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The most destructive people in the world are not generally the most ignorant, though we are often told otherwise. Rather, ignorant people are more likely to become victims. The truly dangerous people tend to be arrogant, but with enough intelligence to knowingly absorb and regurgitate a particular dogma in a way that appeals to unsuspecting bystanders that were never given the tools to defend themselves. In other words, it's the puritan "educators" that promote incendiary collectivism, usually by preying on those that lack the armor of reason. Ignorance is encouraged by these supposed teachers as a marinade; it tenderizes their victims and makes them ready to absorb more and more cultism.
Their arrogance is the key to all of this because these folks are really just middlemen for an agenda that is ultimately designed to harm them. They see themselves as brilliant minds that cannot be denied; they think they are the prophets of our age. They generally fall into two categories — the young acolytes and the aging adherents, and today all of them are leftists.
When I examine the dangers of leftists I inevitably get accusations that I am "perpetuating the false left/right paradigm," but these people don't understand what the left/right paradigm is. At the top of any government pyramid, you will find that the politicians may claim to represent different parties or ideologies but when it comes to their policies these leaders are all the same. Their vested interests are in maintaining power for themselves and the globalists that line their pockets.
This is not to say all politicians are frauds, just most of them, and the higher up you go in government the more frauds you will find.
The opposite is true in terms of the bottom of the pyramid among regular citizens. There is no "false paradigm" for the masses, the leftists are truly ideologically obsessed in their collectivism and communism, and conservatives and constitutionalists truly embrace personal freedom and civil liberties. The divide is not fake, it is very real. There are people who want to control others and there are people that want to be free, and the political left is staunchly on the side of control.
Leftists are the only people supporting draconian lockdowns, business closures, mask mandates, vaccine passports and forced vaccinations, mass censorship and the silencing of anyone that disagrees with their twisted worldview. They ignore all science to the contrary of their positions and seek to exploit every possible crisis to gain power through people's irrational fears. They are also the only group that is receiving unmitigated support from governments, corporations and globalist foundations. The very people they say are evil capitalists are the same people that make their movement possible.
This is why I have to laugh every time I am confronted with a hatchling communist trying to "educate me" on the "dangers of conservatives and individualists" ... they know nothing but have an opinion on everything.
The behavior and mentality of the acolytes are very familiar to me, and I have had many opportunities to observe burgeoning leftists in their native environments. The newer generations of leftists have never been told by those close to them that they really are not as smart as they think they are. They have never been given the reality check or the slap upside the head that they needed. They have been conditioned from a very early age to believe that everything they say and do is profound. And even though most of them have not accomplished anything of note or merit in their lives, they think that their ideology gives them the power to assume a mantle of wisdom and look down on others that do not share in their religion.
The notion of the young teaching the old is an extension of a philosophy from the early 1900s called "Futurism." It teaches the idea that all "old ideas" should be cast off and all new ideas are automatically superior. It teaches that all tradition and heritage is a prison that holds humanity back from progress. Futurism is the root ideology that helped to spawn both the rise of the National Socialists (Fascists) in Europe as well as the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
Of course, those of us who are a little older than 20 years of age know from experience that there are no new ideas, only old ideas like authoritarianism repackaged as new. Tear off the shiny wrapper and social justice and Critical Race Theory have the same rotten putrid guts as the communism and fascism of old.
Strangely, many young leftists pontificate and worship at the altar of social justice extremism while at the same time claiming to be "moderates" or "middle-of-the-road." They have learned that once they openly admit what they are it is much harder to demand the attention of others, so they will exhibit rabid fits of zealotry in the face of conservative viewpoints and then argue that Cultural Marxists don't exist.
The leftist ability to gaslight is really quite astonishing because in order to master tactical dishonesty at such a high level one has to be an accomplished sociopath.
To be clear, confronting their disinformation and cultism is not done in order to change their minds or to force them to admit they are wrong, that's not ever going to happen. They will double and triple down on their false narratives. The only reason to confront them is when you can publicly dismantle them so that the rest of the world can see how frail their dogma really is.
The majority of them don't have their own families and never want a family. They have never been responsible for other human beings; they can barely take care of themselves, and they like it that way. And though they tend to blame "boomers" for all the world's ailments, they also have a habit of living off their boomer parents well into their late 20s and early 30s, some stick around for even longer.
