Op-ed: 

On America's 250th Birthday 

By; Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

This opinion piece is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com 

 

...But here please know that our beloved America will survive long after this our nation's 250th birthday, simply because America must survive...there are no other tangible options available. Why so...because if what was our “Founders and Framers” grand experiment...the experiment that was and thankfully remains the “United States of America”...if it were to fail it would, in my opinion, herald in and leave open the possible demise of the sum of Western civilization itself on both an economic and cultural level, thus in turn leaving a vacuum of power the world has never seen before.

And now with less than a week to go until our great nation is officially 250 years old, know that it is import that the collective sum of “We the People” celebrate her milestone birthday together...together in unity even if for some it's only to honor the official signing of the “Declaration of Independence” and nothing more. And for many others, let's put our political differences aside for at least this one day, because what has been and still is our trying to forge a “more perfect union” does remain an ongoing process. We must continue to learn from both our past struggles as well as our true and lasting achievements if we are to remain...as per the words of the great Ronald Reagan in his “Farewell Address” to the nation, “a magnet for all who must have freedom.” Read entire article here.

Op-ed: 

On America's 250th Birthday 

By; Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

This opinion piece is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com 

First let's get something straight right upfront, America's 250th Birthday celebration is not about President Donald Trump contrary to the words off his political naysayers...for the simple fact is that the man just happens to be president on our great nation's semiquincentennial birthday. And I believe President Trump's saying that, “I think it’s going to be the biggest event we’ve ever had at the White House,” is just a plain and simple fact for this birthday, and all the fanfare that rightfully belongs to it, will show the world that America as a nation truly still is the greatest and freest nation the world has ever known.

And while many on both sides of the political aisle are not happy with our president right now especially in regards to his handling of the Iranian War...and I freely admit that I am one of those folks...I must also admit that I still honor Donald Trump as my president for he has accomplished much for the betterment of our country, with the closing of our southern border quickly coming to mind. And here also know that I see America’s 250th Birthday as being an opportunity to help pull together what is now our sadly divided nation, that is if we start to focus on our shared commonalities instead of on what always seems to be our ever volatile and differing political discourse and opinions.

Our nation's 250 years of freedom should be a true and joyous celebration of what is our ”Declaration of Independence” for on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress officially severed the 13 colonies' political ties to Great Britain as well as to King George III himself, thus seeing our founding principals of freedom and self governance finally beginning to take hold. And while our new nation was indeed born from war, to date, no nation in recorded history has done more to help end war and secure peace than these United States of America.

And on this very special July 4th, if nothing else, this day should be the very day that we as Americans...minus any and all hyphens...should  celebrate together...together as the sum of “We the American People.” Remember, it's not the president nor any member of any political party who should take center stage nor “steal the thunder” away from the very document that defined not only who we are as a nation, but clearly stated that “all men are created equal,” and have the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Also, remember, as fact, that our nation, even when bruised at times, has survived intact for 250 years because of those stated words...and done so no matter who was the president at any given time or from which party said president belonged to.

However, even with all that I just stated, we still do, at times, find peace hard to come by...peace not just in the literal cessation of battle itself along with the laying down of weapons...but in “peace of mind”  in knowing that the war we had just fought was both indeed “noble and just.”  Peace, what is true and lasting peace, is not always what we thought, dreamed, or hoped it would be especially now as we exist in what are truly unstable and volatile times. And it is the very nature of time itself that can change the concept of not only how an ongoing political discourse in relation to garnering peace is perceived, but in how we understand not just where we came from, but what we as a nation can become in regards to us...not the UN...seemingly still being the world's peacekeeping force.

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Thirty one words...one's pledge of loyalty to our beloved America...a statement meant to unite we Americans together as one people no matter ones race, creed, color, sex, or religion, yet it's a pledge that at times, for some, does divide us even more so when it crosses over into ethnic, and what are religiously deemed moral lines. And that divide is mostly do to the politics of any given day, as it seems instead to have divided our nation even further along and within given party lines.

