Joe “McCarthy” Biden

 

by

Publius

After he was awakened to the terrible virus called communism, Joe McCarthy, has been reincarnated as his evil “mirror image” twin.  The original version “Evil Joe 1.0” was a master media manipulator and destroyer of people and lives in the name of rooting out communism. He was at the end of the day, a monster created by the times. The 50s decade was a dark time in our history, not because there was not a communist threat, but because a politician perverted his power to find a communist wherever he looked. Businesses, Hollywood, and the Media were complicit in destroying people without reason or cause because Joe told them to do it.

 

It’s clear that communism, since its introduction by Karl Marx, has destroyed more lives, diminished more lives and oppressed more people than any other ideology, religion or movement in the history of the world.  How many were killed for the communist cause in Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and others?  Some historians say it’s hundreds of millions of people. We have continually heard for more than 100 years that Marx’s promised communist utopia will occur next time or the next time or....

 

Conversely, capitalism has enriched more lives, lifted more people and provided greater hope than any other economic approach. The standard of living within the masses has grown during the entire existence of the United States of America. If you want proof, look at history as depicted by Hans Rosling in his book, Factfulness.  He clearly describes the wonderful economic progress of his own family in Sweden over the past century.  Any person that has paid any attention to history over about the past 250 years knows that America became the arsenal of freedom for the world and the beacon of hope for oppressed or enslaved people anywhere on planet Earth. 

 

In fact, the coveted view of capitalism is clearly evident in the newly anointed Democratic Oligarchy of Joe Biden. His is the party of love that cherishes immigrants over existing, legal citizens. His slogan “Everyone but Americans First” has become the mantra of his Party and Comrades. The Biden/Harris Administration has embraced the lives of so many illegal aliens that instead of calling the frontier to the south, the U.S. border, we should rename it the “Starting Line to the American Dream.”  The Welcome signs at the border say, “Greetings from your new Leader, Joe Biden, to any and all future Democrat voters regardless of race, gender, age, ideology or country of origin to the most racist, misogynistic, homophobic and selfish country in the world.  We will forever be your Big Brother!"

 

So more than 60 years after McCarthy, it’s as if we’ve arrived in an alternate world that’s been turned upside down.  Enter “Evil Joe 2.0” and after 120 days of his reign, it’s clear that we are in an even more sinister time of misguided politics.  Party Leader McCarthy Biden can find a racist anywhere he sees a white person or a police officer.  Once again, Businesses, Hollywood and the Media have put on the mantle of complicit evildoers in responding to their idol, Evil Joe 2.0.  Additionally, Evil Joe 2.0 knows there are others putting our newly minted Communist Republic at risk. Joe is finding “thought criminals” in the military, Republican Party and every Trump voter. This “Resistance” must be crushed by silencing, cancel culture, Social Justice Warriors and Antifa.  This putsch has been ongoing for years but has accelerated over the past 12 months.  Re-education of salvageable miscreants must be achieved through Critical Race Theory indoctrination. Business, military and government leaders are mandating re-education under the umbrella of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training. While this brainwashing has been successfully proliferated across college campuses for more than 60 years, the new frontier of elementary education is training new converts and Woke adherents in how implementing Racism will solve “systemic racism.”  Embracing “New Think” can eradicate what people already know to be true and help hasten them into Marxist nirvana. 

 

Joe Biden’s ultimate goal is to “Reimagine” the Constitution into the Communist Manifesto. Only time will tell whether we can turn the U.S.A. into the promised “Marxist Utopia”. 

 

“From each according to his ability...to each according to his need.”

 

Remember to vote in 2022 & 2024 for those candidates that believe in American greatness.

Purification

by

Gadfly

           Democrats are leading the campaign to purify America of its sin of slavery.  They support the removal of confederate statues and renaming military bases currently bearing names of confederate military leaders.  Speaker of the House Pelosi has even removed three portraits of former Speakers of the House who were members of Confederate States.

           As part of the Democrat campaign, is it not ironic that in one of their publicity stunts, Pelosi and fellow Democrats took a knee in the Nation’s Capitol while wearing the Ghana Kente cloth?  Affluent Ghanaians were influential in selling their fellow countrymen in the European slave trade.  Was it not hypocritical for Democrats to be associated with a symbol of a people that advanced and profited from slavery?  As an example of the leftist cabal on advancing the progressive Democrat narrative, see this twisted and convoluted explanation by PolitiFact who has partnered with Facebook to filter (censor) information that is contrary to their ideology.

