Posted on 06/26/2005 4:05:14 PM PDT by CHARLITE
On national issues jockeying for position, some are vying for the #2 and #1 spots on the top ten.
But in my surmise, they are all of equal threat. I write about Liberty for the most part, and it’s the main topic of my guest talks. Guns play a part in our liberty, but so do all of the other freedoms we enjoy in our way of life. It’s all a way-of-life issue to me, hence there is hardly any single issue, guns included.
Chief among my complaints is that the Left in America presses on, where the battle is between aggression and those battling aggression and intrusion, those who want to be left alone. As conservatives, all we want is to be left alone, and the fight, for us, is to hold ground, to keep alive those societal functions and mores that have served us all, liberals included, so faithfully for generations.
The Left in America will never live to see the day their aggression and intrusion strike their final blow; liberals today do not live for any ultimate end as they might like to think, but live only for the interference (a personal satisfaction in itself) and the canard they express in their acting out. For them, this is the payoff. Its intrusive insistence on interference is tearing the nation apart.
This is why I say that liberals will never again build anything: their time of contribution is over, as they are so fully involved in the impulse to devour everything that irks them, through defamation, intrusion, and general objection to America. This ongoing mission to attack icons external to their being reflects the fact that they miss that the very cause of their anger is internal.
Fine, John, but what of us in the meantime as we continue to lose ground? How do we stop it?
How to we meet the Hate?
First, we understand that Leftism is Hate. It is aggression. It is the desire to devour valuable institutions under color of social justice, and to understand that one of the devouring methods is to erase our History.
The Hate in America is not coming from racism, it is coming from those who won’t let racism die a natural death of old age.
The Hate in America is not coming from inequality, but from coerced compliance with plans that will never work, and become resentful to everyone.
The Hate in America is not coming from violent crime but from a refusal to allow the righteous resistance to it.
This is the Hate in America.
How we meet the Hate is by first correcting the record of U.S. History.
The rhetoric of the left in America is filled with exaggeration, lies, innuendo and outright erasure. The left re-wrote the record, for instance, in how our U.S. History is taught, so that much of the goodness of our country is unknown to Americans for at least two generations now.
Correcting the record is one of the first steps to restoring the nation. The spiteful, hateful left continues to erase even today in demanding the removal of a cross from the Los Angeles County Seal, as well as other seals elsewhere. Erasing history is one of the standards in all worldwide impositions, ancient and modern, on the ground that connection to heritage and history is often enough to recognize and resist destructive change. Severing that connection is the mission of the left.
Let me give you a few examples of how the left has succeeded over the decades.
The Civil Rights Amendment was pushed through by Republicans against the protests of the Democrats. Today, you’d think liberals carried the cross in favor of civil rights, but it didn’t go down that way: the Dems opposed it, and when it didn’t stop there but actually came alive, it was hijacked by the left and twisted to become the regretful, bitter mistake we suffer today; the inescapable presumption that someone’s credentials, position and authority might be questioned as less than the best on competitive merit.
The Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrats at its peak. At the pinnacle of its raw terrorist power of mob psychology, hangings, shootings, beating and code of silence, the KKK was filled with Democrats, not right wingos, so that whatever some may say today in defense of former Klansmen, it was a Democrat movement for decades and never a Republican movement.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recalled how her father could defend his home and community because the local officials at the time did not know exactly where the guns were. The earliest gun control movement was aimed at Blacks who had as much right to self-defense as anyone else. Today, it is aimed at all of us.
Of course, the Vigilantes of the War Between The States was not an honest values-driven movement, but one of murder and working outside the law to silence the abolitionists, those taking public positions against slavery. The murders to silence opposing views were in favor of slavery. Who moves to silence views today? The same people who steal archival documents.
The history of America is not who owned slaves, but who abolished slavery in an era when trading in humanity was ubiquitous and a measure of wealth. Some people, known as Americans, believed this was wrong and fought it, but where is the credit for their dying for that value? It’s there, but you have to look for it. Some have succeeded in erasing that from your child’s history books.
The Hate is best met by engaging the lies of the left. This is something everyone can do peaceably and in seeking truth. The Hate is met by making the effort.
We know these facts to be true, but fewer and fewer of us know it. There are two resources I like and I want to recommend so that more Americans know it.
Why would an author recommend someone else’s book? (I do it all the time.) I do it because it’s important. The first is Back To Basics For The Republican Party by Michael Zak. You can find it at Amazon.com [ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0970006322/qid=1119209638/sr=8-15/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i15_xgl14/103-4052680-3617429?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ] and elsewhere.
Zak’s account points to historical facts that must be compared to the reportage of today in the light of true history so that the propaganda experts – the left is far better at propaganda than the right, let’s face it – cannot prevail through their underhanded tactics.
The mistake of the Right has been in viewing emotional communication as propaganda, and in general with stigma attached, and that answering it would be to become just as bad. This is about as weak as saying that all violence is bad without regard for dicerning resistance from aggression Thus, the underhanded tactics of the left go unanswered, and their propaganda sticks.
The fact is that reporting U.S. History properly is not propaganda, but..well, U.S. History.
On that subject, I also recommend The Politically Incorrect Guide To American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Ph.D. As one excerpt, guess who said "Because it's not their money." It was President Clinton on the subject of why local education doesn't have more say in how federal education dollars are spent. [Page 240]
It’s time to meet the Hate. It’s time to engage.
