Posted on 02/16/2024 11:56:19 AM PST by Red Badger
You’d be surprised how quickly the social zeitgeist can change.
When Reagan was elected in 1980, most of the hippies shaved their beards, cut their hair, put on suits, ties, and wing-tipped shoes, and marched off to their office at the bank. It was an amazing transformation.
Communist Rules for Revolution
1. Corrupt the young: get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.
2. Get control of all means of publicity. Get peoples minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, pornography, plays and other trivialities.
3. Divide people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
4. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up for contempt, ridicule, etc.
5. Always preach true democracy; but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
6. Using government extravagance, destroy its credit; produce fear of inflation, rising prices and general discontent.
7. Foment strikes in vital industries; encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward these disorders.
8. Cause a breakdown of moral virtues; honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
9. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext with a view of confiscation of them and leaving the population helpless.
Wokeness is an entirely logical result, indeed it is the only possible result, to reconcile empiricism with a religious belief in equality.
I don't believe that. More like 80%. Systemic racism is easily defined by DIE, affirmative action, colored women (like Fani) in power, our educational, cultural and entertainment industries, unfettered immigration and hundreds more examples of ways in which hatred and racism of all Americans, not just white ones, is on full display.
It didn’t last.
The GeriatriCons on FR don’t want to hear this, but Reagan changed nothing, and things were worse than ever at the end of the 1980’s.
“8. Majorities don’t matter.
Unfortunately for those dreaming of harnessing a majority anti-woke popular will, the truth is that, as statistician and philosopher Nassim Taleb has explained in detail, it’s typically not the majority that sets new societal rules, but the most intolerant minority. “
The GeriatriCons on FR don’t want to hear about this either. They are still clinging to ‘muh Constitutional Conservatism. Regardless of how much it fails and loses.
All societies are ruled by Elites. Popular Sovereignty is a lie.
All Democracies and Republics are fake, and disguised Oligarchies.
Just as all Monarchies, Empires and even Dictatorships are fake, and disguised Oligarchies.
You are going to be ruled by an Oligarchy. Pray that it will be a God-fearing one.
So far, we are afraid to be an intolerant minority.
But things can change.
“We have the best Government money can buy.” - Mark Twain................
You’re going to have to shoot your way out of it.
The left has advanced its cause by this principle for years. It is now the time for conservatives to act by the same principle. No more tolerance or compromises with wokeness. Push back on wokeness with full voice. Take names and take heads. Whether we like it or not, we are in a cultural war. We need to start acting like. We need to be more intolerant of wokeness than they are of us.
Yep.
Every “successful” revolution is simply an exchange of oligarchic rule.
Including American revolution. In the case of US, the elites were benevolent, defended individual rights from government, and realized that the Christian moral consensus was necessary for the republic and constitution to work for society.
In most cases, oligarchs simply replace each other and install their particular brand of despotism.
They changed their appearance but didn’t change their beliefs. They were communists in suits who joined boards and subverted organizations from within.
***9. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext with a view of confiscation of them and leaving the population helpless.***
In 1941, the US Congress noticed how the nazis were using gun registration to confiscate guns in invaded countries. It was decided never to register guns in the US.
In 1962 the democrats began to push gun registration and pushed harder in 1968. They are still pushing.
The smartest folks in the room that I listen to do not think that “we” will get it done.
Foreign conquest will get it done.
Only foreign armies will have the fanaticism needed to take out the trash.
The woke will be the elites of every major institution that are lined up and executed during the occupation process.
We are probably a generation away from that result.
Just to add to my post—when great empires like the Roman Empire or the Aztec Empire fell the invaders were welcomed or at least not resisted by the masses.
The average citizen hated their own elites so much they were thrilled the conquering armies were on the way to execute the ruling class.
There already is a ‘Gun Registry’ of sorts, a ‘backwards registry’ starting at the manufacturer then to the retailer, then.............
“Wokeism” - just a cover for another command-and-control scheme that somehow devolves into a strongman rule and the vast majority of its subjects being reduced to poverty. Another distinction from outright socialism without a difference.
One man, one vote, one way, one time - until the inevitable revolution that may either provide a road to freedom or just a new tyrant moving into the Maximum Leader’s former domicile.
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