Greed crosses partisan lines, but the same vaunted “studies” that liberals so often invoke reveal the Left to be greedier than the Right. Even the New York Times has admitted that Republican counties give more to charity than those under Democrat control. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the two most radical candidates of the 2020 [U.S.] presidential primaries, may rail against the “millionaires and billionaires” who allegedly refuse to “pay their fair share,” but for decades both millionaire politicians have refused to give much of anything to charity themselves. Bernie has made his stinginess a point of pride. In 1981, the Vermont socialist told the New York Times, “I don’t believe in charities,” preferring instead a government-takeover of almsgiving.
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles, p 155
Communists make pride their paramount virtue.
Whittaker Chambers pointed out that communism was not a novel ideology. “It is not new,” wrote Chambers. “It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.'” Chambers called communism “the great alternative faith of mankind . . . the vision of Man without God.” It comes as no surprise, then, that adherents of that alternative faith should make pride, the original sin of mankind, their paramount virtue.
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles, p 149
Communists want to convince you of your own misery.
“Consciousness-raising” derives from the Marxist concept of “false consciousness,” a phrase that Friedrich Engels coined in an 1893 letter to the Communist historian Franz Mehring. Gramsci, Marcuse, and countless other Marxists intellectuals in and out of the Frankfurt School have relied on the concept to explain why the oppressed masses seem so much better adjusted than the theorists who write about them. The radicals think they understand the little guy better than he understands himself, and they intend to convince him of his own misery.
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles, p 75