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I wrote this back on Oct. 14, 2015. If Trump would not have won the election, we would now be living in misery, communism, and not free, or fighting a civil war.

If he loses this election, then the same thing is going to happen.

The leftist's agenda hasn't changed, and they have increased the intensity of their attacks on all the values that makes this country the best in the world. Control the media, create chaos, blame, obstruct and lie about the sitting president. If they get their way, we will become a communist third world land and no, we have no bananas, just political morons and those that vote for them.

Watched the so called democratic "debate" last night and I wasted two and a half hours of my life, although it cured my insomnia.

As a refugee and immigrant to this country, I was taught to work hard and contribute to the greatest country in the world. We did not expect or let the government take care of us. We did not demand that everything be printed in our native language. We knew that through the generosity of the American people, we could live in freedom and we had to embrace the culture, the language, and the Constitution. The American Dream was something that was (and still is) attainable through hard work, not something that was handed down because everyone is entitled to it. I watched these buffoons and they made The Three Stooges look like members of Mensa International.

"Black lives matter " not "all lives matter"? So, do we need to pull out all of our courageous African American men and women who serve and police our country and just let other races handle the dangerous job because they (other races) don't matter? We were all created by one God and everyone matters! Talk about political pandering by five rich white people.

The biggest threat to our security is Global Warming! Stupid humans had to inhabit this planet and create global warming! Don't worry about all those Muslim extremists and other evil people that want to kill us. We need to open our borders and let them in. After all, the only lives that matter are black! I think the biggest threat to our security is electing one of these five. More political pandering.

Free college for everyone, we will let the rich and the 1% (a group that all 5 belong to) pay for it! So, then we will have the highest unemployment rate of educated people in the world. Oh wait, a lot won't bother to graduate, since it won't cost them anything. Man, we got screwed, we had to pay for ours, and my sons had to go to war to get the G.I. bill to pay for theirs. We even have to pay for our cell phones! More political pandering.

Raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, then our paramedics in Madison County can get a big raise by going to work at McDonalds! A Big Mac will now cost $18.99, but your order will be correct. More political pandering. Starting to see a pattern here?

Mandatory paid leave time, so you can hop from job to job and collect a paycheck for not being there. Never mind that your employer will soon go bankrupt. We will make the rich and 1% pay for being successful!

And when the rich go broke, who is going to pay for this?

Create jobs by rebuilding infrastructure? Remember Obama's stimulus package? Trillions spent and the roads in the city of Madison make your teeth chatter when you drive over them, but I-10 gets paved every couple of years, need it or not?

And do these men really want to be POTUS? They had a chance to go after Hellary on Benghazi and her emails but chose not to discuss this. Perhaps they are scared after what happens to anyone that crosses the Clintons. Its all the N.R.A's fault! And Hellary deserves to be POTUS because she is a woman! And no more wars. The world loves us and will let us live in peace, and we don't have to read anything we vote on!

Now I have friends that support the democratic agenda and that is their right, and this is not meant to offend anyone. Having lost my birth country to socialists who later embraced communism and destroyed freedom and the country, I am Blessed to live in a country that allows me to express my opinion and where my life matters.

Juan Botino

Recently I celebrated my 59th Thanksgiving, having arrived at the greatest country ever in 1961. I am grateful to all Americans, the most generous people in the world. I have friends on the opposite side of me politically. I still love them and respect them, just like I love my friends that practice a different denomination. After all, this would not be America if we did not allow free thinking and individual freedom. We were all created by one God and we will all one day die and be judged by Him.

My wish is that while we are on this journey called life, we could all get along, respect each other, and have civil discussions. My views are mine, based on my experiences as a young child growing up in communist Cuba. I never want my or your children and grandchildren to experience what I did.

Many brave men and women have sacrificed so that we can continue to live in freedom. Unfortunately, there are those that advocate for socialism and communism. I strongly oppose those ideals.

I'm not willing to give up my right to worship my God again. I'm not willing to give up my right to own a weapon to defend myself and my family again or to be told what I'm allowed to own. I'm not willing to go hungry again or to be told where I can go, what job I'm going to do, what I can study, what I'm allowed to say, and what I'm allowed to read.