Where will the campaign end?  If allowed to run its full course, it will require eradicating our current political system of the Democrat Party and any visible historical symbols of the Democrat Party throughout America’s history—to include the portrait of Nancy Pelosi.

 

           Does this assertion sound bizarre?

           Think about it.  As an institution, slavery required political justification.  This involved not only Democrats from Confederate States but support from Democrats in Northern States as well.  The institution of slavery was the reason the Republican Party was formed.  Lincoln and fellow Republicans abhorred slavery so much, they were willing to sacrifice well over 600,000 Americans at the altar of accountability and justice.

           Despite the sacrifice of nearly 10% of America’s population at the time and the legal termination of the institution of slavery, Democrats resisted post-Civil War efforts to fully integrate former slaves and all blacks into America’s Republic.  The KKK and Jim Crow laws were Democrat creations.  Today’s Democrat-backed KKK is Antifa and other well-funded organizations set on instituting a new form of political slavery—complete acquiescence to the progressive Democrat Party.

           The long, overdue “conversation on racism,” if engaged by reasoned minds, will shine a light on the modern slavery that currently exists in America (the welfare state and the inner-city plantations).  Starting with education, Democrats have controlled the education of Americans that has been very successful in indoctrinating at least two generations of progressives (Marxist socialists in disguise), who see the world through a normative lens.

 

What does a “normative lens” mean?  Progressives see the world the way it ought to be and set out to make it so: safe from climate change and the immoral beliefs of anyone who is not a progressive Democrat through militant social justice warriors.  As America’s intelligentsia, they have a moral obligation to create other ordinary Americans in their image.

           Does this claim also sound bizarre?

           Perhaps, arguably, as the central organizing personality in this progressive movement, former President Obama (who miraculously survived “systemic racism”[1] to serve two full terms as President of the United States of America) admitted his “intelligentsia” proclivity on March 25, 2018 at a conference in Japan (part of an Asia-Pacific trip that also included stops in Singapore, New Zealand and Australia—strong evidence of a globalist perspective).  He was candid about his intellectual and moral superiority when he said (quoting from CNN):

"After I left office, what I realized is that the Obama Foundation could potentially create a platform for young, up-and-coming leaders, both in the United States and all around the world to come together, meet together, create a digital platform where they could exchange information," Obama said.

"If I could do that effectively, then I would create a hundred, or a thousand, or a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas," he added (my bold italics).

           Obama’s body language speaks volumes about his intellectual and moral superiority as in this photograph from a CNN article:

In comparing Obama to Russia’s V. I. Lenin in my article, “Socialist Infiltration of America,” I said:

 

Among the Bolsheviks, Lenin was considered a demigod who tailored Marxism for the Russian people.  That is why we still refer to Marxism-Leninism to describe Communism in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and in China (even today).  Here is a cartoon that reflects anti-Bolshevik sentiment that Lenin (in the red robe) sacrificed Russia to a statue of Marx.

           Today, Democrats, who embrace progressivism and its Marxist philosophy, sacrifice a formerly liberal[2] America to the altar of racism.  Moreover, Democrats and their progressive demagogues are creating racism (anti-white, anti-cop, anti-anything that is not “Black Lives Matter”) in their alleged campaign to eliminate racism.  This is very consistent with “Leninthink.”  Orwell understood this so well that his dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty Four, painted a reality we see playing out on our television screens.  Walter Cronkite predicted how this might turn out in a 1983 preface to an edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four:

If not prophecy, what was 1984?  It was, as many have noticed, a warning:  a warning about the future of human freedom in a world where political organization and technology can manufacture power in dimensions that would have stunned the imagination of earlier ages.

Orwell drew upon the technology (and perhaps some of the science fiction) of the day in drawing his picture of 1984.  But it was not a work of science fiction he was writing.  It was a novelistic essay on power, how it is acquired and maintained, how those who seek it or seek to keep it tend to sacrifice anything and everything in its name.

1984 is an anguished lament and a warning that we may not be strong enough nor wise enough nor moral enough to cope with the kind of power we have learned to amass.  That warning vibrates powerfully when we allow ourselves to sit still and think carefully about orbiting satellites that can read the license plates in a parking lot and computers that can tap into thousands of telephone calls and telex transmissions at once and computers that can do our banking and purchasing, can watch the house and tell a monitoring station what television program we are watching and how many people there are in the room.  We think of Orwell when we read of scientists who believe they have located in the human brain the seats of behavioral emotions like aggression, or learn more about the vast potential of genetic engineering.

