Topic: Land of the Free or Home of the Slave.

[Weisshaupt]

Land of the Free or Home of the Slave

Revisionist history is required by every ideology that wishes to radically change the world. The revisionist history of liberalism in particularly is quite revealing when it comes to exposing its own motives and agendas.

Those whose revisionist history recasts the past of their own people as a long series of cruel and oppressive acts, expose themselves as revolutionaries who seek to recast their own history as evil, all the better to rule over the future in the name of justice and mercy. This is altogether true of liberal revisionist history, which recreates America as a shameless tyranny ruled over by greed and lies. A typical and influential example of the genre, is A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, in which the gullible college student learns that all of American history is a sham by the wealthy to control commerce and territory. This naturally prepares him to accept liberalism's mandate for destroying America in order to turn it into a land of liberty, equality and justice.

?"The left's determination of who is allowed to participate in elections and other forms of decision making is ideological citizenship, not national citizenship. Only those who believe exactly as they do are allowed to participate in the process. Only those who share their goals and beliefs have a valid vote. As the revolution gets underway, a winnowing process occurs that purges any who do not share their exact beliefs to create a narrower and narrower standard through which no one but those in perfect agreement with their views are allowed to pass. Even when those views change. Especially when those views change."

?"To the left all things are political. And if a thing is not political, they cannot be bothered to care about it. And the foundation of their morality is rooted in the ability to elevate oppressed groups out of their oppression. If the left cannot reduce an issue to an oppressed-oppressor formula, then the entire situation has no meaning to them. That is why unlike the right, the left does not care a great deal about what goes on in the bedroom, aside from areas such as rape or gay rights, which they can nudge into their oppressed-oppressor class formula. That is not to suggest that their ability to expand their political morality everywhere can or should be underestimated. The left has managed to treat everything from breakfast cereals to SUV's to brand labels as counters in their political morality. And there is no telling where, if anywhere, it will actually end."

"The left is the product of absolute arrogance that has directed all its aims toward achieving absolute power. For all its progressive posturing, it is run by egotists who believe that if they were in charge, things would finally be set to right. Their ideas are medieval. Their tactics are utterly amoral. They have no boundaries, because they like to think that their enemies have none. And we are their enemies.

The American Experiment was built to elevate a people and their laws above being tools of their government. This noble achievement succeeded. That is why so many who believe that laws exist to enable a government to use its people as mere tools, have been so determined to destroy it. To the left there are no individuals and no people, only classes. Only groups crying out to be equitably redistributed in the name of creating a perfect order. And they have always despised the American Experiment, castigating the idea that the popular vote without the oversight of the guardians of social justice can achieve an equitable society, as hypocritical and deceitful. That is an idea that the American liberals of the day are driven by. It burns through their revisionist history and their rhetoric. It is what drives their exposes and condemnations. All of it aimed at one thing. The replacement of America as we know it, with their system. And they are closer to it than ever before."

?"When you limit government power, you expand individual freedom. When you expand government power, you limit individual freedom. As government power expands, it begins to impose a particular social order. This social order benefits those who are already in power. Law then becomes a tool by which the dominant cultural and political forces remain in power and impose their will on the people.

The Framers understood this, as even we cannot, because to truly understand freedom, one must experience tyranny. Freedom has no meaning except in the context of oppression"

?"Given a chance, the left will do to America, what they have done to nation after nation. Suck it dry and destroy it. Because their ideology represents a dead end. Their ideas are so old, that there is sand and dust on their breath. It is the promise of a benevolent tyranny, the protectors of the people who will protect the people from everything, but what they really need protecting from, themselves. They have no new ideas. Only old ones relabeled, rebranded and polished to make them seem new again. The American Experiment was a chance to break the cycle of kings and tyrants that had dominated so much of human history. The left would destroy that experiment, in the name of their own experiment. And their experiment has always proven to be fatal to the test subject."

Man,I wish I had written that, or was at least capable of doing so.

 Mankind's last best hope are the principles of the revolution. Leftists reject them, except where they can be used for their own advancement of power.  If you think government should be making anyone do anything "for their own good" then you should think about what I would decide you should do if it were in my power, and maybe instead mind your own business.

[Libertas]

Huh, never seen that site before.  But you know what?  I cannot find much to argue about here.  The main fallacy the left suffers from is thinking they can manage destruction and transform the nation into their ideal state peacefully.  The former proposition has so many variables attached to it that it is obvious that anyone thinking that way is deranged beyond description, while the latter proposition in a nation as well armed and as politically and culturally polarized as ours can be peacefully transitioned into tyranny is just downright foolish.

I suspect we'll see it all sort itself out soon enough...

[EW1(SG)]

The fundamental problem of the Left is that they cannot deal with reality.

The universe is a chaotic, and inherently "unfair" place, and the Left (like the Arabs), are unable to deal with that reality:  so they attempt to anthropomorphize the universe and pin the blame on a human agent.  That's how this "oppressor-opressed" model comes into being.

It never occurs to them that in our current world, especially in America, that the rich and powerful don't become that way by "oppressing" others:  they become that way by pleasing others.  Carnegie, provided bulk transport.  Rockefeller, provided oil.  Kennedy, provided booze.  Michael Jackson, provided biologists a lifetime of research.

Er, you get my point.  That doesn't mean that the rich and powerful won't BECOME oppressors, once they have achieved wealth and power:  George Soros, Ted Kennedy, some of the Rockefellers, as examples.  And most "community organizers."

But these aren't problems of governance, they are problems of human nature.  Since they are anathema to the Left (so they say, although most are seduced by power), their solution is to attempt to change the fundamental nature of humanity, a windmill too far if you will.  And since they eschew religion, and the associated questions of the source of moral or ethical behavior, they have nowhere to turn to for answers except within:  which leads to the fundamental paradox of their outlook~if there is no higher source of morality than themselves, then there is nothing to prevent them from becoming the oppressors they claim to despise.

[charlesoakwood]

They are perking for another civil war.  No, this is just a continuation
of that revolt that was never successfully resolved.

[warpmine]

They're insanely jealous of the love that most us adorn to our God. They want the tribute addressed to them which is why so many shower the deadbeats with other people's money, not their own mind you, that would mean giving away some of that power.... tax money is what they give away. Soros is just such critter and has admitted to it.