No Freedom Without Virtue

 Open minds never stood a chance against the
ruthless single-mindedness of the Bolsheviks” (Antony Beevor, Russia:
Revolution and Civil War, 1917-21).

The history referred
to by Professor Beevor in the quote above is interesting—and ultimately
horrifying, as most Leftist history is.  For the first few months after
his Bolshevik (communist) Revolution in Russia in 1917, Vladimir Lenin
had a very tenuous hold on power.  Almost nobody believed the Bolsheviks
would survive.  Lenin was pressured to hold elections to a “Constituent
Assembly” (Congress), which was intended to provide a constitutional
government for the country, something Lenin definitely did not want.  He
wanted totalitarian, dictatorial power—the “dictatorship of the
proletariat,” which, in communist jargon, means the dictatorship of a
godless, elitist cadre who will “rule” in the “name” of the people.  The
elections were conducted.  The Bolsheviks, of course, got nowhere near a
majority of the votes—they never do unless they rig the elections or
threaten to kill anyone who might vote against them.  Usually, they
don’t even allow elections to happen.  Can’t let the “people” in whose
name they “rule” have a say in that “rule.”

The elected Constituent Assembly did meet in Russia—once
and for less than 12 hours.  The Bolsheviks walked out of the assembly,
began arresting their political opponents (Donald Trumpsky?), and began a
reign of terror and torture that is almost beyond belief in its scope
and cruelty.  But when there exists no respect for human life or rights,
barbarism is all that remains.  We see it in America today, being led
by the same kind of people, the Democratic Party.

To cement his total power, Lenin gave the Cheka (the secret police) the
authority to indiscriminately torture and kill without any judicial
supervision.  They went to work all over Russia.  People were put to
death for posting flyers, non-payment of taxes (watch out, Hunter!),
breaking curfew, or resisting arrest.  The methods of torture and death
were creative.  Some people had gloves pulled off their hands after
having them soaked in boiling water, thus pulling off the skin.  Belts
were made from the skins off people’s backs.  Several hundred people
were put on a leaking barge in the middle of the Volga River.  They had
to bale out the water.  Eventually, after a few days, too weary to
continue baling, they sank and drowned.One colonel was roasted to
death in a trane furnace; another military officer was thrown head-first
into a ship’s furnace. “Who should feel sorry for killing a
counter-revolutionary?” one murderer said. In the increasingly lawless
society, they looted and stole whatever they wanted; even the head of
Cheka was mugged and robbed. People were mutilated while still alive
(maybe that’s where the Democrats got the idea). As one writer penned,
“indescribable horror” occurred in Moscow. “Soldiers and workers are
walking up to their knees in blood.” Sadly, this kind of inconceivably
beastly barbarism is not uncommon in human history, with some even using
religion as a cloak for such savagery (as we have seen in the last two
months). But it has happened in every Leftist, Marxist, and communist
society—without exception—in the last 100 years. History is warning us,
but most won’t listen.   

“But, but, but, the Democratic Party will never do anything
like that in America!”  No, of course not; our Leftists are all nice
people.  All they do is murder unborn babies and mutilate children in
the name of an unscientific sexual perversion to placate their
hedonistic coalitions.  Yes, all Leftists should be like our Leftists.

In
the quote at the beginning of this column, Beevor describes the
difference between people of no morality or self-serving morality and
those who hold on to some kind of traditional, sacred, eternal standard
of truth and virtue.  If “single-minded ruthlessness” gains ascendancy,
as it did in Russia, China, and other Marxist countries, then it is
difficult for the virtuous and compassionate to fight back.  We simply
cannot do what Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the Democratic Party in America
did and is doing.  How many of you reading this could ever mutilate a
child?  Or make a belt from the skin of somebody’s back?  The mind of
the virtuous could never even conceive of such atrocities.  But that is
what evil does, folks.  “Woe to those who devise iniquity and work out
evil on their beds!  At morning light, they practice it, because it is
in the power of their hand” (Micah 2:1).  These people lay awake at
night thinking of the wickedness they can do, and then put it into
effect as soon as they are able.  It’s not new to human history; Micah
wrote 2700 years ago.  But again, we fall for it by our ignorance of
history, by not recognizing the signs before it is too late.  

Do we want freedom?  “Only virtuous people are capable of
freedom.  As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more
need of masters” (Benjamin Franklin).  But again, herein lies the
problem.  The Left doesn’t want you to be free.  They want power over
you.  If what I have recorded in this article, and so many others I have
written, isn’t proof of that, then nothing can ever be satisfactorily
proven.  Licentiousness is the Democratic Party’s road in America to
totalitarian power.  As old Ben said, “As nations become more corrupt
and vicious, they have more need of masters.”  That is EXACTLY what the
Democratic Party is building its power base upon—an increasingly
decadent, degenerate, licentious society.  They call it “democracy.”
 They call it “freedom.”  It may be the former because the American
people are voting for it, putting Democrats in office.  It will,
however, end in totalitarianism as more and more government becomes
necessary to control this uncontrolled “freedom.”  When we ignore
virtue, we eventually get masters.

Franklin knew it 200+ years ago.  When will we learn?