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Political Lies And Definitions
The Radical Leftists that now run the once “Democratic Party” have been changing the definitions since the early 1900s. Once “Progressives”, they dropped that as they began to take over the Democrats and called themselves “Liberals”; but since they are anti-Liberty, “Liberal” had to be changed to a ‘Liberal’ interpretation of the Constitution, and now they are back to “Progressives”. They like that word, because anyone that dares to disagree with them can be labeled “Regressive” or “Reactionary”, and “everyone likes the idea of ‘Progress’, right?”.
To understand the labels of “Left” and “Right” we must go back to 1789, the French Revolution – The Revolutionaries’ delegates sat on the LEFT side of the National Assembly in Paris, while the “Conservatives” sat on the Right side. The Conservatives then were Monarchists and Catholics, but mostly represented Law and Order, Christian values, and Property Rights. We have no King or State Religion in America, we Conservatives only want to “Conserve” the Principles of our American Revolution and our Constitutional Republic, and the God-given Rights guaranteed by our Bill of Rights. The LEFT are still Ideological Marxist Revolutionaries dedicated to their Holy Theories from their “Prophet” Karl Marx.
In the mid-1800s, a self-described ‘Social Scientist’ named Karl Marx predicted the World Revolution of the ‘Workers’ against the ‘Capitalists’ and the establishment of “socialism” that would lead to International Communism, Dictatorship of the Proletariat (for the good of all), and a Utopian Society where all the needs of the People will be met fairly – “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”. By the beginning of WW I, 1914, there had been some failed Marxist Revolutions and there were many recognized Marxist Leaders including Vladimir Lenin of Russia, Rosa Luxembourg of Germany. and Benito Mussolini of Italy, as well as many others like the Anglo-American “Fabian Socialists”, and various “Progressives” that avoided the “Marxist” & “Communist” labels. The Marxists embraced violent revolution and all wanted “Collectivism” and a strong Central Govt (even totalitarian) to bring about their Utopian Society.
Mussolini observed during WW I, ‘workers’ of different countries were loyal to and fought for their Nations, rather than recognizing the “Class War” of Karl Marx. He changed from being an Internationalist who abhorred ‘Nationalism’ into a pro-military Italian Patriot as a practical means of bringing Marxist principles into Italy. This was called “Fascism”, a word based on the Italian word for “groupism”. He took all of Marx’s theories and principles and modified them to ‘benefit’ the Italian people rather than an International Workers Movement. After the defeat of Germany, Adolf Hitler used Mussolini’s ideas to create the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis), and added the military expansion policy against his neighbors and the anti-Semitic racism. The “Fascists” were the direct descendants of the Marxist Communists, only nationalistic – to unite their countries rather than concentrate on the Class War between Worker vs Capitalist. Both Mussolini and Hitler hated “Capitalism”, especially Investment Capitalism, but recognized the necessity of Production Capitalism to fulfill their materialist and military goals.
Lenin’s Communist Revolution in Russia was the first successful one, but was marked with continuing violence – the Bolsheviks against the Menshevics and later the Leninists vs the Trotskyites over application of Marxist Theories, and the Revolutionary Conquest of all the different people of Russia took years. The “pure” Marxist Communists hated the schism of groups like the Fascists, but tried to cooperate with the Fabians and various Progressive groups and use them as “useful political idiots” and spies. WW II saw the Soviet Russian Communists allied with “Democracies” of Great Britain, France, the USA, and others to defeat the military expansionist ‘Axis’ of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan. After the war, the Liberals, Socialists, and Progressives had to separate the Fascist Dictatorships from their common Marxist roots, so they started a huge ongoing propaganda campaign to convince the Sheeple that the “Fascists” were somehow “Right-wing”. Also it became popular for Left-wing “Socialists” of any stripe to accuse anyone that disagreed with their Collectivist and Big Govt theories as “Fascists” or Nazis. All political lies to push Their Political Agenda.
This is Argumentum ad Ignorantium – an argument based on the ignorance of their audience, another BIG LIE, but 72 years (since the end of WW II) of constant repetition by the Lib/Prog Media, Academia, and the Permanent Political Class has made many believe it. Our “Govt Education System” refuses to teach true history, but that is common with both Communist and Fascist systems. Antifa, Black Lies Matter, & By Any Means Necessary ARE the REAL “FASCISTS”! They will enforce THEIR “Policies” with violence, revolution, riot, and assassination if allowed to get away with anything by civilized people. They also manipulate “Democracy” by destructive “Immigration Policies”, a Welfare State to increase dependency on the strong Central Govt, and giving the vote to ignorant and greedy “dependents”. “One Man, One Vote, … One Time”, is the proven road to a Totalitarian Socialist/Marxist/Communist/Fascist State. Those that refuse to study and understand history are doomed to repeat it. It CAN happen here! Only the strong core of “AMERICANISM”- belief in our core Constitutional, Christian, and individual Capitalism values, National courage, and our American Individuality separates us from becoming little different from just another failed Marxist State like Soviet Russia. Our big “Hole Card” is the Second Amendment, an armed population, and millions of Citizen-Soldiers. The “Hoplite Society” can never be defeated because America is the “Land of the Free as long as we are The Home of the Brave”. And smart enough to understand the History and Goals of “Socialism”!
For more detailed explanation on this subject and many other ways the Marxist Progressives have lied to us for over a hundred years, please read THE BIG LIE, Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left by Dinesh D’Souza. This is a book every American needs to read. It is highly detailed, but very interesting reading, easy to understand a very difficult subject. I don’t necessary agree with everything he says, but he presents proven info to support his points. Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and the current Globalist Progessivism are all interconnected, ‘fruit of the same vine’, dedicated to “Their” Collectivist, Big Govt, Totalitarian vision of a “Utopian” society. Utopian at least for ‘The Powers That Be’, the Permanent Political Class, and their Appratchiki – the Bureaucratic Aristocracy that enforce their bidding. Not so much for Constitutionalists, Christians, Capitalists, or anyone else THEY decide might be their “Enemies”. Or even ‘Doubters’ or ‘Questioners’, or anything other than a lock-step Politically Correct worshiper of Their Current Truth and Group-Think. He details the political defense of slavery, the KKK as the terrorist “Brownshirts” of the Democrat Party, and the Jim Crow Laws were a product of the Democrat Party, not the Republicans, Constitutionalists, or Conservatives; and the Nazis copied the Democrat Party’s Jim Crow Laws to create their Nuremburg Laws that oppressed the German Jews and led to Hitler’s “Final Solution” of exterminating European Jews wherever the Nazis could catch them. Socialists always need someone to blame for their systemic failures!
There is a copy of The Big Lie in the Seadrift Library. As always, I welcome comments and questions on the Website.
