Democrat Success: The Age of Delusion

usually results in policies that ends up

with bad drinking water

dead bodies on the streets

and a lot of poor folk
And always ends in blaming rich white conservatives.

Virtually every time. Well, actually every time.

They are all, with out exception, losers.


“Modern liberalism has corrupted the concept of ‘equality,’ and replaced it with a radical egalitarianism: equality is imposed even when normal distinctions militate against it. That notion caused the prompt skewing of the non-discrimination laws by the bureaucrats and courts into whose care the implementation of the policy was given.

Non-discrimination became discrimination, but against different people: white males. The new discrimination did not violate the tenets of radical egalitarianism, because modern liberals, who control these policies, do not think in terms of individuals but in terms of groups. Thus, proportional representation of groups in the workplace, on faculties, and in student bodies looks like non-discrimination to them. That is the rationale for affirmative action.” Robert H. Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 79



BTW.....I found that two of the very best tomes on what has happened to western civilization in general, and American politics specifically, are Bork's and Goldberg's ("Liberal Fascism")
1. You moralist gotta keep them nasty gheys down socially, your gawd demands it, right after you state that your religion is a religion of love...

2. The Declaration and Constitution emphasizes that all are equal and should be treated as such..

As far a social backlash, that has nothing to do with democracy or a republic, but how society treated groups years ago..
 
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    1. "The Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison)a was an atheistic belief system established in France and intended as a replacement for Christianity during the French Revolution."
    2. Cult of Reason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As was already proven to you, Robespierre was not an atheist; he rejected both the Catholic Church (good for him, in those times) AND the Cult of Reason.

The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême)a was a form of deism established in France byMaximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution.[1] The cult advocates Deism personified as a Goddess also inspired by the principles of the Revolution. It was intended to become the state religion of the new French Republic and a response against Catholicism and its rival, Cult of Reason.[2][/QUOTE]
 
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1. Once the direction of society is placed in the hands of those who can use rationalizations to grow their own power and wealth, the decline begins.
And so it is with the Democrat Party.


David Mamet has written that the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization is that principles of justice are laid in our religious texts, and the truths therein have been worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.

In order to diminish the power of moral guidance, the forces behind the French Revolution demanded that religion be replaced by man's mind, intellect, and reason. Not only was this a colossal failure, as evidenced by some 600,000 deaths that resulted...but it gave us this:

a. "If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror




2. Summarized by the motto of the radical's of the 60s, "if it feels good, do it," those who put their faith in man's powers of reason have always sought ways to justify any behaviors, and that has been the power wielded by the Left.....notably the Democrat Party.
"Do whatever you wish....and no one is every to think the worst of you.

There is actually a current thread in which Leftists have demanded no drug testing for welfare recipients.



a. Charles Murray put it this way:

"One change in societal attitude has been the“ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."


Criminality, out of wedlock births, abortion, demands for confiscation of the property of others, undeserved perqs, anti-biological gender pretense.....no matter how absurd....you want it, you've got it!



3.".....[academia's] disparaging of western civilization virtually wiped out respect for any serious study of history and civics, as well as for the Socratic method and the rules of civil discourse. Political correctness sewed confusion into the language, particularly regarding identity politics. Youth are now set to be programmed for conformity through the K-12 “Common Core” curriculum mandates.

4. All of that and more promotes the semantic fog that allows for mind rape. It amounts to an act of “logicide,” .... "
How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion


Delusion and Democrats.....go together like carrots and peas.

How unsurprising is it that PoliticalChic would blame logic, reason, and rationality for what she thinks are our societal ills...
 
usually results in policies that ends up

with bad drinking water

dead bodies on the streets

and a lot of poor folk
And always ends in blaming rich white conservatives.

Virtually every time. Well, actually every time.

They are all, with out exception, losers.


“Modern liberalism has corrupted the concept of ‘equality,’ and replaced it with a radical egalitarianism: equality is imposed even when normal distinctions militate against it. That notion caused the prompt skewing of the non-discrimination laws by the bureaucrats and courts into whose care the implementation of the policy was given.

