How One California Marxist Is Indoctrinating Millions of School Children
August 22, 2019 Updated: August 22, 2019
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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is coming for your children.
Not content with taking over school boards and sending comrades into the teaching profession, the United States’ largest Marxist group is also writing the textbooks your children study.
California DSA member Duane Campbell helped write the new History-Social Science Framework for the state, which was adopted in 2017. Sacramento-based Campbell, a DSA comrade since at least 1983, is an emeritus professor of bilingual/multicultural education at California State University–Sacramento and former chair of the Sacramento DSA. He is also the author of “Choosing Democracy: A Practical Guide to Multicultural Education.”
According to Campbell, “Because of California’s large size and market, what goes into California textbooks frequently also gets written into textbooks around the nation.”
In the mid-1990s, Campbell was a contributing editor to Oakland-based Maoist-leaning CrossRoads magazine, which sought to “promote dialogue and build new alliances among progressives and leftists … to bring diverse Marxist and socialist traditions to bear, while exploring new strategies and directions for the progressive political movements.”
In the mid-2000s, Campbell was a contributor to a Bay Area socialist blog called Educational Justice, described as being “from a collective of progressive education activists—stuff about teaching, thinking, parenting, social justice, desegregation, self-determination, economic justice, music, creativity, and building progressive movements for our future.”
Other contributors included Tom Edminster, a teacher’s unionist and DSA member; Karen Zapata of Teachers 4 Social Justice; and Eric Mar, a Freedom Road Socialist Organization supporter and, like Campbell, a member of Progressives for Obama.
As a young man, Campbell was one of several communist or socialist organizers with Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers union, an experience he now wants to impart to America’s youth.
Campbell has served on DSA’s leadership body, the National Political Committee, and has also served on the DSA’s Latino Commission and Anti-Racism Commission. In 2017, Campbell was co-chair of the DSA Immigrant’s Rights Committee. Campbell is steeped in Marxist racial politics.
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The DSA’s interest in education is completely political. Inspired by Italian Communist Party theoretician Antonio Gramsci, DSA seeks to infiltrate U.S. society’s main opinion-forming institutions to change the popular consciousness in a socialist direction. In the more short-term, DSA is committed to both expanding the Latino vote and pushing it to the left to give its allies in the Democratic Party an unchallengeable majority in national elections.
Campbell’s DSA comrade, Eliseo Medina, was also active in the United Farm Workers union under Chavez. Medina transferred to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), rising to executive vice president. As one of the most influential advocates for amnesty for illegal immigrants in the country, Medina served as an informal immigration adviser to then-President Barack Obama.
When Obama was still a senator, he
declared at a campaign stop while
addressing SEIU, “Before immigration
debates took place in Washington, I
spoke with Eliseo Medina and SEIU
members.”
At the America’s Future Now! conference in Washington on June 2, 2009, Medina addressed attendees on the necessity of “comprehensive immigration reform.”
Speaking of Latino voters, Medina explained their importance to the socialist project:
“When they voted in November, they voted overwhelmingly for progressive candidates. Barack Obama got two out of every three voters that showed up.
“So I think there’s two things that matter for the progressive community:
“Number one: If we are to expand this electorate to win, the progressive community needs to solidly be on the side of immigrants. That will expand and solidify the progressive coalition for the future. …
“Number two: [If] we reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. Can you imagine if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three?
“If we have eight million new voters … [we] will create a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle.”
Campbell wants to use his influence on the education system to play his part in DSA’s revolutionary program.
Educational Change
In the early 2010s, Campbell set up a network to change the California history and social studies textbooks, which had mainly been written by objective historians appointed by Gov. Ronald Reagan.
Wrote Campbell:
“I have spent more than six years working on this project—and it was well worth it. The important changes we achieved were produced by years of collective advocacy, lobbying, letter writing, and organizing. After being blocked in our efforts in 2008, we created the Mexican American Digital History site, then organized a statewide network of scholars and community activists to pressure the State Board of Education.
“At each stage, we had to explain why this tedious process of changing the Framework was important. We received assistance from civil rights groups and Latinos in the Democratic Party. Similar and parallel campaigns were organized within the Filipino, Hmong, South Asian, and LGBT communities.”
