I’ve already done a post on this. And M. C. A. Hogarth did an excellent post on this. So, why do the third? Well, because we’re talked about the effect of the deeper game in not fighting back against the let’s unrelenting, ceaseless attacks.
But we’ve not talked about the effect on those who fight. Or what you’re doing to them. Yes, you. That the enemy will attack them, is a given. That you choose to condemn them to whatever the other side wishes on them is however on your conscience. And should be.
First let’s establish the situation, shall we?
Before I was born — I turn 62 this year — the left had captured and commanded all the institutions and definitely all means of mass communication.
What this meant is that they defined what was real, what was sane and what was possible.
This take over of the institutions was specifically sponsored by the USSR which first took over communications and schools. Whether the take over of educators (prior to taking over education) was facilitated by the fact that WWI had stripped the previous ideals from people who were never very reality-oriented and therefore more than willing to replace one airy-fairy ideology “our nation is better than all others and destined to empire” with another “No nations (except low key the USSR) and international communism.” I leave as an exercise for the reader. To me it seems obvious that WWI set this domino up, and the only way the disillusioned people could recover their self esteem and ideas of being the smartest ever was to come up with another overarching ideology that replaced the fallen one. (While on this our mistake when the USSR fell was not offering the same set of people a “just so/explains all philosophy” so like the dog to his vomit they went back to communism. Let’s come up with something better. Let’s give them USAanism this time.)
Anyway, by the time the Nazis were defeated, the USSR had gotten hold of the communications and arts and education in most of the allied countries. No, it wasn’t open, but if you go back it was blatant. And part of it was just that the winning of WWII also convinced a vast number of people that the government could do everything now.
How much that had to do with the press not reporting how fraught that win was or that things like rationing were actually injurious to the war effort is something else.
It’s also a piece with how they kept control until very recently, and how a lot of you will fight me tooth and nail on “But they weren’t in control.” Oh, but they were. They shaped everything people saw. They just couldn’t come out openly. However most of the history you think you know for the twentieth century is either subtly shaded or an outright lie.
Then how was the USSR defeated? Well, partly because communism just doesn’t work. It just doesn’t. It’s an academically perfect way to starve out and destroy a nation, not to build anything, and certainly not to live.
But also because some people continued fighting. They had to fight with both legs in a bucket of cement, mind, but some people were just that cussed. People like Ronald Reagan and the other people he assembled around him, all of them determined to destroy the USSR.
And I know a lot of you will say stuff about how he didn’t do enough, etc. This is a mirage caused by the fact the times have changed. While the left controlled every means of communication, it was impossible to be out there, and get everything the Freedom Lovers wanted and not get destroyed.
As it was, it was touch and go. The left commanded enough of the opinion making, that Reagan got called crazy, and a warmonger, and evil, and above all –persistently — stupid. Even P. J. O’Rourke called him “His dumbness.”
When intelligence is defined by parroting communist cant, then someone who doesn’t is “stupid.”
As was his every utterance was distorted to make him sound totalitarian. And everyone abroad knew he was “a Nazi.” So has every Republican president been. EVERY ONE OF THEM. And every candidate. Even McCain who was really a soft-communist. (I’m not using socialist, because socialism is just the way to communism, and every communist nation calls itself a socialist republic. So I’m not indulging their desire to use shading to hide what they are anymore. And yes, our democrats are “socialist” but really communists, just hiding. Look at what they’re trying to do, from making the vote a merely show activity to silencing opinion, to controlling production and who can use what, to wealth taxes. They’re communists. There is no difference from the USSR’s plans. They even want 5 year plans.)
But Reagan took the hits. And he was already bit enough by the time he was elected and was savvy enough that they couldn’t stop him. Which meant the USSR fell, because it couldn’t continue without the complicity and connivance of the US government. Couldn’t survive without massive quantities of wheat, charitable shipments and ridiculous concessions from our presidents which allowed the USSR to swallow ever-increasing territory they could leech for sustenance.
Well, the USSR fell, but we didn’t give the loonies any other system they could use to feed their sense of unearned superiority. And the loons in the academic and communication system need that. So after a few years of fumbling, they went up to communism, telling themselves it had never been tried before. Not real communism.
