Dennis Prager summarized well the great divide between Communists and everyone else in a recent broadcast: So, what the Left has done is said [with respect to being unarmed], “It’s a crap-shoot. Whether you die from a bullet, whether you die by a bullet from a monster’s gun, or whether you do not, is a …
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Theodore Dalrymple on Political Correctness
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they …
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Leftists today, just as the Soviets in the past, use ‘misinformation’ to label anything with which they disagree.
…a method of dealing with people who differ from the Left[?] There are two methods: ridicule, and censorship. …it’s called ‘misinformation’. Misinformation is the term used, as the Soviets used it, for anything that the Left differs with. The Dennis Prager Show, 20220707, Hour 1
Transgender activists at Netflix used a Soviet technique to shut down disagreement.
Look at what Matt Walsh wrote about how transgender activists at Netflix used a Soviet technique to shut down disagreement: The erasure of wrongthink from the public consciousness is a common tactic of the left now being used by transgender activists to shut down disagreement. People cannot think what they have never heard of, after …
Essex Police Enforce Groupthink
The Sovietization of American Life
Read Victor Davis Hanson’s brilliant “The Sovietization of American Life” analysis here.
Laying Siege to the Institutions
From “Laying Siege to the Institutions” by Christopher F. Rufo in the April/May 2022 issue of Imprimis: The leftist dream of a working-class rebellion in America fizzled after the ’60s. By the mid-1970s, radical groups like the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground had faded from prominence. But the leftist dreamers didn’t give up. …