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We at Blogbat Are Very Proud to Present:
The First-Ever SITE OF THE DAY AWARD
(To be held sporadically and arbitrarily whenever we find something sufficiently worthy)
Today’s Category:
Political Special-Needs
Sub-Category:
Socio-Political Autism
Today our site of the day belongs to none other than Communist Party USA (not to be confused with Communists for Kerry, which is way more fun), for the CPUSA's extra-worldly sheepiness, unimaginative exploration beyond the barely literate inculcations from public education and the very most predictable shoutouts to their trusted friends in the media, Islamofascism, Liberal establishment and elsewhere.
Comments are added when relevant.
Their Most Cherished Desire:
To one day fool enough people to actually think that bloody dictators are actually really great.
CPUSA Deep Thoughts:
People say that recent Tsunami which killed over 100,000 was an “act of God”. Stalin killed over 20 million. Doesn’t that make him God?
Maybe that’s why Communists think God is dead…
And now some sultry sampling of what you will find at CCCP USA’s website:
1. On the death of Yasser Arafat
by CPUSA National Board, 16.11.2004 00:00
The Communist Party USA expresses its deep sorrow on the death of Yasser Arafat, the decades-long leader and larger-than-life symbol of the Palestinian people’s quest for justice, human rights, self-determination and statehood.
In the full article you can find this gem:
He rejected terrorism as a path to liberation, and harshly condemned the harming of innocents. He and the PLO officially recognized Israel’s right to exist within secure borders.
Some more of that relying on the ignorance of the publicly-educated, CNN crowd? Yassir of course, never renounced the PLO charter which calls for the elimination of Israel. In fact, the PLA’s official seal shows them occupying ALL of the land currently held by Israel.
Now here’s a tasty trifle:
2. Youth vote 2004: a whole new level
by Jessica Marshall, YCLUSA Co-coordinator, 20.11.2004 00:00
If you turned on the TV on November 3rd CNN mentioned to you that young people showed up at the polls but it was nothing too impressive. They told you that while the numbers went up, so did all voter-turnout numbers and there was no significant shift or big change in how many young folks showed up as compared to the rest of the population. Some of them even went so far as to blame the youth for not turning out enough to impact the elections favorably for Kerry. But the numbers tell another story.
For the first time in quite some time the category of "youth" was recognized and respected to some degree as a legitimate voting block to be addressed or looked at -- we weren't that apathetic generation too into video games or shopping at the mall to notice the elections. Young people were actually setting up their own youth-led and run election efforts.
We saw amazing work done by the hip hop community -- from mainstream groups with famous names like P.Diddy's "vote or die" efforts to the grassroots National Hip Hop Political Convention and its local organizing committees we saw a new level of organization and the development of political platforms to address the concerns and aspirations of the hip hop generation. Groups like the League of Pissed Off Voters did amazing voter education and mobilization, organizing youth voter blocs, creating their own youth voter guides and challenging young people to look beyond November 2nd and think about running youth candidates. In states with early voting, concerts were held featuring famous artists, rappers and singers to encourage young people to vote.
These efforts paid off. (emphasis added)
Apparently not enough, thank goodness. Ironic a Communist would ever be excited about the notion of anybody being able to vote, isn’t it. I guess they just sort of hold their nose hoping if they get one going their way, that nasty voting mess can be done away with forever and ever, amen. Or… not amen
Some more notable quotes:
It's important to note here that this is a generation of young people that have no particular allegiance to the Democratic Party and show hope for the possibility of further developing independent and progressive voter coalitions and voting blocks. But this generation of voters also was mature enough to recognize the importance of uniting in this year's election to elect John Kerry … (Or would have, had he won). This represents a tremendous opportunity for the YCL as we continue to grow and work to build broader, progressive coalitions of youth and students.
Back to the drawing boards, I guess.
We found that we were very well received where we participated in these youth operations and we shared our strategic vision about the elections and building a broad, progressive youth and student movement. We were encouraged to discuss our views openly and our magazine Dynamic and other materials were very well received. While everyone didn't agree with everything we said, they appreciated our hard work and engaged in dialogue with us finding that more often than not we had similar visions about what it was going to take to win our country back from the ultra-right.
Wow, I have to ask, if the Commies are calling us “ultra-right”, we must be Left-of-Center for everyone else. I think I should do some soul searching and try to find how I can move farther to the right!
