The wingnuts are driving the Democrats. That’s the problem. The ones at the top, the politicians, have no real views at all. They respond to their activist base, but when the see that the voters may punish them, they back off for a while.
In the ranks of the Democrats are people who are not hardcore wingnuts, but who are sympathetic to them – these are mainly the indoctrinated products of our education system. Their numbers grow from year to year, because the Left – not all wingnuts but all haters of America – control the higher education system, by and large.
Also in the ranks of the Democrats are what we could call the ‘old-time’ Democrats: the union member, the old-fashioned liberals who still believes in free speech, etc. (I’m leaving aside the various ethnic groups who support the Democrats, who need separate analyses.) We need to reach this group and pull them in our direction.
May I urge you to read a couple of books, both available for free download from https://Marxists.org : Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution, and “A.Neuberg”'s Armed Insurrection. The first shows you how revolutions succeed, the second how they don’t.
“100 million armed Americans” have to act together, and intelligently. At the moment, were some sort of armed confrontation to begin between patriots and the government, the great majority of these people would either support the government, or remain neutral.
It’s the great fallacy of political enthusiasts, Left and Right, to think that what is obvious to them, is obvious to everyone else except a small group of benighted fools. Not true.
Patriots have a lot of boring work to do, which cannot be accomplished overnight. We have to organize and educate, to ‘patiently explain’. We have to develop a competent national organization. We are nowhere near this.
Re. the battle for the military, as opposed to with the military. First of all, we need our people IN the military. And by ‘our people’ I mean people who have some understanding of the danger the country is in and a perspective for responding to the threats to it. They will have a receptive audience, but simply having patriotic feelings is not enough.
Right now, we have no national leadership, no national organization. 6 January proved that in spades.
Political strategy determines everything. There have been many mass confrontations in history between a section of the populace, and the government. Usually the government wins.
We can learn what not to do from the French: a study of the 1848 revolution in France, and of the Paris Commune in 1871, will show you what happens when a section of the people fail to carry a majority of the nation with them.
In the next few months we may see attempts by the enemy to provoke people on our side into doing something stupid. If they succeed, and if more than just one or two ‘militia’ groups fall into the trap … it will be a very expensive lesson. But then, as Ben Franklin said, “Experience keeps a dear school …”
I agree about the ‘old time Democrats’. I also agree that the ‘wingnuts’ are driving the Left. The Left isn’t a problem… I disagree with them, but they aren’t the problem. The extreme Progressives are the problem. I’m not a supporter of the extreme faction of the Right either. This country is populated by a large percent of middle Right/Left people. Those people… US… are the ones losing this war. It’s only a matter of time (very soon) when “we” take the country back from them. Don’t get me wrong… I’m definitely a Right leaning guy, but I don’t hate Democrats; I hate Progressives.
I already read them. Here is what I will say in terms of what you are missing. You are near the target but you are not over it. I have a credential in critical theory as I have been working on a book that required hundreds of hours of research when it comes to the current discourse of post modernism and the political discourse around the world especially in today’s America.
A brief chronology of how it all started.
First we had Marxist ideas about labor, and Trotsky’s variant of Marxism being in a constant state of revolution such as Russian proletariat might win the power in advance of the Western proletariat, and that it couldn’t be confined within the limits of a democratic dictatorship but would be compelled to undertake socialist measures. Ultimately it failed.
Next, the most important was Antonio Gramsci an Italian Marxist which while sitting in prison as a ferocious writer, lamented on such theories and realized why the communist revolution failed because using such ideas was on the peripheries of societies in western culture was almost always destined to fail due to its monolithic structures that supported Capitalism, Liberal thought within a democratic value system. He then understood that in order to topple Western societies it had to be done from within, which the term “cultural revolution” was a concept he came up with describing that in order for a true revolution to succeed it had to be done culturally. His “attacking the robes of society” concept was by far the most devastating to Western thought than any other writer preceding him and its reverberation is very much being felt today. “Robes of society” means attacking the Family nucleus, Religion, Educational institutions, Government, Financial, etc. It was Gramsci"s ideas that invented the formula “Oppressed and Oppressor” (and on the latter I will get into in just a sec.)
Then came the “the Frankfurt Institute” as a result of Gramsci’s highly influential working theories. The Institute was founded in 1923 thanks to a donation by Felix Weil with the aim of developing Marxist studies in Germany. After 1933, the Nazis forced its closure, and the Institute was moved to the United States where it found hospitality at Columbia University in New York City. The institute was mainly focused on the study of critical theories popularizing the dialectical method of learning by interrogating society’s contradictions. It is most closely associated with the work of Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse all known Marxists with backgrounds in academia.
