“Every time I see or hear Murphy, I feel my brain cells dying” -- a Facebook commentator
The Hill reports – “Murphy tells US, world progressives to take
'lessons' from Hungary elections” – “Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on
Saturday urged progressives in the U.S. and around the world to ‘learn from
each other’, saying the defeat of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Hungary
can offer a roadmap for rebuilding democracy… Murphy told the crowd at the
inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona that the U.S.
faced “the most significant threat” to democratic institutions since the Civil
War, and Americans were “watching the courage of the defenders of democracy” in
Hungary and other parts of Europe… The Connecticut Democrat, who sits on the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, painted the picture of an America ‘in
crisis,’ likening President Trump’s actions to a ‘totalitarian takeover.’”
Possibly some Democrats in Connecticut regard Murphy’s
remarks as foaming at the mouth rhetorical campaign rhetoric. The Hill report
continues: Trump, Murphy said, “’is trying to seize control of our courts, of
our law enforcement, of our media, of our elections. His goal is oligarchic
capture,’ Murphy said, describing the current White House as ‘the most corrupt’
in the nation’s history... “He called on progressives to unite to counter
right-wing populism across the globe, pointing to [the] AfD party in Germany, [the]
far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen in France, former Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro, Orbán and Trump” – quite a mouthful, but not at all
surprising coming from Connecticut’s version of New York City socialist Mayor Zohran
Mamdani.
Both socialism and neo-progressivism are on the march, and historically,
both have marched to the same ideological drummer. The Soviet Union before its
breakup was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Hungary,
both before and after the first suppressed Hungarian Revolution, was a part of
the forced socialist collective. It may help Connecticut voters to recall that
Nutmeggers used to wrinkle their noses at the mention of socialist communism.
Murphy, The Hill reported, “also pushed for corporate power
to be broken up and to ‘confront the cult of corruption’ worldwide, which he
argued is harming working-class people. ‘This cult of corruption exists [not
only] in America, but in every other corner of this world,’ he said. ‘This is
the lesson from Hungary. The Hungarians refused to bend to the cult of
corruption. They demanded a higher standard from their public sector leaders,’
he added.”
The Baltic States and Poland have in the past heroically
sought to break free of the Soviet Socialist “Republic”. Some Hungarians in the
audience attentive to Murphy’s remarks no doubt will recall the forced
servitude of Hungary under the Soviet hegemon.
What lessons should Nutmeggers draw from Murphy’s remarks at
the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona, Spain?
Speaking before three thousand hopeful neo-progressives in
Spain, Murphy donned his frequently inflamed anti-President Trump face. It was
an event of searing declamations among left wing fellow travelers.
In its coverage of the conference, the Associated Press (AP)
noted, “Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, an outspoken critic of U.S.
President Donald Trump and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, hosted two
overlapping events about democracy and progressive politics in Spain’s
second-largest city.”
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018, Sanchez, also served as
Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since 2017,
previously having held that office from 2014 to 2016. He is the ninth president
of the Socialist International since 2022.
On March 30, the AP
reported, “Spain closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the
Iran war, officials said Monday, in another step by Europe’s loudest critic of
U.S. and Israeli military actions in the month-long conflict. The country
earlier said that the U.S. couldn’t use jointly operated military bases in the
war, which Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has described as illegal, reckless and
unjust. Defense Minister Margarita Robles said that the same logic applied to
the use of Spanish airspace.”
Murphy no doubt ingratiated himself with his fellow socialists
by his fervent remarks concerning Spain’s government. He was joined in his denunciations
by the fraud-soaked Democrat governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, a speaker at the
conference who recently ran for Vice President of the United States on a ticket
featuring Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate substitute for President
Joe Biden. Former President Biden was knocked out of the presidential ring by
an assortment of prestigious Democrat leaders, including, some suspect, former
President Barrack Obama and former Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi. Not
physically present in Spain during the conference, socialist Mayor of New York
City Zohran Mamdani was content offering Zoomed remarks.
The associated Press reported: “Sen. Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, spoke at the progressive
rally and he didn’t shy away from blasting Trump while celebrating the loss of
power of Trump’s ally Viktor Orbán in elections in Hungary last week.
“Donald Trump is out
to end our democracy,” Murphy said. “We are not on the verge of a totalitarian
takeover, we are in the middle of it.”
Many observers of the American scene heartily doubt that the
time remaining in the Trump presidency will allow Trump-the-totalitarian to
snuff out Democracy in America, a
book written by Alexis de Tocqueville too little read among neo-progressive
socialists on both sides of the Euro-American pond.
Republican government in the United States, Tocqueville
reminds us, will survive until Congress discovers a way to bribe the public
with the public's money. The allure of power and influence, he warns, can
corrupt the democratic process. Nor was Tocqueville a stranger to socialism.
Both democracy and socialism are grounded in equality, but the two differ from
each other none-the-less he maintained. Democracy seeks equality in liberty,
while socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Might it not be a good idea to require, before voting for
men and women in the US Congress, some firm assurance that they understand the
difference between servitude and liberty?
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