How We Caught The Political 'Ebola Virus'

[PoliticalChic]

1. How is it that the West won the Cold War, based on Western values and the Western economic system...and yet we find a perplexing vitality of the 'political equivalent of the Ebola Virus,' theMarxist agenda,' in academia, and the media?

First of all, there is the advantage of a single-minded effort that the Left has, compared to the individualism that has always been the pride of our culture. We've been free to follow our interests, while the Left targeted the disseminators of information, the opinion-makers.

a. The radicals of the sixties did not remain within the universities…They realized that the apocalypse never materialized. “…they were dropping off into environmentalism and consumerism and fatalism…I watched many of my old comrades apply to graduate school in universities they had failed to burn down, so they could get advanced degrees and spread the ideas that had been discredited in the streets under an academic cover.” Collier and Horowitz, “Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The Sixties,” p. 294-295.





2. Second, our values, our character, makes it difficult for the winners to laud it over the losers, to claim "victory," ideological or otherwise over the superstate Communism, no trumpeting that there had been a truly moral win of freedom over totalitarianism. Somehow, neither schools nor media advertised the worth of the West.

a. Is it mere accident that stories of misdeeds, bad behavior, slavery, stealing resources and 'genocide' predominate? Where is the true history of the nobility of our culture? Who is 'spiking' the stories of greatness, and, instead, tear down Western culture? See #1 above.

b. Wallowing in a slough of self-loathing, no longer seeing anything seeing anything of value in this nation, our youth are no longer able to take pride, much less defend, the Western values or culture. Common is the postmodern view "After all, who's to say that the Western system is any better than any other?"





3. WWII saw a beginning.... While American presence in Russia was modest and equivocal, Russian presence in wartime America was so large that they had to set up a corporate headquarters on Sixteenth Street in Washington. One of the executives in the huge staff was Victor Kravchenko, metallurgist, engineer, executive, and captain in the Red Army. And the first Soviet “defector.”
John V. Fleming, “The Anti-Communist Manifestos”


4. As a result of the ascension of the Nazis, the Neo-Marxist 'think-tank,' the Frankfurt School, moved to Geneva, and then to New York City. The openness, freedom and liberty of the United States is all they needed to infect this society and its cultural institutions. Too many simply ignored the onslaught…”And the most dangerous thing you can do with a driven leftist intellectual clique is ignore it!”
Breitbart, “Righteous Indignation,” p. 114.

a. Waiting to ally themselves with the Frankfurt School Marxists were the Americans who had accepted the Wilson/TR synthesis of Hegel and Marx. And a welcoming ‘nest’ was provided for these vipers by the Columbia University Sociology department. And, the perfect storm: America was up for helping scholars fleeing from Germany. The guy in charge of this was Edward R. Murrow, the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. Ibid.





5. Another reason why the failed and lost totalitarian regime was given a second chance was that, in traitorous circles, there was not only a sort of embarrassment at the victory in Europe, totally based on the United States, but the same sort of emotion at being the only nation with the atomic bomb..."the feeling that somehow it was 'not fair' for the US to enjoy a monopoly of this weapon."
Adam B. Ulam, "The Rivals: America and Russia Since WWII," p. 344.

a. Of course, due to the success of the vast Soviet conspiracy that monopoly didn't last more than four years between the US atomic test in 1945 and the USSR atomic test in 1949. Although the Rosenbergs were executed in 1953, some might make an argument that the Roosevelt administration was an unindicted co-conspirator.



b. But....so what, you say: they would have gotten it eventually.
This view "masks a complete lack of comprehension when it comes to discerning any possible distinction between nuclear-enhanced Gulag-might, and nuclear-enhanced constitutional rights....and signals the train of thoughts terminus in the brick wall of 'moral equivalence.'"
Diana West, "American Betrayal," p. 38.

 

[konradv]

Horowitz?!?! Explains a lot.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Horowitz?!?! Explains a lot.

Don't you realize how transparent that ploy is?

You can't rebut, or even respond to something that's said, so you scream 'I don't like who said it!!"



Sophomoric.



That's like claiming that you'll no longer use Arabic numerals because of the 9/11 attack.....



Remember, you shouldn’t drink on an empty head.

