Was Krushchev a prophet?

On September 29, 1959, Russia's leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered this message.
"Your children's children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.  No, you won't accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism.  We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands."  "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
Here was, and is, the plan.
1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education - Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor.  Eliminate the middle class This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor

I remember that speach well. It was carried on TV.  Everybody laughed at called Khrushchev he was called a clown, a buffoon,Out of his mind. But he was not. He was a member of the Politburo, one of Stalin's personal staff, and a staunch member of the Communist party, ans a true believer. In such a system, when the party chooses the leader, it would have been impossible to make a person the leader of the USSR, who was a fool.

Khrushchev new exactly what he was saying. It was a reworded quote of V.I. Lenin. Due to the blind followers of Communism, who made many other true believers, as well as people duped by those party line followers, it is going on today.

For instance: Have you ever considered the term "politically correct"? Whose politics? Communist politics, which have been taken up by the Democratic party and other followers of Soviet rhetoric.

The US fought against the spread Communism, and eventually, The Soviet Union fell. Wh will take up the fight when the United States falls?

Unless there is a direct intervention from God, I'm afraid that our grandchildren, will live under the communist banner.

Left Wing News

We had an Associated Press bureau here in Montana, but when it's radio news, and my writing mentor, Len Iwanski retired, AP closed it. Now everything is sent to Colorado, where it is "edited", and sent out. The editing is not too bad, but the political spin put on the stories is very heavy.

To me, it is not the TV and print media that is the fake news, it is the AP. They are the ones who feed all the news sources, and those sources merely read them verbatim. When United Press International was still a major player, AP was not so bad. But after UPI was bought by the Korean "Unification Church", and their raising prices, most outlets stopped using them.  Their wire transmissions stopped, and we were left with an enormous hole in our news.

UPI is still active on the internet, but no local or statewide news, only national and international news and sports. Thus, we are left with only one major news source, the very liberal Associated Press.

Lee Akers Sr.
07-18-2020

A Little Pity Party

so I'm sitting here in my studio, listening to oid tapes of my band. Darn I was good. I got to thinking about old friends with whom I had played and toured. Many of those people are dead, andI have lost track of most of the rest.
Beside me is a steel guitar that I am trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to learn to play. behind me is my Fender Precision Bass. The Acoustic amp is in the other room, along with my fiddle, which I can play, and would be better if i were to practice. A nice Martin guitar that I bang on a bit, an electric piano that again, if I were to practice, would be able to play, and set up in the basement is a full set of PDP drums, that I play very well.

I was a fixture in several house bands in California in the 60s, 70s, and '80s, and have toured almost every state west of the Rockies with my own band, and front man for several others.

And I cannot get a gig.

I now live in a small town in Montana with a serious lack of places to play. There are some awfully good musicians here, but while they are friends, I am not in the clique.
almost no one here has heard me play. Some have heard my album that I cut in 1969, but that is old hat, and done by some has been.
 
I have played with a couple of garage bands, but they prefered people they knew.
So, I guess I'm just sitting on my figurative pot having a little pity party, but it's hard to not be able to do a thing that I devoted the majority of my life to.

Jeez it fun to get old. 

But I really would love to get a gig.

Lee Akers
7-16-2020