By Democracy Rules
The Communists Won the Propaganda War Against the West.
Communist-Socialist-Leftist thinking in the West is everywhere and in everything.
For Leftists the facts don't matter. Their duplicity runs silent, runs deep. They are inveterate fact abusers, dark and cynical about the truth because it always betrays them in the end. Sooner or later they get caught lying, and have to try new routes to try to seize control of the state.
The Left Constantly Abuses Facts and Pollutes the Truth.
Truth does not
have a political orientation, but the MSM is the mouthpiece of the Communist-Socialist-Left. The crisis in the MSM deepens
because we can now directly
access source documents, view eyewitness videos, read eyewitness reports, and search out the truth ourselves.
Just a Few Leftist Lies
(1) Poverty is getting worse in the USA (with a GDP per capita of $46,000, the richest, most prosperous and free country in human history.)
(2) DDT is bad. The stories about DDT are mainly bunk. The benefits of this insecticide are huge. Banning DDT caused millions of unnecessary deaths to malaria and other insect-borne diseases.
(3) The world is subject to massive deforestation. Global net forest loss is actually zero. In rain-forest, when trees are cut many new saplings sprout up in their place in a very short time. For most wildlife, new forest forms richer habitats than old forests.
(4) Nuclear power is bad. Why?
(5) Doom is inevitable. Why?
(6) The USA is bad. Why?
The MSM's moral turpitude, wobbly high-grounding, aimless reasoning, and constant whining betray the permanent lack of direction, the frustrated malaise of a dying culture that refuses to change.
All Political Ideologies are Driven by two Ideas
As I have written before, all ideologies
are driven by two concepts: the Vision and the Grievance. The Vision is a future ideal scenario. For conservatives this is full democracy, an unencumbered economy, and opportunity for all. For Islamists, it is the society as it was with Mohammed.
The Grievance is a present-time, frustrating impediment to the Vision (e.g., for conservatives, these include excessive regulations, new taxes, and government attempts to manage opportunity, and for Islamists, it would be the infuriatingly beautiful, diaphanous dresses of the Dubai Film Festival).
This Vision-Grievance template works for every movement from Neo-Nazis to Boy Scouts. The catastrophe for the Communist-Socialist-Left was the death of their Vision. Communism has failed wherever it has been implemented.
The Soviet Union fell spectacularly and was well and truly dead by 1992. The template of the Communist paradise, a non-commercial, worker-controlled, leveled society suddenly disappeared like Arabs in the night.
After 1992, the Left retained grievances (Big Oil, economic disparities, welfare inadequacies, etc), but with no Vision, they became defensive and hostile. Then Global Warming became available.
Until about 1992 global warming debates were confined to a few specialist scientific journals. As soon as Soviet Communism was dead the left seized upon "Climate Change" as their new cause célèbre.
The Communist alliance with Islamists began in 1968. The Soviets formed an alliance with Islamists to destroy democratic capitalism. For them the big prize is the destruction of American democracy and capitalism.
Now the Communists are trying to use the myth of "Climate Change" to strangle democracy and capitalism. Communists often tell enormous scientific lies. A Communists saying sums it up: "It's time to tighten our belts -- around THEIR necks!"
Pro Patria
Also:
One of the interesting intersections of Communism and Islamism is Lies. In both ideologies a lie in service to the 'vision', if you will, of the State, or the goals of the State, is not frowned on, or deemed wrong. Rather it is perfectly acceptable, and in most cases ecouraged.
In the West, aside from certain Leftist ideologues in the political realm, lies are definitely frowned on, and liars are shunned, their reputations sullied. But not so with Communists or Muslims.
Unlike what we were constantly told, in decades past, 'They' were not 'just like us' and still aren't. They are alien to our cultures, societies, and faiths.
Posted by: benning | June 02, 2008 at 02:50 PM