Posted on 09/08/2012 1:01:49 AM PDT by No One Special
Wow. He is right on the money and he sees it even more clearly than many of us.
Thanks!
Regards,
Brilliant analysis, excellent article. Always admired Klaus. A must read, especially points 4, 6, 7, 8, although all points are excellent. Number 4 really struck a chord.
This one deserves to go out on all the ping lists. I don’t have one though.
—>>1. We probably did not fully understand the far-reaching implications of the 1960s. This “romantic” era was a period of radical denial of the authority of traditional values and social institutions. As a result, generations were born that do not understand the meaning of our civilisational, cultural and ethical heritage, and are deprived of having any compass guiding their behaviour.
Thank you sharing this. A great read.
It is quite seductive to proclaim ‘universal healthcare’ and totally ignore who will be required to pay for the universe. It is akin to being forced into a religion created by evil minds.
Good piece, bttt for others
This is probably the most important document to be uploaded on Free Republic in a very long time.
This basically describes the war we are engaged in right now.
It should be mandatory reading for every Freeper who believes in political and economic freedom.
Hell, I never thought I would say this in my life-time, because I lived through the dying days of the Cold War, but Eastern Europe—at least Poland and the Czech Republic— might be last stand against Marxist tyranny in the world.
Simply outstanding.
In some ways it appears that the fall of the Communist evil empire hastened the downfall of the West, since now there was no longer an evil bastion to stand up against (not just physically, but also standing against their ideologies and precepts).
With no evil monster beyond the ridge, suddenly certain ideas were no longer wrong. No longer anathema. No longer 'foreign.'
Go to (almost) any American university and have a chat with the young minds there ...to many of them socialism (and to some, communism) are perfectly viable approaches to running things. A rising number even believe socialism (and to a fortunately fewer number - but rising also - communism) to be far better alternatives to capitalism. The economic doldrums over the last 10 years have also not helped much, and the rise of the East (India, China and even smaller economies like Viet Nam) means that there will be people always willing to work almost as well for considerably less (wait until Africa gets in line in the next 15 or so years ...Google Silicon Savannah for a taste of whats cooking in my native Kenya for instance). That means, unless something big happens, the West will have more and more young people either a) without jobs or b) without jobs that THEY THINK (the young people) are 'good enough' for them (the second problem is worse than the first one since a lot of the young EXPECT to get a 'certain type' of employment ...read: they can buy new posh cars, live well, take vacations ...there is no postponement of gratification at play). This means they will always feel like they have been let down, and socialism (and at a more extreme level communism) will simply continue to get more and more attractive.
As for those saying this is only happening in Blue States ....think again. In the first Bush election (Bush vs Gore) I was in Oklahoma working with the College Republicans (a student group) to get voter awareness out. Note: As a foreigner I couldn't even vote, but I was out there helping. The level of apathy I noted, and the level of Liberal thought, was amazing. Same thing in Texas by the way. It is not a Blue state thing.
Then to this add the slow-crawl demographic shift in the US.
Anyways, the article is spot on, and a lot of victories will mean nothing if the war is lost.
Had it not been for my father a Korean War veteran, I could well be just another common commie.
True the modern thought is to call it socialism or progressivism, the affect is the same, a loss of individual rights in the interest of benefiting the greater good.
ugh, I looked into my neice’s “government: class textbook and its a love letter to the left, Obama and abortion. They used to teach civics and now they teach leftwing propaganda.
The book is called “Living Democracy” third edition.
Leftist write public education text books. All but one of my children's history teachers in high school were flaming liberals. Public education is the 'church houses' for communists, and has been for decades.
President Reagan sought to disassemble federal control over education, but too few in positions of elected authority would allow that to take place. We have ignored to our own detriment and elected unabashed commies to rule over US. Obama did promise to redistribute the wealth.
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Wow. bookmark
This shows a brilliant insight into the goings on of socialism after the wall. I have alwys wondered though whether the Communists saw the writing on the wall and strategically gave ground as thie rgolas were already being met by the UN and leftist parties in the West.
I feel confident today though in the possibility that the solialsts have overeached, Obama in your country and to some extent Gillard and Rudd in my own, seem to have awakened many to the fact that the war against Socilaism/Marxism is alive and well and that this maybe the time we can take back large amounts of ground from the b#stards and set their cause back 20 years.
Mel
“I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism”
Whittaker Chambers
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