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Will 2021 Be 1984?
American Greatness ^ | July 19, 2020 | Victor David Hanson

Posted on 07/20/2020 7:40:39 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

Cultural revolutions are insidious and not just because they seek to change the way people think, write, speak, and act. They are also dangerous because they are fueled by self-righteous sanctimoniousness, expressed in seemingly innocuous terms such as “social activism,” “equality,” and “fairness.”

The ultimate aim of the Jacobin, Bolshevik, or Maoist is raw power—force of the sort sought by Hugo Chavez or the Castro dynasty to get rich, inflict payback on their perceived enemies, reward friends, and pose as saviors.

Cubans and Venezuelans got poor and killed; woke Chavezes and Castros got rich and murderous.

Leftist agendas are harder to thwart than those of right-wing dictators such as Spain’s Francisco Franco because they mask their ruthlessness with talk of sacrifice for the “poor” and concern about the “weak.” 

Strong-man Baathists, Iranian Khomeinists, and the German National Socialists claimed they hated capitalism. So beware when the Marxist racialists who run Black Lives Matter, the wannabe Maoists of Antifa, the George Soros-paid activists, “the Squad” and hundreds of state and local officials like them in cities such as Portland, Seattle, and Minneapolis, and Big Tech billionaires take power. These are “caring” people who couldn’t care less about the working classes or the hundreds of African-Americans murdered in America’s inner cities.

Vice President as President


(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 1984; anarchist; biden; bolshevik; cwii; jacobin; leftist; maoist; preppers; shtf; takeover; tyranny; vdh
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Lengthy but very perceptive article by Victor David Hanson.

He does understand what Biden is and how the Left is using him as a tool to not only steal the election but take over the USA. And the consequences that go with that takeover.

1 posted on 07/20/2020 7:40:39 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil
I actually see a different parallel with Biden and what comes after him


2 posted on 07/20/2020 7:46:39 AM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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To: montag813

Exactly!


3 posted on 07/20/2020 8:00:59 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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To: Texas Fossil

If Biden wins, he will not be known as “Joe 46.” He will be known as “Joe 25th” as in the 25th amendment.


4 posted on 07/20/2020 8:03:53 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: montag813
I actually see a different parallel with Biden and what comes after him

If the demoncraps do successfully ballot stuff the election, slo' joe will step aside as soon as the election is called. He won't even be sworn in, but rather his successor. Chief Pedo of the SCOTUS, Roberts will rule that it's okay.

5 posted on 07/20/2020 8:07:05 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Or Joe 2, as in the Second Amendment. The Socialists-Commies are working diligently to sway public opinion into repealing the Second Amendment and seizing guns. That’s all that’s separating them from the absolute power of Hitler or Stalin. What seemed absurd a few years ago is moving closer to reality.


6 posted on 07/20/2020 8:23:07 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Texas Fossil
” Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

- Theodore Dalrymple
7 posted on 07/20/2020 8:29:50 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Texas Fossil

This is one of the best analyses I have read. The sparing by the hard left of their financiers in Silicon Valley, the evisceration of the courts and any border controls, the elimination of the concept of “citizenship”, the targeting of the middle class when they come for the “rich kulaks” have all seemed to me to be in our future if the ventriloquist’s dummy is elected. The 401K accounts are the largest pool of untaxed funds out there, and there will be demands to “share” the land with the homeless and downtrodden. Get ready for it - if the leftists and their sycophantic, lying supporters in the “press” have their way, it will be the end of our life as we know it.


8 posted on 07/20/2020 8:51:52 AM PDT by laconic
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To: montag813

The ventriloquist’s dummy


9 posted on 07/20/2020 9:21:01 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (When in the course of human events...)
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To: Texas Fossil

I love VDH but this column gets off on the wrong foot.

The number one problem with the communist take-over of our country is anti-Semitism and hatred of the Jews?

Whose mind operates that way? “Hey, the communists are taking over and eradicating America! My first thought is how this will affect the Jews!”

When even great minds like VDH think this way, the chances are not good for mere patriotic Americans.


10 posted on 07/20/2020 10:37:42 AM PDT by Gratia
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To: laconic

I didn’t think a civil war II was a done deal for this country until I witnessed the events of the last four months. If Bite Me wins eventually he will go for the guns and then there will finally be a response from the red states. Not as states but individuals and it could quickly devolve. If Trump wins the liberals will go to places we never conceived since 1861 and will try and assassinate Trump with the help of the Vichy Republicans and the deep state traitors.

I really don’t see how there can be a resolution with the left, they don’t want to live in peace, they want us dead. How do you negotiate with wack jobs when their opening statement is you must totally join us or die. In 1861 we were forced into a shooting war and at great cost in blood and treasure the Democrats were stopped, but the union didn’t finish them off, they were allowed to fester and agitate and cause great misery for the south especially.

If we have war forced upon us again by these very same people they must be utterly destroyed for the sake of humanity. Make no mistake if we lose the world enters a miserable dark age and there is no America out there fighting and pushing for freedom in the world to come to our rescue, it’s over for generations.


11 posted on 07/20/2020 11:49:45 AM PDT by sarge83
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They will come for us, I have no doubt of it. The wipeout of the American traditional middle class has been their target for 60 years. All that stands between us and them is one Donald Trump. We have to start thinking about carve outs of existing states for places like 90 percent of the land mass of Virginia, New York, Washington, Oregon and California; about 1/2 of New Jersey, New Hampshire and most of the land mass of Maine.


12 posted on 07/20/2020 11:56:56 AM PDT by laconic
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To: laconic
You're onto something there but we want these islands of "woke" Communists quarantining themselves against us while actually doing America the inadvertent favor of killing themselves off without means of production or sustenance.

I see these parents in Portland putting themselves between the police and their uncivilized children - they made the choice between their nation and the mob. Cleanup on aisle three.

13 posted on 07/21/2020 5:53:35 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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To: Texas Fossil

BTTT!

This is the Essay of the Year!

A MUST READ!

Send it to all of your email buddies!


14 posted on 07/22/2020 2:08:54 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: Taxman

Thank you.

I think the title kept this from being more read. But it was what it is.

Victor David Hanson is very smart and perceptive.


15 posted on 07/22/2020 6:59:08 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

I wonder how we can keep it alive so that it gets the attention it deserves?


16 posted on 07/22/2020 7:06:26 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: Taxman

I’m not sure. It may be posted somewhere else with a better name for the article. And if it is posted somewhere that we can post as News, not a blogger it would help.


17 posted on 07/22/2020 8:47:19 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Let’s keep bumping it to the top!


18 posted on 07/23/2020 12:07:46 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: Texas Fossil

bfl


19 posted on 07/23/2020 12:29:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Taxman

Thank you.


20 posted on 07/23/2020 1:17:55 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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