Communism, of course, is atheistic – where the government is the only true god, the giver of blessings, the solver of problems, the dispenser of justice and mercy. This envy-based, class-warfare-fueled revolutionary system talks always of justice, fairness, progress – but the only progress it delivers is from freedom to slavery...This is the appeal more and more Americans have been conditioned over the years to respond to, as we have progressively fallen away from the Judeo-Christian values that once animated our culture and institutions.
Once we abandon faith - whether the personal faith of a Christian or Jew or even the more impersonal faith of the deist - we have abandoned the outside standard against which to judge our lives. Everything then becomes relative, and our lives are then defined from the outside, in this case, by a Marxist ideology that puts the government where God used to be.
These people have not spent 40 years (since the 60s) undermining us; they have spent almost 100 years, since the spread of Marxism into the US and its acceptance by the Progressive Era theorists who were behind the US public education system. So if you want to know who or what to thank for this slow and steady culture change, thank the public schools.
Then go on and thank the academy in general, particularly the Ivies. What you are seeing with the Mysterious One is simply the moment at which the academy, completely taken over by Marxist thought, achieves its goal and takes over the US, with the consent of the citizens the academy has been slowly conditioning for nearly a century. Evil is nothing if not patient.
State schools, too. My daughter just graduated from the University of Oregon. She went in as a sensible girl and came out as an Obama loving left winger. I’m so upset about this that I just boil about it every day.