This Opinion is special to the Mirror by Chas
Lately, I’ve been watching the weather. I have been looking up towards the sky. I’ve caught animated weathermen hawking their brand on my big flat screen. I have been walking about, outside, feeling winter enclose me. All these things have become one large, automatic charge. These changes are real, tangible and felt. I have been watching the weather.
America is at a cross road. We as a people, are at that cross road as well. We have yet to define who we are. The closest we have come, was during the years nineteen forty-one to nineteen forty-five. Collectively, we rolled up our sleeves and set out to a determined and ultimately successful purge of fascism, racism and hate. Purged from two other nations, that is. Not yet from America. That fight was left for other generations. America is at a cross road.
During the sixties, the cracks began appearing. Sons, declared fit for combat, were sent, not as volunteers but as draftees, half-way around the world to fight a civil war in which we had no cause, no justification, no dog in the fight. Only that specter of Communism was used to lure these young men to their deaths. A specter that was created out of failure and lack of understanding between nations and economic philosophies. And from this war, a gap between those that had fought in a seemingly gallant and well-intentioned war and those who were now sent to die in what seemed a senseless and wasteful war appeared. It widened, until those who held the power and made the laws unleashed their dogs with guns and killed young people in the streets and on the campuses. During the sixties, the cracks began appearing.
Behind the scenes, unscrupulous deeds were being done. Plans were laid to disrupt other countries in their personal progresses. Popularly elected officials were overthrown and replaced by ruthless and inflexible rulers. Strength and power ruled the day. Certain portions of the populace disappeared. Others were rounded up, tortured and made to confess to crimes that they had had no part of. Then, they too, disappeared. Behind the scenes, unscrupulous deeds were being done.
Then came the promise in the form of acting. Many great communications came from on high. New laws and a new prosperity would rule over the people. The hospitals for the mentally ill and those challenged by life’s everyday machinations, were emptied. These same people had nowhere to go, but to the streets. Suddenly, the money for programs to educate young children dried up. Programs for veterans of that faraway war diminished. They, too, were abandoned to the streets. A new drug appeared to offer hope and clarity to the poor and disenfranchised. It was the same drug that some of the rich had used previously for creative and physical stamina. But, it was expensive as presented, so the poor revised it. They revised it to make it cheaper and more accessible to their own. This drug became rampant and found its way into the bodies of young mothers and into the communities of the very, very poor. Many of the former hospital patients used it as a way of coping. It was of no benefit to anyone and only brought misery and ultimately death to many of its users. It was a false promise of hope. It was only a promise in the form of acting out a big lie.
I have been watching the weather. Today, the weather is cold and rainy. I have been watching the sky. Endless sets of clouds among a background of grey looks down on me. The air is too full to rain just now. But, it will rain soon. I know it will. I can tell by the patterns of things. Plus, lately, I’ve been watching the weather.
Paul Plante says
Good afternoon and great to see you back, dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller.
And it is good to see you keeping an eye to the sky, as you are doing down wherever it is that you are.
Personally, I do the same, and have been doing so since I was young.
When you live in the country as I do, and when you are poor, as I am, and old, it is always good to know what weather is out ahead, especially if you heat your house with wood as I am doing, because, Chas Cornweller, and I am sure you would know this, although so many young people in America today wouldn’t have a clue, being used to automatic heat as they are, wet wood just don’t burn worth a damn, so if you let your woodpile get wet because you didn’t know it was going to rain, then you are screwed, plain and simple.
So yes, Chas Cornweller, you are indeed a wise man if you are keeping your eye on the sky as you are doing.
And let me tell you, Chas Cornweller, as one of America’s Sons who was declared fit for combat, and who was sent as a volunteer half-way around the world to fight a civil war in Viet Nam, I truly enjoyed your attempt at a history lesson to enlighten us enlistees who did volunteer to go to Viet Nam why it was we did so, because we probably wouldn’t know ourselves.
As you would have it, Chas Cornweller, and yes, you are as much a victim of your upbringing and education as I am, we had no cause, no justification, no dog in the fight, only that the specter of Communism was used to lure these young men to their deaths.
You who are younger than we, and so would know more than we are capable of knowing, being older and therefore, less-informed and certainly less intelligent than the younger people in America are, God bless their souls, Chas Cornweller, tell us this specter was created out of failure and lack of understanding between nations and economic philosophies.
To which I would have to say, Chas Cornweller, actually having been there, afterall, do tell.
But dear friend Chas, as you talk about “failure and lack of understanding between nations and economic philosophies,” what about Hungary?
Yes, Hungary, Chas Cornweller – certainly you cannot have forgotten Hungary, have you?
Or did you purposefully omit it?
Only recently, a young person asked me why I joined the Army and went to Viet Nam, and dear friend Chas, this is exactly how I responded:
As to why the military for me, when I went to kindergarten, we were taught about what we are a part of, which is unique in world history, a people becoming free by actually beating the most powerful land army on earth back then, backed up by a navy and German mercenary troops.
So unlike many nations or maybe most nations in Europe at that time, post WWII, we had a tradition of liberty that we were born with, and that as citizens, we were to defend with our lives.
Then when I was young, 1956, it was, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or Hungarian Uprising of 1956, that nationwide revolt against the Communist regime of the Hungarian People’s Republic, was crushed by the Soviets, ruthlessly.
As a “child” here, and in the country back then when you were poor, you had ceased being a child by the time you were five, if not earlier, at that time aware there was a world out there different than the one that surrounded me, I and many other freedom-loving Americans were greatly affected by that, which is how we got into Viet Nam as a nation, to stand off the Soviets, and I went to Viet Nam because I thought it was another Hungary.
Kennedy’s words were impetus, but the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution was much more the cause.
We were appalled that nobody lifted a finger to stop that from happening.
We were taught that the Soviets employed troops from some of their satellites known for their brutality in Hungary to crush the spirit of those people.
Thus was the enmity that led me to Viet Nam born.
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Now, being older than you, dear friend Chas, that is why I think I went to Viet Nam as a volunteer.
But what could I possibly know about?
Paul Plante says
I too have been watching the weather, Chas Cornweller.
Today, the weather is cold.
Down around ten degrees above zero this morning, it was, up here to the north of sunny and balmy Cape Charles, anyway.
And I too have been watching the sky, but then, I always do, even at night!
