The Russians made me do it....or maybe the DNC

In March, 1983, Ronald Reagan made his famous “Evil Empire” speech.  Even though I was just finishing up four years of military college, I was just coming into my own as one who is politically aware.  Speaking to a Church heavy audience, and speaking of the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union and the idea of a nuclear freeze between the US and the USSR, Reagan said “I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire”.  Reagan was roundly ridiculed in the media for referring to the Soviet Union as an evil empire, but he was telling a truth based on historical accurate FACTS.

But he was roundly ridiculed by the media and the American left.

From 1919 forward the United States has been home to many Soviet, then Russian spies.  And as a note, it is important TO note that the geopolitical goals of the Soviet Union, like all great empires of the era, including its’ predecessor Russia, were unchanged after the Bolsheviks took power.  They wanted the same thing in this world, they simply used utopian sounding communism as a tool, rather than imperial power.  And, since 1919, democrats, liberals, leftists, and modern progressives have had no problem with that.  In its’ heyday, prior to the collapse of the USSR, more than a little communist ugly manifested itself in the US public and government.  Everybody knows of the Joe McCarthy, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and like to poke fun at Joe…..but very few people discuss the fact that the Hiss-Chambers affair showed categorically that McCarthy was correct, communism HAD infiltrated our government, in our state department, in our treasury department, in our UN personnel (THAT one is hard to grasp, I know).  The soviets got the A Bomb and the H Bomb through secrets passed to them from the US.  And remember the Tupelov 144 and its’ eerie similarity to the Concorde?  Does anyone think that the MiG 29 looks like the F-15 besides me?

And remarkably…..the left not only resisted most of these truths like ignoring a September 11 murder of an embassy staff in an Islamic country, they never really were called to task for any of it, for any of their involvement in anti-American activities.  Indeed the left, the democrats stepped up their game to the point where the collapse of the USSR and its’ fellow travelers in the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), virtually went un-noticed by the left.  Indeed one former party member, writer and historian, Ron Radosh said of the CPUSA "The positions they take are really indistinguishable from the left-wing social democratic groups (democrats). I don't even know why anyone belongs to it has become "essentially irrelevant".

Yeah, the CPUSA is irrelevant because the democrats have co-opted them…..and let THOSE guys get their asses handed to them in one election and ALL OF A SUDDEN……the Russians are bad guys.  And the hilarious part of this is that if history as we know it, as many of us observed it, is TRUE, and the democrats and the communist party were brothers by different mothers, WHY would their brothers over seas interject in an election to steal the election AWAY from the party of their own philosophy?  If the Russians are responsible for electing Trump……WHY?  Why wasn’t Hillary DELUGED in votes?

And the reason it sounds ridiculous is that it is ridiculous.  And the American left is well aware of that.  They are not after the Presidency, they are after the nation.  And they want to discredit the election process as much as they want the Presidency.  And if they can blame their failure at the polls and what they hope will be their success in the overthrow of the nation, they will blame it on the Russians.

And the Russians would be proud.