Episode 371: Communism in the USA

In this episode of The Fact Hunter, we trace the long, deliberate infiltration of communism into American life — from its early utopian experiments and radical labor movements, through the New Deal and Cold War espionage, to the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and the woke, technocratic collectivism of today. Along the way, we expose the individuals, institutions, and policies that carried Marxist ideology into our politics, schools, churches, and media. This deep dive explores how crises have been exploited to erode liberty and expand control, setting the stage for our next episode on Alger Hiss (and others), a high-ranking U.S. official and Soviet agent whose betrayal crystallized the communist threat within America’s halls of power.

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Episode Transcript

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Here is your host, George Hobbs. Welcome back truth seekers
from around the world. It's time for another edition of
the fact Hunter podcast. As we record on this Thursday,
October second, twenty twenty five, I am your host, as always,
George Hobbs. We welcome you. Hope everybody is having a
great week as we're, you know, coming in for another weekend.

(00:34):
You know, there's only four months left in this year.
It's crazy how fast time goes. Obviously, there's lots going
on on the world stage, whether it's you know, Hegsith
and Trump dressing down the military leadership for the world
to see, which was just unbelievable. You know, US acknowledging

(00:57):
yesterday they're going to help Ukraine with long range attacks,
the intel side France saying prepare for war. It's just
been one thing after another. But today the subject is
so big, it's so deep, it's so important, the history
of communism in America. Today, we're going to mostly focus
on the events, and when we do mention people, it'll

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be very bare boned because the next episode we will
be looking at the particular individuals where it's Harry Dexter White,
Lachlan Curry, Alger Hisss, Gus Hall, Robison, reed Zin Seeger,
all those folks. We're going to get into the individuals
and very important topic to lead up to that. So

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the next couple of podcasts that's what will be discussing.
I did want to share very briefly before we get
into the main topic today. There was something that happened
interesting on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, my wife and I
were running around taking you know, down in Dover picking

(02:02):
up some things orchard. We go by the Bavarian Bakery
in Dover, Delaware, and everybody who's been through here knows
exactly where that is. It's a staple in Dover. But
if bread, you know, pastries, just a really awesome German bakery.
So we pull in. There's a car with a flat

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tire in the front space right by the door, and
there was a older woman, I wouldn't say elderly, she
was in her mid to late sixties, sitting in the
passenger seat with her door open, on the phone, and
my wife and I walked up to her and were like,
are y' all good? Is everything okay? Do you need
help with anything? And she leaps out of her car

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and she doesn't answer the question. She goes into a
tirade about how I was the first person. She had
been sitting there for forty five minutes, and I was
the first person to even acknowledge her. And she was
so upset that not one person and this anybody who's

(03:09):
been to that, And I get it. There's not a
plethora of people, but it's a very busy bakery. It's
you know, every sixty seconds there's somebody pulling up and
going in there. They sell out of stuff really quick.
And she just went into a tirade about the world
we live in today. She said, I've been here for

(03:32):
forty five minutes. Obviously a flat tire. Everybody can see
it with her door open, and she said, not one
person in forty five minutes even said hey, do you
need anything? Can you know? And I asked, do you
want me to change your tire? Do you have a
spare tire in the back? She said that the tow

(03:53):
truck was just a couple of minutes out. She goes,
but just now, she said, you're the first person in
forty five minutes even ask me, and she was all
by herself, not one person, And she said, dozens upon
dozens upon dozens of people walked past her, wouldn't even
look at her. It's like, and that's the society we

(04:15):
largely live in today, right. I don't want to put
everything into one basket, because there's a lot of great
people out there. But that was a little disturbing that
not one person even offered any assistance and she was
I think, like many people in this country today, what

(04:35):
happened to our country? Right? Anybody who's been stationed at
Fort Drumm knows the rule that if you drive past
a soldier who was walking and not offer them a ride,
and if a senior NCO sees it, you'll get hammered
for that. And I don't know if it's the constant

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news cycle of people getting stabbed, shot and beat up
that has people so freaked out, but even if that's
the case, this woman was, I mean, a sixty five
ish woman just sitting in her car. There's no threat

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and nobody has the decency to acknowledge her. That was
a little heartbreaking. Me and my wife just couldn't believe it.
And then yesterday, my friend Mark old Mark Warheight used
to be a co host on Fridays on the radio show,
known him for forty years. When we can, we go

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into town, into Dover and we witness We just pass
out Bible tracks and we had some King James Bibles
and we weren't on the ground for five minutes and
there was a homeless man sitting if again, if you're
in Dover, you know where the Sands Club is, There's
a little shopping center right in front of it. And

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he was just sitting on the curb and we approached
him and I asked him his name. He said his
name was Matt and I gave him a Bible tracked
and I asked him if I could pray for him,
and he said yes please, and I put my hand
on his shoulder and we prayed and he said thank you,

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and we helped him out in a way we could.
And like, that's the one experience we always look for
anytime we go out. It's not about how many tracks
that we pass out, it's about can we have one
positive interaction with another human being? And it was awesome.

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And then sixty seconds later there's a guy leaning up
against his seventy five thousand dollars brand new truck, smoking
a cigarette, and we walked up to him and we
offered him. They said, can we give you this? And
he said get that crap out of here, except he
didn't say crap, he said just throw it all in

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the garbage. So within sixty seconds or whatever, right, we
went from a gentleman who had nothing was more than
willing to listen to a guy, you know, with a
seventy five thousand dollar truck. It doesn't mean he spent
seventy five thousand dollars on it, but you get what
I'm saying. And he wanted nothing to do with the word.
And it brought me all the way back to right.

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It's easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle than it is for a rich man
to get into heaven. It's just God sometimes talks to
you in interesting ways. Just back to back, those two responses,
one so positive and one so negative within sixty seconds, right,
really eye opening. So there you go. We're going to

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jump into it. We're going to set the stage for
communism in America, and I want you all to think
of it. Number one, have a pen and paper or
if you take notes on your phone, whatever. A lot
of good nuggets that we're going to put out there today.

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But this is more than a history lesson. This is
a pattern. And when you're connecting the dots, that's what
what you look for. Pattern recognition. Right now, this pattern
reaches back to our founding fathers, as they say, the
very founding of this country and stretches forward, not just

(08:34):
today but into the what's to come. Right, we're talking
about communism in America. Now, some people when you say that,
they'll roll their eyes. You silly conspiracy theorists. We're the
freest country in the world. It's twenty twenty five. You know,
communism died with the Berlin Wall and was that eighty nine? Right?

(08:58):
But let me ask you, the listener a question. Okay,
if communism is dead, why are there self described socialists
like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Okezia or Cortes sitting in
Congress today? Why do we have so many socialist governors
like JB. Pritzker in office like ours here in Delaware, right?

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Why do ninety percent of the universities in this country
openly teach Marxist frameworks under the name or should we say,
under the guise of critical race theory, gender theory, climate justice. Right,
Why does the World Economic Forum this you know, trove

(09:51):
of global elites of politics and finance. Why do they
always say you will own nothing and you'll be happy? Right?
Property taxes? You name it? Social security? And I challenged that,
and I want to touch on it now before we forget.

