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Posted on 08/30/2002 1:58:16 PM PDT by Richard Poe
FIRST THERE WAS COMMUNISM. Then Fascism. Then Nazism. Then Communism again. Now there’s a new ideology in town. It’s called Tranzi-ism.
Like previous "isms," Tranzi-ism has the potential to plunge our world into a howling maelstrom of war, poverty and dictatorship.
Yet, weirdly, most Tranzis don’t even know they are Tranzis. Some call themselves "progressives." Some affect free-market sympathies. Some espouse a "Third Way" between communism and capitalism.
Don’t be fooled. They are Tranzis, one and all.
Tranzi stands for Transnational Progressive – a term coined by Hudson Institute researcher John Fonte, in a new article entitled, "The Ideological War Within the West."
According to Fonte, elite institutions ranging in size and influence from the National Council of Churches to the United Nations are pushing the notion that, "the nation-state and the idea of national citizenship are ill suited to deal with the global problems of the future." They propose abolishing nations and replacing them with a single, global government.
Under ordinary circumstances, no one would lose sleep over some crackpot theory circulating among UN bureaucrats. Unfortunately, for reasons that are still not entirely clear, virtually every government in the world appears to have embraced Transnational Progressivism, and is working around the clock to make global government a reality.
Fonte warns that the coming global regime will not respect liberal freedoms. Though couching his message in the polite euphemisms of academia, Fonte essentially suggests that the Tranzis will impose a kind of racialist police state, in which historically downtrodden or oppressed groups will be encouraged by the "elites" to rise up and get even with their former oppressors.
"Dominant" groups (I guess he means white men) will be forced to yield power to "oppressed" groups in all areas. In the economic sphere, the system will compel "dominant" people to give up their jobs to "oppressed" people, until every job category reflects the proportion of "oppressed" people in the population.
But it won’t stop there. The proportion of "oppressed" people in the population will constantly grow. That’s because another tenet of Tranzi-ism holds that "dominant" countries must welcome immigrants from "oppressed" countries in unlimited numbers.
If any "dominant" people protest, they will be jailed for "hate speech."
When I read Fonte’s essay, my first impulse was to yawn. He seemed to be stating the obvious. Anyone who has tuned into talk radio or surfed the Web in the last ten years already has a pretty good idea of what the "elites" are planning.
Yet, Fonte’s article became an instant cult classic among the bloggers – linked, praised, glossed and debated on blog sites throughout cyberspace.
"His work is valuable because it names the beast," writes Godless Capitalist on the popular blog site Gene Expression.
David Carr – a London-based blogger who posts on the "rational libertarian" Web site Samizdata.net – put it thus:
A lot of us have known for some time there was something wrong in the world but it was difficult to pin down and put our fingers on. It was something that has no face and no name. Like fog it swirled all around us but not being corporeal we lashed out in all directions, landing blows on nothing. It was like an itch we could never scratch.
Carr has a point. We don’t really know who is masterminding this plot or why.
When I worked for David Horowitz at FrontPageMagazine.com, we used to call these people "the left." But many of those pushing the "leftist" agenda seem to be high-level statesmen, wealthy blue-bloods and heads of multibillion-dollar corporations. Class struggle just doesn’t seem to explain their behavior.
If indeed the Tranzis are leftists, they are leftists only in the sense that a butterfly was once a caterpillar. They have long since emerged from their chrysalises and spread their wings to fly.
It was David Carr who gave the Transnational Progressives their now-universal nickname: Tranzis.
In the end, Carr’s nickname – even more than Fonte’s rather nebulous concept – may prove to be the catalyst that focuses world attention on this grave new threat to our liberty. As Carr observed, it is hard to fight something until you know what to call it.
The word "Tranzi" nicely evokes the ideology it represents. It has a nasty, sneaky sound, like Commie or Nazi. And, like those earlier words, it is easy to say and remember.
Fonte may have stated the obvious. And Carr merely thought up a nickname. But together, they have sparked a debate that even now may rouse our world from its slumber.
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Richard Poe is a New York Times bestselling author and cyberjournalist. His latest book is The Seven Myths of Gun Control.
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This label should be applied to the black reparationists, and others of their ilk in this country.
I agree with William Flax that the "Tranzi" philosophy sounds alot like socialism, though on a global scale.
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