Contributed by Doug Ferguson
Last month, many were finding comic relief in the world’s current chaos by listening to all the soap opera prattle that dominated internet podcasts and the media over the Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Since then, there has been even more distracting drivel about Markle running for president!
Currently any serious talk is about“what do we do next?” by the so-called “middle of the road” and “conservative” media commentators. A few of them are just starting to wake up to the modern Orwellian coup taking place before our eyes in our own country. By the time this article gets into print, the possible passage of HR-1 may well cement this coup in place!
The rest of the media, and the public in general, are refusing to address the evil that is in the process of dominating and changing all of our lives. One of the few that do is Dennis Prager, the nationally known talk show host. In a recent op-ed on his website titled The Denial of Evil: The Case of Communism, he says,
“The most glaring example of the denial of evil is communism, an ideology that, within a period of only 60 years, created modern totalitarianism and deprived of human rights, tortured, starved and killed more people than any other ideology in history.”
He goes on to state facts from The Black Book of Communism by the Harvard University Press to drive this reality home.
“--- the numbers of people murdered — not people killed in combat; ordinary civilians
trying to live their lives — by communist regimes were:
Latin America: 150,000. Vietnam: 1 million. Eastern Europe: 1 million. Ethiopia: 1.5 million. North Korea: 2 million. Cambodia: 2 million. The Soviet Union: 20 million (many scholars believe the number was considerably higher). China: 65 million.”
He goes on to say that this doesn’t even begin to count the suffering endured by hundreds of millions of people due to the totalitarian policies of the communist governments and goes on to describe many of the terrible torture and starvation practices that the various leaders employed to force compliance and loyalty to their regimes.
His final summary of the case presented is that all this is pure evil and references the bible to show if you believe in God, or if you don’t, you at least love people, you have to hate communism.
Why do people deny evil? Praeger explains:
“People associate evil with darkness. But that is not accurate: It is easy to look into the dark; it is very hard to stare into bright light. One should therefore associate evil with extreme brightness, given that people rarely look at real evil.”
People are slowly awakening to this damage of our democratic republic, but unfortunately, they tend to want the federal government to fix these problems. This takes even more power away from the states. Lest we forget, the independence of the states is the basis of our democratic republic as a check on abusive federal power. The result? More power to the federal government to “fix” problems can more easily allow our country to evolve into a single-party ruled “communist style” state as has happened to countries like Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Venezuela.
A good example of this new awareness is our sorely corrupted and vulnerable voting system. In a recent Rasmussen survey taken at the beginning of March this year, just 26% of those polled believe the right person was declared a winner in the last two presidential elections and 56% believe that at least one of the last two presidents was illegitimately elected! Today In both elections only 60% of all voters think that the right person was the legitimate winner.
With these numbers, no wonder politicians have backing to enact election reforms!
However, the problem is the new totally Democrat controlled congress is using this distrust of our system to push Federal Bill, HR-1 that has been passed in the House and at this writing, is being debated in the Senate. Ironically it is titled in 1984 “doublespeak” language as “For the People Act” and described as a “voting rights” bill!
A federal bill might help if it put in place features like: 1) voting machines must be independently tested and openly certified before they can be sold in the U.S., 2) voters must prove citizenship in some way, 3) voter marked paper ballots are required in all elections and 4) mandatory certification audits are required in any federal election.
If HR-1 gets passed, it will NOT do these things. It WILL take election powers entirely away from the states and federalize things like unverified mail-in registration and voting, automatic voter registration when getting a driver’s license whether you are a citizen or not, etc. There are dozens of other terrible provisions in this 790-page bill that do this also and most are unconstitutional.
The irony is, increasing public awareness of our voting problems is being used by the radical left in our country to make things even worse! Our only hope starts with large numbers of Americans finally facing up to this actual evil and getting directly involved with local and state reforms and also demand that their senators push back against this federal disaster. There is no doubt: HR-1 would leave our country ruled by a one-party system. Hopefully it is not too late!
Welcome to the modern version of Orwell’s 1984 and beware!
Doug Ferguson is a retired engineer living in Palmer, Alaska who has had a lifelong interest in science, computer technology, history and, of course, politics.