Posted on 01/01/2015 11:35:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
American leftism has gotten an awful lot of mileage by monopolizing the moral high ground. It is the sole force in American that favors the poor. The sole enemy of racism. The sole comforter of rape victims. The sole protector of defenseless Muslims. The sole guardian of the environment, and so on ad nauseum.
It all falls apart eventually--with friends like the left, nobody needs enemies. But often overlooked is that fact that it’s bogus from the start. Any prolonged glance at the left reveals it to be an ideology of power, its major tool violence, its goal revenge.
Leftism has always been about revenge. The works of Marx are filled with fantasies of retribution and judgment. Their tone reeks of resentment and paranoia,with blame cast for even the most trivial. "The bourgeoisie,” Marx once declared in a letter to Engels, “will remember my carbuncles until their dying day.” That’s leftism in a nutshell.
The Paris communards of 1870, the first instance of an actual leftist government-in-being,immediately began shooting bourgeois on taking power, giving full rein to the European hatred for the middle class that is all but incomprehensible to Americans. That practice has been repeated by every hard left government that has ever taken power--the USSR, communist China, Castroite Cuba, Pol Pot’s Kampuchea, down to minor examples such as Bela Kun’s Hungarian “Regime of Light” (1919), which reintroduced the Roman practice of decimation.
This unvarying tendency toward atrocity suggests that all these regimes had something in common, and it’s not that they all suffered from boils. It’s the lust for vengeance--revenge for slights and crimes either real or imaginary, that can be found in every leftist from Nechaev to Bill Ayers. No less than Barack Obama spilled that when,his back apparently against the wall in 2012, he began ranting about “voting for revenge”...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
> The Left calls forth (and expects) the worst in people.
The Right celebrates (and believes in) the best in people.
True ad good point.
> “Conservatives are caught by surprise because they see progressives as merely misguided, when in fact they are fundamentally misdirected. They are the messianists of a religious faith. But it is a false faith and a self-serving religion. Since the redeemed future that justifies their existence and rationalizes their hypocrisy can never be realized, what really motivates progressives is a modern idolatry: their limitless passion for the continuance of Them.”
^ Truth
I’m in that same league. Maybe we should form a Geezers’ Brigade and start training. This old dog still has some fight left in him.
If you read pretty much any commie screed, it’s mostly just invective against capitalism
I guess this is what liberals feel when a Christian president representing taxpayers is elected...They really view votes for anyone that may threatenthewelfare state or abortion-on-demand as an open assault on their persons.
> I guess this is what liberals feel when a Christian president representing taxpayers is elected...They really view votes for anyone that may threatenthewelfare state or abortion-on-demand as an open assault on their persons.
I guess it migh be viewed that way by a liberal who lives offt the state teat and doesn’t like to work for a living. Criminals don’t like police officers the same way that liberals don’t like conservatives. It’s accountability, personal responsibility, and being punished for doing wrong when it hurts other people they don’t like...
Leftism monopolizing has been the work of the media too but to many are suckers for their words and don’t see their actions communism has many faces.
White liberals have successfully convinced blacks on welfare that anyone advocating cutting taxes is actually advocating executing black people; that is the main reason blacks vote nearly 100% for Democrats.
Thanks.
You're right - J.R. Dunn's on to some new understanding here... It could be comedy or a new and profound understanding of the nature and cause of evil... Hats off to Dunn...
Interesting take on Communism... and black violence...
I wish I had enough money to run this on every TV channel.
“Democide: Socialism, Tyranny, Guns and Freedom”
5 minute Youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVK0yZAhBKM
Very nice Matt...
WITH COMEDY....
laugh them off the stage.. socialism just don't work...
Bill Whittle and Andrew Klavan do it all the time..
"We're here to help"-(the Givernment) is laughable in the extreme..
I may have to steal that. Very well put.
That is worth repeating.
Because it reflects the cloud-borne theories of Academic neurotics, desperate to prove their fantasies, it has been boosted by a claimed litany of virtues; but the fact is, it has poisoned the well of political & social discourse; and it has done immense damage to all of those, for whom it has pretended a benefit.
William Flax
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