Anyone who is younger than 60 years old should be aware of what former Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev said during an address to the United Nations in 1959.

Your children’s children will live under communism. He also said Americans are so gullible that you will not accept communism outright, but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you finally wake up and find that you already have communism. We will not have to fight you.

We will weaken your economy until you will fall like over-ripe fruit into our hands. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who are not willing to do so. It was Sept. 29, 1959, when Khrushchev delivered his prediction for America at the United Nations. At that time, just the word communism was feared throughout our nation. Remember this: socialism leads to communism.

So how do you create a socialist state? There are eight levels of control. One is poverty. Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them for free. Next is debt. Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes and this will produce more poverty. Next, gun control. Remove the ability for citizens to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.

Next, welfare. Take control of every aspect: food, housing, income of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government. Next, education. Take control of what people read and listen to and also take control of what children learn in school. Already in our colleges at this time.

Next, religion. Remove the belief in God from the government and the schools because the people need to believe in only the government knowing what is best for the people.

Next, class warfare. Divide the people into wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the rich with the support of the poor.

Now here is our scary future. Six of those levels are already pushed by the left. My suggestion is: wake up, America, before it is too late!

God bless America!

Richard Makuch is a Dunkirk resident.