And know that the said divide is in no way the fault of the words of nor the meaning behind the pledge itself, but is the fault of “We the People” who seem to have forgotten that while political rhetoric does indeed tend to change both in times of war, and when the party in power changes hands, some in both the Republican and the Democrat parties seem unwilling to walk away from their deeply, what appears most likely to be, self-indoctrinated hate. The word “bipartisanship” has truly become a dirty word in regards to today's political discourse no matter that it is acts of “bipartisanship” that actually heralds America's successes rather than turning focus onto what some consider to be her failures.

But here please know that our beloved America will survive long after this our nation's 250th birthday, simply because America must survive...there are no other tangible options available. Why so...because if what was our “Founders and Framers” grand experiment...the experiment that was and thankfully remains the “United States of America”...if it were to fail it would, in my opinion, herald in and leave open the possible demise of the sum of Western civilization itself on both an economic and cultural level, thus in turn leaving a vacuum of power the world has never seen before.

And now with less than a week to go until our great nation is officially 250 years old, know that it is important that the collective sum of “We the People” celebrate her milestone birthday together...together in unity even if for some it's only to honor the official signing of the “Declaration of Independence” and nothing more. And for many others, let's put our political differences aside for at least this one day, because what has been and still is our trying to forge a “more perfect union” does remain an ongoing process. We must continue to learn from both our past struggles as well as our true and lasting achievements if we are to remain...as per the words of the great Ronald Reagan in his “Farewell Address” to the nation, “a magnet for all who must have freedom.”

Happy 250th Birthday my beloved America. May you have many more yet uncounted years to show the world that America, that American principles, that American values and ideals, are indeed something to strive for both now and into the future. Case closed.

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

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Op-ed: 

Socialism, Commonalities, and Lessons Not Learned 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google 

 

 ...This is the true wish of today's Democrat party and those who are now doing her bidding, for not only has the groundwork already been laid by the likes of Fidel Castro and Barack Obama...the president whose deepest wish was to “fundamentally transform America” into a socialist nation...but now sees the torch being passed to Zohran Mamdani, the first outwardly socialist mayor-elect of New York City, with others like him waiting and salivating in the wings.

 

But what is most unsettling of all in this shoved down our throats socialist discourse is the fact that we as a nation have willingly allowed not only history to repeat itself, but that we sat back and watched those nations currently embracing socialism being on the precipice of abject failure. Is this what we truly want for our beloved America...is this what we are slowly allowing to happen here? Unless we stop this Democrat initiated socialist movement while it's still somewhat in its infancy stage ...unless tangible actions are taken now to do so...what is the Democrats push towards socialism could well morph into Lenin's truth of socialism being but a step towards communism...Read entire article here.   

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Op-ed: 

Socialism, Commonalities, and Lessons Not Learned 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google    

“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”                         - Vladimir Lenin, revolutionary founder of the Russian Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), and first head of the Soviet Union (USSR).

Three men...one was a true dictator in every sense of the word; one worked for eight long years to “transform” and undermine the very country he was elected to serve and protect; and the last is but a whiny little “nepo baby” who has never held what amounts to a real job in his life, and who now is knowingly and willingly planning for America's largest city's ultimate demise.

Three men from different walks of life, and yet they are three men whose backgrounds share two key commonalities...commonalities overlooked by those caught up in the hype and vitriol that these men surely spewed.

So what exactly allowed these three men...Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, and now Zohran Mamdani...to become the political powerhouses and amass the power that they did? First, all three men shared not only a deep seated inner quest for power coupled with an all-consuming need for control, but also saw the ground work for what became both their political beginnings and their political legacies being born while they were students in college.

And second, these men also developed and then nurtured what was their charismatic personalities while in college. And it was via charisma alone...as in their ability to attract, charm, influence, and inspire others through what the public deemed to be their personal appeal (physical appeal included) along with their shared excellent communication skills...that helped these three men negate what should have been the people's use of simple “common sense.”

