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Here’s the biggest difference I see between leftists and conservatives: Leftists pursue their goal with a “damn the torpedoes” determination. Conservatives, on the other hand, break formation and scatter if the purity of their actions is questioned.
If a conservative points out that lefists march with violent radicals, the leftists’ reply is, “So what?” Then they’ll shoot back, “We don’t care what THEIR goal is; OUR goal is a lofty, noble ideal.”
However, when leftists accuse conservatives of having questionable members, the conservatives surrender without a struggle.
Here are a couple of examples of how leftists march onward, no matter what conservatives say. (Examples of conservative squeamishness are too numerous to list.) Back in January, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote approvingly of a boycott against Dr. Kevin McDonald at Cal State Long Beach. The SPLC article specifically mentioned the Party for Socialism and Liberation as one of the organizers of the boycott. That group’s web site spells out its dedication to the bloodthirsty aims and methods of international communism, and even features iconic images of Vladimir Lenin and Che Guevara, both mass murderers.
That wasn’t a fluke. A few years back, SPLC spokesghoul Mark Potok was interviewed by Socialist Worker magazine, which has no problem proclaiming its totalitarian goals:
The ISO stands in the tradition of revolutionary socialists Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky in the belief that workers themselves–the vast majority of the population–are the only force that can lead the fight to win a socialist society.
The Russian Revolution of October 1917 remains to this day the most decisive event of the international workers’ movement.
The standard story we hear about the Russian Revolution of 1917 is that it was a coup. The real history of the Russian Revolution can teach us a lot about both the potential for ordinary people to take action and the hope for a better world.
The “better world” Lenin and Trotsky forged required the peacetime murder of 126 million souls.
And we allow ourselves to be silenced by a shrug of the shoulders and an impatient, “So what?”
RedPhillips on 21 May 2010 at 8:26 pm #
Amen. Note the hysteria surrounding Ran Paul’s perfectly reasonable questioning of the Civilk Rights Act.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 22 May 2010 at 1:32 pm #
Red Phillips,
We are too easily persuaded by packaging in this country. Maybe Madison Avenue’s at fault here. Stamp “Civil Rights” on a piece of legislation, and people think it must be a good thing. What the 1964 law did was to boost the Federal government’s power over our lives. And as Thomas Sowell has so well documented, the passage of that act had absolutely NO effect on black progress; indeed, blacks made more economic, social, and educational progress in the decades leading up to the Civil Rights act than after.
Sowell goes further and argues that negative trends, such as illegitimacy and recidivism, can be traced back to the Civil Rights act.
Weaver on 23 May 2010 at 6:21 pm #
What a wonderful Marxist dream: no transcendent values only material pleasures…
Conservatives too often have no central core values. They’re prudent or “respectable”, and thus too often lacking substance. They want the scale of change to be reduced, but they don’t make an impact on what sort of change is made.
I don’t mean to say prudence isn’t a virtue, but slowing change isn’t a direction – it’s a speed. We’re still moving towards Marxism.
Myke on 25 May 2010 at 9:11 pm #
This is how B.O got elected. By playing the race card. Everyone wanting to prove we are not racists. I have proved I am not a racist all my life. I had no need to vote for a black man to prove it. But ever since B.O started campagning I have been called a racist over and over. Every time I said some of the truth about B.O, I was called a racist. When I said to my leftie friends and some conservatives, I wouldn’t have sat in Wright’s church for one hour and B.O sat there for years, they said you are a racist. When I said if B.O applied for a job as a body guard for the President, he would not be eligible for it because of his associations with terrorists like Bill Ayres and criminal slum lords like Rezko, they called me a racist.
Now they are trying the same thing with Rand Paul. Don’t fall for it. If nothing else I feel Rand Paul will at least listen to We The People. This administration is doing anything they want and to hell with what we think.
I am sick of B.O’s crotch shots when he is supposed to be saluting our flag. I am sick of him apoligizing for America. And I am sick of him standing next to the Mexican Moocher, while he complains of AZ law. Of course he wants amnesty. He wants the billions of dollars a year that the illegals send to Mexico. Even tho for decades he and his corrupt government officials have refused to create decent paying jobs for their people. Mexico is a wealthy country. They could easily supported their people instead of forcing them to cross the border to feed their families.
At least this is what the first Mexican people did. But the ones crossing the border in recent years are revolutionaries, who say we stole American from them and they are taking it back even if it means killing us.
I think Rand Paul is an honest man looking out for America and if conservatives let the lefties run this race card on him, we will be the ones who suffer from it.