The Left's war against America

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The Left's war against America

By James Henry

Few people appreciate the power of ideas. When they experience the social and economic effects of intellectually inspired long-term trends, many tend to ascribe the process to a conspiracy of some kind. (If only that were so). More than 160 years ago J. S. Mill wrote of how the ideas of a few writers can eventually influence the thinking of a nation's intellectuals. Keynes made a similar point when he wrote: "Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval. . . . But, sooner or later, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."

The strength of the Left has, in my opinion, always lain in its understanding of the power of ideas. With few exceptions the so-called right has tended to treat ideas with disdain, preferring to concentrate on traditional values, as if these were independent of ideas. This gross error by conservative forces allowed Leftist ideas to capture the media, universities, much of the school system and the entertainment industry, especially Hollywood. In a sense, its greatest triumph was in giving America the most corrupt administration in the nation's history.

Once a nation's so-called elites begin to think alike, regardless of the content of their ideas, they will tend to direct the nation along a path that accords with their world-view. Once we understand this fact, even the most incredibly stupid statements will make sense. Let's take as an example Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott's publicly expressed view that the United States might not exist in its current form in the 21st Century because he believes that nationhood will have become obsolete. (A view not shared by the Russian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean governments, just to name a few).

Anyone with Talbott's views would not have found a position in a responsible and intellectually sound administration. But this is the sensitive '90s and Bill 'I-feel-your-pain' Clinton lounges about in the Oval Office. It took a Chinese columnist, Peter Zhang, to cleverly sum up the situation with the observation that America is being run by the "Arkansas Hick and his merry band of '60s dipsticks with their fairyfloss intellects and LSD-coloured view of the world [who] continue to pursue policies that puts the United States mainland at considerable risk."

And the '60s is the key. The likes of Talbott and the Clintons have their intellectual roots in the left-wing ideas that swept through American universities in the '60s. The malevolent fruits of that intellectual plague captured the humanity faculties and after 30 years of relentless Leftist indoctrination succeeded in thoroughly polluting the nation's intellectual environment. The products of this intellectual pestilence now dominate the media and much of the legal profession, including the judiciary; our schools have been contaminated to an extraordinary degree as has the entertainment industry. Even corporate boardrooms have succumbed to this poisonous brew.

The basis of this ideology is a pathological hatred of America. Understanding this fact makes us realise that Talbott, a former journalist and college roommate of Clinton, is not really calling for a world government but the destruction of the USA, an oppressive, exploitative and racist society. These were the ideas that the likes of Talbott absorbed during their college days and they have never renounced them. This is the principle reason why Talbott and the rest of Clinton's "merry band of '60s dipsticks with their fairyfloss intellects" are so light on China¹. It's really all America's fault, meaning "white America". This lot are so riddled with shame and guilt they are prepared to sacrifice America's interests in order to atone for her alleged sins while exculpating their own.

Talbott is an interesting example of the political decay and hypocrisy of America's self-anointed political elites. He shared the radicals' enthusiasm for the 'peace movement' and their doctrine of 'moral equivalence' that not only equated America's faults with the totalitarian Soviet Union's atrocities but also accused Reagan of being provocative, of being the villain, but never the Soviets. Talbott's ridiculous assertion in Time that the collapse of communism proved the peace movement had been right all along served to demonstrate that this ideological moron is congenitally incapable of learning the lessons of history. The trillions of dollars the US had spent on holding Soviet barbarism at bay were, according to Talbott, a complete waste of resources. That Reagan's defence push finally precipitated the Soviet collapse does not even register with Talbott. No wonder State Department veterans treat him and the rest of Clinton's Leftist trendoids with contempt.

The Washington-based Institute of Policies studies has been at the brain center of the Left's war against America. Established in 1963 by Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin (both former government bureaucrats) and funded by the Rubin Foundation (Rubin was a thief, a Soviet agent and a member of Stalin's Comintern). The IPS is a phony educational organisation, registered with the IRS as a 501 (c)(3) organisation, that has waged a relentless war against this country, supporting its enemies abroad, including Hanoi, the Sandinistas, Castro, the defunct Soviet Empire, etc, and giving aid to its enemies at home. According Raskin the US deliberately started the Cold War as part of its plan to "reach for the brass ring: world hegemony."

The insidious and destructive influence of the IPS pervades the media and now reaches into the Oval Office, with Clinton giving appointments to IPS luminaries like Derek Shearer, Anthony Lake and Morton Halperin, a former Kissinger aid and a character witness for Philip Agee, traitor and KGB agent. (Incidentally, Agee was also strongly connected to the IPS). These people are not even the tip of the IPS iceberg; hundreds of people with IPS links are now operating — or should I say maggoting away — through government agencies and departments. To these ideologues America is the real enemy.

Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute provides a graphic example of the degree to which the Left has corrupted our universities, turning them from centers of learning to centers for hating. The Institute encouraged Noel Ignatiev to launch "whiteness studies," the absurd basis of which is that "whiteness" is a "social construct that is oppressive and must be abolished." Far from being amusing, disciples of this racist left-wing cult produce a magazine called Race Traitor. To this crowd to be white is a social cancer that has to be removed by violence. If you think there is not much to choose between these left-wing fanatics and Nazi's, you'd be right.