Red sky this morning, Chas Cornweller, sailors take warning.
Living by the seaside as you do, you must know that old saying quite well by now, I would think anyway.
Right now, endless sets of clouds among a background of grey look down on me, but it would, since there is a storm coming tonight up here where I am.
Whether you will get some or not is a mystery to me right now, but it matters naught, since we each one of us have to deal with the sky over our heads, not the sky somewhere else.
The air is too full to snow just now.
But, it will snow soon.
I know it will.
I can tell by the patterns of things.
Plus, lately, I’ve been watching the weather.
And having said that, dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, were you being intentionally droll (curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement) when you said the specter of Communism was created out of failure and lack of understanding between nations and economic philosophies, or did it just come out that way?
And where on earth, Chas Cornweller, did you come up with that theory, which is about as wide of the mark as wide can be?
Communism, dear friend Chas Cornweller, is not an “economic philosophy.”
It is a repressive system that is pure democracy in action.
The majority, which is the Communist party rules, and you either snap to, or you end up in a GULAG, Chas Cornweller.
Communism, dear friend Chas Cornweller, is classed as a kind of religion based on class-consciousness.
It is a religion totally foreign to our beliefs here in the United States of America, those of us who are REAL AMERICANS, anyway, where “REAL AMERICANS” are defined as those of us who know and accept our political history as a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, which is why the Soldier’s Handbook I received on entering the United States Army in 1968 stated on p.4 as follows:
Today, communism is the major threat to our nation.
This threat is the primary reason for the Army to constantly train men as part of the U.S. fighting force.
Your training and eventual performance of duty with a unit is a vital part of this nation’s defense.
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Do you find fault with me in here for still believing that?
Do you think we should have tried to appease the Commies in this country who wanted to impose Communist tyranny on us back then?
Or do you disbelieve that that was their intent?
Paul Plante says
Talk about a storm coming, Chas Cornweller, this morning, at least up this way to the north of Washington, D.C. where a veritable ton of real hot air is being generated, the wind was howling – woke me up it did.
But you know what, Chas Cornweller, for all that huffing and puffing, nothing really happened.
No blizzard.
No driving rain.
A bit of freezing rain early this morning, but not enough to amount to anything, which is always good, because freezing rain can be a killer of old people out in the country like me.
Ever go through an ice storm, Chas Cornweller, where trees and tree limbs are falling right and left and it sounds like an artillery duel out there as they snap and fall?
Anyway, dear friend and fellow American patriot, Chas Cornweller, staying with your droll (curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement) statement that “the specter of Communism was created out of failure and lack of understanding between nations and economic philosophies,” which is horse****, and I say this with good spirit and gladness in my own heart, I am very thankful for the opportunity in here to lift you out of the state of benighted ignorance your faulty education has left you in, and show you the truth, the light and the American Way.
And here, dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, I am talking about the COMINTERN!
Didn’t your teachers when you were at a young age ever talk to you about the COMINTERN, Chas Cornweller?
Did they discuss it in some detail with you like my teachers did with me when I was young?
Didn’t they warn you of its threat to our REPUBLIC, dear friend and fellow America patriot Chas Cornweller?
Did your teachers tell you that the COMINTERN wanted to turn the United States of America into a SOCIALIST REPUBLIC so it could join the joyous workers of Russia in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
Did they tell you that many people in this country were so enamored with Communism that they left here and went to live in Russia as a Commie?
Or is it that they skipped right over all of that, so that you would remain ignorant and look off in some other direction while the COMINTERN, although re-named as something else, fulfilled its goal of eliminating our national boundaries and integrating us into the one-world government of the United Soviet?
And so that I can properly fulfill my role in here as an older American who does not have his head in his ***, and truly help poor benighted Chas Cornweller out of his mental stupor which is a result of poor education in this country, as Wikipedia, for the sake of convenience, so I don’t have to write it all out, the Communist International (Comintern), known also as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international organization that advocated world communism.
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Check out the dates, there, my dear friend Chas Cornweller – it was long before the sixties that the cracks began appearing, as we see from this following:
The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to “struggle by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the state”.
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Now, tell me, Chas Cornweller, does the resolve of the Comintern to “struggle by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the state” sound like a benign goal to you?
Is that something a real American citizen should welcome, Chas Cornweller, seeing our Republic overthrown by the COMINTERN by all available means, including armed force, and made a part of an international Soviet republic?
Is that the solution to all our problems, Chas Cornweller – forgetting that we have our own country, which the Soviet Socialists feel is very greedy on our part, nationalism, don’t you know, and getting rid of all our borders, just like Nancy Pelosi and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and the Democratic Socialists of America, including Congresspersons AOC and Rashida Tlaib want to do?
Is it time to put this silly notion of being American citizens to rest for once and for all, and to instead become citizens of the world, and join in solidarity with our democracy-loving brothers in Gabon and the Congo and Zimbabwe and Libya and Somalia in a true one-world government, where everybody would finally get a say as to our future, in stead of it being limited to just us?
Maybe it is me that needs to be enlightened here, Chas Cornweller.
Maybe I am missing something here.
If so, what a favor you would do the candid world by showing me the error of my ways.
Paul Plante says
And talk about the wind howling and yowling to beat the band last night, and a huge mother of a fierce storm blowing through, Chas Cornweller, last night was a pure doozy of one, and that is a fact, at least up here where I am in the frozen wilderness to the north of serene and balmy Cape Charles, Virginia, said to rival downtown Pasadena, California for the pleasantness of its climate and a go-to destination for those tired of living in the cold tundra regions of America, where there is no cell phone service and the only real entertainment to speak of in the winter is listening to the wolves outside your door howling all night, and it had nothing to do with either rain or snow.
No, Chas Cornweller, it was a STUPID STORM the likes of which I have never seen in this country in my lifetime, anyway, coming at us from down there in the corrupt TEN MILES SQUARE of Washington, D.C., where if America was to get an enema, which the national government gadly needs, there is where the hose would be inserted, and it starred two absolute fools, one of them named Nancy who God save the nation is only two heartbeats away from the Oval Office, and the other, the Democratic Socialist “running dog” (a servile follower, especially of a political system) and lackey (a servant) Charley “Chuck” Schumer, the U.S. senator from New York City who came on international television last night before hundreds of millions of viewers across not only America, but the whole wide world, as well, and told us as follows, to wit:
“The symbol of America should be the Statue of Liberty.”
