Posted on 04/07/2009 9:11:07 AM PDT by Califreak
A recent directive from the New York State Department of Health is one of the latest examples of the deterioration of America's culture. Sent to the offices of the 900-plus cities and towns in the Empire State, it contained a newly created "Certificate of Live Birth" along with a single-page explanation of why it had been sent. The official document noted that a New York State court had ruled that same-sex "marriages" performed in "other jurisdictions" (such as in neighboring Massachusetts) "must be recognized." Therefore, stated the directive, "any married woman that gives birth in your district will have her spouse — male or female — listed in the birth certificate as the second parent."
Samples of the new form accompanying the directive contained space for the entry of the name of "Mother" and a second space for entry of another "Mother." No space for any father is provided. That's on another form available from the state to use in registering the newly born child of a heterosexual couple.
New York State now dignifies homosexuality to the point of considering two females as the parents of a newborn. And New York State is not alone in taking such action. The bedrock of any worthwhile civilization, the traditional family, has been undermined and has now been officially denigrated.
No government bureau would have dared circulate such a directive only a few decades in the past. A solid foundation of traditional morality would have made it impossible to even consider such a departure during past millennia. But America's culture is changing, and the gradual acceptance of same-sex "marriage" is just one example. But why is America changing?
The transformation of America's culture has much to do with the strategy laid out by a communist theoretician named Antonio Gramsci. His plan for subverting the non-communist world is known by far too few. Yet, what he advocated is occurring.
A founder of Italy's Communist Party in the wake of World War I, Gramsci soon became disillusioned at the party's fortunes because of the rise of fascist Benito Mussolini. So he fled to Russia in hopes of finding a more pure form of Marxism. The paradise he expected to find, however, turned out to be a tyranny controlled by the military, allied with police-state terror. Still anxious to build Marxism, he returned to Italy but was arrested and jailed under suspicion of being an agent of a hostile foreign power. During nine years in prison, he formulated a plan for conquering Italy and the rest of the Christian West.
Instead of hoping for a spontaneous revolution of the working masses, as many communists actually forecast, Gramsci proposed attacking the West's cultural foundations, thereby weakening the structure of those nations he wanted to conquer. If communists could undermine faith in God and love of family and country, he believed, the Christian West would become rootless and would be an easy prey for conquest. His plan called for infiltrating the cultural institutions — churches, schools, media, etc. — and converting them into instruments for change that would promote cleverly disguised Marxism and (in general) subvert the culture of the target country.
Gramsci recommended that communists should ridicule morality, decency, and virtue. He said that real heroes should be replaced by adulation of the equivalent of today's decadent rock stars and Hollywood favorites. Especially should communist cadres work to denigrate the institutions of marriage and family. While other communist leaders believed that the route to power involved politics, labor unrest, violent revolution, even economic warfare, Gramsci worked to sap a nation's cultural base and weaken resistance to communism's ultimate goal.
Antonio Gramsci died in prison in 1937, an almost forgotten man. But the nine volumes of recommendations he compiled during his years behind bars were later published as his Prison Notebooks. Issued in many languages, the Gramscian strategy has been employed very effectively in many countries, certainly including the United States. Especially did Gramsci point to the importance of gaining influence among the cultural elites to bring about a piecemeal triumph of Marxism that (for a country with a strong tradition of freedom such as the United States) could not happen through an open and sudden revolution.
Consider the harmful effect on America's cultural base of such forces as feminism, the homosexual lobby, extreme environmentalism, liberal historians who trash our nation's founders, and jurists and legislators who operate on the false doctrine that the U.S. Constitution was written only for a bygone age and modern government has all the answers for today's needs. Much of the attack on America's foundations has been funded by the elitists who gained control of the fortunes amassed by such men as Rockefeller, Ford, and Carnegie. While it is true that many Americans shrink in horror at the erosion of culture that so marked our nation, few seem to understand why it is happening.
Our country is one of inclusion, diversity and consideration of others - so long as you are not white and have a job. In this regard, you are, by historical and cultural definition, a racist in fact.
Volunteers?
That has happened already with Obama.
We’ve grown complacent and too certain that we are as close to perfection as a country can get and nothing can change that! (”American exceptionalism”, remember?) Well, something is changing “that”, slowly but Shirley!
While Obummer gives our sovereignty over to Europe, at the same time the amnesty flunkies want to turn the entire country into a third world country by indiscriminate illegal immigration which not only endangers our national security but undermines the very fabric that our country and its Constitution was built on and sustained especially when new immigrants dont even bother learning the language!
This is just plain disgusting. Same sex coupling should have NO CHILDREN in their care. Live like you want to live but LEAVE THE CHILDREN OUT OF IT!
“What is it going to take for the 2nd American Revolutionary War, I wonder.’
It may very well come to that. People can be pushed down and into a corner just so far. Unless we find some other way to stop the decline and destruction of our country, nonviolent resolution may cease to be an option.
My preference would be for us to find a way to bring our country leaders to a dead stop using nonviolent means, but it sure doesn’t look like it’s heading in that direction at the moment.
Nothing is off the table.....
It has been happening for decades.
I didn’t realize exactly what it was until another freeper posted an article about Gramsci.
I wish I could remember the screenname for pinging purposes.
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Volunteers?
Why don't you go first?
Lord, spare me from Internet Tough Guys.
They want to pervert as many as people as possible as quickly as possible. It’s utterly demonic.
I don’t want to surrender my family, home and life yet.
Don’t call me Shirley!
Then quit asking others to volunteer to do so.
Starting to see that the situation is
irreconcilable?
There is no way that a two groups of people can live together in the same society when one group insists on enslaving the other and destroying the values they want to pass on to their children.
I homeschooled three children and am helping with the education of the next generation as well.
Long Term Solution:
Conservatives must organize education foundations that would issue grants to conservative teachers. These teachers would open tuition-free one room school houses, mini-schools, and homeschool cooperatives. The foundations would certify the teacher, approve the curriculum, and test the students.
Conservatives must work for the complete shut down of every government k-12 school in the nation, and complete reform of our colleges and universities. If the college classroom is filled with graduates of conservative K-12 schools and with students well prepared to defend their faith and values, Marxist professors won't stand a chance.
Short Term Solution:
Conservatives must fund conservative media. Ridicule and spoof are powerful weapons.
Just suggesting what’ll be necessary. Sorry.
The Fabians taught the Left that small, incremental legislative changes (welfare, medicare, social security, etc.) can, over time, create a huge class of people who pay no taxes but who are dependent on government for their livilhood.
Louis Blanqui proposed that a small, secretive group of radicals could gain power and institute a coup from the top down, rather than a bottom-up Class War a la Karl Marx.
Whether knowingly or not, I think Obama and his friends from Chicago (along with Soros and the King of Saudi Arabia) are staging a Blanquist revolution. And this has been made possible by decades of Great Society preparation and by decades of Gramscian cultural revolution.
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