Next came the French intellectuals like Lyotard, Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault, Barthes, furthering the works of the Frankfurt institute but would also have more extreme consequences on academic thought and influential factors on western culture and thought. Concepts like Deconstruction, Moral relativism, secularism, nihilism, among others, have been theories adopted by Western academia to the point giving a blue print for educational institutions to become indoctrination way-points for new generations.
Then came the writings of DelGado, Jamison, Bell, DiAngelo, Kendi, Crenshaw that gave the public concepts like 'White Fragility." “Critical Race Theory,” “the 1619 Project,” “How to be an Anti Racist,” “Intersectionality,” “Convergence theory” etc. Everything we are experiencing today in mainstream culture such as tribal politics by aggrieved classes has been all because of academic institutions that produced such writers within the frame work of “Oppressed and Oppressor” all leading back to Antonio Gramsci’s ideologies and theories. The difference is with these contemporary theorists they use race to attempt to frame America’s founding as a racist country with revisionist practices by appealing to inciting emotional reactions rather than intellectually. In other words Antonio Gramsci and his idea succeeded in the broader picture when viewing American culture in today’s discourse and where it is heading. The term “Cultural Marxism” is one that describes the theoretical works of these contemporary writers put into practice. We are in a culture war within Western societies and explains why things appear to be accelerating on the outrage front, because the Liberal World order wants to desperately win.
The KGB studied Gramsci’s theories and formulated a strategy to influence an entire generation to think that America is evil and that Socialism was the answer.
Here in a 1984 interview KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning America about socialist subversion. He explains in great detail how they unhatched this plan and for the most part it succeeded because most Americans were complacent while too busy with their consumerism.
A film I highly recommend that is very well researched called “Agenda: Grinding America Down” by Curtis Bowers talks about the very same things I mentioned above and its worth the watch if you have time. This is just a trailer as you will have to find online somewhere to watch it.
No it does not determine everything, then again, it depends on varying factors such as predictability. Just like any other species on the planet behaviors are a unpredictable factor and human behaviors is no exception. Sure they are predictable aspects of certain behaviors that have and will be exploited, but just like Mike Tyson once said, “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” rings true in most cases and thus the belief that anything and everything can happen at times when we are most least expected also proves to be true through out history. Assassinations of former leaders, the coup of a nation, the rising protests in multiple countries all happened within a week is testament of this aspect manifesting from growing resentment.
America will continue to be a divided country and Lincoln’s vision will never be seen again. Its too late for America to return to its former glory, the proverbial cat is out of the bag and the horses have left the barn. What I do see happening in America’s future is a country returning to state’s rights and being divided between Blue and Red states formulating their own self defense, economies and trade systems within each other. The basis of production will be the crux of this new arrangement and the US military and the Federal Government will no longer have the power to impose their policies on such states. Sure there might be some form of shots exchanged, and skirmishes that will lead to nothing but a stalemate, but ultimately it comes down to the power of the purse and the Federal Government’s power will substantially erode once funding for it erodes as well, thus fades from the consciousnesses of the working class. It won’t be over night, but over time.
One thing that Marget Thatcher once said “Communism never sleeps” which for the most part was a foreboding on what we are experiencing today. Everything leads back to Antonio Gramsci’s theories in which is influencing the rise of communistic and autocratic leaders who for the most part are graduates of the World Economic Forum in order to put forth more mechanisms of control. Communism never dies, it just reinvents itself is more closer to the reality of the human struggles that many face today as they faced yesterday. Its all about winning the culture war, hearts and minds in order to turn the tide. Yes its true we have a lot of pain and suffering ahead of us if we are to win this war.
Okay, a VERY interesting reply. You obviously know what you’re talking about, although we have areas of disagreement … which I won’t go into now.
By ‘strategy determines everything’ I do NOT mean that, with a correct strategy, you can determine what happens. No! The future is not predictable in any useful detail – too much depends on accident, or what we, with our limited perception, must experience as accident.
What you can do is to prepare, and then act intelligently. It’s exactly like war. You cannot predict the enemy’s actions, but you can prepare for them, whatever they are and whenever they come … but even then, you have to be flexible and intelligent in your response. But the best general staff can do nothing without a well-trained and equipped army. We have to build that army – and here I’m speaking metaphorically … not a literal army.