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Now, consider that this is coming from someone who actually dares to call himself a “United States Senator,” when in reality, he is anything but.
Oh, yes, Chas, you will say “but, Paul, he was elected so he must be a senator,” to which I would respond that he was elected by the people of New York City and environs, and maybe Buffalo and Rochester.
The majority of the state, which does not count, didn’t want the cowardly Charley “Chuck” Schumer in Congress representing the interests of OUR state, but Charley “Chuck’s” immigrant base in New York City is able to stifle our voices by sheer weight of numbers, as we can clearly see from this GOTHAMIST article by Raphael Pope-Sussman on Feb. 1, 2017, as follows:
Hundreds of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures Tuesday night on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza at a rally calling upon U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to take a firm stand against the Trump administration.
The rally was the latest in a series of weekly gatherings poetically dubbed “What the F*ck, Chuck?” outside the senator’s Brooklyn home on Prospect Park West and his offices in Midtown.
As a series of speakers stood on a platform and shouted over a mobile PA system, protesters cheered and jeered as they held signs with slogans like “Buck Up Chuck”; “Resisting Trump Is Your Primary Duty”; and “Filibuster Filibuster Filibuster.”
Hae-Lin Choi, of the Democratic Socialists of America and Resist Trump NY, took the stage first, announcing herself as an immigrant and telling the crowd why organizers had called for the protest.
“We planned this rally to Schumer’s home to help him find the spine and maybe some of the other body parts he needs to grow,” she said, citing Schumer’s early “yea” votes on Trump’s nominees to lead Defense, Homeland Security, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Choi said organizers were encouraged by Schumer’s announcement in recent days that he would vote no on eight more nominees, but that they see this as a bare minimum and they intend to keep up the pressure.
“Senator Schumer must be bold and stand with the working class,” she cried over the loudspeaker.
“He has to champion the resistance or get out of the way and we’ll find someone that will.”
As Choi spoke, the crowd chanted, “Stand up, or get out of the way.”
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That, my dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, was on February 1, 2017.
And now, not quite two years later, this same Democratic Socialist “running dog” Charley “Chuck” Schumer is doing exactly what his Democratic Socialist masters like Hae-Lin Choi want him to do, which is to resist Trump by any means, even if that means engineering a government shut-down that he can then blame on Trump, as if Trump were the Congress, instead of the executive magistrate.
Getting back to the Statue of Liberty, it is not a symbol of America and was never intended to be.
The symbol of America is OUR UNITED STATES FLAG, although you will never hear the Democratic Socialist “running dog” Charley “Chuck” Schumer admitting that, because what the flag really does stand for is everything that Charley “Chuck” Schumer and his Democratic Socialist masters are against, including us veterans in this country who bled for that flag in foreign countries while the precious Charley “Chuck,” who was certainly of an age when less privileged Americans were getting drafted, or like myself, volunteering, stayed back here where it was safe so he could play at partisan politics.
As to the “liberty” associated with the Statue of Liberty, which was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution, that “liberty” is ours as American citizens, because we, or some of us, anyway, Charley “Chuck” Schumer not included, are willing to put OUR lives on the line to defend it.
“To those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”.
That was Teddy Roosevelt speaking, and when he mentioned the “sheltered,” he was making direct reference to this Democratic Socialist “running dog” Charley “Chuck” Schumer who is one of the gravest threats to our liberty and our Republican frame of government here in the United States of America.
Instead, Charley “Chuck” and Nancy want to govern our country by temper tantrum, as they clearly showed us last night on international television.
As to actually “governing” our nation, which is not Charley “Chuck’s” responsibility as a senator, nor Nancy’s as House speaker, although she seems to think she is now the president, in a Fox News article entitled “Pelosi, Schumer accuse Trump of spreading ‘misinformation,’ ‘malice’ in Oval Office address” by Samuel Chamberlain on 9 January 2019, we were told as follows, to wit:
Schumer called on Trump to approve legislation ending the partial government shutdown “while allowing debate over border security to continue.”
“We can re-open the government and continue to work through disagreements about policy,” Schumer said.
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Hmmmmmm, you know what I am saying here?
How long has this “debate” over “border security” been going on now?
How about a Marketwatch article by Darrell Delamaide on Nov. 7, 2012 entitled “Senate Democratic wins may thwart grand bargain,” where we find as follows:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – There’s probably no bigger fan of the tea party movement in America right now than Senate majority leader Harry Reid.
After he won his own re-election in 2010 facing tea-party nominee Sharron Angle, Reid saw his Senate majority grow this week as tea-party candidates in key races resulted in Democrats winning even in solidly red states like Indiana and Missouri.
Democrats look likely to increase their majority to 56 counting independents in Vermont and Maine from 53 in the current Congress.
In his victory speech last night, the president, as all winning candidates do, paid homage to bipartisan cooperation.
“I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together,” Obama said, listing the deficit, the tax code, immigration and oil imports as urgent issues requiring bipartisan solutions.
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So, people, there is a benchmark and data point – on November 7, 2012, then president of America Hussein Obama had Democrat-controlled senate that included the Democratic Socialist “running dog” Charley “Chuck” Schumer, and lo and behold , IMMIGRATION was an URGENT issue that Hussein wanted to tackle, so why didn’t he?
Why, on 9 January 2019 are we hearing the running dog Charley “Chuck” Schumer telling us that we need still more debate on immigration?
HOW MANY MORE YEARS, Charley “Chuck”?
Or how about the National Journal article “Obama’s Agenda Threatens to Divide the Democratic Party – Hillary Clintons ability to win the White House in 2016 depends on the president moving to the middle, not playing to his base.” by Josh Kraushaar on 19 November 2014, as follows:
President Obama’s biggest problem over the next two years may not be coming from recalcitrant Republicans, but from members of his own party blanching at his activist agenda over the final two years of his presidency.
While the midterm election results suggested widespread dissatisfaction with the president’s policies, Obama nonetheless is planning to press forward on several polarizing decisions in his final two years.
It could help advance his legacy, but come at the expense of the Democratic Party’s long-term health.
Three of the administration’s biggest agenda items – threatening a veto of bipartisan legislation authorizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, reaching a nuclear deal with Iran, and issuing an executive order legalizing millions of illegal immigrants – divide Democrats, and unite Republicans.
