Who’s Afraid of a Little Communism?

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Who’s afraid of a little communism?

I want to share with you some percent over to me. Actually comes from Students for Liberty talks about Ayn Rand and how family escaped from Soviet Russia and was watching a society destroy itself. And she identified five patterns that signal a civilization is circling a toilet. Guess what? We’re watching them. First, pattern number one.

Producers serve non-producers. When the people who create value, entrepreneurs, builders, innovators, must beg permission from bureaucrats who create nothing, you have inverted the natural order. Merit becomes a privilege granted by those who never earned it. Think about all those nonsensical permits and documents and crap you got to get.

You gotta get a license to be an interior decorator. You gotta remember this. You know, when I had a temporary office for a period of time. And, this was actually in Florida. This is going back to like 2015. I remember we were in the process of moving and I had rented a temporary office in Sarasota. And the officer’s like, well, you you gotta make sure you go down to the, you know, Sarasota County to get a business license. And I said, no, no, let him sell the.

the Gestapo after me. I’m not getting a license to feed my family. again, number two, wealth comes from connections, not contribution. Success stops depending on what value did create and starts depending on who do you know. Lobbying becomes more profitable than innovation. Subsidies beat competition. Favors.

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Trump products. Sound familiar? Laws protect the influential, not the industrious. Justice becomes a luxury. The powerful get different rules than everyone else. Insider trading is illegal unless you’re in Congress. Again, you get bailouts from the go. You end up becoming too big to fail. You end up having regulatory capture. Corruption pays better than creation.

When stealing, manipulating, and exploiting connections is more lucrative than honest work, you’ve created the perfect incentives for collapse. Why build when you can lobby? Why compete when you can regulate competitors away? Integrity becomes self-sacrifice. When being honest costs you socially, financially, professionally, and compromising your values gets rewarded, honesty transforms into an act of heroism. And we’ve been there.

for a very long period of time. Thinking about these things, because we’ve talked about them at length here on the program over the years. And my concern, and I’ve said it on plenty of occasions, and I get some blowback. said, we haven’t been a capitalist country for some time. And you even take a look at the things, I’ve, you most recent president, you know, Donald Trump is engaged in government taking,

equity stakes in various different companies. That’s not capitalism by any stretch of imagination. I’ve lamented against public-private partnerships and various different favors and deals and contracts being given out to, whether it be the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act under Obama, whether it be the Inflation Reduction Act, make any difference. It’s all nonsense. It’s all garbage. Chips Act. You name it.

None of this helps you. It helps the well connected. George W. Bush starting the bailouts of the automakers would go right on down the list. There was a, and I’ve talked about this before, former FBI special agent, his name was Kleon Skousen, to anti-communist and he wrote the book The Naked Communist in 1958.

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And he added a list to the book entitled the 45 communist goals for America. And this was actually read, read it into Congress, as I’ve not mistaken back in the late or early 1960s. yes, here it is. Congressman Albert Herlong of Florida, January 10th, 1963. Some of them I’ll go through.

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Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. Permit free trade with all nations, regardless of communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. Now some say, well, Chris, you’re against tariffs and all this stuff. Hold on. OK, I’m not. I’m not against holding back various different technologies for countries that where we see fit and it’s not.

shouldn’t be done. Again, we can go back in time. And again, I was ripping this at the time you had LARAL space. LARAL space, this was during the Clinton administration was selling all of this space and missile technology to China. And when all of a sudden we started collecting North Korean missiles that they were testing, it was all made in the USA stuff. was like kind of like a scene in Iron Man where Tony Stark

Finds out that the bad guys have got all of his weapons for crying out loud anyway Right American aid to all nations regardless of communist domination we’ve been doing that for a long long time

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Allow all Soviet satellites, individual representation, the United Nations, again, this is going back in time. Promote the United Nation as the only hope for mankind if its charters rewritten demand that it be set up as a one world government with its own independent armed forces. Yep, they’ve wanted that for some time. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. Quite frankly, I think they’ve got their fingers in both of them. Get control of schools, use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda, soften the curriculum. Well, this is happening. Get control of teachers associations, put the party line in textbooks, gain control of student newspapers.

Use student riots to prevent public protests against programs or organizations which are under communist attack. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, and policymaking positions. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings. Substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms.

That’s par for the course now, my friends. That’s been going on for some time. Control art critics and directors of art museums. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art. Again, why that? Communist societies, they don’t like too much creativity. And again, let’s be honest. Come on. Best art ever. That’s all.

inspired by God for crying out loud. You ever been to Italy? Anyway, eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV. I want to remind everybody, okay, this is going to the way way back machine for crying out loud. 1958. All right.

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long time ago, then it was written to Congress in 1963. present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as normal, natural, and healthy. Infiltrate the churches and revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize a need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a religious crotch. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle

of separation of church and state. Discredit the Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs. Discredit the American Founding Fathers for crying out loud, we’ve been ripping down statues. Yeah. Mom, Dami wants to get rid of the Columbus statue in New York City. I’m not kidding. DeSantis said, hey, we’ll take it. Bring it down here to Florida. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teachings of

American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the big picture. Give more emphasis to Russian history. Support any social movement to give centralized control over any parts of the culture, education, social agency, welfare programs, etc. What else? infiltrating control of unions, infiltrating control of big business. I’m going to go on and on. I mean, you can look this stuff up yourself.

But we’re there kids, we’ve been there. Yeah, road to serfdom, highway to hell, we’ve been on this path for some time, okay? The bottom line is this, lot of these young people that are upset that are finding this attractive, they’re saying, wait a second, why do all the big money people, why do they allowed…

to get away with everything. Why is there never any repercussions for their actions? I to go back to the Great Recession for crying out loud. Some of the biggest crooks from Lehman Brothers lived not far from me on Long Island for a period of time. Nothing happened to anybody.

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Eventually, you you want a little bit of justice. What we’re getting right now is the wrong remedy. Again, I explained it to my daughter yesterday. said, it’s kind of like she’s doing the medical field when she’s studying in college. Like, know, I see it’s kind of like if you have a problem, a sickness, whatever it may be, and you start taking the wrong.

pill or the wrong treatment to remedy it. That’s what we got. We’ve got our problems. Okay. We’ve got, we’ll certainly got a lot of socialism, communism, if you will, for the wealthy here, the elites in this country. Absolutely. Absolutely. And we need to get rid of that. Something I’ve been banging the drums for for a very long period of time. Allowing the whole country to go in that direction.

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