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Soon after taking total power over a socialist nation, the "gentle" former
agitators and labor organizers became ruthless rulers who murdered millions,
especially the middle class
Useful Idiots
- Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh Thursday, June 2, 2011
During incipient communist regimes, the general population foolishly
supported the wave of change that promised to fundamentally alter the
balance of power and bring wealth and prosperity to the masses by
expropriating and stealing from the "undeserving rich."
There is an argument to be made that some strata of society was exploited to
the benefit of inherited wealth such as kings, queens, and large
industrialist owners of sweatshops. However, some wealth was acquired
through hard work, perseverance, wise investments, entrepreneurship,
risk-taking, education, and luck; it was not "stolen" from anybody.
There is also an argument to be made that unions were beneficial in times
such as those during Bismarck's reign in Germany or early nineteenth century
Europe when unions negotiated sick leave, better working conditions,
vacations, worker's compensation for injuries, and other benefits.
Economic conditions did not improve for the majority of the population;
therefore, it was easy to believe that a new and improved regime, the
socialists, would bring about positive "fundamental change" to people's
lives.
Mismanagement of an economy is not something new, it is still done today in
third world dictatorships and some European Union countries like the
P.I.G.S. - Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. Some are adding Ireland to
the mix.
Certainly, at the time, the Weimar Republic was the most glaring example of
an economy in total disarray with hyperinflation so disastrous that it
required a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread. It was easier to
burn money in the fireplace than it was to purchase wood.
The immediate socialist supporters, teachers, professors, journalists,
doctors, lawyers, active communist members of the inner circle became known
as "useful idiots." They were "useful" as long as the few communists such as
Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Mao were attempting to gain and garner control and
power and their supporters willingly sacrificed their time, money, and
loyalty.
Same groups became "idiots" when the communist leaders decided that total
concentrated power into one man's hands was more desirable. Any immediate
comrades became a threat to supreme leader's rule and necessitated their
disposal. As the rest of the intellectuals realized they have been deceived,
they turned on their former leader. The leader had no choice but to get rid
of them.
Soon after taking total power over a socialist nation, the "gentle" former
agitators and labor organizers became ruthless rulers who murdered millions,
especially the middle class. People wearing glasses were targeted and
disposed of as intellectuals who posed a danger to the regime through their
passionate knowledge and avid reading. Information was power. Innocent
people who were not teachers, lawyers, engineers, but who had genetic eye
defects and happened to wear glasses were rounded up as enemies of the
state.
The November 2010 elections gave the American people the opportunity to
voice their opinions in reference to the out-of-control spending, lending,
printing, and devaluing of our currency that the Democrat-controlled
Congress has engaged in the last two years.
It is painfully apparent that the 100 or so Republicans that were swept into
power through the vote of "we the people" chose to ignore our wishes and our
votes.
The spending has not stopped, it has not even slowed down, and the
Republican-controlled House appears to have no intention to make real cuts
in spending or to pass a budget. Neither are they addressing the
Democrat-controlled Congress failure to pass a budget last year. The
compliant media is ignoring the issue entirely as if it does not exist while
portraying the economy as booming. I understand stagflation, inflation with
a stagnant economy. Americans are feeling the high prices, high
unemployment, and high-energy costs. The media can disingenuously say that
we are in a recovery, reality demonstrates otherwise.
It is beginning to look more and more as if we are the useful idiots who are
inconvenient to our lawmakers' quest for power. The rallies, the faxes, the
letters, the calls, the Tea Party protests were ignored. We were useful
before and during the election. I am not saying that we are going to have
the same fate as the "useful idiots" of the socialist regimes. However, are
we becoming the idiots that our lawmakers are ignoring? If so, what is the
point in having elections?
Taxpayers are being treated more and more like unruly children who must be
punished with new rules and regulations for disobeying. We are now the enemy
to the "nanny state." What other steps can we take to remedy the situation
before it is too late? When our currency is worth zero and will be replaced
as the world's reserve currency, what will we do?
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