Uncivil war contd.: "Never waste a crisis?"

I wrote in my previous uncivil war post:

Apparently the loony leftists haven't heard of metaphors and, since many harbor homicidal fantasies of their own, (see the nutty professor who killed three of her colleagues) they of course immediately started pissing their pants and frothing at the mouth and assume that we're all psycho like them.

Andy commented:

Patrick, the MSM is, of course, taking every opportunity to paint the right as nutjobs. The bad thing about this is that someone really is likely to be attacked. There ARE some frothing rightwingers that have had it! A tiny minority of our side IS ready to exact some real pounds of flesh.

I've often marveled at how few public officials actually are attacked/killed, etc. Governors, Presidents, VPs, etc. have good security. But Congressmen & Senators, not so much. These people are out and about in DC, and at home. It's amazing to me that more nutjobs (on the right, and left) don't act out their frustrations, and plug some of these folks.

Of course, I'm glad they don't. I'm just really surprised. This is the most emotionally charged time I can remember since Vietnam. I believe the MSM is building a framework in anticipation that something WILL happen. If nothing does, well, everybody expects them to be in the tank for ObozO & his crowd anyway.

But if something does, there will be "we told you so" coming from every stinkin' one of them. We'd better pray that everyone holds their fire.

Dan joined in the conversation:

Pat, Like Andy, I'm worried that the media is building a narrative in case something does happen. There's a story or poll almost everyday stereotyping conservatives; today Yahoo news said a new poll showed 25% of Republicans thought Obama was the Anti Christ. Stories similar to this appear daily and the subtext of all them seems to be: something bad's going to happen and we know who will be responsible.

I responded:

Yes, Andy, I agree that "this is the most emotionally charged time I can remember since Vietnam" and, like you, I'm amazed that no violence has happened yet. We may have a few nutjobs on our side but nothing as crazy as the Left.

Dan, we know that politics is simply non-violent war and that [political] warfare is psychological.

The Left did it in San Francisco during the Bush years: "Bush is going to round up all the gays and send them to secret concentration camps in Alaska" etc.

Of course they also used to "joke" about rounding up all Republicans and sending them to re-education camps.

The current hyperbole could possibly be the Left's attempt to create a crisis which they can then exploit. But I don't like to think that any humans could be that cynical. I'm hoping it's just because they're stupid and overly emotional.

PS At the time of the spitting, faggot and nigger incidents, the thought did cross my mind that the perpetrators were agents provocateurs planted by the Left. I wouldn't put it past them "never to let crisis go to waste" - especially when they have gone to the trouble of creating the crisis.

The fact is that there really are true-believing Marxists who will stoop to the lowest depths of indecency to further their cause. (After all Lenin said that the end justifies the means.) They think that conservative Christian Republicans will put gays in concentrations camps or start a real shooting civil war because that's what they fantasize about. They are so perverted and cynical that they don't believe that people can actually be decent.

I've known real Marxists and they are all motivated by one thing: envy. Their covetousness makes them frustrated and filled with rage and hate. I've known true-believing Marxists from all walks of life: white trash, black trash, students, unionists, writers, journalists, lawyers, professors and politicians. They all have one thing in common: they are coldly calculating manipulative misanthropes or even sociopaths. They manipulate the bleeding heart liberals through appeals to emotion.

That means that they control the Democratic party. They started taking over the Democratic Party during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson (who was a typical misanthropic "progressive".) Sadly most Democrats are either easily-manipulated "useful idiot" bleeding hearts or degraded and corrupt solipsists.

PPS At dinner tonight Chas and Andy and I were talking about this. Having lived in San Francisco for so long, we know the politicians from there. Are Democrats like Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer "useful idiot" bleeding hearts or degraded and corrupt narcissists? Actually they are a mixture.

They may have been suckers for emotional manipulation at one time but they now are cynical solipsists. They're richer than most middle-class Americans and will leave their children well-off. They really don't care if everybody else's kids are stuck paying off the bills that they are running up in DC because they know that, with the aid of tax lawyers, rich Democrats don't have to pay taxes.

The Useful Idiot Party

Why does the Democratic Party continue to pursue policies that history has shown do not work? Are they simply stupid or are they devious? I'm convinced that most of them are stupid well-meaning bleeding-hearts who are being manipulated by a smaller number of devious Marxists who know that socialism does not work; who pursue obsolete failed policies not because they think that that they will work but because they know they will not work. They simply wish to destroy freedom and capitalism and exert totalitarian control in the resulting chaos. These devout hard-line Marxists work behind the scenes. They are professors, writers and even tycoons such as Soros. They put out the talking point memos.

As I've mentioned before: Lenin did not coin the actual phrase "useful idiots" and never used it in his writings but it is clear that he thought of Western liberal bleeding-hearts as "Left-Wing Communists" or "deaf-mutes." (The actual phrase "useful idiots" was first used in 1948 by western anti-communists.)

From Lenin's book, Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder:

The so-called cultural element of Western Europe and America are incapable of comprehending the present state of affairs and the actual balance of forces; these elements must be regarded as deaf-mutes and treated accordingly.
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We must:
(a) In order to placate the deaf-mutes, proclaim the fictional separation of our government ... from the Comintern, declaring this agency to be an independent political group. The deaf-mutes will believe it.

(b) Express a desire for the immediate resumption of diplomatic relations with capitalist countries on the basis of complete non-interference in their internal affairs. Again, the deaf-mutes will believe it. They will even be delighted and fling wide-open their doors through which the emissaries of the Comintern and Party Intelligence agencies will quickly infiltrate into these countries disguised as our diplomatic, cultural, and trade representatives.

Capitalists the world over and their governments will, in their desire to win Soviet market, shut their eyes to the above-mentioned activities and thus be turned into blind deaf-mutes. They will furnish credits, which will serve as a means of supporting the Communist parties in their countries, and, by supplying us, will rebuild our war industry, which is essential for our future attacks on our suppliers. In other words, they will be laboring to prepare their own suicide.
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World revolution has been powerfully stimulated and accelerated by the horrors, vileness and abominations of the world imperialist war and the hopelessness of the situation created by it, this revolution is developing in width and depth with such rapidity, with such a wonderful wealth of changing forms, with such an edifying refutation of all doctrinairism, that there is every reason to hope for a rapid and complete recovery of the international communist movement from the infantile disorder of "left-wing" communism.

Obama may seem to be one of the "useful idiots" but I think he is one of the true believers in Marxism.