November 12, 2025 • 40 mins
The White House marked Anti Communism Week, and we’re digging into why it matters. Todd lays out the hard truth history won’t erase—communist regimes murdered roughly 100 million people in the 20th century—then traces the ideology from Marx to Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, and why today’s “democratic socialism” still points the same direction. We contrast equality of outcome with equality under freedom, revisit wisdom from Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan, and explain why America’s founders built guardrails against government control. If you want clarity on the difference between compassionate charity and coercive state power—and why free people flourish—this one’s for you. Conservative, not bitter… and absolutely pro-truth and pro-freedom.
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You know.
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The White House, Well, this is where we're headed today.
The White House late last week announced the issue of
proclamation announcing Anti Communism Week, and I thought we'd spend
some time talking about this because because there are people
in this country, there's a political movement that is growing,
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that is growing that is very sympathetic at the least
and very pro communism at well at its worst, and
we want to address this. In fact, we had Zoran
mom Donnie when the mayoral race in the City of
New York, and we have people who just don't have
an understanding at all. And I want to talk about
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this today. I want to talk about this. I think
this is quite important. I think it's quite interesting to discuss.
And you know, I always try to use the current
events of the day kind of as a springboard to
get into I think what I considered the more important
fundamental you know, foundations of worldview and ideology, because that
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is what shapes the way that people think about politics,
about what our government needs to be doing, and that
oftentimes puts them either in alignment with but more times
than not puts them at really an opposition, direct opposition
to what our founders put together, piece together here in
this great nation, when they framed this country, when they
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wrote our founding documents. So that's where we're going to
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issued a proclamation saying that on November seventh, so that
was late last week, that would have been Friday, saying
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that it's Anti Communism Week and that they're going to
commemorate the approximately one hundred million people who lost their
lives under communist regimes in the twentieth century. And let's
pause there for a moment. Let's think about that for
just a moment. Communism in the twentieth century is responsible
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for killing almost one hundred million people. This is mind boggling.
This is government executing killing its own people. This, by
the way, is not the same thing as someone who
has committed a heinous crime, someone who's committed a violent crime,
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taken the life of another individual, for example, and that
person being executed. And even even if that was what this, uh,
these numbers represented, we would surely agree that that's a
lot of people to even execute, even if it's it's justified, uh,
you know, in the form of capital punishment for murder
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and violent crimes. One hundred million people. That is not
quite but getting close to a third of the population
of this great nation. One hundred million people. Now, remember,
how did we get there? This is the thing, This
is the thing that I want to hit on because
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this is what I see A lot of people. Rush
would call them low information voters, but a lot of
people pay attention to what people politicians say, and they
don't really connect the dots or pay much attention to
what they do. And it is unbelievable to me that
an adult would think that way. When I was a kid,
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I remember I had I had knee. I blew my
first knee and I was what was I fifteen or
sixteen years old? I think I was sixteen in my
junior year of football, I must have been sixteen, and
I tore inn ACL and some cartilage and I had surgery.
I actually had two surgeries back in those days. The
surgery has come so far now it's I think a
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lot of it can be done through the arthroscopic tools.
But back when I had the surgery, I had arthroscopic surgery.
The doctor wanted to look in and see the knee
via an arthur via the scope so that he could
see the damage. Also, he knew I had cartilage he
needed to clean up, so he cleaned up the cartilage.
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He could see that the ACL was torn, and then
we scheduled another surgery. I think just a couple of
weeks later. That's that's where I have the longer scar.
They opened me up, they re created, rebuilt I guess
the the ACL. That was a rough surgery back in
those days. But it's come a long long way. But
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I remember here when I had gotten surgery. You know,
people sent me gifts and people it would would give
me books and different things, and I remember getting a
book of quotes. In fact, i'd like to find that
book of quotes. I used to read that a lot.
When you know, when you're stuck in recovery, your options
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are limited and reading not there's anything wrong with reading,
but as a sixteen year old, I wasn't an avid
reader like maybe I like to read today, but when
you're on your back and you can't do much. In fact,
the machine after surgery, they put me on a machine
called this. It was called the CPM. I don't know
what it stood for constant something motion or something, but
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basically you were flat on your back and your knee
was being bent, probably twenty three hours a day. And
then the other time you were basically doing exercises or
you know, getting up to go to the restroom or whatever.
So but I remember a lot of times sitting there
and I would read this book of quotes, among other things,
and I remember there was a quote in this and
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i've I think I shared it on here even recently.
But the quote said, what you do speaks so loudly,
I can't hear what you're saying, and I've that's always
stuck with me. Words speakcuse me, actions speak louder than words,
but not to some people. Some people get so fixated
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on what another person is saying and it sounds so
good to them that they get caught up in the verbage,
in the spoke and word, and they don't connect the
dots and say, what this person is doing is actually
the opposite of what they tell me they're going to do,
and this accounts for a lot of the success of communism.
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In fact, they've shared a story that I remember hearing
as a young man about Joseph Stalin. He would, of
course put he was the communist dictator in the Soviet Union,
the USSR, of which Russia was a part, and he
would send people, as communist dictators do, to the gulags
into labor camps, and these individuals would be praising It's crazy,
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but they would be praising Stalin, the very person who
is ultimately responsible for putting them there. But it's like
they never connected those those dots. Stalin would say something about,
you know, the the the ideology of communism and how
it's from each according to his ability, two each according
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to his need. And people think that sounds so wonderful
and all of that, and they missed the fact that
because they did something that was not approved by the state,
they were in the gulags, even praising in some cases
the name of the dictator as they were in these
gulogs in prisons, praising him for things that well, things
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that he ultimately put them in, for things that he
in the gulogs, for things that he never really stood behind.