Being humans, we will never be perfect, and there is always room for improvement...our country is not perfect, but it is the best there is. It offers hope, success for those willing to work for it, and most of all, freedom to be ourselves. May God continue to Bless America the land that I love.

Juan Botino

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I'm not willing to give up - ECB Publishing

By Nikos Mottas.

On November 3rd, the people of the United States of America will vote for the new President and vice president of the country. The two major contestants, current President Donald Trump and the Democratic nominee Joe Biden, are the two sides of the same coin. It is an undeniable truth that they both express the general strategic interests of the U.S. monopoly capital.

The differences in the political proposals between Trump and Biden reflect the sharpening of the competition between different sections of the U.S. capital. Indeed, a look at the top donors of the two presidential campaigns is indicative of the fierce rivalry that is taking place in the backstage between large monopoly groups.

Indeed, Trump and Biden, the Republicans and the Democrats, may have different political recipes and approaches in a series of issues. Trump, for example, stands as a defender of oil and gas industry, while Biden supports the so-called green development through the Renewable Energy Sources. They compete with each other on who is more capable on bringing the country out of the economic crisis and bring more development. But, in the end of the day, they hide that the economic development they pledge will benefit the big capital and the upper classes not the workers and the poor masses.

When it comes to the pandemic, Biden blames Trump for the disastrous management of the situation and Trump blames... China. But, actually, none of the two candidates speaks about the commercialized healthcare system which is based on the cost-profit formula. None of the two speaks about the exploitation of the pandemic by large private health business groups which rushed to take advantage from the absence of a free and universal healthcare system in order to boost their profits.

All those who detest Trump's far-right, hate mongering, nationalist-populist rhetoric must not fall victims of Biden's softly-spoken outwardly progressive words. Do not forget the example of Barack Obama, who campaigned and became President with populace-pleasing progressive slogans and seductive rhetoric but governed according to the interests of the capitalists, the big monopoly groups and the standards of imperialist military institutions.

Writing about the 1912 U.S Presidential Elections, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was pointing out the diminishing distinction between the Democrats and the Republicans. Their fight has not had any serious importance for the mass of the people. The people have been deceived and diverted from their vital interests by means of spectacular and meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties, Lenin was stressing out in a text that could have been written today.

The millions of working class families in the U.S. must reject this single Property Party of the capitalists. Neither Trump, nor Biden will ever defend and promote the interests of the workers.

Being in its highest, imperialist stage, capitalism can offer nothing but misery, poverty, unemployment, deepening of social inequalities, wars and refugee crises. The real change for the people of the U.S. will not come from political messiahs or reformist social democrats, such as Bernie Sanders, who spread illusions about the supposed humanization of capitalism.

What is truly needed is a revolutionary Communist Party, based on marxist-leninist principles, which can lead the struggle of the country's working class towards the socialist transformation of society. So that the American people will become masters of their own destiny, owners of their own wealth, in a society without exploitation of man by man.

* Nikos Mottas is the Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism.

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In Defense of Communism: US Election 2020: Neither Trump nor Biden! - In Defense of Communism

Statement by the European Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties on the new outbreak of the pandemic:

The new outbreak of the pandemic throughout Europe is a reality that did not come out of thin air. The claims of the bourgeois governments that they took measures and shielded the public health systems after the first wave of the pandemic, as well as that in the course of the pandemic the EU wised up and stands in solidarity with the peoples, are myths.

Following the new wave of the pandemic, all these claims are day by day revealed and bankrupt. The increase in deaths, cases, and intubated patients reveals the responsibility of the EU and the government directions over time, which left the public health systems destitute of staff, infrastructure, ICUs, reagents, and tests.

These huge shortcomings pave the way for the private health business groups that rush to take advantage of the peoples' concern and illness to gain profits. Because they are the ones who profit from their golden partnerships with public institutions but also charge the workers for tests and treatments for the virus or other diseases and illnesses, which, regardless of the pandemic, require examination, treatments, and surgeries that the one disease hospitals of the public health system cannot cope with.