 

[konradv]

Horowitz?!?! Explains a lot.

Don't you realize how transparent that ploy is?

You can't rebut, or even respond to something that's said, so you scream 'I don't like who said it!!"

Sophomoric.

That's like claiming that you'll no longer use Arabic numerals because of the 9/11 attack.....

Remember, you shouldn’t drink on an empty head.

There's nothing more sophomoric than applying nefarious motives to people just because you disagree with them. Apparently we can't just have different opinions, we WANT to hurt you. It's a simplistic view of history and politics, i.e. the very definition of sophomoric, "wise fool".

 

[PoliticalChic]

Horowitz?!?! Explains a lot.

Don't you realize how transparent that ploy is?

You can't rebut, or even respond to something that's said, so you scream 'I don't like who said it!!"

Sophomoric.

That's like claiming that you'll no longer use Arabic numerals because of the 9/11 attack.....

Remember, you shouldn’t drink on an empty head.

There's nothing more sophomoric than applying nefarious motives to people just because you disagree with them. Apparently we can't just have different opinions, we WANT to hurt you. It's a simplistic view of history and politics, i.e. the very definition of sophomoric, "wise fool".

"applying nefarious motives to people just because you disagree with them."


Pleeeeeese tell me that you are merely inarticulate, and haven't made yourself clear.


It isn't that you are saying that it is wrong to suggest " nefarious motives to people just because you disagree with them" with reference to the Marxist of the Soviet Union!!!!!



No one could possibly be that brain-dead!!!!

 

[jwoodie]

Liberalism is a mental disorder stemming from dysfunctional childhood experiences and compounded by feelings of guilt and dissatisfaction that can only be assuaged by projecting evil motives to and controlling those who do not share these feelings.

 

[whitehall]

Bill Ayers is a hero to the left. Every high profile conservative speaker has been a victim of assault on college campus at one time or another in their careers. The scum that comrade Carter pardoned his first year in office after they renounced their US citizenship and fled to Canada are now college administrators and old bald headed pony tailed professors. High profile Vietnam anti-war activists and hypocrites like John Kerry are comfortable administering a stagnated war in Afghanistan where more Troops were killed during Obama's administration than the previous administration. It's OK as ling as a democrat is in office.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Bill Ayers is a hero to the left. Every high profile conservative speaker has been a victim of assault on college campus at one time or another in their careers. The scum that comrade Carter pardoned his first year in office after they renounced their US citizenship and fled to Canada are now college administrators and old bald headed pony tailed professors. High profile Vietnam anti-war activists and hypocrites like John Kerry are comfortable administering a stagnated war in Afghanistan where more Troops were killed during Obama's administration than the previous administration. It's OK as ling as a democrat is in office.

You've given me a great idea.....I'm going to nail the provenance down even further than you did.....

....and lay the blame at the feet of FDR and George H.W. Bush.....

 

[PoliticalChic]

Liberalism is a mental disorder stemming from dysfunctional childhood experiences and compounded by feelings of guilt and dissatisfaction that can only be assuaged by projecting evil motives to and controlling those who do not share these feelings.

woodie....I believe the affliction is of the same origin as consumer demand: advertising.

In the broadest sense, the school system and the media are responsible.....and just as very few people are willing to put in the effort to research, e.g., read "Consumer Reports" magazines, most are willing to let the two I mentioned make up their minds for them.

Just plain laziness.

 

[NoNukes]

Bill Ayers is a hero to the left. Every high profile conservative speaker has been a victim of assault on college campus at one time or another in their careers. The scum that comrade Carter pardoned his first year in office after they renounced their US citizenship and fled to Canada are now college administrators and old bald headed pony tailed professors. High profile Vietnam anti-war activists and hypocrites like John Kerry are comfortable administering a stagnated war in Afghanistan where more Troops were killed during Obama's administration than the previous administration. It's OK as ling as a democrat is in office.

I do not know anyone on the left who considers Bill Ayers a hero.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Bill Ayers is a hero to the left. Every high profile conservative speaker has been a victim of assault on college campus at one time or another in their careers. The scum that comrade Carter pardoned his first year in office after they renounced their US citizenship and fled to Canada are now college administrators and old bald headed pony tailed professors. High profile Vietnam anti-war activists and hypocrites like John Kerry are comfortable administering a stagnated war in Afghanistan where more Troops were killed during Obama's administration than the previous administration. It's OK as ling as a democrat is in office.

