Venezuela Timeline to Marxism

By Robin Itzler

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Decades ago, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) leader Alexander Trachtenberg (1884 - 1966) wrote to fellow CPUSA activist Bella Dodd (1904 - 1969) that:

“when communism came to America, it would come under the label of ‘progressive democracy.’ Today, the Democrat party uses the term “democratic socialism.”

Several days before his 2009 inauguration Barack Obama declared:

“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Today, Obama plays golf with former presidents Bill Clinton (Democrat) and George W. Bush (Republican). The happy threesome is united in their desire to stop the America First movement. And what do America First Patriots want to stop? We want to stop America’s march toward communism/socialism/Marxism (whatever you want to call the destruction of our Constitutional Republic).

If you think “it” can’t happen here, put down your remote and consider how much has changed in our once great nation in less than four years of the damaging Harris/Biden administration. Didn’t you just see the coup that ousted Joe Biden, who won 14+ MILLION primary votes, and give it to a cackling’ ignoramus who never won a single primary vote?

Look how fast it happened in Venezuela:

1992 - Venezuela became third richest nation in Hemisphere
1997 - Venezuela became second largest purchaser of F-150
2001 - Venezuela voted for a Socialist president—“Income Inequality”
2004 - Venezuela’s private healthcare is completely socialized
2007 - Venezuela’s higher education becomes free to all citizens
2009 - Venezuela’s socialist government bans private ownership of guns
2012 - Vermont’s Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders praises Venezuela’s version of the “American Dream”
2014 - Venezuela’s opposition leaders are imprisoned
2016 - Food and healthcare shortages in Venezuela become widespread
2017 - Venezuela suspends its Constitution and elections are suspended
2019 - Unarmed citizens are massacred by the Venezuelan government

In recent weeks, we have witnessed Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro steal the July 28 presidential election, as his government-controlled National Electorate Council announced that Maduro had won reelection with almost 52% of the vote. (Just like Joe Biden won with 81 million votes.)

It didn’t take long before the Venezuelan government started arresting protesting citizens (just like January 6). And seek the arrest of his leading opponent María Corina Machado (just like lawfare against Donald Trump). Pictured: A small Venezuelan grocer—before and after socialism.

On August 16, Kamala Harris endorsed PRICE CONTROLS to reduce inflation. (Hellooo Kamala, you are already in office and can do something NOW to reduce the inflation that you and Joey caused!) Let’s see who else embraced price controls:

Soviet Union’s Stalin … millions starved to death
Cuba’s Fidel Castro … millions starved to death
Communist China’s Mao …. millions starved to death
Maduro’s Venezuela … millions are starving to death

Ronald Reagan warned us:

“Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It’s not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”