Socialism is a common-sense path to a fairer, more prosperous and more democratic USA. The fight for socialism is a dynamic process to fulfill the vision of a future of peace, justice and fairness for our nation and our world. <\/p> Source: cpusa.org <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Okay. So the socialists are really the commies. They\u2019re the\nsame. Socialism is established by communists and is the goal of communists.\nWe\u2019ve seen what the commies do by examining what happened in the old USSR, and\nin communist-run China. Guys like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao established\ndictatorships and killed a lot of people who disagreed with them. President-for-life\nXi is establishing a dystopian police\/surveillance state disguised as a \u201csocial\ncredit\u201d system run by AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now let\u2019s look at the Nazi party. According to Wikipedia, <\/p>\n\n\n\n The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945, that created and supported the ideology of National Socialism. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Whoa, wait a minute! Here, in this one paragraph, is the\nperfect description of the fake good vs. evil debate. It is an example of the\nkind of propaganda that passes for \u201cnews\u201d these days. The article refers to the\nNational Socialists as \u201ca far-right political party in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But how can socialism be far-right? Socialists are supposed\nto be on the left, established by the commies, opposing (so it is said) the\nfascism of Naziism and other fake, far-right philosophies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Even in the definitions of the most important world political movements, there is a contradiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is a quote from Adolf Hitler:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”<\/p>https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskHistorians\/comments\/5s8kw9\/what_is_the_exact_origin_of_this_hitler_quote\/<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Historians will tell you that Hitler had his own brand of socialism, based on race, and that Hitler’s socialism isn’t the same as the Marxist version. But that is a distinction without a difference. Socialism = communism = naziism = fascism = tyranny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are confused, welcome to the club! <\/p>\n\n\n\n The dark army thrives on disinfo and contradictions. It\u2019s\nOrwellian. In the last post we talked about Newspeak and doublethink \u2013\nOrwellian concepts that were designed to dumb people down so that populations\ncould be more easily influenced by those \u201cin charge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the Oxford Dictionary website, here\u2019s the rules of\nNewspeak:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The primary aim of Newspeak is to reduce the meaning of language as well as the number of words possible. To this end, Newspeak removes all synonyms and antonyms. Bad instead becomes ungood, warm becomes uncold, and so on. Notably, ungood or uncold are used and yet unbad or unhot are not; the fictional \u201cParty\u201d controls which antonym of a word is used (e.g. warm and hot are both antonyms of cold). By choosing which words the populace can use, The Party can choose to shift thought in a more positive or negative direction to suit their needs; ungood, for example, makes the populace feel less negative than bad would, and conversely, most associate more negative emotions with the word cold (and therefore, uncold, which actually means hot) than with the word warm. Synonyms do not exist; words like satisfying, great, or excellent, for example, would all revert merely to some form of the word good.<\/p> Source: The Oxford Dictionary Blog, \u201cA Look at Orwell\u2019s Newspeak,\u201d https:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2014\/09\/30\/george-orwell-newspeak\/ <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Does this sound familiar? In today\u2019s political debate, entire\nraces of people are referred to as oppressor classes. Entire genders and other\nraces (women, Hispanics, African Americans) are referred to as victim classes.\nOppressor classes are said to be inherently racist, victim classes are said to\nbe inherently pure. This idiotic assignment of millions of people into\narbitrary classes is purely Orwellian. Because intelligence is the ability to\nsee distinctions, Newspeak dumbs everyone down by lumping everyone together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the Wikipedia definition above we know that Socialism =\nNaziism because it\u2019s right in the definition of the Nazi party. From the\nCPUSA\u2019s website we see that Socialism = Communism. Therefore, Socialism = Communism\n= Naziism! Again, a contradiction; but only if you are operating on the fake\nleft-right continuum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Naziism, communism, socialism, fascism, and what the hell, throw capitalism in there as well, are all tyrannical systems. All of these are simple names for tyranny and oppression. Alexander Solzhenistyn, the Russian historian, claims that the Communists killed between 30 and 40 million Russians. We all know what the Nazis did. The capitalists here in the US (the military-industrial complex, as Eisenhower called it (some people call it the Deep State)) have been overthrowing governments (like the popularly elected Mossadegh in Iran back in 1953) for over 70 years, starting wars, and assassinating people they don\u2019t like in their own countries (such as John F. Kennedy). Right-wing dictators funded by capitalist countries killed millions of people in dozens of countries around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the distinction here? In the fake good vs evil\nparadigm, there can be no distinction, only confusion, argumentation, and\nhatred. Those on the \u201cleft\u201d call the capitalists fascists and murderers. Those\non the right call the socialists and the commies fascists and murderers. The\nfake good vs evil debate leads only to hatred and intolerance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sound familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the light vs dark paradigm, or the tyranny vs freedom\nand liberty dichotomy, is more accurate, as I said in the last blog post.