If the president moves forward with all of them, it would aggravate fissures in an increasingly-divided Democratic Party.
And it would put Hillary Clinton, his party’s expected 2016 standard-bearer, in an uncomfortable position even before she announces her candidacy.
She’s already avoided taking stances, if not outright rejecting the direction Obama is heading during his final two years in office.
The dirty secret in Washington is that while Obama (rightly) blamed Republicans for holding positions to the right of the American electorate, the president is pursuing policies that are equally as far to the left.
Public opinion is more closely divided on immigration reform.
Majorities sympathize with the ends but not the means of the administration’s intent to issue an executive order legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants.
There’s a reason that the president avoided intervening in the middle of the midterm campaign, a telltale acknowledgement that a unilateral decision was a major political loser.
The latest round of polling backs that up.
Among all adults surveyed in a new USA Today poll, a 46 percent plurality want the president to wait for the GOP Congress to act on immigration, while 42 percent support the president’s desire to act now.
If the sample was of registered voters, the margin would be even greater.
Within the White House, the prevailing political support for the sweeping executive action is twofold: Win back enthusiasm from Hispanic voters, and bait Republicans into opposing the move in the most self-defeating way possible.
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And stop the presses right there, people – four years and two months ago, within the Democrat-controlled White House, the prevailing political support for sweeping executive action by Hussein Obama was twofold – win back enthusiasm from Hispanic voters, and bait Republicans into opposing the move in the most self-defeating way possible.
BAIT REPUBLICANS!
Political BULL**** by the Democrats, which is never going to end, because immigration to the game-playing Democrats is a football they will keep kicking around forever – BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING POSITIVE TO OFFER – just the same endless political BULL**** that Charley “Chuck” and Nancy were offering us last night.
So yes, people, last night, a big storm with howling and yowling wind blew through, and the wind was not called Mariah – no, this time it was Nancy and Charley “Chuck” Schumer, the cowardly “running dog” of the Democratic Socialists of America, who incidentally want to do away with Customs at the same time we are being told that the majority of illegal drugs coming into this country through LEGAL PORTS OF ENTRY.
So when the Democratic Socialists now in charge of “THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE” down in Washington. D.C. do away with Customs at these ports of entry where all these illegal drugs are poring through, because the DO-NOTHING CONGRESS has failed to stop them, exactly who is that going to benefit?
And now, back to you, Chas Cornweller!
Paul Plante says
Let me say, my dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, that if the failing Washington Post had political philosophers and essayists like yourself on its staff, instead of the juvenile and insipid writers it employs who continue to churn out shallow works that are vapid, it wouldn’t be the failing rag that it is today, but hey, enough about the Washington Post!
In your masterful essay above, you make these three observations, to wit:
* America is at a cross road.
* We as a people, are at that cross road as well.
* We have yet to define who we are.
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My reply is that we blew through that crossroad at ninety miles an hour back in 2016, when the Democrat Hillary Clinton irreparably harmed our nation by dividing it into “perfect people in every way,” i.e. Democrats, on the one hand, and on the other, “a BASKET of DEPLORABLES,” which is everyone in this country who does not toe the Democrat line, and my good friend Chas Cornweller, once Queen Hillary tore the lid off that Pandora’s Box, a die was cast and like was the case when the Democrats renounced our Republic back in the 1860s so they could form their own Confederation dedicated to holding other human beings in bondage, there is now no going back.
So yes, Chas Cornweller – storm clouds are now on the horizon!
And the wind is going to blow!
Time to hunker down, because like before, sides have been taken and lines have been drawn.
And there is where I will return when next I am back with the “NEW DAWN” agenda of the Democrats and we will see where that takes us in this discussion of our nation’s future.
Paul Plante says
And Chas Cornweller, let me say that I have read this essay of yours above here, word for word, several times in fact, because of all the separate and disparate items you have managed to pack in there in an effort to make it a comprehensive whole, which to the uninformed and those ignorant of actual American and world history, it would seem to be.
For example, in your essay you make a comment that “(P)rograms for veterans of that faraway war (VEET NAM) diminished,” which would lead the uninitiated to think that there actually had been some programs to begin with, and dear friend and fellow American patriot, let me tell you from first-hand experience that there really weren’t any.
We were the ones who were not welcome here.
We were the ones who were spit on when we came back, Chas Cornweller – “GET THE **** OUT, YOUR KIND NOT WANTED HERE!”
And it has been pretty much that way ever since.
We would have received a better welcome and more benefits if we had been illegal immigrants, instead of American citizens returning from a fight that a stupid Texan named LBJ started, but couldn’t handle once he got it heated up.
But enough of that, let’s go back to your statement that “(W)e have yet to define who we are,” and “(T)he closest we have come, was during the years nineteen forty-one to nineteen forty-five.”
As to defining who “we” are, dear friend Chas Cornweller, I truly don’t know who it is that has yet to define themselves, which sounds like perhaps a psychological affliction of some sort (Barack Obama confessed in his book that as a youth, he had no idea who he was, so the affliction Chas mentions is real, at least in Obama’s case), but I have never suffered from that affliction, myself.
I’m a human being who happens to be a citizen of the United States of America.
What more do I need to know, Chas?
As to us allegedly coming together during WWII, Chas, you should re-read your American history, and to help you do that, I am going to refer you to an NPR article entitled “Angry Days’ Shows An America Torn Over Entering World War II” from March 26, 2013, where we learn as follows (and we should have already by the 7th grade, if not earlier, assuming we did not have a faulty education):
During the debate over whether to invade Iraq, or whether to stay in Afghanistan, many people looked back to World War II, describing it as a good and just war — a war the U.S. knew it had to fight.
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There, my dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, is your premise above here, well stated.
But let’s go a bit deeper, shall we, to wit:
In reality, it wasn’t that simple.
When Britain and France went to war with Germany in 1939, Americans were divided about offering military aid, and the debate over the U.S. joining the war was even more heated.
It wasn’t until two years later, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war against the U.S., that Americans officially entered the conflict.
But from 1939 through 1941, Americans were deeply divided between interventionism and isolationism.
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Isolationism, Chas Cornweller!
Let the damn fools in Europe, who have never been at peace, and don’t know the meaning of the word, and likely never will, wipe each other from the face of the earth and maybe then there would finally be some peace in the world.
