Happy May Day y’all! Wasn’t it wonderful? What a great thing it is to celebrate all things Communist: let the kids out of school, and don’t shop to boot. Oh, those pesky capitalist small business owners.
And the kids don’t need to learn the important stuff, despite the fact that many of them can’t pass even the most basic things like reading, writing, and… God help us, ‘rithmatic. Let alone, here it comes…. history. We’re supposed to learn from history. But the aging white, green-haired hippy chicks and their little bearded soft buddies wearing Greek fisherman caps don’t care about history… or the lessons they should have learned from the regimes where communism failed, failed, and failed again. And let’s not mention the millions of people who died under it.
I’ve seen it before. During the 1960s, I marched in protests against the war in Vietnam. Seemed like a noble cause. I even volunteered for the Gene McCarthy campaign in ’68. I was at an anti-war event in Columbus, Ohio when we got word that some kids were shot up at Kent State. Not good. But then things started to get really weird.
I began to see the dark side of the “movement.” Groups like SLA (the Symbionese Liberation Army), Black Panthers, and SDS (Students for a “Democratic” Society, ha-ha) were resorting to violence. Some of the SDS’ers came to our campus dressed in military fatigues and looking menacing during the love and peace era. I even allowed one of them to stay at my place, until his violent rhetoric forced me to kick him out. I heard he went on to burn a few government buildings.
Hello Minneapolis! How’s your governor? Thanks for letting my childhood city burn during the St. George Floyd “peaceful” riots. And now you’ve got those Somali “Learing” Centers. Don’t get me started. I have stories to tell.
Now we have “Indivisible,” “People’s Action,” and “Code Pink” et al. Wasn’t it cute of them to fly to Cuba to support the Communist Castro regime, party at a five-star hotel for a couple of days, and then fly home? Mission accomplished. Party on Pinkos. BTW, the leader of Code Pink is married to a Communist billionaire who funds many of the protest movements we live with today. Figure that one out. Good grief.
Oh, by the way, part deux: I remember clearly when President John Kennedy had to place an embargo on Cuba, (he pronounced it “Cuber”). The Communist Soviet Union was sending missiles over on ships and planting them in Cuba right after the ’58-59 revolution. We found out via our high-altitude U-2 spy planes, and President Kennedy put a stop to it. In the meantime, we students had to practice “duck and cover” under our desks because of the fear of a nuclear attack. Does that sound familiar today in Iran? You bet it does. But Kennedy was a Democrat, so he gets a pass in history and President Trump gets vilified and attacked. And the threat today is a quantum leap from the ‘sixties. Free Cuba. Free Iran.
So, dear friends, have we learned anything from history? Doesn’t seem so. But rest assured, the President is looking out for you, whether you like it or not. Maybe those “resist” signs and “no kings” banners and hammer-and-sickle flags you’re flying will protect you. Courtesy of… now wait for it, billionaires. You know, the ones you’re protesting against. And the bullhorns, frog costumes, and furry crap. Dear God. It would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so sad. And pathetic. But have fun. You’re being taken care of.
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John Summer is a semi-retired Emmy and multi-award-winning journalist who lives in Grover Beach and prays for common sense and sanity.
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Spot on!