That these ideological thugs are preaching race hate and inciting racial violence seems to meet with the approval of the Harvard faculty and other universities, the mainstream media and most of America's publishing houses. Why? Because they too are infected with the self-hating leftist ideology of the '60s. It should be patently clear that their ultimate aim is the destruction of America. It is their ideology that drove prayer from our schools and devastated educational standards; it is the same ideology that foisted multiculturalism on us and damns its critics as racists; this is the ideology that is subverting our cultural heritage by indoctrinating our children with a hostile view of their history and culture.

The Left's malicious nihilism is impacting on every aspect of the nation's culture. The almost farcical response of Clinton to the discovery of Kennewick Man is a sickening example of the pervasiveness of the Left's ideology and its contempt for scientific truth. Kennewick Man is thought not only to be more than 9,000 years old but of Caucasian origin. If this is true, then a momentous scientific and cultural discovery has been made. But such a discovery does not fit the Left's ideological view of the US. In keeping with this view, Clinton ordered the site destroyed and the bones vandalised in the hope of destroying any possibility of determining the remains racial origins. This is a calculated Orwellian attempt by the Left, through Clinton, to try and control the present, and hence the future, by destroying historical evidence. There is no clearer evidence of the Left's power, influence and malice, especially in the media.

The Left's campaign is not a culture war but a war against a culture by creatures who have nothing to offer but hate and loathing. These ideologues and their media allies are the real enemy. These are ones who have to be confronted and defeated.

¹Clinton's venality and moral turpitude should not blind anyone to his Leftist beliefs. He honestly believes, like Teddy Kennedy, that he should be forgiven every trespass because his 'heart' is good. He'd be pathetic if he wasn't so dangerous.

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[Grampa Dave]

Absolutely, a few million $'s per year donated to the violent green jihadists and a little more each year donated to the so called respectable Watermelons over a couple of decades would weaken America.

Using the Watermelon economic terrorism tactics, you work on Kali, Oregon and Washington as these 3 states feed a large part of America and provide the lumber, ores and raw materials needed in a modern society.

The electrical power generated in these 3 states from hydro and nuclear power two decades ago was incredible re the available supply. Now Kali can't meet its power supply and last year in a drought year Oregon and Washington.

Besides closing down nuclear power plants, the Watermelon Jihadists have used bad science and the salmon/steelhead to prevent any new dams and to start the closure of others.

They have used the bad science from the spotted owls to shut down most of the logging from federal lands in these 3 states in the past two decades.

Go to this link to see how Sacramento thanks to the rats and the Watermelon Jihadists could be really short of power in this decade. (Link to Sacramento re lack of electrical power)

These watermelon jihadists have been so successful with their lab states, Oregon, Kali and Washington re their economic/eco terrorism, they are now selling their franchises to go nationwide.

[tamikamaria]

I've heard of that book and have been meaning to read it. Do you mean "horrible read" as in "it sucks" or is it just horrifying?

Great thread, by the way.

[Billthedrill]

One key to the appeal of the left to the demographics mentioned in the article is that it tends to provide a skeletal, easy-to-grasp framework for what are essentially emotional, and not intellectual issues. The demographic of students is more easily swayed by these because they do not have the necessary time spent in study to understand the realworld complexities of politics - this is the reason so much of leftwing politics consists of a bumper-sticker sloganeering that is painfully superficial to observe. There is no need for intellectual rigor here, it's all pre-packaged and pre-digested.

The appeal to the professors is similar but weighted to the theoretical, that is, realworld events are interpreted strictly with regard to a theoretical framework that is all-subsuming; and that evidence that calls the validity of this theoretical framework into question is vigorously denied or twisted to fit. This is nothing more than the paradigm shift Thomas Kuhn detailed in science in his Structure of Scientific Revolution - (this is, BTW, the real meaning of the horribly misused word "paradigm.") Professors, especially second-rate professors, are like that.

That is what we are dealing with in dealing with campus socialism, not simply a collection of sundry authors from Marx through Foucault, but a system of organizing ideas that carries with it its own set of assumptions, its own canon, its own worldview. More is needed to shake its adherents out of their comfortable little rut than a simple study of competing paradigms such as conservatives offer up in Enlightenment philosophers and political theory. That isn't studied by the left because it is not considered worthy of study - it's an old, passe paradigm from which the world has moved on.

That's neat, and convenient, and saves a lot of work for the intellectually lazy, a curt dismissive wave of the hand sufficing to negate two centuries' body of knowledge. But it won't do, and serious academics know it. The proliferation of universities in the United States has, IMHO, diluted the overall quality of its faculties, and second-rate minds are offering second-rate curricula because that is all that they are capable of. This is Politics Lite, and it shows.

[blackie]

Death To all Tyrant's !!

The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!

Molon Labe !!

[WaterDragon]

"The Black Book of Communism" is horrible in the banality of Communism's evil. The authors did not write only about Russia. They wrote about the rise of Communism in every country where it took root, and about the destruction of those counties as a consequence. Such as China, North Korea, Cuba, etc. There were some differences in each one, but the destruction of each is the same....starvation, moral degradation, extreme poverty, etc. Islam has nothing on Communism for taking a country back to the Dark Ages.

I think it should be required reading in High Schools.

Another book I read recently is "Koba the Dread" by Martin Amis. It's about Stalin, and Amis' writing style makes the familiar information in the book really overwhelming. Plus there is new information.

Martin Amis is the son of Kingsley Amis, a well-known British Communist. Martin hates Communism. The book also is a diatribe against Christopher Hitchens because of Hitchens' continued defense of Lenin. Amis shows in the book that Lenin was every bit as horrible as Stalin. And so was Trotsky.

[piasa]

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