NYcarbineer
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In political parlance, a lie is not just something that is not true, but something that is untrue, but serves the purpose of advancing a political agenda.
1. Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847 in Cherbourg – 29 August 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists, it is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered. Georges Sorel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. His identification of the need for a deliberately-conceived "myth" to sway crowds into concerted action was put to use by the Fascist and Communist movements of the 1920s and after. http://homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/sorel.htm
b. "For Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, something is true if it validates the myth of her striving and her "greatness" (her overweening ambition in other words) and only ceases to be true when it no longer serves that limitless purpose. "
The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine]
2. The 'Greatest Lie" is the one that the modern Liberals tell. They claim that those called Liberals today are the liberals who founded this great nation. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Founders were 'classical liberals,' whose vision included . individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government. That's why they wrote out a detailed Constitution.
a. Communist John Dewey, the one who corrupted education in this country, convinced the Socialist Party to change its name to 'Liberal.' And it's values and doctrines formed those called Liberals today.
The benefit to them, of course, is that the uninformed attribute the greatness of the Founders, of America, to them.
3. The "Second Greatest Lie" is also designed to benefit Leftists. It is that the political spectrum has communists on the left, and the Nazis on the right. It is a conscious and carefully crafted lie. And it is because the Left controls the schools and the media that it has been allowed to survive.
This is what a careful study of history shows:
When the worldwide recession, known as the Great Depression, caused many to believe that capitalism had failed, big government command and control economies took control, promising solutions.
The economic plans of Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt were all variations on the same theme.
a. Many government school grads have been trained to see FDR as a demigod.
"Comparisons of the New Deal with totalitarian ideologies were provided from all sides. A Republican senator described the NRA as having gone “too far in the Russian direction,” and a Democrat accused FDR of trying “to transplant Hitlerism to every corner of this country.” Wolfgang Schivelbusch, “Three New Deals,” p. 27.
This thread will expound on that "Second Greatest Lie."
By doing so, it will explain why Leftist government schools won't teach real history.
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As usual Chick, you're right on the money, but you're preaching to the choir. Those of us on the board that know anything are aware of this. Leftwing philosophy is founded on a utopian fantasy, and built with dried up clumps of bullshit. That's why every time leftist despots acquire power they can never manage to create anything other than a dystopian hell of widespread poverty and oppression that ends in bloody conflict more often than not.
None of the bed wetters have the capacity to think. They won't read this and consider the possibility that they've been wrong. They're mindless zealots.
Well neither of you have posted anything but, "ain't it awful. As someone whose career required decision making I say to you what I said to those who complained, "don't bring me a problem, until you've thought about solutions.
What is awful about liberalism? Do you know the difference between the different branches of liberal ideology? I doubt it, both of you offer the meme that liberal and progressive thinking is harmful to the poor and minorities, even racist; has its genesis in Marxist Theory and opposes a market economy.
First describe the actions of liberals which you find offensive, and in doing so the problem liberals seek to solve. Then, and only then you will have at least thought about the issue and might have a better idea.
I truly marvel at the number of errors you can pack into a post.
1.."Well neither of you have posted anything but, "ain't it awful."
This speaks to your lack of both comprehension,and honesty.
Documenting the close association of Liberalism and Nazism, Fascism and communism is of the highest significance.
2. "As someone whose career required decision making..."
Greeting folks as they enter Walmart is not, technically, 'decision making.'
3. "What is awful about liberalism?"
It is based on the supremacy of the collective, and the destruction of any who disagree.
In Thoreau’s On the duty of Civil Disobedience, he states: “ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all of its own power and authority are derived.”
You should read it sometime.
4. "....you offer the meme that liberal and progressive thinking is harmful to the poor and minorities, even racist; has its genesis in Marxist Theory and opposes a market economy."
The poorest and most crime ridden cities in the nation have been under the guidance of Liberals/Progressives for over half a century.
And the most popular elected Democrat in the nation has a long and unbroken history of racism.
5. Liberalism"....has its genesis in Marxist Theory and opposes a market economy."
Indeed.
Every Leftist is, essentially, a Marxist…even though most eschew the title since the fall of the Soviet Union. Even so, Left-wing ideas are predicated on Marx’s materialist view, and has been far more interested in fighting material inequality than tyranny, which is why Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc., tend to have the support of Leftists around the world.
Dennis Prager
6. "...the problem liberals seek to solve."
Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away, since remedies are usually not simple. Plato said that prudence is the mark of the statesman. There should be a balance between permanence and change, while liberals see ‘progress’ as some mythical direction for society.
Can you please tell us the flaw in the argument that by your standards, and your standards alone,
Ronald Reagan was a Nazi?