Posted on 03/31/2014 9:06:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
A preferred ploy of left-wing change agents is to ridicule critics when they point out the undeniable parallels between the goals of today’s “progressive” movement, to include the Democratic Party in general, and the goals of the early, and very much still alive, communist movement.
If, for instance, one mentions the historical fact that nearly every adult who, at any time, was in any position of influence over a young, soon-to-be-radicalized Barry Soetoro was an avowed communist, to include his own parents, then one is immediately mocked and dismissed as a neo-McCarthyite hack pining for the bygone days of the Red Scare. This is an evasive, ad hominem strategy employed by those who are caught, for lack of a better word, red-handed.
To all this I say, if the jackboot fits, wear it. If it quacks like a commie and goose-steps like a commie, then a commie it is.
There are multiple layers within “progressivism’s” pseudo-utopian, truly dystopian Marxist philosophy. The left’s lust for redistributionist statism is well-known. Less understood, however, is the “progressive” rush toward cultural Marxism.
Cultural Marxism entails, among other things, that secularist aspect of left-wing statist ideology that seeks, within society, to supplant traditional values, norms and mores with postmodern moral relativism. Cultural Marxists endeavor to scrub America of her Judeo-Christian, constitutional-republican founding principles, and take, instead, a secular-statist Sharpie to our beloved U.S. Constitution.
Historian and U.S. military affairs expert William S. Lind describes cultural Marxism as “a branch of western Marxism, different from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known as ‘multiculturalism’ or, less formally, Political Correctness. From its beginning, the promoters of cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence the use of terms such as ‘multiculturalism.’”
Pastor, attorney and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively is globally admired by liberty-loving traditionalists. Conversely, he’s universally reviled by cultural Marxists. He drills down a bit deeper: “Cultural Marxism is a variation of the Marxist strategy to build a utopian socialist order on the ashes of Christian civilization, but through subversion of the moral culture, especially the elimination of the natural family, rather than solely through destruction of capitalism.”
True though this may be, the ideological seeds of contemporary cultural Marxism nonetheless sprout from deep within the dead soil of historical communism. It is not economic redistributionism alone through which “progressives” seek to both “fundamentally transform America” and otherwise conquer the world, but, rather, and perhaps primarily, it is also through victory over the pejoratively tagged “social issues” (i.e., the sanctity of marriage, natural human sexuality and morality, ending the abortion holocaust, religious liberty, the Second Amendment and the like).
This is neither speculative nor hyperbolic. Both the historical record and the U.S. Congressional Record bear out this sinister reality. Regrettably, today’s “low-information voters” as Rush Limbaugh calls them – to include the useful idiots within the GOP’s “moderate” and libertarian wings – are simply too lazy, shortsighted or both to learn the facts.
“Surrender on the ‘social issues’!” demands the GOP’s cultural Marxist-enabling kamikazes.
In 1963, U.S. Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., read into the Congressional Record a list of “Current Communist Goals” as enumerated by Dr. Cleon Skousen in “The Naked Communist,” penned in 1958. I encourage you to read the whole list, but for now let’s focus on those goals that most closely align with the seditious agenda of America’s “progressive” movement. It’s actually most of them. Though Herlong was a Democrat, the list reads like today’s Democratic Party Platform.
How far has fallen the party of the jackass:
If achieving these specific communist goals was the final “progressive” step toward the larger goal of securing communist governance in America, then, tragically, “progressives” have realized that larger goal.
Look around. We are no longer the United States of America. We have become The Communist States of America.
Which means, for those who love liberty, revolution is once again at hand.
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“Which means, for those who love liberty, revolution is once again at hand.”
From `Red Alert Politics’:
Rules For Radicals, Rule 5: “Ridicule Is Man’s Most Potent Weapon”
Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals encourages the use of ridicule against one’s enemies. Rule five: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Alinksy’s fifth rule is a favorite tactic employed among the Left – one hardly has to look at all to find evidence of it in use today. The Left is ready and willing to mock just about anything to tear it down. This was perhaps nowhere more instant and vicious than the attacks on Sarah Palin and her family.
They mocked her experience, although she had more than Barack Obama. They mocked her attractiveness, calling her a MILF or saying she looked like a “slutty flight attendant.” Then they went after her family. They made comments about her daughter Bristol and also her special-needs son. They even posited that this son, Trig, wasn’t her own biological child! The Left loved mocking Palin’s intelligence, and it was a staple of Saturday Night Live during election season. It got to the point where people thought “I can see Russia from my house” was actually a Palin quote rather than something Tina Fey said while parodying Palin. All of this proves that Rule five was being expertly deployed.
Another example is the Tea Party. If taken seriously, their threat would be acknowledged. People might consider what Tea Party members were saying, which could lead to liberals defecting. So, what does the Left do? Mocks them. Whether in political cartoons or on television, it was everywhere- they were called “zombies” among other insults. It happened at newspapers, blogs, and on television. Some even added vulgar terminology to make it appear even more ridiculous.
With an implicit media, the Left has been able to permeate popular culture with the idea that the Right is full of people (like Sarah Palin) and movements (like the Tea Party) that are completely ridiculous. This means that they’ve been using Alinksy’s Fifth Rule expertly. We need to learn to do the same as it’s an easy and effective method to combat those on the Left.
By Amelia Hamilton /// July 30, 2012
There are serious freepers, and seemingly less serious of us. I think it important to show patience with those who recognize this weapon of the left and use it against them, the `smart azzes’ ... um like myself. And others.
This is a very important point: Hit them again and again.
Politics is their religion and `blasphemy’ infuriates them.
When they are angry, they screw up even more. Pile it on.
Rant over.
Note to the forum: please distribute far and wide.
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PING.
To put it in direct terms, Americans must be:
Silenced.
Disarmed.
Immobilized.
The goal: the extermination of most of us and the survivors us in chains.
Any questions?
Sadly it appears that last sentence is pretty prophetic. Wherever we go people are openly discussing the 1776 solution.
The other day my best friend called me and asked me “when did revolution suddenly become acceptable cocktail conversation?” We laughed but its the truth.
I once read that it was disclosed that there were several thousand contemporary Russian code books active in the US.
“The other day my best friend called me and asked me “when did revolution suddenly become acceptable cocktail conversation?” We laughed but its the truth.”
I’ll bet that’s exactly how it happened the first time.
What kind of person thinks there is a parallel between national socialists, soviet socialists, and today’s progressive socialists? Except for being dishonest socialists who believe in an all-powerful government, redistribution of the wealth controlled by that government, rule by decree rather than rule of law, and rhetoric over substance, there are only a few dozen other major parallels.
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