“By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.” – Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Smoking will give you diseases, but it cures salmon.
The GloboLeftElite have long been planning the takeover of the United States. It’s obvious that this is the case because their thinkers have been plotting the roadmap since, well, forever. Antonio Gramsci was one such leader, and here’s a quote from him:
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.”
Gramsci may have been a (really) sub-60-inch-tall Albanian cripple who was in constant pain, born to a criminal father, but let’s let bygones be bygones. This is nearly exactly what the GloboLeftElite did. Their scholars left Europe ahead of certain German extended continental excursions in the 1930s, and many of them made their home in the United States.
Note, they didn’t all go to the socialist paradise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Nope. The Soviets were too busy starving themselves, executing each other, and building GULAGs for fun and profit.
Instead, these “Socialists” wanted to come to a functional society that was producing wealth and wreck it. Gramsci didn’t join them, because he died. Based on the list of things that Antonio was suffering from at the time – spinal deformity, arteriosclerosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, high blood pressure, angina, gout, and acute gastric disorders – if he was a dog his name would have been “Lucky”.
The functional society that they wanted to wreck? The United States.
If a deaf person goes to court, is it still called a “hearing”?
The United States during pre-WWII time wasn’t the same as Europe. Europe had always been a class-driven society, and from conversations with friends it still is. Moving from one class to another is difficult, unless you’re a family-wrecking divorced tramp like Meghan Markle. In the United States, not so much, since we view Meghan as classless.
Many successful businesses were made by people of humble beginnings, and even our presidents didn’t all come from wealth. Mobility was very possible and that was visible. People could see that if they came up with a great idea, great wealth was available. The ideas of class that had driven division in largely racially homogeneous Europe to create revolution didn’t work, so they had to work on other things.
They chose race and sex. For whatever reason, our most prestigious colleges snapped up these horrible foreign commies – people like Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and the like. There are dozens more that infected the country at that time and given cushy jobs with nothing to do but try to create rot in our country. Oh, wait, I just described Biden’s appointees.
What’s key to a good mailman joke? The delivery.
And it worked. Infiltration of the schools, especially the normal schools that taught teachers took a decade or two, and a decade or two later the teachers started their indoctrination work inside the school system – first slowly and covertly, then quickly and openly.
Christianity has flirted with this hardcore communism for years, but since commies don’t go to church, it has largely been thwarted, though the “send more refugees while we have lesbian pastors and free abortions during Passover” churches are slowly gaining ground, though there’s not a lot of enthusiasm for them. So, Gramsci has had a harder road there.
The last on Gramsci’s list is the media. That has been firmly in the hands of the GloboLeftElite for decades, shows like All in the Family and Maude were the first “in your face” move to take over television. In 20 years we went from Lucy and Ricky not being able to share a bed . . . to Maude, who in a “comedy”, decided to kill her child because it wouldn’t be convenient to have one.
I’d go onto LGBTQ characters introduced in cartoons for young children, but that started, firmly, in 2013. If I were a parent with small children, let’s just say they wouldn’t be watching Cartoon Network®.
To further this, more and more “mainstream” social media like Twitter™ and content aggregators like YouTube® turned the screws – cancelling people as innocuous as Stefan Molyneux, who just liked to talk about philosophy and preached that you shouldn’t spank your kids. Obviously, he never met my kids. Regardless, Molyneux was frozen out.
Chuck Norris invalidated the periodic table, because Norris only recognizes the element of surprise.
Recently, though, I sense a thaw when it comes to the media. The biggest cause of this thaw is because the American public no longer believes in mainstream media, at all. Depending on the poll, over 70% of Americans have little to no trust in mainstream media. 70%. That means that only 30% give it any trust. This is nearly an exact flip from 1972. We now know when the mainstream media is lying: when they’re talking.
This has led to a wholesale rejection of what the mainstream says. Now, in many cases, like the Vaxx®, ignoring the mainstream was a good idea. They have to admit it because the science is now in – the Vaxx™ has been shown to be worse than the ‘vid.