(10:13):
But we're going to address this Social security, right, something
you pay into to the federal government. Which do you
think the founding father you think that was part of
the plan for the federal government to become that much
of a monster. Maybe it was, and I've argued before
that it was. But let's play this card. You know,

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you start work at eighteen, you pay in till your
age of sixty, right, was that forty two years? And
you die at the age of six whatever happens, right,
you tragically pass away at the age of sixty. Guess what,
The money you paid into Social Security doesn't get paid

(10:57):
out to your family. Now, your work history may may
qualify you or eligible family members, I should say, for
survivor benefits such as and remember you've paid into this
for forty two years, a one time two hundred and
fifty five dollars death benefit. What at least if you

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paid into some type of savings account or whatever it
is that gets directly inherited to your family. Man, understand
that Social Security is not a is not a personal account.
It is and you can look it up by definition.
Listen to me. It is a social insurance program. Social Okay,

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So let's start from seventeen seventy six to today. We're
going to trace this steady i'll argue deliberate infiltration of
communist ideology. We're going to expose the individual born next week,
but some today moments, movements, laws, institutions that carried that

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red banner into our republic, and at the end again
into next week, we're going to pivot into the individuals
including Alger Hiss, a US official, a Soviet agent, and
living proof that this infiltration was not paranoia, but it
was fact. But before Hiss, before Stalin, before the Soviet Union,

(12:42):
the story begins at the very founding of this nation.
Two revolutions were born in seventeen seventy six. The first
was the American Revolution. Right, we declared our independence from
Great Britain. We insisted that the rights come from God,
not from govern and I played that audio for you

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within the last week, guy sitting in Congress said, ear,
laws don't come from God, they come from us. But
what was the Second Revolution? During that timeframe Adam Wishupt
founded the Bavarian Illuminati. What was his vision? The destruction
of monarchy, the destruction of family, the destruction of the

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nuclear family, which act blew today champions. And of course
what do they really despised. They despise God, they despise
the Church. They want all that replaced by a secular
order that are governed by elites, and we just become serfs. Right.

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So from the very start America stood between two worldviews,
God given liberty versus man made collectivism. Let's look at
the French connection. The French Revolution of seventeen eighty nine
carried a collectivist seed. Further right, the leader shouted liberty, equality, fraternity,

(14:13):
but its real fruit was mobrel de christianization and of
course the infamous guillotine. Road Speed declared that the basis
of popular government in time of revolution is both virtue

(14:33):
and terror. And Jefferson sympathized with certain aspects of the
French Revolution, and he wrote in seventeen ninety three quote
the liberty of the whole earth was depending on the
issue of the contest. John Adams, he was more cautious.
He warned that unchecked radicalism would lead only to tyranny,

(15:00):
and history vindicated Adams right. And what happened to France
It descended into bloodshed. But the Jacobin spirit of this
collectivist revolution, well, that influenced certain American intellectuals, especially amongst
elites and immigrants. So with the early eighteen hundreds, you know,

(15:29):
entering America, we became this testing ground for what would
be known as a utopian socialism. Give me some I'm
going to cite some examples here. You look at New Harmony,
Indiana in eighteen twenty five. It was founded by Robert
Owen there's a name you can write down in research.

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Sought to abolish private property and raised children communally. He
declared that man is the creature of circumstances. His experiment
collapsed within two years, partly due to laziness, internal conflicts,
and bankruptcy. Then you had Brook Farm, Massachusetts that ran

(16:16):
a little longer, about six years. It was inspired by
the socialist theories of Charles Fourier, compromised, I should say,
promise cooperative living right. And what happened the same as
new harmony. It ended in debt and destruction. Why because
people get greedy. So these failures, while they failed, they

(16:44):
didn't erase the seed. It proved that even in a
land built on liberty, there were always some eager to
trade freedom. Right, These people were always eager to trade
some freedom for collectivism. And then you have this immigrant
influence and all these as all of these waves of

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immigrants arrived to the United States. Many of them brought hope,
but they also brought their ideology. And that is something
we always raise our brows. If you're coming from a
failed economy, if you're coming from tyranny, why do you

(17:27):
bring those beliefs with you? This is what we're suffering
with in Delaware. Right. People hear the stories of the
Californians going to Texas, but they bring their ideology. You
heard the governor of Florida mentioning the other day the
New Yorkers need to stay out of here. We have

(17:48):
the same problem here in Delaware. We have retirees, woke
progressive liberals who were retiring from New York and their
moving down here because there's no sales tax. We had
very reasonable property tax until recently. Now they're trying to

(18:09):
you know, I've mentioned that before, but why would you
leave something that failed you and try to bring that
ideology with you. It makes no sense. So these German immigrants,
in particular, brought their socialist writings. You had radical labor
newspapers flourishing in cities like New York, Milwaukee, and Chicago.

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And then Karl Marx himself noticed, and we've covered this
a nauseum. He wrote about America during the Civil War,
right praising Lincoln's victory as a step towards centralization. And
when I did you know those episodes on Lincoln and
all that, How could you say anything negative about Lincoln?

(18:57):
And here you have Karl Marx praising Lincoln. And then
there's the infamous image. I want to say, it's around
nineteen thirty Chicago, the Communist Party gathering, and who was
the big picture of that they had hanging there? Lincoln.

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In eighteen sixty four, the International Workingmen's Association sent Lincoln
a letter. It said, the working men of Europe feel
sure that as the American War of Independence initiated, a
new era of ascendency for the middle class. So the
American anti slavery war will do for the working class now,

(19:43):
Lincoln replied, But Marx's interest wasn't freedom, it was opportunity.
A stronger centralized government meant easy year ground for socialism.
Your history books won't go into the thousands of people

(20:09):
who fought against the centralization of government in the late
eighteenth century. They knew that once you gave them just
a little power, once they put their foot inside the door,
it was all over. Now we have Trump RX, the
government is running health insurance. The government is taking you know,

(20:34):
in many cases up to half of your pay through everything.
You got to well, you gotta pay for that license
for your dog, ten dollars for that. You gotta pay
for your fishing license. You got to get your car registered.
You got to pay your property taxes. Then you got
attend many cases that paycheck that has already been taxed.
You got to pay sales tax. It is parasitic and

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it can't sustain. We can't stand. So what isn't talked
about enough is the Civil War gave socialism a doorway.
The First International openly aligned with who the Union not

(21:17):
because they cared about ending slavery. They saw a chance
to erode the state's right right just to take a
dump on the Tenth Amendment and increase centralized power. So
pause here and ask yourself. While Americans died at Antietam, Gettysburg,

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and Shiloh, what were radicals in London and Paris plotting.
I'll tell you what they were plotting. They were planning
how to use the war for their ideological game. It's
what they do. And they've already told you to your face,

(22:05):
get ready for war. They've said that on TV many
times in the last two weeks, on the internet, on
Trump's truth social they changed the Department of Defense to
the Department of War. How can you not see what's coming.

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So let's talk about the industrial age and the rise
of socialist movements. Right now, the Civil War has ended,
but America was rapidly changing. By the late nineteenth century,
our country was transforming from this rural republic where you

(22:49):
had just a plethora of the percentage of the people
in this country were farmers, and now we're transforming into
an industrial powerhouse. Right people started to leave their farms
and go to work in the factories, and you had
railroads crossing the country. Factories multiplied, and the city started

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swelling with immigrants from around the world that were seeking opportunity. However,
once again, when there is this industrial growth, there's also discontent.
What did we see at that time? You saw harsh
working conditions, long hours, chire child labor. Right, that created

(23:33):
a very fertile ground for radicals, and into the soil
they planted the seeds of socialism and communism, and that
brought about the rise of organized labor. And this is
another thing that always comes under the guise of good right.
So at first the labor movements in America were about

(23:54):
practical concerns, right wages, fair enough, safety, absolutely hours. Yeah,
you can't force people to work twenty hours a day.
But what happened they these radicals, They quickly saw an opportunity.
So these unions became not just simply bargaining tools. What

(24:16):
they did was become political weapons. Right, the nights of labor,
there's another thing you jot down on your pad and
researched them. Founded in eighteen sixty nine, they sought broad reform. Now,
while they weren't openly Marxist, they certainly welcomed socialist and

(24:36):
anarchist members. Their inclusive structure began, or i should say,
became a magnet for this radical influence. Then came the
big one, the Industrial Workers of the World the IWW.
They were also known as the Wobblies. They were founded

(24:57):
in nineteen oh five in Chicago. The these folks were
far more radical. Their preamble declared, quote I'm quote near
the working class and the employing class have nothing in common.
Because these two classes a struggle must go on until
the workers of the world organize a class, take possession

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of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish
the wage system. So in this case, we don't have reform,
we have a revolution. Their slogan was an injury to
one is an injury to all, and they dreamed of

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one big union right that would unite all workers and
overthrow capitalism itself. They sang militant songs, they organized massive strikes,
and they openly clashed with police and business owners. Now

(26:04):
many ordinary workers did indeed join these unions simply to survive,
right like we saw during COVID, and we had people
living week to week. They didn't really want to take
the job, but they felt they needed to to survive.
Their leaders often had direct ties to socialism and communism.

