The State Departmetn issued a 100 page report about how Cuba has been the source of Communism in America. Communists have been around for a while in America, but there is one fundamental difference today. We break it down today and talk about the best way, maybe the only way, we can stop the rise of communism in America.
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So thanks for being here to get the true story. The story of the day today. Cuban communist revolutionaries in America. All right, here's what's going on. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, issued this report called Cuba, the Capital, 21st Century Communism. It's 100 pages longer, and it's all about Cuba and their role in spreading communism around the world, but particularly their influence here in America.
So a couple of examples here, and then we'll tie this into DSA and then the Bible. ICAP is a word that they use often in this report. It's called the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos. Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples. Fidel Castro founded it back in the 60s. The purpose of this is to reach out to international activist groups, many of them in America.
One of them is called the National Network of Cuba. It's here in the United States, and they lobby Local state groups like school boards, labor unions, city councils, all these things. They lobbied them from a pro Cuba angle. I have a clip of the coach. I got a two longer clips. I want to play later.
So I'm not going to play the clip here. Why don't I just tell you what the clip says? Her name is on on. Yes. On who shot. Oh, yeah.
I read her bio. Her bio says she is an African woman marooned in the United States. Marooned. She's stuck here. She can't get out. Lady, it's super easy.
to get out and she is organizing to defeat capitalism colonialism imperialism and patriarchy she's editor with hood communist and she's the co -chair of the national network on cuba and she's an organizer with the vencer venceremos brigade venceremos It means we shall overcome. We'll get to them coming up in a little bit. So I get this clip where she's talking about how she's living in the belly of the beast behind enemy lines. It's America. And her ultimate purpose of this clip here in this clip is she says, we got to persuade black men in America to not join the military because when black men take up arms for the imperialist state America, they end up fighting against their fellow blacks around the world in oppressed countries. Okay.
I have tons of clips like that of people like that. And it's very easy to come to the conclusion, the conclusion that I've come to for many years, which is these people are silly. They're foolish. Who cares what they say? Are we really going to waste our time with what this woman talks about? Like whatever.
They're totally worthless. Not going to spend our time on it. And I think in the past, that was maybe definitely sensible, if not accurate conclusion. They were just a bunch of third party losers. Now here's the big difference. These losers have taken over the Democratic Party from within.
So these previously third, fourth, fifth party losers, they have now taken over the Democrats apparatus, their infrastructure, their fundraising, their credentials, their prestige, their power. And now they are winning. We talked a lot about this in our episodes, our last TV episode, which we re -aired over the weekend here, but they're winning. They're winning. Their power is growing. never before.
I'll give you an example of this. In the report, they talk about this guy, Stokely Carmichael. In 1967, he gave a speech at the Organization of Latin American Solidarity called Black Power in the Third World, and he talks about how black people in America are internal colonies within the United States. And he actually gave a speech in Cuba. And he said, black communities in America are the victims of white imperialism and colonial exploitation. Thus, he says, black power means that we see ourselves as part of the third world.
So black people in America should and do see themselves as the third world. And we see our struggle as closely related to liberation struggles around the world. He said there's only one place for black Americans in these struggles, and that is on the side of the third world. Now, this is 1967. The fruit of his rhetoric, was, you know, riots, resentment, spreading anger, and all this stuff with other people, right? And like messing up lives and all this.
Certainly wasn't peace and unity, but he never got any political power. So the damage he could do was limited to only so far. He was a member of the Black Panthers and some other political parties, but it was always a third party. Then came the 1964 Democratic National Convention and they wouldn't recognize any of the parties that he was in support of like any of these other communist parties that had these weird names so he was appalled that the democrats wouldn't recognize him and and his these other groups that he supported so he rebelled and you know how he rebelled he created another party that didn't do anything no one like a third party it's never gonna work it's a two -party system that's what we have here so these people had a third party system it worked adopted by one of the main parties. So then they started another party and you're like, man, like that's not the communist today.
I figured out and have been successful in taking over one of the two parties, Democratic Socialists of America leading the way, taking over the Democratic Party. Again, that's what we talked about in our last couple episodes over the weekend. These people are crazy. The co -chair of the New York City DSA was on Fox News the other day calling for getting rid of the U . S. Senate.
This is a part of their platform. Abolish the Senate. So it's crazy. The same type of people, they'll say, oh, you know, you're not being very biblical. You're judging. You're not a good Christian.
You're not doing what Jesus told you to do. And they themselves hate the Bible and aren't Christian. It's a similar deal here. These are the people who say, Oh, Trump's terrible. He's destroying the constitution. And then they have in their party platform, abolish the Senate, abolish the Supreme court, eliminate the constitution.
What's broken. I want to play two clips here. First start off with Marco Rubio and then, uh, Stephen Miller. This is at an event called the resurgence of political terrorism. Both of these clips are tremendous. I hope this is these guys work shopping.
