What Really Scares Me About The Left
[Disclaimer: Although I'll be talking mostly about the more radical side of the left, I think the concepts apply equally to the more radical right. However, since the left for the most part controls the media and thus has a very accessible forum from which to espouse their views, I'll be focusing my efforts on the left.]
The most recent book that's found its way to my nightstand is The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The book describes Soviet Russia, mostly under Stalin, and more specifically, the arrest, imprisonment and treatment of prisoners in the Soviet Gulag system, from 1918 to 1956. At it's high point, the Gulags housed 25% of the Soviet population!
I'm still fairly early in the book, probably around page 85. He dedicates a section of the book to describing the "Blue Caps" - these were the enforcement arm of the Communist machine. Their word was law. If they thought you should be imprisoned, for any reason, you were imprisoned. Although Blue Caps were chosen just as any other civil servant position was chosen, with appropriate rank, they were *always* the highest ranking person in any gathering simply because of their power.
The author summed up the actions of the Blue Caps in how they justified their actions, namely with ideology. An ideology, according to the author is a set of values/beliefs that justify actions that otherwise an individual could not rationally justify. An ideology is something that would heap praise upon an individual for carrying out actions that otherwise would be considered criminal, immoral, or otherwise completely out of bounds.
Now, not all ideologies are like this. Some certainly follow socially accepted norms.
You can see how much an ideology is willing to bend codes of normal behavior by watching them in action.
This is where the Left gets scary.
During the last two presedential elections we saw the Left stoop to new lows, and I'm of the opinion we haven't seen the bottom yet. Far from it.
Lefties are willing to accept whatever anyone of prominence says against anything that's not the Left as sufficient reason to sway their opinion, on just about everything.
For example:
1) Farenheit 911 - Michael Moore admits that it's a fictional work with most things taken out of context. However, it's the picture he portrays of the Right and because he's a Figure of Prominence (FOP) the Left finds sufficient weight to sway their opinion.
In contrast, the book by the Swift Boat Veterans is based upon first hand accounts and interviews of men who served with Kerry. Even though the Swifties have ultimately been proven to have told the factual truth in their book, the Left ignores, no, chastises them because they're not of the Left.
2) The FOP's of the Left continually decry Bush as being stupid. It's a proven fact that Bush's IQ is higher than Kerry's. Lefties all chant the mantra, without question, that Bush is stupid.
3) In the past, Lefties have been for broadening of Federal powers, as Lefty FOP's have told them this is the way to go. Today, those same FOPs say that Federal power should be limited and more rights should be reserved to the States. The Lefties now chant the State's Rights mantra, and don't question.
4) Lefties believe that there should be no border with Mexico, that Mexicans have the right to come over here and live, in spite of what the evidence shows. Increased crime, the destruction of state and local budgets to support illegals. In California alone, illegals are costing the State $10,000,000 per year. Strangely, the California budget shortfall for the current fiscal year is, you guessed it, $10,000,000. Now...I've met a few Lefties who aren't fans of illegal immigration, and actively campaign against it. However, I've met many Lefties who think I'm a racist simply because I want immigrants to follow the law.
The bottom line - Lefties are easily swayed, and they feel completely justified in their positions, even when those positions fly in the face of fact and/or common sense. This is the effect of a hook, line and sinker buy in of the ideology of the left.
To date, we already know they feel completely justified in treasonous activities, such as funding and giving technology to enemies of the US, aiding and abetting terrorists in the name of racial equality, destruction of the family in the name of gender equality, using the media to influence our youth in any way they feel is correct, using the media to pummel any opposition to their positions - any critique of a Left FOP or concept (entitlements as rights, illegal immigration, social engineering via the courts and system of laws, to name a few) - regardless of the truth of the critique. They will simply tolerate no critisism.
What else would they do if they had the power? Would I be in trouble for writing this blog?
The problem is, the only difference I see between today's radical left and the Soviet powerstructure of the early 1900's is one of degrees. Today's left does not control the government, but it has plainly stated that we haven't seen anything yet in terms of doing whatever it takes to gain that control.
Look at Hillary Clinton trying to remake her image. After years of being a lunatic on many issues and basically promolgating outright socialism, she's recently tried to appear more in the center. And we're expected to forget what she's done in the past? Are we as a people really that shallow? Does the leadership of the Left really think that, and if so, why? Hillary is simply trying to deceive everyone into thinking she's a moderate, when we know the opposite is true.
If they're willing to sink to any depth to gain power, to what depths will they sink to once they get it?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn survived imprisonment and torture by a government who knew few limits. He explicitly warns of of ideologies that justify what would otherwise be un-justifiable by rational people.
Frankly, I'm worried about what's to come. The left will get more radical, and in response the right will become more radical. At some point will we have either a Stalin or a Hitler (and come to think of it, what's the difference)? Hopefully I won't be around to find out.
