Wizard22 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 12:14 pm
When Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi started repeating the mockingbird phrase "
our democracy!" under Trump's presidency, they outed themselves, and I got clued into what they were referring to. They attempt to make themselves the political, cultural, social 'overclass'.
Yes, yes...that's exactly right.
When they use the phrase "a threat
to our democracy," they do not mean "to the right of everybody (including 'deplorables') to vote in the way they wish: they mean, "these objectors are undermining our attempt to impose the will of [our Socialist] People." So "threat to democracy" means, for them, "threat to Socialism."
The problem with their shameless political power grab, is that they don't know what this implies between conservatives and liberals across Western Civilization. If they think Conservatives are just going to allow the West to create a two class system, Over and Under, they are mistaken. Conservatives won't go down without a fight. And liberals want a fight. The goading is leading to it. The provocations can only go so far.
But they're very much aware of this. And they don't want a fair fight on a level playing field. They'd lose, and they know they'd lose; because Socialism being a totalizing system, all it takes to defeat it is the presence of some dissent, some opting out, some people who refuse to go along with the social engineering they want to impose. This is precisely the purpose of their propaganda -- to bewilder and confuse opposition, but "co-opting" (that's their term) the moral language of conservatism and liberalism to serve their agenda. This is why ambiguous terms -- or rather, terms they to which they themselves have added a second ambiguous layer of meaning) such as "democracy," "the people," "equality-equity," "diversity," "inclusion," "oppression," and so on, are so vital to their strategy. An unconfused populace would refuse them: a confused one may go along with them, especially if the Socialists can convince everybody they've got the moral high ground on their side.
This is not at all speculation. It's very deliberate. For anyone who doubts, may I commend a short reading of either Alinsky or the more recent, updated pro-Socialist strategy manual, titled "Beautiful Trouble," by Andrew Boyd.
Trump, January 6th, the Antifa-BLM riots...these are all symptoms of what's coming, not what once was.
Definitely so.
The Liberal-Left seem to now only govern with emotion, pathology, and have completely abandoned reason, rationality, to the Conservative-Right.
Don't underestimate the devilishness of that. It's not an accident, and not lunatic on their side. They are doing it deliberately, and for strategic reasons. As I said above, they know they'll lose on a level playing field. So they're making sure that all the things that can destroy them -- logic, science, reason, information, history, open dialogue, democracy, and so on, are simply pushed off the playing field before the "game" begins. And they have cunningly realized that most people operate far more on emotion than on reason; so they've seized the emotion side of the equation, and they're working it as hard as they can.
Why do you think they call the other side things like
"oppressor," "wrong side of history," "unempathetic," "racist-sexist-homophobe-Islamophobe-fatphobe" or "Nazi"? These are not reasoned judgments aimed at imparting information to the public: these are incendiary bombs being dropped on the moral and emotional reactions of the public. It makes the public jump suddenly to their side, yelling, "I'm not that!" and not taking time or using reason to judge whether or not such claims are warranted at all.
The Left today wants nothing to do with actual reason, evidence, science, history, identity, truth, logic, morality, tradition, text, data, etc. Why do you think they're working so hard to denigrate all these, and to purge the universities of their authority? It's because all these things are their enemies...and they know it, and they are deliberately trying to force the public to accept adjudication from emotion and propaganda, instead.
And so far, it has seemed to work quite well for them. And the mass media have been essential to their successes, so far.
