Why I Am Not a Communist
Updated: Jul 18
by Brad Oliver AIC, EGA, SME
It was 1962 when I first was introduced to Communism. It was an easier time for most American families.
Everyone had friends, jobs, and church was the center of our world. The only thing I feared was the bully on the walk home. This was pretty much how it was. The idea that the communist people would want to kill us all was inconceivable. Our parents and our government were looking under every rock for communists with many in my neighborhood building bomb shelters in their back yards.
The televisions nightly echoed calls for war. Our schools were on high alert in preparation for the worst. America was preparing for an attack with test sirens signaling a pending nuclear event. In my elementary classroom we participated in nuclear drills ducking down under our desks and balling up. We can all laugh now knowing what a pointless exercise that would be in a direct hit, but it wasn’t funny then. It was frightening.
This was a dark time for America. Russia had secretly set up nuclear missiles inside Cuba just 94 miles from Florida aided by the newly installed Communist Fidel Castro about a year earlier in the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion. This event has isolated Cuba to this day, and unfortunately, Americans both young and old have forgotten history.
Now, what is communism and what is socialism? It started with a man named Karl Marx in the 1800s who used both words interchangeably. While Marx is considered the father of this political ideology, it is his protégé Joseph Stalin that is known for the bloody birth of communism killing an estimated 20 million people.
This record number of deaths was short-lived, as Mao Zedong (under the guise of socialism) buried an estimated 65 million people in China using man-made famines mostly to accomplish his goals. Upon Mao’s death in 1976, his successors line up to take up the cause rose up instituting communism with an iron fist. China is now a world-wide threat.
Let us flash forward 63 years in my story. It is now 2025, and America is flirting with a social experiment prepared specifically for naïve, unlearned, and apathetic citizenry. Socialism has been tried in Russia, China, Cuba, and Venezuela over the past 100 years and all have failed.
New York City has its first so-called democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani whose real agenda is evolving. He is now poised to upset the current political system with promises of free bus rides, rent controls, constructing 200,000 new affordable housing units, increasing minimum wage by 2030 to \$30 per hour, and of course, higher taxes on corporations and high-income earners to pay for it all. He is obviously, a real fan of Robin Hood.
Recent surveys indicate Americans age 40 and under primarily support a move to socialism. If the United States does not immediately abandon this social experiment in communism with socialistic tendencies, the very near future will see control in every area of our lives. Propaganda, facial recognition, travel restrictions, financial controls through digital currency, healthcare access, and man-made food shortages.
Sound familiar? All these are now fully implemented in China and being rolled out in the United States of America soon. Our only hope is to stand up and unite with the understanding that none of us is as strong as all of us.
From the Editors...
Thank you, Mr. Oliver, for your continued service in our community. We deeply appreciate you and owe you a great debt of gratitude.
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