\nTyranny = intolerance, hatred, and war. Freedom = equal opportunity, tolerance,\ngenerosity \u2013 these are all the hallmarks of classic liberalism, which has\ntotally disappeared in our current Orwellian fake debates over who is right and\nwho is wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I made a chart to show the fake paradigm and the real paradigm:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fake paradigm <\/p>\n\n\n\n Real Paradigm<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the fake good vs evil paradigm, both Communism, Naziism, Capitalism,\nand Socialism can all<\/em> be considered\n\u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad,\u201d depending on which \u201cside\u201d you are on. In the fake paradigm, everything = everything\nelse. This is a definition of stupidity and ignorance. It\u2019s Orwellian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are some recent headlines: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump vows to uncover\nRussia probe roots with declassification call: \u2018We\u2019re exposing everything\u2019 <\/strong>(saracarter.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adam Schiff: Trump is\n\u2018Stonewalling the Truth\u2019 By Declassifying Information <\/strong>(Fox news)<\/p>\n\n\n\n WTF??? In Orwell\u2019s Newspeak, two things can mean the same\nthing. Apparently, today, declassifying information is both good and bad at the\nsame time. In the last post, we pointed out that Orwellian \u201cdoublethink\u201d means\nthat a person can hold two conflicting and diametrically opposing beliefs in\nhis or her head at the same time, without recognizing or understanding that the\ntwo concepts are contradictory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re looking for the Orwellian state, ladies and germs, we\u2019re getting there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yikes, no wonder I\u2019m so confused. Forgive yourself if you\nare too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now let\u2019s move to the election of 2016. A dangerous man by\nthe name of Donald Trump declares his candidacy in 2015. This guy was not a\npolitician; by that is meant that he has no political experience whatsoever. He\ndoesn\u2019t drink, do drugs, smoke cigarettes. He\u2019s seen as an egomaniac by many,\nand a woman-hater by others (my wife is one). But most of all, in 2015 he\u2019s known\nto be a complete and total outsider to the political establishment in\nWashington DC. He decides to run as a Republican. The Democrats either have\ntotal contempt for the guy or hate him, and half of the Republicans don\u2019t like\nhim as well because party leadership sees Trump as a guy who will threaten the\nsystem, and those who are comfortable in their positions of power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But this guy has a message that resonates to middle class\nand working class people who are completely disaffected from the corrupt,\nbusiness-as-usual system. He gives a speech that is broadcast widely, on November\n6, 2016, just two days before the election. This speech is seen by many, after\nthe election, as the speech that propelled him over the top. You can see it\nhere, it\u2019s only a little over 5 minutes long:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I personally never saw this speech because I was so disaffected by politics-as-usual that I always voted third party. I didn\u2019t vote for Clinton or Trump; I didn\u2019t give a crap about either of them. I saw them both as political establishment hacks. I am embarrassed to say that I voted for Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee, who, after the election, lobbied to have the votes re-examined in Michigan and Wisconsin, states that Trump won by a hair. Dr. Stein was clearly working with Hillary. I thought, naively, that third party candidates were supposed to be independent, but I was wrong I guess (silly me). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, after the election, the Trump hate began. One of my\nClinton-supporting friends (almost everyone I know voted for Hillary) told me,\n\u201cNow, after Hillary wins the election, you guys have to support the president.\nThat\u2019s the way it works in a democracy.