And don’t you remember from 7th grade civics, Chas Cornweller, that at the close of World War I, the United States receded into an inward-looking stance, and when he was elected president in 1920, Warren G. Harding promoted a “return to normalcy,” which signaled a resurgence of nativism, isolationism, and rejection of the progressive era’s governmental activism?
Now, of course, those words are very politically uncorrect here in the United States of America, where we no longer really have a country that is ours, as opposed to being a property of the world, but back then, people wanted peace.
And then there is an article about WWII entitled “Cracks in the Consensus: World War II” by Jessie Kindig, where we are informed about actual American history, as follows:
As elsewhere in the country, World War II in Seattle involved the mass participation of soldiers, a boom in wartime industry, and public displays of support.
Yet there were cracks in the consensus: the student movement of the 1930s, active in the Northwest, challenged both the spread of fascism and the drive to war, while a few Japanese residents of Seattle protested their loss of civil liberties in the internment camps.
During the 1930s, a nationwide student movement developed that, at its peak, involved hundreds of thousands of students.
Through its identification with the American labor movement and its links to the radical organizations of the World War I decade, the 1930s student movement was very different from the antiwar activism that developed on campuses in the 1960s.
Made up of a coalition of liberals, pacifists, communists, and socialists, students in the 1930s sought to identify with the mass labor struggles of the decade, oppose racial discrimination in the US and fascism abroad, and advocated for domestic relief programs.
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Here we are back in the 1930s, Chas, not the 1960s.
And much like today, back then, and not surprisingly, the liberals were hooked up with the pacifists, communists, and socialists, which is going to give us a nice segue in the “NEW DAWN” movement of “leader” Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Socialists of America in our times today, but that is for later.
Getting back to the 1930s, the largest student demonstrations of the period were explicitly anti-war and anti-fascist, and aimed at avoiding another world war.
At the University of Washington, student activists in the American Students’ Union (ASU) organized protests, meetings, and anti-ROTC campaigns to such an extent that the dean of the University handed their information over to the FBI.
So much for us all being together, arm-in-arm, singing Kumbaya while teaching the world to sing in three-part harmony!
At the University of Oregon in Eugene, students led a 1,000-person campus protest as part of the 1935 national Student Strike Against War.
So, as that article concludes, the history of World War II in the Northwest, is much more complicated and contested than an era of victory gardens, industrial boom, and unquestioned wartime patriotism.
And then we have this from Wikipedia, to wit:
Opposition to World War II was most vocal during the early part of World War II, and stronger still before the war started.
Some communist-led organizations with links to Comintern opposed the war during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact but then backed it after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
However, the most popular communist organization in the US at the time, the Communist Party of the USA, firmly maintained an anti-fascist outlook on intervention throughout WWII, basing their policies on the need for a Popular Front against fascism.
Numerous US anti-Semites and anti-communists during the 1930s, notably within the Mothers’ movement led by Elizabeth Dilling, also opposed World War II on the basis that it would be preferable for Nazism rather than Communism to dominate Europe.
These women also wished to keep their own sons out of the combat US involvement in the war would necessitate, and believed the war would destroy Christianity and further spread atheistic Communism across Europe.
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And there, Chas Cornweller, is a real good place to pause to let everyone digest the ramifications of the belief within the Mothers’ movement in the United States of America led by Elizabeth Dilling that it would be preferable for Nazism rather than Communism to dominate Europe back in the 1940s, which seems a bit at odds with your premise that we were against fascism back then.
As to the mothers’ movement in the United States of America back then, it included ultra-conservative, isolationist women’s groups in the United States, beginning in California in 1939, soon after the start of World War II.
At its height it consisted of 50 to 100 loosely confederated groups, with a total membership that may have been as high as five or six million.
Members were typically white, middle class, middle aged Christian women.
They organised petitions and demonstrations, published propaganda, and were active in political campaigns.
They are credited with having delayed US assistance to the Allies.
Their activity declined after the Great Sedition Trial of 1944, but their leaders’ opposition to the war continued.
So, Chas Cornweller, given all of that, is it really all that surprising that we remain a divided nation today?
Paul Plante says
And Chas Cornweller, while we are on the subject of watching the weather (cold up this way today with a clear sky and getting colder tonight and tomarrow, down towards zero), do you remember these words:
“You fools!”
” You know how to interpret the weather signs of the earth and sky, but you don’t know how to interpret the present times.”
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That was the Nazarene you are so fond of, or as we call him up here in the frozen wastes north of balmy Cape Charles, the rebel Jesus, speaking there, just before he got his *** nailed to a tree for daring to say those words to the powerful of his time, so the Nazarene was a weather watcher too, for all the good it ended up doing him.
So why don’t people today, in this day and age of high tech computer weather models, know how to interpret the present times?
Is it because we have become a nation of idiots and deluded fools?
Or is it because people now have their noses stuck so far into their personal hand-held devices that they no longer know there even is a sky over their heads, figuring that if a storm is brewing, or a blizzard coming, that their state governor will give them a warning and tell them to evacuate in time?
Anyway, dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, before we get to the “NEW DAWN” movement of “leader” Pelosi and the Democratic Socialists who now own the gutless Charley “Chuck” Schumer lock, stock and barrel and are turning what used to be the United States House of Representatives in the the “People’s House,” and staying with your premise that the specter of Communism in this country was created out of failure and lack of understanding between nations and economic philosophies, which I have previously said was horse****, do you remember the words “BETTER DEAD THAN RED?”
I certainly do, Chas Cornweller, because I was one of the ones in this country saying them, and it wasn’t a slogan, Chas Cornweller, nor was it a sound bite – quite to the contrary, it was a sentiment, and it was a real one.
And that is before the sixties came around.
People like me back then did not want to be COMMIES, and we still don’t, although I think we are very much in a minority in this country today, given that the Democratic Socialists, who would rather be red than dead, have taken over our former United States House of Representatives and have turned it into the “People’s House.”
As to why your premise that the specter of Communism in this country was created out of failure and lack of understanding between nations and economic philosophies is pure bull****, and this something we learned as children up here where I am, children who were ready to meet the Commies with gun in hand if they dared to invade us and make us their slaves, consider that the term’s modern usage originated with Victor d’Hupay, an 18th-century French aristocrat who advocated living in “communes” in which all property would be shared and “all may benefit from everybody’s work.”