And even if their respective supporters had but a mere semblance of “common sense,” coupled with what is the logical “cause and effect” reality of what were but three cleverly crafted, and ever so infamous political facades, these three men might never have gained the power that they did...or in Mamdani's case the power that he will have come this January 1st...or caused the seemingly unfixable damage that they did.

So let's briefly start with Fidel Castro, and while not an American, he and his successors have been a thorn in America's side for decades. And like Obama and Mamdani, Castro's political involvement begin while a student at the University of Havana, where he participated in “resistance movements” while becoming a lawyer. Running unsuccessfully for office before Batista's 1952 military coup, Castro rose to power via a “guerrilla campaign”...a campaign promising the people everything, albeit socialist style. And when he overthrew Batista in 1959, Castro, was not only deeply entrenched in communist ideologies, but was a communist dictator sitting but 90 miles off America's shores. And when his brother Raul succeeded him, President Obama sought to normalize diplomatic relations with now communist Cuba.

Also briefly, the second man in this “trio of infamy” is none other than Barack Hussein Obama himself, the man who not only became involved in politics while in college, but who joined a number of Black Student organizations, and took part in anti-apartheid activities. After college and law school, Barack Obama became a “community organizer;” was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996; became a U.S. senator in 2005; then sashayed himself into the national spotlight when in 2004 he delivering the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention where Bill Clinton was nominated. And while basking in his new found media fame, Obama was “anointed” as America's first black president* in 2008, and again in 2012.

And lastly, the third man who also became politically involved as a college student is “proud” Democrat Socialist (read communist here) Zohran Mamdani who not only co-founded his college's chapter of the “Students for Justice in Palestine...the very organization behind almost all the anti-Israel protests on U.S. college campuses...while also advocating for academic and cultural boycotts of Israel (BDS). After graduation, Mamdani took an active part in numerous nationally recognized progressive organizations before he became a New York assembly man; and now the first muslim and socialist elected mayor of New York City. Guess foolish New Yorkers learned nothing from the disaster that has become London.

Three dangerous men...Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, and Zohran Mamdani... three men sharing the same socialist and to some degree communist ideologies...with Castro's reign having crossed over into outright communism, and with some of Mamdani's upcoming plans for New York City coming pretty damn close as well.

And while Barack Obama did not officially cross the Communist line in his two terms as president, not to be forgotten is that as a “community organizer” Obama worked closely with avowed socialists whose backgrounds encompassed both the Communist Party itself and/or what is referred to as “independent Marxists.” Also, know that the “Communist Party USA” campaigned for Obama during his successful 2004 Illinois Senate race, and supported, albeit somewhat quietly, his two presidential runs, and considered him “a friend to the party” while he was in office.

Socialism and communism were deep seated ideologies locked within the consciousness of these three men while in college, Three men who when assuming power continued to promise the people any and everything while in reality delivered nothing but chaos, failed economic policies...in Mamdani's case soon to come failed policies...coupled with law and order run amok.

And their actions were all overseen courtesy of a not so veiled demigod hand of sorts while their personal pockets continued to overflow with monies garnered off the misery of those who sold their souls for, in Obama and Mamdani's case, a continuing generational “free ride;” while in Castro's case the Cuban people bought into his now communist regime's attempt at “forced equalization” of what was then deemed to be a lack of a true “middle class.” Remember, Cuba under Batista was basically but not fully a two class system...one was either wealthy or one was poor with a small middle class existing in pockets scattered here and there to become nonexistent once Castro assumed power.

Three men who not only capitalized on and cleverly manipulated the support of their respective public to gain power, but three men whose commonality was not only a shared applauding of taking from the rich to give to and subsidize those who count on making more money by “being poor for a living” then by actually working, but people whose continuing support these men then could count on as long as they held on to the reigns of political power. And how did Castro and Obama accomplish this...how does Mamdani hope to accomplish this...simply by embraced the time proven old adage that “no one will bite the hand of those who feeds, houses, and clothes them.”