According to Campbell, this work will result in a new “progressive” path of learning for California’s school children:
“History and social science textbooks in public schools in California and most of the nation are racist, class-biased, and ignore LGBT history. This condition will change in California in 2017 when new textbooks are adopted.
“Under a unanimous decision by the California Board of Education made on July 14, 2016, California students will finally be encouraged to know the history of Latino civil rights leaders like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and Filipino labor leaders like Larry Itliong, as well as an accurate and inclusive history of LGBT activists as a part of the history of California and the nation. These topics are currently substantially absent from public school textbooks.”
That’s right—now young Californians can learn all about Campbell’s old boss Chavez, a man who trained for six years in Chicago with the father of “community organizing” himself: Saul Alinsky. They’ll also learn about Chavez’s right-hand woman Dolores Huerta, a longtime DSA comrade and general communist hang-around.
Chavez worked with a lot of Communist Party USA supporters, including Filipino labor organizer Larry Itliong—who will also be profiled in the new curriculum.
This is supposedly all about fairness and giving minorities equal treatment. Teaching kids about communists, it seems, will make them better students and more engaged citizens—especially the more than 1 in 10 students who Campbell claims are homosexual:
“In the current books … the 51 percent of students who are Latino, the 11.5 percent who are Asian, and the estimated 11 percent of students who are LGBT, do not see themselves as part of history, for many their sense of self is marginalized.
“As I argued in a prior book, marginalization negatively impacts their connections with school and their success at school. This has resulted in a nearly 50 percent dropout rate for Latinos and some Asian groups and LGBT students.”
Campbell then goes on to reel off a whole list of leftist individuals and the radical events they inspired, including the occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay by communist-inspired militants, the communist-inspired American Indian Movement and the standoff at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the Marxist-led La Raza Unida Party, and the communist-led Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War.
And, of course, the 11 percent of California’s children who are allegedly LGBT shouldn’t feel left out. Their far-left champions are profiled, too: “California activists like Harvey Milk and Cleve Jones were part of a broader movement that emerged in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots, which brought a new attention to the cause of equal rights for homosexual Americans.”
Coincidentally, these educational priorities may end up helping DSA’s revolutionary electoral strategy. According to Campbell:
“School marginalization also contributes directly to low-level civic engagement. An accurate history would provide some of these students with a sense of self, of direction, of purpose. History and social science classes should help young people acquire and learn to use the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that will prepare them to be competent and responsible citizens throughout their lives. …
“And, while California and the nation have a general problem with low civic engagement among young people, it is also true that the state has a very specific problem with the rate of Latino and Asian voter participation in civic life.
“Rates of voting and voter registration provide a window into civic engagement. The proportion of state voter registration that is Latino and Asian has remained far below the proportions of these groups in the state’s overall population. …
“We know that we can do better. California has the largest school population of any state, with more than 6,226,000 students in school in 2015, more than 11 percent of the United States total.”
So, not only will millions of California school children be moved to the left by Campbell’s pro-communist propaganda, but they will also likely vote in significantly higher numbers.
This will, of course, consolidate the left’s already iron-grip on California politics, but will likely affect other states as well.
One well-placed Marxist operative can negatively influence millions, even hundreds of millions, of people.
Every pro-American school board in the country should immediately review and probably ban all history and social studies textbooks coming out of California.
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Barack Obama Launches ‘Redistricting U’ Campaign for ‘Fair Maps’
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Former President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a new initiative to influence redistricting efforts across the United States.
The initiative, Redistricting U, will send activists to provide free training and tools to volunteers involved in redistricting efforts and guide groups on how to “be leaders in the movement for fair maps.”
“Training is at the heart of organizing. It’s why I’ve always made it a priority – from my 2008 campaign until now,” Obama wrote in a tweet announcing Redistricting U, which is part of the All On The Line campaign.
In February, Obama’s Organizing For Action and former Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Redistricting Action Fund joined forces to create the All On The Line campaign — aimed at thwarting the use of so-called gerrymandering across the country.
Training is at the heart of organizing. It’s why I’ve always made it a priority – from my 2008 campaign until now. And it’s why I’m proud to announce @allontheline’s in-person training initiative, Redistricting U. Join us: allontheline.org/redistrictingu
“The movement for fair maps will determine the course of progress on every issue we care about for the next decade,” Obama said. “And we can’t wait to begin organizing when the redistricting process starts in 2021. We need to build this movement from the ground up – right now.”