No one ever told them how boring they are or how badly they suck, so they never improve or strive for more. They then waltz into adult life with grand assumptions of their genius and righteousness.
In their teens and twenties, they think they are ready to refashion the very pillars of society and rewrite all the "wrongs" of humanity. It is no wonder that communists target the youth as a rule because many of them lack a grasp on the basics and their views are painfully simplistic. Today young leftists think everything is racist, everything is sexist, everything is homophobic, everything is about discrimination and unfairness, all of their weaknesses are actually strengths, everything our society values is wrong, and all of their failures are caused by others holding them back from their own imminent greatness. They cannot meet today's standards of accomplishment because today's standards are dated and obsolete. The world is wrong, and they are right.
As you can imagine, this mentality is enticing because it feeds young narcissism. No one at that age wants to admit they know nothing, and maybe that is one of the biggest problems in Western society.
You cannot talk to these kids because they will not talk to you about anything other than themselves and their non-accomplishments and their social justice religion. They will never ask you about your own views or experiences or knowledge earned over a lifetime that dwarfs theirs – They don't care. For how could you possibly know more than they do about anything of importance? Their cult has taught them that everything old is always wrong and has nothing to offer. Only the new and the young and the untested are relevant to the future.
Tearing things down is far more exciting to them than keeping what has already been built alive. Surely this is insanity, but think about it from their perspective for a moment. When you have no merits or inherent abilities, how do you feel like you have control over your environment and your destiny? Building things and creating things of value is hard but destroying things of value and burning structures down is easy.
Gullible leftist children are not our main concern, however. The older adherents are the true source of the indoctrination campaign beyond the think-tanks and establishment nonprofits that fund it. These people are the predators of the political left, and they know exactly what they are doing.
I have long been fascinated with the existence of psychopathic people, and in particular, I find the behaviors of narcissists at once horrifying and illuminating. If you ever wanted a chance to study an alien life-form, the closest you will probably ever get is to study a narcissistic sociopath or psychopath. One aspect of narcissists is that they tend to be magnetically drawn to a handful of career fields in which they can control people and gain a captive audience. You will often see medicine, finance and politics listed as common fields that attract narcissists, but lesser mentioned fields include academia and teaching.
I have come to realize recently that the teaching profession is a perfect petri dish for narcissists because it draws less negative attention while offering comparable fuel for their control addictions. Many people think that a person that wants to be a teacher must be a selfless saint because who wants to babysit other people's kids all day unless they are kindhearted, but the temptations are plenty for those with aberrant psyches.
Children are especially vulnerable to influence well into their teens. The younger they are the more trusting they tend to be of the adults around them, who they see as their protectors and providers in a world they have no power over. The further they tread into adolescence the more they start to question their place in the world and what values they should adopt in order to find meaning. Furthermore, they have an innate inclination to test boundaries and to rebel if their parents use helicopter methods or refuse to enforce rational limitations, and there's nothing more dangerous than a rebel without a cause.
Leftist adherents see these children as their playground and revel in the notion of manipulating their minds to bring them into the cultist fold. I can't think of a more captive audience for a narcissist than a public-school classroom or university lecture hall in which the teacher is able to establish a dominant hierarchy and demand fealty without ever actually having to earn the trust of the students. The children are expected to listen and accept their pontificating without question from day one, even though the teacher in front of them might be a smooth-brained lunatic.
Under indoctrination programs like CRT, teachers are the confessors, the saviors and the judges "awakening" their students to their own original racial sins. The kids that fall in line will be rewarded and the kids that don't will be browbeaten into silence or submission. The teachers become the center of their universe for the bulk of their day and when those children go home, they will still have to think about how to best navigate tomorrow so they do not attract the ire of the cult leaders and their growing flock. The pursuit of knowledge is supplanted by the stresses of conformity. Learning is the last thing on their minds.
This is not to say that all teachers are like this, but the profession clearly attracts the worst of the worst in many cases. To these people, children are an endless buffet. Their goal is not to teach but to coerce and manufacture useful minions for the collective.
