I am participating in the Hump Day Hop over at MOHTH http://www.mommyonlyhas2hands.org

This is a post recycled from last
Thanksgiving and important enough to share again..Always be careful who you choose to take a stand with…

I am a writer/storyteller so if I drag on a bit I’ll
try to shake myself.  Maybe you are old
enough to remember the ‘old’ tuck; duck and cover exercises those of us who
were born in the 50’s had the pleasure to endure. Maybe you are younger and had
no idea.

Back then it was the Russians.  They were out to get us.  As a young child I had no clue what political
propaganda was I was just terrified.
Okay I was also a really weird little kid.  If I saw an airplane in the sky-especially
the ones with the square back-the bombers, I was terrified.  I ran for cover so fast into a neighbor’s
shed, under a tree or under lawn furniture.
Anyplace I could get too quickly and feel safe.  I can still feel my fear now as I type
this.  The sweaty palms, my red, burning
face, my heart beating out of my chest.

As far as I know it was never talked about.  I never brought it up, my fear that is, or
the weird way I would just run and hide.

Back then communist, socialist, dictators and Nazi’s
made really bad leaders.  Many, many
people throughout history have been terrorized, tortured or murdered.  That is a fact.

Fast forward to today.  We as Americans have taken our eyes off of
our flag, our constitution and our long and hard fought for freedom.  We have allowed our government to take over in
areas that now threaten our very freedom.

Okay; she is getting political…uggghhh!  Not really.
I am just being honest.  This is
not a story about politics but a story about American’s.  I have voted in every election since I was
18.  I am very proud of that fact.  Sometimes I have been a Democrat and
sometimes a Republican.

I was actually physically sick when George Bush won
his second term.  I was scared to death
of the puppet-masters pulling his strings.
My young daughter, who had just voted for the first time said “Don’t
worry Mom.  We will have Hillary next
time and NO one can beat her”.

Okay, we all no how that turned out.

Then the propaganda started.  My 5 year old grand son came home singing ‘yes we can’.  Parents complained but it continued and still
does.

Behind the scenes and under the radar; yet right in
front of our faces I have been hearing some very frightening words.  Words that had terrified me when I was 5 and
certainly scare me far more now that I am 52.
I first saw glimpses of the words on the internet.  Then I saw them on blogs.  I saw them buried way in the back of several
magazines and newspapers.  The words
popped up on news channels; cable of course.

The words were ‘Communist’ and ‘Socialist.  Of course anyone that mentioned they were
seeing or hearing these words were called fear
mongers or racists.  They were also called conspiracy theorist.

Whew; thank God it wasn’t for real.  I tried to put the fear towards the back of
my mind.  Then I started seeing the red tee
shirts everywhere.  The tee shirts with
the white letters spelling the word Communist on the front.  The shirts were on children.  Now that got my attention.  Then Time Magazine had their ‘Socialism’
cover.

Yes my dear fellow Americans, in 2010 it has become
very cool to be a Communist, Socialist or a radical.  I am so angry I could just spit!  I am angry with my fellow parents who have
sent their children off to be educated and have had them returned
indoctrinated.  I am angry with my fellow
Americans who do not care.  I am afraid
for the ones who say “It could never happen here”.  Hello it is happening.

We all need to start sharing some history with our
young people.  They say this is the most
educated generation of Americans in our history.  What a shame they are also the most
illiterate when it comes to history of their own country and theology.

How dare they believe they can stand for something
they do not even under-stand.  How dare
they have the arrogance to hold all the answers before they have even paid
taxes?  I would challenge them to find a
time in the history of this world when communism or socialism ever ended well.  I would dare them to watch the movie “The boy
in the striped pajamas”.

My 10 year old grand daughter does not say the Pledge
of Allegiance in her classroom.  The
teacher does not have enough time.  She
has no time to honor our flag but she has time to teach my grand daughter to bitch at me for occasionally using a
plastic grocery bag. {Oh yeah; how about all those polar bear, breast cancer
and rain forests eco-friendly bags I bought}?
Now they tell us they were made in China and are full of lead that is
just rubbing up against the veggies and fruit we feed our kids.  Oh and the light bulbs; the twirly ones that
cost a fortune.  Read the warning on
them.  You need a hazmat team if you
break one.

As we sit down and journal our reasons for
Thanksgiving and Gratitude this year I challenge each and every one of you to
have a conversation with a young person.
Share with them the reason for the holiday.  Explain to them that Americans are
exceptional, and why.  Yes, we can be
arrogant but we are also the most charitable country in the world.  Explain that socialism does not mean
spreading the wealth around.  That is a
big lie.  Socialism is stealing from the
‘haves’ and giving to those in power- not the ‘have-nots’.

We have always been a country full of people who
could grow up and be anyone or anything we dreamed we could be.  We need to make things.  Invent things.  Things that other countries want to buy from
us.  We have simply become
consumers.  When did we stop raising kind
and empathetic children?  When did we
start raising radicals and stop raising dreamers?

Below are just a few things I found on the web-sight:
 http://www.cpusa.org

This is only three scary examples from this one site of many out there…

A better world is possible — a world where people come before profits. That’s
socialism. That’s our vision. We are the Communist Party USA.

A celebration this week [last year] recognized the contribution of the Jacksons and the Communist Party in the
struggle for African American freedom, and welcomed the new book “Red
Activists and Black Freedom.”

If, however, what is meant is that many more people are ready to give socialism a
hearing, not reject it out of hand, then I would say, “Yes, this is a
‘socialist moment’.” This is no small thing. It wasn’t that long ago that
socialism didn’t have much currency among broad sections of the American
people. It was considered a failed model, undemocratic and worse, a bankrupt
idea – something best consigned to history.

Doreen