Non-discrimination became discrimination, but against different people: white males. The new discrimination did not violate the tenets of radical egalitarianism, because modern liberals, who control these policies, do not think in terms of individuals but in terms of groups. Thus, proportional representation of groups in the workplace, on faculties, and in student bodies looks like non-discrimination to them. That is the rationale for affirmative action.” Robert H. Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 79



BTW.....I found that two of the very best tomes on what has happened to western civilization in general, and American politics specifically, are Bork's and Goldberg's ("Liberal Fascism")
1. You moralist gotta keep them nasty gheys down socially, your gawd demands it, right after you state that your religion is a religion of love...

2. The Declaration and Constitution emphasizes that all are equal and should be treated as such..

As far a social backlash, that has nothing to do with democracy or a republic, but how society treated groups years ago..


So...you wanna change the subject?

That means I win, huh?

Again.
 
Yes. The figures about the French Revolution weren't true. The charge that the Revolutionaries abandoned religion is not true.
She only will focus on the contempt that the church created by aligning itself with the worst despots and charging the populace a fee for their being established, and their higher tier of social standings, instead of being Christlike..



Still no rebuttal of the premise.


I'd say 'you have to do better,'....

....but we both know you can't.
Had the church not abused it position, nothing would have been done to the church or the clergy...


Oooooo.....

....look how rapidly you're running away from ""The Church was not destroyed in the French revolution,..."



This is simply too darn easy.
The church was not destroyed, just reorganized...........It was no more destroyed than when England threw off the Papacy for their own religious and social freedom...

The Catholic Church was a menace in Europe for centuries. It was perfectly logical that eventually human progress would put it in its place.
 
1. Once the direction of society is placed in the hands of those who can use rationalizations to grow their own power and wealth, the decline begins.
And so it is with the Democrat Party.


David Mamet has written that the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization is that principles of justice are laid in our religious texts, and the truths therein have been worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.

In order to diminish the power of moral guidance, the forces behind the French Revolution demanded that religion be replaced by man's mind, intellect, and reason. Not only was this a colossal failure, as evidenced by some 600,000 deaths that resulted...but it gave us this:
.

We've seen the PC rant at least 3 times before.

No, 600,000 did not die in the French Revolution. That count drags in all sorts of events so marginally connected to the French Revolution so as to be comical, such as the wars that France was involved in around the Revolutionary period.

Speaking of 600,000, that's how many died in the American Civil War. In 4 short years.

Shall we blame that on the abandonment of religion, too?

Just a fun fact to add. That 600,000 figure that this cult PC apparently belongs to is so fixated on?

The entire population of Paris at the time was 600,000.

Just a fun fact.
 
The Democrat Party thrives on the mob mentality....



7. "Most cannot grasp that such mobs are mentally detached from reality. And participants in the mob action cannot comprehend that they are actually cutting off their own freedom of expression, as well as everybody else’s.


"Why would anyone want to build such a culture of coercion?

In a word, power.

“Equality” is not the reason for what is happening with such mobs. It is the pretext for what they are doing.

Like all such deceptions, its sole purpose is as a vehicle to transfer power from individuals to an increasingly centralized state. The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless." How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion





a. Sociologist Helmut Schoeck’s observation: “Since the end of the Second World War, however, a new ‘ethic’ has come into being, according to which the envious man is perfectly acceptable. Progressively fewer individuals and groups are ashamed of their envy, but instead make out that its existence in their temperaments axiomatically proves the existence of ‘social injustice,’ which must be eliminated for their benefit.”
Helmut Schoeck, “Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior,” p. 179




b. "The deniers first deceive themselves that they are sincere in their adherence to falsehoods. Thus they cannot be faulted for acting on genuinely held views.

But in truth, they have cultivated an ignorance of the facts, what Thomas Aquinas called ignorantia affectata. An ignorance so useful that one protects it at all costs, in order to continue using it in one’s own self interest. This ignorance is not exculpatory, but inculpatory.
Forgive them not, for they know full well what they do.' RICHARD BADALAMENTE
 
The Democrat Party thrives on the mob mentality....



7. "Most cannot grasp that such mobs are mentally detached from reality. And participants in the mob action cannot comprehend that they are actually cutting off their own freedom of expression, as well as everybody else’s.


"Why would anyone want to build such a culture of coercion?

