Thornton Blackmore
While ushering in the Red Dawn downunder, the Prime Minister has sought to market her economic destruction of the nation on the basis of “kindness”.
But genuine aroha is self-evident and defies imitation by even the shrewdest of politicians sporting an armament of public relations muscle, limitless funding and legions of sold-out sycophants who continue to masquerade themselves as the Fourth Estate.
Indeed, with significant economic hardship looming on the horizon, we must consider whether the Prime Minister, who was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth in 2008, is even halfway serious about rebuilding our free-market economy.
Mike Hosking has described Ardern’s handling of the pandemic as a “socialist type power grab designed to sure-up votes driven by fear, topped up with extraordinary amounts of money we don’t have”.
At its core, socialism (which is intended by Marxists to be a precursor to the communist utopia of the proletariat) seeks to limit the private sector, while centralising the means of production, distribution and exchange under state ownership or control.
This invites a whole new meaning to the classification of businesses as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’ during the lockdowns.
As National Party MP Chris Penk has written in his book titled “Flattening the Country”, “the line in the sand should have been drawn to keep clear the ‘safe’ from the ‘unsafe’ from the very first day of Alert Level 4”.
Massey University senior lecturer and columnist Steve Elers recently commented regarding minutes recorded during a 2009 meeting of the International Union of Socialist Youth, which was presided over by Ardern in the wake of the global financial crisis, “So, what ‘progressive answers to the financial crisis’ did Ardern and her comrades come up with? Did they propose ideas that would stimulate the economy so businesses could thrive thereby creating job opportunities?
“Not quite. Instead, Ardern and her comrades stated: ‘Redistribution will lead to more financial stability and justice. As IUSY we struggle for redistribution between the north and the south and for redistribution between the poor and the rich, because we believe in equality and justice.’”
In reality, while Marxist notions such as wealth equality, communitarianism and public ownership may sound idealistic in theory, a long history of failed socialist states tells us otherwise.
While addressing the UN General Assembly regarding Venezuela in 2018, US President Donald Trump stated that “Virtually everywhere socialism or communism has been tried, it has produced suffering, corruption and decay. Socialism’s thirst for power leads to expansion, incursion and oppression. All nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone.”
Yet despite what we learn about Marxist ideologies from the blood-stained pages of history, the motto of the International Union of Socialist Youth continues to be, “All over the world to change it!”
Former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov, who defected from the USSR in 1970, explained in an interview in the mid-eighties with G Edward Griffin, how a socialist subversion takes place.
Bezmenov explained to viewers, “It’s a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow, and is divided into four basic stages”.
Stage 1 – Demoralisation:
“It takes from fifteen to twenty years to demoralise a nation,” and “this is the minimum number of years which requires (sic) to educate one generation of students”.
“Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged”.
“Exposure to true information does not matter anymore, a person who is demoralised is unable to assess true information, the facts tell nothing to him”.
“Even if I shower him with information with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures – even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom”.
Stage 2 – Destabilisation:
“It takes only from two to five years to destabilise a nation,” and that “what matters is essentials – economy, foreign relations, defence systems”.
“In such sensitive areas as defence and economy, the influence of Marxist-Lenninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic”.
Stage 3 – Crisis:
“It may take only up to six weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis”.
Stage 4 – Normalisation:
“After crisis, with a violent change of power, structure and economy, you have so-called the period of normalisation – it may last indefinitely”.
“This is what will happen in United States if you allow all these schmucks to bring the country to crisis”.
“Your leftists in United States, all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders, they are instrumental in the process of the subversion, only to destabilise the nation – when their job is completed, they are not needed anymore, they know too much”.
Blogger Martyn Bradbury is one such ‘useful idiot’ of the far-left, who recently wrote,
“let’s just dump the whole free market neoliberal bullshit shall we?” … “It’s not ‘Socialism for Stealth’ if the entire country is screaming for it.”
Bradbury has also opined that, “2023 is our date for Fortress Aotearoa comrades.”
With Marxist radicals tearing down statues and rioting in the streets in the United States, with far-left politicians terrorising their constituents down-under, and with China beating the drums of war could we be waking up to our very own Red Dawn?
It is important to understand that the New Zealand Labour Party of today no longer represents their heritage of working-class representation. Indeed, the socialist infiltration of the New Zealand Labour Party has occurred in much the same way that the Democratic Socialists of America (the largest socialist organisation in the United States) operate within the host of the Democratic Party, rather than forming a separate Socialist Party of their own.
In this regard, it is evident that the Democratic candidacy standing at this year’s US Presidential election is very much the socialist parasite within the host body of the party. The same may be said in the case of Ardern’s Labour-led coalition government here in New Zealand.
Indeed, as the nation picks its teeth out of the gutter after the government’s response to a pandemic, that in hindsight was not the threat we all believed it to be, there is one question that must now be asked…
Will we accept the ‘new normal’?
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