"The New Counterculture "
By Gary Aldrich
Posted on 11/08/2003 11:47:20 AM PST by Bob J
"The New Counterculture "
By Gary Aldrich
On Nov. 7, 1972, the New Left, also known as the “Counterculture,” suffered a major defeat at the polls when Leftist presidential candidate George McGovern lost 49 states to Richard Nixon.
Nixon’s joy was short-lived. His re-election caused a furious counter-reaction by the emerging Hard-Left ideologues like Hillary Rodham Clinton. This movement, nurtured on the dreams of a Marxist-style revolution, had to settle instead for grown-up pragmatism that had as its basic tenet that to destroy the hated “system,” you first had to join it.
They left the romantic Counterculture behind and moved into positions in American institutions that would most likely provide the corrosive powers denied them in the voting booth.
In two short years, the passion that supported a quixotic McGovern presidential bid was used to monkey-wrench the hated Nixon administration. They forced Nixon to resign, and American politics has never been the same.
Republicans for their part have been unable to admit that while they won the election in 1972, those same hate-filled political opponents they faced were able to undermine Nixon’s popularity so that he dropped from being a very popular president to being one of the most hated. Most Republicans preferred to believe instead that what had happened to Nixon was good, old-fashioned politics – mean-spirited to be sure, but as American as apple pie.
Many also preferred to believe that the New Left simply faded away after McGovern’s remarkable defeat, but those who persist in believing a “warm fuzzy” fiction in spite of the facts do so to the detriment of the Conservative Movement and the very future of this nation as we remember it.
Conservatives were mistaken when they believed the fall of the Soviet Union meant the defeat of worldwide Communism. Conservatives made fighting the Cold War a foundation upon which they built a successful movement.
Never mind that China, North Korea, Cuba and just about every Arab nation maintained Marxist-style dictatorships. The temptation to declare a major win and to announce that all was well was just too good to resist. The loud clinking of champagne glasses at VIP victory celebrations drowned out the warnings that our own homegrown Socialists and Marxists were still very hard at work, and that they were winning!
Burrowing deeper in our institutions, these termites never wavered from their dreams of weakening the United States by demonizing Capitalism, throwing out Judeo-Christian influences, and further empowering the greedy, bureaucratic United Nations that held for them the promise of world-wide Socialism.
In 1972, those on the Right who fancied themselves historians and political pundits declared the New Left dead, if not buried. They then marched off to slay other dragons and to set up guard posts on the fronts they believed more important to the Republic.
Whatever concentration they gave to the so-called “leftover Communism” fell on distant shores, and they ignored repeated warnings that the New Left was not gone at all but, like the Mafia, had decided to go “legit.”
Before and after McGovern’s defeat, Communist Party USA member Saul D. Alinsky was mentoring a young Hillary Rodham, encouraging her to become part of the system the Left hated so much. Hillary took Alinsky’s advice and joined her Leftist friends on the Senate staff of the Committee to Impeach Richard Nixon.
The Conservatives had their mentors and authors and philosophers, too, like Ayn Rand, Russell Kirk and Milton Friedman – but the difference was that our movement was based mostly on honestly, self-reliance and hard work. In other words, Traditional American Values.
But Alinsky was an accomplished liar, meaning the major component used for victory in his movement was just the opposite – it was the generous use of the “lie.”
Alinsky taught Hillary and thousands like her that the truth was relative, and that truth should be used as a simple “tool” to apply to any situation to ensure a win. Alinsky understood that if you could not win, you would not have power to rule and make change.
Alinsky also understood that while lying was considered by most to be unethical and unseemly, it was certainly not illegal when used in the political theater – and after all, that was the stage upon which they would accomplish their agenda.
In 1993, Bill Clinton became president, guided by Hillary and the ghost of Saul Alinsky. They won the White House with only 20 years of hard work, and enjoyed two terms in office. The political wing of the Hard-Left finally joined the rest of the American institutions, already corrupted by the Hard-Left termites.
From the mainstream media, to academic professors proudly proclaiming their Marxist ideology, to a demented Hollywood in love with the Hard-Left’s “Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll” – everywhere you look you can find the degrading and demeaning influences of the Hard-Left, who simply followed the powerful political guidebook written by Saul Alinsky.
