1. For a full century after the Civil War, the Democrat Party was correctly identified as the party of slavery and segregation. In fact.....they killed every anti-lynching bill that made its way to the Senate. Democrats.
Then, the party saw the light...or at least saw a method to make itself supreme: don the mantle of civil rights. But not via an apology and admission of its dark past, but, controlling the schools and the media allowed it to blow smoke, and pretend that it had always been such.
2. The agenda, the ladder to the top, had very specific rungs: in the 1960's, they told America that black people could not control their own economic destiny due to centuries of racism and segregation. Of course, the trick was not mentioning that they were the racists and segregationists.
a. "Despite frequent assertions to the contrary, many seemingly intractable problems encountered by a significant number of black Americans do not result from racial discrimination, but rather from the policies, regulations, and restrictions emanating from federal, state, and local government. The free market and the profit motive, far from enemies to blacks, have been their friends. The real threat are the coercive powers of government, used to stifle market competition. They are the limitations on black socioeconomic progress, not racial discrimination."
Race & Economics, by Walter E. Williams, chapter one.
b. " Then there is the mistaken belief that the rise of blacks from poverty into middle class occupations can be traced from some time after the 60s civil rights movement and government actions, when, in reality, the most dramatic improvements occurred in the to decades prior to the 60s!"
Thomas Sowell, "Economic Facts and Fallacies," chapter eight.
3. Next, the nation 'learned' that white Americans could only "atone for the sins of slavery and segregation through support of poverty programs and by the redistribution of their wealth via taxation. Black Americans were told that greed was the reason wealthy whites prospered ad that those wealthy whites were to blame for economic barriers that stopped blacks from obtaining success. Anyone who disagreed was labeled a bigot." Star Parker, "Uncle Sam's Plantation," p. 74.
And lots of good-hearted Americans bought it like it was on sale!
4. Once the poor bought into these ideas, which, one must admit, are very attractive: "it's not your fault, and you're not responsible for taking any actions..." then the social engineers of the Left were able to take control housing, schooling, childcare, healthcare, abortion, and...coming soon: euthanasia. Via this step in the agenda, Leftism came to be seen as the new religion, called statism....or Liberalism.
a. Don't think that religion itself hasn't played a role!
"In the early Twenties the Communist Party made considerable gains in its program to infiltrate the mainline Protestant churches. This effort was led by such prominent "American" clergymen as Harry F. Ward ( "one of the leading collaborators of, and apologists for, the Soviet Union." ...), Jerome Davis, William B. Spofford, and Albert Rhys Williams. at the 1942 convention of the Federal Council of Churches called for: Ultimately, "a world government of delegated powers." Complete abandonment of U.S. isolationism. Strong immediate limitations on national sovereignty. International control of all armies and navies. A universal system of money.... Worldwide freedom of immigration. Progressive elimination of all tariff and quota restrictions on world trade .... A "democratically controlled" international bank ....
APOSTASY -- The National Council Of Churches
5. Well, it's been a great ride while it lasted, the first hundred years makes for inspiring reading....but the recent hundred represents a cautionary tale...for whom? I really don't know.
Perhaps some future folks will look back and recognize the flaws in human nature that always seem to lead people to be envious, to be lazy, to want someone else to take care of them, and are willing to rationalize whatever they want as something they need. Then again, the warnings were there this time, and no one paid heed to Alexis de Tocqueville when he predicted what we would become, almost 200 years ago.
So....start accumulating mementos of the late, great United States of America....your great-grand-kids may be able to hawk 'em on some future Ebay....
Then, the party saw the light...or at least saw a method to make itself supreme: don the mantle of civil rights. But not via an apology and admission of its dark past, but, controlling the schools and the media allowed it to blow smoke, and pretend that it had always been such.
2. The agenda, the ladder to the top, had very specific rungs: in the 1960's, they told America that black people could not control their own economic destiny due to centuries of racism and segregation. Of course, the trick was not mentioning that they were the racists and segregationists.
a. "Despite frequent assertions to the contrary, many seemingly intractable problems encountered by a significant number of black Americans do not result from racial discrimination, but rather from the policies, regulations, and restrictions emanating from federal, state, and local government. The free market and the profit motive, far from enemies to blacks, have been their friends. The real threat are the coercive powers of government, used to stifle market competition. They are the limitations on black socioeconomic progress, not racial discrimination."
Race & Economics, by Walter E. Williams, chapter one.
b. " Then there is the mistaken belief that the rise of blacks from poverty into middle class occupations can be traced from some time after the 60s civil rights movement and government actions, when, in reality, the most dramatic improvements occurred in the to decades prior to the 60s!"
Thomas Sowell, "Economic Facts and Fallacies," chapter eight.
3. Next, the nation 'learned' that white Americans could only "atone for the sins of slavery and segregation through support of poverty programs and by the redistribution of their wealth via taxation. Black Americans were told that greed was the reason wealthy whites prospered ad that those wealthy whites were to blame for economic barriers that stopped blacks from obtaining success. Anyone who disagreed was labeled a bigot." Star Parker, "Uncle Sam's Plantation," p. 74.
And lots of good-hearted Americans bought it like it was on sale!
4. Once the poor bought into these ideas, which, one must admit, are very attractive: "it's not your fault, and you're not responsible for taking any actions..." then the social engineers of the Left were able to take control housing, schooling, childcare, healthcare, abortion, and...coming soon: euthanasia. Via this step in the agenda, Leftism came to be seen as the new religion, called statism....or Liberalism.
a. Don't think that religion itself hasn't played a role!
"In the early Twenties the Communist Party made considerable gains in its program to infiltrate the mainline Protestant churches. This effort was led by such prominent "American" clergymen as Harry F. Ward ( "one of the leading collaborators of, and apologists for, the Soviet Union." ...), Jerome Davis, William B. Spofford, and Albert Rhys Williams. at the 1942 convention of the Federal Council of Churches called for: Ultimately, "a world government of delegated powers." Complete abandonment of U.S. isolationism. Strong immediate limitations on national sovereignty. International control of all armies and navies. A universal system of money.... Worldwide freedom of immigration. Progressive elimination of all tariff and quota restrictions on world trade .... A "democratically controlled" international bank ....
APOSTASY -- The National Council Of Churches
5. Well, it's been a great ride while it lasted, the first hundred years makes for inspiring reading....but the recent hundred represents a cautionary tale...for whom? I really don't know.
Perhaps some future folks will look back and recognize the flaws in human nature that always seem to lead people to be envious, to be lazy, to want someone else to take care of them, and are willing to rationalize whatever they want as something they need. Then again, the warnings were there this time, and no one paid heed to Alexis de Tocqueville when he predicted what we would become, almost 200 years ago.
So....start accumulating mementos of the late, great United States of America....your great-grand-kids may be able to hawk 'em on some future Ebay....
