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| America's Survival Hangs in the Balance |
| 2020-06-28 |
| [PJ] How long can this nation survive when its main cultural and educational institutions preach a relentless, unchallenged stream of anti-Americanism to young people (and others) who lack the background to resist this toxicity? Along with others, I have long argued that the American left has a major problem with America as founded. Yet Democrats are outraged by the suggestion, and too many Republicans seem insufficiently concerned about it. They better wake up. If current events aren’t enough to turn your head, please consider the following data presented by Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at the University of London Birkbeck College. Kaufmann writes that the "cultural revolutionaries" who are toppling statues and renaming buildings "are changing minds, and could be in a position to enact a root-and-branch reconstruction of America into something completely unrecognizable to its present-day inhabitants." He adds: "Imagine a country whose collective memory has been upended, with a new constitution, anthem, and flag, its name changed from the sinful ’America’ to something less tainted. Far-fetched? Not according to data I have collected on what liberal white Americans actually believe." Notice Kaufmann isn’t talking merely about the extreme left but American liberals. This is chilling stuff but unsurprising to me. In my book "Guilty by Reason of Insanity," I warned that socialism is not the only terrible idea the left is promoting. I wrote: "The left isn’t turning to socialism just because its members think it’s more equitable than capitalism but also because they seek revenge against America’s founding generation and its successor beneficiaries. They want to eradicate the Western tradition that spawned our unique American culture because it allegedly led to continental larceny against Native Americans, is in irredeemable moral debt over slavery, and is forever culpable for oppressing minorities and women through white privilege and the inherent exploitation of capitalism." I don’t claim to be a prophet, but is my statement not vindicated by America’s present turmoil? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 The universities are a problem for several reasons: 1. There is no academic freedom as reflected by the lack of freedom of speech. Political correctness and censorship are the tools used to squelch freedom of speech. 2. The lack of diversity on campuses in in decline. Diversity of thought has been replaced by a superficial kind of diversity based on skin color. 3. Group think and orthodoxy has led to a mediocrity in the universities. 4. Left-wing politization of processes such as the scientific method, law, curriculum, journalism etc. has led to intellectual corruption. If one looks at the make-up of the faculty. In the 1950 and 1960s, faculty make-up was on a parity between liberal and conservative. More recently, it has been reported to be about 12:1 in favor of liberal faculty and in some cases as much as 30 percent or more in the social sciences. I have read numbers as high as 50:1 today. It has been contended that without a parity between liberal and conservative leads to a kind of insanity which grows quickly. There are no checks and balances to curb this growing problem; no one questions ideas or has to defend their ideas on the left--in fact, it's not encouraged. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-06-28 18:26 |
| #5 In my view Trump is an actual Christian, In terms of actual belief? I suspect not. But neither were Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, and they somehow managed to figure out the right things and do them right anyway. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-06-28 15:01 |
| #4 Ref #1: .....but I see nobody mentions the ideological bankruptcy in even the Republicans Pubs, Dems, brown eggs, white eggs; once they're in the frying pan, I'll be damned if you can tell the difference. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-06-28 13:57 |
| #3 Yes, but Biden is the same sort of religious those guys are who demand jets for the service of Christ. In my view Trump is an actual Christian, putting his money, his reputation and his life where his convictions lie. I think Gawd often hides his servants in paradoxes, such that no one can accept it. I was talking about having Gawd on one's side and the disposition of forces when what you stand for becomes righter than the other guy. But those are just my views. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-06-28 12:26 |
| #2 ^ I'd need a few months to think about that. A short-term point is that Biden is (allegedly) a Catholic who wears a Rosary on his wrist; which is kinda hard to reconcile with what we're hearing from the Anteefas. I'd enjoy putting up a billboard in Portland or Seattle with a picture of JFK next to Biden and the logo: "Time for Another Catholic: Vote Biden." |
| Posted by: Matt 2020-06-28 11:57 |
| #1 To defend what remains, the remnant must descend into damnation. It is the only way now. Somebody will have to fight tooth and nail, do things they will be called villains for. Because good men thought they were 'too good' to do certain things. All this obession with liberty and rights, when they are both such abstract ideas. How much liberty is enough ? How far is the human right of a deviant to feel justified, from his right to carry out his perversions on your children without being judged ? What rights do the victims have ? The old woman thrown down the stairs, the old jew stabbed in the stomach, the kid bullied out of school by black bangers. Are they humans anymore ? Or are they bit players in someone else's story now ? If perfect liberty is to be achieved, it must be accompanied by perfect discipline. That can only be forced, for the first few generations at least. The fear of death and dehumanization is the way to start. Crush the complainers, the anti-establishmentarians, the hippies, the rabble rousers, and the country is ensured a decade or two of momentum. That is what China did. If Russia was not so beset by criminality and individual corruption they could have become stronger. If the USA had not let false guilt and this unhealthy fixation for unending 'liberties' mesmerise them into somnolence, you'd be making a Delaware 2 on the moon or mars by now. Also, these articles are all good and wise, but I see nobody mentions the ideological bankruptcy in even the Republicans, all due to gainsaying of our judeo-christian ideals and running after modernism and consumerist democracy. I feel a defeat in that a lot of Americans forsook their christian heritage. The value and traditions of family and grit and being strong enough to bear the infirmities of the weak. That is how the nation became the greatest nation on earth. When a people walk under the banner of Christ, even if only in name, I believe they enjoy a safety from ideological attack at least. Once the crosses are taken down, no statue is worth protecting. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-06-28 11:10 |