The most intrepid anti-communist American president ever....Ronald Reagan.....and the most audacious anti-communist Roman Catholic pope ever....Karol Wojtyla....Pope John Paul II....took their positions on the world's stage within a few short years of each other. The nascent 'born again' movement of the Jimmy Carter era was maturing into the more powerful doctrinal evangelical movement of the 1980s....where cults were challenged....and the holiness of God was placed before us....thus a battle-royal was taking place in American culture.
Warren Beatty's film Reds opened in December of 1981.....in it Communism was glorified.....glorified in the horrors of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution....and decrepit lives of the main protagonists of the film that was nominated for 12 Academy Awards....winning three.
British film Chariots Of Fire came out the same year in direct contrast to Reds.. It told the story of two British runners in the 1924 Olympics held in Paris....the time period then within the two films being about eight years. Chariots Of Fire was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four including Best Picture.
On Friday March 5, 1982.....I saw the film with my wife in a matinee performance....and later that evening went out for my normal run.....the temperature was about 30 degrees....and much of the seven inches of snow from two days before had melted in previous day's rain. How do I know all this? These things were logged in my 1982 The Complete Runner's Day-by-Day Log and Calendar. I saw both films at the time....Eric Liddell's life had the more power.
There were assassination attempts on both President Reagan and Pope John Paul II within six weeks of each other in early 1981. Almost twenty years to the day after the anti-communist President Reagan left office...the Marxist Barack Obama took office. Four years after President Obama took office.....and eight years after Pope John Paul II died.....the Marxist Pope Francis became pope. That's how fast things can change.
Communism.....as has been described many times....and as I've written about in these posts.....is a dialectic in that it is more than willing to change it's outward appearance in order to remain on the course of its final goal....dominating the world. It uses every malcontent and miscreant that it can recruit....follows no rules whatsoever....and lies through its teeth as to its belief in compassion and equality.
Communism's dupes and fellow-travelers plied their trade very effectively.....particularly in their effect on our educational system.....for it was very patient.....as it has captured the minds of our youth....and you can see the results of this all over America today.....and in the complete and utter transformation of the Democrat Party into a socialist tool.
It is declared all the time that Communism was defeated in 1989....but this was far from the case. At the time I worried that if the seamy side of capitalism were exported to Russia....and if that filled the void in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union....then we would just be facing a monster of a different stripe.
As it turned out....Donald Trump was quick to go over there....and that is the essence....or what should be the essence.....of these various investigations going on today. What is the extent of Donald Trump's business relations with Russians....particularly those who filled the void after the Soviet Union fell. There are books galore on this....best sellers....that tell a different story than we have been told....but we conservatives refuse to read those books....for they must be fake news. We have another election....scheduled....and this time....before we nominate....we need to know who Donald Trump is!
We are trying to greed our way out of this mess.....if I might use that word as a verb. We need wisdom but have only gone after corporate smarts. Donald Trump has never had an ideology. Do you know what that means? It means that he is but an 'empty suit'....bent solely on increasing his own reputation as the personification of immense wealth.
Warren Beatty's film Reds opened in December of 1981.....in it Communism was glorified.....glorified in the horrors of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution....and decrepit lives of the main protagonists of the film that was nominated for 12 Academy Awards....winning three.
British film Chariots Of Fire came out the same year in direct contrast to Reds.. It told the story of two British runners in the 1924 Olympics held in Paris....the time period then within the two films being about eight years. Chariots Of Fire was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four including Best Picture.
On Friday March 5, 1982.....I saw the film with my wife in a matinee performance....and later that evening went out for my normal run.....the temperature was about 30 degrees....and much of the seven inches of snow from two days before had melted in previous day's rain. How do I know all this? These things were logged in my 1982 The Complete Runner's Day-by-Day Log and Calendar. I saw both films at the time....Eric Liddell's life had the more power.
There were assassination attempts on both President Reagan and Pope John Paul II within six weeks of each other in early 1981. Almost twenty years to the day after the anti-communist President Reagan left office...the Marxist Barack Obama took office. Four years after President Obama took office.....and eight years after Pope John Paul II died.....the Marxist Pope Francis became pope. That's how fast things can change.
Communism.....as has been described many times....and as I've written about in these posts.....is a dialectic in that it is more than willing to change it's outward appearance in order to remain on the course of its final goal....dominating the world. It uses every malcontent and miscreant that it can recruit....follows no rules whatsoever....and lies through its teeth as to its belief in compassion and equality.
Communism's dupes and fellow-travelers plied their trade very effectively.....particularly in their effect on our educational system.....for it was very patient.....as it has captured the minds of our youth....and you can see the results of this all over America today.....and in the complete and utter transformation of the Democrat Party into a socialist tool.
It is declared all the time that Communism was defeated in 1989....but this was far from the case. At the time I worried that if the seamy side of capitalism were exported to Russia....and if that filled the void in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union....then we would just be facing a monster of a different stripe.
As it turned out....Donald Trump was quick to go over there....and that is the essence....or what should be the essence.....of these various investigations going on today. What is the extent of Donald Trump's business relations with Russians....particularly those who filled the void after the Soviet Union fell. There are books galore on this....best sellers....that tell a different story than we have been told....but we conservatives refuse to read those books....for they must be fake news. We have another election....scheduled....and this time....before we nominate....we need to know who Donald Trump is!
We are trying to greed our way out of this mess.....if I might use that word as a verb. We need wisdom but have only gone after corporate smarts. Donald Trump has never had an ideology. Do you know what that means? It means that he is but an 'empty suit'....bent solely on increasing his own reputation as the personification of immense wealth.