What I mean is that what our side does has to be the result of clear thinking. Which means we need clear thinkers. And they must then command – sorry to use that word which I know will trigger everyone’s Inner Libertarian, not to say Anarchist – an organization which can, in a crisis, move millions and tens of millions.
That organization does not itself have to have millions of members, but it must be sufficiently large to be heard by millions. It doesn’t exist and maybe it never will – the Right seems to have a talent for self-destruction.
Then there is the question of what to aim for: I agree completely that a truly federated state system, allowing for a large degree of autonomy among states, would be the right goal. We are burdened by our position as chief defender of the free world, and such an arrangement would allow us to maintain our defense establishment … although there would still be serious quarrels over whether we need to bring democracy to Absurdistan via the 82nd Airborne.
I look at a lot of patriotic websites and publications, and it’s very frustrating to see so much talent, at every level … without a means to focus it, with no way to actually accomplish some of the goals we need to accomplish. (For example, we need to reach non-college young people.)
Very interesting article and hits on the point that I expressed earlier, in terms of academia being infiltrated with the works of these nutjobs. I never understood why Faucault’s work is so revered in the social sciences much of his was written with creative license rather than actual cited or proven scientific methods to corroborate all of the theories he wrote about. “The Archaeology of Knowledge” and “The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences” were such examples were he tries to assert that all knowledge is culturally assembled not attained by the individual. He didn’t have a degree in anthropology, nor was a Psychiatrist in these respective disciplines yet he asserted himself as a subject matter expert in these fields as a writing Philosopher and often has been the subject of controversy when his work is purveyed or referenced. He also was heavily influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche who IMO borrowed a lot of his ideas and incorporated them into his own often misleading many who read his work to misinterpret Nietzsche’s work. IMO, him, Lyotard, and a few others were mere frauds who came from the structuralist dogma and failed Socialism experiments of the 50’s who then decided for survival purposs to hide behind the Post Modernist movement within the academic environment. Not surprising however that he would posthumously be labeled as a child sex predator seeing he spent considerable time in Tunis where such exploits were never looked down upon in such countries. Dirty Muslims. Unfortunately I had to scour through much of his writings in the research I had conducted for my upcoming book due to be released next year, a process I loathed as I remember recounting many examples of unoriginal thought that was almost border line insane.
You might enjoy reading this article, as it is the perfect example of how post modernist thought has impacted certain disciplines like anthropology in the academic circles to the point of destroying any credibility that science would have to offer in the future.
I remember when EO Wilson was attacked … it was led, I believe, by the Progressive Labor Party, old-fashioned Stalinists who would be loathed by the modern Left. (As would a lot of the ‘old Left’: [ https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Communism_and_LGBT_rights ]
I’m sure you know about the delicious ‘Sokal Hoax’, but for anyone who doesn’t, these books are required reading:
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science 1999
by Alan Sokal (Author), Jean Bricmont
[ Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science: Sokal, Alan, Bricmont, Jean: 8601405593795: Amazon.com: Books ]
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy 2000 [ https://www.amazon.com/Sokal-Hoax-Sham-Shook-Academy/dp/0803279957/ ]
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science 1st Edition
by Professor Paul R. Gross , Professor Norman Levitt [https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Superstition-Academic-Quarrels-Science/dp/0801847664/ ]
I have to say, I don’t think the prevalene of post-modernism in the academy, deplorable though it is, has much to do with its political corruption today. It probably makes it easier, intellectually, for some intellectuals to deny reality, and to say that one culture is no better than another, but the kids are driven by other things.
Also: again, you’re probably familiar with him, but the fellow who edits Chronicles of American Culture,
[ https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/ ] Paul Gottfried
[ Paul Gottfried - Wikipedia ], has – according to me – a pretty good understanding of just how distant so-called ‘cultural Marxism’ is from any sort of ‘real’ Marxism.
This just came out
Very interesting … I’ll read it. I hope it’s true.
BUT … I subscribe to a lot of right-wing websites, which frequently print utter tosh. So it’s hard to know what to believe. And the leftwing ‘fact-checker’ sites like Snopes and Politico are no help either, since, although they don’t outright lie, they always bend the facts in a leftward direction if they can.
Even this site carries an ad which is completely dishonest. Some quotes from it: It claims Ben Carson has invented a drug which “triples memory… doubles IQ, skyrockets energy levels and connects areas of the brain not previously connected.”
