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The Drumbeat
American Thinker ^ | September 20, 2008 | William Staneski

Posted on 02/02/2009 6:22:50 PM PST by ChocChipCookie

The drumbeat. It's always there. Day and night. Rain or shine. Winter or Summer. Sunday or Monday. It comes at you from every direction. It comes over the TV, the radio, at work, at school, in music, in the newspapers, from the politicians, in conversation with others, even in church. It wears you down. It robs you of the will to resist its message. Even short-lived victories, which stop it briefly, leave you with the knowledge that it will return; each minor victory bound to be lost to the redoubled efforts of this patient and persistent force. You can't escape it. It never stops. It never gives up. It never ends. It rains upon you from every possible angle, from every possible source.

It's the drumbeat of the left. It is political, philosophical, theological, and social. It pervades every activity. It is post-structural, post-modern, post-everything in the parlance of the day. It is tolerant, diverse, non-judgmental, non-discriminatory, egalitarian, politically correct, multicultural, globalist, and collectivist. It insists that there are no rights and wrongs, no moral absolutes. It turns everything upside down in its looking glass world. It denies the correctness of all that produced what our culture revered before the deconstruction of the world in accordance with the tenets of cultural Marxism.

It denies God, human exceptionalism, and the soul. We are reduced to Darwinian animals floundering in an amoral sea of meaninglessness. It is a product of the nihilistic, existentialist philosophical movement, which went hand in hand with modern art, atonal music, scientific materialism and modern physics, and the generally discordant nature of the twentieth century.

It is said that a fish is not aware of the water in which it swims since it is totally immersed in it. This is the way cultural Marxism is taking over our world in its inexorable Gramscian march. We swim in it. It enters every pore of our existence. It is everywhere. We can't escape it. Many people accept this world without even realizing it, just as the fish accepts the water in which it swims. They don't realize it as the left creates new conventional wisdom and new intuitions about truth.

The cultural Marxists convince us that the truth is that there is no truth. And even though this unresolvable paradox lies at the very center of all this, the constant drumbeat keeps the masses in line, anesthetized enough to not make an issue of it. Fed a constant diet of sex, drugs, poisonous pop culture, materialistic trinkets, and unkeepable promises of security provided by huge leftist government, ever more globalist in nature, the masses are diverted from realizing, as they are told there is no truth, that this claim itself is subject to the same test. It is logically impossible for the leftist drumbeat to be true by its own axioms.

The principles upon which Western culture rests and upon which America was built are under attack by these slow acting but deadly forces. The drumbeat is grinding down the will of the West to maintain itself. The ideas of individual sovereignty and responsibility, natural rights, and objective truth have been derided by the left to the point that many of our young people reject them, if, indeed, they are even aware of them as the basis for our culture. All that ensures that a culture will pass its ideas down from one generation to the next is its cultural memory. The drumbeat is slowly but surely replacing our cultural memory.

As each school is renamed and the name of a Founder or other great person from our history is removed from its entrance way, we lose a bit of that memory. As our great authors and works of Western culture are replaced with those in line with the message of the drumbeat, we rapidly lose our cultural memory. As each school textbook is rewritten to reflect the new ideas of family and cultural heritage, our children are lost to the forces of the drumbeat as they learn to view America and traditional Western culture as oppressive and imperialistic. And it doesn't take long for there to be only a shell left, the substance of our culture sucked out and destroyed by the cultural Marxists.

If you believe that all this is a paranoid overreaction, you have plenty of company. Those of us who can still see the water and hear the drumbeat are subject to attempts to make us sound evil and foolish. To believe in traditional Western cultural values, American Exceptionalism, God, and moral truth is to be branded as old fashioned and foolish, even by the best assessments of those who have bought into the cultural Marxist's message. And by the worst of them, we are branded as stupid and evil, and in need of being destroyed.

It may be too late to do anything about this as the world plays out its story. The power-hungry arrogance of human beings seems to be the force that underlies the events carrying us forward to the final chapter. And as this arrogance and lust for power feeds the wills of those who would gain control of the world, humankind is gaining just enough knowledge to destroy itself in that arrogance. Never before in human history has there been such a confluence of forces. Technology, globalism, and the leftist drumbeat are joining together in a way that is allowing mankind to believe, on a worldwide scale, that it can control its own destiny.

The main thing that is being ignored in all this is human nature. It is all based upon the arrogant presumptions of the elitist cultural Marxists concerning how people ought to act. It leads to totalitarianism and destruction.

In truth, and in direct opposition to the drumbeat, each human being must be accorded his or her natural rights, individual sovereignty, and self responsibility to be in harmony with human nature. Each of us must have the freedom to succeed or to fail. Western culture, culminating in the great American experiment, has been perverted. Due to these perversions, many failures have already occurred, which have then, ironically, been used to justify further perversions of the same sort as those which caused the problems to begin with.

Generally, these perversions are manifested in bigger government, more laws, more bureaucracy, more regulations, more taxes, and government controlled redistribution of wealth, more collectivism, less individualism, and less freedom. We all hear it constantly from leftist politicians as they add their part to the drumbeat: government must do more to ensure Americans avoid the consequences of their choices. We all know the song, sung to the cheers of the unthinking throngs who would give up their very humanity for the promise of a free lunch. These are the joys of cultural Marxism.

And the drumbeat goes on.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: drumbeat; leftists; liberalism; marxism; socialism
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Last fall when I read this article, it made a lasting impression on me. With Obama's election, the drumbeat is getting louder and more relentless. May God protect us from the socialists who now run our country.
1 posted on 02/02/2009 6:22:51 PM PST by ChocChipCookie
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To: ChocChipCookie

This was the article that summarized everything for me..I now always refer to the drumbeat..it never ends...sigh...but we can still do something.


