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Warnung!
Do you want to be demonized for all history like Sen. McCarthy? Do you want to be marginalized like Glenn Beck? Stay away from this reality, your reputation depends on it. If you trespass this taboo you will count yourself lucky to be as hated as Whittaker Chambers.
You have been warned, if you proceed beyond this point may God have mercy on your soul because you will find no respite on this earth from the demons who are abroad in our land.
Beware, you are in the land of Cultural Marxism.
The Senate has just voted its version of healthcare reform. A bill which every senator who voted for it knows full well is adamantly opposed by the great majority of his countrymen. He has voted for a bill in excess of 2000 pages whose contents are largely unknown to him. For example, the bill contains a provision which purports to preserve it from ordinary amendment by majority vote, an affront to democracy probably known only to Harry Reid and his intimate henchman in the Senate. But every senator who voted for this bill does know that his constituents are almost frantic in their opposition to it, that they have vociferously exercised their constitutional right to petition their government, they have even gone into the streets against it. Every Democrat in the Senate plus one independent and one socialist , contrary to the ideal represented by their name, voted to frustrate American democracy. Why?
We now learn from this article that one can take a grease pencil and draw a straight line from communist agitators to the passage of this bill. A straight line that will run right through The Young Communist League, the Communist Party, the Bethune Club, Dr. Quentin Young, Mao Zedong, the New American Movement, Bill Ayres, Saul Alinsky, the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Democratic Socialists of America, the Socialist International, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), the Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society, Harvard University, the Illinois Communist Party, Healthcare-NOW!, Global Exchange, Code Pink for Peace, Iraq Occupation Watch, and Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, to name only those organizations collected for inspection in this article. I would add one more name not found in the article: The Frankfurt School.
The grease pencil line ascends to its summit in the very figure of the President of the United States of America himself.
This string of anti-democratic front groups have succeeded in imposing upon unsuspecting Americans one of the most treacherous and, frankly, anti-American intrusions into our liberty, no, they have actually intruded into our sacred, physical bodies. Why has no reputable media source exposed these connections to alert us to the sort of people who have influence over not only our president and our legislators but very soon now over our very bodies?
How is it that it has now become respectable, indeed politically correct, to apologize and rationalize the flatly antidemocratic health care "reform" and disreputable, absolutely taboo to connect the dots, Glenn Beck style, from the Communist Party to Barack Obama to this abominable healthcare bill? How is it that democracy is marginalized and socialism exalted? How did the world get stood on its head? Why has the media not raised the alarm? Why is the media devoted its time borking those who do connect the dots?
I wish the problem were only the media but I fear it goes much deeper than that.
We are in a place in America today in which virtually every institution has been co-opted by the left. The infiltration is broad and deep and not one major institution has escaped. Our great universities, our teaching methods down through kindergarten, our great charitable foundations, our courts and the guilds such as the American Bar Association associated with the courts, the establishment churches, like the United Church of Christ, the Girl Scouts, the League of Women Voters, Hollywood, the publishing industry, the advertising industry. This list is by no means complete and it is growing daily under the predacious appetite of the Obama administration which has swallowed whole our industries such as automobile, insurance, banking. We see how the Obama administration has co-opted the American Medical Association and AARP.
If the problem were just the media we could hope for a solution coming of new technology. But I think the problem goes back to even before the Alinsky School to The Frankfurt School which was the precursor to the cultural subversion which has come to America and which found expression in the Alinsky School and political consummation in the election of Barack Obama. It is not by accident that all these institutions have fallen into the hands of the left. The left has generated a new eschatology, a whole new way of thinking, which rejects the logic and and culture that was the common experience in America at least through the Eisenhower administration.
The Frankfurt school was explicitly created to undermine those institutions which tended to hinder the sought after triumph of communism. These included the nation state, the church, the family, and the "liberal" tradition in education. So they devised means to undermine patriotism and combine that with wholesale immigration as just a couple of methods of undermining the nation state. They assaulted the churches and made expressions of Christianity in the public square illegal. To undermine the family, they belittled the father labeling him "authoritarian," derided paternalism, and encouraged abortion. They have had unimagined success in undermining our school system from kindergarten to postgraduate work. But these instances are merely the symptoms and the venues of the dirty work.
