Hey babe, how did you investigation into whether the Boston Marahton Bombing was a CIA plot go? Did you get to the bottom of that?
My idea is for everyone to get off the spaceship and walk in the real world.
I took your advice, babe, and listened to Sirius 125 for about twenty minutes. A guy named Andrew Wilkow was ranting, I mean actually shouting into the microphone, about how Hillary is a communist, saying this is not hyperbole folks, Hillary is an actual communist who wants to implement the principles of the Communist Manifesto and will do so if given the chance.
I realize this is an emotional election, a transformative election even, so there’s a lot at stake. But it borders on lunacy to characterize Clinton as a communist, another Chavez, and a Marxist devotee. In the same vein, it’s equally crazy to equate Trump with Mussolini, Caligula and Hitler. These are both flawed candidates with divergent views on virtually every issue facing our country, so there’s plenty to argue about. Why not start with their actual policies and what they actually say?
Wilkow was born in Florida and raised in New York, so not sure where you get the idea he’s a Russian immigrant.Wilkow is a Russian immigrant, might actually know what a communist is.
I’m not a Clinton fan. If you want to call her a phony that’s fine, it seems to me both Bill and Hillary have practiced a bad faith form of situational ethics their whole careers, but to mindlessly and repeatedly call her a Marxist is red-baiting, and an extremely dishonest way to discredit her political views. Hillary has been a public figure for more than forty years, her politics are mainstream liberal to progressive, nothing in there that merits being called a communist. It’s a cheap and empty way to argue, really the complete opposite of ernest and sincere.Hillary, however, would be a phony. Marxist if she cared to believe anything at all. Her positions on current political questions are merely reflections of CFR and other commonly approved globalist bucket list ideals. The only reason she says anything is to push the good work along.
That's the problem with Hillary. A complete lush for the New World Order, who doesn't even believe in that, except as a ship of fools she can manipulate for personal gain.
Hence, how can earnest and sincere folks, who do want to make this world a better place, actually do it?
Babe, we may as well be speaking different languages. Two fundamentally different ways of looking at the world. Your post is full tilt John Birch Society rhetoric. I understand as I have a family member that’s similarly inclined. We finally reached an uneasy peace when we agreed to limit our political conversations to good-natured declarations rather than heated attempts to persuade.
I can sympathize with your predicament. Your point of view has been marginalized for decades. Way back in 1962, more than fifty years ago, William F. Buckley excoriated Birchers and effectively purged them from the Republican Party. That’s a long time to live on the fringe. This election, due to the harsh reality of demographic trends, may well be the last chance for some of your more moderate views to enter the mainstream. Unfortunately, all your hopes are balanced on the delicate, fragile and unstable shoulders of a guy like Trump.
I can understand not wanting to be associated with the John Birch Society. You think of yourself as a free thinker and rebel against labels and organizations. That’s why I find it inconsistent for you to repeatedly put the label of communist and Marxist on Clinton and Obama when their positions and policies are, at most, mainstream liberalism. Conflating liberalism with communism is red-baiting, a tactic that went stale back the 1950s.
I enjoy your posts, babe, and am certainly open to learning something new when something new is presented, however, while your style of writing is unique and entertaining, the political views expressed are not always exactly original. For example, most all of what you write concerning David Rockefeller, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, can be found in "The Rockefeller File" and "None Dare Call It Conspiracy," both by Gary Allen, a former member and spokesperson for the John Birch Society. That's the reason I made the connection to you in the first place.
Anyway, maybe we can move forward without labels and focus on Clinton and Trump based on who they really are and what they actually say.
You have Gary Allen confused with Alan Stang, an even nuttier Bircher nutcase. In addition to MLK, Stang accused Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Obama, Truman, Eisenhower, and even Abraham Lincoln, all as communists. Absurd as it sounds, Lincoln was a communist, according to Stang, and the Civil War a communist plot to destroy the country.Wasn't Gary Allen the writer of "it's Very Simple", a referenced work on Martin Luther King's associates and hangers-on, to the effect that MLK was a communist?. . .
Okay, so Clinton and Obama aren’t Stalinists who want to set up Gulags for their political opponents, instead they’re deeply fascinated by Marxist ideas which they see as beneficial to their goal of undermining American values. And to help them in this nefarious endeavor they have access to the cash of rich folks everywhere.Still, in the ordinary mind, "Communist" equates with prison camps where the accused die without trial or any rights at all, and the word is not accurately used as reflecting the utopian ideals of progress towards a State whose management is supposed to fade into the masses of mankind where there are no inequities in society.
imo, Marx was a paid hack whose assignment was to create a popular dream movement that could be manipulated and used to create diversions to prevent the spread of American values as inspired by John Locke and other philosophers of human rights.
That Hillary and Obama are deeply fascinated by the utility of the ideas, and equally fascinated by access to the rich folks everywhere willing to take a little cash for services rendered is pretty well known.
Okay, so Clinton and Obama aren’t Stalinists who want to set up Gulags for their political opponents, instead they’re deeply fascinated by Marxist ideas which they see as beneficial to their goal of undermining American values. And to help them in this nefarious endeavor they have access to the cash of rich folks everywhere.
This is all still a fever dream. Nothing in any speech or any proposed policy, nothing either has ever said or done in their political careers points to a Marxist agenda.
So where do the Marxist charges come from? As far as I can gather, for Clinton it’s Saul Alinsky, who wrote "Rules for Radicals” and was influential in the 1960s. At twenty-one Clinton wrote her senior thesis on Alinsky. This is used as evidence of Marxism. The reality is her paper was a critique of Alinsky's methods and concluded they were largely ineffective. That’s it, no support for Marxism. Clinton has been a pragmatic liberal her entire career. For Obama it’s his work at twenty-four as a community organizer, as if the job itself is evidence of a Marxist agenda. A community organizer helps local citizens solve local problems. Obama’s two major accomplishments as a community organizer were a summer jobs program for Chicago teenagers and getting the city to remove asbestos from one of the area’s oldest housing projects. Again, nothing remotely Marxist.
The far-right, ever since FDR’s New Deal so going on eighty years now, has used Marxism as a cheap label to discredit their opponents politics. Rather than, for example, doing the hard work of arguing the merits of Keynesian economics versus Milton Friedman's monetarism, it’s so much easier to label Keynes a socialist/Marxist and break for lunch.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Jonah again.
This is a well-written, reasoned response. It could even become part of my own network of valid points, but rest assured I will be comparing this view with other sources of information, which I must also objectively verify the best I can.
I am sending you one of those otherwise meaningless reps to symbolize my appreciation for your effort to talk to me and inform me somehow.
well, after finding sufficient other reps to give others.
What happened to the longest thread thread?
You have Gary Allen confused with Alan Stang, an even nuttier Bircher nutcase. In addition to MLK, Stang accused Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Obama, Truman, Eisenhower, and even Abraham Lincoln, all as communists. Absurd as it sounds, Lincoln was a communist, according to Stang, and the Civil War a communist plot to destroy the country.
As Stang proved, we can call our presidents anything we want; communist, Marxist, rapist, murderer, no matter how crazy and unfounded the label.
Incidentally, on a side note, when Stang called a private citizen a communist he and the John Birch Society were successfully sued for defamation in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. The ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court in a landmark case that set different libel standards for public figures and private citizens.
What happened to the longest thread thread?