Well, this was before this Cuba report was issued. Obviously, they knew what was in the report, so they're getting ready for the report. I hope this is them, though, getting ready for the midterm convention, which is going to be September. I think the chair of the RNC said September 9th and 10th, I think that's what he told us. So it's going to be like a month and a half or so. So I hope they're workshopping these ideas to create the contrast between what this administration is for and what the opposition is really all about.
This right here is about as good as it gets. Here's Marco Rubio. This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good.
It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti -capitalist, or anti -imperialist, or communist, or anarchist, or Marxist, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality, and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right, on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world.
Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite.
One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice. That's actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world it envisions is a world without courage. a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things.
And the world communism envisions is a world without God. For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them, it's an unbearable humiliation. A reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines. They attack railroads.
They attack power grids and laboratories. The physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the West because the West is great. How good is that? poisonous resentment.
That's what really fuels the rise of communism. This desire to tear down what greater men have built. People who are filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world. We're going to get to that in just a second. Of course, mention of being godless. And when they see the greatness of what people have achieved, what God has done to our country, it's a reminder to them about what they cannot do and who they cannot be.
So they choose instead to destroy. I mean, that's just amazing. As good as it gets. Again, how awesome would this be if this is what they talk about at the midterm convention. This is Stephen Miller might be even better. And the leftist justifies this violence to himself by saying that they alone are the arbiters of what is right or wrong, not the law, not history, not civilization, not
public opinion, and certainly not God. The leftist assumes for himself judge, jury, executioner. But let's not pretend for a moment that these radical leftists, these terrorists, are operating from a place of sincere political conviction. Sure, there are plenty of useful idiots that they use who may believe these discredited ideologies. The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy, The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred. The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids that goes to church every Sunday and is filled with envy and hatred.
a feeling of inadequacy and jealousy, and they covet, and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress, and to inflict pain and suffering. It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations, you see any photograph of those who were assembled, to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one, looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism. Why is that? You look at two photographs and you see a normal American street, you see an Antifa protest.
Why do the people that are violently demonstrating, why is there not one normal -looking person among them? Every one of them, through the course of their life and their decisions, has scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways to the point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred. your instincts to all people and across all civilizations. You know what normal is. You know what beautiful is. You know what good is.
You know that families are right. You know that children are precious and beautiful and must be protected. You know that the criminal and the junkie and the predator is a threat to normal, healthy living. This is so much deeper than than issues about taxation and regulation, although they're incredibly important. It's about normal, healthy, ordered living. Tremendous.
Again, people motivated by hatred and envy and jealousy. They look at what is good, beautiful and true, and they themselves are filled with envy, hatred. This last week, we spent a lot of time talking about covetousness. They'll look at a family who goes to church and is living a normal life, and they're filled with an adequacy and covetousness. and they turn those desires into inflicting pain and suffering. His point about how these Antiva people, they're deformed, their outward appearance is deformed because their outward life has become this reflection of their heart.
So throughout their life, they've made these decisions to scar their body and to have a disgusting appearance. They don't have to be like this, but their outward appearance has become a reflection of their inner heart. And he talks about what's normal. Normal is an interesting word. He doesn't mean normal as in common, because now more than ever, degeneracy is the norm. He's talking about normal as in good.
Actually, the original definition of the word normal means square, like a carpenter would try to make a right angle. They call that normal. So square, right angle, proper, right. So he doesn't mean normal as in everyone's doing it. He means normal as in, oh, like, this is what's good and proper. I want to speak to this inner ugliness real quick.
He, um, his comment is, reminded me of a poem from Kipling and I had to share it because it's about a story we shared just the other day too. This is all tying in from just the last couple weeks. Second Kings, the story of Gehazi. So here's the very short of it. So Naaman was this warrior who had leprosy.
He went to Elisha to try to heal the leprosy. He did. And then Naaman offered him a gift as a thank you. Like, oh, I can't believe you did this here. I want to give you some money. And Elisha said, no, no, no, no, no.
I refuse. He doesn't want any money. So Naaman goes back home. On his way back home, Elisha's servant, Gehazi, runs after him and says, oh, Naaman, Naaman, Naaman. Oh, you're not going to believe it. Elisha changed his mind.
He does want the gift after all. So if you could just give it to me, I'll go. I'll give it back to Elisha. And Naaman's like, oh, yeah, sure. Of course. Here's the gift.
So he gets back and Elisha says, hey, where'd you go? And then he lied to Elisha and Elisha gave him the punishment. He said, Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever. Kipling was inspired by that story and he wrote this poem. He said, whence, so the image of Gehazi, so the timing's a little off with what Kipling does with this story, but it's still worth it. So it's, well, let me just start.
He says, whence comest thou Gehazi? so reverent to behold, and scarlet, and furs, and chain of England's gold. " So someone's coming across Ghazi, and he's like, man, look at you. Look at you. You look unbelievable. You're dignified.
Look at you. You got all the chain. You look amazing. What's going on? And Ghazi says, ah, from following after Naaman, to tell him all is well, whereby my zeal hath made me a judge in Israel. Well done.