Their best achievement has been the federal court system. When President Bush tries to alter the course of any one of the institutions – especially the system obviously hijacked by this very dangerous political movement – the Alinsky-ists react in a fury reminiscent of their post-McGovern outrage, and find a way to stop him.
Republicans and many Conservatives continue to ignore the growing evidence that the New Left has matured into a “Hard-Left” that even now is beginning to worry traditional Democrats like Sen. Zell Miller. Sen. Miller broke ranks with the Democratic Party leadership when he wrote a book detailing his concerns.
In following the advice of political tacticians like Saul Alinsky, the New Left Counterculture has become the Establishment in less than 20 years. They easily elbowed out of the way the honest, decent, patriotic Republicans – especially Conservatives who still insist we are dealing with good old-fashioned politics rather than a dangerous force determined to destroy forever the America that some of us still remember.
Remarkably, the Hard-Left has also fooled their own party faithful, the Heartland Democrats. These good people neither comprehend, nor would they ever agree with, where Alinskyism is taking us all.
Alinsky, being the faithful Marxist that he was, had no other destination than outright Marxism for America; but don’t count on the timid and gentle Republican Party to save us from this destructive path. Apparently, the GOP would rather live in its own lie of defeating worldwide Communism than to admit that it failed to maintain a watch within our own borders.
Maybe the Heartland Democrats can save the day. They are not as naive as their friends on the Conservative Right who cannot, or will not, believe there are citizens born and raised here who for some reason hate this country and are determined to bring it down.
I call them Alinsky’s Marxists, and Hillary Clinton could be their queen. They are today’s mainstream – they are now “the hated System.” And that makes those of us who know the enemy – and are determined to fight this dishonest, debilitating and insidious corruption – the “New Counterculture.”
Gary Aldrich is the author of the recently released hard-hitting book, "Thunder on the Left: An Insider’s Report on the Hijacking of the Democratic Party," an exposé of the clear and present danger the Hard-Left’s agenda presents to our national security and our freedoms. Available now at Amazon.com!
Write Gary Aldrich at PatHenCntr@aol.com
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I hate to correct him...he rocks!
I disagree .. I don't think it is too late.
Yes, there are the hard core left and no matter what, won't change ..
But there is also a percentage that are not hard core .. they are basically good people that want the best for America and for the poor .. they just don't want to, or can't admit they are wrong and that the Dem Party they remember or wished for, doesn't exist.
They actually believe that people follow the laws. They actually believe there will be someone else that will pay all the high taxes .
I had a conversation with my lib sister about taxes once. I pointed out that if you keep taxing people they will get tired of it and leave. She didn't get my point
I then asked her why she moved out of Philadelphia .. her quick response was because of the poor schools, high crime, high taxes and high insurance
And just as quick as she said it .. a light bulb went off over her head and she got my point.
I don't know whether she'll vote for a Republican .. but I did get her to think a different way
Stay Safe !
Exterminate! exterminate! =o)
"Alinskyism" - Perhaps this is the word we should be using instead of "Borking". The Left loves to paint all sorts of things they don't like with the term "McCarthyism". I think that it is wrong to name the left's rigid opposition to judicial appointments after a man who was so wronged when it should be named after one who is behind the Left's principles of such actions.
When eaten, they can pack a hell of a buzz provided you're willing to gamble with the ingestion of wood alcohol...
I have mentioned this on several past posts on FR. "Don't confuse US Citizens with Americans"
The gutless inept Republicans won't call them what they are - socialists. They keep calling them democrats.
As a right wing democrat, I haven't been able to vote for a candidate running as a democrat in 20 years. There are no John Breauxs or Zell Millers on my ballots. Just Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Gerry Studds and Bill Delahunt -Tom
A fella I knew slightly [he was the dad of one of the kids in high school with me, and he bought a Weimaraner pup from me when my bitch had her first litter] made a reappearance in my life after I'd gotten back to my hometown area a few years after I'd gotten out of the military and was in school on the GI bill. He asked a few particularly sharp questions about the way wee'd been doing business, some of which I answered and some of which were outside the limits of my personal experience. I figured he might have been in Korea, as he asked a couple about helicopter medevac, *Naw, I wuz a Marine in the Pacific* says he....
