American Gulag

There are three major obstacles to the establishment of pure, unadulterated socialism in America:

• Christian and Jewish conservatives
• The Republican Party
• The National Rifle Association

The Christian Church and conservative Jews oppose homosexual marriage and abortion, both elements of the socialist agenda, on religious grounds. To force them to accept homosexual marriage, the Left decouples marriage from its religious origins, characterizes marriage as a purely secular contract and frames gay marriage as a civil rights issue, such that religious conservatives who oppose changing the law are perceived as bigots. To protect and advance abortion, the Left compels those institutions managed by religious groups - schools, universities, homeless shelters, food banks and the like - to provide insurance coverage for contraception and abortion to their female employees free of charge, reasoning that by engaging those institutions and not the churches and synagogues themselves, liberals are respecting their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. The Left purposely places conservative religious groups in a dilemma: Obey the law and violate their deepest religious principles, or defy the law and risk prosecution and the closure of the institutions that serve so many.

To break the Republican Party, the Left employs a multi-pronged approach. They begin by offering special benefits to favored constituencies: Free abortion and contraception coverage to feminists, amnesty to illegal immigrants, "stimulus" spending to labor unions, forgiveness or lenient repayment terms to people who have defaulted on their mortgage or student loans, aggressive regulation of financial institutions to the Occupy Wall Street crowd, and so forth. They characterize Republican opposition to massive deficit spending as favoritism to the rich, they gerrymander Congressional districts to eliminate Republican seats, they demonize Republican candidates - even Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, men of impeccable character - as hopelessly corrupt, selfish patricians. They play Republicans against each other, courting moderates like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Chris Christie with lavish dinners and favorable press coverage while attacking conservatives like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. If the Left cannot split the GOP into conservative and moderate halves, neither strong enough to challenge socialist hegemony, they'll settle for a weakened and emaciated whole.

For most Americans, guns are the ultimate guarantor of personal safety and the ultimate expression of their Constitutional rights. Private gun ownership has restrained tyrannical governments here and abroad, putting a brake on dictatorship, which explains why authoritarian regimes usually begin by banning and confiscating private firearms. The Left doesn't want any restraints or brakes on the advance of socialism and they're not above exploiting human tragedy for political advantage, so attacking the NRA as uncouth beasts insensitive to the massacres in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, and breaking their political influence, is the third major effort for liberals. Universal background checks (even if a father wanted to bequeath a favorite deer rifle to his son, a background check would be required) will lead to national gun registration which will lead to national gun confiscation. (Recall what happened in New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.) For the Left, the unfettered march of socialism is worth the cost of a citizen unable to defend himself against criminals, or ten citizens, or ten million. The people's ability to practically resist their government must be eliminated and so must the NRA.

The epic failures of socialism across the globe do not dampen the enthusiasm of the American Left for its full implementation here. The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Central America, South America, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, have all tried their hand at socialism and had every tool of state coercion to make it work and they all failed. Even China abandoned pure socialism in favor of market capitalism because not to do so would have resulted in ruin. During this seventy-five year experiment, however, hundreds upon hundreds of millions of people suffered poverty, unemployment, seizure of their private property, starvation, false arrest and imprisonment, torture and death - North Korea is a model society to the Left, if they would only admit it - all to prove the proposition that common misery is preferable to common opportunity. The fervor with which the Left worships mediocrity, the vigor they apply to achieving it in the face of overwhelming proof of socialism's disaster, is simply irrational, and to succumb to their efforts will condemn us all to the largest and worst gulag of all.