There really are people out there praising high gas prices.
Duh! They’re called “Marxists”. And it’s not surprising in the least considering that their ultimate goal is – and always has been – to slowly erode capitalist economic systems via taxation, regulation, and class anger. It’s what Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) called “the long march through the culture”.
In brief, in the late 1800’s/early 1900s, Marxists weren’t having much success in stirring up violent revolutions amongst the masses of ignorant Western rubes. Gramsci postulated that the reason why was because the rubes were too mentally/spiritually bound to the underlying cultural foundation of Western Civilization – mainly, Christianity. So what to do?
Gramsci hit upon the plan that we’ve been seeing unfold in the West for the past 50+ years: stop attacking the capitalists and start attacking the culture.
But why?
“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.”
- GK Chesterton
The human ego can’t find sustenance in itself…we need to believe in something, or else life becomes a horror of chance and nihilism. The Marxists know that if they can break Christianity’s grip on the West, then people will need to turn to something larger than themselves to which they can feel connected.
The Marxist answer to that need is an all-powerful state.
But to get there, they first need to undo the current culture…and the first step towards accomplishing this is to gain control of the 3 major conduits of information dissemination in the West – i.e. education, entertainment, and news media.
They targeted the universities first, going after the throngs of naive, impressionable students that entered every year. After graduating, those same students moved into positions in education, entertainment, and news media. And as time has passed, those students have become the elites in those instutions: school teachers, principals, and superintendents…tenured professors, deans, college presidents…journalists, senior editors…directors, executive producers, studio heads.
Now, these “intellectuals” are in the position to “shape” the minds of future leaders, promoting what they believe is just simple, decent, small “l” liberalism. The funny thing is is that the vast majority of these people probably have no idea of the real ideology that they’re promulgating (see “Useful Idiot”).
Fifty years later, Marxism’s “useful idiots” have been allowed to gain absolute control over the conduits of information. And they’ve been using that control to promote and cover for the political party that is most amenable to “liberal” thought – i.e. Democrats. And for the past 50 years, Democrat politicians have been busy promoting policies that will eventually cause a meltdown of this country’s capitalist system – i.e. ridiculously unmanageable entitlements like welfare, Social Security, Medicaid/Medicare, and coming soon!…Universal Health Care!; ridiculous environmental initiatives like no drilling, no new refineries, no nuke plants, and coming soon!…the Save the Polar Bears/Great and Wonderful Gore Tax!
What’s going on – or rather, what’s not going on – with our energy policy is a perfect illustration of this phenomenon, as their goal, of course, is to eventually nationalize energy production.
You see, the Left has given up on trying to convince all of us ignorant rubes as to the superiority of their brilliance and morality. Everything now is being done piecemeal, using the old frog-in-the-frying-pan tactic. Instead of just coming out and saying what their intentions are, they gently place us in the pan and slowly turn up the heat by 1) appealing to race/sex/class envy and populism and 2) threatening critics with the labels of “Racist!” and “Sexist!” and “Nazi!”
Regarding the energy policy, there goals are two-fold. First, fatally weaken “Big Oil!” by refusing to let oil companies drill where the oil is located, thus ensuring that they will eventually go under. Second, make consumers so angry about high energy prices that Democrats – the same party that is to blame for the nation’s lack of energy independence – can then turn and say, “Hey, why don’t we just nationalize the American oil industry?!? We can even subsidize prices for you, Joe Six-Pack…we’ll just raise taxes on those E-e-e-v-il Corporations! Heck, we’ll even be able to open up the coastlines and Alaska for drilling then…because there won’t be any chance for accidents or exploitation now that the greed and sloppiness of the E-e-e-v-il Corporations has been taken out of the equation!”
And will anyone say “But you’re the ones who’ve caused this problem in the first place!” Of course not! Because the media that should be informing the public are fellow travelers on the Democrats political train. They will actually provide cover for them as they do it!
And all the ignorant rubes (i.e. Democrats) will cheer “Yay!!!!”
It’s the exact same tactic they’re taking with health insurance “reform”. They can’t come right out and say “we’re going to nationalize American health insurance” because it opens up the floor for the American public to get real information about the mind-exploding cost that will be involved. So, instead, they’re going to create a government-funded “alternative” at first…then slowly turn up the heat.
Here’s how it will work: the US gov’t will offer all Americans the “option” of receiving a gov’t health insurance policy…”but it’s not going to be univeral health insurance, cuz you’re still going to have the choice of keeping your private health insurance if you want to!”
Sounds reasonable, right? WRONG! Because it’s just a ruse to fool people into opening the entitlement door…a door that, once opened, they know can’t be closed again. Once they get the go-ahead, the gov’t is going to be able to offer their insurance at a much lower cost than private companies. How? Because unlike private-sector companies, the gov’t can simply put off paying the actual costs of the services rendered by rolling it up into the national debt. IOW, they’ll simply subsidize the costs by dumping the real costs off onto future generations – and most importantly, future tax increases. So, over time, private companies won’t be able to compete and will go under. Et, voila! Universal health care!
People, we can talk about “adhering to conservative principles” until we’re blue in the face…until we break the stanglehold the Marxists have on our cultural institutions, we are facing a Sisyphean task of futility. Eventually, these people are going to do damage to Western Civilization that won’t be fixable by any means. And when they’ve succeeded in creating enough economic distress (think another Great Depression type event), they’re counting on people panicking enough to simply turn over power to them.
“That will never happen! People aren’t that stupid!” But they will be that scared…and scared people do really stupid things. Espcecially when they’ve lived a life of utter ease and comfort and are really, truly afraid that it might be taken away from them.
It’s time for us all to start being very concerned people. But it’s even more time for us all to start having the courage of our convictions and screaming out so that maybe – just maybe – enough people may begin to notice the gathering storm.