Things these these altruistic beliefs that were just words that
were spoken or written or whatever that people came to
associate with him, But they didn't come to associate their
being in prison because of this same individual. So communism
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requires this kind of disconnect. But at its core, at
its core, it's a political and economic ideology that seeks
to have a classless society. Classless society, how do they
plan to get there? Listen, in my mind, you've heard
me say on this program, if you listen for any
length of time, I'm not a person. I don't look
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at people and think of classes of people. I mean,
I'm not an idiot. I can if I can look
at someone and see that's a man, that's a woman,
no matter how much people on the left tell me
I can't do that. I can look at someone and
see their race or ethnicity. Sometimes you can't, right, you
can look at me and see that I'm a shockingly handsome,
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white headed dude here on the Todd huff Show. But
you can. You can see a lot of these things,
and you can recognize that people are different in a
myriad of ways without saying, oh, you're pigeonholed into this class.
I really don't like the conversation about middle class lower
you know, lower middle class, upper middle class. I understand,
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and there's there's a a reason that we are talking
about these sorts of things in politics and all that.
I get it. But I also think that, you know, people,
especially in this country, you can shift between economic classes
quite easily. I don't want to say easily, but that
can happen multiple times in a person's lifetime. In fact,
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most people who are millionaires or higher, most of the
vast majority of them are first generation people who embrace
this concept of there being a classless society. Really wants
you to believe that there's kind of a caste system
and there's no way to move between systems, and that
merit never plays a role. That's simply not the case.
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That's not the case at all. But that's what people here,
and I think a lot of times people embrace it
because they want to make sense of the struggles they've had. Listen,
Struggle is a part of life. Struggle, failure is on
the road to success too many people. You know, I'm
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an entrepreneur, and I know my mentality about this has
changed a lot since, uh since I first became an entrepreneur.
You know, I think that there's a phase that most
people go through where they're afraid of failing, and so
you're extra cautious. You maybe become hyper perfectionist in your
tendencies and you don't want to make a mistake because
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you see a mistake as you know, catastrophic, when in reality,
you take you make many decisions a day, you take
a projected course, and you'll find along that course there
are going to be a series of failures. Failures is
simply failures are feedback from what you're doing. Failures should
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be viewed as a it's like it's it's just readjusting
the GPS right, it's it's look looking at the coordinates
and saying I need to adjust course. Sometimes they're big
failures and I've got to make a massive deviation from
the path I'm on. Other times it's just small course corrections.
But too many people think that because they've not reached
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the status that they had hoped to reach economically or whatever,
that the only way to fix that is for government
to come in. Government to come in and somehow make
this right. But that is craziness because what happens. What
happens is that you give people in government too much authority,
too much power. This is not the way that it
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is supposed to be, and giving government too much power
creates tyranny. Government at its core, at its base level,
government is force. And in order to properly have a
well to have a proper understanding of the role of government,
which I think our founders nail perfectly, you first have
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to understand is what is the role, What's the purpose
of government, What's the nature of humanity? How are we
created to live? What is the best way to get there?
And of course the best way to get there is
by having a free society. So that people can live
their lives according to their own consciences. Of course, there
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have to be some sort of guardrails that say that
say this is these sorts of things are prohibited because
you're directly harming another person, their life, their property. And
this is really the framework of how government, of course
built and based upon Western thought, Judaian Christian principles. You
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begin to have some sort of a structure and you say,
we want you to be free. We don't want there
to be absolute anarchy. We don't want there. We want
there to be an enforcement mechanism so that people cannot
act lawless and violently against another group of people without
some sort of a recourse, prison, punishment, a government that
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says you can't do that. Of course, government can't protect
you from everything, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't
try to create a society where people can thrive and
live life as they want to live. That's really the
balance here. And so we realize that if you look
at a continuum on one end you say there's pure anarchy.
On the other end, you say you have a complete government,
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top down control where they make all the decisions. You're
just a cog in the wheel and you do what
they tell you. And some people really want that. People
want that because they think that's a classless society that
makes us all equal. I don't get, you know, I
think this obsession with having equal outcomes, it's there's such
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an external focus. Comparison can be such a uh, such
a devastating thing. Why are we constantly why are some
people so constantly looking at other people and seeing where
they are and then and then having jealousy or envy
for where that person is and saying that the reason
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I'm not there is because they had some benefit that
I need to have. And so let's let's get rid
of this, you know, all these classes in society. Let's
make it equal so that we could all have, you know,
equal outcomes in our life. That's just not the way
that it's designed to work. And dare I say it
also will guarantee that you're not going to have as
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much success in whatever endeavor you choose if you're protected
from those failures that we talked about. In fact, the
more you travel a path and listen, I speak as
one who's had plenty of failures and things, I would
say that the more once you get past the initial
hurt of the of the of the failure or of
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the problem. The more appreciative I think. I think that
people are of them, the people who who truly learned
from them, that they can be wonderful teachers, wonderful tools.
These things can calibrate us so that we get onto
the right path. And you eliminate that when you try
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to say government is responsible for creating all these equal
outcomes of classless society into some this sounds so so good,
but what you end up doing is you give too
much power to the government. Government that's run by human beings,
just like the rest of us. And we know that
the nature of humanity, we're sinful people, my friends, we're
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not altruistic or just noble creatures. Doesn't mean that we
can't do good. It doesn't mean that we often don't
choose to do good, but we're not good at our core.
And when there's no accountability and when there's too much power,
bad bad things happen. And that's exactly what has happened
throughout the course of history when it pertains to communism.
