I posted this on Facebook a few days ago. It's inspiring me to start my blog
again.
As an immigrant to this country who has experience and memories of the
progressive disease of government. I am rather worried. I left my native
Argentina when I was ten years old, but even then I understood that
something was wrong. My father was an ethnic Slovenian immigrant to
Argentina. He was born on the italian side of the border of then Yugoslavia.
While he was a Trappist in seminary in Banja Luka His older brother (my
uncle) was arrested by the fascists and he was forced to leave the
priesthood. He then joined the communist resisters secretly and later they
would become the partisans who would at the end of the war capture
Mussolini. At around this time he was drafted by the Italians into the army.
He served in Ethiopia and was later sent to the Russian front which he
survived, his division had surrendered to the Soviets and managed to escape.
As he spoke Russian and could pass off for one he managed to get back
to Italian lines. He would recount how he stood on a hill from a distance
and saw the Russians execute all of the surviving members of his
division.
From there he ended up in North Africa assigned to the Afrika Corps and
acted as liaison to the Germans since he spoke German (my father was a
linguist and spoke 17 languages). One day they caught one of his partisan
colleagues photographing some documents and under persuasion he gave up my
father who alerted managed to escape. He managed to get to Taman Rahaset in
Algeria where there were some free French forces. The US at the time
was organizing what became the Slavonic divisions and my father joined them.
For the next three years he served in the US army. His languages got him
into Eisenhower's headquarters and my father served as an interpreter when
the Russian Marshals showed up. He also acted as Liaison through his
contacts with the Yugoslav partisans.
Within this period my grandfather was interned by the Nazis and executed in
1943. My grandmother and two of my aunts where shortly thereafter sent to
German concentration camps.
After his stint with the US Army he became head of the Red Cross in
Trieste. It was through these contacts that my father located my
grandmother and aunts in eastern Europe where she was liberated from the
camp with my aunts by the Soviets. At the same time he and others organized
a plebiscite to make the Trieste area independent of Italy and Yugoslavia.
With the cold war starting the allies cancelled the plebiscite and made a
deal to split the area with Italy and Yugoslavia as they wanted Tito as an
ally. Tito then proceeded to issue a death warrant on my father. Feeling
betrayed by the US, he dicided to escape to Argentina in 1948. There he
managed to meet Juan Peron the then president of the country. Peron for all
intents and purposes was a socialist as was his Justicialista movement was
based on his control of the workers unions and was labor based. Peron had
also served as military attaché to fascist Italy and was influenced by
corporatism.
I was born in 1952 and my godfather was Peron's private secretary. Peron's
economic policies were a disaster for the economy and he was overthrown in a
violent Coup in 1955. Several subsequent coups occurred in the following
years. My father by this time had become a committed anti-communist. He
found himself as president of the anti communist league (Liga Internacional
de Resistencia Anti-Comunista) for the Western Hemisphere. During this time
my father got a degree in International science at the University of Buenos
Aires specializing in Astro Physics. In 1960 Arturo Frondizi a man with
Marxist sympathies was elected president. His government was heavily
infiltrated by communists. My father's league decided it was necessary to
remove Frondizi and began organizing a coup. At some point they discovered
my father's identity. At some point the henchmen for Frondizi sent armed men
to my house and they held us under house arrest for five days. My father
wasn't home so they could not do anything. One day my father's allies in the
military sent troops and the armed men were forced to leave. Soon thereafter
my father decided it was time to leave. So we headed to the US
in 1962 Via Passenger ship. A trip that took almost a month. During our trip
here Frondizi was overthrown in March of 1962.
My father as all immigrants took whatever jobs he could. He repaired
refrigerators. Worked as a superintendent, drove car service as well as
taxi. He got a job working for Fred Trump doing the Air conditioning for
Trump village and Trump houses in Brooklyn. It was there when I was 16 or 17
that I met the younger Trump once at that time. He was older than me but had
an obnoxious, abrasive rich kid attitude. It’s true, you never get a second
chance to make a first impression.
