In politics, truth-telling can get you into trouble, even if you stumble upon it by accident. Just ask Rep. Allen West (R-FL).
West is feeling the heat for a pregnant pause he took during a town hall meeting after he was asked “What percentage of the American legislature do you think are card-carrying Marxists or International Socialists?”
“It’s a good question,” West responded, “I believe there’s [sic] about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. (Long pause) “They don’t actually hide. It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.” The left became unhinged.
Obviously West touched a nerve; before long, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) drafted their response: “Calling fellow Members of Congress ‘Communists’ is reminiscent of the days when Joe McCarthy divided Americans with name-calling and modern-day witch hunts that don’t advance policies to benefit people’s lives…”
The CPC’s response is just another sign of the political times we live in. But something about their argument doesn’t pass the “smell test.”
While there may not be large numbers of card-carrying communists lining the halls of Congress, there is a clear tie between the Democratic Party’s Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), Communist Party USA (CPUSA), and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
It really boils down to marketing. In marketing, many times the same product is given a different name or label in order to increase its appeal to certain groups. Names are sometimes changed due to the product’s connection to other products, or the public’s association to a prior name.
Although Progressive share much in common with CPUSA and DSA, they are shrewd enough to understand the terms “communist” or “socialist” are unpalatable for most Americans. Hence, the word “Progressive” was injected into American political verbiage. While the words are not interchangeable, one thing is for sure: The CPC is doing its part to further the goals of modern Communists and Socialists who have found a voice in the Democratic Party.
In 2002, Communist Party USA PAC leader Joelle Fishman reported CPUSA uses the Congressional Progressive Caucus as “an important lever” to “move the debate to the left.” A February 2, 2010 Communist Party USA article “Convention Discussion: A Time to Grow” explained they plan to meet their goals by running for office “within the auspices of the Democratic Party” because “conditions rarely if ever allow us to run open Communists for office.”
The same article praised Obama’s election asserting, “We have the opportunity to build something big, a large, influential and effective Communist Party USA. After the incredible movement to elect Barack Obama, more far-reaching solutions and socialism in particular are back at the dinner table for discussion.”
It seems they are moving toward attaining their goals. Obama’s election, in conjunction with Progressives cannibalizing the Democratic Party by ousting common sense Blue Dogs, aided in a severe shift to the left. Americans have witnessed the deterioration of this nation by way of the same type of race-baiting and class warfare Communism cannot exist without.
Unbecoming to an American president, Obama has led the charge in attacks against job-creators, extended the olive branch to “99 Percent” anarchists, and publicly castigated the third (and his equal) branch of government. Americans have had zero control over the appointments of unsavory anti-capitalist cabinet members like former “Green Czar” and avowed Communist Van Jones.
All things considered, “Washington’s newest breath of fresh air,” West, is dead-on in his assessment of Democratic Party Progressives. West once said Progressive’s should take their message “and get the hell out of America.” I think most of us would be happy if they would just “get the hell out of” the Democratic Party and run on their own ticket.
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Well, if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . .
Fascism!
Watering down the truth doesn’t change a Fact, & that fact is, Progressive is just a cleaner word for Communist, & that is what the Democrats want to be called, Progressive (Communist). The Truth is out of the Bag, & the democrates know it, and now more people will know it as well. I found out about the democrates about two years ago when I Goggled, Democratic Party members who are card carring Communist, & what popped up was a big surprise. I am sure that if someone want’s to get that same info they can probaly do so, unless the CPUSA was asked to scrub that info from their site. Most of the one’s that are on the CPUSA list are the Democrates that spoke the loudest about a Race war against the whites in reference to the Zimmerson/Trayvon incident. As a matter of fact, they are BIG RACIST.
Susan, thanks for the excellent article. The Progressive/Communist infiltration of the Democrat Party is fact. Lesser known facts are the RINO/Progressive infiltration of the GOP and the Anarchist/Progressive infiltration of the Libertarians. Saddle up. http://elect.ErnestHuberForCongress.com/
Glad to hear that people are getting tired of hearing Communists called Liberals or Progressives or Leftists or Socialists or some other terms that are used to hide or make less revealing than the true original name “COMMUNISM”. Part of Communist dogma is to use “fellow travelers” or “sympathizers” to achieve their goal of world domination.