“The movement for fair maps will determine the course of progress on every issue we care about for the next decade. And we can’t wait to begin organizing when the redistricting process starts in 2021. We need to build this movement from the ground up — right now,” Obama said in a statement on the initiative’s website.
“It’s why I made it a priority in my 2008 campaign and throughout our larger movement for change in the years since,” the former president added.
The initiative is part of a larger push by the Obamas for voting reform. In 2018, former first lady Michelle Obama created the When We All Vote initiative aimed at increasing voter turnout across the country.
The
Left and the Democratic Party are now so committed to open borders and illegal
immigration that they cannot reverse course without a major upheaval within
their ranks. Do they really give a damn about the African American population,
native born or naturalized Hispanics, and the low-income white working
families? Or, are the potential votes of the illegal population more
important? With the spending plans outlined above how will they buy off
these groups as there will be no money or jobs? How will they avoid the
inevitable friction and potential hostility with so many in the marketplace and
a limited number of jobs in the low-income sector?
Can the Democratic Party Govern America?
I recently had a lunch meeting with a
client of 25 years who is a lifelong member and financial supporter of the
Democratic Party. While we managed to avoid politics as best we could,
the inevitable subject of Donald Trump and the Democratic presidential field
reared its head. Once my friend got past the usual left-wing
talking points about Trump, I asked him a simple question. Given the
current state of the American Left and their domination of the Democratic Party
would the Democrats be able to govern a nation of 330 million people the size
of the continent of Europe if they assumed all the reins of power in Washington
D.C.? I was met with a blank stare and a stammered “I really don’t know.”
So, for the benefit of my friend and
his fellow Democrats and leftists some further questions to help them answer
that fundamental inquiry.
This same cabal that would be charged
with governing the nation has, for the past three and a half years,
marginalized, physically confronted and repeatedly accused 63 million Americans
who voted for Donald Trump of being not only racists but fascists and white
supremacists, as well as homophobic, xenophobic and among the most vile people
on the face of the earth. What will be their intentions for these
rightfully incensed citizens? Ignore them and hope they go away (which
they will not)? Or succumb to their base in order to stay in power and
continue to vilify nearly half of the voters in 2020, thus potentially fomenting
serious ongoing confrontations and retaliation.
Over the years 154 million fundamentalist, evangelical or
Catholic Christians have been denigrated, mocked and pilloried for their
beliefs as religious liberty is under continual assault by the Left and the
Democratic Party. What can this segment of society look forward to under
a government committed to promoting unfettered abortion and infanticide as well
as a determination to purge society of its basic Judeo-Christian
foundation? It is almost certain that the hierarchy of the party, in
order to placate their base, will continue, by litigation, administrative
decrees, and intimidation, to force their secularism on the nation.
How will they respond to what will be increasing anger and resentment by
48% of the population?
In a nation of 330 million people
there will always be those who will commit mass murder. When and if the
current iteration of the Democratic Party takes over, these occurrences will
increase. The left has always blamed rhetoric and guns as the primary
causation. Thus, when mass murders occur, a Democratic Party in power
will have no choice but to appease their left-wing voters (the bulk of their
base) and continue to ignore underlying factors such as societal breakdown and
mental illness and actively focus on limiting speech and gun control.
Currently 235 million Americans either own or could see
themselves owning a gun. How will the Democrats in power go about confiscating
guns in a nation of 3.8 million square miles? Utilize a national registry
of all gun owners? Outlaw all semi-automatic weapons? Impose
onerous taxes and insurance requirements making gun ownership unaffordable?
Pass open-ended red flag laws allowing virtually anyone to file a
complaint against someone, ostensibly based in their suspicions, thus allowing
the police to seize the guns of the accused? As for speech, will certain
words, phrases and organizations, as determined by the Left, be considered
inciteful and dangerous and thus outlawed? How will the Democrats deal
with the inevitable resistance and potential violent pushback from upwards of
72% of the nation’s citizenry?
