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So We Don't Repeat It

"Leftism: a philosophy that begins and ends in absurdity."

MJF 

Vickie Palladino Sets Bill DeBlasio Straight

Che Guevara, Mass Murderer

"We know from Ernest Hemingway – then a Cuban resident – what Che was up to. Hemingway, who had looked kindly on Leftist revolutions since the Spanish civil war, invited his friend George Plimpton, editor of the Paris Review, to witness the shooting of prisoners condemned by the tribunals under Guevara's control. They watched as the men were trucked in, unloaded, shot, and taken away. As a result, Plimpton later refused to publish Guevara's memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries."

Nigel Jones

Che Guevara, Leftist hero

Leftism vs. American Conservatism

	LEFTIST	CONSERVATIVE*
Abortion	GOOD	BAD
Taxes	GOOD	BAD
Faith	BAD	GOOD
Liberty	BAD	GOOD
Business	BAD	GOOD
Tradition	BAD	GOOD
Technology	BAD	GOOD
Constitution	BAD	GOOD
Government**	GOOD	BAD

*American conservatism
**unlimited

SEE: Right-Wing Socialists, Not Conservatives, Right from Left, Political Spectrum Redrawn, and Conserving the Core.

Claiming Scalps With Fake News

When the Left decide they want to eliminate someone from relevance in the socio-political sphere, they use fake news. Here are the steps they use to destroy someone:

1) Spin something out of nothing

Start with a wisp of something that can be spun into something BIG. Spin it in such a way that it will predictably whip up an emotional storm. Best to:

1. Use a word that is an un-deconstruct-able flashpoint, one that can't be argued against without the arguer losing his position in society (e.g., pedophilia).
2. Label from the standard Leftist list: e.g., racist, sexist, homophobe. 
3. Ensure there be no actual, factual basis for the charge, that it's been spun into something completely, dimensionally out-of-touch with all reality.

In the latter phase of the scalping, when the emotional froth is winding down and cooler heads try to unravel the initial accusation, it is critical that they have no way of taking it apart factually—because no factual basis exists for it. With absolutely no factual basis to support the charge, denials add weight to it.

2) Foment an hystericalized tsunami of fake news

Whip up a frenzy in the public using the fake news media network—otherwise known as the Leftist Media Bloc—to create a fait accompli destructive force that not only can't be stopped. Make it appear so massively powerful, and moving at such a speed, that no thinking person would try to stop it.

3) Claim your scalp

By the time the hysterical tsunami recedes, and the flopping fish and sand and debris do not add up to a substantial basis for the initial charge—the job, position in society, and life contentment of the target has been irremediably destroyed. What was created without a factual basis cannot be turned back by checking facts, putting things into perspective, and considering the actual harm the target was guilty of. 

4) Repeat

Right from Left

Adolph Hitler, leader of the National Socialist Party,¹ was an unabashed Leftist. He regarded himself as even more of a Marxist than the ones in Russia — because of his willingness to do by force what the Bolsheviks would leave to evolution. Benito Mussolini, founder of the National Fascist Party in Italy, and thereby inventor of fascism, was with the Italian Socialist Party until they threw him out — because he wanted Italy to fight in World War I. He and Italy were Hitler's main allies during World War II.

National SOCIALISM, "right wing" of Leftism

"Right wing" of the Left

The Left consigned what they regarded as the unattractive traits associated with their world Socialist movement — authoritarianism, nationalism, militarism, attendant racism — to their own "right wing". Those who were cast to the right were the "conservatives", the ones who wanted to hold on to the old ways, who thought of nation first.⁴

Socialism leading to Communism was meant to be a global transformation, making nations, borders, and wars unnecessary. 

As one who combined nationalism with Socialism, together with hyper-militarism, Hitler and his party were cast in the "right wing" of the Left.² The greater the belief in absolute state power over every aspect of human life, the farther to the right one is consigned.

Left conflates "Right" with "Conservative"

As the Left pushes unattractive attributes of Leftism to its "right wing", and these traits are defined as "conservative", a conflation has occurred between the "right wing" of Socialism — all about absolute, brutal governmental power, eradication of religion and faith, and elimination of human rights — with American Conservatism — about minimal governmental intervention, guidance from above, and individual rights.

Ultimately, the "right wing" horrors of Nazism — the extreme "right wing" of Socialism and the Left — got projected onto Conservatives — whose beliefs are exactly the opposite, and whose values actually the greatest threat to Leftism. It was American conservative values, in fact, came to the rescue when Leftism reached its logical conclusion of complete destruction of people, society, and (almost) the world.

Assigning the most unappealing traits generated by Leftism to the principles that most threaten its exists seems an excellent way of killing two birds with one stone.

