1. I would guess that for many, the view of Leftism, Progressivsim, Liberalism, etc., is a positive one, after all....so very many vote that way.
This, in the face of the Holocaust, the Ukrainian Terror Famine, the blood purges, the Katyn Forest massacre, Mao's slaughter of millions, eugenics,....all of which are associated with the Left.....the outcomes of Leftism.
2. Perhaps this is due to a careless or misinformed study of history, or...if any were that old, the artifacts of earlier reforms by Progressives: Progressivism as an idea had arisen in the 1880’s, when America was transforming from a largely agricultural country into a burgeoning urban one.
But many Americans who had emigrated prior to the Civil War retained a certain moral nostalgia for their American past. While they enjoyed modernization, and wanted to share in the profits of industrial American, and the benefits of city life, they, somewhat paradoxically, yearned for the albeit mythological decency of a rural America.
a. The Progressive movement at first was made up of consumers and taxpayers who were challenging the accumulated wealth and power of the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, etc. But by 1912, it had become largely farmers and industrial workers seeking relief from the onerous power of the great monopolies.
James Chace, “1912,” p.100
3. No.... the excellent public relations enjoyed by the Left is due to carefully laid out plans to seize control of the education system, and the dissemination of information, e.g., the media.
The plan was to hide the villainous results of Leftism......It was a plan that worked.
a. The radicals of the sixties did not remain within the universities…They realized that the apocalypse never materialized. “…they were dropping off into environmentalism and consumerism and fatalism…I watched many of my old comrades apply to graduate school in universities they had failed to burn down, so they could get advanced degrees and spread the ideas that had been discredited in the streets under an academic cover.” Collier and Horowitz, “Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The Sixties,” p. 294-295.
b. “The radicals were not likely to go into business or the conventional practice of the professions. They were part of the chattering class, talkers interested in policy, politics, culture. They went into politics, print and electronic journalism, church bureaucracies, foundation staffs, Hollywood careers, public interest organizations, anywhere attitudes and opinions could be influenced. And they are exerting influence.”
Robert H. Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 51
3. So what is the patina of belief found in those who have a less than incisive understanding of the political realm?
What are the fragments of their political knowledge?
A pretty good and accurate summary of the result is the following:
"the belief in the 'Big-G' goodness of the Left, meaning all of the abstractions and ideologies of the revolutionaries and 'reformers,' those naive and egotistical zealots power-mad enough to force utopian transformation on the rest of us by government fiat, by mandatory 'inclusiveness,' and by police-backed diktat.
Here, the remains of social consciousness:
Left, good; Right, bad.
"The people, good; We, the People, 'imperialist.'
Individuals (especially businessmen) greedy.
Hollywood blacklist, bad.
Hollywood ten, martyrs (except "squealer" Dmytryk)
Communists: persecuted freethinkers. "Have you left no sense of decency?"
McCarthyism: repression
Mao, a favored philosopher.
Che Guevara, fashion statement
Ho Chi Minh, agrarian."
From Diana West's "American Betrayal," chapter eight.
All that's missing is education...real education, including the information about treason, treachery, genocides, gulags, massacres, oppression.....
You know...the little things.
This, in the face of the Holocaust, the Ukrainian Terror Famine, the blood purges, the Katyn Forest massacre, Mao's slaughter of millions, eugenics,....all of which are associated with the Left.....the outcomes of Leftism.
2. Perhaps this is due to a careless or misinformed study of history, or...if any were that old, the artifacts of earlier reforms by Progressives: Progressivism as an idea had arisen in the 1880’s, when America was transforming from a largely agricultural country into a burgeoning urban one.
But many Americans who had emigrated prior to the Civil War retained a certain moral nostalgia for their American past. While they enjoyed modernization, and wanted to share in the profits of industrial American, and the benefits of city life, they, somewhat paradoxically, yearned for the albeit mythological decency of a rural America.
a. The Progressive movement at first was made up of consumers and taxpayers who were challenging the accumulated wealth and power of the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, etc. But by 1912, it had become largely farmers and industrial workers seeking relief from the onerous power of the great monopolies.
James Chace, “1912,” p.100
3. No.... the excellent public relations enjoyed by the Left is due to carefully laid out plans to seize control of the education system, and the dissemination of information, e.g., the media.
The plan was to hide the villainous results of Leftism......It was a plan that worked.
a. The radicals of the sixties did not remain within the universities…They realized that the apocalypse never materialized. “…they were dropping off into environmentalism and consumerism and fatalism…I watched many of my old comrades apply to graduate school in universities they had failed to burn down, so they could get advanced degrees and spread the ideas that had been discredited in the streets under an academic cover.” Collier and Horowitz, “Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The Sixties,” p. 294-295.
b. “The radicals were not likely to go into business or the conventional practice of the professions. They were part of the chattering class, talkers interested in policy, politics, culture. They went into politics, print and electronic journalism, church bureaucracies, foundation staffs, Hollywood careers, public interest organizations, anywhere attitudes and opinions could be influenced. And they are exerting influence.”
Robert H. Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 51
3. So what is the patina of belief found in those who have a less than incisive understanding of the political realm?
What are the fragments of their political knowledge?
A pretty good and accurate summary of the result is the following:
"the belief in the 'Big-G' goodness of the Left, meaning all of the abstractions and ideologies of the revolutionaries and 'reformers,' those naive and egotistical zealots power-mad enough to force utopian transformation on the rest of us by government fiat, by mandatory 'inclusiveness,' and by police-backed diktat.
Here, the remains of social consciousness:
Left, good; Right, bad.
"The people, good; We, the People, 'imperialist.'
Individuals (especially businessmen) greedy.
Hollywood blacklist, bad.
Hollywood ten, martyrs (except "squealer" Dmytryk)
Communists: persecuted freethinkers. "Have you left no sense of decency?"
McCarthyism: repression
Mao, a favored philosopher.
Che Guevara, fashion statement
Ho Chi Minh, agrarian."
From Diana West's "American Betrayal," chapter eight.
All that's missing is education...real education, including the information about treason, treachery, genocides, gulags, massacres, oppression.....
You know...the little things.
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