Posted on 07/28/2021 3:52:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
By undoing the rule of law, defunding the police, and ignoring crime, anti-American progressives are undoing -- in their mind -- three centuries of institutional and cultural oppression and tyranny.
American cities are reeling from increased crime ranging from burglary and arson to murder. Americans, rightly, are concerned -- except for Democrat officials. San Francisco, a bastion of progressive stupidity, is among the hardest hit cities -- yet the San Francisco lunatics who run the city claim anyone concerned with rising crime is a white supremacist. This is common from among the Democrat intelligentsia and leadership.
To understand why Democrats don’t care about crime, we must turn to two prophets of the new anti-American ideology. Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault are essential to understand to enter the deluded mind of the modern progressive and why they are happy to let American cities burn rather than confront crime and stop the desecration of America’s once iconic cities.
Antonio Gramsci authored his famous treatise while imprisoned in Italy under Mussolini’s government. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks offered an explanation for why the proletariat revolution failed in the West and laid out a new roadmap for revolutionary success in the future. According to Gramsci, the revolution failed by the revolutionaries didn’t have cultural-institutional power.
Gramsci’s thesis is called “cultural hegemony.” The idea, in a nutshell, is that cultural values and consciousness emanate and are reinforced by societal institutions. Business, media, religion, courts of law -- all institutions controlled by the patriotic bourgeoisie prevent the underclass and exploited people from ever learning of their oppression. The task, then, of the radical is to seize control of the institutions in order to propagate the revolutionary ideology. This reached fruition beginning in the late 1960s with student radicals influenced by Gramsci eventually growing up and taking positions
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Communism is slavery and communism is theft. Communism is a crime against humanity. That is why democRATs don’t care about crime. They only care about their own power over others.
“...the revolution failed by the revolutionaries didn’t have cultural-institutional power.”
Now, we have university-indoctrinated wokes in all levels of biz, gov, schools and MSM. And we see they are exerting their power in a big woke way.
Regarding these revolutionaries (useful idiots):
The book 1984, Part 3, Chapter 3, O’Brien to Smith:
“...The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.
We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
Now do you begin to understand me?’ “
Birds of a feather.
They're not blind or inept when dealing with crime. They're not misguided and trying to help but unable to get it right. They create scenarios and promote crime to further their own agenda.
Once Marxist communism is firmly entrenched law and order will be back with draconian vengeance.
Right now they are busy tearing down civil society so they can build it in their own image and likeness
Summary:
“These two ideas: cultural hegemony through institutions and the valorization of the minority which can do no wrong are the two ideas that lay at the heart of the anti-American ideology.”
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“Make no mistake, anti-American Democrats would rather our cities be burned and looted than perpetuate the system of white systematic racism and oppression supposedly at the heart of “law and order.””
Oh, Leftists care about crime alright. They sure do.
Just not in the same way Conservatives do.
Leftists see crime as a tool to exact change.
Conservatives see crime as something to be punished and prevented.
Your post is 100% spot on.
So it is easy for them not to care about the violence and crime their policies cause for everybody else.
One tyranny simply replaces another, and the new form is almost certain to be even more ruthless that the one it replaced.
Without ruthless application of force, no tyranny would survive very long. The difference is how much of that police power of the designated authority is chosen to come down on its people with. Too little, and people revolt and throw the rascals out, to be replaced by another set of rascals, who may or may not be somewhat more enlightened. Too much and the entire economic structure degenerates into a command-and-control regime.
But sometimes, some enlightened leaders do emerge, and a new Golden Age of prosperity and peace is realized. But people being people, a stirring of “This is too good to be true” emerges, and they begin to INVENT adversity, believing this is the normal state of humanity.
Who knows, perhaps we do not deserve better.
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Democrats are letting Democrat Cities be burned and looted.
So why should we reward them with power?
And, this is why it so delighted me to hear that Barbara Boxer got mugged in Oakland the other day. She is a horrible person and ........ nevermind. Anyhoo, sow and so shall yee reap. She helped create the mess that is Oakland and it is gratifying that she got a taste, a personal taste, of what everybody else there has to deal with on a daily basis. I’ve worked in Oakland, it is a cesspit.
Need to divide “democrats” into groups. Those who have the power. Those who want the power. Those who drink the Koolaid and like it. Those who drink the Koolaid because that is what they have always done, like it or not. etc.
One fellow I know actually believes that ONLY CNN can be trusted for news. He thinks that Fox is worthless right wing and MSNBC is worthless left wing. He is against woke, against special “rights” for anyone, colored, not colored, queer, trans, whatever. He hates the wasteful spending of government unless it benefits everyone. A “proud” union member for life, and most of all he hates Donald Trump. I don’t know if CNN poisoned his mind towards Trump, or if his hatred of Trump is merely bolstered by CNN, but he is that strangest “democrat” I know. We get along, as long as we don’t talk politics.
When Dems come face to face with the crime they created they’ll be SHOCKED
“Leftists see crime as a tool to exact change.”
Solzhenitsyn made a similar observation about the ‘blatnye’ or career criminals in the labor camps of the gulag.
The Party viewed them as class allies to destroy the political prisoners whom they were given licence to oppress because they shared the Party’s attitude toward private property.
The thieves in return referred to Stalin as ‘the Great Day Thief’.
Damned auto-correct/complete!
“Day” was inserted for who knows where.
Good observation and parallel…spot on. One of my.special favored books. Probably read it five times now.
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