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| Totalism's new guise |
| 2016-05-27 |
| It is time for plain speaking: true to its Leftist, "progressive" nature, the Democrat party is the American proto-fascist party, pure and simple, on this as on most every other public matter. An apt description of fascism is that is it one variant of what psychiatrist and historian Robert Lifton called "totalism." Professor Anna Geifman explains the Totalist political world view: ... Its devotees -- anarchists, Marxists, or Islamists -- want to impose a new order based on an "all-or-nothing claim to truth." They operate within distinctive parameters of a "theology of Armageddon -- a final battle between good and evil" ‐ in which the stakes are nothing less than universal salvation. As outlined in Eric Hoffer’s classic, The True Believer, such movements have mastered the art of "religiofication," that is, converting political grievances into messianic aspirations and "practical purposes into holy causes." [HT: American Digest] No one gravitates to the Left in order to let others live their lives as they see fit. The beating heart of Totalism in all its forms is power and control over others. This has become the raison d'etre of the Democrat party. |
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