Destroying the Five Olds
The contemporary left, the Democrat Party, has no discernable ideological basis other than authoritarianism.
Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast…
~ Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking Glass”
There was a time when thinking of the American left conjured up recollections of a glossy puff piece in The Washingtonian Magazine featuring Obama’s second paid liar, WH Press Secretary Jay Carney and his wife, Claire Shipman of ABC News. Leading off the piece was a photo of mommy Claire with her son and daughter, flipping a fried egg in their beautiful kitchen/great room – and in the background a collection of Soviet era propaganda posters.
“The left” was once just a sappy bunch of Democrats, bleeding heart liberals we called them, who allegedly felt every pinprick in society and wanted to give everyone a Band-Aid, some antiseptic, a Coke, and a smile.
Of course, there were always the extremists – most showing their hands during the tumultuous 60’s, the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers, the Students for a Democratic Society – during this period, there emerged a significant trend, called the New Communist Movement, which at turns embraced conventional Marxism-Leninism, Cuban socialism, and Maoist communism.
The majority of “the left” resisted, at least for a time, the radicalism and the violence of the Soviet left that sought the destruction of the traditional United States and a transformation to a communist state, even as the USSR was beginning to crack, and Mao was starving his people during the Great Leap Forward.
Around the turn of the millennium, “the left” began to largely abandon their Marxism in favor of any ideology (or none) that gives them path to total power. They left the idealism behind in favor of all the tactics used by Stalin and Mao to control the minds of the people, to destroy their history (i.e. Mao’s destruction of the “Four Olds” - Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Customs, and Old Habits), and to set themselves aside as the only elites fit to rule.
Where the old guard was dogmatic and would never change their positions – there was the plan and only the plan - the American left’s positions are largely incoherent. They do share the Soviet and Maoist’s desires to shut down anything that contradicts the plan because contradiction and criticism creates doubt in the people.
No, the American left’s positions are only consistent when viewed as a means to control, they are inconsistent in all other views. They are one thing today and another tomorrow. They literally will say, do, and believe anything that furthers their agenda. Marxism was just a skin they wore and was discarded the minute it was no longer useful. They are a vast coalition of disloyal users of people, content to utilize any person or group only as long as they have something “the left” needs.
The idea of equality in a communist system doesn't drive their thinking, it is the promise of being the elite group at the top that gets to decide how "equality" is defined that does. The only appealing aspect they find in any of their affectations is the authoritarianism component. That is the only thing that shines through.
Thanks to adding postmodernism to their tool kit during the late 60’s, when the contemporary American left decided their current plan wasn’t working, that they were never going to convince the workers to unite or revolt, they went Mao one better, they sought to destroy the Four Olds, but added a fifth - Old Beliefs. Chief among those “old” beliefs was anything related to religion or God for two basic reasons; first, this was the strongest and most unifying belief in pre-1960’s America and second, because once that belief was broken, no other belief could stand.
Tear down - or just convert religion to an ally - and the fall of the Constitution wouldn’t be far behind.
In September of 2013, Michael Dorf, Professor of Law at Cornell and a Constitutional scholar, wrote:
"...Still, no one disputes that it would be possible--as a matter of brute fact--for Americans to let go of the Constitution and replace it with something else. Put in terms we owe largely to H.L.A. Hart, what makes the Constitution the law around here is the social convention that we treat it as the law. The Constitution is like paper money. It has no inherent value. Its value derives from everybody's willingness to treat it as valuable."
No two men, not even Woodrow Wilson and FDR, have done more lasting damage to America than Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Neither man has any discernable ideology other than authoritarianism.
And there goes your contemporary Democrat Party.
The Democrat party has gutted American government at all levels and wears it like a skin suit. Over the last 85 years, it has taxed us into oblivion in order to create innumerable new offices that perpetuate themselves, install fellow travelers everywhere, harass us, and destroy our society. The Democrat party is to Washington as the Chicom Party is to Beijing.
Yes indeed, authoritarianism for total control, total power with absolutely no substructure consisting of morals or values. There is no line they will not cross.