America, Russia, Hawley

Here is Senator Josh Hawley talking of how he will not bow down to the liberal and woke mob who are out through the current US administration, Big Tech, the mainstream media and so on, to silence all dissent. As Hawley very correctly stresses, and has been going through the fire of very direct personal experience, there is no interest in principles of democratic debate and government. Instead what these people want is absolute rule on their part, and absolute subservience on everyone else’s. I’ve stressed here  to and beyond the point of tedium that this is the essence of leftist ideologies, and just to lift from yesterday’s piece on Time magazine’s article on how an alliance of left-wing activists and business titans “saved democracy” through obviously subversive and very undemocratic means.

 “Left-wing activists don’t even believe in a democratic system of government. Their ideology espouses one-party rule by themselves, and towards which end the most unscrupulous means are justified, the culmination of which methods is a revolutionary coup to overthrow the existing powers.” 

This is obviously at a very accelerated rate what is playing out at the moment, though simultaneously it has been so crudely displayed, that unprecedented numbers of even very regular people are aware it is happening - though for those immersed within the false worlds of the ‘liberal’ mainstream media, a very different world is presented. 

A quite pronounced interest of mine has been Russian literature and history, and it is very interesting to see the replaying of the processes that occurred there through the 19th and into the 20th century in terms of the spread of left-wing ‘liberal’ ideologies and radical movements to endeavour to successfully incarnate those ideologies through revolutionary means. (I put liberal in inverted commas as it is clearly far more illiberal than liberal.) Unfortunately for me I see this piece is becoming large in scope but anyway... That Russia and America should parallel each other is not that surprising. Both in modern terms are very new countries, with for instance Boston and New York being older cities than St Petersburg; and so while both are very obviously influenced deeply by Western European thought and culture, through being such virgin territories, there is a striking freshness, vigour and daring to be comparative to Western Europe, but there is also, because of this newness, a comparative susceptibility to dangerous ideas finding fertile ground to breed and be pushed to extreme levels. As a body politic you could say there is a much weaker immune system through its comparative youth. 

And so just when in Russia in the early 1860s, serfdom was abolished, and things were allowed to develop ‘organically,’ the people and the state should have certainly matured together and the future be a positive one, with incredible figures like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and so on arising from within raising the cultural consciousness; but instead the nation was infected with the leftist ideologies which scorned this maturing, instead promoting subversion and destruction, leading on eventually to the revolution of 1917 and subsequent totalitarian communist rule. Even still though for all the infection of particularly the intellectual classes or elements, without the catastrophe of World War 1, there would have been no chance of their successfully grabbing power. So in short a maturing freedom was overpowered by a doctrine of totalitarian coercion.

I’ll try to prevent this from going much further so just to quickly compare with the US where their very Constitution embeds within the State notions of great virtue and self-protection for the integrity of the nation. However it’s easier to formulate an ideal than embody it, and so then hopefully it’s a question of the maturing of the country to realise those notions. Interestingly more or less a hundred years after Russia’s emancipation of the serfs the Civil Rights movement occurred in the US, and ‘emancipation’ of black Americans. However rather than ideally the onward advancement and maturing of society from there, this issue has been used as a weapon by the leftist ideologies to foment unrest and subversion of the stability of the country as a whole, just as happened in Russia a century before. Every minority cause these leftist elements champion is in truth a weapon to further the goal of total power, of slurring and silencing opposition. It should never be taken at face value.

Anyway I could obviously go much further with this broad subject, but I’ll leave off rather randomly there for now.