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Moscow itself would later funnel money and instructions into these
American labor groups. Now, of course, our schools don't teach
this stuff, right, And then it got worse. Right, Immigration

(26:47):
was supposed to be the lifeblood for an industrial America.
But along with these workers came many radicals, many socialists, communists.
They brought pamphlets, newspapers, and revolutionary literature straight from Europe.

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And then another thing that many of you probably have
never been taught about before Chicago eighteen eighty six, the
Haymarket affair, right, and that shocked the nation. May first,
eighteen eighty six, workers launched strikes demand in an eight
hour day. During a May fourth rally in Haymarket Square,

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a bomb exploded. Chaos ensued. At least seven police officers
and four civilians were killed. While the evidence was thin,
their ideology was clear, Destroy capitalism, destroy the state. One

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of the accused declared before his execution that quote, if
you think by hanging us you can and stamp out
the labor movement, the movement from which the downtrodden millions,
the millions who toil and want and misery, expect salvation.
If this is your opinion, then hang us here. You
will tread upon a spark. But there and there behind you,

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in front of you, and everywhere, flames blaze up. It
is a subterranean fire you can't put out. And this
sparked a radical labor violence. So this event, the Haymarket Affairy,

(28:36):
it radicalized both sides. The business owners became more suspicious
of the unions. Radicals became martyrs to the cause. Socialists
and anarchist clubs multiplied in cities like New York, Cleveland, Milwaukee.
The thing is, if this is indeed a free market country,

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if you're not happy with the conditions, the people you
work with, go somewhere else, Go somewhere else. It got
to the point where they had intentionally got these people
so worked up they're setting off bombs and causing carnage
and chaos. Right, and in the big cities, these clubs

(29:20):
started multiplying. Right and again, I'm not sitting here right,
I'm not a fan of the oola garcs. Right. Amazon
doesn't care about you. DuPont doesn't care about you. The
Socialist Party of America Eugene V. Debs railroad worker labor organizer.

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By the way, he was a five time presidential candidate.
Have you ever heard of him? So if Karl Marx
was the theorist Debs was, you could say he was
the American preacher of socialism. He was charismatic, eloquent. He
ran for president for the Socialist Party five times nineteen hundred, four, eight, twelve,

(30:13):
and twenty. What did he want to do? Nationalize the railroads,
redistribute wealth, abolish child labor. That's cool, and empowered unions? Right,
But Debs openly praised Karl Marx. He said, yes, I'm

(30:34):
a socialist. My great aim is to place the working
class in control of the machinery of government. People don't
talk about and many of you may be union guys
and are thankful for the unions. Like there is a
positive and a negative for almost everything. But in the

(30:55):
case of let's just say, the state employees, do you
do you folks now how hard it is here in
Delaware for a state employee to be fired? There are
some jobs. And that's the problem with when you have
these type of conversations, how to get to the part

(31:17):
of repair, How do we fix this without collapsing society
right without pulling the socialist card right. And these are
the questions we need to ask, but we have to
put everything under the microscope. They imprisoned him for opposing

(31:39):
World War One, and in nineteen twenty he ran from
jail and he actually got almost a million votes. And
after Debs, Norman Thomas carried the torch. He ran for
president six times between twenty eight and forty eight. But
he was the original Barack Obama. Norman Thomas. Listen to
the things he championed, socialized medicine, expanded welfare, civil liberties

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for radicals. And what happened was while that platform, the
socialist official platform, went away, it started to get absorbed
into mainstream democratic platforms. And here's the thing. Charity is

(32:25):
not the government's job. That all changed in the nineteen hundreds,
right when we became a socialist country. The church, the community,
that's where charity came from. In order to put all

(32:47):
these things in place. For social security and SSI, you
have to hire hundreds of thousands of people. You have
to contract doctors, right because if you apply for SSI,
what happens, you got to go through a process. Somebody
has to process your paperwork. Then you have to go
see a doctor, he examines you. Then that paperwork goes
back to another state employee. It is a burden the people,

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you know, people who are hurting are not a burden.
It is our duty, it is our responsibility. But all
the things in this country that we should be doing
ourselves to take care of our fellow man, we have
simply right. State takes care of the guy who committed
a crime. The state takes care of the poor, the
state takes care of the homeless dogs. We have just

(33:34):
co opted. Right. You can't complain about taxes and then
just be okay with the government running everything. The fact is,
if you want to get rid of taxes, you've got
to do some work, right. I told the story to
my friend yesterday at lunch. Right, when something happens in
the Middle East, like if a young man gets in trouble,

(33:55):
like a young man gets caught stealing something, they don't
call the police, the neighborhood shame. They take him in
front of the sheik. And I remember the story we
were told. Shake looked at the community. Right, he said,
you guys are the reason he failed. Right, So I said,

(34:17):
for the next two weeks from whatever was it's six
pm to eight pm. You know, Mohammed's going to sweep
the streets, but every night there's going to be a
different person adult with him sweeping right alongside him. Because
we all failed this boy. It isn't send this person

(34:38):
off to jail and literally do right. Whatever happens to
him happens to him. And people are responsible for themselves.
And I'm not one of these people. You know, there
was a guy here yesterday. He had ninety some charges
against him for animal abuse, like eighty some misdemeanor charges

(35:04):
walked out two hundred and three was it two hundred?
It was two hundred and thirty three dollars bond. Nothing
to see here for some eighty misdemeanors. You have to
be tough on criminals. And I could really get into
some deep beliefs on how we can fix this. Some
people it's too much. But you can't complain about taxes

(35:24):
and just expect us to do these Who's going to
fill the roads. All of these things take thought, they
take planning, but most of all, it takes time and effort,
and people aren't willing to do both, so they accept
this form of socialism in which we live today. Norman

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Thomas once said, the American people will never knowingly adopt socialism,
and that's a fact. Right. If you asked, like down here,
rural town, if you went knocking on doors, if you
asked one hundred people, hey, what do you think about socialism?
Ninety five are going to say, get out of here
with that trash. Right. However, they will adopt every fragment

(36:12):
of the socialist program under the guise of the United
States of America, under the guys of freedom right until today.
Like you said, one day America will be a socialist
nation without even knowing how it happened. So I'll tell
you was he wrong or are we living his prophecy
right now? And beyond Debs and Thomas, there was radical

(36:36):
immigrants that filled American cities. You had Italian anarchists like
Luigi Galiani. He advocated bombings, Russian Jewish immigrants. They brought
their Bolshevik sympathies here. And these just weren't ideas. There
were actions. How many of you knew this. Between nineteen
fourteen and nineteen twenty, anarchists launched a wave of bombings.

(37:00):
And again there's two different definitions to anarchist. There's the
anarchist that is of violence, but there's also the anti
government anarchist right. I'd rather take a chance myself than
have a government involved. The nineteen twenty Wall Street bombing
that killed interesting enough that number thirty eight we talk
about all the time, thirty eight people injured, hundreds, and

(37:24):
the flyers that they found at the scene declared workers
of the world awaking, The revolution is coming. Think about
that bombs in New York City, the financial capital of America,
explicitly tied to this revolutionary ideology. So this wasn't paranoia,

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This was a reality, and the Bolsheviks played a huge
part of where we are in the world today. Right
nineteen seventeen, Lenin declared that we shall now proceed to
construct the socialist order for radicals worldwide. It was proof
that Marx's dream would come a reality, and American socialists

(38:08):
and communists were electrified by the news they saw in
Lenin's victory. Now they had a model that they could follow.
And what happened. What have we talked about so many
times the Communist Manifesto, And in addition to that, many
of Lenin's writings circulated amongst the workers, and by nineteen

(38:33):
nineteen CPUSA, which is around today, It's been here for
one hundred years. The Communist Party USA was founded and
it openly declared to Moscow that its mission was clear.
They wanted to infiltrate labor unions, spread propaganda, recruit intellectuals,
and prepare for revolution. The Communist Party USA was not

(38:58):
this debating club. It was very disciplined. It was funded
from Moscow the Bolsheviks, and they were dedicated. It was
much more than unions bottom line. Up front, they were
dedicated to overthrowing the United States. Now I'm going to
take a break, clear my throat. I want to play
this audio. This is an invitation and I'm going to

(39:20):
put the YouTube link in the show notes. An invitation
from the Communist Party USA.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Hi.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
My name is Emily Barnes.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
I'm a member of the Detroit Club.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
On my name's Dom. I'm from Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
My name is Jamal Henderson. I'm from Connecticut. My name
is Scott. I'm from New York.

