Ray DiLorenzo ——Bio and Archives--January 10, 2026

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The 1850s were much like our country today. Democrats and Republicans were bitterly divided. On May 22, 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks (D-SC) entered the Senate Chamber, walked over to Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA), and repeatedly beat the senator over the head with his cane until he was rendered unconscious. The congressman was offended by the senator's objection to slavery.

The issues have taken a turn but not the melodrama. At that time, the primary issues were slavery and states' rights. Today, the issues are much more basic. Radical leftists have taken over the Democrat Party, abandoning the nation our founders built. They want a country without Judeo-Christian ethics, without rich and poor, and without classes of any sort. They want total economic equality, collectivism, redistribution, social and economic justice (?), the end to legal structures like property rights, and a country without borders. They want a robust skepticism toward courts and police departments. They want a sort of no-fault criminal system.

When I say collectivism, I mean rights are no longer granted to the individual but to the collective...the common good, whatever that means.

They want a communist state. They will be deceived; their plan will not eliminate the elites they hate so much. It will expand the elites to include the Left's leadership. Their plans are identical to those of every communist state that has ever existed.........

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