When a country falls to tyranny, it happens quickly.
That is what my late mother-in-law always said when she recalled her flight from Stalin's takeover of her homeland with only the clothes on her back. Over the decades, I had heard all her stories of the fear, despair and horror of experiencing the iron grip of Communism so suddenly squeezing the breath out of a nation. Helen spoke also of the wreckage of human life that followed a Communist takeover--longterm confinement in refugee camps, enduring hunger, total poverty, and ubiquitous death. It all seemed so foreign, so remote from life in the United States.
Not anymore.
Think about the authoritarian changes to our country in the past year and a half: sweeping, liberty-killing mandates imposed nationwide on citizens--but not on illegal immigrants; a wide-open southern border; organized destruction of law enforcement; employment termination due to a differing opinion; arbitrary Big Tech censorship in all of social media, to name but a few.
There was a green shoot of hope in parental resistance to the left-wing agenda in our schools. People were speaking out, objecting to the filth and lies being force-fed to their children. It was a bright spot in the chaos, a truly American moment.
We can't have that now, can we.
With absolutely no Constitutional authority to support him, so-called Attorney General Merrick Garland is unleashing the FBI on parents who "threaten" school boards and educators. Merely objecting to curriculum could be considered a "threat." This is a brazen violation of every parent and taxpayers' First Amendment rights to free speech. It is a blatant totalitarian move to squelch all dissent by parents and frighten them into silence so that the radical Left can continue to poison and indoctrinate America's children. It is a chilling step towards transforming the US in to a police state.
You thought it couldn't happen here? It is happening here. And, as I was warned by my mother-in-law, it's happening fast. What happens next, if America allows this tyranny to stand?
Let's think about the track record of Communist dictators throughout the last century. Start with the violence of the Russian Revolution, continue to the establishment of the Soviet Union and its ongoing rape of Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. Think of Mao Zedong's Chinese Revolution and ensuing control. Remember the many decades of suffering in North Korea and Castro's Cuba. One hundred million people were slaughtered under Communist dictators within a 100-year period--an average of one million people killed per year. Quite an achievement, wouldn't you agree?
Aside from all who were murdered, millions more were imprisoned; misery and poverty abounded for those unfortunate people remaining behind. All these survivors ever wanted to do was escape their oppressive government.
I leave you with one question for homework. If the Left--the Communists, the Marxists, call them what you will but realize they are tyrants--have such a better idea for managing government, why does history prove that they always need to impose it by brutal force?