Speaker 6 (39:39):
My name is Krista and I am from the Oakland Club.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
My name is Aaron. I'm from DC. My name is Nate.
I'm from Wisteronsale, North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I'm sure, Maine.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
I'm from the Chicago Club, and I want you to
join the Communist Party.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
We want you to join the Communist Party USA.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Everyone to join the Communist.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Party because you as an organizer, U, as someone who
is committed to a more peaceful future and a more
peaceful society, You deserve a home in the organizing world
because communists have historically been on the frontlines and the
fight against fascism, at the frontlines of the struggle for
democracy in this country.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
Like many people, I am filled with grace to see
a lot of our tax dollars funding wars abroad, while
people in my community can't get healthcare and can't get housing.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Particularly right now, we know that there's going to be
a huge as against the immigrant community.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
We need a political party that is by for and
of working people. We need a force to fight back.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
They won't have to listen to us.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
It's just as much your party as is our party.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
It's a working class party.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
We have to organize our workers in our workplaces, in
our neighborhoods, and in our communities.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
We welcome people who all faiths, all athnicities, all backgrounds, you.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Care about your community, if you care about ending poverty,
of homelessness, racism, sexism in our world. I think a
lot of people actually have this thinking already and they
are looking for a place to do that kind of work.
That's what the kind of work the Communist Party does.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
It's a party that advocates the fight against capitalism, It's
a party that fights against.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Racism and sexism. This also a party that taught me
to put the needs of the people in our planet,
in our environment first.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Joining has given my life purpose and meaning, and I've
got to meet wonderful people, engage in great struggles, and
learn a tremendous amount both about the world and about myself.

Speaker 6 (41:33):
The Communist Party knows that there is a way forward
to a better world, to socialism.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
There is hoping to struggle, and together we can make
it happen.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
Together, we can grow together. Join the Communist Party.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Join the Communist Party, and again I'll have that link
in the show notes. And by the way, obviously you
just heard the audio, but just give you a visual.
If you pictured every person who was arrested in Portland
in the summer of twenty twenty, that's the people who
were involved in this video, and that video was just
produced ten months ago. It was put on YouTube and

(42:09):
the comment section full of positives. Hello American comrades. Right
as chair of the Communist Party USA Phoenix Club, we're
already seeing exponential growth since the disappointing outcome of the election.
And again a lot of the things sound good, right, yeah,

(42:34):
hate right, We're gonna stand again hate and this and that.
But giving up, you're letting other people. That's the thing.
We have to get back to basics. We don't need
any more parties. We don't need any more, We need less.
The federal government should be such a small entity, just

(42:57):
really twofold. You know. They can oversee trade a little bit,
but the states can too with whatever states. The corporations
are in govern themselves supposed to settle disputes between the states.
And then if there was a real threat, not an
Iraqi threat, not a Syrian threat, not an Iranian threat,

(43:21):
but if our lands were invaded, then we'd have a
vote between the states, and an x amount of votes
were met and joined together and fight. Show me in
our founding documents where we're supposed to have a standing military. Well, George,
you're in the army. I'm just saying, show me in

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the documents. Let's talk about the first Red scare. America's
leaders took notice. After World War One. There was a
wave of strikes and bombings that shook the nation. In
nineteen nineteen, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer lynched the Palmer Rates.
They arrested that thands of suspected radicals, and they deported

(44:02):
hundreds of these foreign entities. Now, the history books today
called it hysteria. Right, they say Americans overreacted, But if
you look closely, bombs had been mailed to government officials.
They were detonating explosives in major cities. And remember the

(44:24):
Communist Party USA was loyal to Moscow, to another country.
One radical anarchist, Luigi Galiani, even wrote a handbook on
bomb making that circulated amongst his followers. Right, the Red
Scare faded by the early nineteen twenties. But the reality

(44:47):
was this communism was no longer a foreign theory. It
had parties, it had newspapers, it had journals that had unions,
and now they had martyrs on American soil. So we've
gone from the seed planted to the seed is now growing. Now,
this next part is something that is still very much

(45:11):
going on today. That is the cultural effect of communism.
Beyond politics, Communism seeped into culture, radical play rights, artists, journalists.
They began sympathizing with the Soviets. John Reid, a journalist,
glorified Lenin's revolution in his nineteen nineteen book Ten Days

(45:35):
That Shook the World Right. He wrote that the birth
of the new world is worth all the pain of
the old Right. He was buried in the Kremlin Wall
in Moscow, the only American given that honor. So let
me ask you this, why would a young American journalists
choose to rest in Lenin's Moscow? Because he believed America

(46:00):
itself had to be remade in the Soviet image. So,
by the nineteen twenties, America was not yet quite communists,
but the infrastructure was in place. Unions with radical elements,
a communist party loyal to Moscow, sympathetic intellectuals and universities,
and newspapers, immigrant networks spreading bombings and strikes. The American

(46:24):
government could raid offices and deport anarchists, right, but that
seed of ideology had already taken root in fertile soil. Now,
when the next great crisis hit, the Great Depression. That
was the big game changer. It was another wealth transfer
and another chance to put the New Deal into place

(46:47):
and to bring socialism into the forefront. Right. So, by
the nineteen thirties were still in crisis. The stock market
crash of twenty nine plunged the NAT into Great depression.
Banks failed, unemployment sword people were jumping out of windows,
families starved. There's images of the breadlines stretched across city blocks.

(47:13):
Desperate times always opened the door for desperate solutions. And
that's when socialism stopped being a fringe ideal in America.
It became a law. Before we get into the depression,
we kind of have to go back and mention nineteen thirteen, right,

(47:36):
That was the year Congress created the Federal Reserve, sold
to the public as a stabilizing force. The Fed, in reality,
was a cartel of private bankers, giving this unprecedented power
over the nation's money supply. Charles Lindberg, we've talked about
him before, father of the famous aviator, Right. He warned

(47:57):
that this Act establishes the most gigantic truth on earth.
I'm sorry, let me read this again. This Act establishes
the most gigantic trust on Earth. When the President signs
this act, the invisible government, by the money power proven
to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be legalized.

(48:24):
So the Federal Reserve could inflate or contract credit, can
manipulate interest rates, it can expand government debt, and it was,
indeed to this day, a socialist style central bank behind
this language of stability. And from the beginning, we're no

(48:47):
longer a nation with money tied to gold and silver.
It was a nation enslaved to fiat currency printed and
controlled by This is the important part you have to remember,
and you have to share this with your friends, that
it is printed and controlled by unelected elites. Unelected elites,

(49:12):
Bill Gates, all these people the Great Depression, and we're
going to look at FDR's New Deal. When the Great
Depression hit, FDR sees the moment, and between thirty three
and thirty nine he rolled out the New Deal, which
was a sweeping set of programs that and I can't

(49:36):
overuse or emphasize the term fundamentally transformed America's relationship with
the government. This was the official right. We know nineteen
thirteen was real dagger, but that was, you know, the wrestling.
The wrestlers have the finisher, right, m hm. The Federal

(50:04):
Reserve was the setup move, and the New Deal was
the finisher.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Right.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
It was the tombstone pile driver. It was all over.
Let's look at a few samples. The Workers Progress Administration.
It created millions of government jobs. Workers built roads, bridges, schools,
and public buildings. Not for private enterprise, but for Washington's project.