And here we are. If it weren’t for the fact that we now have other means of communication and expression, we’d already be under the boot.
Well, that and because they still have their basic problem: Communism doesn’t work. Fascism does, barely, for a time, which is why China fell from Communism into the facto fascism. And why the system they’re trying to impose here is fascism under the rhetoric of communism. But the thing is — looks at China — that even fascism only works for a time.
Look, it’s the totalitarian, bureaucratic aspects, combined with an ideology that doesn’t mesh with the real world. What they think is inevitable, or perfect, or necessary NEVER WORKS. But everyone lies up the line, so people think it does, and it’s just them failing, or something. Until the wheels come off. And they always come off. And come off spectacularly.
All these centrally controlled, ideologically-infected systems have the fundamental problem of treating humans like widgets and governmental proclamations as laws of nature. None of them account for unintended consequences, which always bite them in the butt. And none of them can feed even the diminished population their starvation and lack of reproduction policies create.
To the extent they limp on is due to the fact that America, even hampered as it has been, has remained free enough in essentials that we can feed and clothe half the world, while they play at state socialism.
Which is why they must take us down, because we’re proof of how flawed their ideas are. And why they can’t take us down, because then their regimes will fail harder and faster, and therefore will be revealed as failures and go down.
And this is where we are. Only well, they are ideologues and very stupid. Stupid DESPITE or BECAUSE some of them have genius IQs. Which means they don’t understand the real world AND they must salvage their impression of themselves as brilliant and infallible.
So right now, their overriding concern is to shut down every opposing source of information, and everything that reveals their chose system for the failure it is, and history as a rebuke and proof of their insanity.
I don’t know if some of them are smart enough to realize that if they achieve their goal humanity dies out, but I suspect this wouldn’t upset them too much. Since the USSR fell, they’ve been furious at humans in general for breaking their little red — I speak advisedly — wagon.
So right now, even as we can communicate around their barriers to information, they are insanely preoccupied with shutting us up and silencing us in every way they can.
Note “disinformation” a Soviet concept is now uttered by them with no shame. (It sounded better in the original Russian.) There is no such thing as “Disinformation”: there is only truth or lies. “Disinformation” ends up meaning: this is true, but it goes against our objectives, so we don’t want people to know it.
Every one of them, from the Biden Junta to the WEF has been very concerned with “disinformation.”
We know they put through hell and destroy anyone who opposes their program since Reagan. We have seen what happened to Trump (And Palin). This will only get worse.
But this is visible and obvious. Below the surface, there’s been a war going on on dissenting voices in art and journalism, in academics and history, in broadcast, film, and even, yes, all the auxiliary arts to film, including costuming.
By the time I broke into publishing, now almost 30 years ago, this was already obvious from the inside. Not only couldn’t you, say, declare yourself an anti-communist, but giving them any reason to suspect you might not be fully onboard got you sidelined so hard you’d never work in that field again. I am told it is the same for every other field they controlled.
Yet people kept breaking through. Either by keeping very quiet until they were huge and couldn’t be taken down, or by a combination of accidents and ability.
This drove them insane, particularly the people keeping very quiet — which was my chosen strategy until it was untenable — and then speaking out. Since it often also happened because people changed their minds as they got older and saw more of the world, it was even more difficult to curtail.
So they started demanding more and more demonstrations of loyalty. Trying to tie you to having said increasingly more horrendous things, so you couldn’t walk it back.
This was the strategy of the Roman gangs where you had to kill a family member before you could join.
And some of us couldn’t. Some of us walked away. Others hurt themselves by proclaiming what they knew to be lies, to sell one more book, one more story.
Meanwhile, in public, we were told by people who knew nothing, that the right just wasn’t creative. It was because we were so conformist (as though arriving at an opinion completely different from everything the mainstream told you COULD even be conformism.) And those of us still working were told we were “peculiar” or “just not very bright.”
BUT and this is important, the NICE people on our side didn’t help. They didn’t say: wait a minute, I read so and so, and they’re not peculiar or stupid at all. They’re just not leftists.
