IM: Today’s New York Times First Draft reports that a Democrat
research group by the name, American Bridge, is compiling volumes of dirt on
Donald Trump. The authors openly admit, “Their hope is to have Mr. Trump defined
before he ever gets to reintroduce himself to the general election voters.”
AM: The authors also indicate that
American Bridge was founded by a close Hillary Clinton ally.
Old Gadfly: Do you recall Obama’s response to reporters
who asked why he had performed so poorly against Romney in their first
presidential debate?
IM: He laughed and said, “That was not the real
Romney.”
AM: Exactly. The people were not to evaluate the candidate
for who he really was. The caricature of
Romney was how Democrats defined him.
For those of us who actually believe in the 10 commandments—amazingly,
there are only 10--one involves not bearing false witness against a
neighbor. But Democrats want the people
to buy into what their own Party Pharisees preach, whether it is true or not.
IM: We are observing full-throated propaganda. Just today, I reviewed background on the
Watergate scandal in terms of the circumstances about covering up illegal
activity, refusing to comply with a Congressional investigation, and all the
indictments and convictions related to the case. No one was killed. But there was accountability for the
politically-motivated activities. On the
other hand, the Executive branch has obstructed a congressional investigation
into Benghazi (not to mention Fast and Furious, the IRS, and other scandals) and
intentionally destroyed evidence. Four
Americans were killed. Immediately after
the Committee released its 800-page report, major news networks headlined their
belief that there was nothing
new and that it was time
to move on. Why is this disturbing
to me? When Hitler and the Nazi Party
assumed control of Germany, they could count on a complicit media. Here is a
list of 20 pro-Nazi newspapers or magazines.
I could not find a similar list for anti-Nazi newspapers. American-born, William
Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, even participated in pro-Nazi radio
broadcasts.
Worse, I checked on major themes for Nazi propaganda,
and here is what I found:
·
Denounce enemies of their ideology, to include capitalists (this closely
aligns with Democrat defined enemies such as the top 1%, white males
because of white privilege, and any others that question progressive values as racist,
misogynist, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamaphobic, etc.)
·
Punish those who oppose their ideology (Dinesh
D’Souza can vouch for this because of a $30,000 indirect campaign
contribution; yet, George
Soros can contribute over $7 million to the Hillary Clinton campaign while other
Wall Street investment firms contributed even more.)
·
Champion eugenics (here the Nazi’s watched developments within America for
the moral foundations for cleansing the human race from imperfections, to
include Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood)
·
Maintain a cult of personality around the ideology’s leader (for
progressives in America this is now Obama, soon to be Hillary Clinton)
·
Tolerate religious practices only if they do not interfere with the state
(the Little Sisters of the Poor faced millions in fines for not complying with
birth control and abortifacient mandates)
·
The media was more than happy to amplify the Nazi values (we see similar
complicity with our own main stream media)
·
Employ propaganda, consistent with Hitler’s own vision for manipulating the
masses. Here are Hitler’s own words in his
book, Mein Kampf:
The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses [this is why Democrats aggressively define the opponent; see also here]. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (...) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood.
Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice [i.e., the emphasis on social justice, fair share, etc.]; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side [similar to progressive George Lakoff’s axiom that it is the frame that matters, and facts are only relevant if they fit the frame]. (...) The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas [e.g., racist, bigot, white privilege, misogynist, homophobe, Islamaphobe, etc. Just the other day, Hillary argued that Trump followers fit into one or more of the standard progressive stereotypes.]. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. (...) Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula.[1] (Text in bold, italics added)
AM: Joseph Stalin engaged in similar
tactics. In 1991, the formerly
classified footage of Stalin and his mind control evidence was released to the
public. A comprehensive sampling can be
found here. Under Hitler and the Nazi regime, some of the
first to be sent to German concentration camps were communists. Ironically, the fascists and communists were
brutal ideological opponents within the same socialist camp. The Nazis were opposed to Marxist materialism
and capitalism. Yet, to this day,
scholars and the general public have bought the myth that fascism, and its Nazi
manifestation, is far right on the political spectrum. Communism and fascism are far left
manifestations of left-wing socialism.
Old Gadfly: As we were having this
conversation, I received the personal thoughts of a pastor who plans to support
Trump, not because he is a saint, but because he firmly believes Trump is a
modern biblical Cyrus. This pastor also reminded us that Winston
Churchill was known to be bombastic and was similarly caricatured as Trump has
been.
IM: The thought has occurred to me
that recent progressive efforts to punish Christian bakers for not wanting to
participate in same sex weddings, to force public schools to accommodate transgenders,
to celebrate black lives matter, to perpetuate gender pay gaps, to criticize
opponents of lax immigration policies, to refuse to use terms like jihad or
radical Islam, and so forth, are specifically designed to tee up opportunities
to use stereotype labels such as racist, misogynist, homophobe, xenophobe,
Islamaphobe, and so forth.
AM: Your observation, IM, represents a swarming effect using several Saul Alinsky rules: rule 5, ridicule is man’s most potent weapon; rule 8, keep the pressure on; rule 12, the price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative (here the example is the attempt to foil Trump’s evolving views on various issues by suggesting he is flip flopping); and rule 13, pick the target, freeze it, and polarize it.[2] Obviously, Hillary Clinton has an opportunity to seize upon Alinsky’s tactics; after all, her Wellesley College senior thesis extolled his virtues. And the American Bridge will be the instrument to lead these tactics.
Old Gadfly: So, based on all these facts and
circumstances, who is the most dangerous opponent to Democrats: Donald Trump or ISIS? Trump opposes the Democrat progressive
ideology. ISIS opposes American values in
general. Since Trump appears to be the
most existential threat to Democrats, Democrats have indirectly aligned
themselves with a threat against America itself. But then again, Obama, who symbolizes
progressivism, vowed to fundamentally transform America. Therefore, while Trump wants to make America
great again, Democrats are actually anti-America. I know this sounds bold. But as I mentioned to a good friend
yesterday, when one is confronted with telling a mother her baby is ugly, one
typically capitulates to dishonesty to avoid getting slapped.
[1] Mein Kampf
citations are from the Project
Gutenberg-hosted 1939 English translation by James Murphy
[2] Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic
Primer for Realistic Radicals, (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1972).
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