This series I have been writing on, “The Left’s Culture of Death'' could go on, well, almost endlessly. I have quoted a very, very small part of one book (Frank Dikötter’s The Tragedy of Liberation); he has three in his series, and they are about only one brutal Leftist, mass-murdering, totalitarian thug, Mao Zedong. There are books on Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Che, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Robespierre, etc. This is my fifth article. I doubt Townhall will let me write an entire encyclopedia—which is what it would take to list all the horrors of the application of Leftist philosophy in the last 200+ years, the dominant philosophy of today’s elite, including the Democratic Party of America.
But then, what I have recorded in these articles is sufficient, or at least should be, to spur the interest of decent, intelligent people who truly care about their families and others. If you are still skeptical, read Dikötter yourself, and follow it up with other studies on Stalin et al. The cure for ignorance is knowledge; sadly, there is no cure for stupidity and a closed, bigoted mind. Hate can be overcome by love, but one must be willing, and too many Leftists have demonstrated they aren’t. Barbarity is cured by civilization, and Leftists don’t want that, either. Civilization isn’t the road to totalitarian power. Many naïve believers always exist, and they are forever swept up in the torrent of true Leftism. They don’t open their eyes until it is too late. “I’m a proud liberal!” One Leftist recently emailed me. He's going to be a dead one if his side wins.
But the history I have recorded in these articles is accurate and fairly portrays what the Left did in the 20th century in China, is still doing there and in many places in the world, and will continue to do wherever they have power and opportunity. It is simply intrinsic to the Leftist worldview. We know that because it is always the result of their philosophy wherever it gains ascendancy. A tree is known for its fruit. And they are doing it—so far, in moderation in America—but they will follow the Stalinist and Maoist mass murdering model if they ever feel they need to and can get away with it. Keep buying guns and ammo, Americans; it is your best line of defense and might be the only salvation for the country.
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But the problem is...what can we do? Leftism has infiltrated deeply into America and is making every effort to spread its tentacles as far and wide as possible. Decent, God-fearing people are at a disadvantage. We have morals; they don’t. We believe in the sanctity of human life; they don’t. We want to practice “love thy neighbor” and “mind your own business;” they don’t. Leftists practice hate and want to tell you how you MUST live, or you will be shot. Conservatives try to teach people the best choices in life, too, but we don’t kill people when they don’t do what we suggest. We CAN’T kill people. It isn’t in the true philosophy of God-fearing people to do things like that. Unlike Leftists, we aren’t the kind of people who will line our enemies up against a wall and shoot them. Leftists do that. We can’t, at least not to innocent people, six-year-olds, women, and poor farmers. The Left has no qualms about it. You and I do.
So, again, what can we do? We can fight, of course; we have every right to defend ourselves to the death if necessary. But we can’t commit mass murder like communists do. We can’t throw people into gulags and labor camps and work them to death. We can’t steal people’s land and businesses and terrorize them if we don’t like how they look (“white supremacists”). That’s what Leftists do. That’s what they have done, and that is what they will continue to do—even in America. And we aren’t Leftists.
I’m not saying we always must “fight fair” (all is fair in love and war?). But mass murder is totally, well, it’s simply beyond the capability of people like you and me. We would never think of doing something like that or of stealing somebody’s property and goods; honor simply forbids it, and most conservatives are honorable people. So, again, that puts us at a disadvantage because we cannot use many of the weapons—terror, mass murder, rape, theft, gulags—that Leftists use. A decided disadvantage, indeed.
We can only win by the word, by persuasion, by faith in God; the gun is our last resort, and even then, only in self-defense. But, as history is our witness, our hope is not great. Decency, persuasion, and self-restraint can’t stop bullets. Our nation rose in decency and civility. It will end in decadence and barbarity—in other words, the path the Democratic Party is leading the country down right now. The American people, from our Founding, have been some of the best people the world has ever produced. Not perfect by any means, but by comparison, far superior to almost any other people's history has ever witnessed. And I have absolutely no hesitation in saying that. And that sort of person, by the millions, still exists in the United States today. I suspect the people reading this article are among them. The problem is...are we outnumbered now? That is a question I don’t know the answer to. Decadence and barbarity are rampant in America, including in the highest echelons of power. Indeed, Joe Biden is the number one trash cheerleader. Are good words and persuasive arguments enough to gain victory? They never have been before.
America produced great people, but there is nothing special about us as human beings. That is what the Democratic Party is demonstrating to us today. So, it may already be too late.
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