They didn’t say: wait a minute, these people who are being pushed at us from every outlet are the height of conformism.
They didn’t say: So and so who is attacking this person for daring to speak up, is a rancid idiot with the IQ of a gnat.
Oh, no. We must be NICE.
Therefore, when I made up nicknames to people who were trying to destroy me (Partly because I’m dyslexic and remembering how to spell their names is often difficult) I got told I shouldn’t be mean or dismissive towards them, even though they were attacking me and trying to make it impossible for me to continue working.
And whenever one of us comes out and says something like “Well, fine. But communism doesn’t work” or “women are not the same as men” or “people’s opinions are not determined by their sex or race.” the left descends on us calling us everything but children of G-d.
And you nice people stand above and tell us we must be nice. We can’t even expose their real misdeeds, or call them names. Because that would be falling to their level, and that, for the nice people, is worse than death.
I don’t know how they imagine this works. What? People who are willing to kill and destroy to get to the top, will look at you being so saintly and repent and come to your side? That’s not how real life works. There’s more to Ghandi than the legend they sold you. Even saints engaged in war at times.
How it works is that the right tries to be oh, so fair. So, say we do manage to won a publisher, or a journalistic outlet, or a school — usually because we saved money and started it — we don’t say “No, we won’t hire commies.” No, we’ll say “These two candidates are about the same, but the commie is slightly better. I’ll hire him.” (Since the ‘slightly better’ is often by credentials, and it’s easier to get credentials if you’re a leftist, because the left will hire you and push you ahead, this doesn’t even denote real competence.)
Meanwhile on the left, they will look at two candidates, and one is brilliant, but not quite so leftist, while the other is barely passable but an outspoken communist. And they’ll hire the communist. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Which is how, eventually, even “right wing” institutions and outlets get taken over by the left. The leftists have better resumes, after all. and one has to be fair. We can’t be like them. Oh, no. We are nice. And we don’t descend to their depths.
We will punt a president and call him names, and believe an OBVIOUSLY STOLEN ELECTION that deposes him because “he did mean tweets, so obviously people hate him.”
We will not mention that Kamala Harris is REALLY Commie LaWhorish and a complete dunce and intellectual nullity with it. Or that she was hired because Biden promised a “black woman” VP. Which caused her to undergo a convenient race change, of course. No. We won’t mention any of that, because that would be sinking to their level. And we couldn’t have that!
We will pluck out our eyes rather than see that our behavior just means the left takes more and more institutions, and jobs, and means of communication, causing also a disproportionate imbalance of their having all the money on their side. (Oh, but we can’t say they’re really the rich. And we can’t say we’re for everyone else. That would be populist. And — fans self — we all know how bad that is.)
AND THEN we’re surprised no one speaks up. We’re shocked that a president on our side can’t find anyone to hire. It’s almost like there are no reliable resumes, or something. We are confused that the only people who speak up on our side are either dunces, evil or uncouth. We know they are because the left told us so.
And we can’t understand why every form of entertainment sucks, our college presidents are illiterate and our scientists are bought and paid for. We can’t understand why civilization is falling apart at the seams.
Why, we’re so NICE and we’re not like THEM.
Look, those of us in the trenches are getting really tired. We don’t demand you knit socks for us. But can you please stop joining the enemy in their attacks?
It’s all we ask. Despite it all, we have a fair chance to win the war.
It’s not that you’re good or supportive. It’s that the enemy is not only wedded to a system that doesn’t work, but they’re as stupid as they are vile. Seven decades of hiring for ideology rather than competence will do that.
So we can win this. We really can. If you stop stealing our weapons and trying to beat us unconscious.
No. I won’t be nice. Yes, I will descend to their level. (With the difference I won’t lie. I don’t need to.) I will take a tooth for a tooth and eye for an eye. And I’m better at it, particularly when annoyed.
You keep on this war for yourself image and preen in front of the mirror with how nice and civilized you are.
Me? What I’m fighting for is nothing less than the survival of humanity and civilization.
It is a cause worthy of being a little rude.
Don’t you think?