\u201d I was well-known for my iconoclastic\nviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I couldn\u2019t understand why, after the election, so many of these same people were Trump haters. Before the election I never knew much about the dude except that he had a really stupid TV show; that he, like JFK and Bill Clinton, was a big womanizer, and that he claimed to be a patriot (whatever that meant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I began to get really curious. Why do so many people have\nsuch a virulent hatred of Donald Trump? At this point I was still totally\ncynical of the entire political process in the US. But I noticed that every\nnewspaper and news outlet in the country was anti-Trump, before and after the\nelection. Even the newspaper I (used to) read the most, the Guardian, <\/em>a UK newspaper and known for\nits liberal views. The stories on the front page of the Guardian<\/em>, during the run-up to the 2016 election, began to\ncompletely lose their objectivity, especially after Trump won the Republican\nnomination. Literally every story in that paper was anti-Trump. I wondered,\nwhat is it about this guy that inspires so much hate by the corporate\ncontrolled press? I suspected that this guy might be another JFK on the\nRepublican side, as crazy as that might seem. JFK, our greatest president, paid\nthe ultimate price for his opposition to \u201cThe Establishment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I began to get re-involved in political research. I\nwent to a bunch of alternative websites like 4 chan, and some intelligence\nwebsites (which are almost all propaganda outlets, but valuable if you know\nthis and have the discernment to read between the lines). I read the New York Times<\/em> and the Washington Post<\/em>, and a host of other\nnews sites on the left and right like Glenn Greenwald\u2019s Intercept<\/em>. I then found the \u201cQ\u201d website. So I was getting info from\nthe left and the right, and from crazy conspiracy websites that 95% of the\npopulation would regard as inauthentic, but from which I was able to get a lot\nof data points. However, I refused to accept any data that wasn\u2019t sourced from\nopen-source websites. But there\u2019s a lot of stuff out there; some brilliant\npeople write about politics and with the internet you can find these\nopen-source sites and make up your own mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I watched Donald Trump to see if he was just another swamp\ncreature, like the Democrats and the Republicans that preceded him in office\nsince the assassination of JFK. I\u2019m not going to get into what I discovered,\nbecause 95% of the people reading this wouldn\u2019t believe most of it anyway. Suffice\nit to say, I became convinced when, in 2018, Trump went to Singapore to sign a\npeace agreement with Kim Jong Un to create peace on the Korean peninsula. I\nwatched the Asian trip that preceded this in 2017, in which Trump visited Prime\nMinister Abe of Japan, President Xi of China, the South Koreans, and the\nVietnamese. I could see this guy was working for peace. Because peace on the\nKorean peninsula is a BIG deal folks. We all know how dangerous NoKo has been\nover the decades. I saw Kim and Trump smiling, even Xi smiling. Then I watched\nthe reaction of the corporate controlled press, which uniformly pooh-poohed all\nthis great work and told us that Trump was a dupe and that peace wasn\u2019t really\npossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I watched when he went to Davos in 2018 and confronted the business-as-usual elites who think they can impose their policies on the rest of us plebians. I saw how he read the riot act to Angela Merkel, Macron, and May. I said to myself, \u201cthis guy isn\u2019t a puppet! He\u2019s standing up for the USA.\u201d I saw how he got us out of NAFTA, the TPP, the Iran agreement (which basically gave European companies preferred access to Iranian oil and natural gas without monitoring Iran\u2019s nuclear program). I saw how he confronted the European Union and Canada and Mexico, and especially China, with whom we have huge trade deficits every year. I saw how he wanted to make friends with Putin and Russia and went to Helsinki, and thought that was a good thing, despite the crazed corporate media\u2019s insistence that Russia was our main enemy (trying to re-create the Cold War, apparently). (For those who say that Trump is Putin\u2019s stooge, examine the sanctions Trump has imposed on Russian companies.) At this point I didn\u2019t trust any of the news media, who roundly criticized everything Trump did, good or bad. It became obvious that the entire Washington DC establishment was against this guy. I asked myself, is this a good or a bad thing? Is Trump really a fake and a fascist? I concluded, from my studies, that he was on the right track. When the Establishment is against you almost 100%, you must be a change agent like JFK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having studied \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d since November 1963,\nwhen I was 11 years old and heard about the assassination of JFK in the 8th\ngrade, I could see that there were forces on the planet that didn\u2019t want peace\n(DOOH!) Who are these forces? Well, the arms dealers, the drug dealers, the\nhuman traffickers, the people in power who felt threatened. Then I read about\nthe missile that was fired from a rogue sub off the coast of Puget Sound at\nAF1, when Trump was on his way to meet Kim in Singapore. That missile was shot\ndown by F-16s, by the way. (I told you that you wouldn\u2019t believe it. Doesn\u2019t\nmatter if you do or you don\u2019t.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A president who gets assassinated (like JFK) or who gets shot at, is probably working against the deep state; you know, those endless war guys. After that, there were two more attempts on his life. One when he went to Las Vegas and had a meeting with Prince bin Salman on the top floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. We all know what happened after that. (bin Salman is the guy who imprisoned over 70 corrupt Saudi princes only a couple of days after Trump visited Saudi Arabia in the fall of 2017. Saudi Arabia is known to have \u201cinfluenced\u201d certain US politicians). Another attempt at one of his rallies. I figured that whoever Trump is, he has powerful connections because he didn’t get hit; and at the very least isn\u2019t a dupe. I began to read his Twitter account, which began in 2009. I started to find out more about the guy. After all, like it or