And we hear echoes of that warning chord in the constant demand for greater security and comfort, for less risk in our societies.  We recognize, however dimly, that greater efficiency, ease, and security may come at a substantial price in freedom, that law and order can be a doublethink version of oppression, that individual liberties surrendered for whatever good reason are freedom lost.

Critics and scholars may argue quite legitimately about the particular literary merits of 1984.  But none can deny its power, its hold on the imaginations of whole generations, nor the power of its admonitions . . . a power that seems to grow rather than lessen with the passage of time.  It has been said that 1984 fails as a prophecy because it succeeded as a warning—Orwell’s terrible vision has been averted.  Well, that kind of self-congratulation is, to say the least, premature.  1984 may not arrive on time, but there’s always 1985.

Still, the warning has been effective; and every time we use one of those catch phrases . . . recognize Big Brother in someone, see a 1984 in our future . . . notice something Orwellian . . . we are listening to that warning again (my bold italics).

Fellow Americans, we are well beyond a warning.  The dangers of Nineteen Eighty-Four are here.  Prayer may inspire us for strength and courage that are so necessary in confronting it.  Prayer is badly needed to notice something Orwellian and to fight it with all our strength. Let us purify ourselves against the rot (evil) that has infected our society.

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[1] The new Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force also somehow survived systemic racism.  Frederick Douglass survived actual slavery and systemic racism, but rose above these conditions to be a staunch advocate for Americanism.  America’s potential for transcendence is inhibited by today’s comforted bigots (or Copernican Drones) who advance the notion of systemic racism for political power.

[2] Liberal implies a belief in liberalism.  Wikipedia presents a fairly accurate description of the values of liberalism.  “Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law.  Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support free markets, free trade, limited government, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), capitalism, democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality, internationalism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion.”  Liberals among America’s Founders also believed in natural rights—the inalienable rights of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  As the political philosopher and former atheist Gerhardt Niemeyer has argued, natural rights is a critical concept in understanding political and social order and can only be understood within the framework of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

America’s Dreyfus Affair

Abstract:  Making sense of the political tension and division within America is no easy task.  For most Americans, we are experiencing conditions without precedent.  Yet, history has documented similar circumstances in the past.  Why not examine these recorded observations to ascertain what ever wisdom might be derived from such an analysis?  This article attempts such an examination in a conversation between Old Gadfly, an American citizen with an inquiring mind (IM), and a seasoned combat aviator with an inquiring mind (AM).  Gadfly then summarizes the discussion and offers two predictions.

Old Gadfly:  Gentlemen, are you familiar with the Dreyfus Affair?

IM:  Yes, in 1894, a French Jewish artillery officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, was accused of spying, court-martialed, convicted of treason, and sentenced to life in prison at Devil Island.  Before imprisonment, he was paraded before the public where they shouted, “Death to Judas, death to the Jew.”  Two years later, evidence eventually surfaced that another French (non-Jewish) officer, Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, was the actual traitor; Esterhazy was court-martialed but not convicted.  In 1899, Dreyfus was again court-martialed and again found guilty, yet was quickly pardoned.  Finally, in 1906, Dreyfus was exonerated and reinstated in the French army.

AM:  This sentiment coincided with the anti-Semitism that permeated Western Europe, Russia, and even the United States.  For example, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a widely circulated publication that claimed Jews were colluding to dominate the world.  In Europe, the Rothschild family was particularly singled out because of its vast wealth.  In America, Henry Ford purchased and then distributed 500,000 copies of The Protocols within America.  Ford even published a series of anti-Semitic articles in the Dearborn Independent, a newspaper he owned.  In hindsight, historical facts now show that Ford materially contributed to a false narrative.

IM:  Ironically, today Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.  The nearly wealthiest man in the world is deliberately and aggressively consolidating the retail industry and possibly the news industry.  Bezos’ consolidation efforts crush competition and the novelty of diversity of ideas—not the left’s arbitrary distinction in terms of ethnicity, sexual orientation, and so forth.  Where is the opposition from the left?  Perhaps the answer is because The Washington Post is clearly anti-Trump.

Old Gadfly:    Do you see any similarities between The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and any other publication in America?

IM:  Yes,  the so-called “Russian Dossier” is a similar publication.  The Protocols document was a complete fabrication of lies; yet it had a huge impact in fueling anti-Semitism.  Hannah Arendt, in her book The Origins of Totalitarianism, identified the phenomenon of anti-Semitism as a critical seed in the emergence of totalitarianism, which included both forms of socialism--communism and Nazism.  Like The Protocols, the Russian Dossier also fabricated lies for effect.  The Dossier fueled the Russian collusion sentiment that still exists, especially in the justification for the current Mueller investigation. 

