I loved this piece, David. Not only because I learned something and had fun doing so, which is always thrilling…but because it described the disease of leftism in a new and powerful way.
Post-modern Leftism has its roots elsewhere, most notably in the many followers of Marx and Mao. It has left behind a trail of blood, lies and distortion. It cannot stand on its own merit, so it must “own” the “truth”…by whatever means of deceit it can muster. Most importantly, it must not only be free of investigation and interrogation…it must own the questioner’s fealty. Being so full of hypocrisies and fake, false and planted “memories”….it not only lives on revisionism, it must constantly be writing daily…new revisions.
In other words, to live a life as a leftist, one must abandon truth and conscience.
There are some basic rules:
1)A seminal premise of post-modern leftism is to hate America and Israel.
2)Because you must hate America and Israel, you must gloss over any and all acts of their enemies, especially any act taken against them.
3)You must find financial success under the free market or capitalist system to be antithetical to every fiber of your being.
4)If you achieve financial success as a leftist, you must make loud, obnoxious, grandiose gestures of “system loathing” and dedicate yourself to the destruction, tearing down…overthrow, of that very system. Becoming a Godfather to the mindless lemmings and useful idiots grants you absolution. Planting false memories and revisionist history into the written record allows you to march along the Bridge Over Truffled Waters without missing a step or being called a hypocrite.
False memories are to be seared seared into your brain, your very treasons are held up as proof positive of your greatness. You can get away with creating a completely false history (Howard Zinn), stock manipulation, media manipulation and breaking an entire country (George Soros), manslaughter (Ted Kennedy), Logan Act violations (Jimmy Carter)…even murder.
To accomplish institutionalized leftism you need a compliant, weak and corrupt media. It cannot and does not work without propaganda replacing ethical journalism. In fact, the cornerstone of post-modern leftism is the removal of integrity and honor from the Fourth Estate and turning them into the Fifth Column.
Chomsky, Zinn, Moore, all have the same modus operandi. Paint a landscape full of lies, distortions, half-truths, false memories…and present them as “proof” of a slander. One can create a cottage industry out of whole cloth and then watch as the slobbering lapdog media covers your tracks AND elevates you to Godfatherdom status. Of course, Hollywood has always been a bastion of leftist agitprop, useful in sealing shut the minds of the useful idiots.
Two problems have arisen most recently in our traipse through this journey of ours, David. In propping up enemies of America and Israel, one could swat away the annoyance of the various buzzing gnats and flies of Euro-socialism, the sniping from the sideline of various hippie dreamers and the acid flashback goofs from Woodstock Nation…while they were permanently out of any real power.
But, they seized power. And, while this current administration and the leader of the freak world at the top of it have been criticized by the far, far, far left for not driving a stake through the heart of America and Israel fast enough, hard enough, deep enough…we have suffered the tearing down of our system in so many ways, it will take us decades to repair the damage.
Worse, in looking for enemies of America and Israel to climb into bed with…the leftists have stumbled upon a snarling cur that they have adopted as a pet…and one they cannot control. There is no leash strong enough to contain radical Islam. The apology tour and “like us, we hippies are your friends” act is a shot of adrenaline for the bloodthirsty. In their rush to tear down America and Israel, the Woodstock wimps are no match for the Arab Winter they have unleashed.
Destroying capitalism is not the end game for radical Islam.
As with Chomsky’s “intelligence for imbeciles”, leftism has played a rigged game with phony rules…and still lost. Because those who had a mandate to protect us by investigating and interrogating left their posts, gave up their honor, spit upon their integrity…abandoned their posts and put us in imminent peril.
So hellbent were they to overthrow free market enterprise, they put the world in jeopardy. No, it didn’t end today. That prediction was too early.
But, in a world where Chomsky is hailed as a genius, where treason wears a champion’s ring, where truth is a trifling thing…it couldn’t have ended today. It was already long gone.
