Will History Repeat Itself?

I am a patriot. I love this country and am very disturbed, in light of history, at what is going on in this country, the greatest nation on the face of this planet. There is a movement going around that pits those who have a lot against those who don't have very much. They pit young against old. They pit the healthy against the sick. It's not a new tactic. It's been used many times to overthrow powerful nations. It was used in a country far, far away from here. The country had a long, proud tradition and when those with "hope" for "taking their country back" and giving it to the people came, they focussed on young people and promised them a nation that would provide equal economic status for everyone. They promised that the state would provide healthcare. They promised a free college education and a job for everyone. They promised corporate regulation and fixed prices at the grocery store. Not bad promises right? They saw themselves as those who knew more than the regular working class of the nation. They saw themselves as doing what they were doing for the betterment of all of their national comrads. They initiated something called the dictatorship of the common citizen and said that, once empowered, they would truly empower the people to be all that they could truly be as a nation of equals. No one above anyone else. Sound familiar?

No, these are not democrats. Remember, they were in a nation far away. But it sounds like the promises of the democratic left. I heard these same promises, the promises of the Soviet Revolution promised by Karl Marx and Vladamir Lennon, promised again at the Democratic National Convention. My friends, Nikita Kruschev prophesied during the Kennedy administration that the US would not be brought down from without, but that the US would be brought down from within. I am seeing his prophecy coming true as unsuspecting young warriors plod along preaching the doctrine of "hope". But what hope are they preaching? They are preaching a hope that will eventually strip us of our freedom. It will rob us of the human dignity that our soldiers have spilled blood to preserve. Oh the promises of the Soviet Revolution talked about sacrifices everyone would have to make for a "short while". That short while brought on the largest regime of oppression this world has ever known.

Now, my blog is just for my observations on the world, on faith, on family and friends and some of that will at times spell out warnings from history. The DNC that I watched on TV was simply preaching the doctrines of pure communism where those who have are demonized and those who have not are glorified. In the other revolution I spoke of, those who worked hard and made a life for themselves and for their families and provided jobs for everyone else were not honored, but had what they had worked hard for taken away from them and given to someone who did not desire to work nor to provide jobs, much less take care of his or her own family. This broke the desire to have a strong work ethic and a once strong and proud nation wasted away into poverty and third world conditions much worse than anything they once tried to break free from and they conquered other nations and oppressed them as well.

The point of this blog? Often charismatic leaders and well spoken (and even well intended) individuals can lead those who have no memory of the past and no knowledge of the truth into lofty sounding dreams. Those dreams then turn to a great nightmare of dispair. Ronald Wilson Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush ended the long nightmare of despair for those trapped in the Soviet Union. Let's not then turn and believe the same lies those who were trapped by communism believed and lead this nation down the same nightmarish path.

Let's think. Let's not just march blindly along behind class warfare and lose our freedom to socialism. That's what they are selling and they package it in a shroud of "hope". The hope they offer will turn to a dream all right, but that dream will become a nightmare. I, for one, am not buying. I will vote for a patriot. I will vote for a man or woman of character. I will vote for one who demonstrates a strict belief in the Constitution of the United States. I hope you will as well.

Until later,

Don