Critical Race Theory and social justice are the new plantations and leftists are the plantation owners, or at the very least they are the overseers with their whips in hand. As Oliver Stone's character Chris Taylor from the movie Platoon states: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." The political left revels in its destruction of reason; they even think they have transcended it. The worst possible future would be to allow these people to continue their theatrics unopposed. You cannot mentor the next generation if your only goal is to engineer an army of proxies that think exactly as you do.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
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We are days away from an unprecedented vote by the Congress on a $5 trillion plan to address a number of matters, infrastructure being the most significant, but by no means the only focus. The column below from Larry Kudlow puts this all into perspective and I encourage you to read it carefully as this will have a huge impact on your future and that of those around you.
The Sum of All Fears
Democrats Abandon Regular Order To Sneak Through a Socialist America
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
So what did they hide, and when did they hide it? Key Democratic committees — Ways and Means in the House and Finance in the Senate — are marking up unheard of spending and taxing plans. Right now. Yet they are not telling the public what they’re really up to.
The answer to “what did they hide?” and “when did they hide it?” is that they’re hiding it now, and information is starting to leak out on specifics. There’s no question that the Democrats want this $3.5 trillion reconciliation, which is really going to be more than $5 trillion, to avoid public scrutiny and to roll rapidly through both houses just to get it done.
Some say that it’s going to be a 10,000 page bill and that literally no one is going to know what’s in it. I remember when, a month or so back, I asked Senator Shelley Moore Capito, who is a friend, whether she’d read the 2,000 page infrastructure bill. She smiled and said she got through half of it. She was one of my great hopes that actually might know what’s going on in the second half of the bill.
This one — 10,000 pages worth — no one will know. Trust me. Not before, during, or after. It will take many years to figure this out. That’s just the specifics. In terms of the negative consequences, we won’t know for many years after that.
This is why Joe Manchin’s idea to “pause” the process is a good one — if he sticks to it. The senator’s track record is not fabulous, but hope springs eternal in the Mountain State. Meantime, there’s such a thing in Congress as regular order. Got it? It’s one of the most important concepts in democracy.
Regular order. It means that even in highly partisan bills, normal process is an open markup to thoroughly examine and debate key proposals. Policy experts on both sides of the aisle testify in open session to discuss these massive new programs. This is a time-honored tradition.
After the public testimonies, members then go back and discuss. Then they vote inside the committee to bring it to the floor of the Senate. This is not happening. Instead, Democrats are hiding the policies, foregoing any discussions, and avoiding score cards from the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Tax Committee.
That scoring will eventually come. The reconciliation instructions call — explicitly — for deficit reduction by not less than $1 trillion over the 10 year period ending in 2031. Trust me, there will be nowhere near a trillion spondulix in deficit reduction. Instead there will be significant deficit increases even with the largest tax hike in more than half a century.
Republican senators on the Finance Committee have just issued a press release calling for a full and open markup. Don’t hold your breath, friends. Now I don’t want this process issue, important as it is, to obscure the unprecedented cradle to grave spending increases. This will generate an unprecedentedly high social safety net.
Expanding Medicare and Medicaid. Expand the funding for child care. Universal Pre-K. Expanded refundable child tax credits paid monthly. Food stamps. School nutrition. Free community college, income supplements. Workforce training programs. This amounts to unprecedented dependency on government welfare and far left progressive planning schemes.
I just think of it as “go woke, go broke.” It’s redistribution on a grand scale. Take from Peter to pay Paul. We used to laugh at that. When workfare was introduced by President Clinton and Speaker Gingrich 25 years ago, we thought this kind of left-wing wishlist would never come to pass. Workfare worked. The economy flourished.
What’s happening now, though, is no workfare, and no work. In fact take the “r out of work and you have “wok” == sure go ahead and add an “e.” It’s still woke.
The great Art Laffer has pointed out that redistribution has damaged both sides — those whose success is penalized and those who depend on welfare lose all initiative to work. The economy suffers. And speaking of economic suffering, the list of tax hikes being hidden by the tax committees, though it has been starting to leak out today, is unbelievable.
Of course, we knew of the centerpiece policies of corporate taxes, international taxes, capital gains taxes, individual taxes, small business taxes, estate taxes, all that stuff has been out there for quite a while. It’s a tax assault on business and investment that will cripple the economy, generate higher inflation, and be paid for mainly by the blue-collar middle-class workforce.
