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You say you want a revolution?
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of is contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist.—“The World’s Last Night,” by C.S. Lewis
Russia is already looking with horror—at us! At Pravda.ru (not Leon Trotsky’s Pravda, nor the tabloid Pravda risen from its ashes after the demise of the Communist Party mouthpiece in 1991, but the online magazine), these ex-revolutionaries appear bemused by our nation’s current flirtation with socialism:
Like the breaking of a dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple . . . the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century . . . for the surrender of their freedoms and souls. . . .
The piece reads like a Glen Beck fantasy editorial, and I am still wondering if it’s not a hoax perpetrated by some out-of-work blogger in the Bible belt. (There’s also an editorial comparing President Obama to Mikhail Gorbachev.) But assuming it’s the real deal, the analysis of our nation’s “descent” posits three main causes:
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture. . . . Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations,” were . . . happy to sell out their souls . . . to be on the ‘winning’ side. . . .
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been record-setting. . . . If this keeps up for more than another year— and there is no sign that it will not—America will at best resemble the Weimar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe. . . .”
Next I am waiting to hear from Venezuela and Argentina.
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Even though it is dramatic and drastic and from Pravda, it sounds pretty accurate.
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I used to read the paper version of Pravda. But then for a couple years I only did the crosswords
Venezuela has been heard from. They feel that Obama is to the left of Chavez.
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This is the exact same rhetoric that liberals used when Bush was re-elected 4 years ago. Whenever your opponent comes into power, it’s pretty typical to bemoan the educational, cultural, and moral decline of your nation and the gullibility of the populace that elected them there, then use hyperbolic language to describe the coming demise of your country painted in all the most dire apocalyptic tones. If you can get an outside perspective to say the same thing, well, all the better! I hope that this is not too harsh, as I usually really love reading what Andree has to say and find it to be one of my favorite parts of WMB– especially when she writes about the Bible. Perhaps that was just the missing link today?
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So, go to the other thread citing Newsweek, rewatch the laudatory bowdowns to Obamessiah who is “like God” and then reread what’s here. You leftys don’t question ANYTHING this man does.
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MenLikeTrees–
The government now owns greater than 50% of General Motors. Calling this “marxist” isn’t just “the exact same rhetoric.” The national debt is now over $500,000 per person. Much of it is owed to China. These are the facts. Can any hyperbole sound worse than the truth already sounds?
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Tell me why Democrats are not evil.
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I’ve been thinking lately about what a shambles our society has become–wondering when it hit the high (2005?) and began its descent into something like parts of the former Soviet Union. Bear with me . . .
How do you live in a soceity which is culturally and financially imploding? My entire life I’ve lived in a growing economy where opportunity was always around the corner. It doesn’t feel that way to me now; it feels like choices are narrowing and limiting rather than expanding. Has there been a time in history like this? And what can we learn?
I don’t know the answer, but I’ve been thinking about 1917 Russia–the overthrow of the government (which obviously did NOT happen here), but a severe change in society where life for many came to a complete halt as the system broke down. When it was put back in order, it got even messier for many, while things improved for some. Even the peasants–for whom the “revolution” claimed to fight– were only marginally better off by the mid-1920s, and then the kulaks, of course (basically anyone who owned anything) were starved to death in the Ukraine.
This is not a good analogy, but can anyone come up with an historical parallel I can think about?
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I live in Russia and I am about as conservative as one gets. We may be on the way but unless things have changed drastically since last year when I was home. We still have a long way to even approach the frustration of life here. Think of Mexico… only very, very cold.
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Stubob #4–
Most of the ugly things you mention– the rapid expansion of the federal government, the government bailing out private corporations with public money, and the rapid accumulation of public debt (much of which is owed to China) rapidly accelerated under Bush and Obama only continued the trend. I have no great love for either President and their policies. I was merely making the point that it’s pretty commonplace for any opposition party to bemoan the ignorance of the country for voting in a leader who will lead us all to our Zimbabwe-esque downfall. Saying such things and using “marxist” pejoratively may make you feel better about opposing the leader that you think is doing the wrong things, but I don’t feel like it really contributes to anything besides stirring up a frenzy among the believers. There will always be someone we disagree with in power doing something terrible. We can rant and rave about it, or we can suggest a convincing and useful solution that meets the needs of the people.
Ask yourself: When Bush was re-elected and the liberals were engaging in all sorts of weeping and gnashing of teeth about our de-educated populace that allowed our former President to carry out his plan to take us down the road of militaristic fundamentalist fascism, do you feel like that contributed to a thoughtful political discourse? If not, it probably doesn’t help when conservatives do it, either.
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Bob @ 5
Tell me why Democrats are not evil.
Easy. We like puppy dogs.
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When Andree talks politics, it’s like a swirl of whipped cream on top of the usual heavy lumbering mindless conservatism that is the stock in trade of worldmagblog.
There are intelligent ideas and assertions that can be expressed from liberal points of view and from conservative points of view.
Unfortunately, conservative and intelligent is an oxymoron at worldmagblog most of the time.
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hi there Random Name. How long have you had the gift of encouragement, Barnabas?
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Be optimistic? Be very, very optimistic?
Bury your head in the sand? Very, very deep in the sand?
Learn to speak Portuguese, Hindi, and Chinese? For when they begin to buy up the remnants of our nation?
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