MCCOTTER: IT’S A BAD TIME TO HAVE A GOOD MEMORY

Human Events ^ | August 22, 2022 | Thaddeus G. McCotter

[Twotone]

As a relatively young country, America has a tendency to ignore history, if not outright disdain it. This ahistorical impulse is manifested in the citizenry’s incessant craving for the novel in every realm of daily life, be it economic, cultural, social, spiritual, medical, or political. What’s new is improved; and what’s old is discarded (unless and until it becomes “retro” within a passing fad). Within the public this engenders a short attention span and a desire for “progress” – which the Left deliberately conflates with “desirable” to attain its political aims. (After all, one can progress into a better person; or one can progress off a precipice. What matters is the destination.)

The public’s short attention span and desire for progress is remorselessly exploited by the Left. What recourse does it have, really? The Left still bitterly clings to its belief that socialism works, despite the failures and horrors of that oppressive economic system throughout modern history. Consequently, as history has proven socialism to be lethally flawed, the Left – which once proclaimed communism’s historical inevitability was “scientific” – has been forced to shove history down the memory hole in its efforts to “reimagine” and “recreate” civilization. Spawned and slithering forth from the primordial ooze of the anti-Enlightenment rantings of Jean–Jacques Rousseau, the Left’s stubborn insistence on societal self-immolation has its adherents in members of the Democratic Party and other smaller Leftist parties who have forgotten or ignored this lesson of history.

Today, for the Left history is the enemy, as it reveals the intrinsic flaws and ineluctable failings of its corrupt ideology: specifically, that human nature can never be perfected and, ergo, their promised terrestrial Eden be attained by the omnipotent government they crave.

[MtnClimber]

[Lurkinanloomin]

Today, for the Left history is the enemy, as it reveals the intrinsic flaws and ineluctable failings of its corrupt ideology: specifically, that human nature can never be perfected and, ergo, their promised terrestrial Eden be attained by the omnipotent government they crave.
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Good thing for them that they have Assistant Democrats like Nikki Haley to assist with the history erasing.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Sane, cool, and intelligent, Thaddeus blundered himself out of office, but even if hadn’t, I’d suspect the moves of the 0bama years, not to mention what we’re going through now would have driven him over the edge.

[muir_redwoods]

I’ve quieted more than a few people by telling them that in a market economy, they are free to form a commune and live out their socialist dream. In a socialist economy, starting an entrepreneurial effort of private enterprise would be at least a felony if not treason.