American Conservatism is in nobody's "right wing"

American Conservatism is the central core of political and social values — the ones being attacked by progressivism and radicalism. American Conservatism arises from common sense, a natural understanding, natural law, and a regular moral code. It is the social-political view that naturally develops if you grow up on a farm, go to church on Sundays, raise a family, and start a business — or simply work all of your life.

American Conservatism is at the center of the political spectrum where the Left represents maximum governmental control and the right is Libertarian — or the least governmental control. American Conservatism is in nobody's "right wing".

"We're not of the Right. We're not of the Left or the Right, we're Constitutionalists. That's their lingo."

Mark Levin (May 8, 2020)

American Conservatives misunderstand

If the Left classifies American Conservatives as being on the Right, and that has terrible associations historically, why accept the classification?

Maybe American Conservatives simply don't know what Conservatism is fundamentally, and are not familiar with the historical roots of the left-right paradigm. They don't know right from left, in other words. In this way their continuation of this false dichotomy arises from their own ignorance.

Perhaps American Conservatives have not considered, an have no accounting of, the enormous damage this misunderstanding does in terms of confusion, assignment of foul Leftist outcomes to themselves, and political and propaganda value.

American Conservatism saved world from Left's "right wing"

American Conservatism was developed over here and in direct opposition to what our forefathers experienced of European tyranny. It would later be the values of American Conservatism that would save Europe from the ravages of the Left's "right wing".

American Conservatism is something quite different from the Leftist traits the Left wishes to distant themselves from by projecting onto it. In fact, it's the opposite.

SEE: Conserving the Core, Right-Wing Socialists, Not Conservatives, Political Spectrum Redrawn, and Leftism vs. American Conservatism.

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1. "Nazi" is the German abbreviation, representing the pronunciation of Nati- in Nationalsozialist.
2. assignment of nationalist-militarist tendencies to the "right wing" of their movement by Leftists might derive naturally: the right arm is considered stronger. Maybe this rightward assignment got conflated with the right vs. left construction from pre-revolutionary France.³ 
3.  where the royalists sat to the right of the king in the legislative chamber, the Jacobins to the left.
4. see Stalin in Power: the Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 by Robert C. Tucker for more on this.

Conserving the Core

It's time for American conservatives to throw off the "right wing" appellation projected on them from the Left. The projection of what they don't want to see in themselves, e.g., nationalism, militarism, racism—and which they relegate to their own "right wing"—has successfully destroyed the conservative "brand".

Complete disconnect . .

American conservatism has nothing to do with the "right wing" of the Left, the disconnect being clear in a number of ways:

1. American conservatives are in America not in Europe: the assignment of unattractive characteristics of the Left to their "right wing" occurred in the European Left, based on their socio-political model.
2. American conservatives are conserving the American Constitution: a unique document in the history of government, the U.S. Constitution was not only written in reaction against European experiences of those who came to America, but it design a system of limited government with a protection of individual rights unseen anywhere in Europe.
3. American conservatives have never sat to the right of the king in parliament—and have never had a monarchy at all.*
4. American conservatives believe in a government guided by a divine power: the European Left, and as projected into U.S. Leftism, believe in the state transplanting any sort of divine power (God).
5. American conservatives believe in limited government: the "right wing" of the Left—characteristics of which has been projected onto American conservatives—believes in an all-powerful state.

To restate, American conservatives are conserving a form of government that reacts against the government their forefathers experienced "over there" in Europe, a form of government which holds within it the ability to counteract the evil goals (and results) of the European Left.

The center must hold . .

American conservatism is at the core, the very center of the socio-political system.

1. American conservatism believes in limited government placing it in the center of the government power/control spectrum, with libertarians to the left (weaker) and the Left to the right (stronger).
2. American conservatism is based on natural law, common sense, a natural understanding of things, and facts—which are at the core of human life.

American conservatives are in no one's "right wing", unless assigned there by the Left. It is the values and institutions being conserved by American conservatism that are being attacked by progressives (slowly) and radicals (quickly). These values are at the core of our American system of government and must be conserved.

The center American conservatives conservatives must hold or the progressives and radicals succeed in destroying all that is good and right about living in this great land under God.

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*The orientation of Left vs. Right originated in pre-revolutionary France with royalists, who sat to the right of the king, and the Jacobins who sat to the left.

SEE: Right-Wing Socialists, Not Conservatives, Right from Left, Political Spectrum Redrawn, and Leftism vs. American Conservatism.

"Until It's True It's Just Bulls@%t!!"

At a recent writer event in Burlington, a rather tall woman who had been signing people up for the open mic started things off with an original ditty that demeaned our newly-elected president's private parts, brain size, and children.

This hastily-constructed contribution to literature turned on whatever rhymes with "teeny" and "weenie". It encouraged considerable laughter from the largely female audience.*

Applause was energetic.

