Immunity to rational thought, at least. That’s right, the old emailbag has popped open again and eructated another mischief missive whose purpose is to keep those damn conservatives strictly in line. I’ll reproduce this one in pieces with observations as necessary.
Subject: Sixty years ago people said it will NEVER happen. It all comming [sic!] true
WE ARE ON THE WAY
Sixty years ago people said it will NEVER happen
Khrushchev’s Message 61 years ago
Khrushchev also said “We [Communism} will bury you!” A quick read but a lasting thought. Pretty scary now.
Khrushchev’s Message 61 years ago:
THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE: A sobering reminder. Almost exactly sixty years ago since Russia’s Khrushchev delivered his Do you remember September 29, 1959? THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE:
“Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you; we will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Ah, a leading statement, as it were: this is where the author would like his audience to end up – quivering in terror at the thought of living in a Soviet-style state, a situation most everyone, including myself, would prefer to avoid. But I, ever the goat, had the temerity to ask Why the hell do I care about Kruschchev? I shall now call him ‘K’, and ask those who shudder in terror if K also foresaw that his own empire would fragment under its own corrupt, inefficient weight, and is now an oligopolic free market led by a former KGB agent? Did he? Of course not.
So why give this dude any sort of credit for prescience? And then, doing my due diligence, I asked when K made this awful prediction and discovered that the celebrated Snopes rates a whole raft of claims like this one as Unproven.
Well. He’s a terrible clairvoyant and he may not have said the above. But wait, there’s more!
Do you remember what Russia’s Khrushchev said in 1959?
Remember, socialism leads to Communism. So, how do you create a Socialistic State?
There are 8 levels of control; read the following recipe:
1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class this will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor
Once again, due diligence, but this time I’m shocked to find the quotes are attributed not to the big K … but to some dude named Saul Alinsky! Yes, it’s Snopes again, and this time K is not even mentioned, only Alinsky, and then Snopes points out …
But this list is not something taken from the actual writings of Saul Alinsky, nor does it even sound like something he would have written (e.g., the line about “controlling health care” is anachronistic for his era, and the idea of “increasing the poverty level as high as possible” is the very antithesis of what Alinsky worked to achieve). This list is simply a modern variant of the decades-old, apocryphal Communist Rules for Revolution piece that was originally passed along without attribution until Alinsky’s name became attached to it (presumably because someone out there thought it sounded like something Alinsky might have written).
Yes, this appears to be someone’s fever dream, inspired by the fraudulent Nostradamus, by someone desperate to shore up conservatives who may be showing signs of thinking for themselves. The words communism and socialism are standard trigger words for conservatives, as well as gun control, thus setting up the fight or flight mechanism, which tends to exclude thinking.
And I’m glad I did this due diligence, because, for the careful reader, that list of eight points is positively fertile ground for turning the message back in the face of the author. For example, #3 is the fault of the Republicans, as any self-respecting pundit will admit. No, no, no more. It’s like those fishies in barrels.
And then I’d be going to bed way too late tonight. But, since, as we’ve seen, this entire message is nothing more than someone’s attempt to herd the conservatives along, with no anchor in facts, reality, or truth, I don’t have to.
Here, I just ask the conservative reader to have a bit of self-respect.
