The Ultra-Reactionary Left

American Thinker ^ | 10-24-15 | Bruce Walker

[ReformationFan]

The left cares about nothing but power. All the noise it makes about "change" and "progress" and "revolutions" is just that: noise. The very last thing leftists want is any change that would cost them power, prestige and wealth. The left is ultra-reactionary.

Orwell grasped this well in the prevailing ideology of Oceania, which was "Insoc," or "English Socialism." History changed every day so that no one could reflect, and language was maimed so that no one could think. Oceania was filled with angry militants demanding radical action, but, of course, all the fury of these robotic cadres had no meaning at all and would freeze humanity and prevent it from ever changing.

Power, raw and naked state power, overwhelms less important things like money. In the Soviet Union, Stalin's "salary" was as meaningless as Hitler's "salary" in National Socialist Germany. A boss who can imprison and torture at will is richer than the richest businessman.

In the Soviet Union, money itself meant nothing because there was nothing to buy with money. The nomenclatura, the party and state elites, could shop in special stores that actually had goods one might want. The ordinary Soviet subject, even if nominally a millionaire, could not rent a nice apartment or visit an excellent restaurant or even see a good doctor. Power was wealth, and "wealth" itself was nothing.

The ultra-reactionary leftists are those who have power and who snarl at anyone who wants a share of that power. These bosses have a stranglehold on government and on every powerful institution.

What large nonprofit organizations are not wedded to chic leftist cant? What broadcasting empire is not soaked in leftist messaging and images?

[USCG SimTech]

Constant false outrage. Communications of emotion and imagery instead of measured truth and rule of law.

[Sasparilla]

...What broadcasting empire is not soaked in leftist messaging and images?...

Big Brother clones.

[Impy]

I think that’s true. Leftism is the standard now.

So the left are now the reactionaries, conservatives (who actually want positive change) are now the radicals.

[Fungi]

Bingo. Emotion over reason, results and logic every time.

[FourPeas]

Here ought to be our response to the geriatric politicians whose health care, police security, office staff, and everything else are paid as a perk of office by government when these old folks start to rail about the need to redistribute wealth: instead of that, redistribute power.

The left rails against "imperialism," so why not champion those colonists in Flyover Country whose independence has been crushed under the heel of an imperial Washington?

There might be something to that. A tack that is worth exploring.

[Jacquerie]

Power is concentrated among a few blackrobes, a Prez, and congressional elite.

The remedy is to diffuse power once again across the land, as per our Framers’ design, with a senate that once again represents the states.

[ReformationFan]

Exactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvp3zAPraF4