I’m utterly convinced that our most powerful mission for the nation is to bring the message of liberty and republicanism outside of the liberty community and into the public at large. This has not been done, largely in the face of accusations of partisanship and allegations of taking political control, but these are only part of the lies machine to silence opposing views. Stigma has been attached. Our side is silenced.
But we’re not alone. More and more young people are getting married, and the young couples now have new issues to grapple with. As they come to learn more in how they wish to run their new households without interference, the more fresh life to the majority of those who appreciate and live by the message of liberty.
I’ve said that Republicans need to reach around behind themselves to find their backbone. They need to drop the idea of debate as being simply another propaganda and the stigma that would go with propaganda. They need to drop the idea that every issue requires an even hand; this permits the aggressors to gain more ground, a little at a time, sure, but that’s how we got to where we are today.
Even-handedness and intimidation by stigma are out of the question when you need to correct the record.
Support from constituents would help officials eliminate their political doubt, and would encourage officials to engage the left with solid ideas, sound plans and a generous helping of reformation from intrusion and interference with the family. That would mean repeal of intrusive laws and authority. That would mean doing their job.
And, most importantly, to bring the message outside the liberty community – and outside Congress – to the nation at large.
This is how we meet the Hate.
John Longenecker is a former Los Angeles Paramedic, now a businessman, commentator and author of The Battle We Fight. His website is http://www.nationwideconcealedcarry.com.
Char :)
The left is also trying another tactic. They take original definition for facism, add to it traits of a conservative society and now are trying to define conservative or traditional American values to be the definition of facism. I ran across this on an investment blog page. Politics started to enter into postings that was suppose to talk about why we would buy, hold or sell a Korean telecom stock. Judging from the people I engaged, one is a South Korean and another was a liberal American. They both believe a conservative America is a facist state. They even gave me a website that listed the 14 characteristics of a facist state. Being a poli sci minor in college who took an excellent course called "Three Faces of Facism" I immediately identified the additions made to the original definitions of facism. I later learned that this notion is being propogaded in many Universities in Europe, Asia and Latin America for some time. This will explain why there is virulent anti Bush and Americanism in even countries strongly allied to our efforts in Iraq such as South Korea, Japan, Britain, and Austrialia. In order to survive the 21st Century and use our blood and treasure wisely, we better change our concept of foreign involvement and start considering neo-isolationism, and let these ungrates suffer a bit.
AMEN
Don't confuse using actual facts or truth, after all according to liberals IE progressives, truth is up to the individual so if liberals (I hate using the term our founders associated with limited Govt) want to redefine anything all they have to do is state the new definition and so it is in their warped sense of reality. They use this new definition to do nothing but criticize for the only goal I can come up with, deconstructing all traditions to implement their supposed new utopia which relies on the assumption of the perfectibility of human nature. Their hatred in some ways stems from their final realization that human nature is not perfect nor can it be manipulated to be such....IMO
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BUMP
Therefore, they just continue with what has become an outdated playbook of useless, empty and incoherent polemics.
No wonder they are consistently inconsistent as well as markedly incoherent.
Take last week's Kelo v. City of New London SCOTUS decision. You would THINK that liberals everywhere would be pounding the pavement, turning out in forceful protest against such a decision! Aren't the Democrats champions of "the little guy?"...the "downtrodden?".......the powerless, voiceless poor and "disadvantaged?" Aren't they against "big business" and the "evil wealthy, both individuals and corporations?"
Not a peep out of liberals about this SCOTUS decision. What if the consortium of landgrabbers had been WALMART? What - exactly - would the difference be, assuming that SCOTUS would have ruled in the same way?
Their silence illustrates their bewilderment on core values and deeply held beliefs. . . . but the "hate" goes marching on without skipping a beat. Whatever the issue, hate is the answer. "War is not the ANSWER!".......but hate seems to be the panacea, catch-all reaction and projection of their own utter intellectual emptiness.
Their general, abiding slogan seems to be, "When in doubt, HATE!"
If I'm not mistaken, the "Bush Lied" and the "Hate Bush" themes were born as soon as these creeps, these feeble excuses for American citizens, realized that Bush was beloved. When his numbers were up to nearly 90% was exactly when Tom Daschle began his sour-faced mumblings about Bush's decisions being "troubling" and "concerning" and "disturbing." It began in small insidious ways, and grew into a shocking, inexcusable drumbeat against this brave, strong and resolute president, and it wasn't that long ago that it was all "concocted" but not in Texas. It was concocted in the center of the Democrat party in collusion with one George Soros. Soros is a world class, professional marxist HATER EXTRAORDINAIRE! He founded the hate fest against this president. I'd love to see how each one of these two men comes out, when history tells the story.
Soros will be a sorry little footnote at the bottom of some page. George W. Bush will be one of the five greatest American presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan and Bush.
Thanks for your comments, Archon.
Char :)
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The Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrats at its peak. At the pinnacle of its raw terrorist power of mob psychology, hangings, shootings, beating and code of silence, the KKK was filled with Democrats, not right wingos, so that whatever some may say today in defense of former Klansmen, it was a Democrat movement for decades and never a Republican movement.
Like the Neo-Nazis, the KKK is a collectivist mentality... This is why I will say those like David Duke are really Democrat operatives engaging the leftist politics of the smear...
The Republican Party was formed to fight slavery, something the dems seem to forget is that their party was pro slavery during the civil war and for a long time after.
Well written, well expressed.
B&B
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