(50:28):
Then he had the Three C the Civilian Conservation Corps.
It conscripted young men into government run labor camps. They
were living in barracks, wearing uniforms, planning forests and building dams.
I know the folks down there in the Tennessee Valley, right,

(50:49):
the Tennessee Valley Authority. It gave the federal government control
of power generation across seven states. What did it do?
It displaced private companies. The Agricultural Adjustment Act paid farmers
to plow under crops and slaughter livestock in order to

(51:14):
artificially raise prices even as Americans starved. Go research the
Agricultural Adjustment Act see see how much this government cares
for you? Well, everything sounded good. There were no free
market solutions. These were experiments in central planning, Right, you go,

(51:38):
compare them with Stalin's the five year plans he had.
Those similarities are pretty hard to miss. Right. Roosevelt himself
was advised by a brain trust of academics and intellectuals,
many sympathetic to these collectivist ideals. Look at Rexford Tugwell,

(51:59):
one of Roosevelt's top advisors. He openly praised many aspects
of Soviet planning. And compare that to today. How many
times has Trump said, you know Jijiping, I admire that guy. Right,
he's openly admiring a communist. Togwell said that I find

(52:22):
it hard to see how we can avoid shifting step
by step towards some form of collectivism. So ask yourself
this was this about saving America? Or was it about
reshaping it? And then nineteen thirty five Roosevelt once again
just whacking us over the head with a bat repeatedly,

(52:46):
this time with a Social Security Act. It's not the
government's job to take care of us. Marketed as a
compassionate safety net for the elderly, was in reality a
forced system of dependency to the government. Workers would be

(53:09):
taxed their entire lives into a government retirement fund, but
here's the kicker. When it was created, life expectancy for
men at that time in the thirties sixty one years.
Benefits didn't start until sixty five, so that was a
windfall for them. Many workers would die before ever collecting

(53:32):
a dime. The system was not designed for care, it
was designed for control. It turned free citizens into dependence
of Washington DC. Now, there were admirably some critics at

(53:54):
the time who warn't of its implications. Alf Landon that
was Roosevelt's nineteen thirty six opponents said, quote, this is
the largest tax bill in history, and to call it
social security is a fraud on the working man. Now,
he predicted the program would collapse under its own weight.

(54:17):
And what do we see today, Trillions in unfunded liabilities,
a system that's heading for bankruptcy. Right, how many times
have you heard a president say, I don't know how
much longer it's going to be able to sustain itself.
But they have established a principle of cradle to grave
dependency on the United States government. But there's something else

(54:42):
that when you hear, whether it's a lecture or a
podcast about communism, one thing they never talk about that
I wanted to add into this was the draft. Right,
So during that time, obviously the Great Depression wasn't the
only crisis, right, World War II was looming, and how

(55:03):
did America prepare reinstating conscription? The Selective Training and Service
Act of nineteen forty was the first peacetime draft in
US history. So think about that. For the first time,
Washington declared that even when the nation was not at war,

(55:27):
it could seize young men, force them into uniform, and
send them wherever they choose. That isn't freedom. That's collectivism
at its most brutal. The state owns your very life.

(55:47):
And that's the thing that is so hard to get
across to people. If you really want to be free,
it takes an awful lot of work, and it's got
to be a tight knit community. And there's not a
lot of people out there who are used to hard
work anymore. I'll tell you that. Now, as Roosevelt expanded

(56:12):
federal power, communists quietly infiltrated the machinery of the government. Now,
these are some of the people we're going to be
talking about next week. You had Harry Dexter White, a
senior Treasury official, later revealed by the Venona decrypts to
have been a Soviet spy. You had Lachland Curry, a
White House aide, appeared in the Veronophiles as well. An

(56:35):
Alger Hiss, a rising star in the State Department, would
later be convicted of perjury for denying his role as
a Soviet agent. So again, these aren't fringe bureaucrats. These
aren't guys who ran NGOs. These were men shaping American
policy at the highest level, the trade, foreign affairs, even

(56:57):
the founding of the United Nations. So remember, communists weren't
just protesting in the streets that were writing memos in Washington.
This is a big one that I don't know how
many people connect the dots with this when we talk
about the cultural shift of the thirties, right, we talk
often of the cultural shift post World War two, but

(57:19):
the thirties did two. And when I read this, it
was really interesting to me. So while Washington was centralizing power,
communists had also advanced in culture. Like everybody has heard
of John Steinbeck the Grapes of Wrath, right, and what

(57:42):
did they do? They portrayed this collectivist struggle sympathetically and
you started to see, right, this happened in Weimar in
the twenties. But Hollywood began release in films with pro
labor and pro government themes. Even the churches social gospel
preaching emerged. They were blending Christianity with social redistribution. Right

(58:07):
we talk about how Darby and Schofield infiltrated the churches,
Well so did socialism under the guise of redistribution. It
is the early seed of what would later become this
liberation theology. There's a poet by the name of Langston Hughes.
He was a darling of the Harlem Renaissance, visited the

(58:31):
Soviet Union and wrote poems praising its system. In his
nineteen thirty two poem Goodbye Christ, he wrote, make way
for a new guy with no religion at all, a
real guy named Marx, Communist, Lenin, peasant, Stalin worker me.
I said me, so, think about this for a second.

(58:52):
You have an American poet who was celebrated in schools
replacing Christ with Marx and Stalin. That's not literature, that
is ideological infiltration. Now you have World War two, right, Well,

(59:15):
all of this fighting back and forth Pearl Harbor happens,
and all of a sudden, the Soviet Union becomes our ally.
Make no mistake that while soldiers may have fought side
by side, Soviet agents in America worked double time to
burrow into government Soviet spy networks like the Silver Master

(59:36):
Group embedded in Washington, stealing economic and military secrets. All
the while, the CPUSA communist part of USA followed Moscow's orders.
While Stalin had a pact with Hitler for those two
or three years thirty nine to forty one, ish CPUSA
opposed US entry into the war. Of course, when Hitler

(59:59):
invaded the Soviet Union in forty one, well, CPUSA flipped
and became pro war. So what does that tell you?
Their loyalty was never to America. It was always to Moscow.
We were a useful tool, right So now into the forties,

(01:00:19):
America had already been transformed. That's been eighty years in
the making, folks. This happened forty years ago. The Fed,
you know, the Federal Reserve, controls the money. The New
Deal expanded central planning, social security, chained workers to government dependency,
the draft, claim young men's lives. Communists were already empowered
by the forties, and it's always justified by crisis, the

(01:00:45):
depression War nine to eleven, and their answer, their solution
is always collectivism, and liberty is always the casualty. So
as the war ended, America would soon learn that the
Communist filtration wasn't just in the unions or in the arts.
It was in the State Department, it was in the Treasury,

(01:01:07):
even in the White House. And the Cold War wasn't
just a battle abroad, it was a battle inside our
own government. You know, World War two ends and forty
five and now we stand the most powerful nation on earth.
The Soviet Union, our temporary and useful ally, had paid

(01:01:31):
a staggering price in blood, right, And we talked about
Christians fighting Christians in our previous podcast, but they emerged
with global ambitions intact. Right when the American troops came home,
Stalin's agents stayed behind. Not in Europe, they stayed behind
in Washington, New York and Hollywood. So the Cold War

(01:01:54):
had begun right, and it's wasn't just missiles and tanks.
It was in full tration. It was espionage, and it
was ideology right. And we've talked about the Verona papers.
We did a podcast on it, and for decades the
critics of the critics of communism in America were mocked
as paranoid right McCarthyism. But in nineteen ninety five, would

(01:02:16):
you know that the US government declassified the Venona Papers,
a treasure trove of intercepted Soviet communications between nineteen forty
three and nineteen eighty. And what did these de croups prove?
The decrypts proved that patriots like Joseph McCarthy, right, who
basically had his life ruined for standing up and screaming

(01:02:39):
truth what he had warned all along, that Communist spies
had penetrated the highest levels of the American government. And
the names that appeared in Venona included aug Your Hiss,
Why Curry, and of course right Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
executed in nineteen fifty three. Venona revealed over three hundred individuals, right,

(01:03:05):
these Soviets, these Bolsheviks working for Soviet intelligence in the
US government during the nineteen forties. This wasn't paranoil at
this point, it was betrayal. What decryptid cable described how
Hiss Alger Hiss delivered classified documents to Soviet agents. Another
showed White passing information on US financial policy. So ask

