America-- The Party Plan

As I said-- it was a public service announcement Yep, the communists are alive, well, in America--and disguising themselves in other parties...The rhetoric is amazing, I will cheerfully admit. And it sounds very familiar--though we are used to hearing it slightly toned down, from different voices. I'm all for freedom of speech, myself-- I'm currently polishing a discussion on the first Amendment, in all its glory--but I agree, they are over the top at cpusa. But people listen, believe and act (not that they understand the consequences) so the rest of us have to know what we are dealing with. You don't keep the weasels out of the chicken coop by ignoring their existence...

The communists and the Nazis were of the same ilk. Massive government promising utopia to the masses. Man throwing aside God and His blessings, for a government/rulers who merely promise to bless. I agree, the idolatry will end only when the LORD returns. Trouble is, HE will judge righteously and our understanding of 'social justice' will do us no good.

As one of those "old people", I will say this-- I have no issues with any form of responsible government-- that works. Once you have lived history, and also studied a lot of history from all sides, you see that these "progressive" ideas--don't work. And we old folks do care about our future--far more than the young. You have never been "old"--on the other hand, we were young once. We have a sense of both maturity and perspective that most young people don't by virtue of our wider experience base. We have seen what works, and what doesn't. One of the advantages of growing older is learning to see the long term consequences of actions, be they legal, political, environmental, religious. While a lot of old folks still make mistakes, our mistakes are different then those we made as young folks--because we learned, and grew. When you are young, and you don't have a lot of past experience to base things on, you also don't think forward as well as when you are older, you don't look as hard at what the consequences of your actions today will be on your life ten years, twenty years down the road-- it isn't "important". You live much more in the "now" than in the "future"--and your vision of the future is what you would like it to be--which, a few years down the road, usually turns out to be inaccurate. The men who founded this country--who sought independence from Great Britain, who fought battles in courts of law and public opinion, and on the streets and in the forests of the eastern U.S., were largely old folks. The men who wrote our Declaration, read it aloud, wrote our Constitution, were also old folks for their time, and many lived to what are still advanced ages. And they built something special, that has lasted quite a while now. It's far from perfect, but until relatively recently--about 1969-1970-- for the most part it worked. Not without problems, not without pain, not without injustice-- but it worked. What CPUSA and other parties like it promote has never worked, anywhere, for anywhere near as long as this has--and in the short time it has "worked" places-- it hasn't worked well. People who care about the future in reality, take something that is already built and works OK, and work together in practical ways to make it work better. Tearing it down to build something that doesn't work is like a child, tearing apart a functional toy, and ending up trying to rebuild it--which doesn't work well.

I've heard some 'young' folks who have come here from Stalinist Russia and communist ruled China and they warn that Americans don't know what they're asking for.

well, if you compare the cpusa platform to the platform of a certain other party--which shall remain nameless--you might be surprised at the similar, and in cases identical, rhetoric and agenda. These guys have been working on this openly, since 1963-- and they are not exaggerating when they say their people deserve some kudos for the way things are going. While they are on occasion nutballs, you might also want to check out www.nationalreview.com They have a columnist named stanley kurtz who is worth reading, on occasion. He's not as much of a right wing nutball as most, and usually has his facts straight. cpusa is a website I check on regularly, due to some of their union and ACORN affiliations-- like you, I prefer not having too many of them in office, nor do I want one in the highest office. Unfortunately, they also have a habit of switching their party affiliation when they run for higher offices--so they can get elected to them. That is the disturbing part of the whole party, is their willingness to and eagerness to hide their agenda within our mainstream parties. You should find the website disturbing--any right minded American would. The problem is most Americans don't even know it's THERE. They see cpusa candidates on every ballot, and don't even think to wonder "what is this cpusa--maybe I should check it out". Thanks for replying, by the way. My discussions tend to get politely ignored until someone decides to take a closer look-- and I don't write a discussion unless I feel something should be seen...I think they call this tacit censorship