Cold War Parallels Within Obama’s America? (by ContraSuggest)

There are some obvious differences between the plight of constitutional conservatives fighting for freedom in the new USSA (Union of Socialist States of America), and those that fought for their freedoms during the Cold War in the captive Warsaw Pact nations of the USSR.  Yet there are many more notable similarities, and we can learn much in how to combat the evils of statism within our country, from studying the strategies employed by the anti-Soviet forces at the tail end of the last century. 

There is a distinction between hard tyranny (the kind imposed by the Soviets), and soft tyranny (the kind imposed by American statists, led by President Obama).  The former impute laws and rules that, above all else, require total obedience to a centralized government authority; ultimately enforceable by violent, jack-boot police and military tactics.  The latter, excluding the overt violence, cloaks itself in existing law and tradition (while at the same time violating them at every turn), offering up counterfeit panaceas; ultimately eroding our rights and freedoms through attrition.  The great danger of soft tyranny is that it will always yield to hard tyranny, unless derailed in its formative stages.  That hideous transformation is taking place right before the eyes of any American still paying attention.  That’s why it’s essential, despite our monumental setbacks that we fight against the statists at all costs.

During the dark days of the Cold War there were many notable civil protests and political movements from inside the Soviet prison house of nations that began to seriously challenge the opressive authority of the Soviet Empire.  Many of these protest movements were supported from without by the anti-Soviet strategies employed by NATO under US leadership.  The events that took place in East Germany in 1953, in Hungary (a great student protest) and Poland in 1956, the so-called Spring of Prague in Czechoslovakia in 1968 (during which time large groups of young men rose up to reform the Soviet-imposed system), and the Solidarity Movement in Poland thru the 1980s (an anti-Soviet labor movement), were watershed events in the slow death of the Soviet Empire, even though they were often answered with bloody crackdowns that tragically killed tens of thousands.  In the present day USSA we see first and second amendment violations being enshrined in law, the continued death march of abortion rights, and the continued collectivization of the economy, which are clearly the beginning of a systemic attack on our constitutional liberties that, if allowed to stand, can only end in abject tyranny.  We had all better wake up and start playing hardball now, if we do not, there will most certainly be blood in the streets in a few short years.   

Some of the former United States of America can continue to be effective incubators for movements (similar to those during the Cold War mentioned above) against Obama’s secular-socialist machine.  But we still face the same old problem: we have no leaders emerging that can effectively spearhead the fight.  The knockout blow against the Soviets during the last decade of the Cold War was delivered by Ronald Reagan, blessed Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher.  Three titans of history, who despite their relative differences, concentrated their moral authority and formidable political and rhetorical firepower against the bane of Soviet Communism.  Those three legends, and the loyal people who worked for and supported them, won the Cold War.  Where are such people now?  Not all Americans are stupid; if we properly explain the present dangers, there are those who will respond.  But who will rally them?  In too many ways the former United States have become a microcosm of the old Warsaw Pact nations; they’re becoming enslaved to the will of a malevolent central authority that is determined to erase our liberties.  America was the leader in defeating the communism that pledged to bury it; who will now save Amerika from the forces that would bury it from within?