(01:03:30):
yourself if Soviet spies sat in the Treasury, in the
State Department, and the White House itself. What policies did
they shape? What decisions did they twist in Moscow's favor?
And what we'll save alger Hiss and White with the
IMF and MacArthur. You know, no discussion on communism in

(01:03:53):
America can skip Senator McCarthy. Beginning in nineteen fifty he
warned that communists had traded the State Department, the military
and beyond, and he was ridiculed, he was smeared, and
he ended up being censured by the Senate. The term McCarthyism,
it was a slur back then, right, It was synonymous

(01:04:15):
with the paranoia and witch hunts. Right, the term conspiracy theorist. Right.
But now history has vindicated him, as it always does
for many truth seekers. Right, how dare you question the
official narrative of nine to eleven? Yeah, okay. Venona confirmed

(01:04:37):
that many of the very people McCarthy suspected were in
fact indeed Soviet agents, and McCarthy once said, the real
basic difference between our democracy and the communist is our
democracy is based on the belief that the individual is
the most important unit of society. Now Communists believe that
the individual is nothing more than cog in the wheel

(01:05:02):
of this state. And he was right, and for telling
the truth, he was destroyed. So here's the question. Who
benefited from silencing him? Certainly not the American people. Now,
while spies worked in Washington, communists also infiltrated Hollywood. In

(01:05:23):
nineteen forty seven, the House Unamerican Activities Committee HUHACK held
hearings on communist influence in the film industry. There were
ten screenwriters and directors, later known as the Hollywood Ten.
They refused to testify, they cited the First Amendment, and

(01:05:44):
they were blacklisted by studios. But of course the media
painted them as martyrs, right. But what they don't tell
you was many of these people were actually members of
the Communist Party USA. One of them, Dalton Trumbo, admitted
later quote, I was a member of the Immunist Party.
I carried a card. Yet he went on to win
Academy Awards under pseudonyms and was later celebrated openly. So

(01:06:10):
although film communists or I said shape through, film communists
pushed these subtle narratives, glorifying workers, mocking businessmen, questioning patriotism,
normalizing collectivism, and again patriotism in itself, like we love

(01:06:32):
our country, but we don't love our government. All these
subjects that we talk about today, you just can't. There's
so many problems you can't solve them in one sitting.
Every time you solve one issue, there's ten other issues
you have to address. And it's because we've allowed this

(01:06:55):
to escalate for two hundred and forty nine years, right,
but they have normalized, they have normalized this collectivism. So
if movies shape culture more than sermons and speeches, do
what happens when the people writing them are loyal to communism?

(01:07:23):
And as we fought spies in Hollywood debated loyalty, there
was another battlefield that was opening American universities, and that
has been an issue to this day. But nineteen thirties
you had all these Marxist intellectuals they call themselves, fleeing
Germany right from the Frankfurt School. They came to the US.

(01:07:49):
They brought with them their critical theory, a philosophy that
sought to dismantle society by criticizing every institution. And we're
talking about family, religion, law, education, and culture. Herbert Mark Hughes,
one of their leaders, wrote quote. The small and powerless

(01:08:11):
minorities which struggle against the false consciousness and its beneficiaries
must be helped. Their continued existence is more important than
the preservation of a false democracy. Let's break that down
to its simplest form. Destroy the system from within by
weaponizing minorities, culture, and ideology. And what has happened over

(01:08:35):
the last ten years. What happened in the summer of
twenty twenty. Now, if you don't know, Mark Hughes later
became known as the father of the new Left. This
is when the classic liberal started to go off a cliff.
His teachings inspired the nineteen sixties counterculture, the sexual revolution,

(01:08:56):
the radical student movements. Again, these things are not organic.
It's because the seeds planted are the same ones sprouting
under the banners of equity, woke, and diversity. So to
be fair, to be clear, many civil leaders, civil rights

(01:09:19):
leaders were noble, courageous, and honorable. But communists saw an opportunity,
and the struggle is they always do. They established front
groups to align with civil rights causes. They would hijack them,
not because they cared about justice. It was a recruitment tool.

(01:09:40):
Harvey Clair wrote that the CPUSA's interest in civil rights
was always subordinate to its loyalty to the group itself.
And it's not just Moscow anymore. This is a international movement.
This is their way to a one world government. The Bolsheviks, Israel,

(01:10:07):
it's all under the same guys. This is communism. Is
just a cute word for a new world order, a
one world government. Yet figures like Paul Robison, a brilliant
singer and actor, he openly praise Stalin, defended communism. He said, yes,

(01:10:31):
I'm a communist, and I'm proud of it. Right back
in the seventies and eighties, we you know, we had
our bands, we had our favorite singers. We didn't know
what political affiliation they were. John Cougar Mellencamp was huge
in the early eighties, right, Hurt's so good, Jack and
Diane Paper and Fire Cherrybomb. And then he comes out

(01:10:52):
to be just, you know, another really socialist, and that's
probably putting it lightly. And then you realize, you know,
that's one of the many layers of the onion. If
you're going to get on the world stage, you've got
to be one of them. You have to have the
same ideology as them, and then we talk about duality, right,

(01:11:16):
real struggles for justice co opted by communists at the
end of the fifties, the narrative was set. Anyone who
warmed of communist infiltration was branded paranoid. Hollywood radicals were
recast as victims. McCarthy was smeared as a tyrant Algieriss

(01:11:36):
remained defended by academia. Meanwhile, the Venona files were locked away,
unseen to the public until nineteen nineties. So let me
ask you this. If the truth had been revealed in
nineteen fifty instead of ninety five, how differently would Americans
see their institutions today. Italian commune Antonio Grams who wrote

(01:12:02):
from his prison cell, Socialism is precisely the religion that
must overwhelm Christianity in the new order. Socialism will triumph
by first capturing the culture through infiltration of schools, universities, churches,
and the media, by transforming the consciousness of society. Now,

(01:12:25):
that particular blueprint is often called the long March through
the institutions that became a strategy of communists and fellow
travelers after World War Two. They knew violent revolution would
fail in America. You don't have to they can subvert
a country without pulling a trigger. If you capture the schools,

(01:12:46):
if you capture the pulpits, if you capture the press,
if you capture Hollywood, you don't need guns. Culture itself
will surrender. And from the sixties through the eighties we
watched it happen. In the sixties we saw what did
we see? We saw a title wave of this radical

(01:13:07):
student activism. Right who was at the forefront the Student
for Democratic Society founded in nineteen sixty Where was it,
University of Michigan. What would be going to be? What
are we going to be talking about in the next
few weeks. What happened to dearborn Michigan. It's interesting that
this started in Michigan in nineteen sixty and now we

(01:13:30):
have an entire It's crazy to me. You know, I
saw a little It wasn't a movie. I guess it
might have been a short YouTube, very big YouTube channel.
But you know, residents who've been living there since the
nineteen forties, now when they go out to their car

(01:13:50):
in the morning to go to work, there's mosques, prayers
going over the loudspeakers. It's insane. But their nineteen sixty
two manifesto The port Huron statement declared that we are
people of this generation bred in the least modest comfort,

(01:14:11):
housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world. We inherit.
We regard men as infinitely precious and possessed of unfulfilled
capacities for reason, for freedom and love. It always sounds noble, right,
But beneath these words were a Marxist critique of American society. Right,

(01:14:34):
free market was oppressive, institutions were corrupt, and only radical
change could redeem the nation. And yes, in many aspects
these things right. We have a nation of elites that
run this country and the game is rigged, but making

(01:14:54):
it more Marxist, more confident. That is their way of
infiltrating people, to get them to believe that their way
is the right way. It's the duality of it is
just mind blowing when you sit down and think about it.
And then the weather Underground came about, right, this violent
communist terrorist group. It had leaders like Bill Ayers and

(01:15:17):
Bernardine Dorn. They declared war on America. They bombed the
US Capitol in nineteen seventy one, they bombed the Pentagon
in nineteen seventy two. They bombed police stations across the country.
Even Ayers would later say, I don't regret setting the bombs.
I don't feel we did enough. And you find out

(01:15:40):
that Communist China trained and funded a lot of these people,
and then again they realized they didn't have to do
anything violence. They could subvert through the mines. You had
the sexual revolution and the destruction of the family. Parallel
to student radicalism was the sexual fueled by birth control.

