Who's Red now?

Reactionaries are those who want to keep things the same, or better yet, the way they were 50 or 100 years ago. In the U.S., the reactionaries mainly are Republicans and have total control of the government.

It was almost 90 years ago that Communists took control of the Soviet Union. Something 90 years old looks pretty good to reactionaries. Red was the color that symbolized Communists and nations ruled by Communists were called red states. Today, Republicans call the states where they have majorities “red states.”

Republicans stole the color red from the Communists and now appear to be stealing Joseph Stalin as their governing model. Under Stalin, one party ruled and placed the interests of the party above those of the nation. Under George Bush, one party rules and puts the interests of the party above those of the nation. Stalin was a dictator. Bush says he is a “unitary executive,” a synonym for dictator or autocrat. Stalin held elections that were fixed. Bush holds elections that are rigged.

Pravda and Izvestia, the mainstream media in the Soviet Union, obediently spewed the government propaganda. The mainstream media in the U.S. uncritically pass on whatever comes out of the Whitehouse no matter how ridiculous or fraudulent.

The Soviet Union had a progressive constitution and a democratic election system. However, the government took its orders from the Communist Party. The U.S. has an antiquated but functional constitution. However, the U.S. Government ignores it and follows the dictates of the Republican Party.

Stalin had a gulag of secret prisons, disappeared people, tortured captives and held people without due process. Bush has a gulag of secret prisons, disappears people, especially Arabs, tortures captives and holds people without due process.

Stalin believed communism would some day be accepted by the entire world. Bush believes capitalism will be the only economic system in the world some day, but it must be imposed militarily.

Stalin spied on everyone. Bush spies on everyone.

Stalin kept his people misinformed and brainwashed. Bush makes every effort to brainwash his people and keep them misinformed.

Bush's role model: Stalin

Who is the primary role model for George W. Bush? The obvious person would be his father George H. W. Bush. W certainly has his father’s propensity for invading nearly defenseless nations and slaughtering as many people as possible. Sr. Bush invaded four nations in four years: Panama, Iraq, Haiti and Somalia. W invaded three so far-- Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti--but has his eye on three known additional targets and, no doubt, several others to be named later.

W shares his father’s contempt for the Constitution, democracy, freedom and rights. Both are racists, cold-blooded killers and accomplished liars. Both claim to be Christian but would be far more comfortable with Satan.

In office, W has shown that he is far more ruthless than his father. Being less intelligent than his father and most people of the world, for that matter, he is capable only of copying someone else. He is ruling the nation through a single party and blatantly snubbing his nose at the Constitution. He set up a gulag of secret prisons. He made people disappear. When he can, he ignores civil customs such as trial by jury, habeas corpus and the concept of innocent until proven guilty. He calls himself a unitary executive, which is a euphemism for dictator, autocrat or tyrant. In this respect, he most closely resembles Joseph Stalin.

W increased his powers by creating an incident that convinced an already timid and submissive Congress to grant him emergency powers. He fabricated threats and set out to conquer the world. His strategy was to show the world that there is no limit to his cruelty and savagery, so that the next nations would know they are dealing with a heartless thug and would not resist their conqueror. He kidnapped and tortured innocent people. He used some of the most hideous, outlawed weapons known to man. He had no reservations about killing anyone, including children and babies, in an area where a suspect might be. He destroyed life-sustaining utilities and facilities with abandon and with no consideration for the hardship his acts caused.

W calls his theory “shock and awe.” The victims are supposed to become so horrified that they freeze in fear leaving their nation open to Bush and his bandit friends to pillage and plunder at will. That’s what his own people would do, so he figured all others would also. He was wrong. This side of W most closely resembles Adolph Hitler. Iraq was Hitler’s Poland. If Poland had had resisters like Zarqawi, the Second World War would never have happened, and the Third Reich would have been the Third Fizzle just as Bush’s Fourth Reich limped then bogged down in the heat and sand of Iraq.

W is closer to Stalin and Hitler than to his father or any other brutal dictator. W borrows heavily from both dictators. He can best be described as a composite of the worst of those two men.