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“All may benefit from everybody’s work,” Chas Cornweller, and of course, from your own high school history class, you will recall that as the premise the Pilgrims based their society on when they landed in this country back when, and the idea was hardly new even at that time, because the Book of Acts in the Bible describes first-century Christian communities holding property in common according to a system known as koinonia, which inspired later religious groups such as the 17th-century English “Diggers” to reject private ownership.
It was that rejection of private property and the prospect of having to live in a commune, when we were a free people, thanks to the force of our arms, that turned us off to Communism when I was young, and Chas Cornweller, it still does to this day, as politically uncorrect as that might sound in the face of “BOO HOO BERNIE” Sanders, himself a notorious socialist, being quoted in a Fox News article entitled “Pelosi, Schumer accuse Trump of spreading ‘misinformation,’ ‘malice’ in Oval Office address” by Samuel Chamberlain on 9 January 2019 as saying, “(L)et us end this shutdown and bring the American people together around an agenda that will improve life for all of our people.”
So let us, Chas Cornweller, dig a little deeper into this agenda that socialist “BOO HOO BERNIE” Sanders is postulating that will “improve life for all of our people,” by examining the role of socialism as a mile marker on the road to communism in this country, since we are talking about
Communism in the United States of America where it has been entrenched since the 1920s.
So Chas, what is Communism?
How about Communism is a political and economic ideology that positions itself in opposition to liberal democracy and capitalism, advocating instead a classless system in which the means of production are owned communally and private property is nonexistent or severely curtailed?
Do you think that that definition of Communism is somehow created out of failure and lack of understanding between nations and economic philosophies?
But how could it be, Chas, when it is an established fact taught to us as children in this country that modern communist ideology began to develop during the French Revolution, and its seminal tract, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ “Communist Manifesto,” was published in 1848?
Do you think that we were ignorant of the Communist Manifesto in this country, given that it was published in 1848, when Jimmy Polk, a Democrat and an advocate of Jacksonian democracy, which was largely limited to Americans of European descent where voting rights were extended to adult white males only, with little or no progress for the rights of African Americans and Native Americans, was president?
Or do you think that because we didn’t have cell phones and TWITTER and FACEBOOK yet, that we were simply too primitive and stupid to understand it because we lack the sheer intelligence and intellectual horsepower of today’s millenials who are the smartest people who have ever walked the earth, with Democratic Socialist AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), who incidentally is a fantastic dancer, being about the smartest one of all, which is why she is a Democratic Socialist today?
Getting back to the Communist Manifesto, which I was familiar with back in the 7th grade, having been given a copy by an Estonian refugee in this country who was trying to talk me in to becoming an anarchist and Commie like he was, that pamphlet rejected the Christian tenor of previous communist philosophies, laying out a materialist and – its proponents claim – scientific analysis of the history and future trajectory of human society.
“The history of all hitherto existing society,” Marx and Engels wrote, “is the history of class struggles.”
The Communist Manifesto presented the French Revolution as a major historical turning point, when the “bourgeoisie” – the merchant class that was in the process of consolidating control over the “means of production” – overturned the feudal power structure and ushered in the modern, capitalist era.
That revolution replaced the medieval class struggle, which pitted the nobility against the serfs, with the modern one pitting the bourgeois owners of capital against the “proletariat,” the working class who sell their labor for wages.
In the Communist Manifesto and later works, Marx, Engels and their followers advocated and predicted as historically inevitable a global proletarian revolution, which would usher in first an era of socialism, then of communism.
This final stage of human development would mark the end of class struggle and therefore of history: all people would live in social equilibrium, without class distinctions, family structures, religion or property.
The state, too, would “wither away.”
The economy would function, as a popular Marxist slogan puts it, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
There, my good friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, is the “agenda” the socialist “BOO HOO BERNIE” Sanders wants us to buy into, and as we shall see as we examine the “NEW DAWN” agenda of “leader” Pelosi, that is the agenda that the Democratic Socialists in this country want to jam down our throats, or else – “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Are you for that, dear friend, Chas Cornwller?
Is that why you mare trying to present Communism in here in such a favorable light?
The candid world would truly like to know, and I would, as well.
In the meantime, since it is going down cold tonight and the wolves will be howling, I’ve got to go tend the fire, or I’ll find myself with wolves chewing on my leg bones in the morning, trying to get at the marrow, but God willing, and the wind out of Washington. D.C. don’t blow the house down around me, I’ll be back to continue this most interesting and enlightening discussion you have started here, thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror.
Paul Plante says
And before I continue on with this fascinating discussion started by our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller, I would once again like to pay tribute to the Cape Charles Mirror for hosting this discussion.
According to the version of American history that I learned when young, which seems vastly different from the version of American history Chas Cornweller was taught, at the beginning of our nation’s political history after the signing of the Constitution on September 17th, 1787, a robust debate grew among supporters of the document and those, for various reasons, who were opposed to its ratification as written, or at all.
As I was taught when young, this “out of doors,” to use the language of the times, debate took place in the newspapers, taverns, parlors, and homes of Americans across the 13 states, and served as the public backdrop to the considerations, debates, and eventual decisions of the ratification conventions that would determine the fate of the Constitution and the republic it proposed.
Today, the Cape Charles Mirror is the only publication in America today that I am aware of that still carries on that distinctly American tradition by hosting the political discussions and debates that it does which may well serve to determine the fate of the Constitution and the republic it proposed in our times today, as we see our nation drifting further and further apart into two opposing camps, as was the case during the civil war in this country commonly called the American Revolution, and again during the civil war in this country known variously as the War Between the States or the War of Northern Aggression.
God help the nation if all we had back then were the Washington Post and the New York Times, because if that was the case, there would have been no debate, at all – just bull**** as is the case with those two rags today, and especially the Washington Post, which is little more than a propaganda sheet for those in power in the corrupt and inept capital of Washington, D.C., much as Pravda in Russia is a propaganda sheet for the Kremlin.
And that thought takes us back James Wilson who is credited for being the most learned of the Framers of the Constitution, and whom a fellow delegate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia assessed as follows:
“Government seems to have been his peculiar study, all the political institutions of the world he knows in detail, and can trace the causes and effects of every revolution from the earliest stages of the Grecian commonwealth down to the present time.”