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The counter culture Marxist intellectual Herbert Marcuse, now here's another
guy from the Frankfurt school, and he argued in Euros
and Civilization in nineteen fifty five that the sexual liberation
was essential for political liberation. He was the one who
coined the term repressive tolerance, right, the idea that tolerance

(01:16:27):
of traditional views itself was oppressive. That is something that
you'd hear from someone in Portland today with blue hair, right,
that's repressive tolerance. Your traditional views oppress me, he wrote.
Liberating tolerance would mean intolerance against movement from the rights

(01:16:51):
and tolerance of movements from the left. So they're just
amplifying radicals. And again, the sexual revolution on her mind.
Family the bedrock of Christian civilization, and then pornography spread.
You had Playboy penthouse, Divorce rates doubled within years, cohabitation

(01:17:15):
replaced marriage. Abortion legalized in nineteen seventy three with Roe
versus Wade, and it was celebrated as liberation, but in
reality that was an attack on the sanctity of life.
Radical feminists also drew heavily from marx. She Lambath Firestone

(01:17:37):
in her nineteen seventy book The Dialect of Sex argued, quote,
the end goal of feminist revolution must be unlike that
of the feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege,
but of this sex distinction itself. So now they're destroying
gender distinction. It's not new, it's Marxist theory applied to

(01:18:05):
the family. And then television began the new pulpit of America.
You had many sitcoms. You went from Leave It to
Beaver late fifties, early sixties into the seventies. I mean,
I could sit here name every TV show that mocked
traditional family roles. And today, you know, now everybody's canceled

(01:18:25):
Netflix because he got you know, two gay dads with
a transgender child. But movies glorified rebellion against authority. News
outlets shifted left, way left. They framed communists abroad as
misunderstood and patriots at home. If you're you know, if

(01:18:45):
you love your country, you're an extremist. Hollywood directors like
Oliver Stone later glorified communist figures in film. Right was
that famous nineteen eighty seven movie Wall Street, Gordon Gecko,
he said, greed is good. Now, some people say that's satire, right,

(01:19:07):
reinforcing the narrative that capitalism itself was evil. And then,
of course music carried the revolution too. And the one
I always point to is John Lennon's imagine. I called
that the communist national anthem that became an anthem for
global collectivism. Right, imagine no possessions, imagine no religion. Just

(01:19:31):
imagine all the people living in peace. That's not peace,
that's Marxism in a melody. But the church wasn't safe anymore.
In Latin America. You had Marxist priests that were teaching
liberation theology. They were blending Christianity with communist revolution, and

(01:19:56):
Jesus was recast as a socialist rebel. Salvation became not
forgiveness of sin, but the overthrow of capitalism and you're
seeing that in many, many pulpits. Today. I could sit
here and I could put on a two hour show
of things within the last twelve months that have been
set in pulpits in the United States that would blow

(01:20:17):
your mind. And if that's something you want to hear,
email me and I'll put it together here in the
next few weeks. You won't believe what you hear. By
the nineteen seventies, you had these progressive theologians that were
teaching the Bible's messages as being primarily economic, that the

(01:20:41):
Exodus was a worker's strike, that the prophets taught socialism,
that acts too communal sharing was a blueprint from Marxism.
Even Pope John the Paul Second warn that liberation theology
misinterprets the Gospel, seeing it only through the lens of

(01:21:03):
Marxist analysis. But at this point the damage had been done.
You had countless churches shifting focus from saving souls to
pushing social justice agendas, and in many cases often indistinguishable
from leftist politics. And once again you have labor unions

(01:21:26):
that were once grassroots organizations that they become political machines.
Right before every election, you hear the unions right what
are they doing. We're back in this guy, and that's
what they've become political machines. They've been infiltrated or outright
controlled by communist ideology. CPUSA maintained influence in unions like

(01:21:50):
the United Electrical Workers and the Transport Workers Unions. Now
unions poured millions of dollars into left wing political campaigns,
ensuring that socialist policies advanced even when the word socialism
was avoided. George Meenie, head of the AFL CIO in

(01:22:11):
the nineteen sixties, warned that communists were using unions for
political leverage. But by then the line between organized labor
and leftist policies was blurry at best. But now you
have universities that were once bastions of free inquiry being indoctrinated.

(01:22:32):
They've become these indoctrination factories. And by the seventies, entire
departments of these universities were dominated by Marxist frameworks, right sociology,
political science, literature. And these students are taught to hate
their country. Your country is racist, it's sexist, it's imperialists.

(01:22:58):
Zin right. Another zen has entered the chat. Professors like
Howard Zinn wrote these revisionist histories portraying America not as
the land of liberty but as an oppressor. Right, the
history of any country presented as the history of a
family conceals fierce conflicts of interest. Now, what people don't

(01:23:18):
know is that book became required reading in many schools
across the country. There or generations of students grow up
learning not to love our country, but suspicion and resentment.
And it's not to say that this country has a
lot of flaws. One of the reasons this podcast exists
is to expose the fallacies of this government. Our compasses

(01:23:47):
is spinning wildly right now. Right, So, from the sixties
the eighties, you had radicalized students, families were to stabilize,
churches have been infiltrated, media was captured, Hollywood was captured,
unions were politicized, universities were weaponized, all without one tank

(01:24:12):
crossing our borders. Let's talk about the Berlin Wall. Nineteen
eighty nine, it had fallen. Nineteen ninety one, the Soviet
Union is dissolved, Americans cheered, Communism was finished, And on
September eleventh, nineteen ninety right George H. W. Bush declared

(01:24:35):
a new World Order Francis Fukuyama even wrote a book
titled The End of History claiming that liberal democracy had
triumphed for good. It was all an illusion. Communism didn't die,
It adapted, it rebranded, it overcame, and in America it
quietly grew stronger. So after the Soviet collapse, the word

(01:25:00):
communism carried a stigma, so radicals changed the labels. They
called themselves progressives, social democrats, activists for social justice. The
goals didn't change, only the packaging. They push slogans like equity, sustainability,
and inclusion. But you strip away the slogans, it's the

(01:25:23):
same Marxist framework. Divides society into oppressors and the oppressed.
Then you demand the state intervene and redistribute power, so
they champion the state. They want to be controlled. But
the people who are pushing this are the controllers. That's

(01:25:44):
what these people don't understand. Angela Davis, one of the
fbis most wanted for her ties to communist groups, ended
up becoming a respected professor and author. She said openly
in twenty sixteen, radical change has always been about socialism,
but now she's spoke in the language of diversity and justice.

(01:26:08):
The old red flag is now rainbow color. And by
the nineties the universities were dominated by leftist ideology. Tenured
professors openly taught Marxist frameworks, though often under new names.
You had critical race theory, gender theory, right, they said,

(01:26:30):
male and female distinctions are oppressive contructs. What And of
course you know the postcolonial theory, which that's one thing
you can argue, right, America as an imperial oppressor abroad.
We've done a lot of damage abroad, but that doesn't
mean we take everything and give it to the government.

(01:26:52):
Gender theory, critical race theory. Herbert Marcus's students from the
sixties were now professors themselves, and they taught against free
market and that Christianity was patriarchy, and that America was
irredeemably unjust, which goes against everything we're taught in the Bible.

(01:27:15):
Howard Zen's The People of History in the United States
became required reading for countless schools. Zen wrote, there's not
a country in the world in which in which racism
has been more important in the United States. Every country
throughout history has had its problems. Generations of students grew

(01:27:37):
up believing America was the villain not the beacon of freedom.
And I'm talking about the students in this country. So
ask yourself this and again public schools. But if young
people are taught from kindergarten through twelfth grade and then
into college that their country is evil, what do you
think happens when they grow up and take leadership roles?

