My latest in the American Thinker:
Everyone knows it: the death of George Floyd was just a pretext. The rioters who continue every night to wreak havoc in Portland, and who are poised to engage in new orgies of destruction all over the country don’t know much and care less about Floyd. They’re quite open about engaging in a “revolution” with the goal of destroying the existing order and replacing it with an authoritarian Marxist regime. But what we are seeing today is not new. Its seeds were planted decades ago. Now the question before us, if we want to preserve the United States as a free society, is what we must do to counter this violent, hate-filled movement.
There will be no easy fix. The Left’s long march through the institutions began in the 1960s and has ended in total victory; only a reverse march through the same institutions will ultimately overcome the catastrophic effects of the Left’s advance. The leftist stranglehold on the educational system is a big part of the problem: the Antifa and BLM barbarians of today learned their hatred at our colleges and universities. Our children have been taught to hate the land of their birth. Who didn’t think this would bear bitter fruit? There was some indignation among conservatives over the 1619 Project, which portrays the entire American enterprise as racist, oppressive, and hateful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, but that was just the culmination of decades of miseducation and propaganda disguised as education. I wrote Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster as an antidote, to remind Americans, or show them for the first time, the heroes who made America great — and the failures and sellouts who got us into this fix.
But the education most of the rioters have received has made them abjectly incapable of thinking rationally and evaluating claims on the basis of their logical coherence and supporting evidence. No amount of careful reasoning, no amount of evidence is going to convince most of the rioters that their rage is based on false premises, because they have been carefully educated throughout their lives to feel rather than think, and to believe that America is a nation of deep injustice with a shameful history and an equally condemnable present. It doesn’t matter that the claims that the rioters and their defenders are making are false. It doesn’t matter that police brutality affects people of all races. It doesn’t matter that thoroughgoing civil rights legislation has made “systemic racism” a thing of the distant past.
There is much more. Read the rest here.
mortimer says
‘Black Lives Matter’ led by West African cult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUyfLL4heA
Walter Sieruk says
This article starts well concerning those riots, For it reads “Everyone knows it : the death of George Floyd was just a pretext.” As already explained before in the old wise saying which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
The death of that man provided just the excuse that those pro-Islamic ,Marxist -minded violent left wing extremists were looking for . It’s also very doubtful that they even truly sincerely cared, anything at all about Floyd. That was just a pretext and excuse to engage in the horrors of rioting ,looting vandalism and other kinds of heinous violence.
Furthermore, the appropriate and right way to handle the problem of those rioting violent malicious hooligans of Antifia and BLM ,who actually have the gall to call themselves “protesters,” is to come down hard on them with the strong power of police and National Guard might.
This is because those Anfifa and BLM thugs are mindless ,unthinking violent vicious unreasoning hooligans who cannot and will not be reasoned with . In other words they refuse to and won’t respond to either logic or reason .
Therefore, it’s nearness and very important to send them a message in the only lanuage that they are able to understand which is a message ,to behave themselves, sent by the means of a harsh powerful strong might of the police and National Guard.
As Thomas Jefferson had ,so wisely ,written “With every barbarous people …force is law,”
Ray Fowler says
the time has come for vigilantes, fully armed, and ready to use to the maximum those weapons, when dealing with trash, harsh measures are necessary, BLM and Antifa are mindless thugs, and so they must be treated accordingly, and severely
Rufolino says
This vigilante idea would soon lead to civil war.
LB says
Do you see any other way out of this mess?
curious george says
Rufolino says
This vigilante idea would soon lead to civil war.
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Exactly, That’s the end game of these Marxist/Islamist (Red/Green Alliance) cretins.
“We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Hussein Obama – October 2008
Obama did serious damage to the USA during his 2 terms as POTUS and he continues to undermine the country with his Organizing for Action (OFA) group.
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/organizing-for-action-ofa/
The election of Donald Trump as POTUS only slowed the process down, there are many forces working in unison to take the USA down, and sadly, they are succeeding.
Unfortunately, the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.
gravenimage says
The idea that there is nothing between cringing silence and vigilantism is *quite* mistaken. We need to loudly speak out to authorities, and vote in better politicians whenever we can.
Kay says
Yesterday in Portland, a group gathered to support first responders. Antifa, being well-organized, sent in even more people. There was fighting in the streets. There is not sufficient police to keep peace. The DA does not prosecute those who get arrested so the violence continues day after day. Antifa is now throwing feces-filled condoms. Any pretext of caring about our health is exposed. The local government continues to allow the mayhem. Democrats in Congress, instead of just telling people to request absentee ballots if they are concerned about going to a polling place, continue to stir division and waste our dollars by demanding unprecedented mail-outs of ballots. And yet most people in this blue state will only hear how racist Trump is and how just the “protesters” are. NPR, just in passing interviews, continues to talk about Russian collusion in the last national election.