Now, those are the types of people that we had in this nation at the time of its beginning – people who unlike the ignorant bottom-feeding partisan political hacks we are encumbered with today, the Schiffs, the Pelosis, the Schumers, the Hillary Clintons, the Barack Obamas, actually knew something about history.
Along with James Madison, James Wilson was perhaps the best versed of the framers in the study of political economy, which is the study of production and trade and their links with custom, government and law, and the study and use of how economic theory and methods influence and develop different social and economic systems, such as capitalism, socialism and communism, and it also analyzes how public policy is created and implemented.
With respect to education in this country, back then, at the time of our nation’s beginning, James Wilson, who unlike Hillary Clinton today made no claim of being either infallible, as is Hillary, or perfect in every way possible this, raised what was considered the most important question of that era: having acted upon revolutionary principles in setting up the new country, “Why should we not teach our children those principles, upon which we ourselves have thought and acted?”
“Ought we to instil into their tender minds a theory, especially if unfounded, which is contradictory to our own practice, built on the most solid foundation?”
“Why should we reduce them to the cruel dilemma of condemning, either those principles which they have been taught to believe, or those persons whom they have been taught to revere?”
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That is the basis of my early education in this country as an AMERICAN citizen, as opposed to a citizen of Kenya, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Gabon, or Somalia, and it has absolutely nothing to do with skin color, to wit: We should teach our children those principles, upon which the founders have thought and acted, as opposed to how things might be done anywhere else in the world, which brings us to our present times where all these debates about “white nationalism” and such are raging.
As we used to be told in this country before the education system which produced Chas Cornweller came into being, those were no mere academic questions, as we see from the opening of Justice Wilson’s opinion in Chisholm v. State of Georgia, 2 U.S. 419 (1793), one of the most momentous decisions in American history, to wit:
“This is a case of uncommon magnitude.”
“This question, important in itself, will depend on others, more important still; and, may, perhaps, be ultimately resolved into one, no less radical than this ‘do the people of the United States form a Nation?'”
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Do we?
Or don’t we?
In order to arrive at an answer to this question, one that would provide the foundation for the United States of America, Wilson knew that legal thinkers had to resolve in their minds clearly the question of the difference between “the principles of the constitutions and governments and laws of the United States, and the republics, of which they are formed” and the “constitution and government and laws of England.”
Today, as we clearly see from this discussion, it is now a question of the difference between “the principles of the constitutions and governments and laws of the United States, and the republics, of which they are formed” and the principles of Communism as were laid out in the Communist Manifesto and later works of Marx, Engels and their followers who advocated and predicted as historically inevitable a global proletarian revolution, which would usher in first an era of socialism, then of communism, as we are now seeing with the “NEW DAWN FOR AMERICA” movement of “Leader” Pelosi and the Democratic Socialists of America, whose vision entails nothing less than the radical democratization of all areas of life, not least of which is the economy.
According to “Leader” Pelosi and the Democratic Socialists, under capitalism, we are supposed to take for granted that a small, largely unaccountable group of corporate executives, the new “bourgeois owners of capital,” should make all fundamental decisions about the management of a company comprised of thousands of people, the modern-day “proletariat,” or working class who sell their labor for wages..
According to “Leader”Pelosi and the Democratic Socialists who form the backbone of her “NEW DAWN FOR AMERICA” movement, which is the left-wing response to Trump’s “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” movement, this group, the bourgeois owners of capital, has the power to determine how most of us spend the lion’s share of our waking hours, as well as the right to fire anyone for basically any reason, no matter how arbitrary.
Under the “NEW DAWN FOR AMERICA” program of “Leader” Pelosi, this authoritarian system would be replaced with economic democracy, which simply means that their “democracy” would be expanded beyond the election of political officials to include the democratic management of all businesses by the workers who comprise them and by the communities in which they operate.
Under the “NEW DAWN FOR AMERICA” movement, very large, strategically important sectors of the economy – such as housing, utilities and heavy industry – would be subject to democratic planning outside the market, while a market sector consisting of worker-owned and operated firms would be developed for the production and distribution of many consumer goods.
In this “NEW DAWN FOR AMERICA” society, large-scale investments in new technologies and enterprises would be made on the basis of maximizing the public good, rather than shareholder value.
Vital services such as health care, child care, education (from pre-K through higher education), shelter and transportation would be publicly provided to everyone on demand, free of charge.
Further, in order to ensure that the enjoyment of full citizenship was not tied to ups and downs in the labor market, everyone would also receive a universal basic income – that is, a base salary for every member of society, regardless of the person’s employment status, and the work week would be gradually reduced and vacation time would be expanded to guarantee that everyone in society benefited from increasingly efficient technologies that decrease the overall amount of labor needed in the economy.
Under the “NEW DAWN FOR AMERICA,” economic democracy would be complemented in the political sphere by a new system that combined an overhauled form of representative democracy with direct democracy, a system in which individuals participate directly in the making of political decisions that affect them.
And perhaps most importantly, in the “NEW DAWN FOR AMERICA” system proposed by the Democratic Socialists, who own the gutless and worthless U.S. Senator from New York City Charley “Chuck” Schumer and supported by “Leader” Pelosi, the Senate, which they call “an extremely unrepresentative political body in which states with very small populations have the same level of representation as the most populous states,” would be abolished, and a system of proportional representation would be established so that Congress actually reflects the political will of the new American electorate, as the life prospects of many white people in America continue to decline so that demographic tides shift steadily toward a United States in which people of color constitute a majority.
So now, we begin to see the connection between past and present that our dear friend and fellow American patriot has laid out for us in his masterful political essay above.
And here, once again, I will take a pause.
Paul Plante says
And no wonder our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller is so concerned about the weather!
And he is right to be, afterall.
Actually, everybody should be concerned, but as history shows us in the case of the story of the Three Little Pigs, two-thirds of the population are going to be out there partying, instead of wondering or worrying whether the wind is going to blow, and today, when we have state governors telling us what the weather is going to be, and when to stay indoors, and whether to wear sun screen or our galoshes, instead, it’s no wonder that they are.
And why is Chas right to be worried?
Well, for that answer, we need go no further than a FOX News article entitled “Hillary Clinton calls 2018 ‘a dark time for our country'” by Samuel Chamberlain on 1 January 2019, where Hillary, who would know, because she was the one who set it all in motion, tells us as follows:
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton bid farewell to 2018 on Instagram Monday by calling the previous 365 days “a dark time for our country.”
