Posted on 12/21/2006 8:28:01 PM PST by neverdem
Now that neocons are being slow-roasted in effigy all over the world, this may be the right time to ask the question: Why isn't the whole Left neoconservative? Remember that neocons like Norman Podhoretz and Daniel P. Moynihan were former left-wingers who saw the light --- which only seems like common sense, after witnessing Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kims (Dad and Junior), and the whole mass-murdering gang of cutthroats.
After the Soviet Union crashed and no one could possibly ignore the bloody mess the Left kept making over seventy long years. So why didn't all the decent Leftists just read their Milton Friedman and grow up?
That's what the so-called neocons did, and more power to them. I take it as obvious that they were correct and morally decent, in learning to see how wrong they had been. They grew up. My question is: What happened to all the others?
Or to ask it a different way: Why is it that in Britain, of all countries, a BBC4 survey showed that the greatest philosopher of all time is considered to be ... Karl Marx? A hate-filled parasitical scribbler who spent his life in the British Museum, stoking the fires that killed 100 million people in the 20th century? What is wrong with British education that the plain facts do not shout out for themselves?
The fact that the Left never, ever learns gives the lie to all its high-falutin' claims of "idealism," "progressivism," and superior morality. There is one and only one reason the Left isn't blamed for its misdeeds: It still controls the organs of propaganda, following der Übermenschlicher Karl. Thus some 90 percent of our media functionairies are left wingers. A predominant percentage of professors and teachers are, too.
To hold on to their beliefs leftists must shut down any competing ideas, which is precisely what they do. Just take your favorite leftist friends, and tell them some obvious fact they don't want to hear. You can see it working right in front of your eyes: They just won't hear it. Like the stone idols of the Bible, they have eyes, but cannot see; ears, but cannot hear. (Ps. 115) As long as they control the dominant media, our society will keep teetering at the brink of destruction.
All this is relevant today, because the Western world has just realized (again!) that multiculturalism, the latest mass delusion from the elites, comes down to societal suicide. Ooops! In exchange for the Multiculti Cult we get the Twin Towers on 9/11, carnage in London, Madrid, Mumbai, Bali and Baghdad, nightly riots in the banlieus of France, hateful anti-Americanism throughout Europe and America, and yes, the rise of yet another version of Left Fascism, this time marked by loudly voiced race hatred and anti-Semitism. Who could be surprised? Yet nobody blames the snake-oil peddlers for those deadly toxins.
Europe is still suffering from the intellectual monopoly of socialism. "Sophisticated" Europe doesn't see any respectable alternative to the Left, since conservatism is constantly and deliberately confounded with fascism. The American Left tries to ape the Euromyth that any decent and moral person must be a Leftist --- but so far only American professors believe it. Since in the tunnel-vision of the anointed there is no alternative to themselves, if one fairy-tale of Earthly Paradise is seen to crash, another one must instantly take its place. That is why the commissars of Post-Modernism and Multiculturalism suddenly rose to power all over the West in the 1970s and 80s. The faithful had to find a new way to justify their idee fixe.
Such mental fixedness is utterly irrational. A psychiatrist would have to ask whether the people who keep peddling the same toxins over and over again are themselves deeply malevolent and destructive: Whether unconsciously they really want to murder their societies. Why else would they keep pushing toward chaos?
So I ask again: Why isn't everybody on the Left a neocon? Why isn't Hillary? Chomsky? John Kerry? All those Sixties leftovers who never learned --- why are they so intellectually stuck? Have they no decency?
So hurray for the Neocons, say I, and long may they bug the Left.
James Lewis blogs at Dangerous Times.
Well stated. While we are in the business of trashing the Left, let me add that embracing some flavor of marxism (multi-culturism, femininism, eco-nonsense) is a way for affluent kids to expiate their fellings of guilt for being affluent witout having to change their lifestyle in any important way. Note that marxists always embrace it in their youth (hardly anyone converts to it in middle age), the most prominent marxists are nearly always scions of wealthy families (example: remember Phil Ochs?), yet NONE of them ever gives away their wealth to the poor, as Jesus taught. They call for the reconstruction of other people, not themselves, for the dismantling of enterprises they are NOT involved in (thus Hollywood is NOT 'big business', no matter how much money is made, and how overpaid the stars are). It boils down to a fanatical religious conviction, re-inforced by peer presure, most of the media, and sometimes even the companies they work for.
