Considering the philosophy’s last hundred years record of murder and oppression, there was a time when Communist influence funding your American organization would have been seen as a bad thing.
New revelations about the pointless, but earnestly repetitive, “No Kings” protests last weekend and their documented Commie ties are proving that for Democrats and other Leftist Trump haters – Communism is cool.
Commies even put their logo on the sponsor list of No Kings protests like the one sponsored by the Franklin County Action Network over the weekend. Viva Stalin! Viva Mao! Viva Putin! Viva Schumer!
After all, paid protesters are expensive: all those cucumber sandwiches; signs and posters; Vote Mamdani tattoos …
But who’s really surprised? What was billed by the decaying mainstream media as spontaneous public dissent to try to show mass revolt against Trump has instead revealed signs of orchestration – and funding – by ideological adversaries of our republic. Commies have always been commies, and they still are.
Just for funsies, let’s take a Peabody and Sherman Way Back Machine jaunt through the madcap hilarity that is Communism, the new bankrollers of the Franklin County Action Network and so many others across the anti-Trump Kollective Kingdom.
Following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, disgruntled intellectual Lenin and later Stalin built a one-party state rooted in Marxism-Leninism. The system eliminated private property because owners exploited the working class of course; centralized agriculture and industry controlled by the government seemed only fair, and if it took a little mass terror to enforce ideological conformity … well, it was all for the good of the “People.”
Communism’s great success began in Russia with the Red Terror of 1918-1922. The Cheka secret police executed and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of political opponents, clergy and landowners to annihilate opposition to the Bolsheviks (later they’d start whacking each other when they ran out of enemies, just to keep everybody looking over their shoulders).
Then there was forced collectivization and the Holodomor 1929-1933. Stalin’s agricultural collectivization caused famine across the USSR – most infamously in Ukraine. Then Stalin’s “Great Purge” – the systematic trial and execution of other Commie party members, military leaders, intellectuals, scientists – anybody Uncle Joe saw as a threat to his … I mean “the People’s”… power structure. Roughly 18 million Russians and Eastern Europeans were cycled through Russian Gulags, and up to two million died.
Experts estimate the death toll from political oppression and Communist policy failure from Lenin through Gorbachev at between 10 and 20 million souls.
The fun doesn’t stop there. Mao Zedong’s “land reform” murdered landowners and “class enemies” from 1949-1953 – 1 to 2 million dead. Then forced industrialization and collectivization which led to the worst famine in human history. Then the “Cultural Revolution” that unleashed youth Red Guards to purge the “bourgeois” and another couple of million countrymen killed. Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 – no one knows how many died. Total ChiCom murders: 40-60 million Chinese killed through executions, famine and imprisonment.
And don’t forget Indochina. Remember the Domino Theory the liberals all laughed about? Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh and his successors and Laos under Pathet Lao – altogether, chalk up another 2-3 million Indochinese deaths from execution, starvation and forced labor.
Globally, estimates pin Communism with 80-100 million deaths through nothing less than political oppression and violence, systematic murder and imprisonment of political opponents and crap economic policy that led to collapse and starvation.
So it’s no wonder why AOC, Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders aren’t hoofing it for North Korea, preferring instead their cozy but dramatically deficient bubble in the USA. Protest and free expression are cornerstones of the American Republic, but the question remains: how can any literate person with literate parents or grandparents who lived through the last century embrace Communist support of their political organization?
Saps like the Franklin County Action Network and others across the country either don’t know history or they simply hate Donald Trump and the America First movement so much, they just don’t give a damn.
Dane Hicks is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, VA. He is the author of novels “The Skinning Tree” and “A Whisper For Help.” As publisher of the Anderson County Review in Garnett, KS., he is a recipient of the Kansas Press Association’s Boyd Community Service Award as well as more than 60 awards for excellence in news, editorial and photography.