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This of course is the very same Hillary we read about in an ARABIAN BUSINESS article entitled “Saudi gives lavish gifts to Clinton, Obama – Kingdom gave most expensive gifts to former secretary of state, President in 2012, registry reveals” on 01 Sep. 2013, where we learned that in addition to taking gold jewellery worth $500,000 from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah in exchange for Hillary turning her back on human rights violations against women in Saudi Arabia, she also was gifted with $560 worth of cognac from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who along with Hillary today, is celebrating the political chaos in this country that Hillary, who hates at least half of the citizens of America, calling them a “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES,” created by causing divisions in American society that Putin was then able to successfully exploit to his benefit, and to the benefit of the Democrats, as well, and Hillary herself.
In 2012, Hillary was tight enough with Putin, whose aim is to disrupt the Western alliance and whose aim is to make Western democracy more fractious in order to weaken our ability, America’s ability and the West’s ability to spread our Republican ideals, to get a gift from him, whether as a down payment, or retainer, or token of good faith, we don’t yet know, and maybe never will, given that Hillary has thoroughly scrubbed and erased all records of her meetings and communications with Putin from her private server she was using at the time to avoid United States government scrutiny of her back channel communications with Putin, and four years later, she was calling Trump a Russian puppet, while on his end, Putin, a former KGB agent, was cranking up his disinformation machinery to make it appear that Russia was really for Trump, when in fact, what Russia wanted is exactly what they have in this country today, which is the political chaos that has shut down our national government, which chaos we just saw an exultant Hillary openly celebrating in a USA TODAY article “‘Like I said: A puppet,’ Hillary Clinton tweets after recent reports about Trump, Russia” by William Cummings on 14 January 2019, as follows:
President Donald Trump’s vanquished 2016 Democratic opponent appears to be relishing his recent difficulties with news reports about his relationship with Russia.
“Like I said: A puppet,” Hillary Clinton tweeted Monday, referencing a famous exchange between her and Trump during their third and final presidential debate.
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Hillary, of course, can relish those “difficulties” because she is the one who along with her boyfriend Putin, helped to set them in motion.
And beyond that, of course, Chas is right to be very concerned about which way the wind is going to blow in this country, what with a RED DAWN rising in the Democrat-controlled United States House of Representatives, just renamed by “LEADER” Pelosi as the “People’s House,” or American Duma, based on a JACOBIN article entitled “Who Is Adam Schiff?” by Branko Marcetic on 02.15.2018, where we were informed as follows:
Since Donald Trump’s election, a number of Democrats have tried to cast themselves as leaders of the “resistance.”
Few have done it with more gusto than Adam Schiff.
Schiff’s alarmism has paid off for him personally, catapulting him to national prominence and supplying him a potent theme for fundraising.
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Where Schiff, a Burbank, California Democrat Congressman, came from is explained to us in an article in The California Sunday Magazine entitled “The Quiet Anger of Adam Schiff – Two years ago, he was a respected but little-known congressman from Los Angeles. Today, he’s the face of the Democrats’ opposition to Trump.” by Andy Kroll on July 18, 2018, as follows:
“‘I’m going into politics.’”
Karl Thurmond, who met Schiff at Harvard Law, was one of his closest friends in Los Angeles and used to get together with Schiff every week.
Once, when they were jogging down San Vicente Boulevard, Thurmond says Schiff told him he wanted to run for president one day.
Schiff ran for state Assembly again in 1994 and narrowly lost.
Then, two years later, he announced his candidacy for a state Senate seat.
His friends worried that if he was defeated a third time he’d be labeled a perennial loser; his political career would be over before it started.
But with Skelton on board, he finally won, and he soon earned a reputation in Sacramento as a workaholic eager to make a name for himself.
After only two years there, he caught the eye of Democratic donors and strategists.
David Geffen, the Hollywood music mogul, was fuming as he watched Bill Clinton’s impeachment on TV.
One of the Republican leaders in the trial was a boisterous congressman named Jim Rogan, who represented Burbank and Pasadena.
Geffen called one of his advisers and asked: “Can we beat this guy?”
Within a few months, Schiff was recruited to run against Rogan, and he had the full backing of Los Angeles’s Democratic establishment.
Geffen and Steven Spielberg hosted his first fundraiser; early donors included DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, Power Rangers creator Haim Saban, and former MCA chair Lew Wasserman.
The backdrop of Clinton’s impeachment — and Rogan’s prominent role in it — helped Schiff raise nearly $5 million from 30,000 donors.
By Election Day, the two candidates had spent $11.6 million — the most of any House race in history at the time.
Schiff says that the Russia investigation has typecast him — that it overshadows his years of expertise in national security — but he also acknowledges that it has given him newfound stature.
He’s so popular with the Democratic base that by mid-July he’d raised $3.5 million for the party’s congressional candidates.
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But enough of Adam, let’s focus on that word “alarmism” above here as in “Schiff’s alarmism has paid off for him personally, catapulting him to national prominence and supplying him a potent theme for fundraising,” which has our dear friend and fellow American patriot Chas Cornweller so concerned, and rightfully so.
What is “alarmism?”
According to its simple dictionary definition, “alarmism,” a specialty of this Adam Schiff, is “the often unwarranted exciting of fears or warning of danger,” as was, apropos this thread, Chicken Little running around telling everyone the sky was going to fall.
Wikipedia takes it a bit further by telling us that “alarmism” is excessive or exaggerated alarm about a real or imagined threat, and in the news media, and here of course we are talking about the New York Times, the Washington Post and NBC News, alarmism can also be a form of yellow journalism.
As Wikipedia tells us with respect to Adam Schiff, the alarmist person is subject to the cognitive distortion of catastrophizing – of always expecting the worst of possible futures, in in the case of Adam Schiff specifically, the alarmist person may also be seeking to preserve feelings of omnipotence by generating anxiety and concern in others, along with using alarmism as a ploy to raise a lot of money for themselves, and of course, in this case, the Democrat party with its “NEW DAWN RISING” agenda for America’s future, which actually looks decidedly pink and dangerous for those of us in this country who have been lumped into Hillary’s “BASKET OF DEPLORABLES.”
So, yes, people, red sky in the morning, wise sailors and patriotic Americans take warning!