For years, I have told various people in , the media and the financial world that the most impressive investment CEO I have ever encountered is fictional. One who came from nothing; identified with the working-class over the elites; established a persona deliberately meant to be underestimated by his snobbish competitors; and truly prized morality over money.
That fictional CEO being Lawrence Garfield. The lead character played to perfection by Danny DeVito in the 1991 film “Other Peoples Money.” Within the body of the movie, the New York City-based Garfield character shouts out an amazingly prescient warning as if envisioning the coming capitalistic-destroying and liberty-robbing edicts of far-left, socialist- and communist-embracing politicians such as New York City Democrat Mayor , New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson.
While dressing down a conference room full of lawyers he has on retainer, the fictional billionaire CEO lectures in part: “Congratulations. You’re destroying the capitalist system. While everybody else in the world is embracing it, my boys and girls are f—ing it up! You know what happens when capitalism gets f—ed up? The communists come back. They come out of the bushes. Don’t kid yourself. They’re waiting in there⦔
Thirty-five years ago, Garfield saw the danger cresting over the horizon. Today, his fictionalized warning in the system, and our very Republic has become a horrifying reality.
The “communists” are no longer waiting in the bushes. They are back. They are among us. We deny this treacherous blossoming reality at our own peril.Â
Fortunately â and to the outright â an increasing number of Americans across a broad political, socioeconomic and age spectrum are suddenly opening their eyes to the job-, education-, safety-, city- and nation-destroying effects of socialist and communist mandates forced upon the people by far left elites existing in bubbles of entitlement. Elites who seek to smear or cancel Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin while singing the praises of despots such as Lenin, Stalin, Marx, and Mao. Â
For older Americans, the increasingly strident pronouncements from the likes of Mamdani, AOC and Wilson are a stark reminder of the often brutal â and failed â regimes of East Germany, the Soviet Union and a collapsing . Older Americans who witnessed those nations crumble into anarchy as the socialist and communist controlled “Nanny States” deprived citizens of the right to think for themselves; to do what was in the best interests of them and their families; or even escape the dystopian landscapes created by totalitarian ideologies.
In another stroke of bad news for the Democratic leadership, many of these “older” Americans are now taking the time to educate the younger Americans in their lives â be they children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, or work, faith, or social colleagues â about the and communism. Younger Americans who do not yet know that the “free is for me” mantra is a power-and-control grab masquerading as a utopian paradise.
Fortunately, along with the older Americans in their lives who witnessed the , are millions of Americans who lived it and fled to our shores. Naturalized Americans who escaped the Soviet Union, China, East Germany, Venezuela, Cuba and even North Korea.
Wise and patriotic Americans only too happy to tell those ignorant of the dangers of socialism and communism the cold, hard, and life- and nation-saving truth. And now, thanks to Mamdani, AOC, Wilson and other far-left Democrats, they have multiple real-time Bolshevik examples to flag.
From now until the November midterms, Americans who either witnessed or escaped the menace of socialism and communism will be explaining what “” really means. Why the taking of money and property from those who earned it and built it is anti-American. And why homeowners