Governments and big employers have enormous responsibilities for the deficient protocols in accordance with the priorities of the big capital, the lack of essential measures of protection for the workers at the workplaces, the perpetuation of problems at elderly care centers, the miserable conditions in the refugees - immigrants structures, the schools, the means of transportation, etc.

While exploitation continues at all levels; it is unacceptable that education, struggle for rights, political and cultural life are restricted based in the name of the pandemic.

7 months have passed since the outbreak of the pandemic and they still have done nothing about the substantial strengthening of the public health system and the real addressing of the huge shortages formed by the commercialization, under-funding, and under-staffing policy that the governments and the EU followed. Based on the same criterion, that is the cost-profit, they also left schools unprotected. They provocatively tried to blame the people in the name of individual responsibility in order to justify their anti-popular policy and enormous responsibilities.

Conspiracy theories are a useful supplement to the anti-popular policy. At a time when the distrust of the bourgeois state and its staffs is justifiably growing and the pandemic reveals the criminal inadequacy of health systems in all capitalist states, it is indeed a great service to the system to entrap the people in a debate about accepting or denying the use of masks or about the existence of the virus.

In the face of this policy, the developments affirm the need to further strengthen the struggle of the peoples for exclusively public - free health systems and all the necessary measures for protecting their health and life.

For the strengthening of the public health system with full financing, massive recruits of permanent doctors and nurses, contemporary equipment, and requisition of private health structures. For immediate measures at workplaces, schools, means of transport, and generally everywhere!

The degradation that forces the doctors to choose over who will live and who will die, leads the nurses to wear plastic bags to protect themselves and the general situation that affects the health and life of the peoples reveal that the real virus and visible enemy is capitalism itself.

The example of Cuba, as well as the valuable and generous contribution of its militant doctors, are indicative and exposethe capitalist barbarity we live in. The promotion of the superiority of socialism is more timely and necessary, as its achievements in health-care, education, work, and popular rights are light years away from the capitalist jungle. It is the world worth fighting for in order for the people to satisfy their contemporary needs.

European Communist Initiative23/10/2020.

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European Communist Initiative: The pandemic reveals the criminal inadequacy of health systems in all capitalist states - In Defense of Communism

To the Editor:

The Westerlo Republican Committee is proud and honored to endorse, support, and stand behind candidates Liz Joy for Congress in New Yorks 20th District, Chris Tague for New York Assembly in the 102nd District, and Rich Amedure for New York Senate in the 46th District.

These three candidates epitomize what America really stands for and we have nothing but the utmost confidence that all three of them uphold the Constitution as written by our Founding Fathers. This election is about more than just people it is about America; your God-given rights; and freedom or socialism, communism, and oppression. These candidates will fight for whats right for their constituents.

Unlike their counterparts, they support law and order. Most of their counterparts embrace criminals; disrespect our police; and support violence, rioting, and looting. These candidates will work toward repealing bail reform, fully funding police, and legislation that will aid in School Resource Officers to protect school children. They support the safety and security of all residents of this country. They want safer communities for everyone. They support life from the unborn through the elderly.

They support businesses and will support legislation, initiatives, and funding that will help grow businesses and that includes farmers in the rural areas. They support the way of American life, which means our economy and the freedom to run a business; the freedom to earn your own money; the freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone!

They are not in favor of raising taxes. New York has a spending problem and they will work toward eliminating the wasteful spending of billions of dollars. Lowering our property taxes and providing homeowners with relief by restoring the STAR [School Tax Relief] rebate check program is another area of support to help stimulate the New York State economy and make living in upstate New York more affordable.

They are in favor of health care and that means being able to choose your own insurance. That means being able to have your own doctors of your own choosing. That means being able to take care of yourself and make your own choices for health care.

What they do not support is an eroding of our freedoms and our American way of life. They do not support the dismantling of our Constitution. They do not support rewriting our Bill of Rights.

They will be representatives of the people, not politicians. Politicians are influenced by money and power. These candidates are influenced by only the Constitution and whats in the best interest of all Americans.

They will represent the constituents in the districts they are elected to represent, bringing a real voice for our upstate communities, fighting for what is best for us. What works downstate is not always what is best for upstate.

