Antifa and the Collectivist
Way of War
American Thinker,
by
Paul Krause
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
8/17/2019 7:23:10 AM
Antifa storms in and out of the news, despite that fact, the Left is unable to denounce this militant band of thugs. The Left cannot denounce Antifa because Antifa embodies the very ethos of war and violence that collectivism needs to thrive on. To assail Antifa would be to attack the heart of the cancerous poison that is destroying liberty oriented societies.
Michael Oakeshott was one of the preeminent English-speaking conservative philosophers and writers of the last century. His essay “The Political Economy of Freedom”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jj1319 8/17/2019 7:58:17 AM (No. 154638)
FTA: "Roosevelt was not among the greatest presidents, as we’re told, but among our most destructive."
Please note that the author refers to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr., as opposed to the good and righteous Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/17/2019 8:54:02 AM (No. 154698)
Read this article! A wonderful distillation of leftist reality. It's actually very simple, it has to be to get traction.
"Collectivists need an imaginary enemy.." I've long said this, division and conflict excuse one from personal expectations..
"Antifa may come and go." With Antifa the sharp end of the leftist stick, it'll just go through a rebranding as todays Antifarians worm their way into our society as 60's radicals did, destroying from within.
It's sad we have such difficulty exposing the child-like ugliness of leftism, hard to overcome the forces marshaled against us -- the information-education-entertainment-Dim party juggernaut. They utterly control the national dialog.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/17/2019 10:40:42 AM (No. 154783)
Excellent article that cuts through all the baloney and gets to the heart of why all this garbage is being pushed by the Left.
"And collectivists need war, or, in more palatable contemporary terms, an “emergency,” to usurp power for themselves for their domineering and hateful ends."
If there IS no war on women, minorities, LGBTQ folks, poor people, or decency and civility there would be no reason for the Left to exist.
Sure there are incidents of some people, often mentally ill people, behaving badly. But having a few people a year act out badly does not justify a major reorganization of society and our government structure. That's like banning all trains and cars because some dopes cut around a blocked train crossing and get killed every year. Or requiring crossing guards at all train/road crossings.
And at the heart of it is not even the search for a solution. It is the lust for power by the Left. All Socialist countries come to a bad end. None of the problems they claim they will address get solved and MANY more are created. Socialist solutions DO NOT WORK. Many Leftists know this. They don't care because it is only a means to power for them.
The Left is evil and destructive. It is inherent in who they are. The "issues" don't matter.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
The Remnants 8/17/2019 11:06:18 AM (No. 154799)
Myself and a lot of other people question:
Why isn't Law Enforcement able "to denounce this militant band of thugs"?
Maybe they have, but they seem to be very quiet about it.
And I cannot comprehend why people are allowed to wear masks and create mayhem and threaten people in a public gathering. I would think there are laws in the U.S. that protect those who are legally and peacefully just trying to gather and make a statement. So many protections that we once took for granted don't seem to be there any more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/17/2019 11:37:24 AM (No. 154826)
#4 - I think the reason they are allowed to wear masks and do their evil is because they are based in Portland OR. They don't seem to have such a sustained and active presence in any other part of the country. The mayor of Portland is an avowed socialist and has taken upon himself the title and duties of Police Commissioner. Under that authority he has ordered his police department to "stand down" and not interfere with Antifa's "right to assemble". Its up to the citizens of Portland, like Tanya Harding, to take their mayor to task. Since they haven't, they must like mayhem. (Sounds like a great premise for a certain insurance commercial.)
Portland is a weird town. I lived across the Columbia in Vancouver WA from '79-'84, back when I was a liberal dim, and it was strange then. I think the rain causes their brains to rust.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/17/2019 12:56:01 PM (No. 154891)
It isn't just the Left that refuses to condemn Antifa. The cucks/rinos/uniparty GOPE stay silent as well. All who refuse to condemn these homegrown terrorists must agree with them. There is no getting around that anymore.
FDR was destructive in his own way, but even he knew that you did not dare to unionize the Federal workers. That stupid bribe by JFK was worse by far than anything FDR ever did.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/17/2019 1:03:45 PM (No. 154896)
Antifa gets away with it because, as they say, they're anti-fascist.
No different than GI's shipping off to fight Hitler or Tojo, heroes to be admired.
The fact there are almost no actual fascists cannot be accepted, made up oppressors define the left.
So there we have today's left, spinning out of control on all nine circles of hell.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/17/2019 1:04:00 PM (No. 154899)
They'll lose enthusiasm when they start dying.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JrSample 8/17/2019 2:07:08 PM (No. 154927)
What I have always found amusing about PANTIFA is how they are so anti-police. They are too stupid to realize that the police and courts are the only thing keeping the rest of us from wiping them out. If they ever get what many of them claim to want, which is "revolution" and "anarchy", there are 10s of millions of armed/trained veterans who hate communists in any form, and it will be open season.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/17/2019 2:59:55 PM (No. 154973)
Very Good. My suggestion for a must read.
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