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The Democratic Party Is a Movement in Search of a Leader

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I think we all realize now that radical, godless Marxist Leftism has taken control of the Democratic Party.  This really shouldn’t surprise us.  It took over in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other Leftist hellholes.  They are trying to turn America into a similar slime pit.  Only time will tell if they will succeed or not.

The radical Left are the Bolsheviks in the Democratic Party, not the Mensheviks.  To explain the history, Vladimir Lenin’s Marxist movement in Russia, in the early 20th century, split into “Bolsheviks” (Russian for “majority), and “Mensheviks” (“minority”).  Lenin’s party, the Bolsheviks, were not actually the majority in the party, but they won.  And the Bolsheviks were never the majority in Russia, not even close; in the only semi-free election in Russia before Lenin took dictatorial power, they received relatively few votes.  The Russian people never wanted Marxism, it was forced upon them. 

But Lenin got power.  That’s all he wanted.  And dozens of millions of people in Russia suffered for the next 70+ years because of it.  Will America learn?  

The radical Left is not the majority in America, it may not even be the majority among Democratic Party-voting “common” Americans—maybe--but all that means is, currently, they can't take over power via democratic processes.  But that may be irrelevant.  The Left has never gained power by democratic means.  Lenin, Mao, Castro, Ho Chi Minh:  they didn't have a majority of the people behind them, they took power via violence and civil war. Hitler is the exception to this rule, but with a caveat. He became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 after the elections, but he only won a plurality of the votes; he never received a majority until his sham elections after he assumed dictatorial powers.  But he didn’t require a civil war to take control. 

He did use violence, though.  His Brown Shirt thugs intimidated many a German into voting for Hitler.  However, even then, it was the Great Depression that ultimately put Hitler in power.

The current Bolshevik-Democratic Party is a movement in search of a leader.  Note in all the cases mentioned above where the Left came to power, they were led by a charismatic dictator—Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho Chi Minh—some demagogue the people were willing to follow.  Or, to rephrase that, some demagogue the people were FORCED to follow.   Lenin, et al., did have their supporters; however, they were never the majority.  They all (even Hitler) used violence to obtain power, and in the case of Lenin, Mao, Casto, and Ho, they used a civil war.  The Left is never above using violence, and, of course, we are witnessing that in America today where they threaten or employ violence on an almost daily basis. 

But notice one significant difference in the current radical Left Democratic Party:  they lack that charismatic Leader, the One, that Force to unite behind, who can draw them all together and convince them to start even a civil war, if necessary.   Leftists don’t care how they come to power, they want it. Suppose they can do it democratically, well and good. However, that attempt failed miserably in 2024, after 12 years of the Obama-Biden administration.  They will have a difficult time ever convincing a majority of Americans to follow them into a godless, Marxist dictatorship. Another “Great Depression” event might do it; it’s what lifted Hitler (and Franklin Roosevelt) to power.  But short of that, they usually employ civil war because elections don’t work.   

Many pundits have commented on how “the Democrats seem to have learned nothing after the 2024 election.  They are still preaching the same doctrines.”  But what many people fail to realize is that the radical Left doesn’t care what the American people think because Leftism is their religion.  They are true believers in that religion, and true believers never abandon their faith, regardless of how small a minority they might be.  Elizabeth Warren, AOC, people like that will never change because they are “true believers.”  So, they don’t care what the American people think and will continue to do what their religion tells them to do. 

And these people now rule the Democratic Party.  Many “common people,” JFK Democrats don't believe these radical leftist ideas, but they no longer control the party.  The Mensheviks aren’t leading the party.  The Bolsheviks are.  And all that’s missing is a Lenin. 

The radical Left presently does not have that charismatic leader, that Lenin, Hitler, Castro, Mao, an Anti-Christ, one Anti-Christ (all Democrats are anti-Christ, opposed to Him). They lack that one individual, that magnetic, alluring personality who can unite the party behind him or her and lead them with the violence necessary to take power, to a civil war, if that is what is required.  When the radical Left realizes that they will never be the majority, will never take control by democratic means, they will do what they did in every other country in which they gained power—use violence and/or a civil war.  But they’ll need the Leader to take them down that path.  And he/she doesn’t appear visible—at the moment. 

If they can find a Hitler, they might be able to seize power through democratic processes (given a major national crisis, such as the Great Depression).  Otherwise, they’ll need the barbaric, godless ruthlessness of a Lenin, Mao, or Castro, who doesn’t care how many dead bodies he has to climb to reach the top.  Those kinds of people DO exist in America; we see them on the streets all the time now.  But The One.  We don’t know who that is—yet. 

Under Obama and Biden, the Left put their godless, anti-American scheme into practice, and when Americans saw what it meant, they rejected it—soundly—in 2024.  But the Left won’t give up.  It’s their religion.  And if they ever find their Messiah…