But the Biden Crime Family is all attiter....
Biden is going to finance the US “rebuilding" of war-torn Ukraine.
Taxpayers will get the bills, and the Bidens get a piece of the billions.
"Happy day$$$ are here, again."
Posted on 12/13/2023 4:12:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
For at least half a century the Left has been luring this nation into a deadly dance. Like the sirens of Greek myth, their music hits all the right notes: true equality, fairness, justice for all, health, and peace, etc. Because the music is so beautiful, and the steps to the dance so familiar, again and again we’ve accepted their invitation and blindly followed their lead.
This simple political dance can be done to many types of “music,” for it has only three steps. We have seen its familiar choreography in efforts against racism and crime, in steps to preserve our national security, in efforts to support agriculture and education, et al; whatever the tune, the steps are the same:
1. Manufacture a “crisis”
2. Offer “emergency solutions” people would never accept except for the “crisis”
3. Results achieve the hidden goal, unrelated to the supposed problem
We’ll look at three examples below, but in her excellent book Behind the Green Mask, Rosa Koire describes this three-step process as “communitarianism,” which claims that in matters of public policy we must “balance” individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution with (imagined) community rights to assure “fairness.” So here the three-step process is:
1. Individual rights are selfish, harming the community
2. Individuals cede some of their rights to the community
3. Results: fewer rights/freedoms for individuals, more power for local, state or federal government
The “problem” (i.e., lack of community rights) didn’t actually exist, but was manufactured by those whose true goal was abolishing individual rights and freedoms and increasing the power and reach of government to impose their social and political visions.
Imagine, Koire wrote, that individual rights are a glass of milk, and community rights are a glass of water. To “balance” those rights, pour each glass...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Related to this technique is the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis.
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Paul E. Scates sees what’s happening...
But the Biden Crime Family is all attiter....
Biden is going to finance the US “rebuilding" of war-torn Ukraine.
Taxpayers will get the bills, and the Bidens get a piece of the billions.
"Happy day$$$ are here, again."
“Related to this technique is the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis.”
It appears a key term to use in Step One of Crisis Creation is “existential threat”. This ought to be a flashing red light alert for shenanigans being afoot & the wool about to be thrown over our heads.
I’ve comitted that “source of community rights” argument to memory.
Thanks
Communitarianism was best posited by Spock in the Revenge of Khan: “Logic clearly dictates the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” Now the village changes your kids gender or grooms them for gay sex without telling the parent.
Communitarianism is communism by another name.
‘Intolerable acts’
(and death by 1000 little cuts)
Bfl
“Logic clearly dictates the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
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It’s such an unfortunate axiom.
Every time they used it in Star Trek, the context was about willing self sacrifice. It was about choice. The group actually opposed it.
In the authoritarian leftist/marxist sense, it can be construed as having similar meaning as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, which also seems to imply that there are choices, and not that the group will impose sacrifices or contributions from the individual.
But I find it very difficult to believe that those who wrote these sentiments were actually naive enough to believe that the majority in any social or political structure wouldn’t take advantage of their power over the individual.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
"Honest" ABE and FDR were handed crises that enabled them to lead and essentially operate political steamrollers. LBJ, like a power-hungry buzzard on a wire, lost patience and created crises...instead of waiting for them to come along he manufactured them. Thereby, setting the standard for Rat political strategy...
I suspect LOTS of DC ‘elites’ will get a cut of that action. Those folks don’t own beach houses on public servant’s pay for nothing.
Covid proves it.
Great tag too...
Underlying the promises of communitarianism is a rather pernicious premise: that collectives, i.e. the community, have rights that supersede individual rights; that for the good of a collective a member may be constrained. There is no real limit to this - to Hegel, one of the progenitors of Communism, the State, and not individual members, is the proper repository of not only rights but of all identity. Human beings become disposable parts of a greater living entity; the State becomes God. The entire purpose of constitutional restraints put on government power by the Founders was to avoid this reductio; the entire purpose of authoritarians is to embrace it.
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