Posted on 08/01/2019 8:46:47 AM PDT by Liberty7732
“There is no essential moral difference between class-warfare and race-warfare, between destroying a class and destroying a race.”
That’s from Paul Johnson, maybe the preeminent historian of the 20th Century and as non-political as you can get, from his history book, “Modern Times: The World From The Twenties To The Nineties.”
After another two-night marathon of Democratic debates, it has come back to me as I am reading Johnson’s excellent, if dense, history tome.
A large part of the country has just accepted that we hammer each other on race and income. It’s just politics. No, it’s not. It’s both personal and eventually fatal. It is exactly — and I mean exactly — what Lenin did in creating and sustaining the Soviet Union during and after the Russian Revolution. In fact, that is who Johnson is describing in the above sentence, the killing machine of Lenin in 1919 who set the stage for one of the world’s greatest killing machines, Stalin.
That is not where we are, of course. But we can see what is coming up ahead around the bend by knowing what has happened when we’ve gone around this bend before. Violent eruptions don’t materialize for no reason. There are always preceding causes, usually growing over time.
Here’s the key takeaway: Irresponsible American politicians aided by an irresponsible media continue to create hyper-divisions in our country. Far from all the inane platitudes of “unity in diversity,” they actively seek to divide us from one another, then pit those divisions against one another for personal or philosophic gain.
I know some will be sputtering, but, but, but Trump!!! This just really needs to be understood. Trump is a reactionary figure, meaning he is reacting to what preceded him. I never predicted Trump, but I’ve been predicting something like Trump and certainly the clash at Charlottesville for decades. After Charlottesville, I reminded my wife that I had said this was coming, and there will be more if we don’t back off the race warfare. It’s as assured as gravity.
You cannot tell an entire race of people (whites now) that they are the root of our problems (CNN anchor Don Lemon literally did a few months ago stating, “We have to stop demonizing people and realize that the biggest terror threat in this country is white men” — I know, the irony) and not expect at some point there will be a reaction and it won’t be pretty. The reaction may be wrong, but it is predictable.
President Obama certainly played a role in fanning racial flames when he could have calmed them. Instead, he jumped to racial conclusions in Cambridge, Ferguson, New York, Baltimore and Trayvon Martin in Florida (claiming white racism in every one.) But let’s be honest, this long preceded him, too. He just made it worse.
Affirmative action and minority quotas in the 1970s really started this inevitable resentment ball rolling. It’s become much, much worse though as every single election cycle, Republicans and their supporters are labeled as racists and hating poor people. White Republicans want to put black people back in chains (Biden in 2012) and push grandma off a cliff (multiple Democrat ads.) Pretty astonishing but just commonplace — like the black plague was commonplace.
The class warfare of many Democrats, most notably New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (“I’ll tax the hell out of the wealthy”) but essentially all of them on stage the past two nights talking about “fair share” for the wealthy paying more, a misnomer if there ever was one. This whipped up division creates animosity to gather votes and power, using the American people as discardable pawns.
Karl Marx understood this formula. Lenin and Trotsky understood it. Stalin understood it. Mao understood it. Castro understood it. For that matter, and I hate to use the name, but Hitler understood it. They all played to the most base and ugly parts of human nature — the other guy is causing my problems!
This is a dangerous and deadly road, already well-traveled in history.
So let’s be clear. No one man is an existential threat to the nation, as the hyperbolic Democrat/media establishment is fond of saying today of Trump. That’s just nonsense. Our framers, who are also out of favor with the left, set up too great a foundational system of checks and balances for that.
But fanning race and class warfare is an existential threat, because it has the ability to destroy the foundations. We were headed in the right direction for a brief moment in the 1950s and 1960s (Martin Luther King’s dream that his children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character) but for a much longer time we have been going backwards, and it’s really speeding up. Class warfare is running in tandem.
This can end in no good place for our country if the foot is not removed from the accelerator of race and class divisions. History makes very, very clear that we are heading for a cliff. The thing is, we’re all in the vehicle together.
Karl Marx’s “gift” to the world.
Captain Obvious timidly realizes that putting a knife to the throat of the most successful and powerful group of people in human history is not going to happen without some really serious reaction.
He’s only 50 years too late to the party.
Social justice is communism rebranded. They just swapped out class warfare for constantly warring demographic groups. None of the root policies or other rhetoric changed.
That’s been the whole point in this country since the days of Bill Ayers and Charles Manson.
If you have not read “Modern Times: The World From The Twenties To The Nineties,” get a copy. This book and Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope” rocked my world.
The Real Existential Threat: Philosophy
Agree with this 1,000,000%.
Marx considered himself an elite and HATED the rest. He viewed his work as a history of the bourgeoisie.
Excellent article.
Nearly every problem this country has is caused by pandering to blacks.
I hate to say it, but the overall picture does not look good, despite the fact that there are individual blacks I repect, even admire.
But their race comes from a savage, unhealthy continent and would be savages still if not for exposure to white Christian culture. If not kept in check, it is their natural tendency to return to savagery — witness the fact that most black children in the 1950s grew up in intact families.
Blame can be apportioned equally between manipulation by white Marxists and blacks’ natural propensities to impulsive, irresponsible actions.
Yes, the world would be so much better if Marx died young, Hitler was killed in WW1 and Lenin was killed in the 1918 assassination attempt.
There still would be Fabian or Owen style socialism perhaps not as initially murderous. However over time as it fails it might grow to be as murderous. Its believers continuing to force implementation on a society as socialism continually fails to produce its “promises”.
Our national debt may be basically what we have wasted on the War on Poverty!
LBJ’s and the DemoKKKrats War on Poverty has destroyed every city, which were sold into the WOP by the DemoKKKrats leaders in every city.
This War on Poverty was a new form of economic Slavery of black Americans living in the big cities, by the DemoKKKrats.
The politicians in control of these cities have gotten rich while their cities became rat infested $hitholes with increased poverty for the citizens in these cities.
The War on Poverty Wasn’t A Failure — It Was A Catastrophe
57,390 viewsMar 19, 2014, 11:52am
By: Louis Woodhill Contributor
I apply unconventional logic to economic issues.
Has the War on Poverty been a failure? Well, of course it has. If you devote 50 years and $21.5 trillion (in 4Q2013 dollars) to anything, and people are arguing about whether it was a success or a failure, then you can be sure that it was a failure.
Have you noticed that, 50+ years from its inception, no one is suggesting that the Apollo program was a failure? The Apollo program was an unchallenged success because it accomplished its stated goal: “…to land a man on the moon, and to return him safely to the earth.”
The stated goal of the War on Poverty, as enunciated by Lyndon Johnson on January 8, 1964, was, “…not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” Measured against this objective, the War on Poverty has not just been a failure, it has been a catastrophe. It was supposed to help America’s poor become self-sufficient, and it has made them dependent and dysfunctional.
Now, the faithful inner city Black voters for DemoKKKrats mayors, governors and congre$$its for decades are being abandoned as the illegals are now the #1 priority to the DemoKKKrats!
Bttt.
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A more recent example would be Venezuela.
What part of:
"If you give politicians enough power to take someone else's money and give it to you, they , (government), can also at any time, take your money away, and give it to anyone else, or even give it to themselves. (Where did the money-billions-for Baltimore go?)
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