Democrat Success: The Age of Delusion

[NYcarbineer]

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?

The French Catholic/Huguenot slaughter was worse than the French Revolution, and took place earlier when the population was smaller.

The American Civil War slaughter was worse than the French Revolution.

How many times will this have to be pointed out to you before it gets thru your thick skull and sinks into that septic tank you comically refer to as your brain? Give us a ballpark figure.