In a word, power.

“Equality” is not the reason for what is happening with such mobs. It is the pretext for what they are doing.

Like all such deceptions, its sole purpose is as a vehicle to transfer power from individuals to an increasingly centralized state. The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless." How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion





a. Sociologist Helmut Schoeck’s observation: “Since the end of the Second World War, however, a new ‘ethic’ has come into being, according to which the envious man is perfectly acceptable. Progressively fewer individuals and groups are ashamed of their envy, but instead make out that its existence in their temperaments axiomatically proves the existence of ‘social injustice,’ which must be eliminated for their benefit.”
Helmut Schoeck, “Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior,” p. 179




b. "The deniers first deceive themselves that they are sincere in their adherence to falsehoods. Thus they cannot be faulted for acting on genuinely held views.

But in truth, they have cultivated an ignorance of the facts, what Thomas Aquinas called ignorantia affectata. An ignorance so useful that one protects it at all costs, in order to continue using it in one’s own self interest. This ignorance is not exculpatory, but inculpatory.
Forgive them not, for they know full well what they do.' RICHARD BADALAMENTE

The above post, ridiculing 'mob mentality', authored by someone who proudly considers herself one of the Dittoheads...

...the perfect example of a mob.
 
Belonging to the Democrat Party offers one the warm embrace of the herd....protection against having to stand alone, and to have to think for oneself.

And the cost is simply the pretense of not noticing the lies and corruption.



8. “Crowds and Power,” by Elias Canetti, is a classic work that explores in detail the draw of the crowd for human beings. With the continued chipping away of the organic family of mother-child-father, human relationships inevitably become diluted and more subservient to a mass state. This detachment cultivates human alienation, which draws more people to answer to the call of the mass state’s mob.Free Speech Is the Only Antidote to Mass Delusion



9. “The Rape of the Mind” could have served as a terrific manual to inoculate many against political correctness and groupthink, had it not collected so much dust since it was published in 1956. More of us could have learned how free speech is essential to preventing mass delusion.

Free expression is always the prime target of tyrants ..." How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion



a. From a review of "The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing,"byJoost Meerloo
"Classic every true American should read! Explains how people have become mass-hypnotized to accept and even promote Communist propaganda in America. For the younger readers, it was common knowledge in the 1950s that if America was to fall, it would be from within, i.e., some kind of moral or Trojan horse-induced collapse.


.... the Soviet Communists knew they could not be us on the battlefield. Now, the Leninist wing of the Communist party has followed his direction and secretly infiltrated our government and virtually every segment of our country and brainwashed the public via the methods described in this book to believe in and even unconsciously promote the ideas of atheistic Communism.


The current thrust is a flavor of Communism known as Fascism or Nazism, i.e., Hitler's approach. Wake up America!"
 
1. Once the direction of society is placed in the hands of those who can use rationalizations to grow their own power and wealth, the decline begins.
And so it is with the Democrat Party.


David Mamet has written that the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization is that principles of justice are laid in our religious texts, and the truths therein have been worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.

In order to diminish the power of moral guidance, the forces behind the French Revolution demanded that religion be replaced by man's mind, intellect, and reason. Not only was this a colossal failure, as evidenced by some 600,000 deaths that resulted...but it gave us this:

a. "If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror




2. Summarized by the motto of the radical's of the 60s, "if it feels good, do it," those who put their faith in man's powers of reason have always sought ways to justify any behaviors, and that has been the power wielded by the Left.....notably the Democrat Party.
"Do whatever you wish....and no one is every to think the worst of you.

There is actually a current thread in which Leftists have demanded no drug testing for welfare recipients.



a. Charles Murray put it this way:

"One change in societal attitude has been the“ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."


Criminality, out of wedlock births, abortion, demands for confiscation of the property of others, undeserved perqs, anti-biological gender pretense.....no matter how absurd....you want it, you've got it!



3.".....[academia's] disparaging of western civilization virtually wiped out respect for any serious study of history and civics, as well as for the Socratic method and the rules of civil discourse. Political correctness sewed confusion into the language, particularly regarding identity politics. Youth are now set to be programmed for conformity through the K-12 “Common Core” curriculum mandates.

