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Glenn Beck on Che Guevara
Series on young people’s attitudes towards Socialism and Communism part 2
Gene Lyons in his article “The GOP’s bait-and-switch game, Strategy: Prey on fear, promise a return to fiscal conservatism, rake in donations, don’t follow through,” asserts, “Socialism? When it comes to economics, today’s GOP has nothing to advocate except the very policies that got us into this mess to begin with. They’re simply trying to trick tea party activists into believing that this time, Republicans will deliver the fiscal conservatism they always advocate but haven’t delivered since Herbert Hoover.”
I have to agree that there have been many times in the past that the Republicans have been guilty of supporting socialist policies. It is my hope now that they really mean it when they say they will cut the budget and reduce the size of government.
Socialism and Communism are appealing in many ways and they lure many people in with all of their lofty goals. My son Hunter told me that there is a popular shirt being sold all through the USA with the picture of Che Guevara on it because the musical group “Race against the Machine” has made this shirt “cool” to wear.
Bradley Gitz had an excellent article “Socialist Comeback,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 30, 2011 provides some more insight into what is going on with this. Here is what he had to say:
The left today benefits from a form of historical amnesia as well. The young people who go about wearing Che Guevara T-shirts know virtually nothing about Stalinism, the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge or conditions inside the Soviet Union under what Leonid Brezhnev called “real existing socialism”-or Guevara’s murderous record either, for that matter.
Young people want to have liberty and rights, and people like Marx use talk of this future utopia when everyone will share and share alike, but what actually happens under Communism is much uglier.
Hugo Chavez’ inspirational debt to Ernesto “Che” Guevara is such that he titled his regime’s socio-economic model, “Mision Che Guevara.” Don’t look for much of this in the MSM–but as I write Venezuela’s youth are hitting the streets in the tens of thousands and with raised fists–AGAINST Castro/Che brand- socialism (having gotten a taste.)
In response, Chavez’ police and brownshirt goon-squads (some mimicking their national leader by wearing Che T-shirts) bludgeon, tear gas, shoot and arrest hundreds of rebellious Venezuelan youth.
In fact, nothing could be more fitting. In a famous speech in 1961 Che Guevara denounced the very “spirit of rebellion” as “reprehensible.” “Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates” commanded Guevara. “Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service.”
Youth, wrote Guevara, “should learn to think and act as a mass.” Those who “chose their own path” (as in growing long hair and listening to Yankee-Imperialist Rock & Roll) were denounced as “delinquents.” In his famous speech Che Guevara even vowed, “to make individualism disappear from Cuba! It is criminal to think of individuals!” he raved.
Socialists and Communists want to make to take from the rich and give to the poor. However, if the government forces this to occur then the results are rarely what was expected. The best form of government ever created to help reduce poverty is the free market system. Many young people after they leave the confines of the University and spend time out in the world usually come to more conservative political views over time. They will at least see that Che Guevara is not advocate of their individual liberties.
A few years ago in a Vibe magazine interview Depp proclaimed his “digging” of Che Guevara. As a rocker-hipster fan of Che Guevara Johnny Depp has plenty of company.
Humberto Fontova on Che Guevara part 1
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