Old Gadfly:  In regard to the Russian Dossier, here are some questions the public deserves to know:  How did Senator McCain get word of the dossier?  Why did he unilaterally dispatch an aide overseas to get a copy?  Was this an act of collusion?  Should he be questioned in the same manner as Donald Trump, Jr., who met with a Russian lawyer by invitation?

AM:  Great questions, Gadfly.  It appears anti-Trump Republicans initially paid GPS Fusion (headed by Glenn Simpson) for opposition research against candidate Trump.  The research was then handed off to another paying customer—the Hillary Clinton campaign.  Further, “British-American businessman and anti-Kremlin crusader Bill Browder” claims GPS Fusion took money from the Russian government.  This is why Congress is now investigating the Russia GPS Fusion connection (collusion?).

IM:   Do you know who Bill Browder is?  He is a billionaire who, after the fall of the Soviet Union, has done extensive business in Russia.  He is now an anti-Putin activist, seeking justice for the conviction, torture, and murder of his Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky.  Browder’s grandfather, Earl, headed up the American Communist Party, twice running unsuccessfully for President of the United States in 1936 and 1940.  Browder tells his story in his recently published book, Red Notice:  A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.

Old Gadfly:  Let’s get back to Arendt’s book, The Origins of Totalitarianism.  She does an excellent job explaining how anti-Semitic sentiment contributed to the phenomenon of totalitarianism.  After the book’s release, she was very careful in responding to critiques to point out that “seeds” may have been more accurate than “origins,” because it is difficult to establish precedents for the unprecedented.  Yet, it was the hatred and contempt that coalesced against a perceived enemy that allowed the seed to crystallize over time.  In the early 1900s in Europe and Russia, the hatred and contempt crystallized among those on the collective left against those who had different beliefs and values such as those who appear to be aligned with individual liberty, private property, and free-market capitalism.  In today’s America, there are groups such as the New Black Panthers, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other leftist groups characterized by anger and hatred. The left loves to claim the KKK and white supremacist groups are far right; but, they are not.  Historical records explain the true nature of these groups and they tend to be leftist—Marxian, Nietzschean, and so forth.  To suggest a white supremacist group is right-wing, conservative, or Republican is political heresy.  It is like certain politicians (e.g., Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, or Tim Kaine) advocating for abortion or same-sex marriage rights while also claiming to be devout Catholics.  In this case, progressive orthodoxy trumps church orthodoxy.

There is a new leftist hate group called Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (check out the video).  Notice also, the accelerated aggressiveness of the Communist Party USA (until it’s taken down, the homepage has a headline:  “Can Trump Forge a New White Supremacist Governing Coalition?”).  Here is a print screen image of the homepage:

IM:  Another “seed” discussed by Arendt was imperialism--in the form of ideological world domination.  Arendt’s first chapter under the section on imperialism had an interesting title:  “The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie.”  In this case, the bourgeoisie represented those who controlled the centers of production (and wealth).  Bourgeoisie did not include the “aristocracy”—those in government roles—or the labor class (the proletariat in socialist orthodoxy).

Old Gadfly:  What can we learn from this?  How does it apply to today’s circumstances?

AM:  Obviously, it is very dangerous for business leaders to align with a particular political ideology.  And by ideology, I do not mean a political philosophy; I mean orthodoxy or dogmas that become moral truths.  Progressivism in America is an ideology—it believes in secular humanism, the redistribution of wealth, and other man-made rights (e.g., reproductive rights to justify abortion, sexual orientations) that are contrary to the laws of nature and the Judeo-Christian tradition.  Progressivism is coercive in that progressive values must become everyone’s values.  Those that resist are punished.  This is why the left, and not the right, has invented moral slurs for those who possess different values:  slurs such as homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogynist, and so forth—modern equivalents of the phenomenon of anti-Semitism.  In 2006, Bernard Lewis argued antisemitism represents a special case of prejudice and hatred, that it is directed against people who are different from the rest and deemed to represent “cosmic evil.” This is why progressives such as UC Berkeley Professor George Lakoff feel compelled to indoctrinate the masses by publishing books with such titles as:  Moral Politics:  How Liberals and Conservatives Think.  Lakoff’s framework justifies explaining that conservative views are not only wrong, they are immoral.  This is also why those who are skeptical of the anthropogenic theory and so called “settled science” for climate change are labeled “climate deniers” and considered evil.  For interesting contrary “evidence” on the subject see recent Congressional testimony by Dr. John R. Christy, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Alabama’s State Climatologist and Director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

