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Thorner & Pennington: Nation at a Crossroads

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By Nancy Thorner & Dave Pennington - 

Given this time of crisis our nation is now experiencing, when terrorist groups such as Antifa are attempting to foist their Marxist ideology upon this nation through rioting, looting, and the destruction of this nation's history by pulling down statues, it is a situation that all rational Americans should openly reject.

There remains, however, a naive notion, especially among the young, that another radical group, Black Lives Matter, is dedicated to helping blacks receive fair and just treatment. As for the Democrat Party, it endorses the demands of Black Lives Matter.

Soros and Black Lives Matter

Although Google has been scrubbed of anything recent that is negative about Black Lives Matter, even denying that Black Lives Matter is a terrorist group funded by millionaire and Communist George Soros, this truth telling article remains .

As published in the City Journal  (a publication of the  Manhattan Institute for Policy Research) in its Winter 2017 edition, Connoisseur of Chaos by Stefan Kanfer, tells about the dysopian vision of George Soros, billionaire funder of the Left.

“In the United States, Soros bankrolls a broad range of political and cultural causes. One is to destabilize the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. In 2015, he dedicated $650,000 for the purpose of shaping Pope Francis’s U.S. visit, using left-leaning Catholic groups to promote gay marriage, abortion, and physician-assisted suicide. Leading the effort was Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta, a self-professed Catholic.”

“Another Soros favorite is Black Lives Matter, the radical protest group dedicated to the proposition that police are inherently racist. Working the streets with incendiary rhetoric, at odds with the truth about black-on-black crime, BLM has helped foster “de-policing,” as Heather Mac Donald describes it, in high-crime urban areas, with money from the Soros run Open Society Foundations.”

"I Led Three Lives”

In these tumultuous times, a book that demands reading is I Led Three Lives , by Herbert Philbrick . Although the book was published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1952, it is still available for purchase at this site .

Philbrick's three lives follow:

Life 1: Outside salesman for a printing company, who happened onto a storefront operation of the Communist Party, where he initially was interested in selling printing services, until he realized the nature of the materials. Hiding his reaction, he secretly contacted the FBI, which led to. . .

Life 2: Member of the Communist Party of the United States for nine years, rising through the ranks.

Life 3: Undercover agent for the FBI and star witness at the 1949 trial of the top eleven members of the Communist Party in the U.S.

Philbrick's book goes into much detail. The most educational aspect is that he detailed the tactics and strategies of the party. In many respects they have not changed, which makes them easy to spot. Some examples are “Better Red than Dead” (late '50s), Students for a Democratic Society  (1960s), and A.N.S.W.E.R. (2000s). Co-author, Dave Pennington, knew people in all three of these initiatives.

The authors are convinced that CPUSA (Communist Party USA) has successfully taken over the DNC and has infiltrated the RNC to some degree. It has also infiltrated the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and many major foundations, such as the Ford Foundation, and all (or most of) the foundations that support PBS and NPR.

Until 2008, the communists were the come-from-behind party. With the campaign of Barack Hussein Obama, the CPUSA did not even field a candidate, notwithstanding that the published agendas of the CPUSA and the DNC only differ in minor changes in wording.  The 2020 platform of the Communist Party is noted here , while the Democrat platform of 2016 is found here . The similarities are striking!

Democrat Party meltdown

During the past four years we have witnessed the meltdown of the Democrat Party, which had intended to continue, at an accelerated pace under the presidency of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the "radical transformation of the United States.” 

Many Americans on the Right are convinced that Democrats are so desperate to avoid Trump's re-election, that no amount of chaos, civil unrest, property destruction, economic loss, and yes, even loss of life, is too much, in the service of their goal

It would be nice if this meltdown represented the death throes of the Left, but will it?

Unfortunately, after Trump is re-elected — hopefully with a lot of other Republicans on his coattails — the Leftists will all still be alive and kicking…brainless, uneducated and unable to learn, but kicking.

The authors' biggest hope is that the deranged Leftists will have energized all the Americans who do not agree with them, so they will be shown to be a small minority that has to go back underground because the nation will not tolerate them.

Trump's 'silenced majority'

Nixon and his 'silent majority'

Trump has his 'silenced majority'.  We can post, we can write, we can carefully converse, but many of us dare not put a sign on our lawn or a flag on our house, let alone wear a Trump T-shirt or ball cap in public.

As to the enthusiasm of those who attended the Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, June 20, 2020, it lends credence that Trump supporters will come out in record numbers to defeat the very inadequate and mentally challenged Joe Biden, who appears to not have the ability to create enough enthusiasm to draw vast numbers of  Democrats to the polls.

As to the voting process, Republicans must remain cognizant that Democrats are out to win by any means possible, the greatest of those being the "Vote by Mail" scheme.  This scheme is being passed in many states by which fraud easily happens, under the false premise that it isn't safe to gather at polling places because of the Chinese virus.

It has been said in times past, but many feel the upcoming November election will be the most important election ever.

Elites ruthless pursuit of the power

The following excerpts from The Elites are Revolting , posted on June 22, 2020, at Townhall.com by Kurt Schlichter, sends a clear message why the coming November election could be the most important election in this nation's history:

Rioters and criminals get released with a wave and a smile; cops get threatened with death row for fighting back when a career criminal tries to taser them. It’s all a lie and a scam.

This is all part and parcel of a strategy to strip us of any kind of refuge or recourse from abuse. We cannot look to the marketplace of ideas to make our case because our case has been declared verboten. The institutions are arrayed against us. The law means nothing because it will not be enforced neutrally. So why again do we consider ourselves bound by the social contract the establishment has been using like Charmin?

What we are seeing is the elite’s ruthless pursuit of the power we stripped them of back in 2016 when we made the Hillary fans cry. And since then, despite it all, we have made progress – some good judges, no more wars, trade realism with China. But this is intolerable to the leftist Establishment.

We the People must be overthrown. Now the question is whether We the People are going to let that happen?

A new non-fiction book by Kurt Schlichter can be pre-ordered from Regnery: The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and You!).

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