Posted on 12/15/2020 3:00:08 PM PST by Rummyfan
Utopianism is age-old, as are its tragic consequences — and we haven’t seen the worst yet.
Bouts of extreme leftism are frequent in history. Plato’s Apology, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Vladimir Lenin’s What Is to Be Done? — all offer us insight into the mind and methods of the hard Left.
America has experienced surges of mainstream anarchism, socialism, and communism, most profoundly during the late 19th century, amid the Great Depression, during the Soviet-American alliance of World War II and afterward, and in the 1960s. But rarely have these radical movements openly and without apologies made such inroads into and inside government and the establishment as during the past decade.
We had earlier seen massive rioting, looting, and iconoclasm, similar to the chaos of summer 2020. But seldom did they continue with the de facto approval of mayors who restrained the police and turned their downtowns over to virtual occupiers setting up “autonomous” zones. Nor had we see seen city councils defund police operations. New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio and Seattle’s mayor Jenny Durkan were not so much hard-Left Democrats or socialists as they were anarchists who ceded control of parts of American cities to other anarchists.
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They come from corruption and fraudulent voting. The crazy left can be because there isn’t much to keep them in check.
When you fail to keep law and order, eventually the crazies realize that THEY RUN THE ASYLUM.
Great article Victor Davis Hanson way to good for NRO anymore
Same place the Old Mad Left came from - the psychotic, murderous minds of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Antonio Gramsci, Vladimir Iilych Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot...
And they should be dealt with the same way.
OH PLEASE VDH!!! This is the final chapter of the Boomerscum generation. Cowards to the bitter end.
Maybe it was those radicals from the 60s whose made the infection our learning institutions and rendered much of the youth powerless.
Since the election, how many times have we seen Comrade Biden showing his solidarity with the workers by putting on his coveralls and pulling turnips at Turnip Commune #34?
They want what they want and they want it now.
Entitlement and no delayed gratification and always being told they can have what they want and they are all so special.
Hard times ahead for everybody, including them.
1) Colleges 2) Racism industry 3) Resentment about inequality and big tech fortunes
A French style Revolution using Guillotines to rid the US of all Politicians and replacing them with controlled term limited Drones
Came from them not meeting a brick wall of hard resistance. They push forward, meet no resistance, so they push further.
From the old Left... it's what happens when 50 years of non-stop immorality, corruption, disdain, and hatred of the country and its citizens is left unchecked, unchallenged, and allowed to continuously and increasingly driving the POS scum into today's psychotic rage. It will continue until the rubber band snaps back... Hard.
It came from the parents who were too afraid to spank their children
From parents who never spanked their kids when they misbehaved.
Satan
They are not anarchists. They are MARXISTs.
Exactly. The left has been slicing through soft butter. We were too lazy to confront them. Let them have their way. Now it’s down survival time.
But more importantly where will the mad right come from?
The Leftist power brokers benefit from having a small number of crazies carry out their bidding but who'll never have enough numbers to overwhelm the power brokers themselves.
Keep all that in mind when it comes to the numbers game. It explains why the Left is so determined to have gun control; they know full well what they intend to do to civilians and also know they don't have the numbers to defend themselves if they try to ratchet up their agenda.
bttt
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