How about that Green Party city councilman from MN, who was recently sentenced to 2 1/2 years for accepting bribes from real estate developers? Or Ted Kennedy for that matter?
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Absolutely not.. Duuugh..
And leftists are also delusional or outright deceitful when they call everyone they disagree with a fascist. Fascism / nazism is just another form of socialism ("right"), just like communism is a form of socialism ("left"), difference being that fascism allows some sort of private ownership of property and means of production, however tenuous. Both are totalitarian dictatorship forms of government where elite controls and/or owns most of the capital and industrial production and rely heavily on propaganda apparatus to maintain control over hoi polloi, with middle class [almost] non-existent. They're also the most corrupt forms of overnment as to get any goods or services otherwise not available to masses the few who have control over these goods and services can benefit greatly while at the same time maintaining the illusion of "equality" (egalite - Fr.)
Socialist governments also deny or have no need for God, as either race or party is "uber alles" (above all - Germ.)
Neocons are the ones who figured that out. Probably original neocon was Ronald Reagan when he said "I didn't leave the Democrat party, the party left me".
Of course, for many leftists, "neocon" is just a synonym for "Jew" who is not on left-wing reservation, just like black "Uncle Toms".
If "progressives" will look in the mirror, here's what they will see if only they have enough brains to process it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi
http://nazi.org (for educational purposes only)
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-article-is-published-on-internet.html
And leftists are also delusional or outright deceitful when they call everyone they disagree with a fascist. Fascism / nazism is just another form of socialism ("right"), just like communism is a form of socialism ("left"), difference being that fascism allows some sort of private ownership of property and means of production, however tenuous. Both are totalitarian dictatorship forms of government where elite controls and/or owns most of the capital and industrial production and rely heavily on propaganda apparatus to maintain control over hoi polloi, with middle class [almost] non-existent. They're also the most corrupt forms of government as to get any goods or services otherwise not available to masses the few who have control over these goods and services can benefit greatly while at the same time maintaining the illusion of "equality" (egalite - Fr.)
Socialist governments also deny or have no need for God, as either race or party is "uber alles" (above all - Germ.)
Neocons are the ones who figured that out. Probably original neocon was Ronald Reagan when he said "I didn't leave the Democrat party, the party left me".
Of course, for many leftists, "neocon" is just a synonym for "Jew" who is not on left-wing reservation, just like black "Uncle Toms".
If "progressives" will look in the mirror, here's what they will see if only they have enough brains to process it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi
http://nazi.org (for educational purposes only)
And if above is not enough:
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-article-is-published-on-internet.html
I think you're onto soemthing here. How else to explain the left's visceral hatred of George Bush and other "right-wing extremists" (translation: mainstream conservatives), versus its relative tolerance for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong-Il, Hugo Chavez, and assorted other despisers of Western values?
I agree, but would add to the end of #1 and #3 "by means of government" or "via government".
And I would replace "leftists" with "socialists", as "left" and "right" really means two different form of socialism ("big/totalitarian government"). Also, the "leftists", "liberals", "progressives" et al are always trying to intellectually escape the now tarnished analogy of "left = communist" by accusing those who they previously branded the "right" (i.e. "right not= left") of being fascist.
Calling them socialists to begin with takes the intellectually dishonest "fascist" argument out of the equation (see my previous post).
That is so very true. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot...the list goes on and on. (One could reasonably add Hitler to the list, since Nazism--diminutive for National Socialism--is really a far left ideology, contrary to its usual portrayal.)
Your analysis is right on target.
Exactly. The term "limousine liberals" leaps to mind--even though it it hard to think of an alliterative counterpart, substituting "Marxists" for "liberals."
It seems like leftists are those people Einstein gave as examples of what the insane do: keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
They keep generating their utopias and the utopiasa tune out to Hell-on-earth for 95% of their people. But they keeping thinking they'll get a real utopia antway. They don't learn anything.
I wish I had spell-checked that.
Those who want to be taken care of.
Those who want to take care of themselves.
Those who want to rule others.
Groups #1 and #3 are leftists.
Thank goodness their ideas have been so thoroughly discredited.
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