For those reasons and so many more, the Westerlo Republican Committee is honored and privileged to be able to support these candidates and we encourage all of those in their respective voting districts to vote Liz Joy for Congress, Chris Tague for New York State Assembly, and Rich Amedure for New York State Senate.

After all, your freedom depends on it.

God Bless America!

Lisa DeGroff

Chairwoman

Westerlo

Republican Committee

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Joy, Tague, and Amedure represent freedom for their constituents - The Altamont Enterprise

In 2016, University of Miami political scientist Joseph Uscinski tried to imagine a conspiracy theorist as president, someone sitting at the most powerful desk in the world, complete with the codes to a nuclear arsenal. By the time Uscinski put his thoughts in writing, Donald Trump was the front-runner in the Republican primary. Trump the candidate had already said refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war could bea secret terrorist army. Hed already claimed there was a link betweenautism and vaccines. And hed even hinted that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia might have been suffocated by a pillow. While Trump hadnt yet accused his opponents father of being connected to the JFK assassination, Uscinski had already got the idea: This isnt good.

Since his election, Trump has continued to plug conspiracy theories, claiming, for instance, that the 2020 presidential election is rigged and that his opponents are criminals. He has even dipped his toes into the murky waters of QAnonthe bizarre theory that prominent elites like Hillary Clinton not only run the world, but have also found the time to operate a Satan-worshiping pedophilia ring. Earlier this month, Trump retweeted an unhinged conspiracy theory about former Vice President Joe Biden baselessly asserted by an account linked to QAnon.

Trump, like no other president in recent memory, is a card-carrying conspiracy theorist. Theres no reason for people to act shocked, Uscinski said. Where the f have you been for 10 years?

But questions remain: Whats in it for a sitting president, the keeper of the flame of 231 years of American democracy, to signal-boost some of the worst bilge sloshing around the internet?

QAnon is not popular; until recently, it was barely known.

A recent Pew Research Center poll found that about 50 percent of the public has heard of the theory. While that figure is up from roughly 25 percent earlier in the year, among those whove heard of QAnon, three quarters view it negatively. In his surveys, Uscinski has found people rank QAnon in the low 20s on a 101-point scale of favorability, a poor showing.

Barring the possibility that Trump actually believes QAnons plotlinehes passed up big moments to disavow itUscinski points to a possible rationale for the presidents embrace of conspiracy theories.

QAnon believers are smack-dab in the middle of Trumps target constituency of conspiracy-minded people who dont like the establishment, Uscinski said. In 2016, Trump famously told the audience tuned into the Republican Convention in Cleveland, I alone can fix it. Trump is still running as an outsider facing off against a corrupt political class, this time as the incumbent.

What hes doing is continuing to reach out to these conspiracy-minded constituencies, Uscinski said. And even though QAnon might be relatively small, he feels like hes not going to pay a price for reaching out publicly.

Despite QAnons small following, political scientists like Uscinski think conspiracy theory belief is exceedingly common. Everyone, he said, believes in at least one.

Eric Oliver, a University of Chicago political scientist, has conducted public opinion surveys for the past 15 years on conspiracy theories. In the surveys, he asks people whether they believe in theories like the one about vapor trails behind airplanes being evidence of a secret government spraying campaign or another about the US Food and Drug Administration withholding knowledge about natural cures for cancer. About half the public believes in at least one of the six or seven theories he asks about, Oliver said.

That leads me to believe that that kind of conspiratorial ethic, that way of understanding or deciphering political information by using reference to a conspiracy theory, is pretty common, he said.

In a famous piece in Harpers Magazine, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in 1964 about how a sense of loss undergirds political conspiracy theory. Although Hofstadter said that the political style of mind that saw vast conspiracies everywhere wasnt necessarily right wing, he paid special attention to the rhetoric of the anti-communist right. The modern right wing, he wrote, believed America has been largely taken away from them and their kind.