Of particular importance to the YCL (Commie Youth) in our efforts to deepen and broaden our relations with other progressive youth and student organizations, were our YCL Midwest Summer and GOTV election projects. In July, we went to St. Louis where 13 YCLers (5 of whom stayed for the whole month) volunteered alongside the party, Planned Parenthood, CBTU, SEIU and AFSCME, and others on several campaigns including the victorious campaign of John Bowman who is here today. In August we sent 8 YCLers to Cincinnati to work on a campaign to repeal anti-gay legislation in the city council, and participated in NAACP voter registration efforts and Working America canvasses. During that same period we sent 12 volunteers to Cleveland where volunteers worked with the Vote Mob and participated in labor walks.
Vote Mob? Is it an oxymoron or just simple irony?
Apparently we made quite an impression because when I went to the Vote Mob's office in Ohio to discuss the YCL participating in their GOTV efforts, the head of their operation smiled and told me, "ok, don't take this the wrong way but we're so glad you're coming back. People around the office keep saying, when are the commies coming back?!" Four of our national staffers headed out to Ohio where we volunteered with the Vote Mob at Cleveland State University and the University of Akron.
We worked on everything from phone banking to lit drops and led precincts in Akron for the VoteMob operation. On the 2nd as we waited for the returns to come in, several of the volunteers and leaders came over to thank the YCL for stepping up and helping play a positive role. One volunteer told Docia that he had always heard that the YCL was like the marines of the youth activist and organizing circuit and now he was convinced. While I'm not sure we like to be compared to the marines, we appreciated the sentiment.
I want to point out that it wasn't just through the YCL's Midwest project that the YCL was received in such a warm way. What was so amazing about all of this is that in every location YCLers were involved in these efforts we saw the same positive and inspiring experiences repeated. Both the Milwaukee and Chicago YCLers worked in Wisconsin, helping to chaperone a group of 400 high school students on election day who participated in a massive knock and drag effort to get people to the polls, in addition to their work with Vozes, an immigrants rights group, the League of Conservation Voters and ACT on door-knocking and GOTV efforts.
Commies chaperoning high schoolers. “Well Johnny, you see, the condom goes on the bayonet this way…”
In New York YCLers were delegates and founders of the local organizing committees of the National Hip Hop Political Convention. In Providence, Miami and Chicago YCLers helped head up the League of Pissed Off Voters efforts. YCLers staffed Democratic Party operations and headed up precincts in Ohio and Florida. A YCLer from Virginia was a canvas director for a progressive young candidate in a tight race in Ohio. In Miami, the newly formed club helped ACT organizing efforts at Miami Dade Community College.
I guess if you’re a Communist, you head first where folks are renowned for being too dumb to vote.
In Chicago YCL members were very active in the Youth for Obama efforts and one member worked with the United States Student Association and his student government to register over 1,000 new voters. New York YCLers worked on the election bid of Frank Barbaro in Brooklyn and to defeat Republican Olga Mendez in Upper Manhattan. In Buffalo, YCLers worked with Citizen Action and went to work in Ohio. In St. Louis and other places around the country YCLers worked with SEIU and other labor efforts.
The list goes on and on. Thousands of young people were registered, thousands of doors were knocked and collectively our membership learned what it takes to seriously get involved with electoral campaigns.
Collectively…you caught that, right? :p Of course they are enjoying themselves. After the “revolution” you don’t get to volunteer for anything anymore…
On Fashionwares (Speaking of Collecting…)
The CPUSA also offers a whole host of items to shop for in their store, as done in the traditional capitalistic communist way (I suppose this is the Beijing model), hence the URL: http://host5.cpusa.org/shopping
The ever-famous “Books Not Bombs” button. Much loved by Communists the world over…that is unless of course your book happens to be the bible or a critical essay or satire…then it's Bombs, Not Books for you…
“Healthcare Not Warfare” – Because we all know about how wonderful those hospitals are in North Korea, China, Cuba or were in the Soviet Union. What? Because they didn’t get enough western aid? Well, what were the Communists doing while the west was allowing its free-market citizens to build the best hospitals in the world? Hmm, stuff to get your books bombed, eh?
“No War, No Terror”. Hmm, seems Mau and Stalin did a pretty good job creating terror without a single war, wouldn’t you say? The worst terror imaginable is when you surrender to the mercies of the ruthless.
All manufactured to the highest quality imaginable by little 8 year old Chinese laborers forced to work 14 hour days with only one bathroom break and a bowl of rice (breath) to punish them because their parents spoke out against the regime.
And that’s why the Communist Party USA wins Blogbat’s first ever Site of the Day award. Given away of course, in homage to that savvy socialist sensibility…
UPDATE:
A really great read over at Route 82 blog “Going Dutch in the Communist Party” would be well-worth your time. Fun facts and great writing!
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