Greenfield: Hate is the Force that Gives the Left Meaning

Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog ^ | Thursday, February 06, 2014 | Daniel Greenfield

[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

Daniel clarifies once again the blood brother kinship between Islamic terrorism and leftists. They are one and the same. Both are fanatic, ignorant and homocidal.

[Chaguito]

An essay defining revolutionaries, whose goal is destruction, not governance.

[Noumenon]

THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.

Retribution is coming.

[GeronL]

right on the money again

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Well written and very true.

[MileHi]

That was good,

So was this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/698501/posts

[Robwin]

Leftism is a religion which expresses itself largely in politics. Like many religions it is intolerant of other views and considers heretics, apostates, and non-believers as beneath contempt, below human.

What we are witnessing are the first stages of the religious wars which have wracked human kind since its inception.

[Louis Foxwell]

Saxons were always a hard nosed tribe. Likely they never did other than hate.

[FrdmLvr]

Put me on the list please. I’m a Greenfield fan. Thanks.

[digger48]

Excellent post!

Well written, and spot on

[Vendome]

Title says one half of their psychosis.

The other is their sheer anger.

They violate Vendome’s 2nd rule of life.

[Graewoulf]

” - - - It isn’t hope that animates its leaders and thinkers, but the darker side of human nature that calls on them to destroy and to kill. That dark side is why the left’s victories end in tragedies, why the red flags are painted with blood and when its followers have run out of enemies to kill, they turn on each other and destroy their own movements with firing squads, gulags and guillotines. - - - - “

BINGO !

[SunkenCiv]

Obama is what generations of the left have dreamed of and worked toward. This is the flicker of hopethey kept alive after JFK's assassination, the Nixon years, Carter's collapse and the long stretch of Reaganomics. This is what Bill Clinton robbed them of prematurely by gauging his actions against the polls instead of blasting full steam ahead regardless of what the public wanted. The left finally has its Un-American tyranny. So why is it so angry?

Because it still has a pulse.

[hinckley buzzard]

If you understand the ultimate goals of the leftwing project, their anger is not irrational. They seek to install a global totalitarian dictatorship. The United States is the primary roadblock to the achievement of that goal. For this reason they hate our country with a passion and take their hatred out in anger against those who would oppose them.

Like all extremists who are deeply ego-involved, left wingers have very narrow views on what is acceptable, and they scorn tolerance of discrepant ideas. Thus they fight viciously over differences that would escape notice by more moderate, less invested observers.

[arthurus]

Deprived of an external enemy, its ideologues carve out narrow orthodoxies and denounce each other for violating them. When the right and the center have been purged, the purges of the left begin and don’t end until there is nothing left except one tyrant-guru and his terrified minions. Or until some outside force throws a pot of cold water on the quarreling and shrieking acolytes brawling over minor points of doctrine.

Describes the Communist Party wherever it has been actually in power. What we are dealing with here is, in fact, communists and Communists, real ones.

[Secret Agent Man]

liberals - trickle-down hatred from their political/social leaders.

conservatives - trickle down economics, from business and pro-business political leaders.

[arthurus]

What we are witnessing are the first stages of the new religious wars such as have wracked human kind since its inception.

[loveliberty2]

Of the philosophy of Jesus, the author of America's Declaration of Independence wrote: "His moral doctrines...were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers...and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids," which, Jefferson said, "will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others."

Comparing the Hebrew code which, according to Jefferson, "laid hold of actions only," "He [Jesus] pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head."

That Jefferson cut out the statements which he believed to be directly attributable to Jesus, pasted them into a little book which he kept by his bed and read from them daily, might lead one to conclude that his political philosphy probably was influenced by what he considered to be the superiority of the "philosophy" of Jesus.

It is unlikely that any person alive today has read the writings of as many of the great philosophers as Jefferson. His talents and abilities were legend. His devotion to liberty and to the ideas essential to liberty were based on simple principles, some of which, undoubtedly, came from his understanding of the basic law underlying all valid human law: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Perhaps the so-called "progressive" enemies of freedom understand better than those who fancy themselves as "conservatives" that in order to reverse the Founders' ideas of "People over government," and institute "government over People," they must first marginalize and destroy the ideas from which liberty is derived.

The writings of America's Founders are replete with references which rebuke would-be tyrants and cite a Higher Source for life, liberty and rights. Early histories confirm those facts.

As so-called "progressives" have led a movement in forsaking the Founders' "reliance on Divine Providence," and belief that individuals are "endowed by their Creator," they also have forsaken the principles underlying America's Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and are systematically dismantling the greatest protections for liberty ever established for a people.

"Ideas have consequences"(Weaver).

The ideas of 1776 came out of a set of ideas consistent with liberty.

We tend to forget, or have never considered, that other world views existed then, as now.

Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."

There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.

Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.

This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.

Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.

In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.

As Jefferson wisely observed:

"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."

All of which reinforces our conviction that the ideas of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are as revolutionary and objectionable to tyrants as they were in 1776 and 1787!

[arthurus]

” - - - It isn’t hope that animates its leaders and thinkers, but the darker side of human nature that calls on them to destroy and to kill. That dark side is why the left’s victories end in tragedies, why the red flags are painted with blood and when its followers have run out of enemies to kill, they turn on each other and destroy their own movements with firing squads, gulags and guillotines. - - - - “

As also Moslems.
Ideological totalitarians are the same. The drive ultimately is for concentration of power and the blood spattering does not end until, ideally, all mankind is in subjection to one man. Of course that ideal never comes. The system must collapse in famine long before that.