BLM + Antifa = KKK

by

Gadfly

Good Americans are worried and confused. 

They worry about the hateful tensions that politically divide America. 

They are confused as to why this is happening. 

One of the reasons is because there are bad Americans.

Yes, it is that simple—the existential and eternal contest between good and evil is on full display in America.

Groups of Americans symbolized in the title’s equation are bad people.  All have been or are spawned, encouraged, and sustained by a political ideology that claims to advocate for those on the margin, disenfranchised, under-represented, victims of cultural identity oppression, flouters of border sovereignty, and so forth.

The Ku Klux Klan emerged during the Post-Reconstruction Era as a terrorist effect upon those—black and white--who sought the full integration of the emancipated black into the fabric of American society.  A political ideology in the form of the Democrat Party advocated for slavery, fought Reconstruction efforts, established Jim Crow laws, and other means for denying liberty to black Americans.

Even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964--clearly a legal and symbolic form of reparations for the sin of slavery--the modern Democrat exploits the perception of racism in other forms.  They cry “voter suppression” without any evidence to support it.  They cry “systemic racism” without any evidence to support it.  These machinations took place as the KKK lost currency with the more concerted effort to more fully integrate minorities in American society. 

The President Lyndon Johnson and Democrat-led Great Society agenda was designed to “buy” the minority vote through massive social welfare—a new form of chattel slavery.  America’s metropolitan inner-cities have been run by the Democrat Party for decades, where black-on-black homicides are endemic. How else does one explain the 80% intact families before the Great Society agenda and today’s 20%? 

Enter Black Lives Matter (BLM; part of the 170-organization network called the Movement for Black Lives).  No doubt some of the inspiration and justification came from the New Left’s Port Huron Manifesto and the creation of Students for a Democrat Society (members of which today occupy senior government positions, serve as university professors, and shape mainstream media). 

BLM was founded by three black, Marxist-trained women, who coined the term.  They naturally aligned with a group called Antifa (Anti-fascist), even though our current Democrat President dismissed them as “just an idea.” 

Combined, these two groups instigated riots across America to influence the 2020 presidential election (explicitly claimed on the BLM website).  Their efforts caused billions in damage and several deaths.  Their efforts were clearly and closely aligned with the Democrat Party. 

Reminiscent of Marxist communists, BLM routinely displays a raised black closed fist to signify solidarity among those aligned with a movement. 

Like the KKK’s symbolic clothing, Antifa wears black clothes and masks.

I have not come across any literature where a Post-Reconstruction Era Democrat spoke critically of the KKK.  Further, I am not aware of a single Democrat that has spoken out against BLM or Antifa. 

Good Americans have justification to be worried and confused. 

It is a citizen duty to recognize this threat to our Nation and to have the courage to do something about it. 

The risk of doing nothing?  Political chattel slavery, with a single political party (like communism or fascism) as the master.     

AD February 13, 2022

 

by

Gadfly

Strange title?

AD in this title refers to anno Domini, in the year of our Lord—the estimated birth of Jesus Christ as the anchor for our present Gregorian calendar.  This chronological reference point has fallen out of “grace” with the dominant and progressive secular humanists who now prefer BCE, which stands for Before the Common Era--even though it remains linked to the original Gregorian Calendar based on the birth of Christ.

          By changing the meaning (or lack of meaning) of the chronological element of our historical process, advocates can diminish the spiritual implication of natural law in deference to their own sense of morality in pursuit of utopia.  This is very Marxist in its approach.

Joseph Schumpeter captured the “Marxist effect” well in this passage from his book (published in 1950), Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy:

In one important sense, Marxism is a religion.  To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.  We may specify still further:  Marxist socialism also belongs to that subgroup which promises paradise on this side of the grave.  The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents.  To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin.  Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but morally.  There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed (p. 5).

Why Does This Matter Now?

America is under assault—primarily from within by a domestic enemy.  The idea of America as envisioned in our founding documents—the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and Bill of Rights—is under attack via radicalism, which seeks through multiple vectors to advance an alternate vision of America.  This alternate vision fragments, divides, and diminishes the fundamental spirit of what it means to be American.

          Today, I watched a powerful interview on the role Big Tech is playing in this alternate vision.  You can watch the entire interview here.  It is based on a Heritage Foundation report that you can access here.

          The research in the above report, its concerns about totalitarianism, and its implications for the future of America reinforces the mission of a new nonprofit organization called Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (www.starrs.us).

          Those who have been kind and gracious enough to follow Gadfly Corner over the years might be interested in checking out STARRS.  If you agree with the concerns and effort to stem the alternate vision of America, then please spread the word.        

