1. The Left, in endorsing the collective over the individual, misunderstands the aspirations of human kind. And, also incorrect, the corollary, that human nature is malleable and can be altered by just the right governance.
But, in some ways, the Left has grasped and used truths that explain why their star is in the ascendancy.
a. Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist theoretician and founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramschi’s motto is that of liberals today: “that all life is "political."
And this:
b. "..., since the Haves publicly pose as the custodians of responsibility, morality, law, and justice (which are frequently strangers to each others), they can be constantly pushed to live up to their own book of morality and regulations. No organizations, including organized religion, can live up to the letter of its own book. You can club them to death with their "book" of rules and regulations. This is what that great revolutionary, Paul of Tarsus, knew when he wrote to the Corinthians: "Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter killeth." -- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, P.152
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2. Today, in secular America, control of the methods of dissemination of information, has allowed the Left to persuade many.....many.....that they will not be the ones to be slain, or oppressed, ...and it is only the 'enemy' to whom they will lie.
At the heart of this misrepresentation is a view that I never imagined Americans could be trained to accept:
"We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky
Well, then....the slaughter of innocents matters not- as long as you aren't one of said innocents. Accept this view....and you will be rewarded with material emoluments!
3. It is not as if the warning were not there.....
a. " Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949.[1][2]The novel isset...in a world of perpetual war,omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism(or Ingsoc in the government's invented language,Newspeak) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime"
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b. " The Camp of the Saints(Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French apocalyptic novel by Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a hypothetical setting whereby Third World mass immigration to France and the West leads to the destruction of Western civilization. Almost forty years after publication the book returned to the bestseller list in 2011." The Camp of the Saints - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Who can deny that the above has come to pass.
But, in some ways, the Left has grasped and used truths that explain why their star is in the ascendancy.
a. Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist theoretician and founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy. Gramschi’s motto is that of liberals today: “that all life is "political."
And this:
b. "..., since the Haves publicly pose as the custodians of responsibility, morality, law, and justice (which are frequently strangers to each others), they can be constantly pushed to live up to their own book of morality and regulations. No organizations, including organized religion, can live up to the letter of its own book. You can club them to death with their "book" of rules and regulations. This is what that great revolutionary, Paul of Tarsus, knew when he wrote to the Corinthians: "Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter killeth." -- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, P.152
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2. Today, in secular America, control of the methods of dissemination of information, has allowed the Left to persuade many.....many.....that they will not be the ones to be slain, or oppressed, ...and it is only the 'enemy' to whom they will lie.
At the heart of this misrepresentation is a view that I never imagined Americans could be trained to accept:
"We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky
Well, then....the slaughter of innocents matters not- as long as you aren't one of said innocents. Accept this view....and you will be rewarded with material emoluments!
3. It is not as if the warning were not there.....
a. " Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as1984, is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949.[1][2]The novel isset...in a world of perpetual war,omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism(or Ingsoc in the government's invented language,Newspeak) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrime"
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
b. " The Camp of the Saints(Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French apocalyptic novel by Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a hypothetical setting whereby Third World mass immigration to France and the West leads to the destruction of Western civilization. Almost forty years after publication the book returned to the bestseller list in 2011." The Camp of the Saints - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Who can deny that the above has come to pass.