This is in reply to Lord Upright as he comments on my post[1]:
He surmises the following, in his own words:
The flyer is likely a hoax.
So what if it is a hoax, because it honestly portrays liberalism.
Liberalism since the 60's has an agenda that reflects the hoax.
Therefore, hoax=truth.
Here, we must refer to the several methods of politics and delve into polemics, propaganda and other matters.
This flyer is no more a hoax than the propaganda posters and articles published in Pravda, The Nation, the New York Times or the Berkeley Bark. The point of demagoguery is to persuade the citizen [reader in this case] to believe or willingly advocate some political ‘truth’ based on some political notion even if it is well known that the facts and circumstances are false according to any or all of a set of non political criteria. Since there is no absolute ‘political truth,’ the effort can be judged on whether the hoax attained political support. It has in this [read your] case.
Thank you for making my point. You have so eloquently stated the tenets of the far left that we must be impressed with your insight, political depth and sincerity. Your work is praiseworthy and due its proper acclaim in leftist circles. Feel free to e-mail this to your friends.
But, you have added to the original content of the flyer with some sterling comments and conclusions that require, to be fair, some lencomiums:
In your world:
1. Might makes right
Read Lenin, Mao and Marx on this subject. “Political power comes out of the barrel of the gun.” Think about a dozen or so of the Marxist African dictators who have villas in France and Italy and fat bank accounts in Zurich.
2. America is a noble empire
It was founded on noble principles and is imperfect. America is not ignoble.
3. America is beset by irrational enemies from within and without who hate freedom and hard work.
The disgusting perverts who infest San Francisco and other cities are, indeed, irrational, praise sloth, sodomy, drug addiction and salute sex with children while relying on the tax base for their incomes. Their only other sources of income, the state’s best business, is growing dope.
4. Homo-Islamo-Marxo-Fascismo is the deadly combination that pollutes the mind and guides Democrats.
Left liberal Democrats have bought into several themes to gain power: that the War on Terrorism is unjust, that higher taxes are always the solution to problems, that Islamo-Fascism does not exist and that drugs ought to be free and available. The quest for these freebees is favored by voting for Left-Liberal Democrats, who have received money from Communists [Clintons, Gores, etc.]. We call this Grunt and Grab in politics.
5. Free enterprise has the best interests of the masses, not profits, in their minds at all times.
Capitalism has shown the world that it works very well and the opposite, totalitarianism and acute authoritarianism have failed [USSR, PRC, Cuba, Viet Nam, 100 places in Africa since 1950, etc.]. Profits allow investment and creats more jobs and provides wealth, security, health care and a grand society. The opposite does not.
6. Free enterprise always works and everyone prospers until homomuslim[sic] children are allowed to propogate [sic].
Free enterprise involves risk and failure and is a critical test system where those who can sort out the best paths are successful. Those who misfire in business can clear their decks and try again. The Fascist systems in place in the Middle East are examples of a barbaric system of misogyny, poverty and fanaticism. We have 15 centuries of failure to throw in the faces of the satraps and mullahs to show this failure in their societies. In Cambodia you were put to death if you could read or if you had soft hands.
7. Science has PROVEN that global warming is simply a planetary weather trend. Homomuslim scientists funded by Stalin and Saddam's gay porn stash are sounding false alarms in order to erect a Islamo-Marxo-Fascismo world order on god-fearing true-believing heartland Caucasians [sic].
Science has not proven anything about global warming. There is no way to understand what the ‘average temperature’ of the planet might be, how to detect long or short term trends in temperature or what melting ice has to do with anything. There is no knowledge about cyclic phenomenon in the weather. GW is a simplistic political effort to gain power and attack capitalism, the factor that has crushed the left like a juggernaut in the past and will continue to do so. Note that the PRC and India get a pass on their pollution, a theme we find in Marxism and the tautological politics of the far left.
8. If we leave Iraq, those poor savages won't have our shining Democratic example to guide them. They will become Persian and join with Iran. Caucasians must help those poor savages because they won't survive without our help!
Most of the Middle East history has to do with oppression and cruelty. Saddam Hussein was a prime example of somebody who wasted the natural resources of his country and left the citizens in poverty. These dictators, always praised by the left, are the only hope of power for the unwashed leftist masses. They have no other source of wealth than to steal it. Lenin was great because he grabbed the wealth of the Czar. He, however, did not spread any form of justice-- just brutality and murder. His land reform was a joke and an economic failure and resulted in the deaths of millions of Kulaks, expendable in the leftist idiom. If we leave Iraq they will disintegrate into another despotic theocracy. The Taliban will come back.
9. War is the only taxable expense. Everything else is a handout that weakens our resolve. Every dollar spent on highways, schools, medicine, arts, sciences, and charity causes an angel to lose its wings and convert one newborn Caucasian[sic] baby to homomuslim savagery.
Nonsense and an oblique criticism of useless and counter productive taxes praised by the left. This is the most convincing part of your arguments. It has true merit.
10. Workers should never unite in order to better their wages and provide for their families. They should know rule #5 and trust.
Union stoogery, the theme of the California Teachers Unions. Grunt and Grab. Tax and spend and tax and spend.
Thank you for making my points so eloquently [in places]. You might polish up on the particulars of your gross attacks on capitalism as they make little sense. You might attempt to make them fit into economic history to give some credence to your screed. You might also criticize tax cuts [JFK, RR, GB2, ..] and show, in your eloquent leftist manner, how they do not enhance growth, the engine that propels capitalism and makes our country the Greatest Nation on the Planet and one that can even tolerate and nurture the far left and their drug-crazed sycophants and pay for their schools and medical rehabilitation bills. You are truly a ‘lord’ of something. Extending the logic of your analysis we can safely conclude that: Therefore, liberalism=truth.
Nov 31 ought to be a special holiday to celebrate Fidel Castro.
rycK