Simply, while Fidel Castro embraced socialism at first and moved very swiftly on to in-your-face communism; Barack Obama pretended to be a Democrat with some socialist leanings while maintaining friendships and close ties to the Communist Party USA; while Zohran Mamdani continues claiming that he remains a loyal and very proud “Democrat Socialist” when in reality he's nursing future presidential aspirations as his ego has now fully embraced the idea that he has become the left's poster boy, and seemingly best chance for their socialist America dream to come true.

And while all three men did openly embrace varying degrees of socialism while in college, the fact remains that socialism, when left to its own devices, either tends to outright fail or morph into that which is akin to outright communism, but without the actual c-word being attached to it. Such is the future, I believe, that Mamdani has planned for New York City as he and his socialist driven team works to make the “Big Apple” ground zero from which socialism can then start to spread outward nation wide...spread to the point where both state and class distinctions become but a thing of the past.

“Socialism is but a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”                                - British Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill

And so serious has Mamdani's spewed socialist rhetoric been taken by Republicans and conservatives alike, that Mamdani's self-professed political identity...an identity who desires to become but a socialist “demigod” of sorts...has now drawn direct comparisons to Fidel Castro's once socialist dream morphing into but another communist dictatorship, especially with knowing history's proven fact that socialism is but the transitional phase between capitalism and communism. And for this reason alone, last month we saw House Republicans passing a resolution condemning what they rightfully called the “horrors of socialism,” while they listed Fidel Castro among other “socialist ideologues,” in a move seen by the far left as a “political jab” at Mamdani's so-called rising political profile.

But know this was no mere Republican “political jab” against one person or even the Democrat party itself, but was an all out warning to “We the People” regarding what the far left had not only been planning all along, but had already started implementing, as in our beloved America becoming a socialist nation with abject communism not a future impossibility.

In fact, this very scenario can be witnessed by not just the growing socialist movement now embracing certain “blue” areas of our country today, but by us seeing an overall nationwide increase in anti-government protests replete with community based organizing...shades of Obama come quickly and ominously to mind. 

And what must not be forgotten, simply downplayed, or even deliberately lost within all the political rhetoric now being spewed, is the fact that socialism always seems to morph into poverty coupled with political repression in what then becomes what is a totally classless and stateless society endlessly adrift on a boat sadly going nowhere.

This is the true wish of today's Democrat party and those who are now doing her bidding, for not only has the groundwork already been laid by the likes of Fidel Castro and Barack Obama...the president whose deepest wish was to “fundamentally transform America” into a socialist nation...but now sees the torch being passed to Zohran Mamdani, the first outwardly socialist mayor-elect of New York City, with others like him waiting and salivating in the wings.

But what is most unsettling of all in this shoved down our throats socialist discourse is the fact that we as a nation have willingly allowed not only history to repeat itself, but that we sat back and watched those nations currently embracing socialism being on the precipice of abject failure. Is this what we truly want for our beloved America...is this what we are slowly allowing to happen here? Unless we stop this Democrat initiated socialist movement while it's still somewhat in its infancy stage ...unless tangible actions are taken now to do so...what is the Democrats push towards socialism could well morph into Lenin's truth of socialism being but a step towards communism.

Fidel Castro knew this truth and succeeded...Obama knew it but thankfully failed...Zohran Mamdani knows it as well, but in today's America seemingly being driven by actions of hate and violence, Mamdani, or someone like him, could succeed where Obama failed. Just something to think about as commonalities shared do tend to breed strange yet dangerously successful bedfellows...case closed.

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Footnote

* Technically (as in genetically) Barack Obama was not America's first “black president” but America's first “mixed race” president as his mother was white and his father black.

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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