The powers that be want us to forget history. So they can rewrite it to their own power needs.
They also want us to forget that the founding fathers were students of history, and specifically designed the Constitution to limit government.
See my tag. That same evil has worn different faces throughout history. But it is truly the same evil.
I was on a thread at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626481/posts that dealt with the issue of George Soros and his meddling in currency. One poster wrote the following after reading my post that opined humanity would be better served if Soros were taking a “dirt nap”:
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I am grateful to F.A. Hayek for this observation from his great classic “The Road to Serfdom”: “It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program —on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off—than on any positive task.”
Hitler of course galvanized Germans to hate the Jews.
Liberals passionately hated George W Bush, and we all made fun of their “Bush derangement syndrome”.
Is George Soros now the man conservatives are required to hate? The Professor Moriarity, Ernst Blofeld, or Lord Voldemort of our time (pick your favorite fictional villain)? To me he’s just a rich old man with mostly wrong-headed political ideas (more government and hostile to Israel), but who occasionally gets it right.
When I see Freepers write that Soros “must be stopped at any cost” or “is Public Enemy #1” I am uncomfortable with rhetoric which some misguided person might mistakenly interpret as an incitement to violence.
Please forgive me for deciding to opt out of “Soros derangement syndrome”. In my opinion it has gone a bit too far for comfort. I can oppose most of what Soros proposes without hating him.
I don’t consider Soros “a misunderstood old man”. He seems to believe in both socialism and democracy, and either doesn’t accept or is ignorant of Hayek’s thesis that those two beliefs are in the end incompatible.
In my opinion Barack Obama is a communist who does not believe in democracy. Fidel Castro understood quickly that Barry was just like him, but somehow Hugo Chavez hasn’t been able to figure it out.
So in my opinion George Soros is a sideshow. The main event is trying to preserve the USA we know and love until Obama is out of office. And then educating our children and grandchildren better so this blot on our glorious history is never repeated.
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The key in all of this is that this person thought Soros was inconsequential, and Obama was a communist. My immediate reaction to this is that if he DID think Obama was a communist, isn’t that reason enough to feel anger and hatred towards Soros, who is his wealthiest backer? Communism is responsible for more deaths and murders than any other single ideology, and likely as many as all formal ideologies put together.
This article (another superb one from The American Thinker) is not only spot on, but very relevant to the times we live in. Leftists still view communism as a good option, saying “Oh, it just hasn’t been done ‘right’ yet...” There are even those like Thomas Friedman who look admiringly at the Communist Chinese, and wonder why we can’t be more like them. For every leftist like Thomas Friedman out there who has had the words like that leak from his mouth, there are tens of thousands of leftists who believe it but aren’t saying it.
A Jew who supports gun-control utters a lie when he says “Never Again”. And armed Jew can say it with a clear conscience
Q: “Whatever happened to ‘Never Forget’?”
A. They forgot.
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