January 23, 2021
The American left’s predilection for Soviet-style authoritarianism
By Patricia McCarthy
“The line proposed by the party leadership was clearly defined and utterly consistent. Its tactics were determined by the principle that the ends justify the means — all means without exception. In the spirit of this principle the prosecutor will demand your head, Citizen Rubashov. The arguments put forth will of course be different. But in the background of this fairground performance, as you call it, you will know just as well as the prosecutor what is at stake – the restoration of party unity.†The above quotation is from Arthur Koestler’s 1941 novel, Darkness at Noon. It relates the grim tale of one of Stalin’s operatives as he is sacrificed on the altar of “unity.†Rubashov is charged with numerous crimes he did not commit though he had come to have doubts about the revolution that became hopelessly genocidal. He is forced to confess to these crimes he did not commit for the sake of party unity.
Joe Biden cannot repeat this word “unity†often enough, so often it has already become meaningless. And of course, it is meaningless coming from a man and a party who have increasingly moved in the direction of Stalin’s regime. That is why they want to impeach Trump again. They fear him like the Soviets feared America’s freedom and economic success even in the 1930s.
Biden and his handlers are assuming most Americans know nothing of world, let alone American history. Sadly, they are correct about too many Americans. Those age fifty and under have long been indoctrinated by the leftism infused into our public-school education and universities for the last fifty years. As the tenured radicals of the 1960s took over academia, the anti-Americanism became ever more virulent. Three books document the corruption of American education: The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (1987), Tenured Radicals by Roger Kimball (1990) and Literature Lost, Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis, (1999).
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