that our country will collapse in ruin because of—wait for it—Social Security.
Illustrating the decline in the new House Democratic caucus, consider former leader Steny Hoyer’s floor ambiguous comments in support of the resolution to condemn socialism/communism:
Mr. Speaker, I rise to lament the failure today to consider a resolution which would reflect the overwhelming consensus in this House: that capitalism, not socialism, has proven to be the very best economic system. It is the most effective system to create dynamic economies and incentivize individual innovation, entrepreneurship, and risk-taking to achieve economic security and success. Such a resolution would [past tense] have brought us together. It would give confidence to our fellow citizens that we are united in our support of our Democratic capitalist system.
The resolution before us today, however, does not do that. Instead, it is an intellectually bankrupt screed of political demagoguery. All it aims to do is to divide and distract this institution and this country. It is a political gotcha and a distraction from the real issues that face the American people.
The first part of Hoyer’s comments are legitimate, and likely sincere. The second part consists of an obligatory bone thrown to his party’s radical element. There is nothing in the resolution remotely demagogic. It sticks to facts.
In contrast to Hoyer, current Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is simply a communist (masquerading as a “social democrat”), as are many in his caucus, especially its youngest members. Jeffries railed against the resolution and was the one engaging in demagoguery, aligning the resolution with policies appearing nowhere in its text:
They’re bringing to the floor of the House of Representatives today a resolution on socialism, to condemn some dictators that we all condemn. But understand the goal of this phony, fake, and fraudulent resolution is just to somehow provide cover for extreme MAGA Republicans to try to undermine an agenda that is designed to lift up the health, safety, and well-being of the American people.
Why do we know this? Because going all the way back to the days of FDR, through Harry Truman, into President Kennedy, through President Johnson, all the way up until President Clinton and President Obama and President Biden. They’ve called things like Social Security, socialism. Medicare: socialism. Extreme MAGA Republicans have called public education socialism, Medicaid, socialism. The Affordable Care Act. Socialism. The American Rescue Plan, socialism.
Jeffries must have read a different resolution than the one that was debated. But this is a perfect depiction of the modern Democratic Party. It should be renamed the Demagogic Party because it subsists entirely on a diet of lies. From the White House on down, ts only strategy is to lie to its base regarding reality and the nature of Republicans’ policies. Scream “extreme MAGA Republicans.” Throw in some noises about “white supremacists.” Rinse and repeat.
The resolution ultimately passed, with every Republican and 109 Democrats voting in favor. How many of those 109 represent swing districts is unknown, but some may have voted in favor under duress. Vote totals are here. The floor debate record is here.
While Hoyer voted against, Clyburn and Pelosi voted in favor. All three of these senior Democrats stepped down from their leadership roles at the end of the last Congress. They were replaced by a far more radical, openly communist younger generation. This vote only confirmed what has long been apparent. As meticulous researcher Trevor Loudon points out:
I would say there are 100 members of your House and 20 members of the U.S. Senate who are so enmeshed in neo-communism or Muslim Brotherhood front groups—or in many instances both—that they would have a hard time passing an FBI security check to even sell you stamps at the post office or drive a school bus, yet they’re serving on the Armed Services Committee, the Homeland Security Committee, the Judiciary Committee overseeing the FBI, the Intelligence Committee overseeing all 16 of your intelligence agencies. These are people basically working against America’s interests, and they can get away with it because there are no security checks in Congress whatsoever.
Class warfare comes in two flavors: from above and below. It leads to tyranny either way. It comes from above via the oligarchs present in every society. It comes from below through the communists/socialists striving to eliminate class distinctions. That these two factions should join together is unsurprising. They share a common opponent — the middle class. The socialists/marxists all crave wealth, no matter what they might claim. As soon as they acquire power, their first priority is always to help themselves to luxuries. Witness the BLM leadership. The reason they hate the ownership class is because they are covetous of the oligarchs’ wealth. Envy drives them, not any desire for equality.
Oligarchs have long (extending back millennia) used street mobs as their frontline forces. They come at an insignificant cost. 2020’s Summer of Love witnessed sanctioned riots/arson/looting. The intent was to set back the MAGA forces, to undermine social order. It backfired, but that was the intent. The oligarchs were more than happy to accommodate the rioters, perceived as a means of holding the vast MAGA army in check. Oligarchs fear the vast MAGA forces, an existential threat to their continued manipulations.
The last century saw repeated assaults from both directions, from above and below. While the communists and their dictatorships of the proletariat were busy enslaving Asia and various other outposts, the oligarchs were busy consolidating power and wealth elsewhere, especially across the scattered remnants of the British Empire. The globalist class is more than happy to do business in China, or any other tyrannical hell hole. Communists enslave by force; oligarchs enslave by debt, allowing their victims to retain an illusion of “freedom.”
While communism’s death toll is documented above, there has not been a comparable comprehensive effort to quantify the toll from oligarchic conflicts for profit. 400,000+ Ukrainian war dead are merely the latest victims. Almost half of that nation’s population has departed or died since America instigated its proxy war. Are Ukrainians better off than Chinese factory workers? The answer matters not to oligarchs, either way profits continue accumulating.
Hard questions need to be raised when you add in the civilian casualties from Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, etc.; along with the cost in American lives and limbs.
There is a third type of class war, also from below: populist revolts to throw off the yoke of oligarchic tyranny. The ongoing class war from below is not confined to America. It spans much of the former British Empire and Europe, and may eventually spread to China itself, now under control of the tyranny of an entitled oligarchy, pretending to be a marxist theocracy. China is a powder keg waiting to explode, with economic and demographic collapse baked into the cake, one step ahead of famine.
This century is in many ways becoming the mirror image of the previous one. As the pendulum reverses its swing, it begins gathering momentum, generating friction as old norms are superseded by new ones. Brexit, Blexit, Farage, Geert Wilders, Viktor Orban, Le Pen, Imran Khan, Bolsonaro, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Euroscepticism, etc. — and of course Trump — are symptomatic of a transitional era.
A previous transitional era saw Reagan, Thatcher, Harper, Pope John Paul II, and Lech Walesa simultaneously appear from stage right, and initiate a conservative, populist uprising against oppressive governments. Reagan: “The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.” It's happening again. Populism is spreading around the globe as elites prosper while everyone else suffers.
Then, as now, it was no coincidence that similar political movements simultaneously appeared in geographically remote regions. This is simply the esoteric manner in which grand historical cycles unfold. A similar transition occurred c. 1776-1800, with the American, French, etc. revolutions marking a widespread transition from monarchies to democracies and the start of a process which would eventually result in the abandonment of European colonies across the globe. Over a century was required for this transition to transpire.
Rome’s oligarchy was not vanquished the day Caesar stepped across the Rubicon. First his civil war followed, then his assassination, and finally Octavian’s civil war settled the matter. It is always a two-step affair. The first sortie by the populists, initial success, then regroupment on the part of the oligarchs; followed by a final, decisive thrust by the populists until they prevail. [You are here.] Until that final victory, political stability is lacking.
Continuing where Reagan, et al. left off, the tyranny of the few is being supplanted by populist movements. Standing in opposition are the WEF and its corporate partners. The ongoing global awakening is merely the second, and final, act of the movement which began in the 1980s. The infrastructure for two centuries of global peace and prosperity is now being installed. At this hour none will believe this, but it is true nonetheless. The party of, by, and for Big Government will be the first victim of this revolution.
To be continued . . .