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It is a wicked, evil ideology and it sounds so pleasant,
sounds so wonderful, to people who want to see things equalized,
who want to see things made right, at least in
their perspective. From their perspective and in their eyes, it
sounds so good because these folks have learned to manipulate
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people into believing that they can actually achieve and accomplish
for an entire society what we as individuals should be
trying to accomplish for ourselves and for our families. More
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Let's let's dig a little bit deeper here into into
communism and of course Anti Communism Week the death of
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one hundred million people approximately in the twentieth century. So
let's talk a little bit more about communism. I'm going
to set this up. I'm going to get as much
of this end of to day as I can as
i'm reaching the end of this the first segment of
the program. But we said that communism is a political
and economic system that seeks a classless society. They seek
to eliminate private property. They place they want to place
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all means of production basically in the control of the government.
That's where it ends up in practice. In theory, they
say it's just collectively owned. We all somehow own everything equally.
And there's some wild beliefs. I mean, it's to the point.
I mean, I've had conversations, read books, had encounters with people, professors.
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I mean, is it is wild wild stuff what some
of these people believe. You shouldn't have any private property.
Some people are even to the point where they say,
you know, even you know, spouses or communal I don't know,
I don't will say property, but I guess that's how
they think about it. Just wild wild stuff here, my friends.
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And there's you know, obviously different. I guess offshoots of
communism and where the line should be drawn. But you
get into some really really crazy, crazy stuff. But they
want the government to control everything, and the theory promises
ultimately equality, but the reality delivers something much much different.
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The reality delivers oppression. So you can say that everybody
wants equality. Who's out there spouting these communistic statements and
reading these books and saying that they stand. Of course,
they usually stand for socialism, which is listen, socialism might
be the off ramp. Communism, as it's been said, is
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the destination. These things are related, They're closely related, make
no mistake about it. They'll tell you I'm not a communist, No, no, no,
I'm a democratic socialist. I think throwing that word democratic
in there makes it sound so much better. But the
direction of travel and the destination for even even social
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excuse me, democratic socialism is heading in this very direction
government control of something halfway to communism. So timeouts in order,
my friends, we'll talk more about this after the break.
You're listening to conservative not better talk. I'm your host,
Todd huff. Back in just a minute, we im back,
my friends, talking here about communism. Why are we doing
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that well. Number one, it's becoming something that is more prevalent.
There are more people today. You know, when I was
a kid, if you said you were a communist. I
grew up in the eighties. I mean those were fighting words.
You'd probably be in a fistfight if you said you
were a communist. I remember a Seinfeld where Elaine was
dating a guy named Ned. I believe that. I think
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his name was Ned Ned the Communist. That was not
received well by the audience. I mean, obviously it was
a Seinfeld. It was a making fun of this or whatever,
but that wasn't something that made someone automatically likable and
relatable to the audience or even to the characters on Seinfeld.
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Of course, I think Kramer found some way, you know,
Kramer always found a way to connect with all the characters.
But anyway, it's not something that was considered a good
thing when I was a kid. And it's not a
good thing. It's absolutely not a good thing. It's called
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so let's get here to the roots. I guess of communism.
There is a book written back in eighteen forty eight
called The Pot the Commune Communist Manifesto. I've actually read
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this a couple of times, written by Karl Marx Friedrich Ingles.
You'll know those those names. This is where you get these.
I would say that the core idea out, the core belief,
which is from each according to his ability, to each
according to his need. That sounds so good to people,
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and listen. In one sense, I can say, you know
that there's something there that's attractive people who who have things,
who have been blessed, who have had success. I mean,
I've shared on this program that it's a good thing
biblically speaking, to help those who are in difficult circumstances,
who are on the you know, on the outskirts. I
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guess of the heart of society. People who know Jesus
talked about the widows and the orphans, and people who
were the poor and needy, the sick, commanded us to
take care of them. But there wasn't an organized structure
that stole from us and then said we're going to
redistribute it. It's really the compassion of individuals and our
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free choices that are really the means by which we
should get there. But not for communism. Communism says we're
going to put the benevolent dictator in charge, and he's
going to make all of this right somehow and in
some way. So they in the book Marx and Engels
called on workers to rise up against capitalism, arguing that
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that private ownership produces inequality, and of course private ownership
does cause there to be different results. I mean, listen,
it's I think about this in terms that you know,
the average person would understand. You know, there are thirty
two thirty two National Football League teams and they create rules.
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The NFL has rules on, you know, trying to make
each franchise equally competitive as best they can. But it
doesn't work that way. I mean, you know, you have
a salary cap, so one team can't go and spend
a bazillion dollars on the players and the other team
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are paying them with you know, IOUs or some such thing, right,
that's not the way that it works. They've got a
complicated a system in place to make sure that teams
have the same sorts of resources and tools to get
players attract talent, but there's nothing is the same. The
market in Cleveland is not the same market as Boston, right,
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and the coaching staff and the different approaches and the
players and the culture and all these other things that
create different outcomes. There's absolutely nothing that can be done
to create a different Super Bowl champion every year. And
for there's thirty two teams over the course of the
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next thirty two years, every team wins one Super Bowl,
the odds of that happening are practically zero. It's virtually impossible.
And you'll notice that some franchises struggle for a lot
longer and others have continually risen to the top. Why.
I don't always know why. Sometimes you can tell why.
Sometimes there's a some good fortune in there. Sometimes there's coaching.
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Think about the Pittsburgh Steelers. I don't want to make
this too much about sports, but the Pittsburgh Steelers have
basically had three coaches over I don't know. It went
from Chuck Noll to Bill Kauer to Mike Tomlin and
Chuck Knowlell's coaching. I know back in the seventies. I
think they've had three coaches dating back tonight, you'd have
to look it up. I didn't look it up before
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the program, but it goes back to say this fifty
years or something like this, they've had three coaches. Meanwhile,
you'll find other teams who have multiple coaches over a
five year period of time, and you find yourself saying that,
you know, how does that happen? How is how is
the Baltimore Ravens defense every year a good defense? How
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the Chicago Bears, with some exceptions, even when they're bad,
they always seem to have a good defense. How did
the take your pick right? There's so many things, and
there's no way, there's no way on earth that there
can be equality of outcomes in the NFL, which is
only thirty two teams. Each team has what fifty three
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players plus the practice squad. We can't even control that.