I do not know anyone on the left who considers Bill Ayers a hero.

You do have a gift for overlooking the obvious:


Barack Hussein Obama.

 

[NoNukes]

Bill Ayers is a hero to the left. Every high profile conservative speaker has been a victim of assault on college campus at one time or another in their careers. The scum that comrade Carter pardoned his first year in office after they renounced their US citizenship and fled to Canada are now college administrators and old bald headed pony tailed professors. High profile Vietnam anti-war activists and hypocrites like John Kerry are comfortable administering a stagnated war in Afghanistan where more Troops were killed during Obama's administration than the previous administration. It's OK as ling as a democrat is in office.

I do not know anyone on the left who considers Bill Ayers a hero.

You do have a gift for overlooking the obvious:


Barack Hussein Obama.

When did he call Ayers a hero?

Most of us in the anti war movement of the 60s and 70s were opposed to violent demonstrations such as bombings.

 

[Bfgrn]

Liberalism is a mental disorder stemming from dysfunctional childhood experiences and compounded by feelings of guilt and dissatisfaction that can only be assuaged by projecting evil motives to and controlling those who do not share these feelings.

Actually you are describing conservatism.

"All people are born alike—except Republicans and Democrats," quipped Groucho Marx, and in fact it turns out that personality differences between liberals and conservatives are evident in early childhood. In 1969, Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of childhood personality, asking nursery school teachers to rate children's temperaments. They weren't even thinking about political orientation.

Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects' childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found arresting patterns. As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.

Psychology Today

 

[MeBelle]

Actually you are describing conservatism.

"All people are born alike—except Republicans and Democrats," quipped Groucho Marx, and in fact it turns out that personality differences between liberals and conservatives are evident in early childhood. In 1969, Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of childhood personality, asking nursery school teachers to rate children's temperaments. They weren't even thinking about political orientation.

Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects' childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found arresting patterns. As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.

Psychology Today

hy·poth·e·sis [hahy-poth-uh-sis, hi-]
noun, plural hy·poth·e·ses [hahy-poth-uh-seez, hi-]
1.a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.

2.a proposition assumed as a premise in an argument.

3.the antecedent of a conditional proposition.

4.a mere assumption or guess.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I do not know anyone on the left who considers Bill Ayers a hero.

You do have a gift for overlooking the obvious:


Barack Hussein Obama.

When did he call Ayers a hero?

Most of us in the anti war movement of the 60s and 70s were opposed to violent demonstrations such as bombings.

He asked Bill Ayers to write 'his' biography, "Dreams From My Father," and not just as a ghost writer, but as author.

I'd say that qualifies.



You may now respond with your trademarked "Duh."

 

[NoNukes]

You do have a gift for overlooking the obvious:


Barack Hussein Obama.

When did he call Ayers a hero?

Most of us in the anti war movement of the 60s and 70s were opposed to violent demonstrations such as bombings.

He asked Bill Ayers to write 'his' biography, "Dreams From My Father," and not just as a ghost writer, but as author.

I'd say that qualifies.



You may now respond with your trademarked "Duh."

This does not describe hero worship, and he could have liked what Ayers has done since his days as a radical anti war protestor.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Liberalism is a mental disorder stemming from dysfunctional childhood experiences and compounded by feelings of guilt and dissatisfaction that can only be assuaged by projecting evil motives to and controlling those who do not share these feelings.

Actually you are describing conservatism.

"All people are born alike—except Republicans and Democrats," quipped Groucho Marx, and in fact it turns out that personality differences between liberals and conservatives are evident in early childhood. In 1969, Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of childhood personality, asking nursery school teachers to rate children's temperaments. They weren't even thinking about political orientation.

Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects' childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found arresting patterns. As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.

Psychology Today

Guess again, Simp!


"1. "You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. You’re wrong.

2. In “The Righteous Mind,” Haidt seeks to enrich liberalism, and political discourse generally, with a deeper awareness of human nature. Like other psychologists who have ventured into political coaching, such as George Lakoff and Drew Westen, Haidt argues that people are fundamentally intuitive, not rational.