Once in power, the Democrats are
committed to Medicare for all, reparations for African Americans, and new
environmental programs amid a myriad of spending programs. The estimated
average annual cost of these proposals exceeds $6 Trillion over and above
current spending. At present the federal government spends $4.7 Trillion
(which includes $1 Trillion of deficit spending). Income taxes account for 50% of all government revenue
and Social Security and Medicare withholding account for 36%. Thus,
individuals account for 86% of all revenue. In order for the Democrats to
pay for these programs, revenue from individual taxpayers would have to be
increased by 200%.
As the Democrats have promised not to
touch Social Security and Medicare withholding, all the increase would have to
be in the income tax arena. Based on the most recent IRS analysis the effective average income
tax rate would have to be 80% on the top 10% of income tax filers, a rate of
65% on the next 40%, and a rate of 40% on the bottom 50% of filers. This does
not include Social Security and Medicare withholding of another 8 to 12
percentage points plus an average state income tax rate of 8.5 percentage
points. Further, the corporate tax rate would have to be increased from a
current rate of 21% to 60%.
How would the Democrats enforce these
new rates as people either refuse to pay or go into the underground
economy? How would they pay for massive unemployment and welfare
benefits as a result of an avalanche of layoffs and business closures?
What are their plans for the recession and potential depression that would
ensue? From whom would the government borrow money and at what exorbitant
interest rate? Would they successfully coerce the Federal Reserve into printing
trillions of dollars in new money creating massive uncontrolled inflation?
On the other hand, if they do not
initiate some if not all of these programs, how do they placate their base and
voters without blaming it on the other side as they are wont to do -- thus
further antagonizing and pitting segments of society against each other.
Recently the Democratic Party has
become the party of open borders and amnesty as well as ultimate citizenship
for upwards of 22 million illegal immigrants and with
open borders at least another 2-4 million more every year. The vast
majority of these illegal immigrants are functionally illiterate and lacking in
employable skills.
Currently 30% of all working families
(or nearly 50 million Americans) are essentially unskilled and low income but
above the poverty threshold. 60% of these are families headed by racial/ ethnic minorities. African-Americans, while 13%
of the population (41 million), account for nearly 30% of low income working
families. Another 39 million Americans live below the poverty level.
Thus, a total of 89 million live in low-income families or in
poverty. Yet the Democratic Party, that claims to be the champion of
minorities and low-income families, is pushing to ultimately legalize upwards
of 22 to 30 million unskilled illegal immigrants (equal to 55 to 73% of the
current African American population) which will devastate low income working
American families.
The Left and the
Democratic Party are now so committed to open borders and illegal immigration
that they cannot reverse course without a major upheaval within their
ranks. Do they really give a damn about the African American population,
native born or naturalized Hispanics, and the low-income white working
families? Or, are the potential votes of the illegal population more
important? With the spending plans outlined above how will they buy off
these groups as there will be no money or jobs? How will they avoid the
inevitable friction and potential hostility with so many in the marketplace and
a limited number of jobs in the low-income sector?
In summary, while the
current American Left dominated Democratic Party and its propaganda arm, the
mainstream media, may be good at sowing confusion, communicating overt
falsehoods and vilifying their opponents in order to win elections, they cannot
and will never be able to successfully govern a nation of 330 million people
the size of the continent of Europe. If they ever fully control all the levers of
power, this nation will, in due course, cease to exist.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.),
Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speak at a press
conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2019. (Holly Kellum/NTD)
Marxists Work to Reinforce
‘The Squad’ in 2020
August 19, 2019 Updated: August 19, 2019
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Not content with Reps. Rashida Tlaib,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley—the far-left congresswomen
collectively known as “The Squad”—the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and allied Marxist groups are targeting
multiple congressional seats with far-left candidates in 2020.
No one is safe. The DSA and its pro-China
allies, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and Liberation Road (formerly Freedom
Road Socialist Organization, or FRSO), are targeting dozens of seats currently
held by Republicans, moderate Democrats, and even by insufficiently Marxist
members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Most will not make it past the
primaries, but some have at least a reasonable chance of being elected.
Here are four serious far-left contenders
who could be reinforcing “The Squad” in January 2021.
Cori Bush
Cori Bush is targeting Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, which
encompasses St. Louis, Florissant, and Ferguson. Her Democratic primary
opponent is William Lacy Clay Jr., a veteran of both the Congressional
Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus, who has represented the
district since 2001, succeeding his father William Lacy Clay Sr. In 2018, Bush
stood against Clay Jr., losing by about 20 percentage points.
