Bill Pruett
It is time for Americans to ask the simple questions on so many fronts. We have bought intellectuals’ verbosity as truth and wisdom because they were Europeans, Ivy Leaguers, or children of the sixties [That sounds like Strike One, Two, Three to me but I digress!]. Today’s liberals/progressives want us to continue down the Red Brick Road to Socialism and Communism. The purpose of this article is to ask ourselves why should we continue to follow the liberals toward a Marxist, totalitarian government.
THE TRACK RECORD
Before we would choose a school, accept employment with a company, or invest in a business, we would be foolish and remiss not to check their track record. This is only basic and natural that we would want to know about the past to envision the future. Let’s take a look at the Twentieth Century and see what track record we find for Socialism and Communism. Certainly, there were many totalitarian governments in the last 100 years and the following highlights just a few:
COMMUNIST RUSSIA 62 MILLION DEAD
1917-1987 - Bolsheviks – 9 million
THE TRACK RECORD
Before we would choose a school, accept employment with a company, or invest in a business, we would be foolish and remiss not to check their track record. This is only basic and natural that we would want to know about the past to envision the future. Let’s take a look at the Twentieth Century and see what track record we find for Socialism and Communism. Certainly, there were many totalitarian governments in the last 100 years and the following highlights just a few:
TWENTIETH CENTURY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES
THE TRACK RECORD OF SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
COMMUNIST RUSSIA 62 MILLION DEAD
1917-1987 - Bolsheviks – 9 million
- Stalinist Russia – 53 million
NAZI GERMANY 20 MILLION DEAD
1933-1945
MAOIST CHINA 76 MILLION DEAD
1949-1987
COMMUNIST KOREA 6 MILLION DEAD
1948-1987 - Korean War – 3 million
NAZI GERMANY 20 MILLION DEAD
1933-1945
MAOIST CHINA 76 MILLION DEAD
1949-1987
COMMUNIST KOREA 6 MILLION DEAD
1948-1987 - Korean War – 3 million
- Starvation, prison camps and
genocide – 3 million
SECOND INDOCHINA WAR 4 MILLION DEAD
SECOND INDOCHINA WAR 4 MILLION DEAD
(Including Vietnam War)
IN FIVE EXAMPLES - 168 MILLION DEAD !!!
Stop and think about that for one minute. 168 million people died because of Marxism in its various forms and this only includes some of the worst regimes. That is the equivalent of every man, woman and child in 42 American states today being massacred, killed for political reasons, starved to death, or sent to die in a Marxist-initiated war.
IN FIVE EXAMPLES - 168 MILLION DEAD !!!
Stop and think about that for one minute. 168 million people died because of Marxism in its various forms and this only includes some of the worst regimes. That is the equivalent of every man, woman and child in 42 American states today being massacred, killed for political reasons, starved to death, or sent to die in a Marxist-initiated war.
Those numbers are pretty impressive, however you feel about them. Today’s liberals/progressives/socialists are demanding we become more socialistic every day. We must ask ourselves simple questions:
“Why should America sentence its people to the Death Merchants of the last century?”
“If 168 million dead from a few regimes aren’t enough to dissuade us, how many more millions would have had to die to cause us to turn from Marxism?” “What would be a sufficient death toll to frighten us about the future of our children and grandchildren?”
“Why do Marxist countries usually struggle to feed their people, while their leaders start wars and use their great armies for conquest?”
“Socialists attack Capitalism as a failed economic system. Can we name one single Marxist government that can distantly rival the economic growth of United States Capitalism in the last two centuries?”
“Do we regard the U.S. involvement in World War II a mistake as America took down National Socialism in Germany and Fascism in Italy?”
“Do we regard the Cold War as a mistake because we opposed the Communist U.S.S.R?”
“Why has it fallen to America to fight totalitarian Marxist regimes if they are the good guys, i.e., if they have the proper form of government and we do not?”
“When faced with the eternal choice of “Liberty or Tyranny”, why do Marxist governments always choose Tyranny?”
“Why are people always trying to get out of Marxist countries and into free nations?”
“What Marxist government do you know that guarantees religious freedom for all of its people?”
Marxist governments always choose tyranny because a free people would not allow a dictator to send the men off to war and starve the people at home. People must be threatened with death to live under those conditions or they have lost all hope.
We, the American people, must speak in terms of liberty and freedom again. We have not talked about it as much in my lifetime because we have always taken it for granted. We must actively choose and defend liberty. Our federal government and its massive bureaucracy have taken far more from our people than any Redcoats ever did.
Socialism, Communism, Marxism have nothing to offer the people of the world but suffering and death in mass numbers. The track record is clear. America, however, is increasingly a Socialistic nation and a nanny state. When the nanny gets just a little more power, she will become a dictator. Freedom will not have been lost, it will have been given away!
“Why should America sentence its people to the Death Merchants of the last century?”
“If 168 million dead from a few regimes aren’t enough to dissuade us, how many more millions would have had to die to cause us to turn from Marxism?” “What would be a sufficient death toll to frighten us about the future of our children and grandchildren?”
“Why do Marxist countries usually struggle to feed their people, while their leaders start wars and use their great armies for conquest?”
“Socialists attack Capitalism as a failed economic system. Can we name one single Marxist government that can distantly rival the economic growth of United States Capitalism in the last two centuries?”
“Do we regard the U.S. involvement in World War II a mistake as America took down National Socialism in Germany and Fascism in Italy?”
“Do we regard the Cold War as a mistake because we opposed the Communist U.S.S.R?”
“Why has it fallen to America to fight totalitarian Marxist regimes if they are the good guys, i.e., if they have the proper form of government and we do not?”
“When faced with the eternal choice of “Liberty or Tyranny”, why do Marxist governments always choose Tyranny?”
“Why are people always trying to get out of Marxist countries and into free nations?”
“What Marxist government do you know that guarantees religious freedom for all of its people?”
Marxist governments always choose tyranny because a free people would not allow a dictator to send the men off to war and starve the people at home. People must be threatened with death to live under those conditions or they have lost all hope.
We, the American people, must speak in terms of liberty and freedom again. We have not talked about it as much in my lifetime because we have always taken it for granted. We must actively choose and defend liberty. Our federal government and its massive bureaucracy have taken far more from our people than any Redcoats ever did.
Socialism, Communism, Marxism have nothing to offer the people of the world but suffering and death in mass numbers. The track record is clear. America, however, is increasingly a Socialistic nation and a nanny state. When the nanny gets just a little more power, she will become a dictator. Freedom will not have been lost, it will have been given away!
