No, I am not the new president of a resurrected John Birch Society.
But unless a well-respected and trusted older mainline nonprogressive socialist Democrat can prove the following comments are not valid, I am not going to close the door to such a nomination.
Kamala Harris quotes communist doctrine way too much to become president of the United States of America.
Her favorite catchphrase ― “I can see … what can be, unburdened by what has been” ― sounds so poetic, uplifting and oh so inspiring to the young people of the nation! It has become the target of social media ridicule to conservatives as another one of her trademark “word salads.”
However, upon further inspection, her go-to phrase has a far more sinister implication than being merely inspirational or a late-night joke.
“Unburdened by what has been” can be interpreted by those so inclined as an indictment against America’s inherently racist history. In their view, America was founded as a slaveocracy which has made little, if any, progress since 1619.
If race was all she talked about, many would agree America still has work to do to become a country where everyone has access to equal opportunity and civil rights. However, she uses the phrase all the time ― whether she is talking about climate change, electric vehicles, child care or abortion.
Ewan Palmer of Newsweek did some research and found quotes from Karl Marx that sound similar to being “unburdened” by history. In “The Communist Manifesto,” written in 1848, Marx wrote:
“In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in communist society, the present dominates the past.”
Marx later wrote in his 1852 essay, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”:
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”
Much of the language of uber-far-left progressive socialist liberals today clangs like a gong on the American ear ― mainly because so much of it is drawn from Marxist doctrine.
There’s no secret Democrats want to expunge U.S. history of any references with which they disagree or which make them feel “uncomfortable.” Cancel culture, desecration of American monuments, replacing Western civilization history and philosophy classes on campuses with books written by critical race theorists such as Ibram Kendi all follow the same path: Past history in America written by white men based on Judeo-Christian values and Western civilization norms is bad; current enlightened thought “unburdened” by any such historical foundation is good.
Democrats since 2008 have turned their backs on everything considered basic to our shared common life together in America. They have neutered and defunded police enforcement; appointed liberal judges who have let thousands of convicted people out of prison unilaterally; flung wide open our southern border to let another 10 million people enter illegally; canceled tens of billions of dollars of federal student debt without legislative approval; and spent trillions in federal dollars on unnecessary programs which have jacked up prices of everything to unreasonable heights through rampant inflation.
When Barack Obama declared “Change has come to America!” the night he was elected in 2008, he was not kidding. They have spent the last 16 years doing it.
If Kamala Harris had been born to a Southern Baptist minister, her favorite catchphrase could charitably be interpreted as an allusion to Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians 5:17: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new”.
Christians across the nation would acknowledge her prayer for a Fifth Great Spiritual Reawakening in America, one they would fully embrace.
But she is not the daughter of a Southern Baptist minister. She is the daughter of an avowed Marxist communist economics professor at Stanford. The catchphrases she picked up had to come from somewhere. There can be little doubt they came from conversations around the dinner table with her parents about how great communism was and how terrible America was for being a capitalistic society.
In 1884, when urged to run for president, former Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman said, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
Unless a senior Democrat can prove that Kamala Harris rejects any and all communist tenets, it will be difficult to declare the same when the John Birch Society comes a-knocking.