A native of St. Louis, Bush is a registered
nurse, an ordained pastor, an activist, and a “community organizer.” She first
came to prominence during the Ferguson anti-police protests of 2014, where she played
a significant, if largely covert, role.
During a BlogTalkRadio
show broadcast in August 2015, Bush was
reporting “on the ground” as she described the scene days after “shots rang
out” in Ferguson: “I’m right on the ground. I’m right here in the middle
of it, so there’s chanting behind me. As a matter of fact, I was riding in a
car … circling the neighborhood with flags and with our masks on.”
Prominent in the activist community, Bush
was a recipient of the 2015 “Woman of Courage” Award from the Emmett Till
Legacy Foundation and the 2016 Delux Magazine “Power 100” Award, according to
her website. She was named one of the ‘Top 50 Women of St. Louis” by Gazelle
Magazine, and an “Unsung Human Rights Hero” by the St. Louis Coalition for
Human Rights in 2017. She also received the 2018 “Community Activist” award
from the Missouri Association of Black Ministers. In 2017, she was elected the
first vice-chairperson of the Missouri Democratic Party Progressive Caucus.
District 1 is heavily Democratic, so if
Bush can manage to beat Clay Jr., she will almost certainly win the seat.
Working in her favor is her close
connection to two of Missouri’s most influential Marxist groups: St. Louis DSA
and the local CPUSA. These groups can muster nearly 1,000 activists and have
already elected many local officials, including several state representatives.
Early this year, St. Louis Communist Party leader Tony Pecinovsky (supported by Bush and running as a Democrat) lost a race for St.
Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 14 with a respectable 48 percent of the vote.
Bush is a regular at the local Communist
Party HQ—the St. Louis Workers Educational Society. During her 2018 campaign,
Bush celebrated her birthday at an event in St Louis. Guest speakers included
DSA member Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In July 2017, Bush joined a Sit-In to Save
Health Care at Republican Sen. Roy Blunt’s office in Clayton, Missouri. Bush
was joined by members of the St. Louis DSA, Socialist Alternative, and the St.
Louis Workers’ Education Society.
Bush already has the endorsement of Justice
Democrats—famous for selecting and electing Ocasio-Cortez in 2016.
Albert Lee
Albert Lee is targeting Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District, which
encompasses all of deep blue Portland. The very safe Democrat district has been
held since 1996 by Earl
Blumenauer, a long-time member of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus. Blumenauer beat his last Republican opponent 73 percent to
20 percent, so if Lee can win the primary, he’s almost guaranteed a seat in
Congress.
Lee is currently the Dean for Business and
Computing at the Sylvania Campus of Portland Community College.
He is active in TriMet’s Transit Equity
Advisory Committee, the City of Portland’s Citizen Review Committee, the
executive board of the Giving Tree NW, Health Care for All Oregon, the NAACP,
Korean American Coalition of Oregon, and the Democratic Party of Oregon. He is
a member of Portland DSA and the DSA front BerniePDX/Our Revolution, and on the
board of directors of the far-left Asian Pacific
American Network of Oregon—all groups with considerable electoral experience.
Currently, Lee is seeking Portland DSA’s
endorsement. If he gets both local and national DSA endorsement, Lee will have
an army of small donors and several hundred free doorknockers and phone-bankers
on his team.
While the incumbent Blumenauer has ties to
some DSA veterans, that may not do him much good. The DSA is likely to throw
the old Jewish white “progressive” under the bus in favor of the young
Korean/black socialist.
Lee is supporting Paige Kreisman in her run for Oregon Assembly District 42. Kreisman is a
self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist and member of both the DSA and CPUSA.
Lee is also supporting Doyle Canning, who is running for Congress in Oregon’s 4th District against Congressional
Progressive Caucus co-founder Peter DeFazio. Canning has long been associated
with FRSO/Liberation Road activists.
Mike Siegel
Mike Siegel is contesting Texas’s 10th Congressional District, which stretches
from just north of Austin almost to Houston, against incumbent Republican
Michael McCaul. In 2018, Siegel lost to McCaul by only four points in what is
normally a safe Republican district, so the second time around, he may be even
more of a threat.
Siegel is an assistant city attorney in
Austin. He has worked as a public school teacher with Teach for America and
co-founded two nonprofit education organizations.
