Son of Refugees of Communism Warns Commie American Youth; My Parents Escaped Communism. Young Americans Must Stop Celebrating the Murder and Starvation It Creates

Son of Refugees of Communism Warns Commie American Youth

An Israeli-American whose parents escaped Communism in Romania is disheartened by the U.S. social media influencers and academic institutions glorifying Communism. And he has a sober warning for Americans.

Elad Vaida, in an op-ed for Campus Reform, wrote, “Communism is a cancer on history, and few other ideas have rivaled it for sheer human misery.” In fact, statistics from multiple current or former Communist nations, including China, Cambodia, Russia, and Vietnam, show that Communism is responsible for more mass murder and genocide than any other ideology in history. And yet American academics and influencers are “singing the praises” of Communism, a situation which Vaida understandably believes to be very dangerous.

For instance, popular TikTok influencer Madeline Pendleton made the utterly false assertion that “countries under communist Marxist-Leninist leadership are flourishing,” and urged her followers, “If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired here in the United States, maybe give communism a try.” Then there’s Aminda Smith, a Michigan State University professor, whose children’s article painted the fantasy of Communism “shar[ing] wealth so that no one is too poor, no one is too rich, and everyone has enough to survive and have a good life.” And unicorns and hippogriffs will dance past with the fairies.

Unfortunately, Vaida noted, such propaganda has 25% of college-age Americans convinced that Communism is a good system. Even at my conservative Catholic college, there were a number of students and professors who waxed poetic on the charms of socialism and Communism, but when challenged never could explain how such theories would or even could possibly be applied successfully in reality. But it made them feel most extremely virtuous and toplofty to lecture about the theories anyway. —>READ MORE HERE

VAIDA: My parents escaped Communism. Young Americans must stop celebrating the murder and starvation it creates.

Communism is a cancer on history, and few other ideas have rivaled it for sheer human misery.

So it can be depressing to see someone like TikTok influencer Madeline Pendleton singing the praises of this toxic ideology to her followers.

Pendleton, who calls herself a “leftwing extremist,” has 1.6 million followers, to whom she gave a lecture in January about how fantastically communism is supposedly working for modern countries that have adopted it.

To her twisted thinking, “countries under communist Marxist-Leninist leadership are flourishing,” and communism is merely a “bogeyman” attacked by rich capitalists who are afraid of losing their wealth.

She concludes that “If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired here in the United States, maybe give communism a try.”

Pendleton isn’t the only one catechizing people into communism.

As Campus Reform reported, some educators try to sugarcoat, downplay, or justify the atrocities of communist regimes, such as Aminda Smith, a Michigan State University professor who wrote an article–specifically for children–that argues that communism promotes “shar[ing] wealth so that no one is too poor, no one is too rich, and everyone has enough to survive and have a good life.”

“Communists are optimistic that humans can one day create a more fair and equal society,” she adds.

Since Americans grow up with such views forced on them from K-12 schools and into college, it’s no surprise that 25 percent of college-age Americans have a favorable view of communism.

But how has it worked out historically for nations that have “given communism a try,” as Pendleton urges her followers to do?

Consider my parents, who left Communist Romania in the early 1980s, also leaving behind a trail of horrifying pain and hunger. —>READ MORE HERE

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