4. All of that and more promotes the semantic fog that allows for mind rape. It amounts to an act of “logicide,” .... "
How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion


Delusion and Democrats.....go together like carrots and peas.

"I have a strong attachment for the French Republic, more especially because they have founded their Constitution on principles similar to our own, and upon which alone, I think, free and lawful governments must be founded."

-- Samuel Adams; from letter to George Clinton (Dec. 24, 1793)

"The appeal to the rights of man, which had been made in the U S. was taken up by France, first of the European nations. From her the spirit has spread over those of the South. The tyrants of the North have allied indeed against it, but it is irresistible. Their opposition will only multiply it's millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man thro' the civilized world will be finally and greatly ameliorated."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from his Autobiography (1821)
 
1. Once the direction of society is placed in the hands of those who can use rationalizations to grow their own power and wealth, the decline begins.
And so it is with the Democrat Party.


David Mamet has written that the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization is that principles of justice are laid in our religious texts, and the truths therein have been worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.

In order to diminish the power of moral guidance, the forces behind the French Revolution demanded that religion be replaced by man's mind, intellect, and reason. Not only was this a colossal failure, as evidenced by some 600,000 deaths that resulted...but it gave us this:

a. "If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror




2. Summarized by the motto of the radical's of the 60s, "if it feels good, do it," those who put their faith in man's powers of reason have always sought ways to justify any behaviors, and that has been the power wielded by the Left.....notably the Democrat Party.
"Do whatever you wish....and no one is every to think the worst of you.

There is actually a current thread in which Leftists have demanded no drug testing for welfare recipients.



a. Charles Murray put it this way:

"One change in societal attitude has been the“ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."


Criminality, out of wedlock births, abortion, demands for confiscation of the property of others, undeserved perqs, anti-biological gender pretense.....no matter how absurd....you want it, you've got it!



3.".....[academia's] disparaging of western civilization virtually wiped out respect for any serious study of history and civics, as well as for the Socratic method and the rules of civil discourse. Political correctness sewed confusion into the language, particularly regarding identity politics. Youth are now set to be programmed for conformity through the K-12 “Common Core” curriculum mandates.

4. All of that and more promotes the semantic fog that allows for mind rape. It amounts to an act of “logicide,” .... "
How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion


Delusion and Democrats.....go together like carrots and peas.

"I have a strong attachment for the French Republic, more especially because they have founded their Constitution on principles similar to our own, and upon which alone, I think, free and lawful governments must be founded."

-- Samuel Adams; from letter to George Clinton (Dec. 24, 1793)

"The appeal to the rights of man, which had been made in the U S. was taken up by France, first of the European nations. From her the spirit has spread over those of the South. The tyrants of the North have allied indeed against it, but it is irresistible. Their opposition will only multiply it's millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man thro' the civilized world will be finally and greatly ameliorated."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from his Autobiography (1821)


And now for the facts.


  1. In France, there was the development of an apparatus of ideological enforcement for ‘reason.’ But rather than necessitate liberty, Edmund Burke was prescient enough to predict that ‘enlightened despotism’ would be embodied in the general will, a formula for oppression as in ‘tyranny of popular opinion’ or even ‘a dictatorship of the proletariat.’
  2. Although attributed to Rousseau, it was Diderot who gave the model for totalitarianism of reason: “We must reason about all things,” and anyone who ‘refuses to seek out the truth’ thereby renounces his human nature and “should be treated by the rest of his species as a wild beast.” So, once ‘truth’ is determined, anyone who doesn’t accept it was “either insane or wicked and morally evil.” It is not the individual who has the “ right to decide about the nature of right and wrong,” but only “the human race,” expressed as the general will. Himmelfarb, “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68
Disagree....and the consequence is death. Such is the view of every totalitarian regime.

3. Robespierre used Rousseau’s call for a “reign of virtue,’ proclaiming the Republic of Virtue, his euphemism for The Terror. In ‘The Social Contract’ Rousseau advocated death for anyone who did not uphold the common values of the community: the totalitarian view of reshaping of humanity, echoed in communism, Nazism, progressivism. Robespierre: “the necessity of bringing about a complete regeneration and, if I may express myself so, of creating a new people.” Himmefarb, , “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68.


