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Show Me The Money And Other Leftist Failures
“Show me the money.”
That loaded expression has surfaced as the mantra for a generation, but
not for the reason many people think, because in fact, “show me the
money” is the embodiment of part of the extremes of either side of the
the value system that is our own.
The center of conservative ideology revolves around morality and ideas.
Behavior, responsibility and accountability are the foundations of
society.
The center of leftist (as opposed to classical liberal) ideology revolves
around wealth- or rather, the redistribution of wealth. As far as
leftists are concerned, responsibility and accountability are one way
street. Government and the approved ideologues are responsible and to
held accountable for the redistribution of wealth. Further, leftist
ideologies abhor restraints on behavior. There are no behaviors that are
unacceptable- none. The only constraints are the claimed justification of
those behaviors. Some are acceptable, some are not. To kill a
political/religious opponent in the name of leftist ideologies is good.
To kill defending oneself from those ideologies is bad.
Leftist believe that consuming wealth is the same as creating wealth.
They also believe that a consumer society is the same kind of society
that facilitates the creation of wealth. To that end, those to whom
redistributed wealth is apportioned, are good. Those who create the
wealth, are bad. That in a nutshell, is the definition of populism- a
government says ‘We will take care of you, cradle to grave. We will give
you what we take from others.’
Leftists see the redistribution of wealth and materialism as an
expression of values. That is why they believe they can buy their way out
of any confrontation of evil. They cannot accept the truth that evil is
defeated by defending and insisting upon a set of values and behaviors
from everyone and standing firm.
Leftists do not want to acknowledge that evil is defeated by values and
not by sharing wealth. That is why leftists are comfortable with taking
the sides and defending some of the most dysfunctional and despicable
tyrants to be found anywhere. They believe that their ‘enlightened’ ideas
of wealth distribution will change pathological behaviors.
For example, they believe that Arab misogyny, homophobia and racist hate
will abate, once there is a ‘redistribution’ of wealth (and ideological
values) from the west. In the event that doesn’t happen, leftists believe
they and their ‘values’ will be excluded from persecution. After all,
they have proved themselves to be a useful part of the ’cause.’ The
dysfunctional Arab world leadership is only too happy to keep this
generation of ‘useful idiots’ under the ether.
One might be tempted compare the leftists of today of today to the Jews
of prewar Germany, blind to the horror and the inferno that was about to
engulf the world.
The Nazi era German Jews desperately wanted to believe that German racist
ideologies were really expressions of political rjetoric. The German volk
were a civilized lot, cultured and well educated. The social, cultural
and political elite, those who filled the Berlin salons with progressive
ideas and discussions that centered around sophisticated philosophy, art,
literature and the new kultur would in the end, never allow for such
brutality. They would never turn their backs on the persecution and
wholesale slaughter, predicated on racialism.
We all know how that turned out.
Leftists today believe that in the end, the redistribution of wealth,
will ‘enlighten’ the tyrannies they support and bring them into line with
their own relativism, multicultural and a value system that honors
nothing but the self. Unlike the Jews of prewar Germany, the left are
supporting regimes that already have a track record of evil. The Nazis
attempted to hide and deny their evil- the darlings of the left, the Arab
world, cannot be bothered. The left cannot say they knew nothing of the
misogyny, racism and bigotry, because in fact, those behaviors are in
plain view. Nevertheless, they choose to support and defend the
tyrannies.
Leftists have failed women because they have chosen to embrace regimes
and causes that oppress and betray women. Leftists have failed the gay
community because they will ‘out’ a gay person if and when it suits their
needs.
The leftist dance is reminiscent of the Nazi era, with German government
officials denying their atrocities by taking Red Cross workers to ’show
camps’ where Jews and other minorities were portrayed as ‘happy guests’
of Reich generosity and largesse, even as the gas chamber and ovens were
going at full tilt just down the road.
Why the leftists go to extremes to defend evil isn’t hard to understand.
There is a phenomena of the self hating Jew, an individual who denies his
or her own identity, culture and faith, and seeks to identify and support
those who make no secret of their own pathological agendas, directed
against Jews.
The pathology of the self hating Jew is not new. Jews were attracted to
communism and socialism, because someone said, “We are all equal. You are
a comrade.” For the first time, Jews believed they were to be ‘free.’
After centuries of relentless oppression the idea was intoxicating.
After the horrors of the Second World War were made clear, there were a
whole sub culture of Jews, even the children of Holocaust survivors that
migrated to the self hating brigades. Why? Because those Jews believed
that if they could be unlike the Jews (and more like their oppressors),
then no one would come for them. They would be safe and secure. Surely
the oppressors would see there were ‘good Jews’ too, noted just evil and
hated Jews.
The same is true today of leftists (Jews included) who believe that
siding with the racist, bigoted and dysfunctional oppressors might save
them from the destiny of those their new friends promise. They are the
Kapos of this generation, willing to sacrifice their own so as to save
themselves.
Prewar German Jews could at least hope against hope that there would be
no Holocaust. Leftists of today cannot argue ignorance.
Leftists today hate freedom and democracy because those ideas have
created the environment for success. Assistant Village Idiot recently
noted in a comment that Arabs don’t hate us because we have succeeded,
but rather, because they have failed. The same is true for the leftists-
their burning hatred of democracy stems from their failure to create a
single instance of a functioning society that isn’t a least a generation
behind our own. Not even the redistribution of wealth can make up for the
values and freedom that create an environment that allows for the
creation of wealth.
For the left, it is the appearance that becomes the brass ring. Iran,
like North Korea, wants the ‘materialism’ of nuclear technology so that
they might be perceived as equals. They do not understand that
materialism has nothing to do values. Free western nations can easily
have more in common with nations that share our values than with nations
who enrich uranium.
Appearance is not a substitute for substance. Religious garb is often
spoken of as a sign of religiosity that must be respected, as if
appearance alone were to be regarded as sacred. When it is all said and
done, religiosity is not measured by what goes on the head, but rather,
what goes in the head. That ‘magnificent’ Mohammed Atta spent the the
night of September 10, 2001 in a strip club, paying for lap dances with a
Quran at his side. So much for his religiosity.
The left will support the redistribution of ‘nuclear wealth’ to unstable
totalitarian regimes that threaten their neighbors and other- especially
if they hate American and western freedoms. In their mind, that gives
these regimes the appearance of equality with the west. The believe that
appearance of equality, precludes us from noting their hypocrisy and
their failures.
(On the other hand, the very suggestion that a non nuclear western and
democratic nation go nuclear is sure to set the leftists off into a wild
frenzy.)
Of course, it is only by managing behavior of those who threaten us or
our allies that we can ensure our security. When values and beliefs are
shared, we do not need to ‘manage’ behavior. We do not need to manage our
relationships with other free nations because free and democratic nations
do not go to war with each other. Free and democratic nations do not need
to institutionalize racism, bigotry and religious hate.
In the end, it is not the redistribution of wealth that will ensure our
security. Rather, it is the redistribution of principles, values and
beliefs of free nations that will make all the difference.
--
Fred Stone
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power. - George Orwell
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