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The examples are legion: Senator Dick Durbin compares our soldiers to the most infamous mass murderers of the 20^th century; Congressman Jack Murtha calls American battle heroes murderers; Democratic congressional caucuses pay homage to Fidel Castro; liberal politicians insist that a mosque at Ground Zero is a wonderful thing and you’re a racist; and on and on and on—including the actions and words of the president who refers to his own people as enemies needing punished. We Americans who don’t think that way shake our heads in disbelief.  Do these Democrats and socialists—these union bosses and progressives—not see that the foreign ideologies they champion so unabashedly at the expense of America and the American way of life represent the antithesis of everything they hold dear? Does it not occur to these militant advocates of feminism and gay rights that Islam outlaws both?  Is the Western Left, while screaming out against censorship and private book burnings, oblivious to the total government control of information and literature integral to all communist and Muslim societies? How can liberals proscribe prayer in schools, dismiss In God We Trust, and demand a separation of church and state while distending their limbs not only to apologize for, but to pave the way for, Islam? In what world does it make sense to spout off about human rights while holding up posters of Che Guevara?

Any sixth-grader whose classroom has been visited by a president and a teleprompter should know the following: every communist government in history established itself only after wiping out millions of its own citizens. We now know, thanks to the Russians themselves, that Stalin alone murdered between 60 and 70 million people—as many as Mao. Pol Pot eliminated nearly half of the Cambodian population. Throw in Castro, the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, and the Eastern European dictators of the 20^th century, and communism is responsible for nearly as many deaths since its inception as Islam is since its own birth 1400 years ago. The numbers for both are in the hundreds of millions, and that’s not to mention those sentenced to the gulags, prisons, and re-education camps that characterize each. The Nazis and Fascists, which terms popularly define anyone who disagrees with liberalism, were pikers by comparison. Yet Western progressives have been consistent in their admiration for these types of psycho-ideologies while expressing their disdain for capitalism and individual liberty. But this twisted, self-contradictory way of thinking is nothing new; it has deep roots in the Democratic Party. Some Democrats, however, stand out from the others in this regard owing to the extent of their power, the depth of their credulity (and/or stupidity), and even, in some cases, the egregiousness of their treachery. There are four in particular who are worthy of study: two presidents, and two senators who wanted to be president. Those four are FDR, Jimmy Carter, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy. The media, and for the most part the history books, have overlooked or covered up for these their philosophical comrades, and they’ve done it for obvious reasons. These men are all icons to the American Left, and their legacies are not to be besmirched. But the documentation is out there for anyone who cares to look for it. There is so much documentation in fact, spelling out their duplicity or their sheer ignorance, that each one deserves his own article. It’s my intention to give it to them, too. Here, we will begin with Senator Edward Kennedy.

Let’s be clear: Ted Kennedy was no Jack Kennedy. Liberal or not, the latter understood communism for what it was, and he understood Soviet intentions—those of world domination. As we will see, Ted Kennedy was either clueless regarding Soviet history, or he admired it. The one thing that is certain is that he went above and beyond to perpetuate the existence of the Soviet state, and he did it intentionally. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian authorities declassified certain KGB documents, allowing a few enterprising Westerners to have a look. High-level KGB defectors also brought with them a considerable amount of documentation. We can glean from these papers the extent of Ted Kennedy’s complicity in the Soviet attempt to defeat the United States for world Communism.

A former KGB archivist, Vasiliy Mitrokhin, shared information with U.S. intelligence officials detailing how Kennedy had sent his first message to the Kremlin—and to Leonid Brezhnev in particular—on March 5, 1980, through his law school roommate, former California senator John Tunney. In Kennedy’s gin-weakened mind, a President Carter who was submissive and inept in reality was instead a hardened cold-warrior of the first order. Carter, Kennedy thought, was exacerbating Cold War tensions, and Kennedy wanted to work with Brezhnev secretly to implement the Soviet leader’s “peace loving proposals.” The belligerent Jimmy Carter was aggravating hostilities and Kennedy stated to the Soviets that he felt it his duty to take his own action. This laughable assessment and ill-conceived overture of Kennedy’s resulted in no harm in the long run, but the same can’t be said for his next gesture to the Evil Empire.