4. "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky



5. The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh
 
1. Once the direction of society is placed in the hands of those who can use rationalizations to grow their own power and wealth, the decline begins.
And so it is with the Democrat Party.


David Mamet has written that the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization is that principles of justice are laid in our religious texts, and the truths therein have been worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.

In order to diminish the power of moral guidance, the forces behind the French Revolution demanded that religion be replaced by man's mind, intellect, and reason. Not only was this a colossal failure, as evidenced by some 600,000 deaths that resulted...but it gave us this:

a. "If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror




2. Summarized by the motto of the radical's of the 60s, "if it feels good, do it," those who put their faith in man's powers of reason have always sought ways to justify any behaviors, and that has been the power wielded by the Left.....notably the Democrat Party.
"Do whatever you wish....and no one is every to think the worst of you.

There is actually a current thread in which Leftists have demanded no drug testing for welfare recipients.



a. Charles Murray put it this way:

"One change in societal attitude has been the“ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."


Criminality, out of wedlock births, abortion, demands for confiscation of the property of others, undeserved perqs, anti-biological gender pretense.....no matter how absurd....you want it, you've got it!



3.".....[academia's] disparaging of western civilization virtually wiped out respect for any serious study of history and civics, as well as for the Socratic method and the rules of civil discourse. Political correctness sewed confusion into the language, particularly regarding identity politics. Youth are now set to be programmed for conformity through the K-12 “Common Core” curriculum mandates.

4. All of that and more promotes the semantic fog that allows for mind rape. It amounts to an act of “logicide,” .... "
How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion


Delusion and Democrats.....go together like carrots and peas.

"I have a strong attachment for the French Republic, more especially because they have founded their Constitution on principles similar to our own, and upon which alone, I think, free and lawful governments must be founded."

-- Samuel Adams; from letter to George Clinton (Dec. 24, 1793)

"The appeal to the rights of man, which had been made in the U S. was taken up by France, first of the European nations. From her the spirit has spread over those of the South. The tyrants of the North have allied indeed against it, but it is irresistible. Their opposition will only multiply it's millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man thro' the civilized world will be finally and greatly ameliorated."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from his Autobiography (1821)


And now for the facts.


  1. In France, there was the development of an apparatus of ideological enforcement for ‘reason.’ But rather than necessitate liberty, Edmund Burke was prescient enough to predict that ‘enlightened despotism’ would be embodied in the general will, a formula for oppression as in ‘tyranny of popular opinion’ or even ‘a dictatorship of the proletariat.’
  2. Although attributed to Rousseau, it was Diderot who gave the model for totalitarianism of reason: “We must reason about all things,” and anyone who ‘refuses to seek out the truth’ thereby renounces his human nature and “should be treated by the rest of his species as a wild beast.” So, once ‘truth’ is determined, anyone who doesn’t accept it was “either insane or wicked and morally evil.” It is not the individual who has the “ right to decide about the nature of right and wrong,” but only “the human race,” expressed as the general will. Himmelfarb, “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68
Disagree....and the consequence is death. Such is the view of every totalitarian regime.

3. Robespierre used Rousseau’s call for a “reign of virtue,’ proclaiming the Republic of Virtue, his euphemism for The Terror. In ‘The Social Contract’ Rousseau advocated death for anyone who did not uphold the common values of the community: the totalitarian view of reshaping of humanity, echoed in communism, Nazism, progressivism. Robespierre: “the necessity of bringing about a complete regeneration and, if I may express myself so, of creating a new people.” Himmefarb, , “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68.


4. "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky



5. The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh

Since when were Christians non-violent in the 18th century, give or take a couple centuries?
 
1. Once the direction of society is placed in the hands of those who can use rationalizations to grow their own power and wealth, the decline begins.
And so it is with the Democrat Party.


David Mamet has written that the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization is that principles of justice are laid in our religious texts, and the truths therein have been worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.

In order to diminish the power of moral guidance, the forces behind the French Revolution demanded that religion be replaced by man's mind, intellect, and reason. Not only was this a colossal failure, as evidenced by some 600,000 deaths that resulted...but it gave us this:

a. "If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror




2. Summarized by the motto of the radical's of the 60s, "if it feels good, do it," those who put their faith in man's powers of reason have always sought ways to justify any behaviors, and that has been the power wielded by the Left.....notably the Democrat Party.
"Do whatever you wish....and no one is every to think the worst of you.