And that had to be shut down. After COVID, after the George Floyd Mostly Peaceful Riots®, the idea that control of information was crucial became the mantra of the GloboLeftElite. It still is. Hillary Clinton said the quiet part out loud when she said, “. . . if the platforms, whether it’s Facebook® or Twitter© or X™ or Instagram® or TikTok©, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content we lose total control . . . .”
All of those Clinton friends who killed themselves that never left notes . . . would it have killed them to write a few lines?
Yeah, she trots out the “it’s about the children” but Hillary’s version of the perfect world is the GloboLeftElite version of the perfect world. They want a world ruled by their bureaucracy, managed by and for them where coloring outside of the lines really does go in your permanent record.
But, please. The Earth is not flat. You can prove that yourself with a car, 24 hours, a map, a protractor, and a Sharpie™. I think this nonsense is a psyop to make anyone with a “conspiracy” theory sound unhinged, despite so many of those theories being found to be 100% founded in reality.
And enter Elon Musk. I’ll admit that I didn’t think that much would change when he purchased Twitter™ and rebranded it X®. Now, though, I go on X™ and regularly see memes that I’d only seen on /pol/ as produced by that hacker, 4chan. (Mostly) free discourse is now allowed, out in the open.
/POL/ – it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
It is respectable once again to talk about ideas that had been cancelled, not because it’s fashionable, but because the ideas are True. The biggest enemy of those that would lie is the Truth. I left Twitter™ when it was kicking off people telling the Truth, and returned when it again (mostly) allowed the Truth.
Can you say anything on X®? No. But is it much, much closer? Yes.
Gramsci won’t win and turn Socialism into a new religion, because at the heart of Socialism are lies meant for controlling man. And Truth, along with Beauty and the Good, always wins.
And you can tell any short Albanian commie named Lucky that you meet that Wilder says so.
Pete Buttedge’s father was Gramsci’s biggest fan. He translated Gramsci’s prison writings while he worked at Notre Dame. He was known there as the Red Professor. Yea it’s hard to believe that people can be so desperate to deny accountability to their Creator, that they support a system that failed dramatically EVERYWHERE. And killed an estimated 100 million human beings.
Not a surprise. At all. He is still idolized by the GloboLeft.
If you have a cynical mind like mine, you don’t see the Left’s control slipping but rather simply a different and temporary phase. I see a lot of normie “conservatives” declaring victory and doing victory laps, something we have seen before when they declared a new conservative era was upon us, only to have that come back and bite us collectively in the rump. This isn’t a time for patting ourselves on the back, it is a time to go on the offensive.
Oh and “people like Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse”….They all have something in common but I just can’t put my finger on it….
I share your cynicism as the Republicans have a way of screwing up everything…..That being said, I also have a slight glimmer of hope in that there seems to be a non-trivial shift in the power structure, particularly in relation to the common folk you mentioned.
The MSM and entertainment industry is in a death spiral so a large chunk of the liberal propaganda arm is going with it. If Trump is smart, he will push to break up monopolies at the big tech companies as well to make this a more lasting change. We’re also seeing the Democratic party of identity politics thrown into turmoil as all of those immigrants they brought in don’t necessarily agree with the status quo. I never imagined we’d see so many pro-Hamas protests in the US and yet here we are. Either way, I think it is going to shake up the power structure for the foreseeable future.
On the downside, I do worry that Trump has been handed an intractable situation in terms of the national debt, the military, and so forth. There may be no way out of any of this and so he is just being made the scapegoat.
Depends on which part of the entertainment industry at which you look. Video games are doing very well, for instance, but have been becoming more woke over the years. Musk has suggested he might start a video game company to fight back against the woke, but we’ll see.
You’re right. Not even two terms of the Reagan presidency was able to do much to slow down the advancement of the Left and the continued consolidation of power in the hands of “people like Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse”. By the end of the Reagan presidency, we had amnesty for illegal aliens, more gun control, more federal bureaucracy, more immorality in entertainment, a drug war that had gobbled up the 4th Amendment, the beginning of the off shoring of high tech manufacturing to China, continued decline of domestic manufacturing and other wealth producing industries, and Reagan being replaced by George H.W. Bush–a globalist–as the next president.