Ronald Reagan’s unwavering crusade against communism had the Soviets on tenterhooks from the night of his election; but when he announced his Strategic Defense Initiative on March 23, 1983, they became apoplectic. The CIA immediately began receiving intelligence that the Soviets thought they were doomed. They believed Reagan had outsmarted them, and they were now destined to lose the Cold War. Soviet missiles would be worthless. The Russians had been exploring the possibility of just such a defense system of their own for years, and although they had been unable to accomplish it, they knew it could be executed by a technologically-advanced nation like the United States. They were now obsessed, preoccupied, and scared to death.

Enter Ted Kennedy. The Massachusetts senator, within a day of Reagan’s SDI speech, denounced the president for his “misleading Red-scare tactics and reckless Star Wars schemes.” The derogatory term, which suggested the confused former-actor Reagan was unable to distinguish movie scripts from reality, stuck. The media loved it, and so did the Kremlin. Kennedy, his fellow Democrats, and their cohorts in the press, did what the Communists could not have done on their own. They ridiculed SDI so relentlessly that it was nearly discarded. The Russians adopted the Star Wars theme in their own derisive reports on Reagan, and reprinted the comments of esteemed American leftists in their newspapers. They had been given new life.

But perhaps Kennedy was only returning a favor. He had visited the Soviet Union recently, and was treated to a grand Russian wedding ceremony. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that all progressive Western visitors, the intellectual class, were treated to that same wedding. As it happened, the man who worked that event for his Kremlin masters, Yuri Bezmenov, was a spy for the U.S. He referred to Senator Kennedy in a 1984 interview as the worst of the “useful idiots.” Kennedy was “Another greatest example of monumental idiocy among American politicians.” Bezmenov included a photograph of Kennedy dancing with the “bride.” Comrade Kennedy was being manipulated and despised by the people he thought were his friends. Like the Islamists who replaced them as the world’s most serious threat, the Soviets laughed—often incredulously—at American dupes behind their backs. But it was just a few weeks after the SDI speech, on May 14, that the senator performed his most treacherous act against the security of his own country.

Again through his confidant John Tunney, Kennedy relayed a message to Moscow. The bully Ronald Reagan was ruining everything the Soviets had worked for, and Kennedy again felt it his duty to undermine the American warmonger. He suggested that General Secretary Yuri Andropov invite him to Moscow for a meeting, where Kennedy would instruct Soviet officials on how to win the hearts and minds of the American public. (Who knew more about that than Ted Kennedy?) He wanted the Communists to “appeal directly to the American people about the peaceful intentions of the USSR.” He had worked out a plan that utilized his friends in the media to sway television viewers away from Reagan to the communist side. He also mentioned the strong likelihood that the Democratic Party would come to him and request he run against Reagan in 1984.

The Soviet Union was an enemy to the United States and a nemesis to the entire free world. The Soviets were brutal, vindictive, and unscrupulous. As with all communist governments, it was a criminal enterprise on a massive scale. After the fall of Soviet communism, we learned first-hand of the sufferers in the gulags and in the labor camps behind the iron curtain who had got word of Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech. We heard account after account of how those words—and especially that epithet—had given hope and comfort to so many. To the millions who had died and to the millions who were enduring indescribable misery on a daily basis under the boot of communist tyranny, Ted Kennedy and his co-religionists in the left-wing circles were the worst of traitors. We don’t know if Kennedy ever made that trip to Moscow—the KGB documentation only went so far—but we do know that he gave the enemy hope when all hope had been lost. Former Soviet agents have since told us that the pressure and threat of Reagan’s SDI shortened the regime’s life by several years. Even so, Kennedy must have lengthened it.

The declassified Soviet documentation was ignored in the West and Kennedy was never held to account. That information was released in 1992, meaning Kennedy’s machinations with America’s premiere enemy had occurred less than nine years before. The truth is he should’ve been exiled at the very least. He was a coward and a criminal at Chappaquiddick, and his actions got worse from there. But until the media are no longer cut from the same despicable cloth as Edward Kennedy, villains are destined to be remembered as heroes, and innocent people are doomed to suffer for it. Unfortunately, the concept of peace through idiocy isn’t going away.