“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, not your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” –Samuel Adams, 1776Part 1: A Primer, Part 2: Foundation, Part 3: Execution
You would think that everyone wants to be free. You would think no one wants to be ruled by tyrants of any kind. Yet many people in the so-called free world are not only selling themselves out, they are selling out the rest of us, and our descendants. And so many of them don’t even know they’re doing it. They’ve been lied to. Tricked, fooled, played. And the agents of statism intend to keep it that way.
For 100 years the Big Government (BG) loving statists have been trying to convert the bottom-up United States into top-down society. They have managed to bring it very far along this course. There are still some matters they have to resolve, but they are closer than they ever have been. They never sought to win through insurrection because war is too costly and the results of any conflict are unpredictable. They used an approach the Nazis did to great effect in Germany. They gamed the system.
Like our progressive statists, the Nazis came to power legally. They got elected and then, once in positions of authority, corrupted the system and turned it into what they wanted. The old fascists did this in a short amount of time because Germany did not have a LG constitution like the US. Our system makes it very hard to turn the state into an autocratic dictatorship. Those progressives of the ’30s, who were at first enamored of the Fascists in Europe, wanted to take over the US in the same fashion. They had been doing it since Teddy Roosevelt was elected. Roosevelt began a war on corporations, including a bizarre crusade against Coca-Cola. It would echo later crusades by politicians against American industries, demonizing them and making them out to be evil incarnate.
The statists had an immense problem in turning the U.S. into a top-down society. They needed the consent of the people, to give up their rights and freedoms. For a BG state to be powerful, it needed endless supplies of capital. The income tax was created to fund the expansion of government and to pit the classes against each other. In every election for the last 100 years you’ve heard about the rich “not paying their fair share” even though the top ten percent pays most of the taxes . But because America is so prosperous, people were too content with the status quo to want to change. So the statists turned to two schools of thought that were designed to subvert the west and turn it toward Marxism. The first was the writings of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist of the early 20th century who was later imprisoned by the Fascists in Italy.
Gramsci saw that Marx was wrong. Capitalism wasn’t folding as he predicated and people weren’t flocking to Marxism. He theorized that there was something he called a “cultural hegemony” preventing this. People who lived in a common culture were unified and comfortable with the status quo, especially if there was a large middle class. So Gramsci suggested that their values had to be portrayed as wrong. That their culture was neither “natural” nor “inevitable.” He suggested that their culture be undermined and subverted. He saw that middle class cultural values were tied to religion, so religion had to be discredited and undermined. That is largely why you see a relentless attack on Christianity in Western Culture now. It is seen as a “glue” holding our culture together. And thus, it must be broken. Gramsci’s theories are also the reason you see so much effort to trash conventional American values. Middle America is portrayed as stupid, racist, etc. in an effort to de-legitimize it. “Progressive” values are portrayed as “right-thinking.” Even though those values are constantly changing depending on what they consider good or bad at the time.
The second major influence on the modern statists is the Frankfurt School.
Like Gramsci, they developed an approach to overthrowing Western Civilization so it could be replaced by Marxist thought. Their system is called “critical theory.” Critical Theory sought to destroy western culture by attacking every aspect of it and dividing everyone, setting them on each other so there is no unity. Multiculturalism is designed to destroy the dominant culture by suggesting that other cultures must be given a superior status than your own. It seeks to make everyone feel they’re part of an oppressed minority (except whites, the dominate ethnic group) which is why whites, especially white males, are made to be the villains. You are made to feel ashamed of your race if you’re white because “you killed the Indians, you enslaved the blacks, etc.” even though you did no such thing. When those things happened, it was a minority of whites who did them and most Americans are descended from immigrants who came after those events occurred.
The statists push non-white immigration because they think it gives them more power, thus in the early 1960s immigration laws were changed to favor non-Europeans. And in Britain, similar tactics were employed by the Labour party to flood the nation with immigrants from other cultures. Weaken the majority and you can more easily push your agenda. Or so the theory goes.
The Labour government has been engaged upon a deliberate and secret policy of national cultural sabotage.
It was… a politically motivated attempt by ministers to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of this country. It was done to destroy the right of the British people to live in a society defined by a common history, religion, law, language and traditions.
It was done to destroy forever what it means to be culturally British and to put another ‘multicultural’ identity in its place. And it was done without telling or asking the British people whether they wanted their country and their culture to be transformed in this way.Political correctness is another invention of the Frankfurt School. It was designed to classify people into smaller groups and make it politically dangerous to criticize anyone in a “protected class”. This was done so that that could further undermine the power structure. Even though it was white people coming up with these schemes, race is only seen as a political tool. They didn’t think they would be disenfranchised in the end. The statists assumed they would end up the ruling class. The truth is, they really don’t care about other races or minority groups. They are only a means to an end. Nothing more. When the statists win, they will treat those classes they used as badly as everyone else.
Of course, in their minds they are the heroes of the people. Even though everywhere statists gain power, they make life hell for those below them on their new class structure. While they seek to destroy traditional classes, the truth is, they merely replace them with themselves at the top. The “political class” and those below, the “governed”. BG systems are always bad for human freedom. The only winners are the small group of elites at the top.
BG statists achieve consent by propaganda designed to anger their followers. They encourage everyone to be upset about whatever the successful are doing. They have to demonize whoever doesn’t follow their script. This is why you see so many corporations and rich people taking the progressive line. They don’t want to be turned into an enemy. The statists set groups against each other. They invent crises like “global warming” to scare people into giving up their freedoms in the name of “saving the planet.” Nothing they do is honest. They base everything on one lie stacked upon another. Many of them don’t even know what the truth us. They are not trained to think. They train others to follow them. To be mindless minions marching to the beat of their drums.
That is why you hear the same words come out of their mouths. Their talking points are created by a committee and passed down the line for everyone to recite like a catechism. Their followers are all so angry because they’re constantly being told to hate the opposition. To fear them. To see them as evil and stupid, so you will never seek to understand them. There is nothing “liberal” about progressives. They are illiberal. They are in fact, regressive because they all follow 19th century ideologies.
They have infiltrated every institution to ensure their ideology is the only accepted one. Any variance from that is attacked. Politicians such as Sarah Palin are viewed as a return to classic American values and this is not to be tolerated. They want to destroy American values utterly. Like the Fascists of old, who initially teamed up with the Communists so that one could play the right and the other could play the left, they’ve infiltrated both parties so they can control the debate.
In the final chapter of this series I will tie it all together. See you next week.
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