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And the morons march on … Exclusive: Erik Rush on the 'emergent communist revolution' and the odds of stopping it
wnd.com ^ | 9/30/2020 | Erik Rush

Posted on 10/01/2020 9:44:00 AM PDT by rktman

"The Marching Morons" is a science fiction story by Cyril M. Kornbluth that was published in 1951. It involves a man who is accidentally put into suspended animation and awakens hundreds of years later to a society in which the average IQ is around 45. I'm not sure whether the writers for the 2006 film "Idiocracy" had this in mind when they penned their screenplay, but the two themes are quite similar, save that the film was a comedy, and the 1951 novella definitely was not.

I imagine it was the "marching" part of the title that led to my making a mental connection between the shambling idiot masses in the story and the shambling idiot masses who continue to engage in violent demonstrations across the country. Like many deluded and dangerous individuals and groups throughout history, however, they really do believe they're in the right.

It's actually quite sad when you're aware of the history: The Western republics that emerged from the Age of Enlightenment wrested power from Old World oligarchs and installed it with the governed. Inasmuch as these agencies had held power for many centuries (through monarchies, though not exclusively so), the notion of self-governance was truly novel and unique for that time. Over the next 300 years, nations in the West enjoyed an unprecedented level of intellectual, technological and cultural growth, as well as unprecedented prosperity.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilunrest; communists; cwii; fidiots; revolution; violence
So much progress in such a short amount of time. And now they want to go backwards. Fookin' idjits!
1 posted on 10/01/2020 9:44:00 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Sadly, that’s the story of mankind. I don’t know if you’re religious or not, but the bible shows this exact pattern of mankind’s perpetual rise and fall for the same reason over and over again. We never learn.


2 posted on 10/01/2020 9:48:17 AM PDT by Intar
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To: Intar

Hard Times make Good Men.
Good Men make Good Times.
Good Times make Weak Men.
Weak Men make Hard Times.


3 posted on 10/01/2020 9:49:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Intar

Guess we’re kind of hard headed eh? Could that rise and fall thing be applied to climate as well? God knows. :-)


4 posted on 10/01/2020 9:58:54 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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The hidden warning inside this warning: “ quite often, the revolutionaries who were so instrumental in bringing about the revolution are purged – and by this I mean killed en masse – because they’re considered too dangerous to have hanging around.” Wondering how soon after the election the Night of the Long Knives is scheduled for.


5 posted on 10/01/2020 10:01:27 AM PDT by JungleGoat77 (.)
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Call the local proud boys chapter. They probably know. NOT


6 posted on 10/01/2020 10:03:26 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!


7 posted on 10/01/2020 10:05:57 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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For a man with a 126 IQ, entertaining a w’world of 45’ (no reference to POTUS intended), my head hurts!


8 posted on 10/01/2020 10:09:13 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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Socialism/communism is just the counter-revolution to the worldwide democratic/Republican Revolution that the founding of the USA started. It’s the attempted return to tyrannical rule either by dictatorship or new Royalties like North Korea and Cuba.

The Bible speaks about the people clamoring for a King and how sorry they were when they got Saul.


9 posted on 10/01/2020 10:09:53 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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“The Western republics that emerged from the Age of Enlightenment wrested power from Old World oligarchs and installed it with the governed.”

It’s quite simple to see the monstrous secular humanist religions of communism, Nazism and gaiaism as the direct descendants of the Enlightenment.

Nietzsche recognized that. When the enlightenment had “killed God”, the world would spasm with the realignment of world order.

Enlightenment crowned humanism supreme. The logical endpoint of humanism is bizarre utopias created by man’s reason like the isms above. And here we are.

What the author really wants to do is go back to the point where humanism had not completed its task.


10 posted on 10/01/2020 10:32:46 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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And who elevates these “intellectuals” to positions of being embraced as “brilliant”?


11 posted on 10/01/2020 10:48:57 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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“And who elevates these “intellectuals” to positions of being embraced as “brilliant”?”

Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc and America’s Ruling Class. As long as they give the right virtue signals and graduate from a proper Ruling Class school, they are brilliant. Unless, of course they start to believe unacceptable thoughts about original intent of the Constitution. Then they are rapists.


12 posted on 10/02/2020 5:49:13 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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