Victor Davis Hanson: How Left-wing Conspiracies Work

American Greatness ^ | 17 Jun, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

[MtnClimber]

When we hear such things in the months to come, remember that these mythologies are usually a warning: what the left is alleging is, quite often, precisely what the left is already doing.

Since 2016, there has been a clear pattern to left-wing conspiracies—beyond the obvious fact that they traffic in lies, stereotypes, and paranoia to serve precise political agendas.

We now know that the conspiracy to cook up the Russian-collusion hoax—Donald Trump allegedly conniving with Vladimir Putin to rig the 2016 vote—was perpetrated by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Its funding was hidden by the Democratic National Committee, the law firm Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS.

The Russian “disinformation” laptop hoax—the notion that the same Russians four years later created a fake Hunter Biden laptop to smear the Biden family on the eve of the first 2020 debate—was jumpstarted by the Biden campaign’s then-chief foreign policy advisor, current Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

There was never much evidence that a wayward bat or pangolin in a meat market birthed the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the efforts of China, Western and international health officials, and Dr. Fauci’s health bureaucrats to spread that lie.

The January 6th riot was certainly wrong and buffoonish. But the idea that it was an insurrection aiming to violently overthrow the U.S. government was also a left-wing myth fueled by the Democratic House leadership and the media.

All these schemes have their commonalities:

1) They are aimed at achieving political objectives.

False claims of Russian collusion likely drained millions of votes from the 2016 Trump candidacy.

A later conservative poll found that Russian disinformation may have swung enough voters to ensure a 2020 Trump loss. It certainly saved Joe Biden in the first debate when he faced the American people and flat-out lied about the laptop...

[GBA]

This explains our world and our politics to me better than anything else and helps me to understand how and why things are as they are now:

Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
Matthew 4:8-9

I see many in our high places who seem to have made this deal with the devil. For one example, consider how Satan loves human sacrifice and that he obtains power from every abortion.

As we have seen in our politics, abortion is one of the hills his own in high and low places will fight and die on 24/7 forever.

Observing them and our own thoughts and reactions in this one example, we can see Satan’s moves in everything and in many around us, too, both the subtly devious and the obvious alike. Armor up!

[GailA]

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[redgolum]

What ever their handlers or agents want.

Here is a hint. Look up in the Bible what you are supposed to do to fake prophets.

[PerConPat]

A great synopsis of the sedition the Alinsky-bent generation of prog leadership employs to sacrifice the American commonweal on the altar of absolute power...

The problem, of course, is once again how many who bother to vote have the intelligence to understand and the interest to pursue truth? IMO, hard times will be necessary to stop these lefty termites. Those with eyes to see and ears to hear should give serious thought to the prevalent cultural attitudes in their localities of residence.