Posted on 05/02/2017 6:48:52 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
The lie we were told as kids was this: The end of American liberty would come at the hands of the political right.
Conservatives would take away our right to speak our minds, and use the power of government to silence dissent. The right would intimidate our teachers and professors, and coerce the young.
And then, with the universities in thrall, with control of the apparatus of the state (and the education bureaucracy), the right would have dominion over a once-free people.
Some of us were taught this in school. Others, who couldn't be bothered to read books, were fed a cartoon version of the diabolical conservative in endless movies and TV shows. The most entertaining of these were science fiction, sometimes with vague references to men in brown shirts and black boots goose-stepping in some future time.
Women would become handmaids, subjugated and turned into breeders. And men would be broken as well. The more lurid fantasies offered armies of Luddites in hooded robes, hunting down subversives for the greater good.
But the lie is obvious now, isn't it?
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
When people like Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dhorn are viewed as respectable in the education arena, you know something is amiss...
After today’s press briefing was compete, a journalist asked about political violence by the left. Real journalism, finally!
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/859127049776246784
To be fair two do that tango. Nobody had to go to such schools but they did.
Sure, it threw a bone to Theodore Roosevelt (until he founded the Bull Moose Party, then he was a nut) and of course Lincoln. The Second World War glanced over then immediately follow up by the student protests of the '60s. There, history ended. As the author says it was reinforced by tv, movies, music, in fact, all of popular culture.
This was in a parochial school in north Jersey where I must assume the sisters were dependent on the textbook publishers. I don't recall the catechism being taught except for a hastily prepared "cheat sheet" that was distributed in the 7th grade in anticipation of our Confirmation when we would be quizzed by the Archbishop. He never came. Instead, an auxiliary bishop was dispatched to chrismate us into the fullness of the faith and he gave us all a passing grade without testing our knowledge of Catholic doctrine. (I think the CCD kids were better instructed, anyway.)
Sorry for the ramble. I also recall leftists saying that "Fascism will come to America wrapped in the flag and carrying the Cross."
“It’s good to share if possible.”
I agree, but sharing is voluntary, not mandatory.
And yet God loveth a cheerful giver.
Roger Waters
That first albumn by PF was great. This guy is just depressing....
He just released an anti-Trump song.
Very original
True, but how cheerful a giver is someone who is forced to comply? If I had enough gum for everyody I would gladly share, but if I only have one piece should it be taken from me by force for being unfair?
You’re the one alleging that teaching the godly principle implies force, at least direct force.
However, not sharing when you could always brings consequences from heaven .
One of the biggest lies, and the hardest to dislodge, is this:
The Far Left = Communism
The Far Right = Fascism (ie NAZIS!!!!! :-0 YIKES!!!!)
The true equation has NO Government on the extreme right and nothing BUT government on the extreme left. That puts Socialism, Communism, fascism, and Nazism all on the LEFT side of the equation.
It is more of an infiltration to steer the church away from Christian values.
Like all the other institutions they control, they are attempting a takeover. Their goal is total control.
It’s amazing how much control-of-the-narrative the left has, they’re very good at it. That said, it’s becoming ever more clear that the evil of which they speak is understood because that is who THEY are.
The right to defend oneself is directly attributable to respecting other peoples rights. Wanting to disarm people shows a will to enslave.
Not that I've noticed.
Many liberals have warned about this, and so many must wince as the fruits of their labor turn bitter in their mouths.
When did this happen?
Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.What is promised to us as the Road to Freedom is in fact the Highroad to Servitude. For it is not difficult to see what must be the consequences when democracy embarks upon a course of planning. The goal of the planning will be described by some such vague term as 'the general welfare'. There will be no real agreement as to the ends to be attained, and the effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go: with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all. ____________— F A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (May, 1945 Reader’s Digest Condensed Version)
Indeed.
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