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2018-06-01 Home Front: Culture Wars
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
[PJMedia] As many observers have noted, America is now embroiled in a de facto civil war in which the nation is being relentlessly attacked and disassembled from within, not by the conservative Right, as The New Yorker and other progressivist outlets irresponsibly lament, but by the domestic Left.

...It is a state of affairs that, in its insidious way, is no less critical than the bloody civil war that split the nation in the 1860s. There’s no blood in the streets yet -- or maybe just a little -- but the nation is split pretty much in half. One half wishes to destroy the other through a series of destabilizing tactics: electoral fraud, fake news, negonomics, industrial dereliction, globalist doctrine, climate change scam, university indoctrination, Blue State model primary and secondary education, the divisive concept of a "living constitution," trade deficits, pro-Islamic logrolling, radical feminism, gender dysphoria, pro-choice abortion favoring a sub-replacement fertility rate, runaway entitlements, censorship-prone social media monopolies like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google, the abolition of the Second Amendment, open borders, caravan immigration, sanctuary cities, politically correct -- and in some places, compelled -- speech, judicial overreach, ubiquitous surveillance of American citizens, foreign policy surrender and revolutionary advocacy.

...Realism must finally prevail. The battle for the nation’s survival as a constitutional republic cannot be won until the domestic Left is torn root and branch from the body politic. As David Horowitz writes, "It would be a healthy development for everyone, rich and poor alike, if future generations put Karl Marx’s manifesto on the same sinister shelf as Mein Kampf and other destructive products of the human soul." One may justly view the Manifesto as a synecdoche for the Left in toto, itself, collectively speaking, a destructive product of the human soul.

Many refuse to recognize that the Left is not merely a political party across the aisle or that so-called democratic Socialism is not democratic. In his fact-filled volume The Psychotic Left, Kerry Bolton defines the Left and its adjuncts as "a psychological aberration having the same motivations as the mass murderer, the rapist and the thief." The evidence he accumulates for his thesis is conclusive. The reduction of society in the direction of state control, a command economy, the policing of language, "equality of suffering" and mediocrity of existence as "happened in Bolshevik Russia and Jacobin France," he argues, "is happening at more subtle levels today." The drive to create such malignant utopias is the bane of civil society. They are an implacable enemy of free individuals and will not rest until they achieve the goal of our common ruin.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-01 07:24|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 A list describing an Orwellian dystopia. It's like the worst of Communism was kept and the less bad aspects rejected or de-emphasized. Who came up with that nightmare?
Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-01 08:11||   2018-06-01 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 I think we have basically seen a case of the "magnetic poles of politics" flipping. The left now totally believes in the FBI and the CIA and in total government control. Those not of the left (unfortunately "right" or "conservative" are tainted labels now) see nothing but trouble in the hive's plans for us. Now we say "stick it to the man."
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-01 11:32||   2018-06-01 11:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Now we say "stick it to the man."

Started saying that 50 years ago.
Now I wear a sidearm to the grocery just to fit in.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-06-01 14:35||   2018-06-01 14:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Left believes whatever they have to to defend their team and attack the other team. Law Enforcement will be under the bus once they are no longer useful
Posted by Rjschwarz 2018-06-01 15:40||   2018-06-01 15:40|| Front Page Top

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