Wanted: Those With IQs Over 85:

[Meathead]

Racist!

If Condell is a racist then that's a good thing to be.

It was the demand of an 85 IQ that was racist.

 

[Tehon]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

Marx told you that capitalism wouldn't deliver your emancipation.

 

[gipper]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

Marx told you that capitalism wouldn't deliver your emancipation.

But you think Marxism will.

 

[Tehon]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

Marx told you that capitalism wouldn't deliver your emancipation.

But you think Marxism will.

Of course.

 

[Tehon]

The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discover

 

[ChrisL]

Professor rejects Marxism after traveling the globe: 'Socialism doesn’t work' - The College Fix

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Jack Stauder says his political and ideological conversion away from socialism and Marxism occurred when he actually witnessed these systems in action.

After traveling to more than 110 countries to pursue various forms of research, notably cultural anthropology, Stauder described his conversion from Marxism as a process of disillusionment.

“I gradually became disenchanted with Marxism by visiting many of the countries that had tried to shape their societies to conform to its doctrines. I was disillusioned by the realities I saw in … socialist countries – the USSR, Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, etc,” Stauder told The College Fix via email.

“I came to recognize that socialism doesn’t work, and that its ‘revolutionary’ imposition inevitably leads to cruelty, injustice and the loss of freedom,” the professor continued.

“I could see the same pattern in the many failed left-wing revolutions of Latin America and elsewhere. By combining actual travel with the historical study of socialism and revolution, I succeeded in disabusing myself of the utopian notions that fatally attract people to leftist ideas.”

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Re-embracing his Western farming and ranching homes of Colorado and New Mexico also helped solidify Stauder’s rejection of leftist ideals, he said.

“Returning to my roots also helped my transition away from the leftist ideology that exists in the intellectual atmosphere of university life,” Stauder noted. “By spending my summers in the Southwest in the company of rural working people, farmers and ranchers, I developed perspectives on the real world very different from those that prevail in the academic world.”

Academic institutions are breeding grounds for leftist ideals, according to Stauder, as “academics in general are intellectuals, and hence susceptible to ideologies.”

“People seem to feel the need to believe in something, and when intellectuals abandon traditional religion, as most have done, they tend to seek substitutes,”

he said.

Political campus movements against the Vietnam war in the 1960s and 1970s inspired Stauder’s initial interest in leftist political ideals. For many years, he identified as a Marxist and a radical.

These protests were common and influential on the campuses where he studied and worked, notably that of Harvard College. There, Stauder began his undergraduate career studying American history and literature and eventually switched to cultural anthropology after working with a Maya community in Chiapas, Mexico. This experience inspired him to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology at Cambridge University in England.

Stauder’s most recent research bridges anthropology and ecology and he recently published The Blue and the Green: A Cultural Ecological History of an Arizona Ranching Community.

When asked about the current bias in academia, Stauder pointed to the overwhelming amount of research confirming a leftist bias.

“Academia has developed its own culture, a subset of the wider elite culture of the ‘new upper class’ (see Charles Murray, Coming Apart). As in all cultures, pressures exist to conform one’s thoughts and actions, and those who do not conform tend to be marginalized or suppressed,” Stauder said.

Though it may be challenging, Stauder encourages professors simply to “be individuals. Seek the truth, and stand by it.”

 

[gipper]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

Marx told you that capitalism wouldn't deliver your emancipation.

But you think Marxism will.

Of course.

It won’t.

 

[Marion Morrison]

The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discover

That's a good read, thanks!

 

[SeaGal]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

This guy is spot on with all his vids.

I was on a forum with quite a few Europeans they insist it is not that bad. But they protest in the foulest way. They make me believe it is probably worse.

There are a number of Italians who are very concerned about the 'soft totalitarianism' and loss of sovereignty, self-determination - and some even believe it is too late for Italy to turn back.

Right up until the morning of her birthday on Dec. 7, 1941 my grandmother believed that the 'goings-on' in Europe were of no concern to America. The 'goings-on' in the 20th century have shown us otherwise.

 

[ChrisL]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

This guy is spot on with all his vids.

I was on a forum with quite a few Europeans they insist it is not that bad. But they protest in the foulest way. They make me believe it is probably worse.

