When the Left Got Its Foot in the Door to America

[mystery-ak]

October 6, 2024
When the Left Got Its Foot in the Door to America
By Anthony J. DeBlasi

The current crop of leftists were accurately described over fifty years ago in a dictionary of philosophy, no less. Under “Individualism,” Oswald von Nell-Breuning, a contributor to the Philosophical Dictionary of Walter Brugger/Kenneth Baker (1972), provided the following definition:

    [Individualism can mean] the view of society that so stresses the value of the individual that society turns out to be only the sum of the individuals, but not a real whole or unity. The rights and freedom of the individual in this view are supposed to be limited only by the very same rights of the other person and not by an inner relationship to the community. Thus, “order” can be established only when...the reasonable personal interest of each individual leads to a kind of cooperation and harmony...In actual fact however, the stronger [overpower] the weaker and in place of a “free” society appears a tyrannical, irresponsible use of power under the guise of freedom and equality. In the 19th century this form of individualism (in politics it was called “liberalism”) was dominant in both social and economic thinking, and then it fell into disrepute; but it still lives on as individualism on a higher level in the form of collectivism where it has magnified to gigantic proportions. (Emphasis is mine.)

The collectivist mindset of today’s leftists was identified long before any of us learned to walk. And, I would add, it was pointing to a future for America of distorted comm-unity, not out of carelessness or neglect but out of intent by those wanting to change this country into an authoritarian state. Marxists were first in line.

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[Smokin Joe]

Individualism, on its face is fine. Great things can come of that and most everyone has some part to play--not all the same. But it isn't a question of parts, it's that some are metric, some SAE, some wentworth, with a crazy mixture of right and left hand threads in a spectrum of pitches.

For the parts to come together, they have to be compatible. Unifying principles in a culture, as much as 'righty tighty' and a standard scale of measurement make for parts that can be united to form something truly more than the sum of the individual bits. Otherwise, it's just a pile of incompatible junk. And no, not all parts are equal in terms of utility, durability, and strength. Using the wrong part for an application leads to failure of the whole apparatus.



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