My dad had been the local American Legion post commander there but had been dead for a few years by the time the conversation took place. There was a former Marine state cop who'd been his deputy commander, and one rainy night when we were both killing time at the local all-night truck stop and cafe, I figured I'd pick his brains about the guy a little.
He was a local bulldozer operator-owner by trade, nobody I'd ever given much thought about. The cop surprised the heck out of me by telling me that that old boy was preobably the most prolific killer in the county, having almost certainly personally accounted for several hundred Japs, very probably over a thousand.
He had joined the USMC before Pearl Harbor, I was told, so got in on things right from the beginning, and when all the post- Pearl Harbor enlistees signed on, he was bumped up to corporal, and had that rank when he made his first landing. Slightly wounded in his left arm by another Marine's too-quick shot, he was recovering from his wound okay when the Gunny he worked for came and offered him an easy detail he could handle even with his injury.
As the Japs would try to slip into the Marine positions at night, sometimes by stealth and sometimes in platoon and company-sized mass assaults, individual Marine riflemen and machinegun positions pretty well took care of the problem, though not perfectly so. Come the next morning, there were enemy wounded about, still armed, and still dangerous. The young corporal's job was to *take out the garbage.*
His wound made a rifle or Thompson a poor choice for him, so instead the gunny borrowed a .45 from him from one of the company's officers. He had a couple of spare magazines, and a private with an M1 along for backup. And several boxes of .45 ammo in a gas mask bag for reloading the .45 magazines as they were emptied.
And around to the MG positions they went, like milkmen or mailmen. *Any business for us today,* they'd ask at the perimeter gun positions. Sometimes there wasn't, sometimes there was. And when they got to the bodies, most of them were no problem. Anything questionable got a round from the .45 if it didn't move, one from the rifleman if it did. And sometimes, a couple of rounds, just to be sure, from both- it made the load of ammo a little lighter, and nobody said they had to bring it all back.
Five, maybe, the first day. Six or seven the next, two or three the day after that- not just certainty shots into corpses, but a talley of the ones who'd been waiting and hoping for an American to come along to die with. And so on, day after day after day. Sometimes the near-dead Japs would try to get a grenade off, sometimes a shot from their rifle. They never did. He had the job for a week with no problems, changed riflemen from time to time, but kept at it, for the rest of the month, then the next one. There was never a day he went without emptying at least one magazine's worth of .45 into the ones that could still move.
Eventually he picked up another .45 and some more spare magazines, and used a gunner with a BAR instead of a rifle to cover him, but essentially, he kept at the job he'd found such a talent for every morning, up at dawn, out to *take out the garbage* finish his daily rounds, come back in, clean his .45 and grab some chow, which they were real polite about keeping warm for him and his gunner. They spent about 4 months on the island, and he got his third stripe by the time they left to train to get ready for the next one.
Somewhere at Battalion or Brigade his efforts were noted, even if not exactly the thing you got a medal for. His detail was written into the unit's S.O.P. and when they trained for the next island job, he had a half-dozen volunteers prepared to handle the same chore for their outfits. And this time he had a 4-man fire team backing him up, and sometimes a K9 and the dog's handler. And then there was the next island after that, and the next, and the next, and for a month or two or three each he did his job every morning while they cleared out the Japs.
Maybe a thousand. Maybe more.
Before I joined the Army, I'd dated the daughter of a guy who'd been in Merrill's Marauders, and he gave me some real solid advice that I paid attention to, and which probably helped me come back in one piece outside of a rubber bag; likewise, there was a former Marine Raider who had a quiet chat with me before I left that I treasure to this day.
But I sometimes wonder how different things might have been if I'd had the old Catskinner as one of my advisers....and thirty plus years after he dealt with those who might have posed a problem to other Marines, he still carried his .45 with him almost everywhere he went. Now, some 35 years after I first met my own first war, so do I. The old Catskinner knew exactly what he was doing.
I don't have anywhere near the experience he had, but that I do have tells me he's one of those to whose example you pay attention to about how to best take care of that sort of business.
-archy-/-
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