An Immoral Wall?

By

Old Gadfly

As of today, nonessential portions of the federal government have been shut down for 19 days.  Tomorrow, thousands of these individuals will not be paid.  Some have already applied for unemployment benefits.  Why is this happening?

President Trump has not agreed to sign an appropriations bill that would provide funding for the federal government because it does not include $5.7 billion for a wall at our southern border.  This is one of the campaign promises that led to his election.  New Speaker of the House Pelosi calls this promise immoral.

Yesterday, President Trump met with Congressional leaders to negotiate a deal.  After about 20 minutes, the President asked the new Speaker of the House if she would agree to funding the wall if he approved government funding, and she said no.  At this point, he stood up, said "we're done here," and walked out.  Leaving the White House, Democrat leaders immediately addressed reporters describing this part of the meeting as a tantrum: "the President slapped the table and stormed out."  This tactic was recently described by Speaker Pelosi as a "wrap-up smear" that Republicans employ, which is itself a "wrap-up smear" because there is little to no evidence of Republicans using this tactic especially in light of a mainstream media that is ideologically aligned with the left.  Republicans in attendance said the President never raised his voice, slapped the table, or "stormed out."  Yet, "stormed out" is the language used on the front page of today's The New York Times.  Shepard Smith even used that expression at Fox News. 

The night before, even before the President’s Oval Office address, many of the news outlets were cautioning those who were prepared to tune-in about all the lies to be told and that fact checkers were already prepared to point out the lies.  Should we be concerned?  Douglas Hyde, a Brit and author of I Believed, described his conversion from a believing Christian to a militant, atheistic Marxist (Communist).  Here is how he reflected upon the Communist movement riots, strikes, and other violent forms of protest:

And then?  The end of capitalism and the end of all crises, all unemployment.

After all, there was evidence which appeared to support this argument for the communist and left-wing Press was daily proclaiming the liquidation of unemployment in the Soviet Union.  And if the opposition Press said that Russian unemployment was concealed by the millions in forced labour camps, why, that, we knew was just bourgeois propaganda and, as such, suspect.  Was it really to be wondered at if a generation which had grown up in the din and strife of modern propaganda rejected all that which came from official and “respectable” sources and accepted only what fitted in with what it wanted to believe?  There was a certain “kick” to be had out of rejecting all that came from the most respectable quarters and accepting all that came from those who were most abused and distrusted (pp. 35-36; published by The Reprint Society of London, 1952).

Earlier today, a good friend forwarded a video clip of Charlie Kirk, of USA Turning Point, responding to a question about the border wall from an attendee at one of his public appearances.  The implication in the question is that those who argue for the wall provide no evidence or logic.  Unfortunately, the young man asking the question, like so many in America, is at the mercy of the “wrap-up smear” that dominates most of the news networks.  Kirk answered the question with facts and explained the importance of fairness and sovereignty as they relate to border security.

Thousands of Americans lost their jobs just before Christmas when General Motors closed three plants.  They weren’t furloughed like today’s federal employees.  General Motors jobs are gone.  The real crime here, however, is that General Motors’ plant closures came after a $10 billion bailout from the American taxpayer.

On border security, Americans are hoping for compromise.  For Democrats, compromise is really capitulation:  win-lose, or lose-lose.  Win-win or no deal are not acceptable options. 

My prediction is that Democrats will double down and force President Trump to invoke his Constitutional responsibility to protect our nation by declaring a national emergency.  Democrats already have a bench of prepositioned federal judges to block any action by the President.  Meanwhile, “catch and release” for illegal aliens crossing the southern border will continue and collateral damage (low skill job competition, crime, and federal subsidies paid for by American taxpayers) outside the Washington D.C. swamp will accumulate.  The Democrat-controlled House will crank up the heat by re-energizing the Russian-collusion meme even though there is no indication that special prosecutor Mueller and his team succeeded in uncovering any criminal activity here.  There will be plenty of “wrap-up smear” to be employed, just as Douglas Hyde realized during his own seduction by the militant left.

This is the new America: the “transformed” America promised by a previous occupant of the White House.  Shall we get used to being called “comrade”?  The alternative could be decapitation and not knowing we are bleeding.  These are not nice people.  Several associates of President Trump are experiencing the wrath of a political party that refuses to accept the presidential election results.  I guess to Democrats, these political targets are just road kill, as opposed to mere “speed bumps,” (the former White House occupant’s label for the four Americans killed at Benghazi) on their way to power.