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Left Socialists ruthlessness and willingness to break the rules.
The 2020 election is a continuation of a conflict about the
nature of America which began in the 1960s. The first clear and vivid political
collision of that conflict was in 1972.
Because Theodore
White’s Making of the President 1972 is such a
compelling analysis of the conflict in which we still remain, I am using it as
an outline for four consecutive columns. The first was
on the general parallel between 1972 and 2020. The second was
on the power of the elite media. The fourth will be on the tragic consequences
of the failed ideology of the Left and the human costs of bureaucratic inertia
and ideological fanaticism.
This column explores what
White called “the movement” and the mutation of ideas, which led to the
movement and defined its ruthlessness and willingness to break all the rules.
The liberalism which had
dominated the Democratic Party from President Franklin D. Roosevelt through
President John F. Kennedy began to be replaced in the 1960s. As White described
it, the “Liberal Idea... hardened into the Liberal Theology."
In the 1960s, there was a
swirling together of the Free Speech Movement, the Civil Rights movement, the
Women’s Rights movement, the breakdown of sexual inhibition, the rise of Black
Power as an ideology, the Gay Rights movement, the anti-war movement (with a
radical wing willing to bomb professors and innocent citizens), and the
collapse of the idea of law and order – leading to a dramatic rise in crime and
violence in virtually all of our major cities. People understood that when the
United States Army had to be sent into Detroit to put down a riot, something
had gone terribly wrong.
By 1968, Richard Nixon
could campaign on “law and order” as a central theme, and it resonated with
millions of Americans.
After the 1968 election,
the two parties began moving in diametrically opposed directions. Southern
whites, in general, and Northern blue-collar voters (often of Catholic
background) were being driven toward the Republicans by the threat of a
radically changed America. On the other hand, the Democrats were increasingly
dominated by the demands of the Left.
As White described it:
“Their effect could be
summed up in three cardinal tenets of the Liberal Theology: (a) War Is Bad—and
the American military was almost, if not quite, a criminal institution,
wasteful and profligate of life and treasure; patriotism was the last refuge of
scoundrels, and the adventure in Vietnam ‘immoral.’ (b) Black Is Good—and the
demands of blacks on the general society must become, in the revision of
priorities that would follow the end of the war, priority number one. And (c)
since money comes easily under the modern managed economy, the belief that
Money Solves All Problems, as in the rhetoric of hope, ‘If we can spend the
money to reach the moon, we can spend the money to save our cities, solve
cancer, purify our streams, cope with drugs, cleanse our ghettoes … etc., etc.’
These three tenets of the Theology were, in turn, harnessed to a political
doctrine called Participation: If the people could be brought to participate in
the political arena, and there freed to express their real needs, then politics
would become, as it should be, the instrument of national good. Thus, out of
such thinking, there developed in the years between 1968 and 1972 a formless
but very powerful action group within the Democratic Party that can only be
called the Movement—a movement whose roots lay in the insurgency of 1968, had
been strengthened and nursed by the reforms of 1969, and whose future, as one
looked forward to 1972, was obscure, yet beckoning."
The rise of this new
theology had a profound impact on the nature of politics on the Left, an impact
which is still there today. As White analyzed it, politics became an expression
of morality. There could be no grey area or compromise – “what was morally
right … must be politically sound.”
It was this spirit of
ruthless imposition of the true faith which led to George McGovern and the
worst Democratic defeat in modern times. The next time you listen to Elizabeth
Warren or Bernie Sanders, you will hear the echo of this totalitarian belief
that they are moral and their opponents are immoral – and therefore anything is
justified to impose righteousness on the impure.
As the Democrats talk about
reparations for slavery, and as they opine on The New York Times’ 1619 Project
while defending quotas against Asian-American students with better grades, it
is worth remembering White’s warning that quotas largely destroyed McGovern’s
candidacy. As White put it, “the liberating idea which had inspirited the
Democratic Party for so long had become a trap."
It is likely that 2020 will
become another trap for the Democrats.
The one candidate trying to
be a centrist, former Vice President Joe Biden, is disintegrating into
asserting “I want to be clear; I’m not going nuts.” As he collapses, the
dynamic of the Liberal Theology and the Movement will see Warren as
“mainstream.”
Welcome back to 1972 –
almost a half-century later.
Your Friend,
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
P.S.
We are a country in crisis. America is extremely
politically polarized. It’s almost impossible to have a civil discussion about
politics and political issues without emotions overflowing and people erupting.
Gone are the days of real, unbiased, fact-based news — now our airwaves and
device screens are dominated by opinion labeled as news.
NOTEWORTHY and USEFUL
Trump
administration considering partnering with Big Tech to create social credit
score for gun ownership
President Donald
Trump is said to be warming to the idea of having the government partner with
Big Tech to create a social credit system that would use spy data to determine
whether a person could own a gun.
The system, which
would be a part of the Health and Human Services Department, was first reported
on by The Washington Post on August 22, but its ramifications are just now
coming to light as the political establishment’s efforts to disarm Americans
increase.
The whole aim
of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to
be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of
them imaginary. H. L. Mencken
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life.
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video by City Prepping. He lists 10 signs that things are about to get really
bad. With how crazy things have gotten lately, you should really keep an eye
out for these things...
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2 comments:
Our country is being assaulted by these socialist-communists and frankly, everyone I know are SICK of them & their anti-American bullcrap.
The more I hear the stupid crap that comes out of the far left socialist-democrats; especially their 'candidates,' AND incredulously to me, it would appear around 25% of voters [more for Blacks who have done nothing but benefit from Trump] are against POTUS & want this socialist BS! Scary that so many are so deluded!
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