I'm not saying we should try. I'm saying we can't
even control that, let alone a nation of three hundred
and thirty three hundred and forty million people. It's crazy,
and not just in the sport of football on all
aspects of life. Why do people believe this? You know,
in a way, you could say it shows that we
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have a hunger and a thirst for the perfection that
we can only have in heaven. You could say that
this is in some way a bit of evidence, is
a tiny speck of evidence that says that we were
created for something more. It's like we realize maybe that
we have the way that things were created to work,
are not the way that they're working now, which of
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course goes in line with the biblical narrative of the
fall of man from the Garden of Eden. But this
is a desire of the human heart, some sort of
just almost like a fairy tell storybook ending, and they
people believe that the government can somehow achieve this. So
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but when this ideology is implemented in the real world, bad, bad,
bad things happen. Here's some examples here of just how
bad historically things have happened in the twentieth century alone,
in the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin's Stalin's
regimes murdered roughly twenty million of their own people through
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forced collectivization execution. The Gulags which I mentioned and engineered
famines in China. That's mal Zaidong. His great leap forward
and cultural revolution killed an estimated forty five to sixty
million people through starvation, violence, and political purges. I mean,
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I guess the mindset is the people who get in
the way of the government having absolute control have to
be punished or wiped off the face of the planet.
That's certainly what it looks like in practice to a
person like me. And Cambodia, Paul Potts executed or starved
about two million people between nineteen seventy five nineteen seventy nine.
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In North Korea, we know about the Kim dynasty. They
have killed or starved millions more through forced labor and purges.
Now we've got Kim Jong un, we had Kim Jung ill. Previously,
communist governments in q Vietnam, Laos, the Eastern Bloc added
several million more victims through imprisonment, executions, and oppression. That
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leads us to roughly one hundred million people who were
killed by communist regimes by their own government, not by
foreign armies. These are not justifiable cases of capital punishment.
This is the government saying we are executing you because
you will not submit to our absolute and total authority
over you. So sources for these include the Black Book
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of Communism, Harvard University Press in nineteen ninety nine US
Congressional Record, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund. So
quick time out, my friends. Communism kills. That's the core
of the message here today. Communism kills, my friends, and
we have people that are playing that are playing footsie
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with it here in the United States in twenty twenty five.
Quick time out back in just a minute, Welcome back,
my friends. Third and final segments of today's program, talking
here about communism since it's Anti Communism Week as announced
by the White House on this past Friday. I wanted
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to talk about this because we've had a love affair
in this country by some with socialism, which is its cousin.
I mean, these are kissing cousins, my friends, communism and socialism.
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You know, even with the stats and the information I
shared with you just before the break there, people have
fallen in love with the maybe a little bit kinder,
a little bit gentler relative, the kissing cousin of communism,
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and that would be socialism that's made a comeback here
in our popular culture today, certainly in academia. And you know,
some people just have a misunderstanding of where this leads,
or they don't care, or they think that this time, oh,
this time will get it right, my friends, this time
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there won't be the gulags, the starvation, the extreme over
the top government force. There won't be the calls to
make government God. You know, communism asserts itself as God.
Communism says there cannot be you can't worship God. Now
in the Soviet Union, they quote unquote allowed allowed there
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to be churches, but that was more for historical significance.
If people were really changed by the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and thought Jesus and believed Jesus was their king
and not the communist dictator, there were consequences to be paid.
Just look at read some of these books. Fox's Book
of Martyrs. There's a book called Jesus Freaks that was
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written I don't know, twenty some years ago, and there's stories.
There's stories of people who were killed by the communists.
I remember some of the In fact, I remember one
story I'll share with you really quickly. There were a
group of Communists, Soviets, who went to this community of
I think it was Christians. They were Christians, and they
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took them out. They stripped them, I believe, naked, or
at least barefoot and barely clothed. They took them out
on a frozen lake. In the middle of winter to
basically freeze them to death. They encircled them, they put
them out on the frozen lake. And these people, as
they were being murdered, frozen to death by these communist evildoers,
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they started singing worship songs and they would die one
by one. And there's a moving story of one where
one of the soldiers, as he was watching this, witnessing this,
he stripped down and walked out onto the frozen lake
to die alongside these folks. This is the sort of
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stuff that happens time after time after time. Socialism says, look,
government should control the major industries to ensure equality, to
protect the workers, and all of that will still allow
private property, this whole concept. So it's again, how do
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you have half tyranny? That's my question. What do you
mean you'll still allow some private property, private property, private property.
These these things are the gift of Almighty God. This
isn't for the government to decide whether people can have
private property. These things come to us. Certainly. There are rules.
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You can't go claim someone else's property, but you have
the right to own property, to call a place your home. Communism,
of course, goes further than that saying there's no private
property at all. Everything is owned and controlled by the state.
People applaud this, they think it sounds good. This is
where you get from each according to his ability, to
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each according to his need. That's what communism says. Some
would argue that socialism says from each according to his ability,
to each according to his work. So you've you got
to work for it still. But again you're you're heading
in the wrong direction here, my friends. And that's what
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we have with socialism. Socialism claims to work through democracy.
That's where you get this term democratic socialism. But if
you continue down this path, it leads to communism. Communism
always becomes authoritarian, always becomes authoritarian. I don't have a
lot of time here. I got a lot more thoughts,
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Milton Friedman. One set of society that puts equality before
freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before
equality will get a high degree of both. And of
course I love quoting Reagan on that. I love quoting
Milton Friedman too. But Reagan said this socialism only works
in two places, Heaven where they don't need it, and
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in Hell, where they already have it. And of course
in hell. They have it because there's an equality of
absolute suffering. And that, my friends, matters today because there
are people out there, young people and people who are older,
but young people who buy into these these one liners,
these stated objectives of these ideologies, but they end badly.
