Wake up America. The great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water and sinking fast.
What does 'waking up' entail? That is the question really. America is being remade and it is being remade through a model which must, inevitably, turn ideologically against everything that made America America. So, the political régime that is now taking power, and with farther Left-Radical ideologues in the wings waiting for their opportunity to act, is a movement that defines itself through *toppling*. That is, toppling statues, but this *act of toppling* goes much farther beyond that. They say *We defend our democracy!* but by their actions they show that they do not. Their entire self-discourse needs to be exposed.
This *toppling* is a complex ideological act. It is also hysterical and emotional. It may be done by largely unconscious persons who do not really grasp what they are doing, or by dedicated ideologues who certainly do, but what I suggest is trying to see *where this is all going*.
Once you unleash these toppling, overturning forces, inevitably to proceed from one 'statue' (so to speak) to the next. This is why it is fair, through it is a dramatic way to put it, to say these actions are 'insidiously Marxist'. The purpose of Marxist activism is to undermine those symbols through which a people 'identify' themselves. The act of undermining 'identity' in this sense is to dis-invalidate first the idea for which the monument stands or was erected, but then the very person who identifies through it.
It is sort of curious that recently there has been a call to 'defund the police' and yet, also quite recently, 20,000+ troops were brought to the Capitol. So in fact the *meaning* here is that one pole of authority has to be *toppled* but in fact replaced by an even more obvious manifestation of authority. You cannot say that this contradiction is lost on them! It is not even registered!
And that authority will now be brought to bear in a cultural war against "all those who oppose us". And with this, I assert, you can begin to grasp why the term régime is not one of exaggeration.
The advantage -- for those who have the capacity to think things through and who might be able to avoid being captured by these very powerful currents of cultural conformity and mass-complicity -- is that we can use all of this to strengthen our own ideas. To see things clearly. To argue with clarity and in accord with principles philosophically defended.
Obviously, in the first responses you got to your initial post was ridicule. Ridicule, vilification, dismissal -- these are their initial tools. But keep this in mind because it is true: If they feel that they are not succeeding with those tools there are other tools they have at their disposal. Banning, demonetizing, excluding from (what they refer to as) 'polite society', and of course eliminating the flow of information through open opposition to the Constitutional First Amendment right.
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