Conspiracy theories often emanate from the losing side in political struggles. In one study, Uscinski and a colleague surveyed 120,000 published letters written to the editors of major newspapers dating back to at least the 1890s. When a Republican was in the White House, 16 percent of letters that promoted a conspiracy theory focused on right-wing conspiracies. When a Democrat was in power, that figure dropped to 5 percent. The numbers were essentially reversed when it came to letters alleging a left-wing conspiracy. The general pattern, Uscinski wrote in his 2016 article, is that the out-of-power party accuses the in-power party of conspiring.

For much of his term, however, Trump and his side have been the winners on the political battlefield. Hes the sitting president, after all, and Republicans have controlled the Senate for Trumps entire term and the House of Representatives for half of it.

Despite this strong political position, Trump often paints a grim picture for his supporters.

As we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, he told a crowd at a July 4th celebration. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.

In Trumps telling, his supporters are under threatat constant risk of losing a great deal. A left-wing cultural revolution had overtaken the countrys schools, the news media, and the summers racial justice protest marches. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished.

Conspiracy theories have cast a shadow over American politics, since almost the beginning, Ray Smock, a former historian for the US House of Representatives, said. In the middle of the 19th Century, for instance, the American Party, known for its ferocious xenophobia and for its anti-Catholic conspiracy theories, once held more than 100 seats in Congress. The party sprung from the members of secretive nativist organizations who were known for saying they know nothing whenever they were asked about their groups.

A hundred years later, the countrygrappling with the advent of a nuclear weapons arms race with the Soviet Unionwas in the throes of Cold War anti-communist hysteria, an era partly personified by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican. McCarthy rose to fame after a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1950 in which he claimed to have the names of 205 communists in the US State Department. The conspiracy theory about communist infiltration touched a nerve with an anxious public.

We were entering the nuclear age; 1945 was the first time anybody had heard of an atomic weapon, Smock said. By 1950, everybody was scared to death that these things could annihilate the worldand the Soviet Union had them.

McCarthy, of course, became known for the congressional hearings he staged in order to ferret out supposed communists. There in fact were communists in government, but not in the kind of numbers McCarthy touted, Smock said. He never discovered any communists in government, even though there probably were some. But he had created this hysterical movement that did damage lives.

McCarthy as a political phenomenon didnt last long. After he tried to expose communism in the military, the public turned on the senator. He died in 1957. But the hysteria he helped fuel, in part through conspiracy theories, lived on.

I would argue that McCarthy and many others were responsible for a great influence, an unfortunate influence, Smock said. The paranoia became so pervasive you could not hardly run for office unless you had expressed anti-communist views. In those days, if you even suggested that well maybe the Soviet Union had its good points or maybe we shouldnt be so worried about the Soviet Union, you were called a comsymp, a communist sympathizer.

The fear of communism affected both parties. President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, bought into the Domino Theory that if we didnt fight the communists in Asia wed be fighting them in California. Smock said. The whole Vietnam era is sort of the ultimate expression of anti-communist fear.

Its hard to say the Red Scare period was marked by a particular prevalence of conspiracy theory belief. Historical accounts of the McCarthy era or of other conspiratorial times are episodic snapshots, Uscinski said, and not surveys that measure how public opinion changes over time. I dont think that the 50s were some special time for this, in general, he said

In his 2016 article, Uscinksi wrote that conspiracy theories are often benign and their targets usually powerful and well protected. But conspiracy narratives can become more dangerous, the political scientist wrote, when the government employs them against the vulnerable. While the prevalence of conspiracy theory belief isnt on a dramatic upswing, thats not a reason to shrug our shoulders and move on.

Beliefs drive actions, Uscinski said. And if beliefs are not tethered to our shared reality, the actions can be very dangerous. People who believe vaccines are a scam probably wont get vaccinated, potentially fueling outbreaks of infectious diseases. People who think immigrants are part of a murderous plot might take some kind of action against them.

Trump is exploiting the same persistent level of conspiracy theory belief that McCarthy did before him, Uscinksi said: Its there for anyone who wants to grab it.

Most Republicans and Democrats dont, he said. Trump, of course, isnt like most Republicans or Democrats.

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As election looms, Trump adds to the long story of conspiracy theory in US politics - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists