How Did Communism Become Cool? Thursday, June 24, 2010 By Glenn Beck

How Did Communism Become Cool? Thursday, June 24, 2010 By Glenn Beck   I want to talk to you about communism, but I have to tell you, that sounds like a joke. Three years ago I didn't even think it was around; I would have mocked someone like me. But don't fall into that trap. Open your mind and your ears — the country is in trouble. The best thing to ever happen to communists was the red scare and Joseph McCarthy. We had beaten communism, soundly discrediting it in every sense. People viewed communists as traitors who wanted to destroy America. They crept back into unions — especially teachers' unions — that coupled with colleges, you now had a situation where communists were starting to be the ones writing and teaching history. Our children have grown up not knowing what communism is. They didn't have to go through the emergency attack drills at school. They didn't grow up hearing about the gulags. They haven't seen the horror show of millions of mass murders and starving people at the hands of brutal communist dictators. So now it's cool to be a communist. T-shirts of Che Guevara are one of the most popular t-shirts around. Che was a racist and mass murderer, yet we have schools banning kids from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. If we're going to ban shirts, how about the one with the communist killer on it? It's not offensive because no one looks at the history of what they did. How else can you explain everything going on today that happens with little or no outrage? Things like the statue of Stalin going up in Virginia? How does that idea not cross someone — anyone's — desk who said, "This may not be a good idea"? It happens because no one knows who these communists really were anymore. It's just cool. Cameron Diaz illustrated this mindset when she visited Peru to do a TV project on Peru and its culture. While touring the country, she carried a purse emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese. That was Chairman Mao's slogan. It was a Maoist insurgency in the 1980s and '90s that killed 70,000 people in Peru. Not to mention the tens of millions of people Mao killed in China. It's not so cool when you know history, is it Cameron? But they don't know. You've got communist teachers in California calling for revolution. The Houston branch of Communist Party USA — a group that's called for the nationalization of BP — is reaching out to young people through Facebook. And their favorite movie is Michael Moore's "Capitalism, a Love Story." Cindy Sheehan in New Orleans talked about challenging capitalism: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CINDY SHEEHAN, ACTIVIST: Any meaningful discussion of this disaster must challenge the system and structure of capitalism. If we had socialism, where the companies were nationalized and the democratic control of the workers, the clean-up — maybe they would have had an acoustic device on the blowout preventer. Maybe they would have spent an extra half a million dollars to prevent this disaster and we wouldn't have to be here. (END VIDEO CLIP) Or, Cindy, maybe like every other socialist or communist country in the history of mankind, we'd already be bankrupt and living in gulags. One of the two — I'll side with history. It's obvious we aren't paying attention to history any more when the Communist Party had their annual convention broadcast on C-SPAN. Think about that: Half a century ago we were rooting out communists as traitors to the country; now we're dutifully listening to them on C-SPAN. How did we get here? We were warned, but we didn't listen. Former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson warned about what was coming in a 1966 speech where he talked about a meeting he once had with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev: (END AUDIO CLIP) FORMER SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE EZRA TAFT BENSON: As we talked face to face, he indicated that my grandchildren would live under communism. After assuring him that I expected to do all in my power to assure that his and all other grandchildren would live under freedom, he arrogantly declared in substance: "You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find that you already have communism. We won't have to fight you; we'll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands." (END AUDIO CLIP) He knew firsthand what was happening and documents now show that FDR had used the Department of Agriculture as his own communist recruiting station. Henry Wallace was secretary; he was a progressive supported by the Communist Party USA. He never denounced any communist support he received. FDR and Wallace decided they needed to help farmers, who were in dire financial crisis. Their idea: Artificially raise prices. They slaughtered 6 million pigs, plowed up cotton fields and destroyed other crops. This in the middle of the worst depression we've ever had. Is it any wonder socialism and communism end up with people starving to death? ADD moment: Hugo Chavez is seizing control of the food in Venezuela. And now there's 80,000 tons of rotting food in warehouses. But pay no attention to that, because communism is cool. This is why we need to know the history or else we're doomed to repeat it. There's the stuff you need to know, on how we got here. But really where are we? Is what these people wanted to do a joke? Have they failed? What did the Communist Party USA say they wanted to do in 1963? Here's a few that stand out: No. 3: Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength No. 15: Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States No. 17: Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks No. 18: Gain control of all student newspapers No. 19: Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack No. 20: Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions No. 21: Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures No. 27: Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion No. 28: Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state" No. 29: Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis No. 30: Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man" No. 36: Infiltrate and gain control of more unions No. 37: Infiltrate and gain control of big business No. 40: Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce This was the to-do list for the communists in the 1960s. 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