With The Left, Their First Enemy Is Truth

Guest post from John Wilder at Wilder Wealthy Wise.

“I’ve heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers.” – The X Files

My favorite conspiracy theory:  everything is going to be okay.

One feature of the Soviet Union was the constant propaganda that was used against the Soviet citizens, they called it PTSD – Post-Tsarism Socialism Disorder.  Of course, they used propaganda externally, but most of their efforts in controlling reality were focused internally.  Everyone was expected to sing the praises of the government when they knew that they were nothing but lies.  This wasn’t a bug, but a feature.

Imagine:  being required to deny the very truth of a matter, just so one could continue to live in society.  Imagine:  having to parrot the official government lines in order to maintain what little income you had to make it from day to day.  It’s almost a bad as working at CNN®.

I often blog about Truth.  I believe that there isn’t “your truth” and “my truth” but there is an objective, verifiable Truth in almost every case.  Physics (except for some weird quantum events) demands it.  For instance, if I put my left foot in a sock, no matter where in the universe it exists, the other sock becomes the right sock.

Bears don’t wear socks.  They prefer bear foot.

But Leftism demands that you reject Truth.  Leftism demands, on the most basic premise, that Truth be the very first thing sacrificed.  Compliance with this is required on a daily basis.  Otherwise?  You weren’t Politically Correct.  They even had Politically Correct comedians – no matter if they were funny or not you were supposed to laugh.

That’s the origin of the phrase Politically Correct:  the Soviets.  They’d use that to remind each other that truth belonged to the state.  Truth that didn’t follow the state’s dictates?  Politically Incorrect, and those people didn’t last very long.

Why was Political Correctness important?

Every day, citizens had to be reminded that they were controlled.  Not only controlled, the citizens had to be humiliated.  This is the course of history:  conquerors had to remove the will to fight of the vanquished.  How better than to break their will than to remind them every day of their humiliation?

Break the primacy of the family.  Take children from the family and raise them with the values of the state.  Let everyone know that, at any minute, they could be made an enemy of the state.  It’s so bad in that the football team in D.C. had to change their name out of shame.  Now they just go by “the Redskins” so their name is less offensive.

But Italians don’t like Jehovah’s Witnesses.  It’s not religious.  They just don’t like any witnesses.

But when the Soviets took over, that’s what the Soviets did.  They lied.  They encouraged children to betray their family.  They came in the middle of the night with armed secret police to enforce arbitrary laws with (more or less) impunity.

Many Soviet citizens were fine with this.  I (personally) can’t imagine why, but I think there’s some fraction of the population who has as their primary operating mode, “go along and get along.”  They’d be fine with whoever was in charge, as long as they told them what to do.  They’d rather lick a boot than complain about their entire culture being destroyed, value by value.

Guess who isn’t getting a new laptop for Christmas this year?  Hunter Biden.

What are we seeing today?

A similar victory lap from the Left in the United States is taking place right now:

  • LGBTQRSTUV positivity. It’s June, which used to be known as, “June.” But now it’s known as Pride Month.  Pride used to be a sin.  Now?  Pride has been used as an excuse to cram children too young to read as “Trans” kids.
  • An “election” that had more anomalies than Joe Biden’s latest Alzheimer’s test is demanded to be taken seriously. Why?    That’s why.
  • “Laws” and a “border” that are, at best theoretical constructs. As in Alice in Wonderland, laws are what the rulers say they are.  And laws can change from day to day, and person to person.  Borders?  We don’t need no steenking borders.
  • A definition of being “American” that includes all people living in the world right now, and probably any intergalactic beings as well, as long as they can be counted on to vote for the Leftist candidate. I’m sure the Arcturans need to be treated as refugees, too.
  • The primary prerequisite to being in the military isn’t that you’d have honor, duty, and service to country as goals.   Can you put the current policy of the current administration at the top of your agenda?

Every day this is what people see.  The news articles are filled with one humiliation after another.

The idea is simple.  Values must be turned on their head, especially the most cherished ones.  In our society, what has come to be regarded as the highest value is our children.  Therefore, the values we had built up the most have to be destroyed.

