I once wrote an article called,
“Collectivism vs. Individualism…Reframing an Argument” http://radicalconservativerisso.blogspot.com/2013/12/collectivism-vs-individualismreframing.html
In this article I asked what can be done
to “reframe” the conservative position in order to restore liberty, and a
proper understanding of our duties to maintain a constitutional, republican
form of government. The basic premise was that a “collective view” of our “responsibilities”
in a constitutional republic was vital in order to see the government
established by our forefathers restored. Sadly, our current generation is lost concerning
the constitution and the rights it was intended to protect. Most of them can’t
even tell you what the first amendment is.
Progressives take the position that our constitution is outdated and
that it has failed to go far enough in describing human rights. They believe it
is oppressive because it limits what the government can do for the people, so
they argue. They would have you believe that health care, economic equality and
a right to be free from offense are the rights promised in American society, and
because the constitution does not define these rights, it stands as an
impediment to their vision of progress.
The best way to articulate how lost
our youth are today is to describe the conversations I have with young
people. For example, I asked a young girl working a cash register if she had ever read the constitution.
I do this often as I have been inspired by watching certain reporters do the
same concerning current events. I wanted to see the responses I would get.
While this young girl’s answer was disappointing, it wasn’t the most shocking.
The most shocking came from a young man who was a freshman in college. His
reply to my question was that he hadn’t read it because it was too long and he wasn’t
sure if he could read the whole thing. That is what liberty means to our
children today, a lack of knowledge about our constitution so monumental, that
they don’t even realize it fits in their back pockets. The girl at the cash
registers response was a little more thoughtful. She replied by saying she had
read it in middle school and would not likely read it again because it was
written in cursive and difficult to understand. Her words, not mine.
What I have discovered through five
years of “higher education” is that kids are being trained to believe this.
They are being trained to believe that the constitution is something standing
in the way of progress and it should be discarded. How many people do you know
that advocate the Living, breathing document position, yet are unable to
describe why they hold such a view? More
shocking still was the fact that whatever narrative was driving the main stream
media at the time would surely be reinforced in the class room. For example, I
had heard three times from two different professors that my family was likely a
racist if they had not voted for Obama. The media, government and education
system seemed to be working hand in hand to push the narrative that America was
bad and only by resorting to collectivism did we stand a chance. Accepting a
state sponsored paradise known as communism was the only way to redemption. The
word communism was never used but other words like “communitarian” and utopia
were used to describe what anybody over the age of 40 would recognize as a
coming tyranny.
The left is redefining the terms
under which we are forced to argue, and “political correctness” is the vehicle.
Political correctness dictates thoughts and speech; however, many have no idea
how it originated or what the purpose was. Political Correctness was introduced
in the early 1900’s as a means of establishing Cultural Marxism in a society.
To understand this you must Understand Marx. Marx believed a revolution of the
proletariat would uproot the bourgeois and a state sponsored paradise would
ensue. The Marxists of the early twentieth century were frustrated because
their theory didn’t work. The events that led to WWI were based on the idea
that the working classes would unite against capitalists on an international
scale. Instead, they remained loyal to their nation states and workers from one
country engaged workers from another in mortal combat. Antonia Gramschi
understood the flaws in Marx’s theory and built on his ideas. He understood
that only incrementally could you successfully uproot the ruling elite and
establish world communism. This would entail the laborious chore of changing
the hearts and minds of men. It was western culture, or Christianity itself
that stood in the way of creating this communist utopia. With the help of a man
named Georg Lukacs, (who advocated for the use of sexual socialization in
public schools in order to destroy traditional morality,) they developed the
ground work for what would later be known as the “Frankfort School of Social
Research.”
Many people are familiar with term
“critical thinking.” Critical thinking is a product of the School of Social
Research, the core tenant behind this method of thinking is called “Critical
Theory.” This theory teaches people to be “critical of” or to criticize
everything they are thinking about as opposed to thinking logically. It was
designed by Gramschi and Lukacs explicitly to get people to question their own
western heritage for the purpose of tearing it down. In order to get people to
willingly accept communism, God must be destroyed in the minds of men. This was
the purpose of political correctness. This is the mother theory the left holds
dear, from feminism and racism to questioning the obvious attempt to transform
us from a nation of freedom to one of tyranny.
Now that we have established the
moral depravity of the left and the lengths they are willing to go to establish
their world vision, we have to ask ourselves, what do we do about it? We have
to become the radicals they are accusing us of being; essentially, and turn
some of their precious theories against them as they have done to us. Many
people have been saying this for a long time but we need to do it in a way that
the young people who are so concerned about human rights can be brought to the
table and realize their support for progressive policies is destructive to
their aims. This is no easy feat; it will take the same effort that was put
into developing political correctness to destroy it. It will take the endurance
that Joseph Goebbels used when discovering that the big lie will be believed if
told often enough. It will be nothing short of a cultural revolution that could
take a century.
Reframing the question and
introducing our own version of critical thinking is one way to approach this.
“What makes you think the government will provide you free healthcare when they
are demonstrating they don’t believe your life is valuable enough for you to
have the right to defend it?” This is an
example of a question that goes right to the issue of rights and how they are
defined, while forcing young people to critically think about the fallacy of their
position. It will take years of the same diabolical patience the left uses, and
the undying commitment of people who love their country to turn this around. Ditching
political correctness at all times no matter the cost is absolutely necessary.
Another question to pose to those who fail to understand where rights are
derived from could go like this- “How can government grant us rights like
health care, if they fail to acknowledge that the constitution protects your
rights to be free and secure in your own property?” Without property it is
difficult to have any other natural rights. Given the fact that the young
people in question are very unlikely to be aware of their fourth amendment
rights, a quick lesson may be in order.
To sum this up more simply, we need to apply critical
theory against those young people foolishly advocating progressive policies,
while getting them to think “critically” about what they are attempting
to change. A point by point comparison between the liberties and virtues of a
constitutional republic, and a collective Utopia must be clearly defined in the
minds of these young and extremely gullible people. We are at critical mass as
the president is all but telling us he intends to rule by executive fiat.
Progressive education policies and a deliberate effort to discredit the
constitution have instilled a notion in young liberals that the president is
within his constitutional authority to do so. If you haven’t noticed, there is
very little opposition coming from the alleged oppositional party. It is up to
us and us alone to make this final push to secure liberty and save the America that
our sons and daughters, fathers and mothers have fought sacrificed to pass on
to us. We are not trying to save this country for us but for our children and
grandchildren. Right now, as it stands, they have been reduced to nothing but
servitude as the consequence of our pleasures and the road easily traveled has
been passed on to them to repay in full. Only by seizing control of the
narrative and captivating the minds of those whom the future belongs to, do we
stand a chance of restoring this country.
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