tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post8952855316402040804..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The real curse on mankind.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-86191487579339241972015-12-15T22:24:35.508-05:002015-12-15T22:24:35.508-05:00Reg, I believe that when the communist tide went o...Reg, I believe that when the communist tide went out for the last time in Russia and E. Europe it nonetheless left behind a vast layer of scum that continued to affect civilized countries from inside the churches, universities and schools, bureaucracies, the media, and the major parties. Those infected had the deep-seated hatred of their own people and nations that is characteristic of people infatuated with progressive (communist, socialist, liberal) ideas. They also, in their unprincipled desire for political power to implement their utopian ideas and revenge fantasies on the bourgeoisie, were delighted to pander to the foreigner or the outsider inside or outside their countries for financial and electoral advantage over their hated enemies. The Muslims were among those foreigners and were, in fact, the real enemy but the leftists saw anyone who hated the bourgeoisie as an ally. Foresight was not appreciated or sought after. <br /><br />I would love to believe that leftist delusion had such an easily-identified organic cause but I fear she likely comes by it naturally. Only the diseased thinking of highly educated and intelligent can be blamed, I fear. Why the lack of perspective and shortsightedness I described above is so powerfully attractive to intellectuals I do not know. Maybe the very flight into the world of theories and abstractions and knowledge of distant events carries with it the seeds of disaster. <br /><br />You have ruined my day with your list of possible fellow worshippers. Thanks for the VIsual! :-)<br />Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-42704675091383195802015-12-14T20:51:37.345-05:002015-12-14T20:51:37.345-05:00Just as every society that has tried communism/soc...Just as every society that has tried communism/socialism/collectivism has failed, usually after the deaths of millions of their own people, every country that has imported or allowed the entrance of large numbers of muslims has developed a cancer - the body of that nation has damaged, toxic, non-functional cells reproduce to the point that the "patient" - a nation formerly composed of native people who were a functioning part of the whole - has sickened and died, leaving the equivalent of an animated corpse behind.<br /><br />Two asides: Debbie _Wasserman_ Schultze brings to mind the old medical test for syphillis, known as the Wasserman Test (true, look it up). The tertiary stage of syphillis include dementia caused by the destruction of brain tissue by the infection. I submit that this explains Debbie's almost total flight from rationality and reality.<br /><br />Also, services in the buff will cease to be fun when you find yourself sharing them with women who look like Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Janet Reno, Angela Merkel, and Michelle Obama. (Saw a joke the other day that said doctors treated erections lasting more than four hours by showing the patient a photo of Hillary.)Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-17522445304769913602015-12-14T16:30:22.264-05:002015-12-14T16:30:22.264-05:00Quite so. The pretty little plans require ever mo...Quite so. The pretty little plans require ever more money to sustain. The costs of the bureaucracy to implement them increase as they did in Sweden. Even they tightened up a little and it might have stabilized for them. The immigration influx, however, was another pretty idea that once may have had some bearable costs but as the true, hideous costs started to rise it wasn't the paper shuffling type of bureaucrat whose influence was felt but the influence of the repressive organs. The natural human antipathy to "the other" (esp. in large numbers) was not allowed to find expression. Thus, the repression of the state had to soar, which it has.<br /><br />It's no surprise that the secret police and internal repression and terror have been the hallmark of ultra left regimes. Human nature resists being channeled into the ways dreamed up by people they just don't like. Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-73750374602193094142015-12-14T12:43:11.909-05:002015-12-14T12:43:11.909-05:00I think the failure of virtually all collectivist ...I think the failure of virtually all collectivist tyrannies lies with their common delusion that they can some how change human nature. That b they canby brute force do away with individual self-interest, familial bonds and group identity. In short they think human perfection can be achieved on earth by force of will rather than understanding that it can only be moved toward by arelationship with God.JWMJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330556524852443926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-38624841891750762382015-12-14T12:12:14.483-05:002015-12-14T12:12:14.483-05:00Thank you, brother. That one's been in the ho...Thank you, brother. That one's been in the hopper for a long time. It bears elaborating.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-59713672516098494492015-12-14T01:08:04.954-05:002015-12-14T01:08:04.954-05:00Another great piece my friend.Another great piece my friend.JWMJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330556524852443926noreply@blogger.com