A red tide is coming

In October of 1960, at the height of the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev, then Premier of the Soviet Union visited the UN. During a heated moment during a debate with the Philippine representative, he removed his shoe and started banging it on the table. He accused the diplomat of being “a jerk, a stooge and a lackey of imperialism.” This of course caught media attention. Khrushchev became the brunt of many jokes and comedic recreations. But what wasn’t so funny was what happened later on the same visit. Khrushchev said in reference to capitalism, "Мы вас похороним!" (My vas pokhoronim!), translated to "We will bury you". This phrase, ambiguous both in the English language and in the Russian language, was interpreted in several ways. Later, he would refer back to the comment and state, "I once got in trouble for saying, 'We will bury you'. Of course, we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."

With clarity that is lacking today, a majority of Americans decried communism and its weaker sister socialism. However, with the threat of the annihilation of mankind due to the amassing of nuclear bombs and a Defense Department policy of MAD (mutually assured destruction), a small cadre started to rally around a slogan, “Better red than dead.” This group of intellectuals—at the time a fringe group of university professors and members of the Communist Party USA—were seen as an oddity. No one could imagine that this ragtag band of disaffected souls would ever be anything more than a curiosity confined to San Francisco and Greenwich Village. But they continued to write their books and poems, and teach.

Events began to unfold upon the American landscape that provided an opportunity for these leftists to gain momentum and traction. Jack Kennedy was elected president and the Cuban Missile Crisis with the disastrous Bay Pigs incident revealed a potential weakness in American security. Children were practicing “duck and cover” drills in schools across America just in case an atomic bomb was dropped in the heartland. Kids began to be fearful. Parents built bomb shelters in their backyards. And the “better red than dead “crowd kept up the mantra.

Kennedy escalated war in Viet Nam. He was assassinated. LBJ took advantage of a grieving nation and built the “Great Society.” School prayer was banned. Jack’s brother Bobby took up the mantle and ran for president. He was assassinated. Martin Luther King took a stand against racism and he too was killed. By now, the same kids who had been scared in elementary school were in college and they didn’t want to die. A few of them began to distrust their country because of the war. They formed groups like the Students for a Democratic Society, the Weather Underground, Black Panthers, etc. They found unity through music by Dylan, Country Joe and the Fish and the Beatles. And what appeared to be just college kids separating from their parents became a united movement by the “Better red than dead” leadership. These radicals introduced drug use as a way to “turn on, tune in and drop out.” It was the sacrament of their new “League of Spiritual Discovery.” Angst and fear was palpable. The news media led by Walter Cronkite droned on and on about an unjust war and war crimes committed by US soldiers in Vietnam.

College campuses became outposts in this new war to take back America. Columbia, Brown, Berkley and the most poignant of all, Kent State, provided fuel to the image of an American society at war with itself. Kids whose parents had sacrificed to send them to these prestigious schools now turned their back on their country and began to carry Mao’s Little Red Book instead of the Bible.

The culmination was the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago. The strengthen radicals pitted youth against “the establishment.” Officers were now denigrated by the term “pig.” The images created by the few rallied many.

Fast forward to 2008. The same group of radicals now in their late 50s and 60s formed groups like “re-create 68” hoping to relive their glory years at this year’s Democrat Convention. Many had predicted riots and violence. But a curious event happened on the way to Denver, a student of the left, a Marxist, a socialist, a community organizer, a drug user, an internationalist was their party’s nominee. And the best thing for the leftists, no one in America knew! Why? The children of the 60s now ran the media, the university faculties, the publishing houses, the Congress, and most importantly, the leadership of the Democrat party. Today the party of JFK looks more like the SDS. What really sealed the deal was “the cult of personality” on display at the acceptance speech of “the One.” So the godless found a god to believe in. And on November 4, 2008 they are poised to fulfill Khrushchev’s prophesy and turn our constitutional republic into a socialist super state.
Yes, next Tuesday a red tide will cover this nation. It is up to you, the American voter, whether it will be a red, white and blue tide or a suffocating socialist red tide that will mark the end of this great experiment in freedom and personal liberty. Choose wisely, the fate of our nation is in your hands.