Posted on 03/01/2024 4:20:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
Some four years ago, the radical left staged what amounted to a coup d’état and took control of the United States government. The events surrounding that coup — and the horrific policies that followed — have been described many times: the COVID “vaccine” hoax, rigged elections, imprisoning dissenters, weaponizing the Judiciary, open borders, the pointless killing in Ukraine. Yet no one has explained why all this happened or how to stop it.
The fact that no scholars or media have even attempted to explain this power-grab itself partly reveals the explanation. If we ask why people on the left took power, then eventually someone will ask why people on the right allowed it to. The next logical question then arises: why should we continue listening to them, following them, giving them money...?
Preaching to the converted and hurling anathemas at the left can accomplish only so much, and yet this is what we the politicians, pundits, and parlor intellectuals of the professional right mostly do. If we want to extricate ourselves from this debacle, we must start examining what the right — and the rest of us — are doing wrong.
Failure of the Right
The conservatives’ defeat is so glaring that some are finally acknowledging what to everyone else is obvious. “The establishment Right’s failures over the last generations have been manifold,” writes one, belatedly:
Since the end of the Cold War, what trajectory-altering successes or victories can the Right cite to demonstrate its worth? ... Despite spending billions of dollars supporting its infrastructure ... the establishment Right has registered no clear gains and many clear losses.
“You could even argue that it abetted most of it[s defeats],” another suggests. “Where official conservatism’s opposition hasn’t been ineffectual, it’s been collaborationist.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You aren’t supposed to ask.
So I’ve been told. I still ask…
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The founder of the John Birch Society, Robert H.W. Welch Jr., was an old time classical Unitarian (and an evolutionist as well).
One of the most conservative and pro-Confederate people I know personally is a Oneness Pentecostal.
Its not called the uniparty for nothing.
History.
I actually think the United States has moved from Euro-style socialism to full-fledged fascism. But as both are at their base Marxism, why split hairs?
I don’t think that Reagan was Conservatism inc. Goldwater was a little too nuts on starting a nuclear war.
The John Birch Society was right about most things.
We did too, at St. Bernard’s Catholic School. We also said the Pledge of Allegiance which included: “One Nation, UNDER GOD”.
...see tag.
I'm just saying the overall trend among the elites was once trinitarianism became less popular among their culture of elites and they embraced unitarianism, it was only a short time later they embraced Karl Marx' liberation theology. Not all of them, but that seemed to be the trend.
As an example, look at how Harvard changed in the early 1800's as unitarianism became more popular in Harvard, especially after Henry Ware became university president.
Or look at Tuskegee Institute (a black college) here in Alabama. There was a time when Tuskegee was graduating more future self-made millionaires than was coming out of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale combined. But that changed after the Tuskegee leaders (the aforementioned wealthily alumni later running Tuskegee) decided they wanted to be like rich whites and quit believing the divinity of Jesus. From there it was just a short step into marxsim and liberation theology.
Princeton wasn’t taking Black students back then, and Harvard and Yale took very few. To become rich, it helps if you have a network of contacts. African-Americans graduating from Tuskeegee could have that. Those graduating from Harvard or Yale would be left hanging between two worlds, neither of which they fit into, and at least one of which didn’t accept them as equals.
To be clear, I was saying more blacks from Tuskegee became future self-made millionaires than there were white future self-made millionaires coming from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. This was during a brief period in the early 20th century.
“Unfortunately, the Left appeals to the female vote much more effectively than the Right can. Much of the Woke mind virus targets women.”
Which... is really weird, because currently, the policies of the Marxist left is anything but “for women”. At least, ‘real’ women vs. pretenders. The leftists play on, use and appeal to the emotionalism .... which most women are, unfortunately, afflicted with.
Since the end of the Cold War, what trajectory-altering successes or victories can the Right cite to demonstrate its worth? ... Despite spending billions of dollars supporting its infrastructure ... the establishment Right has registered no clear gains and many clear losses.
Winning the Cold War was itself a major accomplishment -- and there was overturning Roe v. Wade. A lot of the things that the Establishment Right fought for and won turned out not to be good for the country -- NAFTA, WTO, detente with China, Mideast wars, higher campaign spending limits. There was also something unrealistic about Buckley's project from the beginning. Was the Depression generation really going to "repeal the New Deal" and return to how things were before? Such victories as are won are going to be on a much smaller scale than that.
Which... is really weird, because currently, the policies of the Marxist left is anything but “for women”.
We deserve the government we have.
The left , like the founders, is willing to fight for their beliefs,
We are not.
We embraced the ideas of a victim culture. Its not your fault, its someone else who is to blame for your poverty, your jail sentence, the fact you can’t get what you want. It’s the evil white man, the rich Jew, the Capitalist in his mansion, or the judgmental pastor in his pulpit. It’s not because your lazy, or drink too much, or never studied in school. No, you need help to get the things you need. A group will help you for the price of your freedom. It started with the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and grew to embrace all who thought they were victims, women, gays, Indian People, Asians, Latinos etc... But help comes at a price— Remember Latinx? Gay books to sexualize children>?
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