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Do You Hate Communism Enough?

Posted on | May 11, 2026 | No Comments

The answer to the question in the headline is obviously no — it is impossible that any of us could hate Communism as much as we should. Unless you were a Chilean helicopter pilot back in the day, perhaps, you could almost certainly use a booster shot for your anti-Communism.

This point was brought home by Data Republican:

I am going to keep repeating this until people understand this.
Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and Communist, but she got elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She is not a “DEI mayor.” She is extremely powerful at the global stage.
She was actively involved in shaping foreign policy with the Obama administration, especially Africa. Her Ghana visit during the LA wildfires wasn’t a vacation, it was part of a Biden delegate to greet Ghana’s new President.
She was considered HUD Secretary for the Biden administration. Instead, she nominated the person who would become the actual HHS Secretary – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
Now, let me ask you. If a literal Castro operative gets elevated to this stage, what does this imply about the rest of the United States government?

Is this clear enough? Too many of our Republican friends dismiss Bass as a dimwitted clown, dangerous only because of her incompetence. However, Bass has held positions of major influence, and was among the finalists in Biden’s search for a VP pick in 2020. It was when she was under consideration for that choice that her early involvement in the Venceremos Brigade attracted critical scrutiny:

In the mid-1970s, California Congresswoman Karen Bass, who is now under consideration to be Joe Biden’s running mate, was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade, according to several contemporaneous media accounts and an interview with the future congresswoman published in a 1996 Ph.D. dissertation. The brigade organized six-week work trips for American leftists of all tendencies who wanted to visit and support Cuba . . .
An event blurb in an October 1975 issue of the communist Daily World newspaper describes Bass, then 22, as “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California.” Bass herself explained her work for the brigade to a doctoral candidate working on a 1996 Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the Fielding Institute, titled “Women Activists of Diverse Backgrounds: A Qualitative Study of Perceived Influences and Values.” “Another critical influence for Bass began, at age 19, and spanned the next five years: Cuba,” reads the document, written by Dawn Noggle, who is currently the director of mental health services for the Maricopa County correctional system. “As a ‘brigadista’ and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, Karen visited Cuba every 6 months.”

If the Daily World considered you a comrade? Yeah. And if you study more about the Venceremos Brigade, you realize that this group is what we may call terrorist-adjacent: The infamous Susan Rosenberg traveled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade in 1976.

In case you don’t know, Susan Rosenberg was part of the Weather Underground faction calling itself the May 19th Communist Organization (M19), which perpetrated the murderous 1981 Brinks robbery and bombed the U.S. Capitol in 1983. Violent hatred of America is what the Venceremos Brigade was really all about and yet, somehow, Karen Bass’s years of membership did not disqualify her from being elected to Congress and then becoming mayor of Los Angeles?

You may hate Communism as much as I do — which, nevertheless, is not enough — but there is clearly a larger problem: In the post-Cold War era, too many Americans don’t even realize that Communism is still an active danger, and therefore are willing to vote for radicals like Karen Bass. People need to beware of the existential threat of the Red Menace.



 

Category: California, Cuba, History

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