Posted on 04/08/2011 3:23:24 AM PDT by spirited irish
I have called them evilcrats for years.
LLS
Absolutely!!
If you read Ernst Nolte: ‘Three Faces of Fascism” he clearly assesses the elements of fascism.
In his assessment of ‘political style’, Nolte is clear about the Fascists’ departure from traditional political movements in describing the Action Francaise’, Mussolini’s Blackshirts’, Nazis’ stylistic common denominators. The respective leadership, development and plan of action these fascists is scrutinized in incredible detail. (So far as I understand Nolte, American ‘fascists’ have not failed to hit a single marker in this descent to FASCISM.)
The ‘Action Francaise’ (French Fascist trail blazers) committed abjectly gratuitous, VERY brutal and patently criminal acts in their campaigns. This stuff was ‘brutal’ even by OUR standards.
They were ALL openly hostile (to the point of physical assault) to established political procedures, religious organizations, parties, political opponents, customs and laws, in short … they were openly hostile to ANYTHING which was inconsistent with their views and plans.
Any one of their followers would publicly spit on a Pope or slap a duly elected official, with perfect impunity… so you know the kind of treatment their political opponents could expect.
Sound familiar?
Brace yourself, you have NO idea how bad this is going to get.
Sounds like my gay son.
Wow.
Wow.
The point that evils is unleashed neglects the reality that such freedom from morality also necessarily dictates a response to restore the balance.
Curtis LeMay comes to mind.
One need not say anything good about slaveowning to note that no other religious or ethical system but Christianity ever abolished slavery - and even Christianity coexisted with slavery relatively uncontroversially until, at best, the Sixteenth Century. According to Thomas Sowell, slavery existed everywhere, and throughout history until then. Yet you will search the literature in vain for any apologia for slavery from anywhere except in the American South - because the institution was never under serious attack before then. We take The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the verse of O Holy Night which says, "Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother" for granted, but they are very much of their time and place - they wouldn't have been written centuries earlier.
The point is that the Christians of the American South thought themselves no less Christian because they owned slaves as their Christian parents had done before them. Indeed, Stonewall Jackson got into an argument with a fellow Presbyterian over Jackson's participation in a Sunday School for black slaves. Jackson himself owned one slave - but not by preference. The man had pleaded for Jackson to buy him, knowing that the alternative he faced was much worse . . .I have to believe that you or I would, if transported back 150 years, have been pretty uncomfortable with many of the people whom we now admire from a distance.
William Wilberforce
Good article. She nails it. Thanks for posting.
Best ever article on liberals.
Sure saved a lot around here from listening to Beck. But then even though you all agree with him you do not like his histrionics (but is it histrionic?)
“Condensed version: Leftists are fascists.”
Thanks for condensing that, I have other world matters to attend to today and can not take the time to read the whole thing.
I agree with your statement!
The writer has correctly pointed out that evil lives among us. Now the questions:
1) What do we do about it?
2) How do we be rid of it?
It’s clear what waits for us if we don’t act. The narcissistic leftist obuma acted too soon and exposed his plans for us - death, destruction and annihilation.
We have been warned.
“Umm, ok but from my perspective the left is just a bunch of folks who want my money without working for it. Lazy and rude.”
The Bible agrees with you. “The love of money is the root of all evil”.
Great article. It’s a small library of all the books about the evil that’s eating us alive. I could do without the fairy story at the end, though - it’s anti-climactic.
The article is a brilliant exposition of Jeremiah’s “The heart of man is deceitful above all, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”.
Good one, Linda!
Hey, Taranto! The Left has always used violence to forward their agenda. They backed off on it here in America because they were generally getting their way for the longest time. Now that people are waking up to destruction they have created in this country Americans don’t want it anymore in ever increasing numbers.
And just like a spoiled brat they are starting to have more and more violent temper tantrums. All I can say is keep liberalizing the gun laws in this country, buy more guns and ammo, and learn how to use them effectively because very soon they are going to get desperate enough to use the power of the State to violently shut down any dissent against their agenda.
The Evil as Liars"The most basic principle of Alinsky’s advice to radicals is to lie to their opponents and disarm them by pretending to be moderates and liberals.""(A) reaction that the evil frequently engender in us is confusion. Describing an encounter with an evil person, one woman wrote, it was 'as if I'd suddenly lost my ability to think'....This reaction is quite appropriate," observes M. Scott Peck. "Lies confuse. The evil are 'the people of the lie,' deceiving others as they also build layer upon layer of self-deception....one of the characteristics of evil is its desire to confuse." (People of the Lie, p. 179) In contemporary America, the evil have a virtual choke-hold on the levers of power and influence within academia, certain corporations, the media, entertainment, arts, music, Hollywood, the Supreme Court, lower courts, seminaries, and Congress, for example.
The Ruling Class are scientists, professors, politicians, jurists, journalists, screen writers, musicians, and church leaders. As a result, confusion, apostasy, anger, finger-pointing, demonization of scapegoats, lawlessness, hedonism, apologetics for evil, and a growing bloodlust now describe post-Christian American society.
I apologize if I insulted. It is difficult and wrong to place modern morals upon a people so long ago. People of the south I am sure were generally good people. However, there were also many who knew that Negroes were people and yet continued to believe in the institution of slavery. While they understood the importance of individual freedom and agreed that it was a right granted by God they persisted with taking away those rights from others. I cannot explain this evil, but it did exist. It was not a southern trait...it was a trait throughout mankind. There were many in the north who believed slavery was a fine tradition.
I was glad to read what you said about General Jackson as he is a distant relative. I cannot guess how you or I would have thought or been back then. I would like to believe that we would understand that no people are free unless all are free. No nation is just unless we are all treated with equal justness by our government.
An interesting aside (actually on topic of my original post) is how democrats today still strive to make some groups (who support them) more equal. Like their Affirmative Action policies which openly discriminated by race and by their special rights and privileges they grant to unions. The democrat party is corrupt and evil still. This is not a trait of the South, but a trait of an evil philosophy by some.
I redirected this to the OP as the original article title is:
Calling evil by its name
Thank you so very much for this wonderful essay!
It's not a question of insult, exactly, but more of a concern that you not smear categories of evil together. I don't question that slavery was just as evil when southerners were doing it as when others were doing it. The only point is to avoid what I see as the hypocrisy of comparing people who were doing the works of their fathers with totalitarian socialists who were doing even worse things, while proudly proclaiming that they were above tradition.However, there were also many who knew that Negroes were people and yet continued to believe in the institution of slavery.Among Christians, the southern slaveowners were just uniquely situated to be the last ones to embrace the understanding that an institution which had existed from time immemorial was now understood by the rest of Christendom as being immoral.
Another thing to understand is that slaveowners were no better off, certainly, than Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1819-1901) - yet if you look at all the engineering/medical advances which are now accessible to the general public but did not even exist in her lifetime, you can understand the assertion that an American secretary today would not do well to trade circumstances with her. So if you would feel put upon if the "liberals" manage to force you to do without electricity, petroleum, and good medical care, maybe the slaveowner's unwillingness to give up their traditional property which made their lives almost as comfortable as your own can be understood if not condoned.
Rationalization is a powerful tendency in everyone.
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