Siegel’s far-left credentials are
impeccable. He’s the son of Oakland, California-based activist/attorney Dan Siegel, once
the West Coast leader of the Communist Workers Party, a group known for its
blind loyalty to China and North Korea.
At Cornell University, Mike Siegel was president
of the far-left National Lawyers Guild student chapter. He also served as an
intern at the equally radical Center for Constitutional Rights, researching
issues such as civil liability for military contractors. He also worked as
legal coordinator for the “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan” conference
presented by the FRSO front group Iraq Veterans Against the War.
In 2018, Mike Siegel was heavily
supported by several DSA-controlled groups
including Our Revolution–Central Texas, Left Up to US, and Texas Alliance for
Retired Americans. Austin DSA membership coordinator Jacob Aronowitz also served on Mike Siegel’s 2018 staff.
By July 2019, the Siegel campaign had
garnered a number of key national and local endorsements, such as: far-left California congressman Ted Lieu; DSA front
organization Progressive Democrats of America; International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers; National Union of Healthcare Workers; and leftist Mike
Floyd of the Pearland ISD school board.
Austin DSA and neighboring Williamson
County DSA can muster over 1,000 members between them. Austin DSA is currently
supporting one of its own comrades, Heidi Sloan,
against Republican Roger Williams in District 25. However, they will almost
certainly support Siegel as well if they think he has any chance of defeating
McCaul.
Eva Putzova
Eva Putzova is contesting the Democratic primary in Arizona’s District 1,
which encompasses all of the northern and eastern part of the state. Her
opponent is incumbent “moderate” Democrat Tom O’Halleran, who in 2018 defeated
his Republican opponent by about 8 points.
Putzova, a Slovakian immigrant, has been
very active in public life in Flagstaff. She was elected to the Flagstaff City
Council in November 2014 to a four-year term. She also served on the Board of
Directors of Flagstaff Arts Council, the Audit Committee, the Economic
Collaborative of Northern Arizona, and the Northern Arizona Intergovernmental
Public Transportation Authority.
In 2016, she led a successful local citizen
initiative, “raising Flagstaff’s minimum wage to $15 by 2021, implementing one
fair wage by 2026, and establishing local labor standards enforcement,”
according to her former councilmember
bio.
Putzova was also a “board member of Friends
of Flagstaff’s Future—a multi-issue organization that advocates for a socially
and environmentally just Flagstaff.” She has also “contributed to the goals of
local commissions and committees, including the Regional Plan Citizen Advisory
Committee, Coconino Community College Citizen Review Panel, Citizen Review
Commission for Flagstaff Regional Five-Year and Long-Range Transit Plan, and
the Greater Flagstaff Economic Council.”
Currently, Putzova works as the director of
communications for Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a far-left labor
organization with ties to FRSO/Liberation Road.
For several years, Putzova has been active
in the Flagstaff branch of Progressive Democrats of America, a national
organization closely affiliated with the DSA. The national organization is
supporting Putzova, one of their earliest endorsements of the 2020 election cycle. She is also close to Our
Revolution—Flagstaff Progressives, which on a national scale is also heavily
dominated by DSA members.
Putzova is also very close to Flagstaff
DSA, which will likely support her in her
upcoming battles with O’Halleran and any Republican challenger.
We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
While many U.S. voters have been shocked by
the antics of “The Squad” and the Democrats’ increasingly obvious shift to the
hard left—we ain’t seen nothing yet.
The Democrats have been edging left since
the 1960s. The socialist shift accelerated dramatically under President Barack
Obama and went into overdrive with the Bernie Sanders campaign of 2016.
Currently, the DSA, CPUSA, and
FRSO/Liberation Road are contesting for ground in the Democratic Party at every
level, from county commissions and education boards to the House of
Representatives and even the U.S. Senate. It’s only a matter of time until they
completely dominate a once-great political party.
Whether Bush, Lee, Siegel, and Putzova win
or not in 2020 is largely immaterial. There are hundreds more like them
standing in line, waiting for their shot.
The Trump administration and the Republican
Party are right to campaign against socialism and communism in 2020. Only by
waking up millions of U.S. voters to the imminent Marxist threat can we have
any hope of saving this great republic.
Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and
public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched
radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on
mainstream politics.
Views expressed in this article are the
opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch
Times.
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