A rather uncommon theory is that liberalism, the kind propagated by an avaricious elite, represents the undermining of kin. This occurs on both macro (nations and races) and micro (family, communities) scales. The kind of liberalism that doesn't view itself as a tool for promoting a global utopia, but rather as a means for appropriating wealth and power uses this pernicious strategy to accomplish their objectives.
What the power elite do is enervate the strength of kin bonds, replacing these elements of self-governance and value with those of a larger community more easily manipulated through public coercion. To illustrate this let me give a brief summary of how this works:
Micro:
- Family: Liberals detest the nuclear family, seeing it as a vestige of our bucolic past. As in the Murphy Brown controversy, they glorify single motherhood as an honorable and viable situation, one that of course often leads to government or communal assistance. Further, they champion birth control and exaggerated theories concerning global warming as a means to depress birth rate and thus decrease family bonds.
- Homosexuality: Related to the above. Homosexuality is generally a childless relationship. The codification of homosexuality implies liberals undervalue reproduction and family as an important facet of life.
- "It takes a village": Hilary Clinton's famous remark represents how liberals view child raising as not the sole responsibility of parents. Instead, it's the larger community, one inevitably affected by widespread social mores, that must impact a child's development. In addition, the inclusion of women in the workplace has lead to significantly more time for babies and young children in daycare under the supervision of adults not part of their family.
- Religion: Religious communities used to provide a sheltered social sphere for families. With the advent of megachurches (not necessarily liberal though) and the continuing secularization of the West, the church no longer functions as a restricted social space where certain behavioral (usually conservative) norms are championed.
- Globalism: The current global warming controversy illustrates how liberals will engage in rather overt equivocation in order to advance globalist initiatives. In doing so, they aim to dissolve national boundaries that strongly correspond with traditional culture and ethnic bonds, replacing these with a central system of decision making and control. Memes such as the recently revived "We are the World" song and nomenclature such as "mankind" and "one people" promote the idea that all nations have a moral duty for sharing. This inevitably weakens Western states, allows a central governing body to dispense orders, and undermines national and ethnic loyalty amongst peoples.
- Race: Boasian anthropology, supported by fallacious arguments such as Lewontin's fallacy and other duplicitous ideas, holds that race is merely a social construct with no biological basis. We're inundated with the specious claim that races are only 5% different, thus implying that any kin bonds are not supported by a rational appeal to science. As race often acts as the primary demarcation for social groups, this allows liberals to formulate a Marxist conception of humanity. By dismissing race as a biological entity, they attempt to classify any inequity as the result of oppression and any loyalty or commonality as unreasonable. This aids in their globalist vision, as without racial divisions, wealth redistribution, third-world charity, and central government become more tenable.
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OneSTDV illuminates the central core of our ongoing cultural wars embodied in the current revolt against Obamacare and debt explosion under corrupt liberals.Behind the facade of economic woes is the Micro and Macro points made by this insightful thinker. In an ideal world Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Shawn Hannity, Mark Styne, and George Will would be making the same points.They avoid them!
I vividly recall my battles in the Sixties as I stood befuddled by the momentum of egalitarianism.The Left seemed to emerge like an incubus of irrational power. Yet the first expectations of Dr. King and others was simply "equal opportunity." The thought occurred to me that such reasonableness could morph into irrational demands because the Left was highly irrational about Vietnam and various schemes for "liberating" children. Why then should they stop at equal opportunity? Of course my premonition turned out to be correct as the morphing of modest expectations into equal outcomes took place by the 80's. Paul Kurtz, the father of secular humanism, was totally against equal outcomes as were other educated liberals, but they were swept away by the new generation of know-nothing zealots. Post-modern philosophy added cachet to the ugly and unfounded dictum.If all knowledge is a matter of personal taste, then why can't inferior students simply have a different view of reality? This scheme makes a mockery of science and was adopted rapidly by social science and humanities scholars who favored Leftist ideas anyway.
OneSTDV is striking at the heart of the liberal disorder. I watched a great film called Harvest of Sorrow last night. It is a biography of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the genius who fled Russia in 1917 as Lenin came by train to "rescue" Russia from a state deemed ripe for a Marxist revolution.Rachmaninoff became a lonely exile in America despite his intense piano performance schedule and financial success.
The sorrows of Russia and the loneliness of Rachmaninoff were different aspects of the greatest effort to destroy elites and replace them with a proletariat that happily grinds on in egalitarian sameness.The vast crimes and murders of Stalin 's system are well known and stand as a testiment to the follies of liberal social enineering. Such follies are lessons for numerous people who suffered under the yoke of Societ Communism, but still socialists like Obama, privileged neophytes with shallow thoughts, remain a danger to us all because their real agenda uses capitalism to destroy itself. The lesson should be more obvious and must be learned quickly to prevent future catastrophies.
By pure coincidence I came upon a quote from Romania's president, Emil Constantinescu, which was included in Robert D. Kaplan's supurb book called Eastward to Tartary. In the Balkans he moved through Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria in 1998, interviewing prominent political and literary figures to learn about their nations after Commumnism.
"What was the hardest thing you've had to learn?" I asked him.
"That we are not all equal. The passage from dictatorship to democracy is a passage from collectivist to the communal ideal.Collectivism annihilates the individual, while community means an association of individuals.And in rediscovering our individuality, we find that some are more intelligent than others, some work harder, some are more innovative, some are luckier and in a better position to acquire wealth.Competition means unsentimental selection of the best. This was done with the utmost toughness in Britain and America. It is only important that there be equality of opportunity and not equality of result. To say to the a people like Romanians, whose individuality has been crushed by communism, that they are all equal is an insult. Because this was a hard truth to accept during the early phase of industrialization. Communism seduced intellectuals with the lie of equality, which in practice turned out to be rule by the lowest among us."
President Obama is not familiar enough with history to demonstrate the wisdom of Constantinescu, and his zealous programs fly diectly in the face of such wisdom. We whose meritocracy was praised by Constantinescu are in great danger unless the freight train of egalitarian madness is derailed.
Let me add that women in particular adhere to "family is what you make of it" and a rejection of biological kin in place of workplace buddies.
Go to Televisionwithoutpity.com or Fanforum.net and see the female posters repeating that dogma, like a parrot, to see how effective that is.
What the rejection of limits and family and biological kin networks do for women is advantage them to have lots of sex with Alphas, a kid by one of them, and then define family as a beta male marrying the single mother, plus the support network of workplace buddies.
This is wishful thinking, but informs much of the redefinition of family and kin to workplace buddies and so on.
Most of what women do is related to pursuing Alpha males. This is no exception.
'Cuckoos, Cowbells, and other Cheats' by N. B. Davies. Undermining kin, laying cuckoos eggs for another family's nest to support.
Bruce
OneSTDV illuminates the central core of our ongoing cultural wars embodied in the current revolt against Obamacare and debt explosion under corrupt liberals.
Recent federal Republican administrations have done absolutely nothing to curb the increase of federal debt in the USA.
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GOP may even be more fiscally irresponsible than DP. The Clinton administration was even able to decrease the federal debt as a percentage of GDP while none of the Republican administrations have been able to do that since Nixon. It is particularly notable that GWB had no compelling reason not to curb the deficit unlike Obama whose inauguration took place in midst of a severe recession last year.
I will not touch the health care reform business as I do not know the current or the proposed systems in detail.
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