That is the way of communism, they never change, they merely work behind the scenes, prehaps more strongly than before. Once you know that about communists, you know what to expect. COUSA never quit working, they just stared working via our schoools and "setting teens wild in the streets" as heir manual put it. Get as many people as possible under psychologist care, but not a good, one, because that would be counter productive. have we not seen it, and continue to see it all around us? They were based in Wisc. when I lived out West, and their influence was open and strong in N.D. at that time.

This is more of a reply to the article. I am in the library, and am somewhat crowded for time. I see the solution to this kind of disaster is to campaign, (and crusade, if necessary), for the abolition of public schools--and not to make any bones about it, to be straightforward about it, and say it right out. We should not even PRETEND that that is not what we want. Government education leads to government thought control.

Ditching FB, as well as LinkedIn and other social media sites, worked well for me. I dropped them two years ago and instead subscribed to some news feeds:
Tom Woods: https://tomwoods.com/
Need to Know News / G. Edward Griffin:
https://needtoknow.news/2022/01/the-truth-is-coming-out-about-covid-deaths/

I think the movie Dave might be more appropriate - if only there was someone in DC who was an honest patriot to be a stand in POTUS.

"Weekend at Bernie's" pops into mind - and so far "they" are pulling it off magnificently.

I'm not so sure that if Biden suffered the same kind of stroke, the Democrats wouldn't do their best to keep it under wraps as long as possible. Normally, it would lead to his replacement by Harris under the 25th amendment, but she's even more disliked than he is. He did so well during the campaign from his basement, I guess he'd do just as well as the catatonic president.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

"...some on the left are becoming open about being very, very cruel to anybody they see as a political enemy..." Yes, I'm noticing the same and, IMHO, the left lacks a sense of humor so these idiots are serious.

Although it is believed he had mini-strokes as early as 1896, the stroke he suffered in 1919 finished him politically.

This is part six. Just write in part one and you can go from the beginning. They are over an hour each.

Rumble. A must watch.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gir6Bd...

And a trillion of cash was shipped to Iraq, too, but whose bank did it end up in?
imo, most of the aid was siphoned off by corrupt western businesses and/or funneled by corrupt pols so their pals could buy assets in Russia.
The people of Russia didn't see anything except oligarchs getting fat off the assets they had slaved to create. (Sort of like the trillions of covid payments the deep state funneled to big corrupt companies in the US.)

The Russian people that I have talked to think the west screwed them, and I think they are correct.
(As for the records published by the US fedgov, imo, they have a financial interest in hiding where the funds went and who benefited. They are utterly corrupt.)

When the Soviet Union moved from communism they received a ton of US aide (as of 2007 Russia and its offshoots received $28B and another 2B annually). I highly doubt it was a loan.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/RL32866.pdf

I recently heard a wise man say that "cancel culture is a dress rehearsal for genocide". That statement has stuck in my head....because I think it may be exactly what we're seeing. With the glimpses I've seen at how some on the left are becoming open about being very, very cruel to anybody they see as a political enemy - I think that's the abyss.

What do you mean by 'bailing-out' the USSR?

Interesting family connections. What I found amazing was that no American schoolchildren, even as far back as my childhood, were taught about the authoritarian government practices under Wilson's administration. He, like Lincoln before him violated constitutional mandates of the writ of habeas corpus, jailing people without charge, denying them their 4th and 5th amendment rights (like has been done currently with the Jan 6 protesters). His Committee for Public Information practiced propaganda in such a way that both Nazi Germany and the USSR designed their government information control after Wilson's model. Any state government that objected to his practices came under the threat of being declared insurrectionist, and with many still alive who had experienced post Civil war Reconstruction, few risked defying him.

Wilson came closer to becoming the first US dictator than any president before or since. Biden has shown the desire, but not the will, intelligence, or personal fortitude to achieve the degree of control that Wilson had, or we'd be in worse shape than we already are.

Never heard of it. I'll look for it. What venue is it on?

The person who introduced this series to me said, "That my few of world history would never be the same.'

Have any of you watched the series "Europa"? I am on Part 6 of the 10 part series. This goes to the question posted above.

Very thoughtful perspective, Doc, thank you. I agree with the possible scenario if the US didn't get involved in WWI.

[Side note 1] Although Woody Willy was my great grandmother's cousin, I can report his thinking doesn't run in the family. We're from the dirt poor side of the family and actually had to work (farm or factory) for a living, LOL.

[Side note 2] One of my siblings married into a Ukrainian family whose grandparents escaped from Stalin in the '30s. That family generation is all gone now, but the stories passed on describe the hell communism really was. Strangely, some of the younger members of that side of the family don't get the memo and are going left. Sadly, some recent family gatherings can get rather heated.

Thank you! I nearly immediately knew the old neurons misfired on that one, LOL.

Two of the biggest US blunders in the early 20th century set this in motion. The first was the election of Woodrow Wilson, which opened the door to the 16th and 17th amendments, and got us involved in the European war. I have no doubt that if the US hadn't provided an extra million troops on the French-English side, the Kaiser would have won that war, and Hitler would not have followed his destructive path.

The second blunder (and this may sound harsh) was to fish the fledgling USSR out of the famine of 1921-22. Had Calvin Coolidge not successfully engineered a massive relief effort, the Bolshevik government would have collapsed, and international communism would have never had its main sponsor.

Had Germany been the victor of the Great War, it might have provided relief to the starving Russians, but they would have been sure to extract a heavy price for their efforts. There was a long history of conflict between the Teutons and Slavs that the Kaiser would have had no desire to further encourage.

The US would have been the economic beneficiary of that alternate scenario, and it would have accelerated the collapse of the British Empire. Instead, we laid the groundwork aimed at our own destruction, both by empowering the Fed and propping up the Soviets.

If you go back, Marx had his followers in the United States even as far back as the Civil War. It's just that the nation had (much) bigger fish to fry for that couple of decades and so it retarded the push for the Marxist philosophy in the United States. What many don't know is that it was United States Marxists who paid for the revolutionaries to travel to Russia and resulted in the Bolshevik revolution.

I got away from FB when the pro Obama started in. That combined with photos of the wonderful meal and their sooo cute dog or cat. I am not really sure if I "officially" removed myself or not. I just stopped using it.

It gives a sense of self importance when they try to tell others how wrong they are.