Gul writes:
And how could you possibly think that Conservatives are 'forward-thinking'??? The very meaning of the word 'conservative' means that they're NOT forward thinking and want to 'conserve' as in keep things as they are and NOT move forward-- ie: traditional values, morality, less regulation, fewer taxes on the rich, etc.
The problem with the terminology and the definitions is that it tends to favor the Marxist map that in turn derives from Hegelian categories. Probably few are knowledgeable about Hegelian Marxism, but I teach philosophy at a college so let me explain this idea. Hegel thought that God was originally in the universe by Himself. Then, to come to know himself, He decides to create material reality. Slowly, he comes to know himself in matter. At first it's all rocks, then life (God) infiltrates rocks, and finally life begins with plants, then dinosaurs, and finally humanity. Hegel thought that with the advent of America God had finally arrived at knowing Himself because here we had freedom of speech. He was writing in about 1805. He also thought that Napoleon would do for Europe what Washington had done for America.
A few years later (1809?) Napoleon betrayed the French Revolution and crowned himself Emperor. Beethoven thought too that Napoleon was the new liberator of Europe. News travels slowly.
News continues to travel slowly through the left. After Hegel died his philosophy students split into two. There were right wing and left wing Hegelians. Both groups still exist, and both groups still claim Hegelian philosophy as the ultimate. I think it's rather stupid because the map of forwards and backwards is nonsense. There is right and wrong. Marx was obviously a left-wing Hegelian. He thought forward meant that when the proletariat owned the means of production then God would know Himself in time.
What is the problem with this? Marx also wanted a dictatorship of the proletariat. I'm not sure anyone here has read philosophy, or has thought about where your terminology comes from. But basically Marx ends up assigning "forward" to state capitalism. This means that the state runs the economy as it does today in China or in North Korea. (There is a lot more individual freedom in China, but that's another story -- they still haven't got internet access, and you can still go to jail for saying something the government doesn't like.) So let's say you get a bad product. Who do you complain to? The government. And if the government kills you for complaining, who do you complain to? The government. The Chinese government will take the organs of political prisoners and give them to party officials. Who are you going to complain to? The government?
And yet this is what the American left wants: a totalitarian healthcare system that is run by the IRS. We've just seen the totalitarian nature of the IRS. They blocked applications by Tea Party and other conservative groups to 501 status. This sounds good to leftists, but they don't realize the same thing can be done to them once the shoe is on the other foot. The Soviet Union and the Nazi medical systems used them to exterminate political opponents. Who do you think ran Auschwitz? It was the doctors such as Dr. Mengele (later a famous abortion doctor in Argentina who hundreds of thousands of abortions).
This is probably too much for many of you to take in at once. Who do you think is going to regulate a universal healthcare system? The government will do it. It will also be universal deathcare. They will decide who will live and who will die. Obviously their political opponents will die. There goes freedom of speech.
A better system is that of the checks and balances of James Madison which comes out of Lockean liberalism. That's what "conservatives" want to "conserve." They want to conserve Lockean liberalism. Locke is the brains behind the American Constitution. Instead of universal totalitarian government that owns everything (including your organs) you now have four basic principles: life, liberty, health and private property. Private property is the most important of these because it guarantees the other three. This is very difficult and requires years to understand. Most of you went through Marxist schooling and don't know any better. They brainwashed you. You are now part of their cult. You can't think your way out of it unless you read the Wall Street Journal, watch Fox, and try to understand the deeper roots of your terminology. I don't expect this from anyone. I'm a garden variety cult cracker, I suppose.
Obama's father and mother were Marxists and his high school mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a Marxist. He studied with Marxists throughout college and says in his memoirs that he sought out Marxist professors. He hasn't risen very far from this. He thinks state capitalism is a good thing. He doesn't really connect the dots between his thought and the Soviet Union and North Korea because he's basically the stupidest president we've ever had. Not because he hasn't got an IQ but because he has never had any other thinking. He's a cult member. The media at present is zombified by him because he's black. They think to attack him is to attack his race. But of course it's the content of his character that needs to be questioned. He is a Marxist robot who uses race rather than class as his criterion. Once you see this, you see all the other attending problems he's created and you realize we're dealing with an African dictator along the lines of Patrick Mugabe.
To all the stupefied, this is progress. But he's beginning to seize phone records of journalists. He's also begun to use the IRS as a thumbscrew against his opponents. He's ultimately going to use healthcare to murder his opponents just as the Chinese and the North Koreans, the Soviets and the National Socialists did. What we need to conserve is checks and balances. The government should stay out of industry. The government should be a check against industry. If government becomes the industrial producer, who's going to check it? In the Soviet Union this is how they got Chernobyl and the dried up Aral Sea (once the fourth largest, now a mud puddle).
I realize it's hopeless. I'm competing against your four years of brainwashing with the equivalent of a single letter. None of you will even try to listen. That's fine, I'm used to it.