Wait, though, there’s more. In a desperate revenue search, the Senate Finance Committee is looking at a stock buyback tax, a corporate alternative minimum tax, and a tax on so-called high salaries.
Not to mention a tax on CEO pay disparity, a tax on unrealized capital gains, a tax on carried interest, an end to the 20% small business deduction, a tax on estate planning, limits to active business losses, a tax on so-called mega retirement accounts, new bank reporting requirements for all depositary inflows and outflows, a plastics excise tax, a carbon tax, a fossil fuel tax, and what amounts to an international tariff on carbon emissions.
Now, the sum total of all this — call it the sum of all our fears — is to inflict major damage on the economy and the middle-class workforce, and investors. There will be consumer price hikes. Leading economic models have already scored this. Now the Democrats are adding to the tax damage.
That doesn’t include additional measures that will be hidden in a 10,000 page bill — features like illegal immigration amnesty, unionization via the so-called Pro Act, which stands for Protecting the Right To Organize Act. Lord knows what else (if even the Good Lord can find time to read a 10,000 page bill.) And we haven’t even gotten to the Green New Deal.
This is the Democratic wishlist to transform America by exponentially raising the welfare state and exponentially punishing the productive side of the economy. This is a dodging regular order to give big government socialism a humongous boost and bury free enterprise capitalism. If and when all these details get out to the public, the vast majority of Americans are going to hate this.
The vast majority of Americans favor free market capitalism and oppose big government socialism. That’s precisely why the Democrats are doing as much as these can to hide these policies and get the legislation passed before anyone gets through reading the first 500 pages, let alone the last 9,500.
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From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox News. Image: The Boston Tea Party revolt against King George’s taxes, hand colored lithograph, Currier & Ives, 1846. Via Library of Congress.
Best regards,
Robert L. Dilenschneider
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If talking is what politicians and diplomats like to do and are better at that than accomplishing solutions then The U.N. serves a purpose and funding it should continue. If these same souls enjoy good food, canape's and expensive wine and alcohol this is a bonus reason to keep funding the U.N.
Finally, if living high on public financing and taking trips to observe misery is the U.N's mission then this organization is inhabited and run by the most talented deadbeats the world has yet to produce.
But not all the blame should be placed at the feet of The U.N. It has a lot of authority to look into whatever it wishes but it has virtually no ability to resolve anything. They send inspectors who can't even unlock Iranian doors to nuclear sites and carry out crucial inspections. Their armed troops are mere observers and are withdrawn the minute the prospect of casualties occurs and/or their nicely painted helmets might get dented.
So why does the world continue to maintain this ineffective organization whose various agencies have become so corrupted as The WHO proved recently vis a vis Wuhan and Covid related episodes? And, what about UNWRA that has fostered decades of Palestinian dependency and misery while Israel has absorbed millions who became productive in virtually every endeavor they undertook?
I suspect the U.N exists more for show. It obviously is soothing for the world to create the appearance of the support of good over evil. If you ask my opinion, it serves as a cover for the corrupt which is financed by those who do not mind being disadvantaged. America funds a disproportionate amount of The U.N's budget in order to have veto power on the few occasions when something comes before this "august body," called The General Assembly that America dislikes. The problem is other adversaries have similar rights and can and do block our vote.
If the U.N. were torn down and turned into a needed parking lot that produced significant revenue for fixing The Rotten Apple's subways and freed up a large portion of the NYPD so they might do meaningful work protecting subway passengers the world might be better off and certainly the Rotten Apple would benefit.
A subsidiary benefit might also be that The U.N would be replaced by an organization that actually accomplished some positive results.
Since none of this is likely, perhaps we could move the U.N to the continent where most African Nations are located, where most of the world's problems emanate and which the U.N constantly is engaged and on which The U.N lavishes a disproportionate amount of their budget. At the very least, The U.N would become a significant customer of these ravaged countries. The impact on local employment, construction would be tremendous and perhaps the citizens of these countries would be so busy making a living they would stop killing each other and would set a great example/challenge for Chicago.
Oh well, more idle thoughts unlikely to turn into fruition.
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