Posted on 10/11/2010 2:35:42 AM PDT by Scanian
History tells us that organizations, movements, even entire nations can go mad in much the same way an individual does, with the same expression of irrationality, frenzy, and violence. Recent evidence suggests that the American left is going through precisely such a breakdown.
In his memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung, the psychiatric pioneer who was smarter than Freud, discussed a particular case history in which a patient told of a troubling dream: he was repeatedly confronted with the image of a howling feces-covered baby. Jung had no immediate explanation, and thought about little else for several days. At last the solution appeared: his patient harbored a buried psychosis, one that was in danger of emerging. To his horror, Jung realized that it must be the therapy itself that was threatening his patient's sanity. Jung was presented with the dilemma of how to cut short the analysis without allowing the patient to guess the actual reason, which might well send him into a tailspin from which he would never recover. (Freud would have kept pushing until the guy was institutionalized.)
Fortunately, on his next visit, the patient asked to curtail the treatment, giving only vague reasons. A relieved Jung concurred. The patient never returned, but Jung checked on him regularly and assured himself that the man remained whole and rational, the seed of insanity remaining safely buried for the balance of his life.
What better metaphor for the current condition of the left? Leftism suffers from an equivalent psychosis -- one that is now beginning to break out. This is not by chance but due to the ongoing collapse of the left's epic dream. Leftists have always believed that one clear shot, one opportunity to put their policies into play without opposition from "reactionary interests,"
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Communism and Fascism/Socialism differ only in one regard: Fascists/Socialists seek to control the means of production. Communists seek to own the means of production.
And the boundaries between these two totalitarian cousins blur very quickly. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were Fascists who became Communists to a greater or lesser degree. Similarly the modern left:- Obama etc - are trying to control American industry using the EPA/CO2 regulations etc and (of course) have taken ownership of GM.
The left is about the government grabbing what's there in the name of the people, but actually in favor of an oligarchy.
The right is about reducing the power and size of government in favor of big liberty.
“the anti-war protests fell off... once the draft was ended.”
As a Vietnam vet I recall how true that was. I still hate the filthy draftdodging b@stards. And a visit to the Wall doesn’t help, believe me.
Thank G-d I got back in the military and served long enough to see it become once more a beloved part of our society.
lefties are nuts = yep
lefties will turn violent = yep
lefties will give their dream = nope
In short, the leftists are and will always be 5-year olds on Christmas morning.
The real problem is that occasionally they do gain total control and a lot of real people die in the left’s attempt to forge reality from fantasy.
What a coincidence. A screaming feces covered baby is exactly what I think of the left.
National socialists and international socialists differ only slightly in approach. The end results are functionally the same.
Hmmmm? There has to be a logical conclusion to the insanity of the left. Sort of a Nuremberg Conclusion. We know the outcome of allowing unfettered National Socialism to go unchecked. Thus a Pre-Nuremberg trial of known leftists, starting with those in Congress, should quickly end the insanity at very little cost, unlike the bloody result if they are able to amass the power of pen, purse, persuasion, persecution, and penalty of past regimes.
Great read.
GREAT ARTICLE!
Regarding that last, I’m sure the gun and ammo buying spree that the citizenry went on in the wake of Obama’s election was cause for great concern and surprise in all the right (wrong?) circles.
Great article, thanks for posting. Forewarned is forearmed. The only remaining question is how far this current crop of infantile wussies is prepared to go. Unfortunately the elites have an army of drones...SEIU, NBPP, etc. We must be prepared for coming violence. I prefer my CWP but frankly, for close quarters home defense against a goon, wasp spray works acceptably well.
You are correct, FRiend.
Hayek is wonderful! In that book he even explains why the sleaziest politicians usually rise to the top!
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Really?
Who was the Greek king who stated after defeating the Roman legions, “One more such costly victory over the Romans and we have lost Greece?”
The fact is that the Left went too far too fast with their socialist revolution and will shortly be crushed by the counter-revolution.
In fact, the coming Leftist Waterloo may be the beginning of the end for world socialism, because many other countries will followed America’s model of ending the rule of the heirs of Karl Marx.
Failure took 70 years and 10’s of millions dead in the Soviet Union. Cambodia, China, the same . . . except Cambodia ran out of people to kill.
CLEVELAND (AP) - A tape recording of the shooting deaths of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen in 1970 reveals the sound of pistol shots 70 seconds earlier, a newspaper reported Friday, citing the work of a forensic audio expert.
If the pistol fire is authenticated, it could prove a theory that the Guardsmen thought they were being shot at during a campus Vietnam War protest and also could back up witnesses who said an FBI informant monitoring the protest fired warning shots because he felt threatened.
http://www.kboi2.com/news/national/104590344.html
Shaw was the scum of the earth.
A pity he didn’t move to Russia and have been murdered by the Bolsheviks he so loved.
The only way they stop us Contras is by brute force.
But they ain’t gonna do that for a whole host of reasons with the most important one being the U.S. military and most law enforcement agencies would not obey presidential orders to attack the opposition.
In fact, the American military may respond to such orders by an overthrow of the Obama Regime and the arrest of President Obama as a traitor.
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