3. Drawing on ethnography, evolutionary theory and experimental psychology, he sets out to trash the modern faith in reason. ... David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who notoriously said reason was fit only to be “the slave of the passions,” was largely correct.

a. We acquire morality the same way we acquire food preferences: .... If it tastes good, we stick with it. If it doesn’t, we reject it. People accept God, authority and karma because these ideas suit their moral taste buds. Haidt points to research showing that people punish cheaters, accept many hierarchies and don’t support equal distribution of benefits when contributions are unequal.

4. You can see [these ideas] in the Republican Party. Social conservatives see welfare and feminism as threats to responsibility and family stability. The Tea Party hates redistribution because it interferes with letting people reap what they earn. Faith, patriotism, valor, chastity, law and order — these Republican themes touch all six moral foundations, ....




a. .... Democrats, in Haidt’s analysis, focus almost entirely on care and fighting oppression. This is Haidt’s startling message to the left: When it comes to morality, conservatives are more broad-minded than liberals. They serve a more varied diet.\



b. Conservatism thrives because it fits how people think, and that’s what validates it. Workers who vote Republican aren’t fools. In Haidt’s words, they’re “voting for their moral interests.” One of these interests is moral capital — norms, practices and institutions, like religion and family values, that facilitate cooperation by constraining individualism.

5. ... liberals dissolve moral capital too recklessly. Welfare programs that substitute public aid for spousal and parental support undermine the ecology of the family. Education policies that let students sue teachers erode classroom authority. Multicultural education weakens the cultural glue of assimilation. Haidt agrees that old ways must sometimes be re-examined and changed. He just wants liberals to proceed with caution and protect the social pillars sustained by tradition.


6. Another aspect of human nature that conservatives understand better than liberals, according to Haidt, is parochial altruism, the inclination to care more about members of your group — particularly those who have made sacrifices for it —than about outsiders.... submitting to the United Nations .... may be noble, but they aren’t natural. What’s natural is giving to your church, helping your P.T.A. and rallying together as Americans against a foreign threat.


7. The hardest part, Haidt finds, is getting liberals to open their minds. Anecdotally, he reports that when he talks about authority, loyalty and sanctity, many people in the audience spurn these ideas as the seeds of racism, sexism and homophobia. And in a survey of 2,000 Americans, Haidt found that self-described liberals, especially those who called themselves “very liberal,” were worse at predicting the moral judgments of moderates and conservatives than moderates and conservatives were at predicting the moral judgments of liberals. Liberals don’t understand conservative values. And they can’t recognize this failing, because they’re so convinced of their rationality, open-mindedness and enlightenment."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/b...nd-by-jonathan-haidt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who, until 2009, considered himself a partisan liberal.


Haidt has an ability that you can only dream of having.....he is capable of learning.

 

[PoliticalChic]

When did he call Ayers a hero?

Most of us in the anti war movement of the 60s and 70s were opposed to violent demonstrations such as bombings.

He asked Bill Ayers to write 'his' biography, "Dreams From My Father," and not just as a ghost writer, but as author.

I'd say that qualifies.



You may now respond with your trademarked "Duh."

This does not describe hero worship, and he could have liked what Ayers has done since his days as a radical anti war protestor.

Look at you.....…peddling harder than Ed Begley trying to make himself a piece of toast.

 

[NoNukes]

He asked Bill Ayers to write 'his' biography, "Dreams From My Father," and not just as a ghost writer, but as author.

I'd say that qualifies.



You may now respond with your trademarked "Duh."

This does not describe hero worship, and he could have liked what Ayers has done since his days as a radical anti war protestor.

Look at you.....…peddling harder than Ed Begley trying to make himself a piece of toast.

In other words, you have no reply. Thank you.

 

[PoliticalChic]

This does not describe hero worship, and he could have liked what Ayers has done since his days as a radical anti war protestor.

Look at you.....…peddling harder than Ed Begley trying to make himself a piece of toast.

In other words, you have no reply. Thank you.

Why other words?

You understood my words: you're dodging.....


That's fine....I never expect you to be able to handle the traffic.