The most recent book that's found its way to my nightstand is The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The book describes Soviet Russia, mostly under Stalin, and more specifically, the arrest, imprisonment and treatment of prisoners in the Soviet Gulag system, from 1918 to 1956. At it's high point, the Gulags housed 25% of the Soviet population!
I'm still fairly early in the book, probably around page 85. He dedicates a section of the book to describing the "Blue Caps" - these were the enforcement arm of the Communist machine. Their word was law. If they thought you should be imprisoned, for any reason, you were imprisoned. Although Blue Caps were chosen just as any other civil servant position was chosen, with appropriate rank, they were *always* the highest ranking person in any gathering simply because of their power.
The author summed up the actions of the Blue Caps in how they justified their actions, namely with ideology. An ideology, according to the author is a set of values/beliefs that justify actions that otherwise an individual could not rationally justify. An ideology is something that would heap praise upon an individual for carrying out actions that otherwise would be considered criminal, immoral, or otherwise completely out of bounds.
Now, not all ideologies are like this. Some certainly follow socially accepted norms.
You can see how much an ideology is willing to bend codes of normal behavior by watching them in action.
This is where the Left gets scary.
During the last two presedential elections we saw the Left stoop to new lows, and I'm of the opinion we haven't seen the bottom yet. Far from it.
Lefties are willing to accept whatever anyone of prominence says against anything that's not the Left as sufficient reason to sway their opinion, on just about everything.
For example:
1) Farenheit 911 - Michael Moore admits that it's a fictional work with most things taken out of context. However, it's the picture he portrays of the Right and because he's a Figure of Prominence (FOP) the Left finds sufficient weight to sway their opinion.
In contrast, the book by the Swift Boat Veterans is based upon first hand accounts and interviews of men who served with Kerry. Even though the Swifties have ultimately been proven to have told the factual truth in their book, the Left ignores, no, chastises them because they're not of the Left.
2) The FOP's of the Left continually decry Bush as being stupid. It's a proven fact that Bush's IQ is higher than Kerry's. Lefties all chant the mantra, without question, that Bush is stupid.
3) In the past, Lefties have been for broadening of Federal powers, as Lefty FOP's have told them this is the way to go. Today, those same FOPs say that Federal power should be limited and more rights should be reserved to the States. The Lefties now chant the State's Rights mantra, and don't question.
4) Lefties believe that there should be no border with Mexico, that Mexicans have the right to come over here and live, in spite of what the evidence shows. Increased crime, the destruction of state and local budgets to support illegals. In California alone, illegals are costing the State $10,000,000 per year. Strangely, the California budget shortfall for the current fiscal year is, you guessed it, $10,000,000. Now...I've met a few Lefties who aren't fans of illegal immigration, and actively campaign against it. However, I've met many Lefties who think I'm a racist simply because I want immigrants to follow the law.
The bottom line - Lefties are easily swayed, and they feel completely justified in their positions, even when those positions fly in the face of fact and/or common sense. This is the effect of a hook, line and sinker buy in of the ideology of the left.
To date, we already know they feel completely justified in treasonous activities, such as funding and giving technology to enemies of the US, aiding and abetting terrorists in the name of racial equality, destruction of the family in the name of gender equality, using the media to influence our youth in any way they feel is correct, using the media to pummel any opposition to their positions - any critique of a Left FOP or concept (entitlements as rights, illegal immigration, social engineering via the courts and system of laws, to name a few) - regardless of the truth of the critique. They will simply tolerate no critisism.
What else would they do if they had the power? Would I be in trouble for writing this blog?
The problem is, the only difference I see between today's radical left and the Soviet powerstructure of the early 1900's is one of degrees. Today's left does not control the government, but it has plainly stated that we haven't seen anything yet in terms of doing whatever it takes to gain that control.
Look at Hillary Clinton trying to remake her image. After years of being a lunatic on many issues and basically promolgating outright socialism, she's recently tried to appear more in the center. And we're expected to forget what she's done in the past? Are we as a people really that shallow? Does the leadership of the Left really think that, and if so, why? Hillary is simply trying to deceive everyone into thinking she's a moderate, when we know the opposite is true.
If they're willing to sink to any depth to gain power, to what depths will they sink to once they get it?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn survived imprisonment and torture by a government who knew few limits. He explicitly warns of of ideologies that justify what would otherwise be un-justifiable by rational people.
Frankly, I'm worried about what's to come. The left will get more radical, and in response the right will become more radical. At some point will we have either a Stalin or a Hitler (and come to think of it, what's the difference)? Hopefully I won't be around to find out.
posted by cookies at 7:34 AM
3 Comments:
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Bush is an idiot and so apparently are you. People like you are so much more scary than the left.
The sad part is that you're giving Bush too much credit. If he were simply stupid, his apparent inneptitude could be overlooked.
His actions are purposeful. At least the left owns up to the stufff it promulgates.
I am scarier than the left or right. Unlike both of those factions, I think.
If you think otherwise, please feel free to make your point intelligently. I'm hardly set in my ways, and I know I'm not always right.
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