My father's linguistic abilities finally paid off and he went to work as an
interpreter for the Criminal Courts of New York City, subsequently a few
years later he bought a liquor store where I worked while going to college
prior to going to graduate school at the CUNY Graduate Center where I became
a PhD candidate ABD in Political science in comparative politics, political
economy and International politics. At the end of this period my father
developed Alzheimer's and I had to put my studies on hold. My father passed
at 72 and my mother shortly got sick and passed away at 82. I never got the
chance to go back to write my dissertation.
During my undergraduate years I became a doctrinaire Marxist to my father's
chagrin. But conversations with my father and learning more of my family
background slowly changed my mind by the time I was in graduate school. In
the last thirty years I have been politically active. I managed a US senate
campaign, several city council races, a state senate race, several
congressional races, including a run against Nydia Velasquez.
I tried to be brief and left out a lot of details. I write this so people
who are my internet friends understand my perspective and where I am
coming from.
As I prepare to go to bed tonight I am rather pessimistic over the fact that
Biden will be the elected president of this country. The dark machine of the
left is so close to achieving their goal of control that they can taste it.
I do not expect things to go the way I would like it to. The machine has all
the levers of power from the courts to mass media to the oligarchs financing
it. I am having a Deja Vu moment and feel as I was back in Argentina.
America has changed radically since I came here as a political exile
(refugee). Dictatorships are deadly forms of government and the only people
who look forward to them are people who've never lived under them or have
seen one up close. Yet, this is what fifty years of relentless propaganda
and indoctrination have done.
I do not trust the senate or the house to stifle the onslaught. Most
politicians who I have met are career hypocrites without any core principles
and act in their own self interest rather than that of their
constituents.
We all live in our respective echo chambers and that is a dangerous thing.
We are moving to an atmosphere of fear and major institutions become
complacent lest they become it's victims. An atmosphere of ideological
control is in the air. The progressives do not need a secret police. They
have captured all the cultural institutions and have injected political
correctness and the "cancel culture" into the corporate realm, desperately
trying to appease the mob lest they become it's victims. If Biden wins they
will be encouraged and it will be implemented with a vengeance. Many will
become the victims of the "cancel culture" and fear like a virus will
spread. The government will stay passively watching this as it will be to
their advantage as it slowly infects any opposition.
Whichever turn the economy turns will be either geared towards the
destruction of certain industries or some type of direct control by the
state. Biden and his cronies will initiate policies that will favor their
paymasters or allied groups in their coalition . High minimum wages will be
passed and it will force manufacturing companies to again abandon the US and
place factories elsewhere. They may be enticed by the Biden administration
to go to China. Either way, we will loose jobs. For small businesses
survival will be difficult and consumer prices will go up radically. The
loss of revenue will entice the government to raise taxes. A tactic
that never work and leads to stunted economies.
They will try to neuter the constitution by canceling the bill of rights
through legislation. They will try to eliminate the electoral college and
pack the court. They will bypass the constitution since they don't believe
in it anyway.
They will reverse all policies which Trump initiated in foreign affairs.
They will via treaties and other ways water down US sovereignty by suborning
the US via international treaties.
We need to stop calling socialism a failed system. It does not convince
progressives and they don’t care. They are committed to the attainment of
power. Karl Marx called socialism “the dictatorship of the proletariat” he
didn’t call it “proletariat democracy”. Socialism is the most
successful system of tyranny ever invented. It affords tremendous power to
those in charge of the state. The backers of socialism aren’t interested in
economic success unless it gives them power. They are not interested if most
of the people support a regime as long as they live in fear. They do not
live by democratic principles.
As I am writing this all the sates that Trump needs are approaching razor
thin margins and I am sure in some rooms somewhere there are people
frantically filling out ballots to change outcomes.
Maybe I am too pessimistic and none of this will come to pass. If it is
opposed before it becomes too late. At some point however , it will become
too late. I am reminded of a quote from Simon Bolivar, "He who makes a
revolution ploughs the sea".
Put on your seatbelts, we are about to embark on a very rough ride. Stay
true and fight back or you will lose the country sooner than you think.