IM:  Given the rampant crony capitalism and corporate welfare that characterizes the current situation in America, there are now perverse incentives for the government aristocracy and the business sector to collaborate for the expansion of power and the perpetuation of that power.  Remember the “business world” reaction when then Governor Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law?  The act was eventually amended to accommodate the demands of the LGTBQ special interest group who pressured businesses to boycott Indiana.  There have been other cases as well.  Last year the Seattle Seahawks chef faced similar pressures.  Recently, President Trump gave Congress six months to provide legislation related to the unconstitutional Presidential policy known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).  A 31-year old Millennial, who happens to be the fifth wealthiest man in the world (for inventing a gossip platform—arguably a modern Marxist opium for the alienated masses), quickly organized a joint letter with roughly 300 business leaders representing the politically emancipated bourgeoisie to demonize Trump’s adult, well-reasoned constitutional action.  After all, authority for immigration policy rests on the legislative powers of the U.S. Congress, specifically articulated in Article I of the Constitution.

Old Gadfly:  It seems as though secular humanistic movements are aligning against America’s Judeo-Christian tradition.  Is this a modern “anti-Semitic” development?

IM:  If it is such a development, then it reflects concerns Arendt shared in a reply to a letter from Professor Eric Voegelin, another prominent political philosopher, in 1953.  The excerpt below talks about a lack of common interest and the atomization of society (something clearly reflected in social media phenomena):

For similar reasons and for the sake of distinguishing between ideas and actual events in history, I cannot agree with Mr. Voegelin's remark that "the spiritual disease is the decisive feature that distinguishes modem masses from those of earlier centuries." To me, modern masses are disintegrated by the fact that they are "masses" in a strict sense of the word. They are distinguished from the multitudes of former centuries in that they do not have common interests to bind them together nor any kind of common "consent" which, according to Cicero, constitutes interest, that which is between men, ranging all the way from material to spiritual and other matters. This "between" can be a common ground and it can be a common purpose; it always fulfills the double function of binding men together and separating them in an articulate way. The lack of common interest so characteristic of modern masses is therefore only another sign of their homelessness and rootlessness. But it alone accounts for the curious fact that these modem masses are formed by the atomization of society, that the mass-men who lack all communal relationships nevertheless offer the best possible "material" for movements in which peoples are so closely pressed together that they seem to have become One. The loss of interests is identical with the loss of "self," and modem masses are distinguished in my view by their selflessness, that is their lack of "selfish interests" (p. 81).[1]

In the following excerpt, Arendt emphasizes the danger of atheism:

I know that problems of this sort can be avoided if one interprets totalitarian movements as a new--and perverted--religion, a substitute for the lost creed of traditional beliefs. From this, it would follow that some "need for religion" is a cause of the rise of totalitarianism. I feel unable to follow even the very qualified form in which Professor Voegelin uses the concept of a secular religion. There is no substitute for God in the totalitarian ideologies - Hitler's use of the "Almighty" was a concession to what he himself believed to be a superstition. More than that, the metaphysical place for God has remained empty. The introduction of these semi-theological arguments in the discussion of totalitarianism, on the other side, is only too likely to further the wide-spread and strictly blasphemous modem "ideas" about a God who is "good for you"-for your mental or other health, for the integration of your personality and God knows what-that is "ideas" which make of God a function of man or society. This functionalization seems to me in many respects the last and perhaps the most dangerous stage of atheism (pp. 81-82).[2]

Old Gadfly:  How would you characterize these observations in relation to the American culture?

