The other day, I was rereading an old book, Only Yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen.  It’s a history of America in the decade after World War One.  French journalist Alphonse Karr popularized the saying, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”  Allen’s description of events 100 years in our past proved this point.  One chapter of the book recounted the Red Scare.  The 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia sparked Leftist uprisings in many nations.  America was no exception.  Rightly or wrongly, American authorities saw the threat of communist revolution in the actions of organized labor.  General strikes were common.  One labor union, the International Workers of the World (IWW) practiced “revolutionary industrial unionism,” and had ties to socialist and anarchist labor movements.   There were bombing campaigns directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.  Bombs were sent to elected officials, and a wagon filled with explosives was detonated on Wall Street, killing 30 people.  Woodrow Wilson’s Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, struck back by ordering the mass arrests of suspected leftists, mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrant anarchists and communists, many of whom were summarily deported.  In 1920, John Dewey, the first president of the National Education Association, was regarded by some as the most dangerous man in American education, due to his socialist philosophy.  Dewey wanted to fundamentally transform America into a socialist society.  Sound familiar?  Dewey saw education as the means of transformation.  This from the man now regarded as the Father of American education, “You can’t make socialists out of individualists.  Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society, which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.”  Dewey hated religion, and he started kindergartens, not to advance early education, but to separate kids from the values of their parents at a younger age.  Dewey’s policies were adopted, and 100 years later, we’ve produced generations of products of public education who are unable to think for themselves.  So, Marxists in the streets doing violence, labor unions, think the NEA, supporting the Marxists and threatening to strike, and young people unable to think for themselves.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  There is one difference.  In the 1920 Red Scare, the American establishment considered socialists and anarchists threats to be hunted down and eliminated.  A hundred years later, in 2020, we have a new Red Scare.  Today, the Reds we feared in 1920 are the establishment, and those of us who dare to oppose them are now the threats to be eliminated.  In other words, today the Reds really are doing the scaring.  The quote “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty,” has been attributed to Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Goebbels.  Take your pick.  Democrats have mastered this technique.  In 2016, they accused Trump of colluding with Russians, while they paid Christopher Steele to collude with Russians.  They claimed Trump wouldn’t accept the result of the election, while at the same time using the FBI and CIA to stage a coup to overturn the result of the election.  They’re still singing that song.  Just last week, Il Duce Obama, the man who authorized the 2016 coup, said his greatest fear is that Trump won’t accept the result of the 2020 election.  Translation – Democrats are afraid they may lose again.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  In 1920, foreign born anarchists conducted violent protests, and set off explosives.  In 2020, home grown anarchists, indoctrinated according to the principles of John Dewey, and actively supported by the Democrats, stage riots and set off explosives.  Fascism developed in the 1920’s.  Democrats like to call Republicans Fascists.  Fascist doctrine is, “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the State.”  Individual opinion and dissent is not tolerated.  Sounds a lot like today’s Democrats to me.  In 2020, only the opinions of the Left are acceptable, and dissenters are denounced or cancelled.  Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.  Here’s Democrat James Clyburn, “I feel very strongly that this man [Trump] has taken on strong-arm tactics.  And I feel very strongly that he is Mussolini, and Putin is Hitler.” Stressing the importance of fair elections, Clyburn continued, “I believe that he plans to install himself in some kind of emergency way to continue to hold on to office, and that is why the American people had better wake up.”  This while Democrats plan to steal the election with universal mail ballots.  And Hitler, huh?  America awake?  “Germany Awake” was one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite sayings.  Nancy Pelosi calls the federal agents assigned to protect besieged courthouses “stormtroopers.”  The detestable Chuck Schumer says using federal agents in Oregon is “so un-American, so in keeping with third-world countries and dictatorships.”  This while the rioters they support storm through the streets, attacking all who dare dissent.  So, who’s un-American?  A socialist principle is, “Never let up on the pressure.”  Not even at a funeral, as the funeral of Congressman John Lewis attests.  Il Duce Obama took the opportunity to bash the President.  “George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending federal agents to use tear gas against peaceful protestors.”  Wallace was a Democrat who tried to keep black students from going to school.  This while Democrats are trying to keep all students from going to school.  The Duce continued, “If all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that’s what we should do.”  The filibuster predates Jim Crow laws, which were enacted by Democrats, who ran the Senate for 100 years.  More Duce, “Bull Connor may be gone, but today we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans.”  After George Floyd, who are the others?  Anyhow, Bull Connor was an Alabama Democrat who used dogs and fire hoses against protestors who simply wanted human dignity and basic civil rights.  Obama could be elected President only because Bull Connor’s world no longer exists.  Obama is an insufferable demagogue.  So let’s compare

Bull Connor –

Bullshitter –

To date, no Democrat has denounced the mob violence of today’s Reds.  By giving aid and comfort to Marxist revolutionaries, the Democrats are playing with fire.  To quote Karl Marx, the patron saint of Black Lives Matter and Antifa,  “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.”  So to Democrats I say, come November, May The Farce Be With You.