There is actually a current thread in which Leftists have demanded no drug testing for welfare recipients.



a. Charles Murray put it this way:

"One change in societal attitude has been the“ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."


Criminality, out of wedlock births, abortion, demands for confiscation of the property of others, undeserved perqs, anti-biological gender pretense.....no matter how absurd....you want it, you've got it!



3.".....[academia's] disparaging of western civilization virtually wiped out respect for any serious study of history and civics, as well as for the Socratic method and the rules of civil discourse. Political correctness sewed confusion into the language, particularly regarding identity politics. Youth are now set to be programmed for conformity through the K-12 “Common Core” curriculum mandates.

4. All of that and more promotes the semantic fog that allows for mind rape. It amounts to an act of “logicide,” .... "
How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion


Delusion and Democrats.....go together like carrots and peas.

"I have a strong attachment for the French Republic, more especially because they have founded their Constitution on principles similar to our own, and upon which alone, I think, free and lawful governments must be founded."

-- Samuel Adams; from letter to George Clinton (Dec. 24, 1793)

"The appeal to the rights of man, which had been made in the U S. was taken up by France, first of the European nations. From her the spirit has spread over those of the South. The tyrants of the North have allied indeed against it, but it is irresistible. Their opposition will only multiply it's millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man thro' the civilized world will be finally and greatly ameliorated."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from his Autobiography (1821)


And now for the facts.


  1. In France, there was the development of an apparatus of ideological enforcement for ‘reason.’ But rather than necessitate liberty, Edmund Burke was prescient enough to predict that ‘enlightened despotism’ would be embodied in the general will, a formula for oppression as in ‘tyranny of popular opinion’ or even ‘a dictatorship of the proletariat.’
  2. Although attributed to Rousseau, it was Diderot who gave the model for totalitarianism of reason: “We must reason about all things,” and anyone who ‘refuses to seek out the truth’ thereby renounces his human nature and “should be treated by the rest of his species as a wild beast.” So, once ‘truth’ is determined, anyone who doesn’t accept it was “either insane or wicked and morally evil.” It is not the individual who has the “ right to decide about the nature of right and wrong,” but only “the human race,” expressed as the general will. Himmelfarb, “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68
Disagree....and the consequence is death. Such is the view of every totalitarian regime.

3. Robespierre used Rousseau’s call for a “reign of virtue,’ proclaiming the Republic of Virtue, his euphemism for The Terror. In ‘The Social Contract’ Rousseau advocated death for anyone who did not uphold the common values of the community: the totalitarian view of reshaping of humanity, echoed in communism, Nazism, progressivism. Robespierre: “the necessity of bringing about a complete regeneration and, if I may express myself so, of creating a new people.” Himmefarb, , “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68.


4. "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky



5. The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh

No. The difference was population and space.
 
1. Once the direction of society is placed in the hands of those who can use rationalizations to grow their own power and wealth, the decline begins.
And so it is with the Democrat Party.


David Mamet has written that the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization is that principles of justice are laid in our religious texts, and the truths therein have been worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.

In order to diminish the power of moral guidance, the forces behind the French Revolution demanded that religion be replaced by man's mind, intellect, and reason. Not only was this a colossal failure, as evidenced by some 600,000 deaths that resulted...but it gave us this:

a. "If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror




2. Summarized by the motto of the radical's of the 60s, "if it feels good, do it," those who put their faith in man's powers of reason have always sought ways to justify any behaviors, and that has been the power wielded by the Left.....notably the Democrat Party.
"Do whatever you wish....and no one is every to think the worst of you.

There is actually a current thread in which Leftists have demanded no drug testing for welfare recipients.



a. Charles Murray put it this way:

"One change in societal attitude has been the“ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."


Criminality, out of wedlock births, abortion, demands for confiscation of the property of others, undeserved perqs, anti-biological gender pretense.....no matter how absurd....you want it, you've got it!