Agreed. I have no idea how people can think that TPTB’s control is slipping. They just made fanatics NOT fix an election. They could probably have fixed the election even easier. I’ve even seen a laughable article on Breitbart about how Conservatives have won the culture. Utterly ridiculous. Every city school has a fag flag in front, media pumps non-stop propaganda, etc.
By equating Woke with Leftism and thinking that Leftism is defeated when Woke is defeated (which it isn’t) means Woke did it’s job of mainstreaming the slightly-less radical Leftist ideas. The Left has done this for centuries. Push for something that is a ‘5’ radical, get shut down, so they start pushing for a ’10’ radical idea which everyone is shocked and horrified at. Then they push ‘5’ again, and everyone is relieved that they have a lesser evil to embrace.
Mostly what people are interpreting as weakness is just the various elite factions fighting amongst themselves for control. Once a dominant faction emerges all the nonsense will mostly disappear. And then shit gets worse, forever.
You mean like Jesus right?
Oooh! Burn! Someone break out the aloe vera for Arthur Sido. Guess you learned your lesson, eh, Art? Hah!
Or, what if the slipping is on purpose? That’s in the Weather Report next Monday.
Well, about X: I opened my first account there a year or two ago, and have recently abandoned my third one. It’s entirely a matter of automated censorship, I’m sure, as there’s no human who’s scanning the occasional post by a nobody such as myself. When I say I “lost” three accounts, I mean that when I was notified that such-and-such a post had violated X rules, and that I was in 12-hour jail, but that the 12-hour countdown didn’t start until I deleted the offending post, I got all stiffnecked and didn’t do that. My most recent offense was a little gentle advice to Zelenskyyyyyy that he “eat shit and die,” which X software considered to be “violent speech.” Well, okay, but he wasn’t the only public face to whom I had given the same advice in the month or so preceding. I conclude that not only is it a piece of software that’s scanning posts, but also that the software is just randomly spot-checking. Software is fast, but there’s also a helluva lot of posts.
I’m sure I’ll launch another account before too long. There are a lot of interesting people there whose stuff I like to read. Meanwhile, I’ll enjoy the gift of a little more free time.
And I’ve seen other accounts (especially those that make critical comments about India) unfairly banned.
Stared at that first meme and it didn’t quite hit right, so I came up with an alternative line:
“What disease removes the ability to speak of the evils of Socialism?” – Leningitis
There. That’s better.
I *love* it!
I have a feeling it’s going to take a little time to get their nasty, grubby, fat fingers out of the media. That, and the same for public education. I have no idea what they’re planning, but think it’s something deceitful, evil and full of malice.
Not if we just all ignore them. Which is what is happening.
Very good!
Thank you!
“Depending on the poll, over 70% of Americans have little to no trust in mainstream media. 70%. That means that only 30% give it any trust.”
Unfortunately that is only media in general. Many people still trust their media, it’s just the other sides’ media that lies. I have a feeling the numbers are going to keep going towards a lack of trust, especially as boomers die. “Mainstream media” is what the other side listens to; we listen to the Truth!
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“…shows like All in the Family and Maude were the first “in your face” move to take over television.”
Never forget!
“The “rural purge” of American television networks (in particular CBS) was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows with demographically skewed audiences, the majority of which occurred at the end of the 1970–71 television season.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge
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Related links:
Gramsci-
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260
“The ideas of class that had driven division in largely racially homogeneous Europe to create revolution didn’t work, so they had to work on other things.
They chose race and sex. ”
The reason why:
https://archive.org/details/spandrell-biological-lenninism/page/1/mode/1up?view=theater
Excellent stuff. Thanks. Yeah, the rural purge was horrible, and marked the end of decency on TV.
“we have lesbian pastors and free abortions during Passover” churches ”
Actually in our town, we used to have a bunch of Methodist churches 20 yr ago and a Lutheran (oddly enough). Both pushed the leftist crazy stuff hard. Now we have 2 lightly attended Meth churches left and the crazy Luths are gone. The Baptist churches are packed.
Christians know the truth and have rejected the leftist’s perversions.
Yes. People understand that the Easy Road isn’t the best road.