I think it was Lenin who commented (paraphrasing) “Give me one Communist sympathizer because he is worth more than a hundred dedicated communists.” That statement is very telling as to how Communism operates. I studied the communist conspiracy as part of my job in the 50′s and 60′s and it is my position that Joe McCarthy was absolutely right. He was just a bit late and overwhelmed by the established communists.
Allen West is correct. There are Communists in Congress under the name of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The Democratic Socialist Party of the USA (an offshoot of the Communist Party of America) actually lists Congressional members that receive DSP support. Those members ARE members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The DSP of America of Rockford, Ill. financially supported Barack Obama to run for Ill. State Senate. The Democratic Socialists Party web site lists its mission and philosophy which is in alignment with the Marxist philosophy. The DSP website is very interesting to read and eye-opening for EVERY American that values The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and THEIR freedom. Further information on the INFLUENCE of Marxist ideology in various well-known organizations can be found at discoverthenetworks.org. There is very much influence of Marxist ideology by infiltrators in every occupational spectrum in America. The reason — Marxist Ideologues are teaching our children from primary through university ( in the former Russian Communist State, it was known as brainwashing).
Thank God for Allen West!
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”-George Orwell
…but McCarthy was absolutely right! Rep. Allen West is absolutely right. This man owes no one an apology for speaking the truth. May he stick to his guns. (Oops, how very un-pc of me to mention guns).
Progressive is like putting lipstick on a Communist pig…it’s still a pig. We need to put them on public trials like they did durring and after WWll. Hollywood and Washington DC will become ghost towns.
Call them Progressives, or Independents, or Liberals; you still are Communists or Marxists, and Socialists. Look for yourself at http://www.IndependentVoting.org and Online at The NEO-INDEPENDENT.
“The Independence Charade” New York Times editorial Nov. 5, 2005
The Independence Party in New York City is not about independence. Just the opposite. It is about dependence on one man, Fred Newman, a former Marxist who is now a psychotherapist, and who has manipulated politicians, workers and voters in thinking that they are participating in a genuine political party. Newman works closely with Jacqueline Salit, the Executive Editor of The Neo-Independent magazine (for which Newman is a contributing editor) and President of the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, Inc. Together with Salit, he produces a popular weekly commentary entitled Talk Talk, a conversation following the Sunday morning political talk shows.
Jacqueline Salit is a twenty-year veteran of the independent movement. A Contributing Editor for The Huffington Post, President of IndependentVoting.org and launched The Neo-Independent magazine in the Spring of 2004. Today the independent voter is a coveted partner. And so the pressures and demands on different forces in the independent movement—on us!—are increasing. We have carved out – to borrow a business term – an identifiable political brand. We are the Progressive Wing of the independent movement. We stand for radical structural political reform that enables the American people to regain control of the democratic process. Our issues are open primaries, nonpartisan elections, non-political redistricting, open debates, the right of independents to call themselves independents (not undeclareds, decline to states, or “other”) and that the rights of the people should take precedence over the privileges of the parties. 12 years ago, just as the strength of the Reform Party was cresting, Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani discussed these issues on their weekly television show with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, the progressive economist who had recently served in the Clinton administration. In that remarkably relevant interview, Reich told Newman that the social compact had unraveled for multiple reasons, including the fact that “We no longer understand that we are in the same boat.”
The past three years were the culmination of Michael Harrington and his Democratic Socialists of America’s efforts to realign the Democratic Party from a progressive to a standard Euro-socialist party by running socialists as Democrats and then governing as socialists.
As I describe in my book Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste, Mr Obama started his political career as a fusion candidate of the DSA’s New Party and the Democratic Party. Once he assumed power as president, Obama’s auto, “clean energy economy” and Obamacare programs were all faithful implementations of past socialist practice and theory. Mr. Obama is not a particularly original thinker. http://obamacrisis.wordpress.com/read-a-book-sample/