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They end badly. We have to not only enter, i
should say, educate on the truths of constitutional conservatism and
free markets, but we also have to point out the
atrocities that are caused by communism, which we did today.
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The White House, Well, this is where we're headed today.
The White House late last week announced the issue of
proclamation announcing Anti Communism Week, and I thought we'd spend
some time talking about this because because there are people
in this country, there's a political movement that is growing,
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that is growing that is very sympathetic at the least
and very pro communism at well at its worst, and
we want to address this. In fact, we had Zoran
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an understanding at all. And I want to talk about
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this today. I want to talk about this. I think
this is quite important. I think it's quite interesting to discuss.
And you know, I always try to use the current
events of the day kind of as a springboard to
get into I think what I considered the more important
fundamental you know, foundations of worldview and ideology, because that
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is what shapes the way that people think about politics,
about what our government needs to be doing, and that
oftentimes puts them either in alignment with but more times
than not puts them at really an opposition, direct opposition
to what our founders put together, piece together here in
this great nation, when they framed this country, when they
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was late last week, that would have been Friday, saying
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that it's Anti Communism Week and that they're going to
commemorate the approximately one hundred million people who lost their
lives under communist regimes in the twentieth century. And let's
pause there for a moment. Let's think about that for
just a moment. Communism in the twentieth century is responsible
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for killing almost one hundred million people. This is mind boggling.
This is government executing killing its own people. This, by
the way, is not the same thing as someone who
has committed a heinous crime, someone who's committed a violent crime,
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taken the life of another individual, for example, and that
person being executed. And even even if that was what this, uh,
these numbers represented, we would surely agree that that's a
lot of people to even execute, even if it's it's justified, uh,
you know, in the form of capital punishment for murder
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and violent crimes. One hundred million people. That is not
quite but getting close to a third of the population
of this great nation. One hundred million people. Now, remember,
how did we get there? This is the thing, This
is the thing that I want to hit on because
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this is what I see A lot of people. Rush
would call them low information voters, but a lot of
people pay attention to what people politicians say, and they
don't really connect the dots or pay much attention to
what they do. And it is unbelievable to me that
an adult would think that way. When I was a kid,
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I remember I had I had knee. I blew my
first knee and I was what was I fifteen or
sixteen years old? I think I was sixteen in my
junior year of football, I must have been sixteen, and
I tore inn ACL and some cartilage and I had surgery.
I actually had two surgeries back in those days. The
surgery has come so far now it's I think a
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lot of it can be done through the arthroscopic tools.
But back when I had the surgery, I had arthroscopic surgery.
The doctor wanted to look in and see the knee
via an arthur via the scope so that he could
see the damage. Also, he knew I had cartilage he
needed to clean up, so he cleaned up the cartilage.
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He could see that the ACL was torn, and then
we scheduled another surgery. I think just a couple of
weeks later. That's that's where I have the longer scar.
They opened me up, they re created, rebuilt I guess
the the ACL. That was a rough surgery back in
those days. But it's come a long long way. But
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I remember here when I had gotten surgery. You know,
people sent me gifts and people it would would give
me books and different things, and I remember getting a
book of quotes. In fact, i'd like to find that
book of quotes. I used to read that a lot.
When you know, when you're stuck in recovery, your options
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are limited and reading not there's anything wrong with reading,
but as a sixteen year old, I wasn't an avid
reader like maybe I like to read today, but when
you're on your back and you can't do much. In fact,
the machine after surgery, they put me on a machine
called this. It was called the CPM. I don't know
what it stood for constant something motion or something, but
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basically you were flat on your back and your knee
was being bent, probably twenty three hours a day. And
then the other time you were basically doing exercises or
you know, getting up to go to the restroom or whatever.
So but I remember a lot of times sitting there
and I would read this book of quotes, among other things,
and I remember there was a quote in this and
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i've I think I shared it on here even recently.
But the quote said, what you do speaks so loudly,
I can't hear what you're saying, and I've that's always
stuck with me. Words speakcuse me, actions speak louder than words,
but not to some people. Some people get so fixated
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on what another person is saying and it sounds so
good to them that they get caught up in the verbage,
in the spoke and word, and they don't connect the
dots and say, what this person is doing is actually
the opposite of what they tell me they're going to do,
and this accounts for a lot of the success of communism.
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In fact, they've shared a story that I remember hearing
as a young man about Joseph Stalin. He would, of
course put he was the communist dictator in the Soviet Union,
the USSR, of which Russia was a part, and he
would send people, as communist dictators do, to the gulags
into labor camps, and these individuals would be praising It's crazy,
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but they would be praising Stalin, the very person who
is ultimately responsible for putting them there. But it's like
they never connected those those dots. Stalin would say something about,
you know, the the the ideology of communism and how
it's from each according to his ability, two each according
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to his need. And people think that sounds so wonderful
and all of that, and they missed the fact that
because they did something that was not approved by the state,
they were in the gulags, even praising in some cases
the name of the dictator as they were in these
gulogs in prisons, praising him for things that well, things
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that he ultimately put them in, for things that he
in the gulogs, for things that he never really stood behind.
Things these these altruistic beliefs that were just words that
were spoken or written or whatever that people came to
associate with him, But they didn't come to associate their
being in prison because of this same individual. So communism
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requires this kind of disconnect. But at its core, at
its core, it's a political and economic ideology that seeks
to have a classless society. Classless society, how do they
plan to get there? Listen, in my mind, you've heard
me say on this program, if you listen for any
length of time, I'm not a person. I don't look
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at people and think of classes of people. I mean,
I'm not an idiot. I can if I can look
at someone and see that's a man, that's a woman,
no matter how much people on the left tell me
I can't do that. I can look at someone and
see their race or ethnicity. Sometimes you can't, right, you
can look at me and see that I'm a shockingly handsome,
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white headed dude here on the Todd huff Show. But
you can. You can see a lot of these things,
and you can recognize that people are different in a
myriad of ways without saying, oh, you're pigeonholed into this class.
