The Advancement of Despair

The Smallest Minority ^ | 11.24.2021 | Kevin

[Noumenon]

There’s a fascinating video available on YouTube (embedded below) of an October, 1972 episode of William F. Buckley’s Firing Line TV show with the title “Hating America.” The guests that day were radical Leftist Dotson Rader (really, look this dude up) and political scientist and anti-Communist Arnold Beichman.

There are a couple of things Rader says during the show that I had to transcribe:

Dotson Rader: “We’re talking about that part of the Left that seeks to break down liberal democracy, and the corporate liberal democracy in the United States, by so dividing the country – that is a proportion of the country… A good portion of the Left’s function is the advancement of despair.”

William F. Buckley: “Yeah, polarization.”

Rader: “Right. And it’s to take a strong enough minority – it doesn’t have to be very large – of the population who are so deeply into despair over the possibility of change within the system that they’re willing to form an organization, a revolutionary underground and use any means necessary to bring it down. The experience of my life in this country, I don’t think or believe anymore that we’re going to bring about massive change in this country through democratic electoral means.”

Now, in 1972 Rader was probably 30 years old. He wanted “massive change” in his lifetime. It’s almost 2022. He’s almost 80. Think he got “massive change”?

But here’s the part that he said out loud that shocked me. Not what he said, but the fact that he blatantly admitted to it:

The Left’s agenda has always been “the advancement of despair” for the purpose of polarization, balkanization to create a disaffected class willing to “bring it (all) down” regardless of the cost, and damn the consequences. It’s explicitly why “critical theory” was created by the Frankfurt School. Modern Progressives deny it, but lying is like breathing to them. The Revolution is all. Utopia will come after all the undesirables are liquidated. Anything is justified to reach that goal.

Give it a watch: https://youtu.be/Y6Di10Ng8w8

[Noumenon]

For any of you remaining who still might believe that well, they can't possibly mean that, this may disabuse you of those notions. Combine this with Yuri Bezhmenov's expose of the Left and intentions and you've got a pretty good idea of what's in store for you if you don't, can't or won't wake the eff up and steel yourself to a reckoning, a retribution, a retaliation so grim, so dire, so savage that it will resonate through the next millennium. Nothing less will do.

[EasySt]

In other words…

The Issue is NEVER The Issue.
The Issue is ALWAYS The Revolution.

[Noumenon]

KTF KTA

[Romans Nine]

4L8TR

[Reddy]

“For any of you remaining who still might believe that well, they can’t possibly mean that”

Anyone who thinks they don’t mean it, even if it is not intentional, needs to be wary.

[Lurker]

Excellent find.

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[sauropod]

bkmk for review

[joma89]

And the author of this article proves once again how many useful idiots there are out there when he wrote how he was “shocked” about what the lefty radical said.

Do useful idiots have any idea what the “ends justifies the means” really means???

[ealgeone]

It never ceases to amaze me how these people hate this country, which has given them the best quality of life possible on the planet, so much they want to tear it down.

If they want that kind of life why don't they move to Cuba or China?

Or North Korea?

Those are the "worker's paradises" they want.

[ealgeone]

[rlmorel]

The mentality of “the ends justify the means” is a core principle of the Left, and has allowed the Left to rationalize all forms of immoral, illegal, and inhuman behavior.

I read Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, and I found it disturbing and nauseating. It is their Bible, and the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are its disciples.

[rlmorel]

Thanks for that link. After a short time and multiple “I am not a revolutionary” statements from Rader, I saw him for the fraud he is/was. He isn’t stupid.

I enjoyed it.

[GOPJ]

The Left’s agenda has always been “the advancement of despair” for the purpose of polarization, balkanization to create a disaffected class willing to “bring it (all) down” regardless of the cost, and damn the consequences. It’s explicitly why “critical theory” was created by the Frankfurt School. Modern Progressives deny it, but lying is like breathing to them.

I've known commies - not just the idiot young of 'elites'... but the ones who aren't gullible - the ones who are evil. And yeah, they're as bad or worse than most Americans can imagine.

[Tailback]

bkmk

[Albion Wilde]

It never ceases to amaze me how these people hate this country, which has given them the best quality of life possible on the planet, so much they want to tear it down.

Benjamin Franklin wrote, "The poor man must work to find meat for his stomach. The rich man must work to find stomach for his meat."

Dotson Rader was a very confused, bisexual individual who had absolutely no idea what to do after the revolution he wished to witness and write about, but not be swept up into. As he said, he was a coward with no wish to die for a cause.

It's a shame how many of those raised in the immediate post WW2 era were spoiled brats with nothing to offer, but a willingness to tear down what had been won over centuries by blood and sweat.

[jmacusa]

Over eighty years ago Hitler made no illusions about what he intended to do to the Jews of Europe and the world.

His every speech, every pronouncement and in every page of his turgid convoluted book he stated clearly what he intended to do.

And yet when the camps were liberated and the evidence laid bare for the world to see millions denied it happened and still deny it to this day.

Humans will always never believe what they read or hear or even what they see.

Thus is the nature of the human condition.