The Satanic Left

 Jeffrey Folks, over at the American Thinker today has penned a piece explaining the Left's resistence is because most Democrat leaders are at heart Marxists. I would argue that a fair number of their voters, whether they know it or not, are also Marxists. Many years ago now, a co-worker accused me of not liking Obama because he was black. I am afraid I lost it here and replied "I don't care if he was blue. What I don't like is that he is a god damned Communist." According to his auto-hagiography, I suspect Obama would wear that with pride. My co-worker replied, "Does that mean I am a Communists?" to which I replied, "If the shoe fits."

Whether they admit it or not, most Democrat leaders are Marxists, and they justify their resistance to Trump’s reforms on the basis of Marxist ideas. They oppose renewing and expanding the Trump tax cuts because those cuts, they believe, benefit the rich over the poor. Elizabeth Warren and others on the left support a wealth tax — the seizure of a percentage of total assets of affluent Americans. Their proposals for taxing unrealized capital gains, for a minimum tax on the rich, and other new taxes all assume that affluent Americans have grown rich on the backs of the poor. It is exactly what Karl Marx meant when he wrote in The Communist Manifesto of “the exploitation of the laborer ... [who] is set upon by ... the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.”

In theory, Marxism seizes wealth from the rich and transfers it to workers. In reality, in every case where Marxism has actually been tried, wealth and the means to produce it are controlled by the State, not the workers. The only winners under Marxism are those who run the State, and never in 200 years has there been a Marxist ruler who shared wealth on an equal basis with the poor or who willingly returned power to the common people. Democrats resist Trump’s reforms because he aims to expose the lie of Marxism: the fraudulent idea that Democrat programs for the poor have done the poor any good. Instead, they have enriched Democrat leaders themselves and the enormous cohort of bureaucrats, academics, media, and others on the left.

The left’s resistance has turned violent, with firebombing of Tesla dealerships, death threats, assassination attempts, and violent protests at several universities. Very few Democrats have wholeheartedly condemned this violence, and some have urged the public to continue it.

I would note that the Left has also ripped off the mask, and we can see what they prioritize: it ain't what normal Americans want. They are all for killing children in the womb. They believe in the notion that a man can become a woman and vice versa by just wishing it were so, but hey, they believe science is real! They believe that man is changing the climate, but they do not want even nuclear power though that is the best way to reduce CO2 (that science thing again.) They believe in human trafficking, gang rape, sexual perversions, antisemitism, anti-Christianism, anti-prayer, and the list goes on. Their parents, and Satan himself, must be so proud!

It’s crucial to understand that left-wing resistance is based on the fear that Trump, by his success, will actually restore our nation’s faith in free-market economics. Democrats have been leading America on a long march toward socialism for more than a century and they refuse to give it up. Wilson instituted the personal income tax in 1913; FDR created an alphabet soup of agencies, supposedly to assist the poor; LBJ expanded those bureaucracies, including Medicare and Medicaid; Jimmy Carter added Title IX; Clinton attempted socialized medicine and “welfare without work” until he was reined in by voters at the polls; Obama and Biden picked up where Clinton failed.

None of those Democrats had a whole lot to say about the American Dream because that dream is based on the opportunity that capitalism affords the poor. Democrat resistance has always failed to recognize that capitalism is a better pathway to wealth than government handouts. Eighteen percent of U.S. households are millionaires; the vast majority of these millionaires, But between 80 and 90 percent, are self-made, and it would be hard to believe that many of them were created by the kind of government programs that Bernie Sanders and AOC believe in and want to expand.

Folks has written a generally insightful article that explains the Left's violent behavior in the face of what, for most of us, is the right thing to do. Are they really upset that Elon Musk is exposing waste, fraud, and abuse? Well, yes, they are because Trump then cuts off their source of funding. But Folks is also generally optimistic that this foolishness can be stopped. Here, I am afraid I must split with Folks. When we look at the things the Left wants for America, we see that it truly is the Devil's plan. He ultimately controls Leftists, and unfortunately, he doesn't give up. Leftists will always be with us, and we must always be eternally vigilant to keep them down.