Saturday, August 29, 2020

John O'Sullivan on the Marxist Revolution that's upon Us

By An Old Friend
Sat, Aug 29, 2020 1:12 a.m.

John O'Sullivan on the Marxist Revolution that's upon Us

What O'Sullivan writes below is a treatment of a much longer article by Yoram Hazony (which I haven't yet read).  John Derbyshire recommended both.

N.S.: I have no idea what "liberalism" is.

In contrast to John O'Sullivan, I believe that what he calls "democratic decay" is as far along here as in Britain. Institutionalized racism, for example, was created by us no later than 1964, with the enactment of the Quota Bill, aka the U.S. Civil Rights Bill.
"Enlightenment liberalism is a rationalist system built on the premise that human beings are, by nature, free and equal."
That referred to White human beings, not all human beings.



Donald Trump personifies resistance to the Marxist revolution.

The Republican National Convention has foregone having an actual platform, preferring instead to ask support for whatever President Trump decides in due course — what the Brits called a "Doctor's Mandate" in the 1931 election, which returned a conservative National Government to do whatever it took to solve a banking and currency crisis. That may not be Caesarism exactly, but it looks unseemly to me, and if the program is to be whatever Trump thinks necessary, perhaps the word "doctor" doesn't exactly draw attention to his strengths. That may not mean overmuch, though. In the older conventional language of partisan politics, a Trump administration's policies are unlikely to be "conservative" anyway. There's not a green eyeshade in sight around today's White House. But its ideological politics are a different and healthier matter. The GOP's convention is happily uninterested in policy except as a target for attacking the Democrats. But it is a powerfully staged fiesta of popular conservative resistance to the progressive-cum-Marxist revolution that it sees ravaging Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, and wherever Democrats rule today — and threatening the rest of America, in particular suburbia, tomorrow. I think it's hitting home.

Media, political, and cultural critics will doubtless pooh-pooh this picture. But as Andrew Sullivan has pointed out acutely (admittedly in a very different context), he was repeatedly assured that his anxieties over the spread of critical race analysis were hugely overblown until one day the New York Times abandoned such antique notions as impartiality, let alone objectivity, and published in its 1619 Project the argument that the United States was a project for the preservation of slavery from the first as . . . well, as if it were an old-fashioned truth. Schools have now declared it will be taught in their history curriculum. And it soon became clear that America's schools, colleges, corporations, and cultural institutions were staffed at all levels by people to whom "Woke" ideology is the commonsense of our day, to the point that those who deny it can be rightly dismissed, silenced, or otherwise punished.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The only saving grace for the United States,in general terms of its people,has been allowing its citizens to make up their own minds about the way our country should proceed.That left people like me the ability to understand certain truths as life progressed.I was pretty liberal throughout my late teens and 20s,but interactions with blacks led my change to a belief in the separation of races,White and black.It probably applies to every other combination of races you can think of,but Whites created and grew the United States into,by the 1950s and early 60s,a magnificent place to live and take care of a family.Crime in most areas was non-existant.As a kid,I walked around my side of Grand Rapids without fear of attack--all White kids did--we were 100% White on my side of the city--a pleasure to grow up in that environment.The riots of 1967 and 1968 introduced me to--via radio--the fact that certain people were causing destruction on the other side of town.I don't remember much:the music and my neighbor,a big guy who was a Detroit Tiger fan,said,"those ni**ers better not come on this side of town or I'll bust their heads in with a baseball bat(from Tiger bat day)."
They never crossed the Grand River to attack our neighborhoods--and there weren't that many back then to worry about--maybe 1 to 2%.
I met my first blacks in a kids bowling league--on that other side of town.I had no problem accepting them--there were only 2--one was placed on my team.Eventually I worked at this bowling alley and got into a couple fights with some blacks who skipped out on paying for the bowling.
Throughout the years,as more blacks poured into Grand Rapids,I observed their behavior(or lack of it).The dam broke about 10 years ago and I became whatever the opposite of a blm supporting White person would be called--it's not a racist.
Through life experiences,I changed my views--we still had that freedom back then to do that--which I'm grateful for.That's the #1 thing I suggest we try to preserve.If the freedom to change one's opinion over the course of one's life are removed, under threat of the loss of free speech or job termination,we can never survive as a race.Whites need to be able to see and react.The media strongly pushes for White surrender.Schools and celebrities characterize Whites as either racist or passe.
In a revolution,there are always casualties.If this one takes hold,the casualties would be US.
--GR Anonymous--defend your history,protect your future.