Posted on 10/31/2003 3:08:40 PM PST by quidnunc
We've all seen favorite brands of soap or snacks go through several redesigns, packaging face lifts, or "improvements" in order to entice customers into staying with the brand or luring new customers to go with what looks like something fresh and modern. We're also savvy enough to read the small print or ask questions when a ''s claims don't make sense. So why is it that we gullibly accept at face value the contents of socialist repackaging and their redefinition of governmental, historical, and cultural terms?
Clarity of language and knowing the precise meaning of words and in what context they are used is crucial to understanding the truth of a situation. Lawyers especially know this and that's why they twist and distort the meaning of words until one is left pondering what the meaning of "Is" is. Clarity of language is even more vital in a country whose political health and welfare is dependent on an informed voting population. To put it bluntly, if you don't know the truth, you can't catch the lies. Socialists, like their legalistic brethren, can not stand the truth because it exposes them for what they are: micro-managing ruling elites, haters of freedom, and power tripping purveyors of guilt whose destructive agendas eventually lead to the horrors of the gas chamber.
Socialism per se is a prime example of brand name change. No matter what it calls itself, it is, as Rudyard Kipling said in his poem, The Gods of the Copybook Heading, " … we were promised abundance for all, by robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;" a system of legalized plunder which produces a wealthy ruling elite while reducing everyone else to poverty. As Frederick Bastiat so elegantly put it in his book, The Law, when he was describing how seductively socialism perverts a nation, "The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense."
Socialism, communism, communitarianism, Fabianism, Marxism, liberalism, progressivism, fascism and any other "ism" of the Left are all names for legal plunder which has led to the deaths of a hundred million victims world wide. A socialist would argue that he is not a communist but the communists considered socialism a necessary transition between the capitalist state and the communist state. A socialist would die before admitting that he has anything in common with a nazi but a nazi is a national socialist whereas a socialist is international in their outlook. There are socialists in Congress who parade as Democrats, some even running for President of the United States like Dennis Kucinich, who actually calls himself a "progressive".
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How trustworthy is a school of thought when its alumni parade in rented colors?
Actually, if allowed to run its course, it reduces everyone to poverty; witness the former Soviet Union. The problem being, that the wealthy ruling elite only know how to persuade others to steal for them, and those who actually produce grow discouraged. America’s Doctors are being bled dry by tort lawyers who produce nothing.
The Klintons believed that they represented the elite of society, who were destined to rule because of their innate superiority. But their business dealings showed that they only knew how to misrepresent the truth in order to gain advantage. They believe that all business is done that way. Thus they have no respect for honest tradesmen who fairly exchange goods for service or vice versa.
What is needed is a Society in which honesty, integrity, and mutual respect, as well as appreciation for a job well done, are valued beyond money. That may have been the lofty goal that communalists were striving for, but no one has gotten there yet. The closest group that comes to mind for me is the Boy Scouts. No wonder they are in the Liberals’ crosshairs.
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But in the end, it's just the same left-wing posturing, all form and no substance. Or a paltry attempt to disguise a more sinister agenda.
I agree.
If, instead of responding or "reacting" as expected, we all made it a point, yes, even here on FR, of simply saying:
"I would love to respond, but that simply makes no sense", eventually they might get the message.
Or simply go away.
Or try to engage brain.
Or something else useful.
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