Saturday, September 05, 2009

"I'M A LOSER BABY, SO WHY DONCHA KILL ME."

American Thinker quotes:
Exaggerated self-criticism would be a harmless luxury of civilization if there were no enemy at the gate condemning democracy's very existence. But it becomes dangerous when it portrays its mortal enemy as always being in the right. Extravagant criticism is a good propaganda device in internal politics. But if it is repeated often enough, it is finally believed. And where will the citizens of democratic societies find reasons to resist the enemy outside if they are persuaded from childhood that their civilization is merely an accumulation of failures and a monstrous imposture?
- Jean Francois Revel, How Democracies Perish

"Extravagant criticism" and "Exaggerated self-criticism" are perhaps the best descriptions for one of the fundamental strategies used by America's radical left to gain and keep power. This ever-present ploy is used at every level, from the White House to town hall meetings, to deceive, manipulate and control our restive citizens. It has permeated academia and the press. Even the Republican Party consistently and discouragingly falls for its deceits, repeating obvious propaganda inserted into the national debate by a Democratic Party that is unabashedly socialist....

"But democracy can defend itself only very feebly; its internal enemy has an easy time of it because he exploits the right to disagree that is inherent in democracy. His aim of destroying democracy itself, of actively seeking an absolute monopoly of power, is shrewdly hidden behind the citizen's right to oppose and criticize the system. Paradoxically, democracy offers those seeking to abolish it a unique opportunity to work against it legally. They can even receive almost open support from the external enemy without its being seen as a truly serious violation of the social contract. The frontier is vague, the transition easy between the status of a loyal opponent wielding a privilege built into democratic institutions and that of an adversary subverting those institutions. To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying it principles."

You don't need to ask your child what they learned in school today. This is what they've learned. It's what I learned in college and what sent me careening out into the insanity of far-left "community organizing" for so many years. What's strange is that hating what you're a part of means that you hate yourself, no matter how you try to position yourself outside of the body of America ( and Lord, I tried! Dreadlocks, avoiding making money, hangin' on the street) It is nothing more than self-deception. It's a horrible, horrible way to live.


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