ERIK RUSH OP-ED: No Greater Evil

The conservative Republican asserts that communism is back in America and currently occupies the White House: "The dream of global communism did not die with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall or The People's Republic of China adopting aspects of capitalism. As we now know, American communists have been quietly working, though in earnest, since the Bolsheviks gained power in Russia, toward a similar revolution in the United States. Despite a popular swing toward the right in America during the 1980s and mid 1990s, those factions have been in high gear since the civil-rights movement. As of now, they are operating in the open; all that remains, truly, is for them to lay claim to the brand 'communist.' Whether the individual far-left zealot in America is stupid, deluded or evil, the end game shall play out in the same manner: It will result in a society in which an unproductive, mediocre, larcenous few squeeze everyone else for their profit and pleasure."

He continues his commentary: "It is amusing – in a decidedly grim vein – to hear government and media mouthpieces attempt to defray accusations of socialistic and communistic elements within this White House's policies. Health-care reform legislation springs to mind, of course. Aside from the criminally intrusive ('criminally' meaning in a constitutional sense) nature of the current proposed legislation, it is an incontestably transparent payoff to Democrat political dependents and cronies. Then, there is the admitted affinity for Marxism on the part of Obama and certain of his acolytes (by way of validating this charge). When I hear President Obama complain about 'fat-cat bankers' and the harm they've done to our economy vis-à-vis the economic implosion that became manifest in fall 2008, for example, once again I experience that grim amusement. I am amused (as well as appalled and incensed) because Obama knows that it was socialist oligarchs such as Sens. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, and communists such as himself and Wade Rathke who poured sugar into America's economic gas tank."

More: "There was a time in America when being perceived as a communist was akin to being perceived as a child molester. It was once generally understood that, other than the power and glory communism brought to those in power, it held no redeeming qualities whatever. Yet, it remained possible for those middling, unimaginative fools who romanticized communism in their youth to coalesce that coveted power here. If you believe that we are all God's children (which I do), then there is nothing evil nor dishonorable in being a marginal or mediocre individual. In capitalistic nations, in fact, marginal, mediocre people often do quite well. If you want to know what far-left doctrine – communism in particular – really amounts to, this is it: A malevolent contrivance by which the marginal and mediocre enslave majority populations. This is the way it has always been, from Lenin on down to Obama. The scale and depth of human suffering this Congress and this administration is poised to initiate will, if these people are not stopped, earn them a spot among history's worst villains. I do not advocate extreme measures. However, if Americans who have recently become aware of how deeply imperiled we are, and those who shortly will be, do not dedicate themselves to utterly disenfranchising the political left over the next five to 10 years, they will, in a very short time, become impossible to extricate without the expenditure of force, blood and lives. Mark my words."