A friendly reminder in case you did not get a chance to brush up on world history – There have been many Marxist/ Socialist groups that started out in similar fashion, doing many of the same things we see across the land, today.
First
These groups’ Marxist approach and work towards dictatorship were advocated by academics, artists, and unionists along with their combined wealthy patrons, an effective way for the common man to say “Hey these people are not stupid. I will support them.”
Second
The largest recruiting ground was in the schools – from elementary school on up. They had at least one if not two generations to destroy critical thinking and create an obssessive perspective they misleadingly called critical thinking.
Third
The second largest recruiting ground was within labor in two countries, and farmers in another country. The appeal was (I’m paraphrasing to keep it simple) “Why should people with brains or guts be so much better off than you?”
Fourth
Early in their collective marches toward the destruction of freedom, liberty, and individual rights,came the denouncement of Christianity along with attacks on the nuclear and extended family, their significance as a source of values and principles that did not support the party lines.
This was evidenced by local politicians, professors, lawyers, and movie stars’ statements viewing Christianity as a roadblock to some future Brave New World that the leadership had created as a vision in the minds of their supporters and folllowers. It was well before WWII that we see evidence of exclusion, imprisonment, and murder of Protestants and Catholics.
Fifth
They had the media in their pocket. There is little record of public opposition to those regimes. By the time power had been seized, most opposition was being either killed or had to go into exile.
Sixth
There was a profound desire for a national civilian army/police force with powers inside their respective countries equal to the army (See Obama’s civilian security speech). Ultimately, they established a secret police with bribed and balckmailed informants who would testify to anything against a confirmed critic of the state, a neighbor they did not like, the father or husband of a woman they desired, a family whose home was nicer than theirs, etc.
Seventh
They ignore a lot of human nature but have a knack for utilising the worst aspects of human nature – envy, greed, hopelessness, making people think they are victims in order divide the populace, etc.
Eighth
The laws and constitutions of the countries of origin have been abused on all sides by the courts and the legal apparatuses for some time, mostly for personal gain, but frequently for what feels right to the governing body at the time. As the foundation of law is ignored, law become unrooted, whimsical, and meaningless.
Ninth
There was a lot of handwringing and whining about what the groups were doing at the time, but there was no serious, organized opposition, until it was too late.

The Groups
Russia – Bloshevik Leninists – strove for world wide communist dictatorship based on democratic,communist values, replaced by….(death toll- 3 million)

Russia – Stalinist – focused internally and on adjacent countries…..(death toll – 30 – 40 million starved to support policy, an additonal 30 million worked to death or murdered for opposition or being in the wrong place at the wrong time)

People’s Republic of China (Communist China)- Communist Party of China (CPC, death toll of opposition, 1949-1975 40 Million.

Germany – National Socialist German Worker’s Party – NAZI’s – beyond the dead from fighting WWII, most Protestant and Catholic Christians that opposed the occult and pagan mish mash of beliefs that the NAZIs were forcing down their children’s throats and their designs on goverance went to concentration camps or were killed by party thugs before and during the war. Then there is that small problem of murdering 6 million Jews. It is estimated that 13 million Germans were killed for opposing the NAZI’s.

There are smaller and more recent groups in history whose records are just as odious from the following countries – Viet Nam (vietnamese communist party), Cambodia (Kmer Rouge), Romania, Poland, Chekoslovakia, Laos, Iran, Egypt (Islamic Brotherhood), etc… but I really am trying to avoid a book here.

The only real way to change what is going on is to organize as the opposition has, using economic boycotts of companies that support this march toward socialism, recruiting voters, opening eyes, spreading the truth in the face of their lies, paying for media time, etc.

It takes organization, money, a vision, a supporting plan, and millions of volunteers and supporters.