The main problem that comes out of The Frankfurt School is that it changes the way we think. If one legitimatizes relativism then one begins to talk about George Bush is the moral equivalent of Hitler. If one says that there is no such thing as historical reality, one has destroyed the underpinnings of civilization. If one espouses and sells a "critical theory" one has made all other forms of analysis except downright cynicism look naïve and unworthy. The examples of how the The Frankfurt School "deconstructed" our epistemology are truly frightening.
So the media behaves the way it does because that's the way it thinks and it thinks that way because that is the way it has been brought up. And all of this goes back To the Frankfurt School.
We are in a world in which good is called evil and evil is called good; where that which is undemocratic is called Democratic; that which is statist is called populist; that which increases the debt is called a bent curve; that which is collectivist is called freedom; and that which is communist is called by any other name, and God help those who deviate. We cannot call a thing by its right name because we are lost in cynicism, relativism, and cultural Marxism. We have abandoned our language with our values. Our representatives in a representative democracy no longer represent the people. We have abandoned democracy in its truest sense because we have swapped reason for ideology.
We are at a crisis in the moment because of the person of Barack Obama. We must bend every effort to prevent him from achieving the ultimate victory sought by The Frankfurt School and its disciples, Saul Alinsky, William Ayers, and the rest. But if we survive this crisis we must as patriotic conservatives undertake the restoration of "liberal" common sense and biblical morality to our culture. That means we have to change the way people think, the way they see the world, their whole value system. That is what has been done to us and if we do not undo it we will always be one election away from the next Barack Obama.
This is very true, but I think you can trace it further back than that in the US, to the progressivists of the early part of the 20th century. They didn't have the fully developed intellectual infrastructure, nor did they have the game plan that they would have a few decades later, but people like Woodrow Wilson and John Dewey were already chipping away at the intellectual and philosophical foundation of the US.
It was an American version of the trahison des clercs, since virtually all of this started with the academic elites and has been continued by them.
Dewey, of course, determined the future course of US education, and since he was a utilitarian atheist, viewing human beings as social constructs, this became the fundamental if unarticulated view of most educators in the US.
By the time the more sophisticated theories of the Frankfurt School were introduced into the US and translated into concrete plans, the educational system was ripe for a takeover, because its unstated foundations were already essentially in harmony with Marxist theory.
Yours is among the few direct references I have seen to the Frankfurt School, which for the uninitiated refers to the "Institute for Social Research", founded in Frankfurt, Germany in 1924 as a school dedicated to the scientific study of Marxism. Among its progenitors were Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and one Theodor W. Adorno, a Marxist economist whose work later had a significant impact on a young man by the name of Barack Obama.
Very cogent analysis. This was all in hidden bloom during “The McCarthy Era”. Just read “Blacklisted by History” by Stanton Evans for a recitation of the infection of the pernicious Commies in government when Joe tried to shine a light.
Great post; discussion; thread. Thanks to all.
You’re right about the frankfurters, of course, but if we had a 4th estate that was doing its’ job, they would be exposing this stuff.
What we’ve got going on now is a sort-of stealth revolution, taking place from the top down, right under our noses. Perhaps Glenn Beck needs to boil some frogs for real next time.
They made some idiot moves that has caused them to self destruct sooner rather than they normally would have.
When they pumped up the debt to beyond what we can reasonably expect to pay and jeopardized our children's welfare they signed their self destruct pact.
The rest will be history and by 2012 we will be back in charge.
Fortunately for the Republican Party we have shown them the discipline they have needed.
By funding only conservative candidates and telling them to go pound sand until they get rid of the rinos and start supporting only conservatives we have scared the Shite out of them.
Our formula is good and it will succeed. It's just a matter of how much damage the Marxists can do until we throw them out.