Kepha says
So, Portland, and all Oregon, vote out the Democratic goons who let your chief city turn into a s-hole.
Grace says
Take heed everyone, because these thugs, Antifa and BLM will be your masters if we lose this war. Their leader, should they win is an old unreformed plagiarizer who spent forty five years as a Democrat do nothing congressman while enriching his family, himself and his drug challenged son. It takes a lot of nerve and confidence for a party to parade this crook with Alzheimers before the American electorate and tell them he will be our next president. Anyone with a brain who labored through the hate filled hours called The Nomination Celebration is aware of what is in store if Biden wins. The Marxist war machine will be on the move and American, all Americans, will are its intended victims
gravenimage says
Reclaiming Our Culture from the Left
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Yes–all people who value the civilized culture of the West need to speak out!
Jaydam says
If black lives matter,.. why are hundreds of black men and women murdered every day, by the vast majority of black men and women,..?
gravenimage says
Black lives should matter–but they do not to a lot of murderous Black gangbangers, nor to leftists who pointedly ignore this issue.
And all lives should matter–saying this is in no way “racist”.
Jaydam says
Agreed GI +1
Ray Fowler says
I used to think that, but no longer. the arson, the looting and the non stop violence committed by the scum of this country, there is only one way to cure this problem, call out the national guard, fully armed, and with lethal ammunition, norubber bullets, and USE THEM. its the only language these criminals will understand
Ned Kelly says
yes, where IS the army.?
john smith says
well said GI
gravenimage says
Thanks, Jaydam and John.
Adam says
The left always drags you into there gutter with language.
What is a black person, define one.
How many colors of people are there? How do I tell the difference between a black person and a African-American?
What’s a white person, a yellow person, a red or brown person? Again just how many colors?
If you believe in nothing, you will fall for anything.
Phil Copson says
“What is a black person, define one.”
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I used to enjoy watching Trey Gowdy cutting through the obfuscation of witnesses – (“That’s one hell of an answer to a question that nobody asked, Agent Strozk…” etc ) – but this one-time legal hot-shot has become amazingly sloppy in his pronouncements since he decided to give up on saving America from the socialists and become a media celebrity.
He recently claimed that America has twice elected “an African-American President” and had “an African-American woman” poised to become Vice-President.
How does someone who is 50% White get defined solely as “African-American” ? What became of the other 50%, or is it just out-of-fashion in Leftist circles these days ?
It’s certainly far less true to say that Obama was “America’s first Black President” than it is to say he was “America’s first half-White President” or “America’s first mixed-race President”.
Harris is only one-quarter Black, so why does that out-weigh the other 75% ? Far from being “African-American”, she is more accurately described as “Indian Anti-American”.
Still, in a world where Sarsour can claim to be Black, and “Liar-Watha” Warren passes for a Red Indian, I suppose anything goes.
(Q: “What is the difference between BLM and Elizabeth Warren ?” A: “One’s looking for redress, the other’s looking for head-dress….”
PS: This is what is known as “a joke” – no need to write letters to me about it….)
James Lincoln says
Phil Copson,
It seems like the new catchphrase is “person of color.” If you use this verbiage, you will avoid being called racist. But if you say someone is “colored,” all hell will break loose and you’ll be called racist, lose your job, etc.
Seems to me, a “person of color” is anyone who has a skin tone that is even a smidgen darker than the most white Caucasian on the planet.
We are truly living in an insane world…
Brett McSweeney says
“a reverse march through the same institutions”. Or the creation of new institutions, more suited to the internet age. For example: Replace state schools with customer-based schooling.
The European monasteries preserved the learning of the ancients, for it to be rediscovered centuries later. We don’t need to wait that long, and that learning is readily available now. It is being suppressed in the old, corrupted institutions, but it is there for use by the public in spite of them.
tgusa says
Any competent hiring manager will tell you, what you learned in school is great but now that you are taking a job in the real world you need to learn how the real world actually works. Maybe you can do that maybe you cant.
Now that you have been to school and taken the job the real learning begins.
Grace says
And to think. If the Marxists win all that history will be consumed in fires of hate. In The One world Order world there is no past, there is no future. There will be just ‘now’ where no conscience, religion or guilt exists.
tgusa says
The democrats built this and now it is out of control. The movement they built has no use for them and they have no idea how to put this genie back in to the bottle. They are now eating their creators and their creators don’t like that.
