Posted on 07/26/2024 5:15:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
No ideology in modern history has failed more drastically and with greater damage than leftism, yet in America and abroad, the new leftists march on, undeterred by the past.
Perhaps the most significant factor contributing to the Soviet Union’s collapse was a resolute commitment to the infallibility of socialist ideology, coupled with its continued application long after its obvious failure. The failure to learn history and, by extension, internalize the lessons from this dark period is what enables our modern-day Marxists (whom we refer to as “leftists” or “progressives”) to believe that they can somehow avoid the consequences of the policies they promote.
Modern political history shows that these same people almost always avoid any personal liability for the destruction that they’ve wrought. In the Soviet countries, this mindset prevailed until the collapse of that abominable regime in 1991, but not before oppressing, enslaving, and murdering millions.
Unfortunately, this worldview persists even today. Adherence to ideological purity is valued above empirical evidence and objective truth, and is particularly prevalent among miseducated Western leftists who “identify as secular,” whereas those of us who believe in G-d are labeled “superstitious.” These are the archetypical “godless commies.” By traditional standards, they display appalling behavior. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who had experience with this, once said, “If there is no G-d, everything is permitted.”
Image: The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (unaltered usage allowed under German law), which taught Marxists nothing.
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“What can be, unburdened by what has been” - Kamala Harris
We all live with the consequences of leftism, and they’re all bad.
Great reminder. She’s said that a lot. She’ll use it to preface all sorts of crazy if she gets into office.
People’s desire to survive minimizes the harm that leftists does. That’s why it just keeps going. It would take the elimination of the human race to make it indebateable.
There was a concept in software revision control, I learned when I was a programmer. I think it was called “rebasing”, and it meant, essentially, combining an entire exercise of changes, including failures, into a single change to the software that appeared to be a step “forward”. This made the revision of the software appear to be a single, unbroken effort of “progress”.
Needless to say, this concept was very popular among the liberal-minded programmers.
What you had to realize, however, is that it hid failure. The same mistakes could be repeated endlessly by different programmers, all trying to solve the same problem without record of what does not work.
If this is from American Thinker and the author is conservative, then why hyphenate the word God ???
I have also noticed this many times. It seems that some think it is irreverent to spell the whole name. I don't understand it. Maybe someone else has an idea and can chime in.
The 'government' has intentionally made unemployment and feral child-rearing attractive and even comfortable. Now there's no stigma associated with unemployment or illegitimacy so, it's a paradise for lazy people!
Others always are left holding the bag
I've heard that but I don't understand it either.
For a number of reasons, high population density causes communism. Big cities are a cancer everywhere in the world. While there are enough nukes to end all city life 20 minutes from now, another way is: give leftists everything they ask for. Give leftists enough rope, and they will inevitably hang themselves every time. Unfortunately that really just prolongs the suffering of millions, and isn’t even slightly more moral. If their unprovoked civil war goes hot, just nuke ‘em and be done.
The left is an apocalyptic religion with political power.
Because commie trash, who hide as progressives, lack the brain power to connect actions to consequences. They are like puppies who piddle on the floor and then squirm around happily not understanding why you are having a hissy fit — for the tenth time.
“seems that some think it is irreverent to spell the whole name. I don’t understand it.
I’ve heard that but I don’t understand it either.”
It comes from Hebrew, maybe Talmudic law I’m not sure. From what I understand it is a sinful or perhaps blasphemous to spell (or speak aloud) the entire Name above all Names.
That is because there are NEVER any consequences. Like this kid in DC being taken from his or her parents because they would allow gender “transition”. It absolutely will get overturned, but that kid will be destroyed, parents lives tore up, but the authorities will not face any consequences from it other than don’t do it again. So they’ll try another angle later.
It is a Jewish way of showing respect to God by not mentioning His Name since only the high priest could mention it and only on the Day of Atonement.
That’s because “being on the Left means never having to say you’re sorry.” (D Prager)
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