Or, the essential difference between reciting some memorized lines, and actually being able to understand ramifications thereof.
1.I bet that many have notice how inciteful Hollywood actors can appear on screen, and how that changes when in an impromptu interview, speaking off the cuff. It becomes clear, quickly, that what one is witnessing is reality versus an illusion.
The very same phenomenon occurs when supporters of the Democrat Party are questioned. Beyond what they have plagiarized from the NYTimes, MSNBC, CNN, Comedy Central…..they cannot explain their vote.
2. Given this test….the fail miserably:
I can list dozens of Biden policies that are anti-American, and that I can attack.
Bet you can't do the same vis-a-vis Trump policies. And when you can't, you will have admitted that your sort are simply camp followers who are never allowed to think, or to question your masters.
It's a challenge for which Leftists are not prepared.
Or, try this: ask any of them to explain their vote for Biden, without mentioning Trump. One even suggested that policies don’t influence the determination: Why We Lost America…. (post#21)
3. Rule #2
To know what the Left is guilty of, just watch what they blame the other side of doing.
One can sense that they know how ignorant, how weak, how wrong they are as they attempt to blame the Right for their faults: how often do the Leftists call the Right a deprecating term for religion, a ‘cult,’ when it is the Democrats who referred to a recent President as god, Jesus and the messiah.
How about their attempt to label the Right as Nazis, when the Nazis were as Leftwing socialists as the Bolsheviks.
“American progressives, for the most part, did not disavow fascism until the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust became manifest during World War II. After the war, those progressives who had praised Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s had no choice but to dissociate themselves from fascism. “Accordingly,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “leftist intellectuals redefined fascism as 'right-wing' and projected their own sins onto conservatives, even as they continued to borrow heavily from fascist and pre-fascist thought.” This progressive campaign to recast fascism as the "right-wing" antithesis of communism was aided by Joseph Stalin, ....”
4. As those Hollywood phonies imagine themselves as brilliant, so the unidimensional Democrat voters see themselves as intellectuals. In both cases, nothing could be further from the truth.
“Minogue lists three variants in the intellectuals’ quest for meaning. (These developed after religion ceased to provide meaning for the intelligentsia.) The first is the idea of progress, which eventually spawned a Marxist version, and then, when communism’s promises proved disastrous, was incorporated into an alternative endeavor that abandoned the “quick fix of revolution” for a more gradual course of instructing the public in proper opinions.
“We may call it Olympianism,” he writes, because it is the project of an intellectual elite that believes that it enjoys superior enlightenment and that its business is to spread this benefit to those living on the lower slopes of human achievement. And just as Communism had been a political project passing itself off as the ultimate in scientific understanding, so Olympianism burrowed like a parasite into the most powerful institution of the emerging knowledge economy—the universities.” Minogue, “‘Christophobia’ and the West,” The New Criterion 21 (June 2003):4,9
5. This is certainly not the first time in history that the ignorant and easily led have provided an electorate that placed evil in the seat of power.
On March 12, 1938, Hitler’s troops rolled over the border from Germany, into Austria. This was the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into Greater Germany. Three days later, Hitler entered Vienna, greeted by an enthusiastic crowd of up to one million people. A plebiscite was held in less than a month, 10 April 1938, and 99.7% of Austrians voted to join the Third Reich.
Nov 12, 1933 93.5% of German electorate (43,000,000) voted in favor of Nazi policies.
1.I bet that many have notice how inciteful Hollywood actors can appear on screen, and how that changes when in an impromptu interview, speaking off the cuff. It becomes clear, quickly, that what one is witnessing is reality versus an illusion.
The very same phenomenon occurs when supporters of the Democrat Party are questioned. Beyond what they have plagiarized from the NYTimes, MSNBC, CNN, Comedy Central…..they cannot explain their vote.
2. Given this test….the fail miserably:
I can list dozens of Biden policies that are anti-American, and that I can attack.
Bet you can't do the same vis-a-vis Trump policies. And when you can't, you will have admitted that your sort are simply camp followers who are never allowed to think, or to question your masters.
It's a challenge for which Leftists are not prepared.
Or, try this: ask any of them to explain their vote for Biden, without mentioning Trump. One even suggested that policies don’t influence the determination: Why We Lost America…. (post#21)
3. Rule #2
To know what the Left is guilty of, just watch what they blame the other side of doing.
One can sense that they know how ignorant, how weak, how wrong they are as they attempt to blame the Right for their faults: how often do the Leftists call the Right a deprecating term for religion, a ‘cult,’ when it is the Democrats who referred to a recent President as god, Jesus and the messiah.
How about their attempt to label the Right as Nazis, when the Nazis were as Leftwing socialists as the Bolsheviks.
“American progressives, for the most part, did not disavow fascism until the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust became manifest during World War II. After the war, those progressives who had praised Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s had no choice but to dissociate themselves from fascism. “Accordingly,” writes Jonah Goldberg, “leftist intellectuals redefined fascism as 'right-wing' and projected their own sins onto conservatives, even as they continued to borrow heavily from fascist and pre-fascist thought.” This progressive campaign to recast fascism as the "right-wing" antithesis of communism was aided by Joseph Stalin, ....”
4. As those Hollywood phonies imagine themselves as brilliant, so the unidimensional Democrat voters see themselves as intellectuals. In both cases, nothing could be further from the truth.
“Minogue lists three variants in the intellectuals’ quest for meaning. (These developed after religion ceased to provide meaning for the intelligentsia.) The first is the idea of progress, which eventually spawned a Marxist version, and then, when communism’s promises proved disastrous, was incorporated into an alternative endeavor that abandoned the “quick fix of revolution” for a more gradual course of instructing the public in proper opinions.
“We may call it Olympianism,” he writes, because it is the project of an intellectual elite that believes that it enjoys superior enlightenment and that its business is to spread this benefit to those living on the lower slopes of human achievement. And just as Communism had been a political project passing itself off as the ultimate in scientific understanding, so Olympianism burrowed like a parasite into the most powerful institution of the emerging knowledge economy—the universities.” Minogue, “‘Christophobia’ and the West,” The New Criterion 21 (June 2003):4,9
5. This is certainly not the first time in history that the ignorant and easily led have provided an electorate that placed evil in the seat of power.
On March 12, 1938, Hitler’s troops rolled over the border from Germany, into Austria. This was the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into Greater Germany. Three days later, Hitler entered Vienna, greeted by an enthusiastic crowd of up to one million people. A plebiscite was held in less than a month, 10 April 1938, and 99.7% of Austrians voted to join the Third Reich.
Nov 12, 1933 93.5% of German electorate (43,000,000) voted in favor of Nazi policies.