I really don't like the conversation about middle class lower
you know, lower middle class, upper middle class. I understand,
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and there's there's a a reason that we are talking
about these sorts of things in politics and all that.
I get it. But I also think that, you know, people,
especially in this country, you can shift between economic classes
quite easily. I don't want to say easily, but that
can happen multiple times in a person's lifetime. In fact,
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most people who are millionaires or higher, most of the
vast majority of them are first generation people who embrace
this concept of there being a classless society. Really wants
you to believe that there's kind of a caste system
and there's no way to move between systems, and that
merit never plays a role. That's simply not the case.
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That's not the case at all. But that's what people here,
and I think a lot of times people embrace it
because they want to make sense of the struggles they've had. Listen,
Struggle is a part of life. Struggle, failure is on
the road to success too many people. You know, I'm
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an entrepreneur, and I know my mentality about this has
changed a lot since, uh since I first became an entrepreneur.
You know, I think that there's a phase that most
people go through where they're afraid of failing, and so
you're extra cautious. You maybe become hyper perfectionist in your
tendencies and you don't want to make a mistake because
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you see a mistake as you know, catastrophic, when in reality,
you take you make many decisions a day, you take
a projected course, and you'll find along that course there
are going to be a series of failures. Failures is
simply failures are feedback from what you're doing. Failures should
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be viewed as a it's like it's it's just readjusting
the GPS right, it's it's look looking at the coordinates
and saying I need to adjust course. Sometimes they're big
failures and I've got to make a massive deviation from
the path I'm on. Other times it's just small course corrections.
But too many people think that because they've not reached
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the status that they had hoped to reach economically or whatever,
that the only way to fix that is for government
to come in. Government to come in and somehow make
this right. But that is craziness because what happens. What
happens is that you give people in government too much authority,
too much power. This is not the way that it
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is supposed to be, and giving government too much power
creates tyranny. Government at its core, at its base level,
government is force. And in order to properly have a
well to have a proper understanding of the role of government,
which I think our founders nail perfectly, you first have
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to understand is what is the role, What's the purpose
of government, What's the nature of humanity? How are we
created to live? What is the best way to get there?
And of course the best way to get there is
by having a free society. So that people can live
their lives according to their own consciences. Of course, there
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have to be some sort of guardrails that say that
say this is these sorts of things are prohibited because
you're directly harming another person, their life, their property. And
this is really the framework of how government, of course
built and based upon Western thought, Judaian Christian principles. You
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begin to have some sort of a structure and you say,
we want you to be free. We don't want there
to be absolute anarchy. We don't want there. We want
there to be an enforcement mechanism so that people cannot
act lawless and violently against another group of people without
some sort of a recourse, prison, punishment, a government that
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says you can't do that. Of course, government can't protect
you from everything, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't
try to create a society where people can thrive and
live life as they want to live. That's really the
balance here. And so we realize that if you look
at a continuum on one end you say there's pure anarchy.
On the other end, you say you have a complete government,
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top down control where they make all the decisions. You're
just a cog in the wheel and you do what
they tell you. And some people really want that. People
want that because they think that's a classless society that
makes us all equal. I don't get, you know, I
think this obsession with having equal outcomes, it's there's such
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an external focus. Comparison can be such a uh, such
a devastating thing. Why are we constantly why are some
people so constantly looking at other people and seeing where
they are and then and then having jealousy or envy
for where that person is and saying that the reason
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I'm not there is because they had some benefit that
I need to have. And so let's let's get rid
of this, you know, all these classes in society. Let's
make it equal so that we could all have, you know,
equal outcomes in our life. That's just not the way
that it's designed to work. And dare I say it
also will guarantee that you're not going to have as
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much success in whatever endeavor you choose if you're protected
from those failures that we talked about. In fact, the
more you travel a path and listen, I speak as
one who's had plenty of failures and things, I would
say that the more once you get past the initial
hurt of the of the of the failure or of
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the problem. The more appreciative I think. I think that
people are of them, the people who who truly learned
from them, that they can be wonderful teachers, wonderful tools.
These things can calibrate us so that we get onto
the right path. And you eliminate that when you try
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to say government is responsible for creating all these equal
outcomes of classless society into some this sounds so so good,
but what you end up doing is you give too
much power to the government. Government that's run by human beings,
just like the rest of us. And we know that
the nature of humanity, we're sinful people, my friends, we're
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not altruistic or just noble creatures. Doesn't mean that we
can't do good. It doesn't mean that we often don't
choose to do good, but we're not good at our core.
And when there's no accountability and when there's too much power,
bad bad things happen. And that's exactly what has happened
throughout the course of history when it pertains to communism.
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It is a wicked, evil ideology and it sounds so pleasant,
sounds so wonderful, to people who want to see things equalized,
who want to see things made right, at least in
their perspective. From their perspective and in their eyes, it
sounds so good because these folks have learned to manipulate
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people into believing that they can actually achieve and accomplish
for an entire society what we as individuals should be
trying to accomplish for ourselves and for our families. More
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Let's let's dig a little bit deeper here into into
communism and of course Anti Communism Week the death of
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one hundred million people approximately in the twentieth century. So
let's talk a little bit more about communism. I'm going
to set this up. I'm going to get as much
of this end of to day as I can as
i'm reaching the end of this the first segment of
the program. But we said that communism is a political
and economic system that seeks a classless society. They seek
to eliminate private property. They place they want to place
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all means of production basically in the control of the government.
