By Douglas V. Gibbs
Questions.
Many ask why the evil of communism was even given the chance to spread as it did, especially after a worldwide war to fight off Nazism, an ideology that also found its roots in far-left socialism. General Patton believed that after we defeated Germany in World War II, we needed to continue on into Russia and destroy the communist threat before it became too large to contain. During the Korean War General MacArthur recommended a stronger move into North Korea, and for the atomic bomb to be used on various targets in North Korea and China. Both were dismissed for their recommendations. Had we followed the advise of our military generals, the world would be a much different place, and more than likely, a much better place.
Communism is just another name for Utopianism, and a Utopian Society is the final goal of today's progressives. Regardless of the name, the hope by these leftists is the same, and the path to enact such a system of collectivism always follows the same destructive route. They desire a communal society that theoretically eliminates poverty, the need for monetary wealth, and the very concept of winning and losing. Problem is, human nature will never support such a pipe dream. We have seen such failures in the past. Today's Liberals are yesterday's Bolsheviks, and they don't even realize it.
Whenever the leftists attempt to equalize all, to make all things fair for people through government intervention, individual human nature will always reject the liberty-killing philosophy. If the system ever does take hold, as it has countless times throughout history, it will fail, leaving behind a bloody trail of millions. The "enlightened" minds behind the progressive movement are unwilling to accept the fact that as it has countless times before, their philosophy is doomed to failure. Each time rejection of their progressive system of government happens, the elitists behind the movement towards a Utopian society determine that they must push harder. After all, they think they know what is best for society more than the individual does, and that in the end collectivism will win out over individuality. However, every time collectivism makes such a push, the populace is not as receptive to socialistic collectivism as they had hoped. As a result, they decide to enact a new strategy, one that must be implemented without the people realizing what is going on, so that they can force liberal socialism upon the people whether the people like it, or not.
The strategy of deception is often compared to the boiling of a frog. At first, in the cooking pot, the frog believes he is in a hot tub, until the slowly rising heat gets to a point that he is cooked, and it is too late to escape. What was thought to be good for him turned out to be the end of him.
Creeping incrementalism promises the people one thing while delivering another. The socialists could never allow the populace to realize the true nature of their movement, so they hide their socialism, calling it by other names, even though their platforms are obviously socialist in nature. They inject the socialism slowly, careful not to deliver so much socialism that the populace discovers the exact nature of the strategy, and removes the liberals from office.
Socialism cannot win in the arena of ideas because ultimately the citizens of a free country will reject it should they discover what it is. Therefore, along with the stealth tactics of implementing socialism, the leftists must also destroy the trust and faith the people have in their current system. Capitalism must be demonized, and the citizenry is convinced that the free market is the cause of their economic woes, despite the fact, as in the case of the United States, it was that same free market that made the United States the most prosperous nation on the face of the Earth.
The attack against any dissent is vicious and unrelenting. Most people don't want socialism, and they do not desire to live under a socialist system, so the Socialists resort to deception through a series of lies, coupled with the unrelenting demonization of any system that dares to oppose socialism, including capitalism and faith-based religions.
One way to attack the opposition is for members of the liberal left to ask questions that corners the opposition, forcing them into a defensive posture. The leftists then to use the answers by their opposition as a tool of propaganda, twisting the meaning of the conservative's words any way they can. They ask questions of non-socialists not because they are searching for answers. They ask questions not in the hopes of learning something. They don't even ask questions with the determination of figuring out where "right-wingers" stand based on the answers given. The entire goal of asking pointed questions is to receive answers that can be used as fodder for their destruction of faith in the capitalistic system, and to further demonize the positions of those that oppose them.
As the opposition is demonized, programs are put into place by the leftists that masquerade as beneficial to the society. The purpose of these programs, however, is not to benefit the populace, but to soften the populace up, get them used to receiving gifts from the national treasury, and to allow the government to be able to exert more control over the populace. One of the tools used to achieve such control the redistribution of wealth. The promise is that the wealth is to be redistributed from the wealthy to those poor individuals at the bottom of the economic ladder. In reality, the government is taking from one to give it to another, but the receptor is ultimately those who control the system.
Once Socialism gains total control over the market place, and the government becomes the final employer of all workers. The right to provide for one's family becomes a privilege once the private sector is eliminated - a privilege that can be taken away from the government if the leaders should choose.
If the American People were to realize that the final result of liberalism is the same as that of communism, Obama would never have been elected. This is why the deception must be used. The true nature of leftism would never win an election.
Leftism contains two kinds of people. The deceivers, and the deceived. Collectivism is a wicked spell put on the people, that finds its roots in a variety of evils that have traipsed across the world stage throughout history. Today's leftism, however, is not just utopianism or Marxism, but a bastard child that encompasses all of the worst philosophies, and much, much more. The only hope to turn it around is to battle against this dangerous ideology with conservatism. Once those that have been deceived realize the dangerous nature of the philosophy of liberalism, the nation will then be set back on the right track, following a course set out by the founding fathers of this nation - a course that includes a small, limited federal government.
It seems amazing to me that anyone could be so naively optimistic about a utopian style belief system when it has failed so many times in the past. Today marks the anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, a blazing example of the failure of Marxist utopianism. In fact, every time the push for a worldwide utopia has been launched, the fall of the effort created a worldwide reminder of the danger of such endeavors. Progressivism in any form is very dangerous.
Liberalism eliminates choice, which in turn kills freedom, but nonetheless, the deception finds a way to convince the people that such slavery is what they need.
Socialists never admit the failures of the past, and will only keep trying to force socialism on the people until they succeed - a success that will always elude them for eternity because a socialistic form of government cannot exist for long. This is part of the reason, I believe, Barack Obama refused to attend in person the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell. He does not celebrate the day the Berlin Wall fell - he mourns it. He is a socialist, and the fall of the Berlin Wall represents yet another failure of the kind of governmental system that Barack Obama believes in.
Besides, Obama's narcissistic nature would never allow him to attend the event anyway - the memory of Ronald Reagan would upstage him, and his ego would never be able to handle that.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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