“People only believe in governments when they lose faith in themselves and their society,” Daniel Greenfield, the “Sultan Knish” writes:
The great work of the counterculture was destroying the faith of Americans in their own society, trampling their beliefs through the mud in a dozen different ways, demoralizing them, tearing down their culture and making a self-reliant individualism as difficult to sustain and as socially unacceptable as possible.
When the counterculture couldn’t attack directly through regulation, it attacked indirectly by wrecking the family. When it couldn’t get the numbers it needed quickly enough, it turned to immigration from failed states. That is the end result before us now.
An authoritarian state is a failed state. It represents a failure deeper than that of mere government, but of society. Before a state fails, its society fails. A culture can survive a failed state, but a failed culture cannot help produce anything except a failed state.
America is drifting into totalitarianism because of the left’s exploitation of social failures. The critical mass of social breakdowns, from gang violence to terrorism to poverty, justify the nanny state, the police state and all the other totalitarian states of authority. When there is nothing and no one else to trust, a failed society turns to a tyrant who can cut through all the red tape and govern with pen and phone.
Read the whole thing, which dovetails perfectly Jonah Goldberg and Fred Siegel’s books on the topic, and with Bill Whittle’s 2009 video on the Frankfurt School’s (sadly all-too-successful) efforts to undermine America during the mid-20th century:
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(Via Maggie’s Farm.)
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