That's where it ends up in practice. In theory, they
say it's just collectively owned. We all somehow own everything equally.
And there's some wild beliefs. I mean, it's to the point.
I mean, I've had conversations, read books, had encounters with people, professors.
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I mean, is it is wild wild stuff what some
of these people believe. You shouldn't have any private property.
Some people are even to the point where they say,
you know, even you know, spouses or communal I don't know,
I don't will say property, but I guess that's how
they think about it. Just wild wild stuff here, my friends.
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And there's you know, obviously different. I guess offshoots of
communism and where the line should be drawn. But you
get into some really really crazy, crazy stuff. But they
want the government to control everything, and the theory promises
ultimately equality, but the reality delivers something much much different.
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The reality delivers oppression. So you can say that everybody
wants equality. Who's out there spouting these communistic statements and
reading these books and saying that they stand. Of course,
they usually stand for socialism, which is listen, socialism might
be the off ramp. Communism, as it's been said, is
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the destination. These things are related, They're closely related, make
no mistake about it. They'll tell you I'm not a communist, No, no, no,
I'm a democratic socialist. I think throwing that word democratic
in there makes it sound so much better. But the
direction of travel and the destination for even even social
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excuse me, democratic socialism is heading in this very direction
government control of something halfway to communism. So timeouts in order,
my friends, we'll talk more about this after the break.
You're listening to conservative not better talk. I'm your host,
Todd huff. Back in just a minute, we im back,
my friends, talking here about communism. Why are we doing
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that well. Number one, it's becoming something that is more prevalent.
There are more people today. You know, when I was
a kid, if you said you were a communist. I
grew up in the eighties. I mean those were fighting words.
You'd probably be in a fistfight if you said you
were a communist. I remember a Seinfeld where Elaine was
dating a guy named Ned. I believe that. I think
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his name was Ned Ned the Communist. That was not
received well by the audience. I mean, obviously it was
a Seinfeld. It was a making fun of this or whatever,
but that wasn't something that made someone automatically likable and
relatable to the audience or even to the characters on Seinfeld.
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Of course, I think Kramer found some way, you know,
Kramer always found a way to connect with all the characters.
But anyway, it's not something that was considered a good
thing when I was a kid. And it's not a
good thing. It's absolutely not a good thing. It's called
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so let's get here to the roots. I guess of communism.
There is a book written back in eighteen forty eight
called The Pot the Commune Communist Manifesto. I've actually read
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this a couple of times, written by Karl Marx Friedrich Ingles.
You'll know those those names. This is where you get these.
I would say that the core idea out, the core belief,
which is from each according to his ability, to each
according to his need. That sounds so good to people,
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and listen. In one sense, I can say, you know
that there's something there that's attractive people who who have things,
who have been blessed, who have had success. I mean,
I've shared on this program that it's a good thing
biblically speaking, to help those who are in difficult circumstances,
who are on the you know, on the outskirts. I
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guess of the heart of society. People who know Jesus
talked about the widows and the orphans, and people who
were the poor and needy, the sick, commanded us to
take care of them. But there wasn't an organized structure
that stole from us and then said we're going to
redistribute it. It's really the compassion of individuals and our
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free choices that are really the means by which we
should get there. But not for communism. Communism says we're
going to put the benevolent dictator in charge, and he's
going to make all of this right somehow and in
some way. So they in the book Marx and Engels
called on workers to rise up against capitalism, arguing that
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that private ownership produces inequality, and of course private ownership
does cause there to be different results. I mean, listen,
it's I think about this in terms that you know,
the average person would understand. You know, there are thirty
two thirty two National Football League teams and they create rules.
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The NFL has rules on, you know, trying to make
each franchise equally competitive as best they can. But it
doesn't work that way. I mean, you know, you have
a salary cap, so one team can't go and spend
a bazillion dollars on the players and the other team
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are paying them with you know, IOUs or some such thing, right,
that's not the way that it works. They've got a
complicated a system in place to make sure that teams
have the same sorts of resources and tools to get
players attract talent, but there's nothing is the same. The
market in Cleveland is not the same market as Boston, right,
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and the coaching staff and the different approaches and the
players and the culture and all these other things that
create different outcomes. There's absolutely nothing that can be done
to create a different Super Bowl champion every year. And
for there's thirty two teams over the course of the
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next thirty two years, every team wins one Super Bowl,
the odds of that happening are practically zero. It's virtually impossible.
And you'll notice that some franchises struggle for a lot
longer and others have continually risen to the top. Why.
I don't always know why. Sometimes you can tell why.
Sometimes there's a some good fortune in there. Sometimes there's coaching.
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Think about the Pittsburgh Steelers. I don't want to make
this too much about sports, but the Pittsburgh Steelers have
basically had three coaches over I don't know. It went
from Chuck Noll to Bill Kauer to Mike Tomlin and
Chuck Knowlell's coaching. I know back in the seventies. I
think they've had three coaches dating back tonight, you'd have
to look it up. I didn't look it up before
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the program, but it goes back to say this fifty
years or something like this, they've had three coaches. Meanwhile,
you'll find other teams who have multiple coaches over a
five year period of time, and you find yourself saying that,
you know, how does that happen? How is how is
the Baltimore Ravens defense every year a good defense? How
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the Chicago Bears, with some exceptions, even when they're bad,
they always seem to have a good defense. How did
the take your pick right? There's so many things, and
there's no way, there's no way on earth that there
can be equality of outcomes in the NFL, which is
only thirty two teams. Each team has what fifty three
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players plus the practice squad. We can't even control that.