(01:27:58):
Are we helping ourselves here or hurting ourselves? So in
the Cold War era, there wasn't a single politician that
would dare call themselves a socialist. But by the twenty tens,
all that has changed. You had Bernie Sanders, who, once,
by the way, honeymooned in the Soviet Union, proudly called

(01:28:19):
himself a Democratic socialist. He nearly won the Democratic presidential
nomination in twenty sixteen, and there is a conspiracy theory
that he was paid off to step back and support Hillary.
He once declared that the American dream has more to
do with Vladimir Lenin than it does Thomas Jefferson. That's

(01:28:39):
Bernie Sanders. And then alongside of him rose the Democratic
Socialists of America, a group openly committed to Marxist principles.
By twenty twenty, DSA members held seats in Congress in
city councils and school boards. The most famous was Alexandria

(01:29:02):
Casio Cortes, who pushed the Green New Deal, abolish gas
and oil, restructure the economy, impose state control over the industries,
which is already happening, the government's taking over pharmaceutical and
in bed with AI, all under the guise of fighting

(01:29:25):
climate change. And make no mistake, these people aren't fringe activists.
They are sitting lawmakers shaping the national agenda. Now you
have media and the big tech acting as the new commissars.
If Hollywood and newspapers carried the Marxist torched into the

(01:29:49):
twentieth century, big tech seized it in the twenty first YouTube, Twitter, Facebook,
They all censored dissenting, including yours truly, especially during COVID.
Algorithms boosted progressive narratives while shadow of banning conservatives, journalists

(01:30:11):
openly abandoned neutrality. The New York Times ran a project,
by the way, remember the sixteen nineteen project reframing America's
founding not around liberty in seventeen seventy six, but around
slavery in sixteen nineteen. And it's leader, Nicole Hannah Jones.
You know what she said, quote, it would be an

(01:30:32):
honor to be called a Marxist. So when the media
and big tech collude to decide what Americans can say,
what they can read, and what they can think, it's
just the old communist mentality with better technology. So now

(01:30:54):
here we are in the twenty twenties, right woke became
the new faith. Diversity, equity inclusion offices multiplied across corporations, universities,
and yes, even in the military. They demanded quotas. Equity
demanded equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. Inclusion demanded silencing the

(01:31:20):
dissenting views. It was Marxism repackaged. Instead of workers versus owners,
it was oppressed identities versus privileged identities. And the climate
change became a trojan horse under the guise of saving
the world. Right remember the Paris Climate Agreement, You Wins,

(01:31:43):
Agenda twenty thirty, the World Economic Forum's Great Reset. What
did they all promote? You know, this international redistribution of
wealth and centralized planning. You will own nothing, you will
be happy. That's not environmentalism, that's communists. And COVID nineteen
was a dress rehearsal for totalitarianism that showed that spanned

(01:32:07):
between twenty twenty and twenty twenty two, revealed just how
easily they could control you. They shut down your churches
while liquor stores stayed open. Small businesses were destroyed, while
big corporations thrived. Travel was restricted, families were separated, Speech
questioning official narratives was censored, all in the name of safety.

(01:32:29):
They already proved you five years ago that they can
lock you in your home, that they can shut down
your church, and they can censor your speech. You can't
look yourself in the mirror and say we're free. What
freedom do you truly have if you're injected with mandates?
Lenin once said, is it true that liberty is so precious,

(01:32:50):
so precious that it must be rationed? And during COVID,
we saw that very principle in action. In twenty thirteen,
I was founded co founders Patrise Colors and Alicia Garza,
and they openly describe themselves as trained Marxist. Colors was

(01:33:13):
interviewed in twenty fifteen and she said, we actually do
have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia in particular, we're
trained organizers, we're trained Marxist. So you saw a lot
of people joined BLM out of concern for justice. All
the while it's leadership funneled millions of dollars into evil agendas,

(01:33:40):
causing billions in damage. And once again, they take in
many cases legitimate grievances and they use them as a
trojan horse to further their agenda. And you know, we're

(01:34:03):
going to keep the the people. We're going to save
that until next week. And next week we're also going
to discuss George Lincoln Rockwell a little bit of his
stance against communism. Definitely a flawed individual, but he was

(01:34:25):
spot on with communism. But just remember, when you hear
the word communist, right, you picture Stalin in a military
cap or mal wearing the little Red book. Right. But
now in the twenty first century, communism rarely comes dressed
in red. It comes in green rainbow or polished corporate logos.

(01:34:51):
Today's champions of collectivism present themselves not as tyrants but
as liberators, so they the language of freedom as they
prepare our change. Right. And again, well we'll talk about
the names Jijiping and everybody else, even yes, justin Trudeau

(01:35:13):
just to the north of us, a liberal dictator, very
much so. And we have a long list of names
that we'll talk about on Tuesday. But let's wrap this
up now. We're hour thirty five in and we traveled
along road. We traveled from seventeen seventy six to twenty
twenty five from these utopian communes to a technocratic globalism

(01:35:35):
as they call it, right Robert Ewens failed experiments to
klou Schwab's great reset. So what are we seeing. We're
seeing that this communism in America was never a sudden invasion. However,
just like everything else, a steady infiltration along march, this

(01:35:57):
corrosion of liberty. We always see the same thing, the
same patterns emerge. You have your crisis, your economic collapses,
you have war pandemics, climate fear, and then they play
the race card. Right then they'll promise you. Stage two
is the promise will save you. Just give us more

(01:36:18):
power and then control. You have centralized government where it
should not be. They've captured our culture. This Orwellian surveillance
and censorship. The Federal Reserved used the financial crisis to
seize control of our money. The New Deal used depression
to centralize the economy. World War II used fear to

(01:36:41):
reinstate the draft and expand government. The Cold War justified
infiltration under the mask of security. The nineteen sixties exploited
civil rights and sexual liberation to dismantle tradition and the
nuclear family. And even the twenty twenties they use the pandemic,
the scamdemic, and the climate hysteria to normalize surveillance and

(01:37:02):
digital control. Every single time liberty shrank and collectivism grew.
Just remember, the real battlefield is our mind. Karl Marx
once said that the philosophers have only interpreted the world
in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

(01:37:24):
So the communists knew that they couldn't conquer us with armies.
The war on us is they have to conquer our minds.

(01:37:45):
They captured our universities, they captured Hollywood, they captured music, churches, media,
government corporations into these big tech commissars. The battlefield is
no longer in Normandy, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan. It's the movie theater,
it's the newsroom, it's the smartphone. So we're going to

(01:38:07):
close with some of these questions. Why is it in
twenty twenty five that so many young Americans are more
likely to view socialism positively than capitalism? Why is it
that the richest corporations in the world, Apple, Amazon, Blackrock,
they all speak the language of equity and sustainability. Why
is it that free speech, the so called cornerstone of

(01:38:29):
our liberty, is censored in the land of the First Amendment?
Is it in competence or is it the fruit of
a plan that was set in motion a long time ago? Remember,
their endgame has not changed since nineteen forty eight when

(01:38:50):
Marx and Engels wrote the communist manifesto Let's remind yourself
one more time of its goals. Abolition of private property,
property taxes all but killed your private property, abolition of
the family. We've seen the war on that, abolition of religion.
We've seen the war on that centralization of credit and

(01:39:12):
communication in the hands of the state, done, redistribution of
wealth by force. And just look at it all today, right,
Everything that we've mentioned, the gender ideology, the push of
the trans narrative, religion sideline mocked or now co opted
into this social justice preaching. And if you're a patriot,

(01:39:38):
you have to be prepared to understand the same. You know,
God tells you if you're going to preach the gospel,
you're gonna be persecuted. McCarthy warmed of the infiltration, he
was smeared and destroyed. Whittaker Chambers exposed Hiss, he was
vilified while his was de The message is clear. Speaking

(01:40:04):
truth about this infiltration has always carried a cost, but
understand silence costs even more. And your silence means surrender.
Just remember that silence means surrender. We're going to wrap

(01:40:26):
that for today. Probably won't have time for a classic
audio this Sunday, but we will be back Tuesday at
eight pm Eastern time our next episode, and we'll be
dropping the names and in death people who were involved
with bringing this scourge to the United States. God bless

(01:40:47):
each and every single one of you. I hope you
have a wonderful weekend. God blessed. Keep your head on
a swivel, and until we meet again, my friends, we
will see.

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