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, and leave us nothing but grief and pain, for promised joy!) Robert Burns
We need to just keep doing what we are doing and let them keep doing what they are doing and see which side gains the most supporters. With the choice between destruction vs civilization, I wager civilization will win out.
Sukabumi Joe Joe says
‘The Left’s long march through the institutions began in the 1960s and has ended in total victory; only a reverse march through the same institutions will ultimately overcome the catastrophic effects of the Left’s advance.’:
All right, let’s start, high time!
Tim says
The “Frankfurt School’s” 11 point plan to destroy America published in the 1930s
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
Kay says
Please tell me the origin of this and how people should have heard of it.
Then— how can people hear it as other than a conspiracy theory? I ask this because after hearing the Congressman describe the riots in Portland as a “myth” while the destruction and terror are all too real, I am afraid that most people just tune into their favorite “news” source and live a fantasy. It is only made worse by us being separated from wider social interactions.
melek-ric says
Everyone should read ‘The Red Trojan Horse: A Concise Analysis of Cultural Marxism’ by Alasdair Elder. It covers the history and goals of the Frankfurt School, particularly Herbert Marcuse, in brief and accessible form. The ideology of critical theory is also well explained.
Can be had here if you can stomach Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Trojan-Horse-Alasdair-Elder-ebook/dp/B074HP663N/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=cultural+marxism+trojan&qid=1598215183&s=books&sr=1-1
Barton D Guderian says
Kay: here is a link to a discourse of the Frankfort Group/School.
https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/the-frankfort-school-and-the-history-of-political-correctness/
James Lincoln says
Tim,
I cannot independently verify this from primary source texts. Exhaustive searches turn up “conspiracy theory”.
If you have a legitimate citation, please provide it.
That being said, many of the things in the “11 point plan” are currently happening…
J Morgan says
It’s amazing how much the Pandemic helped their established plan to destroy America.
Walter Sieruk says
The vicious and violent rioting criminal hooligans pf Antifa and BLM are so heinously bloodthirsty and destructive that they are similar to the villains described in the Bible which reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood ; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known.” Romans 3:15-17.[N.K.J.V.]
Nevertheless, those hideous thugs of BLM and Antifa will ,sooner or later, have all the harm that they inflect other come back down on them hard. As it the old saying “What goes around comes around.”
The reason that we may know that this saying is because it’s upheld in the Bible . For the Bible informs it’s reader “Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap..” Galatians 6:7.
Walter Sieruk says
Those dangerous destructive rioting hooligans of Antifia and BLM may join together in the evil quest to inflect harm on innocent people with is nothing but a crimmial abomination and likewise extremely cruel and wicked.
Nevertheless those thugs of BLM and Antifa who have joined force to create suffering chaos and mayhem will not getaway with their horrible actions be punished for the demonic behavior.
As in in written ,in the Bible , “Though they join forces the wicked will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 11.:21.[N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
That despicable murderous fiend terrorist of BLM who shot dead that innocent young White mother of a small child has proven ,by his evil malicious vicious cowardly actions, that he a heinous villain of the very worst sort.. All she was guilty of was being naive by thinking that she could reason with a BLM hooligan. .For she only said to him “All lives murder ” So in response he murder her.
BLM is a domestic terrorist entity , it’s complete outrage and abomination.
Likewise the news media by willingly refusing to report on the hideous murder of a White woman by a vicious hate -filled BLM crimmial /terrorist has proven by its silence of covering this awful and tragic murder incdent that it’s thoroughly infected with the wicked politically correct philosophy with its double standards on reporting racially motivated hate crimes is worse than bias ,unbalance ,unfair ,unjust.
The press with its PC agenda on news reporting is than worse the terrible, its a blatant total outrage and abomination.
Kepha says
My plan: Infiltrate points about the importance of Christianity into our AP World History course and introduce Islam as an exploitive, imperialist system; as well as how arguments over the meaning of socialism killed more people in the 20th century alone than suffered for heresy and blasphemy in 15 centuries between 312 and 1811 A.D.
TKF says
Apparently, the more woke you are the stupider you are.
Walter Sieruk says
Those Antifia and BLM rioters are’t real ,genuine ,protesters. In reality they’re thieves,looters arsonists criminal hooligans and thugs. The awful mental level of those Antifia and BLM savages is so terrible low and destructive that none of them are never able to create or make anything of value or worth
They are destructive and never,ever , constructive. Likewise are useless for anything that is good or worthwhile , they just destroy.