not, he is the president! The president everyone hates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I began listening to this guy speak, and became\nimpressed. Yeah, he trolls the media unmercifully, but their hatred toward him\nbegan before he even got elected (remember the goofy polls that said Hillary\nhad a 90% chance to win the election?). I began to see that he\u2019s at least trying\nto work for the people of the US, and not against us. I began to listen to his\nspeeches and liked what I heard. I went so far as to begin saying the pledge of\nallegiance at my Toastmasters meetings, where I used to be well-known for not\nparticipating in such nonsense. As I said, I was very cynical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All this as a preview to the idea that Trump is a change\nagent who is trying to bust up the system on a planet-wide scope. The Orwellian\nideas that are part of the current political debate are a further push by the\ndark army to counteract the infusion of light. I\u2019ve realized that I had to get\nbeyond the fake left-right, conservative-liberal, good-bad paradigm to get a\nhandle on what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Much of the current debate is powered by a logical fallacy that says, \u201cTrump is a Russian dupe, so anything he says is nonsense.\u201d Well, if Adolf Hitler said that 2 + 2 = 4, would that make it wrong? The source of a fact is irrelevant. Thinking this way is lazy, because you never have to fact-check.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n The light is penetrating the darkness. Trump is a big part\nof that, whether you hate him or like him. He\u2019s a change agent; not permanent\nbut vitally necessary at this time, as we are going to find out within the next\nseveral months. And for a planet that has been mired in darkness and low\nconsciousness for millennia, change is a good thing. System busting is a good\nthing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That which has been hidden is beginning to be exposed. And a lot of powerful players in the old system don\u2019t like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here I want to republish (and re-interpret slightly) the\nwork of a brilliant analyst who calls himself SerialBrain2. Here he presents a\nwonderful example of the light infusing the darkness in our relationship with\nJapan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After WW II, U.S. leaders often traveled to Japan. They\nstopped at Hiroshima exhibits and Pearl Harbor exhibits, as shown here in these\npictures of former president Obama:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here Obama is reminding the Japanese that the U.S. holds all\nthe power in the relationship: we have troops in Japan, Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor\nare reminders that the U.S. military holds sway over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, here are pics from Trump\u2019s trip at the end of May,\n2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Picture of Shinzo Abe, Japan\u2019s PM,\nand the president:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cynics often point to Trump goofing off and playing golf when he should be getting down to being presidential. But I find these images heartwarming, mainly because I have Japanese friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The same thing happened when he met Kim Jong Un in Singapore\nin 2018 \u2013 lots of smiles. Cynics said then that Trump was a fool and that he made\na deal with a dictator who tortures and kills his people. But isn\u2019t communication\na good thing, even with people you don\u2019t like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n SerialBrain2 says something very insightful about Trump and\nAbe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJapan is America\u2019s Ally. Do you know the main difference between an ally and a friend? The ally is a piece on the chessboard and the friend is the guy you play chess with… As you can see, under Trump, Japan is more than an ally: Japan is a friend.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n In international relations, genuine smiles are a good thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I went to college in 1969-1973 and after, the fake, corporate controlled news (it\u2019s always been fake; this isn\u2019t a recent phenomenon) told my generation that the commies were evil and that the capitalists were good. During the Vietnam … Continue reading \n Good vs evil\n <\/td><\/tr> \n \n <\/td> \n Far-Left\n <\/td> \n \n <\/td> \n Far-Right\n <\/td> \n \n <\/td><\/tr> \n Good<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n Evil<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n <\/strong>\n <\/td> \n Good<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n Evil<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr> \n Socialism\n <\/td> Capitalism <\/td> \n \n <\/td> \n Capitalism\n <\/td> Socialism <\/td><\/tr> \n Communism\n <\/td> Naziism <\/td> \n \n <\/td> \n Naziism\n <\/td> Communism <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n Dark vs Light
(Tyranny vs Freedom) <\/td><\/td><\/tr> \n Tyranny<\/strong>\n <\/td> \n Freedom<\/strong>\n <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> Socialism <\/td> Equality of opportunity; classic liberalism <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> Communism <\/td> Liberty<\/td><\/tr> Naziism<\/td> Tolerance<\/td><\/tr> Corporate capitalism; cut-throat competition <\/td> Cooperative business and commerce for the benefit of all<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n Postscript \u2013 The Donald and Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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