I'm not saying we should try. I'm saying we can't
even control that, let alone a nation of three hundred
and thirty three hundred and forty million people. It's crazy,
and not just in the sport of football on all
aspects of life. Why do people believe this? You know,
in a way, you could say it shows that we
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have a hunger and a thirst for the perfection that
we can only have in heaven. You could say that
this is in some way a bit of evidence, is
a tiny speck of evidence that says that we were
created for something more. It's like we realize maybe that
we have the way that things were created to work,
are not the way that they're working now, which of
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course goes in line with the biblical narrative of the
fall of man from the Garden of Eden. But this
is a desire of the human heart, some sort of
just almost like a fairy tell storybook ending, and they
people believe that the government can somehow achieve this. So
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but when this ideology is implemented in the real world, bad, bad,
bad things happen. Here's some examples here of just how
bad historically things have happened in the twentieth century alone,
in the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin's Stalin's
regimes murdered roughly twenty million of their own people through
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forced collectivization execution. The Gulags which I mentioned and engineered
famines in China. That's mal Zaidong. His great leap forward
and cultural revolution killed an estimated forty five to sixty
million people through starvation, violence, and political purges. I mean,
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I guess the mindset is the people who get in
the way of the government having absolute control have to
be punished or wiped off the face of the planet.
That's certainly what it looks like in practice to a
person like me. And Cambodia, Paul Potts executed or starved
about two million people between nineteen seventy five nineteen seventy nine.
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In North Korea, we know about the Kim dynasty. They
have killed or starved millions more through forced labor and purges.
Now we've got Kim Jong un, we had Kim Jung ill. Previously,
communist governments in q Vietnam, Laos, the Eastern Bloc added
several million more victims through imprisonment, executions, and oppression. That
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leads us to roughly one hundred million people who were
killed by communist regimes by their own government, not by
foreign armies. These are not justifiable cases of capital punishment.
This is the government saying we are executing you because
you will not submit to our absolute and total authority
over you. So sources for these include the Black Book
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of Communism, Harvard University Press in nineteen ninety nine US
Congressional Record, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund. So
quick time out, my friends. Communism kills. That's the core
of the message here today. Communism kills, my friends, and
we have people that are playing that are playing footsie
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with it here in the United States in twenty twenty five.
Quick time out back in just a minute, Welcome back,
my friends. Third and final segments of today's program, talking
here about communism since it's Anti Communism Week as announced
by the White House on this past Friday. I wanted
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to talk about this because we've had a love affair
in this country by some with socialism, which is its cousin.
I mean, these are kissing cousins, my friends, communism and socialism.
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That leads us back to this talk about communism socialism.
You know, even with the stats and the information I
shared with you just before the break there, people have
fallen in love with the maybe a little bit kinder,
a little bit gentler relative, the kissing cousin of communism,
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and that would be socialism that's made a comeback here
in our popular culture today, certainly in academia. And you know,
some people just have a misunderstanding of where this leads,
or they don't care, or they think that this time, oh,
this time will get it right, my friends, this time
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there won't be the gulags, the starvation, the extreme over
the top government force. There won't be the calls to
make government God. You know, communism asserts itself as God.
Communism says there cannot be you can't worship God. Now
in the Soviet Union, they quote unquote allowed allowed there
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to be churches, but that was more for historical significance.
If people were really changed by the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and thought Jesus and believed Jesus was their king
and not the communist dictator, there were consequences to be paid.
Just look at read some of these books. Fox's Book
of Martyrs. There's a book called Jesus Freaks that was
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written I don't know, twenty some years ago, and there's stories.
There's stories of people who were killed by the communists.
I remember some of the In fact, I remember one
story I'll share with you really quickly. There were a
group of Communists, Soviets, who went to this community of
I think it was Christians. They were Christians, and they
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took them out. They stripped them, I believe, naked, or
at least barefoot and barely clothed. They took them out
on a frozen lake. In the middle of winter to
basically freeze them to death. They encircled them, they put
them out on the frozen lake. And these people, as
they were being murdered, frozen to death by these communist evildoers,
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they started singing worship songs and they would die one
by one. And there's a moving story of one where
one of the soldiers, as he was watching this, witnessing this,
he stripped down and walked out onto the frozen lake
to die alongside these folks. This is the sort of
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stuff that happens time after time after time. Socialism says, look,
government should control the major industries to ensure equality, to
protect the workers, and all of that will still allow
private property, this whole concept. So it's again, how do
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you have half tyranny? That's my question. What do you
mean you'll still allow some private property, private property, private property.
These these things are the gift of Almighty God. This
isn't for the government to decide whether people can have
private property. These things come to us. Certainly. There are rules.
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You can't go claim someone else's property, but you have
the right to own property, to call a place your home. Communism,
of course, goes further than that saying there's no private
property at all. Everything is owned and controlled by the state.
People applaud this, they think it sounds good. This is
where you get from each according to his ability, to
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each according to his need. That's what communism says. Some
would argue that socialism says from each according to his ability,
to each according to his work. So you've you got
to work for it still. But again you're you're heading
in the wrong direction here, my friends. And that's what
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we have with socialism. Socialism claims to work through democracy.
That's where you get this term democratic socialism. But if
you continue down this path, it leads to communism. Communism
always becomes authoritarian, always becomes authoritarian. I don't have a
lot of time here. I got a lot more thoughts,
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Milton Friedman. One set of society that puts equality before
freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before
equality will get a high degree of both. And of
course I love quoting Reagan on that. I love quoting
Milton Friedman too. But Reagan said this socialism only works
in two places, Heaven where they don't need it, and
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in Hell, where they already have it. And of course
in hell. They have it because there's an equality of
absolute suffering. And that, my friends, matters today because there
are people out there, young people and people who are older,
but young people who buy into these these one liners,
these stated objectives of these ideologies, but they end badly.
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They end badly. We have to not only enter, i
should say, educate on the truths of constitutional conservatism and
free markets, but we also have to point out the
atrocities that are caused by communism, which we did today.
I'm out of time, though, my friends STG.
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