Leftists in the United States love to label conservatives as Nazis, not because we wear  jack boots and march through the streets burning stores run by Americans of Jewish descent as the Nazis did, but because we do not agree with their philosophy of life.  Yet, what they miss, what we miss, is that the Nazis, The National Socialist Party, of Hitler’s Germany and the socialists and communists of our own left  are very much the same. They both base their creeds on the words of Karl Marx and Joseph Engels.  The basic traits of these leftists are those of the fascists which have long been considered far right.

But let’s look at the facts, or as Joe Biden prefers, the truth.  It is not the right who wear masks in order to beat up reporters, conservatives exiting Trump rallies, or the elderly wearing MAGA hats.  It is the left.  The mask-covered faces are reminiscent of the KKK, who went about their business during the day, good, upright, racist citizens, and then hid their identity during their nightly cross burnings, beatings, and hangings of blacks.  How is Antifa different except that their victims are politically different rather than racially different?  How is their burning of cars, smashing windows of businesses, and looting in “practice of their free speech” to protest a conservative President being elected or a conservative speaker arriving on campus any different from  the Nazis who broke so many windows of Jewish businesses on one night alone that that night is called “Kristallnacht.”  The Nazis hated the Jews.  The American left hates conservatives, especially evangelical Christian conservatives.  There is little difference here except for semantics.

The problem in America is the same one that faced many Jews in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and other countries that were soon overrun by the Germans.  They could not believe that the worst could happen.  They could not visualize that their friends and neighbors would turn on them, that their governments would basically criminalize them, looting their homes of all valuable artwork and jewelry and carting them off in cattle cars to concentration camps and eventual execution for the sole crime of being who they were.  

Conservative Americans, Independents, and moderate Democrats cannot envision an America where free speech (protected by our Constitution) is punished, and yet already the vast majority of young Americans believe that “hate speech” is not protected under the Constitution.  We who are older or more familiar with the Bill of Rights, know that any speech other than seditious speech (speaking to overthrow  the government) is absolutely protected, whether some find it offensive or not.  The problem, of course, is a logical one:  what is “hate speech?”  In today’s world, the Left changes the rules daily.  Such innocuous and innocent things as the OK sign and the words “pillow fight” and mathematics have become white supremacist according to the left.  Sorry, folks, but while I am most certainly NOT a white supremacist (you would have to look harder than you think  to find one), neither will I be cowed by the Left into not using the OK sign or not talking about kids having a pillow fight at a sleep-over.  Just because the left says it is so, doesn’t make it so.

Or does it?  This, of course, is the entire point that I am making. The taking over of a country from within is a gradual process.  Citizens are worn down, bit by bit.  We are told things are true which are patently false, but when they are repeated as TRUTH by the media, who have become the propaganda arm of the Left, we begin to believe that they must be true after all.  Did you know that a man can have a period?  Become pregnant?   Carry a baby full term and give birth?  Of course all of that is made-up, unscientific, biologically impossible.  Yet according to the Left, it is true and we had better believe it or we will be punished!  How many CEO’s and celebrities have made a remark praising President Trump for something he has done or contending that all lives, not just black lives, matter and then have been so viciously attacked by the Left that they have backed down and contritely apologized for being so horrendously mistaken.  This is psychological warfare that is gradually limiting the freedom of the famous and important to tell the truth.  If they cannot tell the truth, then can the silencing of the rest of us be far behind? Some college campuses during the Obama administration, punished students for speaking out against liberal ideas.  The Trump administration recently issued an order that threatens the loss of federal funds to colleges that actively silence conservative speech by their students.

Yet in some ways, it has gotten even worse.  Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-styled Democratic Socialist who honeymooned in Communist Russia during the days of the Cold War, has some interesting campaign workers.  Project Veritas, who uncovered the sale of baby parts for gain by Planned Parenthood, has spoken to several of Sanders’ workers, secretly video-taping their words, and the comments are chilling.

 “If Bernie doesn’t get the nomination or it goes to a second round at the DNC Convention, f—ing Milwaukee will burn,” Kyle Jurek, a paid field organizer for the Sander’s campaign in Iowa, said in one video

Martin Weissgerber, a Sanders field organizer in South Carolina, said that if Sanders doesn’t win he will arm himself and be ready for the revolution, adding “Guillotine the rich!”  He elaborated on what he saw during a Sanders’ presidency. Let’s force them (billionaires) to build roads…rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let’s force them to do that. Well, the Gulags were  founded as Re-Education Camps…What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the Re-Education Camps.”