3.".....[academia's] disparaging of western civilization virtually wiped out respect for any serious study of history and civics, as well as for the Socratic method and the rules of civil discourse. Political correctness sewed confusion into the language, particularly regarding identity politics. Youth are now set to be programmed for conformity through the K-12 “Common Core” curriculum mandates.

4. All of that and more promotes the semantic fog that allows for mind rape. It amounts to an act of “logicide,” .... "
How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion


Delusion and Democrats.....go together like carrots and peas.

"I have a strong attachment for the French Republic, more especially because they have founded their Constitution on principles similar to our own, and upon which alone, I think, free and lawful governments must be founded."

-- Samuel Adams; from letter to George Clinton (Dec. 24, 1793)

"The appeal to the rights of man, which had been made in the U S. was taken up by France, first of the European nations. From her the spirit has spread over those of the South. The tyrants of the North have allied indeed against it, but it is irresistible. Their opposition will only multiply it's millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man thro' the civilized world will be finally and greatly ameliorated."
-- Thomas Jefferson; from his Autobiography (1821)


And now for the facts.


  1. In France, there was the development of an apparatus of ideological enforcement for ‘reason.’ But rather than necessitate liberty, Edmund Burke was prescient enough to predict that ‘enlightened despotism’ would be embodied in the general will, a formula for oppression as in ‘tyranny of popular opinion’ or even ‘a dictatorship of the proletariat.’
  2. Although attributed to Rousseau, it was Diderot who gave the model for totalitarianism of reason: “We must reason about all things,” and anyone who ‘refuses to seek out the truth’ thereby renounces his human nature and “should be treated by the rest of his species as a wild beast.” So, once ‘truth’ is determined, anyone who doesn’t accept it was “either insane or wicked and morally evil.” It is not the individual who has the “ right to decide about the nature of right and wrong,” but only “the human race,” expressed as the general will. Himmelfarb, “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68
Disagree....and the consequence is death. Such is the view of every totalitarian regime.

3. Robespierre used Rousseau’s call for a “reign of virtue,’ proclaiming the Republic of Virtue, his euphemism for The Terror. In ‘The Social Contract’ Rousseau advocated death for anyone who did not uphold the common values of the community: the totalitarian view of reshaping of humanity, echoed in communism, Nazism, progressivism. Robespierre: “the necessity of bringing about a complete regeneration and, if I may express myself so, of creating a new people.” Himmefarb, , “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68.


4. "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky



5. The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.” David Limbaugh

No. The difference was population and space.


I understand how dearly you'd love to defend the homicidal maniacs who were predecessors of the communist and Nazi homicidal maniacs.....but....I have a few minutes....so let's rip your post to shreds.


1. Are you actually advancing the explanation for the mass slaughter of the French Revolution to "population and space"?????

Really?

Not the fact that said even was based on eliminating religion and morality.....exactly the same reasons for the mass slaughter by the communists and the Nazis?



2. Just one event....the sort that you claim was due to "population and space"....

Here’s an example of French Revolutionary wanton violence that makes Breivik, Norway's mass killer, seem like a piker in comparison:

Ordered by the king [Louis XVI] to surrender, more than 600 Swiss guards were savagely murdered. The mobs ripped them to shreds and mutilated their corpses. “Women, lost to all sense of shame,” said one surviving witness, “were committing the most indecent mutilations on the dead bodies from which they tore pieces of flesh and carried them off in triumph.” Children played kickball with the guards’ heads. Every living thing in the Tuileries [royal palace in Paris] was butchered or thrown from the windows by the hooligans. Women were raped before being hacked to death.

The Jacobin club . . . demanded that the piles of rotting, defiled corpses surrounding the Tuileries be left to putrefy in the street for days afterward as a warning to the people of the power of the extreme left.

This bestial attack, it was later decreed, would be celebrated every year as “the festival of the unity and indivisibility of the republic.” It would be as if families across America delighted in the annual TV special “A Manson Family Christmas.” ((Ann Coulter,Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America(New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2011), p. 107.
Anders Behring Breivik: Just another Leftwing Radical
and
Louis XVI’s weakness leads to the massacre of his Swiss guards - Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites



"....population and space.." caused it?

You must feel like a real moron, huh?
 

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