IM:  The idea of America, “our nation,” has been deeply rooted in an understanding of human dignity and the need for a political system to protect that dignity.  Donald S. Lutz, a political scientist at the University of Houston, conducted an analysis of archived documents between 1760 and 1805 to determine the source of influence in political thought during the founding of our nation.[3]  The number one source cited was the Bible with 34% of the citations.  The number two source, representing 22%, was a set of Enlightenment authors with Montesquieu topping the list.  The implication is that political thought inherent in the Declaration of Independence was heavily influenced by the Judeo-Christian tradition.  It was the Judeo-Christian tradition that championed tolerance for faith, regardless of the religion or lack of religion.  The Declaration clearly established “self-evident” truths and rights—all men are created equal, endowed with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  There was no implied source for these truths and rights.  Our founders explicitly identified the source:  “their Creator.”  In the early 20^th Century, members of the U.S. armed forces received citizenship training that was grounded in ethical and legal foundations.[4]  This 179-page manual includes an explicit explanation of the role philosophy and religion play in understanding individual liberty and the moral duty of citizenship.  Culturally, Americans predominantly affiliated with the Judeo Christian tradition, peaking in 1956 with 99% of surveyed Americans—71% Protestant, 25% Catholic, and 3% Jewish.[5]  Since 1956, the number of Americans affiliating with the Judeo-Christian tradition now represent 72%, a decrease of 27%--37% Protestant, 10% Christian nonspecific, 22% Catholic, 3% Jewish.[6]

Old Gadfly:  Arendt’s explanation of the decline of the Christian tradition combined with the political emancipation of the bourgeoisie established conditions for imperialism.  Imperialism for many is commonly understood to represent the colonization that European nations engaged in during previous centuries.  How would you explain imperialism in the 21^st Century?

AM:  Progressives in America and Europe believe in the power of central planning.  This is why they are strong advocates for the United Nations and other international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.  In today’s vernacular, they are not imperialists; they are globalists.  This is why it is becoming more common to hear globalists, such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders, call themselves “citizens of the world.”  International institutions can be useful if understood as collaborative instruments in support of sovereign nations and people.  Unfortunately, progressives (globalists) see them as primary authorities.  Arendt reminds us that Soviet Communism and German Nazism were intended for world domination.  Progressivism and its central planners have a similar intent.  By the way, Hillary’s recent book title is What Happened.  A quick glance at the content reveals a lot of complaints about her struggle-bound presidential campaign and all the great ideas she had for policies across the board for social, political, and economic life for the masses.  I could not help but think that a better title for the book would have been My Struggle, but another figure in history already used that one.

IM:  Pretty clever, AM, on the book title observation!  But, then again, I noticed Samantha Power wrote the “Introduction” to the 2004 edition of The Origins of Totalitarianism.  The “Introduction” has two parts.  The first was a brilliant analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of Arendt’s thinking.  The second part revealed Power’s progressive and globalist nature.  I was not surprised then to recently learn that she participated on behalf of the Obama Administration in the “unmasking” of individuals associated with the Trump campaign.

Old Gadfly:   Let me summarize this excellent discussion and then close with two predictions:

Summary:  First, America’s Dreyfus Affair is an attempt by the leftist progressives to create anger, contempt, and hatred against Donald Trump and all that he symbolizes—to include Americans Hillary Clinton demeaned as “deplorables.”   Second, there are anti-Semitic-equivalent movements that need to be called out and diminished.  Third, there is an imperialistic manifestation in the form of the business sector aligning with the political ideology of progressivism, further compounded by the unholy alliances of crony capitalism and corporate welfare.  These developments should also be called out by virtuous customers and politicians.[7]   

          Prediction:  First, it is now becoming apparent that moral (not political) courage helped Trump get elected.  Ninety-three percent of Americans classified as “Spiritually Active, Governance Engaged Conservative Christians” voted for Trump.  Only 1% voted for Clinton. If Donald Trump survives the manufactured Russia collusion scandal, those who believed in his sincere and authentic vision of the American idea (“Make America Great Again”) will become greater in number and more courageous in fulfilling their moral duty, grounded in our Judeo-Christian tradition. Second, virtuous Democrat leaders will realize the opportunity they have to “heal” the anger, contempt, and hatred that is so prominent (and rampant) among those who vote Democrat.  However, this will only come about after a serious evaluation of the progressive “ideology” and its dogmatic principles that are intolerant of other ideas and values.

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[1]  Arendt, H.  (1953). [The Origins of Totalitarianism]: A Reply, The Review of Politics, 15(1), 76-84.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Robert S. Lutz, The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 78, No. 1 (March 1984), 189-197.

[4] See Training Manual 2000-25, Citizenship, November 30, 1928.  Retrieved on August 30, 2017 from http://constitution.org/mil/tm/tm_2000-25/tm_2000-25.pdf

[5] Gallup Poll on Religion.  Retrieved on August 30, 2017 from http://www.gallup.com/poll/1690/religion.aspx

[6] Ibid.

[7] See for example, Ken Buck, Drain the Swamp:  How Washington Corruption Is Worse Than You Think, (Washington, D.C.:  Regnery Publishing, 2017).