Unfortunately, a lot of the patriotic base are poorly educated, do not read, and are gullible … at least enough of them are to make ridiculous ads like this pay off.
What we need is a patriotic site that aggregates news like this, that is cold-sober reliable, always lists its sources, which you can quote in a debate with Leftists without fear that you’ve been taken in.
The FBI has long used infiltrators – or people they’ve ‘turned’ – to go after groups they want to go after. I have to say that in the past I didn’t lose a lot of sleep over this.
For example, the Klan in the South used to murder people, and they were hard to take on, since local all-white juries would vote to acquit anyone who did get caught killing people the Klan didn’t like.
They had a particularly good bomb-maker and -planter, Tommy Tarrants, and they caught him by ‘turning’ a member of his Klan group (I think he’d cheated too obviously on his taxes, or maybe it was selling an agent an illegal firearm). The FBI (and local police were waiting in ambush when Tarrants and his girlfriend tried to plant a bomb – they killed her and shot him numerous times, although he survived, went to prison, and had a complete change in his racial outlook. [ ] It seems probable that the informant went over the ‘entrapment’ line to get Tarrants to plant the bomb. Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love: How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation August 6, 2019 by Thomas A. Tarrants [ https://www.amazon.com/Consumed-Hate-Redeemed-Love-Reconciliation/dp/1400215323 ]
When the FBI apparently does this to Muslim potential terrorists,
the Left is outraged:
[ Deploying Informants, the FBI Stings Muslims | The Nation ]
Again, I didn’t cry myself to sleep over these cases … but maybe I should have.
In any case, you can be guarant-God-damned-teed that patriotic groups will be the target of infiltrators, who will use every opportunity to provoke them into saying or doing something that can be used to prosecute them. We have to be alert for this.
There is a tendency on the Right to be careless about what is said, under the mistaken belief that we are living in 1950 and that patriots can say whatever they like. Not true.
We’ve got to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves, and get to work organizing local groups that can deal with whatever is coming.
More details on entrapment, from the obituary of the reporter mentioned above:
Jack Nelson, Journalist, Dies at 80 - The New York Times
"In 1970, Mr. Nelson learned that the F.B.I., in a sting operation, had given two Ku Klux Klansmen $36,500 to enroll Kathy Ainsworth, a sympathizer, pretending that it was for a plot to dynamite the home of a J e w i s h businessman in Meridian, Miss. When she and another Klansman arrived with the dynamite, a gun battle broke out and Ms. Ainsworth was killed.
“Nelson’s story of entrapment and the use of agents provocateurs raised more moral and legal questions than the F.B.I. was prepared to answer,” Time magazine wrote in October 1970. “Ever since, Nelson has been on the F.B.I.’s list of untouchable people.” "
So, whenever, on an online forum, I read someone spouting hot air about how ‘we have to get our guns and stand up to the tyrants, now’ and similar b.s, I assume I’m hearing an agent provocateur, maybe a Russian. Of course, it may just be a fool.
Some wise words: there are things that are said, and not done. There are things that are done, and not said.
I vaguely recall who this guy was. However that being said, the various false flag operations conducted by the FBI over the years is a major reason why no one trusts them anymore, especially now that they have lost all objectivity to enforcing the law and are now a partisan stasi police force for the Democrats. FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ, all have to be torn down A.S.A.P. in order to restore trust in Government or at the very minimal a semblance of it so the country can get on with their business.
We will see where this goes, but it is clear as day that the FBI has to be reformed. It can not continue on in this version and expect not to put the agency personnel working in the field in constant danger.
I would dearly love to read reports from honest people working within the various government agencies, and in particular the FBI and CIA, and the military, about what is going on there. It cannot be the case that 100% of their employees are now Politically Correct Leftists. There must be people who have just retired, whose pensions are not in danger, who can tell the truth about what is happening.
Kurt Schlichter has a new book called We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America: Schlichter, Kurt: 9781684513307: Amazon.com: Books
This article is exactly what we are discussing and is full of interesting tidbits to think about.
I been revolting for years. I’ve been on the front page of the Boston herald. I was on sports radio Weei I was also on barstool sports…
I just wish more you big mouths would join me
Join you in doing what? Screaming at Leftists? Writing scathing opeds? What?
No I walk into the lions den! Proven. I’ve been on the front page of the Boston, herald, sports, radio Weei, and also barstool sports… what about you?
I need to get back to reading the good book! Been slacking way too much and you can see why.