Well done, Ghazi. Stretch forth thy ready hand, thou barely scraped from judgment, take oath to judge the land." " So now this man is going to give Ghazi this advice, and he's taking oath now, right? But he's complimenting him. He's like, oh, man, you're unbelievable.
This is great. Look at you. Unswayed by gift of money, or privy bribe, more base, of knowledge which is profit at any marketplace. You can't be bribed. You can't be bought off in any way. Search out and probe, Ghazi.
as thou of all canst try the truthful, well -weighed answer that tells the blacker lie. But you're going to be a great judge. You're going to be shrewd. You're going to be wise. Nothing can corrupt you, Gehazi. This is great.
So take order now, Gehazi, that no man talk aside in secret with his judges the while his case is tried. So again, you're not good. No one's going to trick you. No one's going to trick you. No one's going to talk to you. No one's going to deceive you.
Lest he should show them reason to keep a matter hid and subtly lead the questions away from what he did. Again, you won't be corrupt, Gehazi, because you're so wonderful. Here's the turn. Thou mirror of uprightness. So it's not like a title, like, look at you, like you're this man of virtue. And the man who's looking at Ghazi is like, oh, what's going on?
Thou mirror of uprightness, what ails thee at thy vows? So imagine Ghazi is about to take this vow to be the judge, right? Thou mirror of uprightness. Mr. Ghazi, what ails you at thy vows? What means the risen whiteness of the skin between thy brows? The boils.
that shine and burrow, the sores that slough and bleed, the leprosy of Naaman on thee and all thy seed." " That's what Elisha told him would happen. Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and all your descendants forever. So in this story that Kipling is telling, a little bit different than the Bible timeline, but this is the moment where the leprosy is coming out. So he's taken this oath and he's being praised for being so honest and good. And the penalty of his greed and his sin is coming out at this moment in the poem.
Stand up, stand up, Gehazi. Draw close thy robe and go. Gehazi, judge in Israel, a leper white as snow. Right? It's like, oh, unbelievable. Like, oh, we have the judge in Israel.
Get out of here, man. Like you better cover up and run. We can't have a judge in Israel who's a leper as white as snow. So here's the moment when his inner sin was being manifested. on the outside of his body. Stephen Miller saying these communists have, they have essentially a leprosy in their heart, a covetousness in their heart, sins in their heart, and it shows with the deformity of their body.
I thought of that poem when I saw that Miller clip. All right, let's go to the Bible here. It's a long episode today. I'll keep it quick here. I think there's three points I want to make here about defeating communists. You call it three levels.
I don't know if it's quite three levels. It's like two and a half levels, maybe. On the surface, So how do we defeat communism? I think the surface level that we try for a long time is to explain why our economic system is better. Why capitalism is better than communism. It's not going to win hearts and minds.
It's good. You need to do it. And we need to know the economic differences. But that's not going to... not going to, it's just not going to change enough. Maybe it'll change some minds, but it's not going to change hearts and hearts are the main issue here, which is the second deeper way to fight communism.
Heart and minds are sinful and full of resentment, full of all the things that Marco and Steve Miller were talking about there. I don't think you can really change people's minds until we first change people's hearts. People have to be a Christian to get rid of the hatred in their heart and the resentment. And only then can they see the truth. other light or I should say in the light there are you start to like oh yeah no communism's horrible now don't get me wrong being a christian is the most important thing but I hope you get my point that after you become a christian and resentment no longer drives you it no longer corrupts you once all that is gone then the appeal of communism magically goes away as well now I don't know if this is a third layer that's probably not quite right this is like I think this is like an element of becoming a christian as well is most of these communists are outcasts from society. So at some point in their life, probably very early on, for whatever reason, they were pushed aside.
Before I say that, let me make this economic point. Most of these communists today, they're adults, right? They can't cut it. They don't have what it takes to be successful in the capitalist system. Whether it's IQ or work ethic, reasons within their control or beyond their control, whatever it is, they can't cut it. So they don't like this economic system because it's not working for them.
So of course they want a different one. But I think even before they become failures in the marketplace, I think a lot of these people are just weird and different. And they may not have friends in middle school. and they get pushed off into a different path of being even weirder and more of an outcast. And there's lots of different things that those people can end up doing in life. And one of them is to find solidarity, find acceptance with other similar outcasted people.
And those outcasted people Some of them, a percentage, whatever, it's like, let's, let's, I don't know, you look at all the outcasts in America, let's say 5 % of the outcasts become communist. Like they attach their outcastness to, and like, again, all the other 95 maybe latch on to other things that are weird and not great either, but this 5 % or whatever it is, attach themselves to being communist. That's not good. So our goal as Christians should be to make sure that no one feels rejected from society because And I should say this starts young. And it's the classic tale. And we encourage our kids to look for opportunities to be this person, to make everyone feel welcome.
Make people feel welcome in church. Make people feel welcome in a friend group. Make people feel welcome in a community. Make sure your kids bring in that kid who may be a little more awkward, a little more distant. Being outcasted and lonely can lead to many terrible things. One of them is being a communist activist when you grow up, an Antifa member, right?
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