Hope With A Temporal Leftist Regime- Part 1 , by J.R.V.

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.—Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Many of us—including me—worry about the downward arc of liberty, ethics, and economic freedom and contemplate where we might find hope. If you are taking the time to read this article, in all likelihood, I needn’t detail the myriad challenges we face for you either. Rather, the question is: is there any hope? Or are we fated to descend into a new Dark Age, aided and abetted, in the famous words of Winston Churchill regarding National Socialism, by “perverted science”?

Any Reasons To Hold Out Hope?

Notwithstanding those who look forward to the return of Jesus Christ—of which I count myself one—or a spiritual revival, are there any other reasons to hold out hope in the interim? I think there is. It is not a certain hope, but it is a hope that—accompanied by courage, elbow grease, intelligence, and audacity—should give conservatives, libertarians, Constitutionalists, and other allies a reason for positivity. And please note by “audacity”, I do not allude to the book by Barack Obama, who is one of the leading unlights pushing us towards a new Dark Age; rather, I make reference to the words of a true American hero, George Patton, whose motto was “Audacity, audacity, always audacity.” Patton, of course, led the charge in destroying a similar national socialism we see here today.

Basis For This Hope

What is this hope for a better morning based on? Simply this: the leftist experiment has always and everywhere– by virtue of its complete misapprehension of human nature– eventually reverted to its natural ouroborotic state. It is, as Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749—10 May 1800), wrote about the first leftist reign of terror, in his 1793 essay that “…the Revolution always eats its own children.” (“A l’exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants.”)

Examples of du Pan’s Thesis

What are the examples of du Pan’s thesis? The prototypical example is Robespierre falling to his own guillotine, of course. But let’s look at more history to inform us. Do you recall the Red Chinese attack on fellow communist Vietnam immediately on the heels of the U.S. withdrawal and collapse of South Vietnam? If not, perhaps you recall the Sino-Soviet war on the Ussuri River border area in 1969, amid reports Soviet leadership had inquired of U.S. leadership if there would be any problems if the Russians nuked Mao’s China. Or you may recall Leon Trotsky, one of those who brought into being the Soviet nightmare along with Lenin, becoming persona non grata in the Soviet People’s Workers Paradise, being forced to flee to Mexico and finally being murdered there with an ice pick. The story of former NKVD (predecessor to the KGB) head and Stalin buddy Lavrentiy Beria falling out of favor, is particularly chilling. He was dragged before a special session (“Spetsialnoye Sudebnoye Prisutstvie”) the a day before Christmas 1953 with no defense counsel and no right of appeal, then summarily dragged off to be shot—after they stuffed a rag in his mouth to shut up his whining before they pulled the trigger. Of course, Cuban general Arnaldo Ochoa was also shot by fellow communist Fidel as a threat to his power.

Recalling Communist-Socialist Leader Collisions

Perhaps you recall Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo in the old Rhodesia? Of course. Operation Barbarossa, where the National Socialists of Germany invaded the socialists of the Soviet Union is a classic example. (Please, if you do not understand that the war between Hitler and Stalin was an internecine one, one version of socialism vs. another, simply go read the planks adopted at the very first Nazi convention, Munich, Feb. 1920, and tell me how they differ in any substantive way. Or consider Hitler’s own words, “There is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it… I have always made allowances for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once,” or again, “I am not merely the vanquisher of Marxism, I am its implementer… The whole of National Socialism is contained in Marxism… the industrial cells, the mass demonstrations, the propaganda material.”) Or over the past few years, we have seen similar dynamics between the Obama and Clinton teams, such as where a few years ago “Obama’s brain” Valerie Jarrett made vigorous attempts to derail the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign by purportedly being the agent behind Hillary’s State Department email imbroglio.

Today’s Socialists’ Means For Crushing Opposition

But of course, the Fabian socialists in power today deign to use a velvet glove rather than the hammer and sickle to crush the skulls of their opposition—at least much of the time. That is, the new socialists desire to not smash your skull, but they rather to get in and reside within it. (Another mindless Obama cult “Yes we can!” chanting session, anyone?) The goal today is generally not the guillotine (though all those banker “suicides,” or the abnormal deaths of Andrew Brietbart, Tom Clancy, Seth Rich, or Michael Hasting do not leave one with warm and fuzzies), but rather, as Charleton Heston wrote, about the usurpation of culture: “Modern media fills the cultural airwaves with a mist of anesthesia, so that principles and values are slowly desensitized to the coming onslaught. The new culture arrives on the heels of this propaganda. It simply moves in and takes over, like slipping a fine new glove over a numbed hand. The outcome of the war is just as devastating, but comes without bombs bursting, twisted bodies to bury, or rubble to rebuild. A new class, a different culture, simply takes over.” Andrew Brietbart, before his peculiar death, put it more succinctly: “Politics is downstream from culture.” In fact, the quotes from Heston and Brietbart are merely a shortened version of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

Cultural Marginalization

Where the velvet hammer fails, there is cultural marginalization, or failing at that, always the hammer of punitive legal measures, such as fining an Oregon baker a quarter million dollars for exercising her freedom of conscience regarding homosexual marriages; sending another baker in Colorado to a re-education camp for the same “sin,” or Elaine Huegenin- the photographer who graciously refused to photograph a gay “wedding” and who was informed by the New Mexico Supreme Court that her very right of citizenship was predicated on her submitting to the radical Brownshirt homosexual agenda.

Part of the Game

Putting homosexuality uber alles, including rights enshrined in the 1st Amendment, is just part of the game. Al Gore and his merry band of anti-science global warmers also illustrate the naked leftist hammer, where Gore recently stated that those who question global warming should “be punished”. And of course, there are always the ubiquitous campus speech and thought police, who are no more than Red Guards without the Mao suits. For them, it is as famed leftist Herbert Marcuse, who popularized the “repressive tolerance” theory of modern progressives, said: “Liberating tolerance would mean intolerance against movements from the right and toleration of movements from the left. Certain things cannot be said, certain ideas cannot be expressed, certain policies cannot be proposed.” Famed leftist Mario Savio and his free speech crusade on the steps of the student union at UC Berkeley in the 1960s is now proven to be just part of the “realpolitik” in taking over the levers of control. Free speech be damned when there is control to be had!

The Optimistic Twist

But here is the optimistic twist about the leftists/fascists: As there is no God, power is the highest value in their universe. Indeed, it is ultimately all that exists for them. You know this from watching Hillary and Obama. And from this assumption flows their whole hellish world, where it is as Dostoyevski wrote,“if there is no God… everything is permitted.” (Без бога всё позволено, всё дозволено – the second clause is a variant of the phrase “everything is permitted.”) And because power is their “god”—as opposed to the God the Founding Fathers invoke —the left is open to all kinds of distortions, corruptions, and self-destructiveness. These self-proclaimed leftist savants have rejected the wisdom of those informed by absolutes (again, please think here of America’s Founding Fathers, who were generally informed by Judeo-Christian presuppositions, which, critically, led to the division of powers) and instead have left themselves open to raw, fallen human nature… without having the intellectual grid to even be aware of the full ramifications of this. Or as one two-thousand-year-old book that is not much read today once stated, “Proclaiming themselves wise, they became fools.” Or as another writer from that era, Roman satirist Juvenal, asked, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” (“Who will guard the guards?”) There is no answer to this, because none is possible in the amoral (N.B.: I am not saying immoral. That may or may not be the case) world of the left.

Tomorrow, we’ll continue with the hope to be found.

See also:

• Hope With A Temporal Leftist Regime- Part 2 , by J.R.V. (Active on 12/02/17)

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