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There are a couple of ways individuals can choose to show their hatred for our country. At the most basic level they can choose to join, or support, anti American groups like Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the Ku Klux Klan, etc. At the next level they could become activists and carry signs that support the defunding of police, for example. The logical progression would have some of these people throwing bricks through windows, and looting and burning businesses. At a different level they choose to teach children and young adults the toxic tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT). They teach children to hate each other, and their country. Different lessons confuse young children about whether they are boys or girls. They could further pollute children’s minds by making pornographic books available in their school libraries. These are some of the things that angry, misguided, citizens do to corrupt the mores of our country. These ploys cause but a short term annoyance in a healthy society supported by a functioning legal system. Alas, the legal system in America can no longer be called functioning. That is because of the more dangerous group of America haters.

The most perilous group of people threatening our way of life is the Progressive Left. They are actually Socialists. They correctly deduced that Americans won’t be easily swayed to their preferred form of government. That precipitated the name change from Socialist to Progressive. Don’t confuse Progressives/Socialists (PS) with traditional Democrats/Liberals (DL). All PSs are DLs, but not all DLs are PSs. Traditional DLs love America. They simply have different solutions as to how to make it better. PSs hate America and want to tear it down and replace it with Socialism. You won’t find PSs doing the grunt work mentioned above. These people are typically high ranking Democrat politicians. They are bureaucrats, heads of corporations, regular media, social media, and college professors. They are the people who are convinced we are incapable of making important decisions for ourselves. They think we need them, and the government, to do it for us. You know the type. These are the people who truly endanger the future of freedom in America.

The PSs understand the difficulty of converting 330 million free, prosperous, people to Socialism. Until the last year, or so, they were very patient. Remember that Socialism has historically been an economic construct. Marxists pitted the Bourgeoisie, owners, versus the Proletariat, workers in a class struggle. The PSs recognized that, given the relative wealth of most Americans, traditional Marxist struggles were futile. So they changed the construct. Many years ago they decided that in order to divide Americans they would push the narrative that America is a racist nation. Today, anything that disagrees with their narrative is racist. Math is racist. Highways are racist. Assigning the same homework to black children that is assigned to white children is racist. The list goes on and on. What are some of the things the PSs will need to advance their cause of ruining the greatest nation on earth?

First they would need to increase the number of poor people living in the U.S. As my grandchildren say, easy peasy. First, you open up the southern border and allow hundreds of thousands of dirt poor immigrants to enter the country every month. Then you pass a monstrous bill that provides federal benefits to those immigrants, and makes them citizens. Next, you sign Executive Orders that reduce the output of American crude oil and natural gas by 16 or 17%. That immediately causes the price of gasoline at the pump to go up nearly 40%. That by itself created a serious problem for people on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. As most Americans know it doesn’t end there. Most products we buy are delivered by trucks. When the cost of gas goes up, the cost to transport goods hits truckers very hard. Truckers are forced to pass those costs along to consumers. Prices go up. Farmers need gas to plow their fields, and harvest their crops. The price of our food has to go up. When you realize that many of the products we purchase, or their packaging, are petroleum based it is no wonder that everything we buy is more expensive today than a year ago. If a family of four earns less than $26,500 a year it qualifies for multiple federal benefits. I believe that in the next six months the government will increase that dollar amount to something closer to $30,000. That will catch more people in the governmental dependency net. Socialists need poor people, especially poor people of color, to grow their philosophy.

I am not being political when I blame the PSs for the growth of Socialism in the USA. I am being factual. It was former President Obama who said he wanted to “fundamentally transform America”. I agree that America must improve. The progress we have made over the last 2 centuries is proof of our intent to create a more perfect union. But you don’t need to fundamentally transform the greatest nation on earth. You just need to keep getting better. I mention politics in this chapter because the next thing the PSs need is to create a breakdown in security, and foment fear. For over a year we witnessed deadly riots in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and others. Every one of these cities is led by a PS Mayor, and Governor. In many cases for decades. Thanks to PS District Attorneys most of the perpetrators of the rioting, looting, and arson, were never prosecuted. Most were not even arrested. The thugs appearing back on the street strikes fear in the hearts of innocent citizens. These criminals fit the definition of terrorists. During the four day 2020 Democratic Convention, not a single speaker mentioned the rioting in any of those cities. If nothing else that silence was proof that DLs were concerned enough about party unity to not upset the PSs.

There is ample evidence of PS infiltration in the educational complex, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the National Security Agency, and the IRS. These are all very troubling and must be dealt with as soon as possible. (It will not happen until at least 2024). But perhaps the most troubling aspect of our lurch toward Socialism is what is happening inside our military. I have forever said that everything the government touches gets screwed up. In saying that, I always exempted our military. I want to be very clear that I still exempt the “boots”. Our enlisted people are the best! Our military problems come from the “suits”. The guys at the top. Some time ago, I don’t pretend to know when, our top ranking officers caught a terrible disease. We civilians know the disease as politics. Of all of our government entities the military was the most diverse, non-racist, and apolitical. The push for progressive policies in the military threatens the effectiveness of our armed forces. The new philosophy at the Department of Defense is diversity, inclusion, and equity. You’d think that the finest military in the world would be more interested in preparedness, and winning wars. Under the leadership(?) of Defense Secretary, General Lloyd Austin, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, our military is being used as a social experiment at the expense of the fighting force. Within 30 days of being confirmed, General Austin called for a 60 day “stand down” of the entire military. He charged Commanders with the task of addressing “extremism” in their ranks. In his confirmation hearings Austin pledged to “rid our ranks of racists and extremists.” He never provided evidence to prove they actually existed. General Milley, during a budget meeting with the House Armed Services Committee took several minutes to defend the teaching of Critical Race Theory to Cadets at West Point. Incredible. Volumes of training manuals on diversity, equity, and inclusion, are being forced on military personnel in every branch of our armed forces. What a waste. Do you think we would have heard such drivel from Generals Eisenhower, Patton, MacArthur, or Schwartzkopf? Hell no! It was General Patton who said “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” It’s probably not fair to compare today’s Generals to Patton. He served when the USA was still winning wars. The military has become nothing more than a stepping stone to a cushy job with a military contractor for retired Generals. There was a time when Generals would rather resign than disobey orders, or do something that was reckless, or stupid. Today’s political correctness has replaced those days of honor. If we continue on this path the very security of our nation is at risk. A weakened military is an open invitation for Socialists to take control of our country.

The goal of the PSs is to convert our capitalistic, Constitutional Republic, into a freedom crushing centrally planned Socialistic state. Those of us who know better must commit the time necessary to tell our children, and grandchildren, about the death and destruction that always follow Socialism. Every time. Every where. We must insist that our schools do a better job of teaching students the real differences between Capitalism and Socialism. We must do everything we can to defeat every PS who runs for office. At the same time we must root out every elected representative, regardless of political affiliation, who has refused to stand up against the malignancy we call Socialism.

I hope you found this post interesting and informative. If you did please tell your friends about it. Thank you, Bob