Posted on 12/21/2006 8:28:01 PM PST by neverdem
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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