There are a number of Italians who are very concerned about the 'soft totalitarianism' and loss of sovereignty, self-determination - and some even believe it is too late for Italy to turn back.

Right up until the morning of her birthday on Dec. 7, 1941 my grandmother believed that the 'goings-on' in Europe were of no concern to America. The 'goings-on' in the 20th century have shown us otherwise.

It's not that it's necessarily of no concern. It's that we don't have a vote over there. Our opinions on what they are doing are pretty much just that, opinions.

 

[ChrisL]

I'm a lot more concerned with what is happening in my own country and need to clean up our own house before sticking our noses in everyone else's business.

 

[Votto]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

What this fool does not understand is democracy does no good if people are either stupid and/or devoid of morality.

I'm reminded of an article that said that the world wide IQ average is 86. Add to that the war against religion this fool participates in, and what you have are a bunch of dolts who go over to the Middle East and forcibly create a democracy only to find that the people vote in terrorists like we see time and time again.

No, the religion of democracy is a lie, even the Founding Fathers recognized the perils of it, which is why they created a Republic. Ben Franklin properly surmised that freedom can only be given to a moral people and because of this, the Constitution would properly be adhered to until the morality of the populace went south, which was eventually inevitable. Thus his war on God is mostly to blame. What fills in the God gap is the religion of statism. Something always tries to fill that void.

As for his assertion that the EU is a totalitarian type set up devoid of adequate representation, he is spot on. Why would England give up their freedom willingly from main land Europe after fighting two bloody world wars to preserve it?

 

[SeaGal]

I'm a lot more concerned with what is happening in my own country and need to clean up our own house before sticking our noses in everyone else's business.

I understand and agree, there's little we can do, other than learn from mistakes, hopefully. As part of NATO, is it ok for the US to be concerned, or aware, of what is happening in Europe. The world seems so much smaller today.

 

[rightwinger]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

Europe is more at peace today than at any time in the last thousand years

 

[anotherlife]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

Europe is more at peace today than at any time in the last thousand years

No. Just because now there is an absolute lock on power in Europe, it doesn't mean that Europe is at peace.

The Roman Empire didn't stand for peace either.

 

[Lastamender]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

Europe is more at peace today than at any time in the last thousand years

And you do not count terror attacks, beatings, rapes, and intimidation the citizens suffer daily? The leaders over there are out of touch, even more than progressives and Democrats are here.

 

[MikeK]

Europe is more at peace today than at any time in the last thousand years

Externally, perhaps. But look at what is happening there internally. They've been invaded in a manner so unique it's caught them with their pants down.

 

[rightwinger]

Who are willing to take the time to listen to what this fellow has to say.

Europe is more at peace today than at any time in the last thousand years

No. Just because now there is an absolute lock on power in Europe, it doesn't mean that Europe is at peace.

The Roman Empire didn't stand for peace either.

Europe has spent centuries fighting each other

Their problems today are comparatively trivial

 

[rightwinger]

Europe is more at peace today than at any time in the last thousand years

Externally, perhaps. But look at what is happening there internally. They've been invaded in a manner so unique it's caught them with their pants down.

Civil matter

Far from a threat to bring down the country

 

[MikeK]

Civil matter

Far from a threat to bring down the country

At the immediate time, perhaps.

But based on readily available (YouTube, et al) information the civil authorities in Germany, France, and England are having a hell of a time containing and controlling the invasive migrants who, at this time, are unarmed. But ISIS is committed to smuggle arms to the militant migrants (why are there 90% military-age male migrants?) which will severely compromise those nations' ability to defend themselves.

While there might not be any immediate military threat, don't ignore the clearly visible potential. Shortly after WW-II, in a speech by President Dwight Eisenhower, he said something to the effect that a nation which is too powerful to be defeated from without should not ignore its internal vulnerability. At that time his underlying reference was communism (i.e., Russia, et al) but I believe the current threat, radical Islam, is far more dangerous because of the suicidal nature of its shahids. Because one fighter who is ready and willing to die is more menacing than a hundred who are not, so think of every 100 military-age Muslim migrants living within our borders as a potential 100,000 enemy soldiers.

Sometimes it's better to be a little paranoid than a little too naive.