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Enemies Of The People (Excellent read)
The American Conservative ^ | 03/02/2018 | Rob Dreher

Posted on 03/03/2018 7:12:31 AM PST by Az Joe

Last night I watched “Paper Heads,” a 1995 documentary about Communism in what was then Czechoslovakia. It mixed propaganda films from the regime with testimony from people who had been tortured in communist prisons, or whose relatives had been abused in some way by the state. It was a crude but very powerful film. All that talk about brotherhood and shared prosperity and justice concealed cruelty, injustice, and murder of those who stood between the Party and Paradise. The most chilling part of the film, at least to me, were the clips of the 1950s show trials. The rhetoric from the judges and prosecutors, and the narration by the state media announcer, denounced the accused as traitors, parasites, enemies of the people, and so forth. And these poor people, dignified but clearly in terror, confessed to their “crimes” and received the death penalty. Only in this way could the worker’s paradise be built, or so it was claimed by the communists in the film.

Just now I read David Brooks’s column today about how progressives are winning the culture war. Brooks had recommended earlier a moderate approach to advancing gun control, beginning with treating gun owners with respect. He now concedes that he might have been wrong about that. Excerpt:


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To: Az Joe; All

Have you or anyone else here seen an English subtitle version of Paper Heads?
I’ve looked around and cannot find it.

BTW, thanks for this informative post!


21 posted on 03/03/2018 10:11:32 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Az Joe; All

Have you or anyone else here seen an English subtitle version of Paper Heads?
I’ve looked around and cannot find it.

BTW, thanks for this informative post!


22 posted on 03/03/2018 10:11:33 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: higgmeister
"...Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives"

These are basically my best friends and, BTW, favorite FReepers.

You got a problem with that?

23 posted on 03/03/2018 3:50:18 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
These are basically my best friends and, BTW, favorite FReepers.

You got a problem with that?

If they hate President Trump like that guy Rod Dreher, then yes!

24 posted on 03/03/2018 7:22:02 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: A_perfect_lady
We have to get into their spheres of influence and fight.Or study more closely, Claire Wolfe and Ayn Rand.
25 posted on 03/03/2018 7:40:47 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister
Well, no.

Detail.

26 posted on 03/04/2018 3:59:26 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Az Joe
The Red-Green Axis

aka, "Watermelon lefties"...Green on the outside, red on the inside"

27 posted on 03/04/2018 6:33:31 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nuke deals. See my FR page)
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To: higgmeister

You seem to use the word “hate” to mean, “disagree with on some points.”

One sees so much of that on the Left.


28 posted on 03/04/2018 8:15:47 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Az Joe
This one paragraph by Brooks is misleading, a mendacious propaganda bit of opinion and dangerous. Have I misread this?

Two things have fundamentally changed the landscape. First, over the past two years conservatives have self-marginalized. In supporting Donald Trump they have tied themselves to a man whose racial prejudices, sexual behavior and personal morality put him beyond the pale of decent society.

29 posted on 03/04/2018 10:54:36 AM PST by yoe
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To: yoe

Brooks is worse than a Liberal


30 posted on 03/04/2018 12:48:45 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
You seem to use the word “hate” to mean, “disagree with on some points.”

One sees so much of that on the Left.

The writer wrote, "Mike Huckabee — has made a fool of himself with his Trumpishness..."

That is not just disagreement.

31 posted on 03/05/2018 12:10:54 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister
Look, I voted for Trump and, grateful for the achievements of his productive first year, would vote for him a dozen times more, but I do think Trump has an itchy Twitter finger and sometimes beclowns himself with his middle-school personal insults.

That doesn't make me a "Trumop hater" and I don't think that would make anybody a Trump-hater.

Unless "hate" is now going to apply to any noticeable difference in style or substance.

The all-purpose "hate" labels is about worn out. I save it for the people who are not just annoying, but actually hateful.

32 posted on 03/05/2018 4:44:16 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
You don't even realize how wrong it is for you to say our President "beclowns himself."

It is inspiring to have finally a President that doesn't roll over and play dead when the globalist cabal with its complicit media attacks. Your lefthanded two-faced support doesn't impress me much.

33 posted on 03/05/2018 6:36:07 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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