2 posted on 02/02/2009 6:27:45 PM PST by Hildy
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To: ChocChipCookie

May God protect them from us once the last domino falls.


3 posted on 02/02/2009 6:29:01 PM PST by Trod Upon (The Left killed my country.)
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To: Trod Upon

It’s the hoofbeats behind me that are really annoying!


4 posted on 02/02/2009 6:30:37 PM PST by gunnyg
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To: Hildy
but we can still do something.

Can we? I have tried to reach out to some to fight this but I have to say this article nails it.

Even short-lived victories, which stop it briefly, leave you with the knowledge that it will return; each minor victory bound to be lost to the redoubled efforts of this patient and persistent force.

They're out there now, even as I write this, with ACORN, news anchors, actors to achieve their goals. I don't know what we lack, organization? money? but we don't seem to be able to even slow them down.

5 posted on 02/02/2009 6:38:37 PM PST by Kenny
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To: gunnyg

reminds me of that crazy frenchman....

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/that-crazy-frenchman-erica-carle/


6 posted on 02/02/2009 6:43:31 PM PST by gunnyg
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To: Kenny
As hopeless as it seems there is a sliver lining to this cloud! The truth is those who are beating the drum are incompetent. They live in a world that exists not because of them, but despite them. They can only beat their drum as long as there are true producers to get things done and keep the world going! They love to plan and meet and talk, but they simply lack the ability to get anything done.

They are an acutely self-limiting problem. If they get too much control then things quit working. We are seeing evidence of that now, in education and finances and etc. Despite their best intentions they don't really get anything done. Sooner or later their efforts come to naught and the hard working producers once again are in control because they are the ones with the ability to keep things going!

Of course life would be much simpler if we could short circuit these pains in the butt and go straight to what has been proved to work over centuries, like two-parent families who live within their means, but alas we're doomed to have to humor these incompetent dreamers.

Cheers!

7 posted on 02/02/2009 7:18:07 PM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: Kenny
Those that care, and that's a lot of people, need to get off their rumps and take turns for the duration marching in front of government offices, TV and radio stations, newspapers and universities and at at major intersection from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every single day - in Washington, D.C. and every other city in America - every day, rain or shine. Every person who cares should commit to joining such an assembly at least once a month for four hours on the day of his choice.

Messages could be something like this: Attention Legislators, Judges, and Media:

Stop undermining the pillars of Western Society in what you report and what you vote on.

These are the pillars of our country: traditional marriage and family, sactify of life, capitalism, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, strong military.

Stopping the communist take-over of America is in your hands - stop the hemorrhage of our county before it's too late to get our precious country back. Free Republic could help get people together by metoropolitan area, city and/or zip code and organize this.

8 posted on 02/02/2009 7:26:08 PM PST by Mack Truck
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To: ChocChipCookie

Then turn off the television!


9 posted on 02/02/2009 7:54:54 PM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: Mack Truck
" Those that care, and that's a lot of people, need to get off their rumps and take turns for the duration marching in front of government offices, TV and radio stations, newspapers and universities and at at major intersection..."

And that will change the minds of our interbreeding business, government and education families? I agree very much with your sentiment. But I also believe that things will have to get very much worse, before we get new blood in business, government and education. An economic crash to the point of the rabble starting new businesses and a few nuclear exchanges should do it.

I read about world events now with baited breath...or bait on my breath, even. ;-)


10 posted on 02/02/2009 8:00:44 PM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: Mack Truck
BTW, the media broadcast are sponsored. Those broadcasts aren't paid for by greenie-hippies and homeless veterans pooling their money to pay for them. They come from the business relatives of those who work in government, academia, etc. Please consider that.


11 posted on 02/02/2009 8:04:19 PM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: ChocChipCookie

The article is correct about the drumbeat from the left, but wrong about the matter of right and wrong. The message I get from the media is that the left is definitely good, and conservatism is bad. They certainly do leave a message about good and evil...they’re good, and we’re evil.


12 posted on 02/02/2009 10:59:40 PM PST by driftless2
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To: All
HUMAN EVENTS.com: "'WELCOME TO OBAMALAND' IS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR AMERICANS" by Cynthia Grenier (February 4, 2009)

BOOK: "Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work" by James Delingpole

13 posted on 02/04/2009 4:24:31 PM PST by Cindy
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To: ChocChipCookie

This needs to be bumped forever on FR. Thanks for re-posting this excellent article from 9-20-08. I feared it had disappeared from the FR archives...


14 posted on 02/09/2009 9:55:28 AM PST by nutmeg (DemocRATs: The party of tax cheats and other assorted crooks)
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To: nutmeg

I agree, great article.


15 posted on 02/09/2009 11:10:08 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: KansasGirl

bttt


16 posted on 02/09/2009 11:24:25 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: nutmeg
This needs to be bumped forever on FR.
I agree - first time I saw this! ;-)

(BTTT!)

17 posted on 04/02/2009 8:13:41 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: ChocChipCookie

18 posted on 04/02/2009 8:25:35 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: ChocChipCookie

Bookmark


19 posted on 04/02/2009 8:58:17 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Tunehead54
This needs to be bumped forever on FR.

Yep... excellent article, huh? Here's another BTTT

20 posted on 04/02/2009 9:10:22 AM PDT by nutmeg (DemocRATs: The party of tax cheats and other assorted crooks)
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