When the Greeks sacked Troy, the children of the leader, Priam, were all killed.  All of them.  That’s what conquerors do to the conquered.  One thing is certain in this world – not a trace of Priam’s DNA survives.  The Greeks made sure of that.  The Greeks devastated everything that was Troy, and left it a burning hulk that was lost to history except in the songs of the Greeks for thousands of years until a weird German found them while searching for the Indiana Jones set.

My body is like a temple.  One that the Romans destroyed 2,500 years ago.

That’s what the winners do.  They pull down the statues of those they beat.  They eradicate their history, or make the losers out to be the bad guys.  And, finally, they have the children of those they beat forget the faces of their fathers and emulate the values of the winners.

This century has been unusual, in that the Revolution has been (more or less) a bloodless one.  The idea of actual warfare has been replace by the subversion of culture and the inversion of values.

I had hoped for a long time that the idea of a cultural swing back to the Right would show up.  It has not.  Trump was one attempt at such a swing, and the lasting value of his administration approaches, well, zero.  “Cthulhu swims slowly, but he only swims Left.”  Almost – not all – but almost all of the changes in values during my lifetime have been a ratchet, and a Leftward ratchet.  *Click* – a Leftist point has been won.

No, we can’t turn that clock back, because, (for instance) Rowe Vs. Wade is now settled law.  The ratchet has clicked.  According to the Left, it simply can’t turn back.

If H.P. Lovecraft got rid of cable, would he sign up for Cthulhu?

But we have examples of societies that have explicitly rejected the Leftist ratchet by pulling so hard that the gears stripped, and have turned back.  The best examples are Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  If you ever want to find people that hate Leftism, wander off to Poland or Hungary.

The reason that I’m not a pessimist is that we, humanity, have beaten the horrors of Leftism every time it has arisen.  The battles haven’t been short, and they have numbered in decades of oppression and hundreds of millions of lives.

The propaganda is strong out there.  It’s in television.  It’s in the news media.  It’s in the schools.

Don’t give up.

Keep the fire of Truth alive.

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'Reality' Doug
'Reality' Doug

My body is like a temple. One that the Romans destroyed 2,500 years ago.

The Neo-Babylonians destroyed the mythical ‘Temple’ some 2608 years ago, whereas the Romans destroyed its supposed revised replacement and a real temple some 1951 years ago. The mythical flesh temple, some 1988 years ago. I’m a stickler for that history. The (((ramifications))) are incredible. 🧠

Austrian Peter

You certainly know your history – well said Doug.

Nothing but the truth.
Nothing but the truth.

Truth is their enemy. Lies ,deceit and fear are their weapons.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

My contribution to truth is to consult my rifles in my gun safe. I know they are all innocent, but they carry the baggage of others that may have sinned. I need to sight more of them in so that they may be true to their purpose. Their purpose is not to cause mayhem or damage, but to hit a target. Accuracy is important since ammunition is an expensive proposition. Hunting feeds my family!

Harrington Richardson: Deplorable Ninja Grifter
Harrington Richardson: Deplorable Ninja Grifter

Laser bore sighters are a big help in sighting in without wasting ammo. With today’s ammo prices they pay for themselves. I have had very good results using the inexpensive NcStar units.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

Bore sighting is just the beginning, don’t waste ammo without accurate range shooting. A missed animal is a waste of ammunition. I always bore sight, then zero in.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

Harrington Richardson manufactured M1’s, my Buddy has one. I have a Springfield Armory 1943 Garand.

Ken31
Ken31

That is the way we do it in the military. It does save time, effort, and money. You just need to be on paper the first shot and it is worth it.

Ottomatik
Ottomatik

Always a pleasure, the humorous elements create a needed niche in the panoply of doom porn.

Stucky

Da Ho gets a warm Southern welcome from the folks in South Carolina. Why … they’re even friendlier than Guatemalans! lmfao

Ken31
Ken31

That Always Sunny episode was hilarious, but in general the show celebrates narcissism a bit too much for my taste. I may watch that again as an exception to my no TV rule. Rules are there so you think carefully before you break them.

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