Posted on 11/03/2010 12:42:26 AM PDT by Scanian
America's left, and the party it dominates, faced a reckoning yesterday. Two short years ago, exultant progressives believed America had shifted permanently to the left. Now that sweet taste of victory has turned to acrid ashes in their mouths.
The scores of Congressional Democrats, along with even more state office holders, who lost their coveted positions, need a way of comprehending the disaster which has befallen them. The scapegoats offered by President Obama and his surrogates -- tea partiers, witches, foreign money, and Fox News -- will not suffice. President Obama himself, the man with a winning smile, slender build, and a way with teleprompters, cannot escape blame for the disaster at the polls. Former friends, including many who rode his coattails, see in him the cause of their expulsion from the political paradise of high elective office.
How could it go so wrong so fast? How could a man once seen as a savior turn out to be a disaster for those who embraced him?
For our bewildered friends on the left, an explanation is necessary, one couched in terms from the progressive framework -- dialectical analysis, the means for understanding history that Hegel created and Karl Marx adopted. Dialectics constitutes the Marxian foundation on which modern progressive strategy is built.
Barack Obama himself is almost certainly familiar with the Marxist analytical framework for understanding what moves history. He was mentored by Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party member. The typical white grandparents who raised him moved in communist circles after leaving Kansas for Mercer Island, WA and Honolulu. I doubt very much if Davis ever got very specific with young Barry on the complexities of dialectical materialism, the formal basis for communist theory. And because the President's college transcripts are a closely guarded secret, we cannot know if he took any courses on Marxist theory while at Occidental College and Columbia University. But he surely understands its basics.
The Marxist theory of history teaches that it moves forward through a dialectical process, powered by conflict. Thesis -- an action or idea -- generates a reaction, its antithesis, which results in contradictions and conflict. The wise dialectical thinker understands that by heightening contradictions, not letting a crisis go to waste in the immortal words of Rahm Emanuel, the final outcome -- the synthesis -- can be shaped in radical directions. Among those who took this lesson was Saul Alinsky, for example, who wanted to "rub raw the resentments of the people" in order to hasten revolution through peaceful means, inspiring young Barack Obama to become a community organizer.
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What does all this mean? Let's enjoy today, but if we don't work hard and deliver results we'll be the ones getting shwacked in 2012. Keep focused!
They are still powerful in Unions, school brainwash, bad lawyers looking for a quick buck, corrupt f2g insane judges.... This is moving to guerrilla warfare where they will seek to attack the grass root one by one. Any serious contender for 2012 should pardon automaticaly victims of these systems and expunge them to promotion, the ways Dems have done with theirs, but Bush style GOP seem to hate their heros and soldiers, including the military, in their own strange pro-homo and pro-illegals ways.
“The Marxist theory of history teaches that it moves forward through a dialectical process, powered by conflict.”
That’s why the Demonrats have divided America into opposing halves.
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