We already are a long way toward communism when one of two of America's major political parties bases their campaign on Marxism.

There are real differences between us and them.

I do not like thinking like this but, as I noted a long time ago, we are engaged in a war that no one can sit out. I said they would bring it to our doorstep and sure enough, it is now here. I know people claim every quadrennial election cycle is the most important, most dangerous, or most historic, but this one is a page turner for America because of where we are at this point - politically, ideologically, and historically.

I do not see signs most Americans realize how far down the path to collectivism we have wandered.

The old saying is that you can vote yourself into socialism, but you must shoot your way out.

I was thinking yesterday that we are no longer voting to keep our nation out of Marxism, it is to keep us from sinking deeper into it.

Look at the Democrat platform as expressed by the architects of the Obama/Biden/ Harris continuum – it is all about government involvement in everything. There is not a single aspect of a human life, from conception to death, on which the American government has not staked a claim.

Even the idea that a mentally decrepit president is OK because America can be run by a committee, a politburo, is revealing.

Obama’s fundamental transformation is real, and it is happening.

We have treated Harris’ repetitious "unburdened by what has been” statement as a rhetorical word salad, but when viewed in the proper context, it has far deeper meaning.

It is a Kinsley Gaffe.

This is a gaffe named after Michael Kinsley, a journalist/ political commentator famous for being the left side of CNN’s Crossfire in opposition to conservative Pat Buchanan in the late eighties and early nineties. It occurs when a political gaffe reveals some truth that a politician did not intend to admit - some obvious truth the politician is not supposed to say aloud.

Remember what Michelle Obama said in 2008:

"Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation.”

When you give yourself permission to simply ignore what has worked and what has not with the intent of changing everything that defines America, "fundamental transformation” is made significantly easier.

That is what Harris’ "unburdened by what has been” means.

When you realize that every plank of the Democrat platform rests on what government can do for you to make your life better, you understand that we, like Dorothy, are not in Kansas anymore. The tempest has taken us to the world of the Great Oz, complete with the people behind the curtain pulling all the levers.

As I noted this week, government has no constitutional role to make the life of anyone "better,” largely because government has no resources of its own. Anything a government has must first be taken from someone - for it to make the life of one person better requires it to make the life of someone else less so.

Michelle Obama said it best:

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”

Believe them when they tell you who they are.

Marx saw three steps to global communism - socialism (we are there), Marxism (if Harris is elected, this stage starts) and then global communism (the WEF members are the commissars in waiting).

Electing Trump only pauses the march to disaster long enough that we can get a grip on how close to losing the America of our childhood we are.

This election is overtly and publicly about communists versus capitalists, and which grail is best for American civilization.

As the Templar Knight told Indy, "Choose wisely.”

1 Everything you say is spot-on, Michael, and I dearly wish all Americans were listening carefully! We are SO close to losing our country! Of course, for many reasons we deserve to lose it: we originally created it in God's image, then threw it away by allowing abortion to be determined to be "constitutional;" just as the Israelites decided to worship Moloch and sacrifice their children to him.

We have only ourselves to blame.

2 Couldn't agree more Dana. We purposely chose the evil path and now are reaping the whirlwind.