Posted on 06/10/2024 4:41:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If Biden and his handlers have taught us anything, human nature cannot be fooled, and the current four-year experiment will have to end before it ends us—and soon.
Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who ensure that they are never subject to the baleful implementation of their ideological agendas on the rest of us.
Still, leftists look around at what they have done to America in the last four years and implicitly know that the plan did not work, the people detested it, or both.
How do we know this? By a variety of barometers.
None of the major Biden “achievements”—10 million illegal aliens across a nonexistent border, key components of the cost of living 25-30 percent higher than in 2020, wars and chaos abroad, DEI racial and tribal obsessions, wars on fossil fuels—poll at even 40-45 percent. Biden’s own approval ratings, as the nominal architect of the most left-wing agenda since the Roosevelt administration, hover between 36 and 34 percent.
But most importantly, the left is not running on its record of the last three-and-a-half years but instead studiously ignoring it, at least temporarily through November. Suddenly, we aren’t hearing so much about cancelling pipelines and freezing federal oil leases, or so much demonization of the “greedy” oil companies. Instead, Biden is further draining the strategic petroleum reserve and begging OPEC in general and the no-longer-demonized Saudi Arabia in particular to pump oil as fast as possible.
We were lied to for nearly four years that the border was “secure,” as 10 million foreign nationals flooded...
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
The left is driven by jealousy, greed and anger. You should never expect their plans to be good for you. Expect intentional harm.
When evil individuals have no consequences for their actions, they will continue to do evil.
VDH ping
The average lefty may be driven by rage, jealousy, and every other human non-virtue.
Those leading the left use leftism to increase ownership of the world. By driving the world to war, they crash market values and can buy up the market at bargain prices. Given enough time, they own the world in a literal sense.
For all of VDH's intellectual heft, he fails to realize that in the view of communist true believers, what he deems a failure is their very definition of success.
If your goal and objective is a population controlled by dependence on government for their mere subsistence, then communism is an optimum avenue for success.
Linen said, “We must grind the people between the millstones of inflation and taxation.” There was not a kind, helping bone in his body. The Left is about destruction for the sake of destruction. It seems illogical and irrational, but the Left isn’t about helping the people, it’s about breaking them down so they will accept control. Control is their goal.
I think VDH is trying to be charitable. But he gives it away with the bolded line. Its all temporary until the Left can fool enough people or cheat enough to retain power. Even as they feign the basic appearance of a return to sanity, they're still rounding up people (J6, pro lifers, media that doesn't toe the 'narrative') and throwing them in prison or effectively debanking them.
The left is convinced of Karl Marx’s term, ‘scientific socialism’. That basically means keep making adjustments until you get your ideal society.
The Left’s idea of “working” is not the same idea of working that Victor—or a majority of American voters—has.
The criminals pushing/running it
The leeches benefitting from it
The stupid rich white liberals who support it for emotional reasons (and because they’re stupid)
There are plenty of low-level brainwashed people who think they are saving the world. But the people at the top are building a world where they have total control. They want the power and they want a system that works for them. They don't care about people or humanity.
It's a new feudalism.
Yup
Somewhat related
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/06/civil_war_if_trump_goes_to_prison.html
Yes, and they do not care if it works or doesn’t work.
P O W E R > That is the objective. Nothing more.................
ping
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Good article by VDH, that can be summarized as the left not being able to ask the classic question: “Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?” They’re trying to distance themselves from the chaos they caused.
Didn't Disney just release a new woke turd called "Star Wars: The Acolyte" (a.k.a. the "gayest Star Wars" ever)? They're not backtracking.
It doesn’t work as advertised to to public. It DOES work for the unmentioned goal of gaining tyrannical power over a society.
NEVER look at what the Left says, look instead at what they do.
Or what they accuse their opponents of nefariously doing, typically it is exactly what they are doing.
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