As I have often done in the past, I point you to yet another excellent article from American Thinker, this one titled: Making the World Safe for Marxism, written by Randall Hoven. He makes the observation that nowadays if you call a duck a duck (if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…it is a duck), or if you call a Marxist a Marxist, you’re immediately labeled a nut and a McCarthyite by the mainstream media. I would like to reproduce the whole article here! Selecting just a portion doesn’t do it justice, but I’ll try:

If we do not allow ourselves to call something “wrong” or “evil”, we yield the battle without even a fight. Yet to refrain from such “invective” is what is now called “civil discourse” and the right “tone.”

Bill Ayers called himself a “small ‘c’ communist.” Is it OK to call him a communist? Barack Obama said this in one of his autobiographies (at least he said it on tape, whether or not he wrote the book himself ):

“To avoid being mistaken for such a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets.”

Here’s a hint: you have to be pretty steeped in leftist thought to even know that the adjective “structural” goes with the noun “feminist.”

Obama was essentially a “red diaper baby” who was raised and educated by Marxists to be Marxist. Communists really did spy on us. They had secret meetings. Communism is no longer “strange”; it is taught in our schools, sometimes by Marxists. Obama went to such schools, took such classes and personally sought out Marxists. Bill Ayers calls himself a communist. Barack Obama’s run for elective office was kicked off at a meeting in Bill Ayer’s house. His voting record was the most liberal in the Senate in 2007, or left of self-avowed socialist Bernie Sanders.

Are we not to infer the obvious?

Careful! Ducks aren’t ducks anymore, you know. And this from later in the article (emphasis mine):

In fact, the interesting question is no longer whether our politics in the US and Europe (not to mention Latin America) are leading to Marxism. The interesting question now is whether voters care. My guess is that almost half the people in the US, and probably more elsewhere, think Marxism is no worse or even better than “capitalism.” Isms is isms, in our post-rational world.

Just for kicks, read through the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto and compare that to our country today, and to the proposals from the incoming Democrats. You might start having nightmares.

I would add my own observation and conclusion to Mr. Hoven’s article: Marxism, which is the first cousin of (and leads to) Communism, is the fast road to another “ism” — Despotism.

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