It is better to be silent and thought a fool Than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
AOC’s Astrology Sign: The Braying Jackass
Why is The Left so viscerally resistant to rational debate? Societal Solipsism abounds! French philosopher Rene’ Descartes created the concept. George Orwell used it in his prescient book 1984. “Solipsism’s metaphysical position concludes that the world and other minds do not exist. The solipsist believes himself to be the only true authority, all others being creations of their own mind”. Collective Solipsism is the voluntary abdication of empirical and independent thought by a large group of people. (Wikipedia) Well, don’t that explain all!
The belief that only one’s own mind exists explains the mind set of our nation’s education system (or those controlling it – see Standing Up to Goliath by Rebecca Friedrich).
It explains Al Gore believing he invented the internet “for, if one is the only mind in existence, then one’s mind alone created all of which one is apparently aware. This includes the symphonies of Beethoven, the works of Shakespeare, all of mathematics and science”!
It explains Hillary Clinton not understanding why she was not 50 points ahead – especially when Democrat union leg breakers and the New Black Panther muscle were physically preventing citizens from voting in the most populous states and the Mind-Numbing-Media (MNM) was “manufacturing consent” (Bernays) by “psychologically raping the masses” (Chakotin).
It explains the Socialist platform of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her sub-species. These Useful Idiots’ and their True Believers are so short-sighted I’m amazed they aren’t constantly walking into walls.
“The Laws of History are as immutable as the Laws of Physics.” – Isaac Asimov. That being the case, the historical illiterates of The Left have been fighting a lost cause since their founder Karl Marx first put pen to paper. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1847. Marx (known in Europe as “El Negro” for his dark complexion – similar to his father’s maid) was not an eloquent speaker. Nor was he a scholar. His doctoral dissertation was rejected by the German university he attended. After being deported from Germany he lived in France where he was eventually asked to leave as well. Engels swallowed his pride and became a practicing capitalist. Finding his father being ripped off by business partners Engels took over and successfully ran his father’s textile mills – ironic in that it was in textile mills from which the Industrial Revolution began. Marx spent most of his life in the library trying (and failing) to find literary justification –and public acceptance- for his political psychosis.
Engels lived a comfortable life. Marx did not. Marx tried desperately to live the bourgeois life-style. To the extent that Marx was able it was due solely to Engels’ regular and substantial financial assistance. But it only delayed Marx having to sell his furniture for food (“The problem with Socialism is you eventually run out of someone else’s money!” – Margaret Thatcher). Marx’s proletarianism didn’t preclude his wife having a maid servant in his home – whom he impregnated. Marx was a miserable human being, constantly in debt (his well-off mother disowned him shortly after he moved to London), suffered from shingles his whole adult life (who says there’s no God?), and proffered his mythical politics ten years behind his times. (Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber)
The Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) was vastly more beneficial to mankind than detrimental. Wages, working conditions and long work days all improved through that time. The philanthropy of wealthy capitalists provided much needed relief to those who fell between the gaps of society (as they did in the Great Depression of 1929). The Manifesto was only mentioned once or twice in obscure pamphlets for decades until Lenin (with German National Socialist – Nazi- help) formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. This great Socialist experiment murdered over 120 million Russians and associated ethnicities living under the Hammer & Sickle flag during its seventy year reign of terror. (see The Black Book of Communism by Andrzej Paczkowski, Jean-Louis Margolin, Jean-Louis Panne’, Karel Bartosek, and Nicolas Werth)
Any pretext for Socialism as a viable economic ideology ended on November 9, 1989 when the Berlin Wall was torn down (see Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism by Patrick Sookhdeo, et al). Ocasio-Cortez was an infant at the time (where was Post-birth Abortion then?). She might be forgiven for not knowing then but one would assume she would have learned about it at Boston College where she received a degree in international relations and economics. Somebody needs to review Boston College’s accreditation! Oh! And her bragging about “saving” New Yorkers $3 billion by preventing Amazon building a $36 billion plant! Just how did AOC get her degree in economics – en sus rodillas?
Quotes Describing AOC and her Socialist-Democrats:
“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.” -James Burnham, p. 341
“Liberalism ..fosters new sorts of crimes through its permissive approach to education and discipline and its provocative egalitarianism; some at least of our multiplying juvenile delinquency is the logical outcome of liberal principles. In a way, a juvenile delinquent is a youth who takes literally the progressive-educational stressing of self-expression and freedom.” – James Burnham, Suicide of the West: Essays on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, 2014; p.320.
“A Tale told by an Idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” – Allen Bloom, p.196
“Corrupted by flattery and armed with power.” – John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, p.41
“Subsidized Nirvana” [the New Green Deal] – LBJ’s “Great Society”
“Intrepid Scribblers” – Liberal Fascism, p.22
“Playing the movie backwards” – Liberal Fascism, p.26
“Parts without a whole” – Bloom
“Sophisticated show business” – Bloom
“Those executioners of independent thought” – Bloom, p. 369
“A wise old owl sat in an oak
The more [s]he heard the less [s]he spoke,
The less [s]he spoke the more [s]he heard
[AOC!] Be like that old bird?” – adapted from a WW II poster
“…the logic of [Socialists] is to say we may persecute others because we are right, and you must not persecute us because [you] are wrong.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, p.308
“The problem with Socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” – Margaret Thatcher
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. It’s inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” – Winston Churchill
“the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property [is] the first object of government.” – James Madison, Federalist Papers
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich show that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.” – Abraham Lincoln, 1864, to the Workingmen’s Association of New York.
“Before such a revolution (against the Constitution] can be effected, the Senate …must in the first place be corrupt itself; must next corrupt the State legislatures; must then corrupt the House of Representatives and must finally corrupt the people at large .” – Federalist Paper, #63, p.194
Additional Readings on Socialism / Communism:
A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes
Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, by Frank Dikotter
Moscow Diary: A Revealing Memoir about the Communist World when Krushchev Ruled by Veljko Micunovic’
The Penkovskiy Papers by Oleg Penkovskiy
Disinformation by Prof. Ronald J. Rychiak and Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
KGB: The Inside Story by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky
The Rape of the Masses: the Psychology of Totalitarian Political Propaganda by Serge Chakotin. This is the strategic OPLAN of The Left; Clower-Piven the operational order; Alynski’s Rules for Radicals the tactical patrol order for the minions,
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
On Dealing with the Communist World by George F. Kennan
The Kindergarten of Eden: How the Modern Liberal Thinks and Why He’s Convinced that Ignorance is Bliss by Evan Sayet
Liberal Fascism: the Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Change by Jonah Goldberg
Heroes Behind Barbed Wire by Kenneth K. Hansen, Colonel, Infantry, USA. 1957. (Only three percent of 180,000 North Korean and Chinese P.O.W.s chose to return to live under communist rule at the end of the Korean War – and most of those feared for their families’ lives if they didn’t
