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Compassion Or Compulsion--Egalitarian Argument Analyzed
Truth Based Logic ^ | July 1, 2013 | William Flax

Posted on 07/31/2013 1:49:22 PM PDT by Ohioan

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To: Ohioan

” Why is all this important today? Because President Obama has once again embraced the Jacobin, Marxist, Bolshevik & Nazi, Blame & Envy Cocktail. In his campaign addresses, he blames identified economic classes or economic interest groups for America’s problems; always playing upon envy & resentment; ever appealing to the covetousness of those most susceptible to the demagogues’ cocktail. Will it all end badly? Do we have a Jacobin, Marxist, Communist or Nazi era in our future?

Mankind has seen this game before. No, the Marxist view of historic inevitability is philosophically idiotic. But the formula has worked to create horror in other nations. Already the vicious attempts by Administration demagogues, to falsely blame traditional American social institutions for the problems of racial minorities, is inciting sporadic acts of violence—with multiplying threats of more to come. This is how it starts. In the Jacobin, Bolshevik & Nazi examples, we know the consequences. They are never limited to the scapegoats. “

Fine piece of writing. All of it!

Thanks.


21 posted on 08/02/2013 1:07:29 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: Ohioan

” The Nazi Revolution, achieved by the exploitation of an artificially contrived crisis, following an election triumph that made Hitler’s Socialists with over 40%, the largest party in Germany”

” A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”

Rahm Immanuel


22 posted on 08/02/2013 1:14:44 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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Thank you. I have been fighting the Leftist attack on civilization, reality & the American future, since I matriculated at a Left leaning college in the 1950s.

And in all that time, I have encountered very, very few, on the Left, who showed any comprehension of dynamic analysis. They almost all, see a very selective reality--and that only from a still-life perspective. It is like they are watching a slide show, with each shot taken from a very carefully selected perspective, which shows only those things which suit their preconceived purpose.

23 posted on 08/02/2013 1:16:56 PM PDT by Ohioan
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” I have been fighting the Leftist attack on civilization, reality & the American future, since I matriculated at a Left leaning college in the 1950s. “

Yeah, Oberlin. My brother taught there for a few years.

It was music history, though.

Since my brother is a staunch conservative, it must have been pure hell for him : )


24 posted on 08/02/2013 1:33:26 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: Ohioan

Fantastic quote — I love the comparison to ants!


25 posted on 08/02/2013 1:36:17 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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Interesting! The new President of the Republican/Libertarian Club--truly a breath of fresh air on the campus--is in the Conservatory, also. I, of course, was in the Liberal Arts College, and never found anyone, student or faculty, who could handle the arguments I used even then They really were--and except for the Conservative fragment & those who are simply trying to get a degree, are--cloud-borne.

Michelle Malkin is also an Oberlin grad, who resisted the indoctrination.

If your brother is interested in the present developments, from our perspective, at Oberlin, send me his email, privately.

26 posted on 08/02/2013 1:47:30 PM PDT by Ohioan
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You wont love it if they pull it off--that is, the world order that they seek.

Egalitarianism stifles every thing that is decent; every thing that offers uplift; every thing that intrigues or fascinates the imagination; everything that inspires decent endeavor; that promotes our better natures. (For a graphic example, look at what cultish Feminism's war on femininity has done to chivalry!)

27 posted on 08/02/2013 1:53:24 PM PDT by Ohioan
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” Michelle Malkin is also an Oberlin grad, who resisted the indoctrination. “

Malkin is one of my favorites. I always read what she writes
Steyn also. Many of the so called conservative writers are either boring, or not very conservative to begin with.

I will check with my brother. He is overseas this summer.


28 posted on 08/02/2013 2:01:08 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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Yes. Michelle shows more mettle than a great many of our male Conservative writers, who walk on eggs—as it were—over certain issues. You cannot let the Left create artificial taboos, and expect to turn the tide. It is ever the case that the issues on which they are most vulnerable are the ones on which they hiss the loudest. (”Hiss,” since Eve listened to the original Obama type demagogue, is often the best operative verb for the articulation of Leftist thought. Although Obama, like Hitler, personally prefers the iteration of the declaimed slogan.)


29 posted on 08/02/2013 2:12:51 PM PDT by Ohioan
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” Yes. Michelle shows more mettle than a great many of our male Conservative writers, who walk on eggs—as it were—over certain issues. You cannot let the Left create artificial taboos, and expect to turn the tide.”

Sadly, there are only a handful of conservative writers who have enough nerve to actually fight for an issue, or cause. Malkin is one of them.


30 posted on 08/02/2013 2:25:58 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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bump


31 posted on 08/03/2013 10:34:17 AM PDT by Ohioan
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