“After we abolish landlords, we don’t have to kill them,” Mason Baird, another worker in South Carolina commented.“That’s my feeling. I think that’s damaging to the soul … but there were plenty of excesses in 1917 (Russian Revolution) that I would hope to avoid.”  He continues, “I’ve canvassed with someone who’s, like, an anarchist, and I’ve canvassed with someone who’s more of a Marxist/Leninist, so we attract radical, like truly radical people to the campaign.” He went on to comment on Weissgerber’s Gulag statement by saying that the Gulags of Russia were not so bad, and that Americans just don’t understand them. (Fact:  These were not summer camps! Nearly 18 million Russians, some criminals but most  those who held different political views from Stalin, were imprisoned in the Gulags in Siberia where they did forced labor, and roughly 10 percent of them died each year from disease, starvation, the sub-zero temperatures, or being shot by the guards.  Just what America needs!)

David Taylor, another paid staffer,  said for now they have to keep their extremism quiet. “We don’t want to scare people off, so you’ve got to kind of feel it out first before you get into the crazy stuff,” he said. “You know, we were talking about more extreme organizations and stuff like Antifa, you were talking about the ‘yellow vests,’ all that, but we’re kind of keeping that on the back burner for now” for fear of frightening people off if they knew what this campaign was really about.”  

Perhaps these staffers do not reflect Sanders’ opinions, but an avowed Socialist who admired the communist regime of the Soviet Union and who hires and keeps paid staffers with these opinions, cannot be expected to have core beliefs which differ greatly from what these less political savvy workers have admitted to.

And Sanders is not the only danger to our country.  The entire group of 2020 Democratic candidates have espoused aspects of socialism, attempting to buy votes with programs of open borders, forgiven college loans, free college from now on, free day care, Medicare for all, and a guaranteed monthly salary of $1000 for each person whether they choose to work or not.  Most of them cannot or will not publicize the cost of their pie-in-the-sky programs, and most insist that they will be paid for by the rich.  Unfortunately, the rich are not rich enough (not even the billionaires) to support the programs they propose, and as is always the case with Democrats, the burden of supporting free-loaders will fall on the workers of America, the very ones who got a break from President Trump’s tax cuts. 

Most Democrats, many independents, and even some Republicans believe that climate change and all the attendant hurricanes, snowstorms, and floods are totally man-made, caused by our dependence upon the fossil fuel which has made this country an exporter of energy for the first time in seventy-five years and feeds, lights,  and keeps warm millions of third world people.  They  believe it because it is repeated over and over by the media and by organizations like the U.N. and NASA.  Yet thousands of scientists have called these baseless ideas into question, often putting their positions in peril in order to doso.  They point out how many times Climate Alarmists’ dire predictions have been wrong, and how  the earth has undergone cyclical periods of warming and cooling throughout its existence.  Many of these warm periods have been much hotter than what we are being warned is going to occur if we don’t give up all fossil fuels.  And all of these times have come when fossil fuels were being burned at a far diminished rate since there were no airplanes, cars, or electrical plants burning oil,  gas, and coal.  Several highly placed Climate Change proponents from across the world have admitted that in fact the entire climate change movement is designed to replace capitalism with socialism, making the world’s people totally dependent upon their governments, not to save the earth!  For example, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti said this about AOC’s famous Green New Deal. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it  wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” he said. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?  Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”

And it is working. Millions of people believe that burning fossil fuels is gradually raising the temperature of the earth so that it will soon be a couple of degrees hotter, the ice caps will melt, coastal cities will be under water, and eventually (in 12 years, according to AOC) the earth will be uninhabitable and we will all be dead.  To avert this disaster, people are buying electric cars which use batteries that are built with unsustainable materials.  Wind farms and solar panel farms are popping up across the country, despite the fact that they use far more land than coal burning electrical power plants, have already killed off a third of America’s birds, and are built with rare earth materials which we must buy from China and which again are not sustainable.   So our “sustainable” energy is not sustainable nor is it cheap.  Families who already struggle to pay the cost of heating their homes in the winter will find it impossible with these “sustainable” fuels.  And because these green energy sources are inconsistent (the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow), cities especially will experience brown outs and blackouts when there is simply not enough energy to meet their needs.  We are being duped.  We  are being told, in the Green New Deal, for example, what kind of cars we must drive, that we must add wind mills or solar panels to our homes, that cows which fart methane gas will be done away with so we will no longer be able to drink cows’ milk or each beef.  We are being told we must give up air travel for much slower trains.  We must do these things because we have no choice.  Those who know better than we do have made the decisions for us, and we will bear the costs.  The government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” is to be no more!

If a Democratic candidate wins the presidency this year, any Democratic candidate, life as we have enjoyed it for the last three and a half years will come to an abrupt end.  Life will become very expensive for the middle class and the working poor at the very least.  And at the very worst, we could find ourselves in re-education camps, toiling for no pay at all, and having no doubt forfeited our right to vote along with our right to free speech. It happened in Russia.  It happened to the Jews across Europe.  They thought it never would happen.  But they were wrong.  And they died.