Aug 28, 2023 02:05 AM
(Aug 28, 2023 12:43 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Good reply.(Aug 27, 2023 10:58 PM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]This is the sort of sentence that worries me..Maybe you're unaware, but the communist party use to be a legit party running for political office in the US. It went underground only for the left to immediately start taking up its causes in other guises. And it seems odd that you would follow me saying "regardless of the gaslighting denials from Democrats" only to parrot that exact same gaslighting, e.g. "mass political persecution, scapegoating." The US left played that game for decades, only to eventually get overconfident enough to let the mask slip, as they clearly have nowadays.
Syne Wrote:Covert Marxism only really existed while it wasn't making significant in-roads into culture and politics, ..To write "really existed" instead of just "existed" suggests even the writer is aware there's something a bit strange about the sentence.
Time out to look at Red Scares..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
Quote:A Red Scare is a form of right-wing propaganda in which there is a widespread promotion of fear and panic towards the potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies within a society or state. Historically, "red scares" have led to mass political persecution, scapegoating, and the ousting of those in government positions who have had connections with left-wing to far-left ideology.
Quote:How do you control a society where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer? If you are rich and getting richer one option is to spin up a Red Scare and hope even poor Red Blooded Americans won't want to be associated with Pinkos (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinko).That ignorantly presupposes that there is not significant class mobility in the US. The rich only get richer until a generation or two later lack the skills to maintain that wealth...and then new people rise into the ranks of the rich. The left wants a permanent underclass of the perpetually jealous and aggrieved that they can rule. Hence why they target black communities with welfare rather than school choice, want open borders for an influx of easily intimidated undocumented laborers, etc..
Quote:The left wants a permanent underclass of the perpetually jealous and aggrieved that they can rule.Change that to a sector of the population they can rely on for votes .. and I'd be more likely to agree with you.