Appearing seventh on the list, I shared a political poem I'd written recently:

We've got our very own Dilma

The prez they impeached in Brazil

The difference is we already know

About her and her husband Bill.**

I then shared how a fellow poet believed that what we have on Hillary Clinton is "unsubstantiated innuendo". Thinking this might make an excellent title for a detailing of Hillary Clinton's crimes, written as a "list poem", I promised to keep such in my back pocket in case I had to be subjected to further readings of the teeny-weenie sort.

Keying off a reading of an anti-war poem, I then read my narrative poem "An End to War". Several people filed out as I read. The singer-songwriter who'd appeared just before me kept his eyes glued to the floor as I left the performance area. I reached out my hand anyway, saying "Good job!" He responded in kind, finally looking into my face.

The male emcee, a noted radio show host from New Hampshire, took center stage again, saying something to the effect of "sounds like somebody's been getting into the Heady Topper".***

A sweet lady came up to me at the food table . .

. . and said: "Thank you for what you said. That's exactly what I wanted to say after I heard her read." She had been a Bernie supporter. I gave her a hug, noting that we needed to be loving and tolerant.

The co-organizer of the writer organization came in later, as I was leaning on the back wall. She pointedly said positive things to the teeny-weenie "poetess" seated nearby, averting her eyes as she passed by me.

The one male about my age . .

. . who I thought by his thoughtful look might actually be on my side, came over and said he liked my poem. He then opened up a political discussion of how we must somehow come together as a nation. I asked:

"Does starting off an open mic by demeaning the president-elect's genitalia, brain size, and children qualify?"

The sweet lady came over and started in on him, mentioning Hillary's wars. He wouldn't hear any more of what she had to say because he didn't believe it, so she left the discussion. He said more than once:

"The problem is that I don't believe what you're saying about Hillary Clinton."

I agreed. That is indeed the problem.

He and millions of other Americans refuse to accept the facts about her. I don't know if it was the alcohol speaking — he seemed to be drinking water — but he then shouted:

"Until it's true, it's just bulls@%t!!"

This left me wondering if he meant until it's proven — or until it appears in the media he listens to?

Or is it until she's actually locked up.

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*how might they react if a man got up and said the same things about Hillary and her daughter?
**the actual differences are: 1) in a sea of corruption around Dilma Rouseff in Brazil, the legislature got her on a rather minor charge (fiddling with economic data); and, 2) guilty of a massive amount of corruption and numerous crimes herself, Hillary may never have the chance to be impeached.
***appearance of which, rolled in on a dolly by an organizer's ten-year-old son, met with great applause earlier.

"Insistence on Orthodoxy"

"The rumpus, ignited by a few eco-activists and fueled by a mad BBC bureaucracy, has demonstrated the sort of foot-stamping insistence on orthodoxy not seen during peacetime since Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth in the 17th century."

Quentin Letts

"Based On Nonsense"

"When someone says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? It’s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period."

"Demonization of CO2 is irrational at best and even modest warming is mostly beneficial."

MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen

"Policies to slow CO2 emissions are really based on nonsense. We are being led down a false path. To call carbon dioxide a pollutant is really Orwellian. You are calling something a pollutant that we all produce. Where does that lead us eventually?"

Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer

"We are dealing with pure political propaganda that has nothing to do with science."

Greenpeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore

SEE: Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims Ahead of UN Summit ‘Irrational’

"Wonderful, Beautiful Thing"

“The protest was a wonderful, beautiful thing. There’s a whole conservative world out there that’s not very nice.”

Inge-Lise Ameer

Vice Provost for Student Affairs

Dartmouth University

“Fuck you, you filthy white fucks!”

"Furthermore"

"Furthermore, we would like the mural of Wilson to be removed from Wilcox Dining Hall." 

Black Justice League

"National Decider"

"Not Serious"

"Rolling Stone Magazine admits its staff engaged in reckless behavior while covering this story, yet . . The reporter in question not only failed to apologize to members of Phi Kappa Psi, but doesn't even acknowledge the three witnesses she quoted in the article but never interviewed. This is a clear and sad indication that the magazine is not serious about its journalistic obligations."

Stephen Scipione, president

UVa Phi Kappa Psi chapter

"Red Cabin"

"Time Machine"

“If one had a 'time machine' and transported the united labor chieftains of America, plus three million government bureaucrats, back to the tenth century—would they be able to provide the medieval serf with electric light, refrigerators, automobiles, and television sets?”

Ayn Rand

"No Flag"

“[F]reedom of speech, in a space that aims to be as inclusive as possible[,] can be interpreted as hate speech . . Let it be resolved that ASUCI make every effort to make the Associated Students main lobby space as inclusive as possible . . Let it further be resolved that no flag, of any nation, may be hanged on the walls of the Associate Student main lobby space.”

Associated Students of University of California, Irvine

"Other People's Money"