While the “Oh, God, all is LOST!” crowd concentrates on people who come and go, someone who is familiar with REAL politics sees the numbers in an entirely different light.
In the 1950s there were about 25,000 members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA).
Conventional wisdom faced two problems here:
1) Obviously, those 25,000 represented only a fraction of the real Communists in America. Even Henry Wallace later admitted that his Progressive Party in 1948 was run by them.
BUT:
2) McCarthyism said there was a legion of closet Communists in the government and that it dominated the media and other power elites.
So they settled on saying that, for each CPUSA member, there were ten closet Communists.
Then came the 1960s, when Commie was Cool. The media proudly reported college games between Communists and Anarchists. Opposition to the Vietnam War became marches of hundreds of thousands sporting Viet Cong flags.
Phone banks were set up to call families of soldiers and tell them falsely that their son had been killed.
The media now nostalgically calls this The Love Generation.
Extrapolating from KGB files, there were 25,000 closet Communists in the Federal Government alone.
I can confirm this. When I worked at the Voice of America, every attack on the Ideological Homeland, the USSR, was met with a flood of anonymous attacks on the bulletin boards. Those who smuggled in letters to VOA from behind the Iron Curtain found the police at their door.
Have you ever tried to get someone to get on Stormfront? Even the most outspoken will not even write a note here, much less JOIN.
History’s Communist multiplier of ten was a gross and purposeful understatement.
So is Stormfront membership.
#1 by mderpelding on 03/19/2008 - 7:20 pm
I was just reviewing the website of the Federal Reserve.
On this site are listed the Federal Reserve districts, with capitol cities, and also adjunct secondary cities within these districts of Federal Reserve control.
Of most interest is that all of these cities are under control of cultural Marxist political organizations at the least, but more importantly, are mostly under the control of black political organizations.
Those Federal Reserve bankers rely on black run political machines to protect their families.
At the margin, each and every one of us must consume something to survive.
Check mate.
#2 by Dave on 03/20/2008 - 8:33 am
There is so much that people do that is utterly moronic. It doesn’t matter that their so-called political behavior serves someone’s “agenda”. It is an agenda that leads to nothing.
That was the real meaning of the so-called leftist turmoil of the 60s and 70s. Nothing about this has changed today.
Ineffective flailing about is the default state of most behavior that purports to be political. Its real meaning is existential. It simply reflects the dissipation of biological energy at the primate level.
When BW says, “I need to develop a group of clear thinkers before I die”, THAT’S effective political behavior.
The clear thinkers win, nothing to do with demonstrations, or schemes of any kind.
And that is what makes the Internet so damn POLITICALLY important.
It is utterly surprising, now that the Internet is entering its second decade that so few have figured this out.
#3 by Bob on 03/20/2008 - 9:34 am
mderpelding, this belongs in General Comments.
#4 by mderpelding on 03/20/2008 - 10:26 pm
Bob,
Why?
Thanks,
mderpelding