And how could you possibly think that Conservatives are 'forward-thinking'??? The very meaning of the word 'conservative' means that they're NOT forward thinking and want to 'conserve' as in keep things as they are and NOT move forward-- ie: traditional values, morality, less regulation, fewer taxes on the rich, etc.
The problem with the terminology and the definitions is that it tends to favor the Marxist map that in turn derives from Hegelian categories. Probably few are knowledgeable about Hegelian Marxism, but I teach philosophy at a college so let me explain this idea. Hegel thought that God was originally in the universe by Himself. Then, to come to know himself, He decides to create material reality. Slowly, he comes to know himself in matter. At first it's all rocks, then life (God) infiltrates rocks, and finally life begins with plants, then dinosaurs, and finally humanity. Hegel thought that with the advent of America God had finally arrived at knowing Himself because here we had freedom of speech. He was writing in about 1805. He also thought that Napoleon would do for Europe what Washington had done for America.
A few years later (1809?) Napoleon betrayed the French Revolution and crowned himself Emperor. Beethoven thought too that Napoleon was the new liberator of Europe. News travels slowly.
News continues to travel slowly through the left. After Hegel died his philosophy students split into two. There were right wing and left wing Hegelians. Both groups still exist, and both groups still claim Hegelian philosophy as the ultimate. I think it's rather stupid because the map of forwards and backwards is nonsense. There is right and wrong. Marx was obviously a left-wing Hegelian. He thought forward meant that when the proletariat owned the means of production then God would know Himself in time.
What is the problem with this? Marx also wanted a dictatorship of the proletariat. I'm not sure anyone here has read philosophy, or has thought about where your terminology comes from. But basically Marx ends up assigning "forward" to state capitalism. This means that the state runs the economy as it does today in China or in North Korea. (There is a lot more individual freedom in China, but that's another story -- they still haven't got internet access, and you can still go to jail for saying something the government doesn't like.) So let's say you get a bad product. Who do you complain to? The government. And if the government kills you for complaining, who do you complain to? The government. The Chinese government will take the organs of political prisoners and give them to party officials. Who are you going to complain to? The government?
And yet this is what the American left wants: a totalitarian healthcare system that is run by the IRS. We've just seen the totalitarian nature of the IRS. They blocked applications by Tea Party and other conservative groups to 501 status. This sounds good to leftists, but they don't realize the same thing can be done to them once the shoe is on the other foot. The Soviet Union and the Nazi medical systems used them to exterminate political opponents. Who do you think ran Auschwitz? It was the doctors such as Dr. Mengele (later a famous abortion doctor in Argentina who hundreds of thousands of abortions).
This is probably too much for many of you to take in at once. Who do you think is going to regulate a universal healthcare system? The government will do it. It will also be universal deathcare. They will decide who will live and who will die. Obviously their political opponents will die. There goes freedom of speech.
A better system is that of the checks and balances of James Madison which comes out of Lockean liberalism. That's what "conservatives" want to "conserve." They want to conserve Lockean liberalism. Locke is the brains behind the American Constitution. Instead of universal totalitarian government that owns everything (including your organs) you now have four basic principles: life, liberty, health and private property. Private property is the most important of these because it guarantees the other three. This is very difficult and requires years to understand. Most of you went through Marxist schooling and don't know any better. They brainwashed you. You are now part of their cult. You can't think your way out of it unless you read the Wall Street Journal, watch Fox, and try to understand the deeper roots of your terminology. I don't expect this from anyone. I'm a garden variety cult cracker, I suppose.
Obama's father and mother were Marxists and his high school mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a Marxist. He studied with Marxists throughout college and says in his memoirs that he sought out Marxist professors. He hasn't risen very far from this. He thinks state capitalism is a good thing. He doesn't really connect the dots between his thought and the Soviet Union and North Korea because he's basically the stupidest president we've ever had. Not because he hasn't got an IQ but because he has never had any other thinking. He's a cult member. The media at present is zombified by him because he's black. They think to attack him is to attack his race. But of course it's the content of his character that needs to be questioned. He is a Marxist robot who uses race rather than class as his criterion. Once you see this, you see all the other attending problems he's created and you realize we're dealing with an African dictator along the lines of Patrick Mugabe.
To all the stupefied, this is progress. But he's beginning to seize phone records of journalists. He's also begun to use the IRS as a thumbscrew against his opponents. He's ultimately going to use healthcare to murder his opponents just as the Chinese and the North Koreans, the Soviets and the National Socialists did. What we need to conserve is checks and balances. The government should stay out of industry. The government should be a check against industry. If government becomes the industrial producer, who's going to check it? In the Soviet Union this is how they got Chernobyl and the dried up Aral Sea (once the fourth largest, now a mud puddle).
I realize it's hopeless. I'm competing against your four years of brainwashing with the equivalent of a single letter. None of you will even try to listen. That's fine, I'm used to it.
