Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts gives a guide to the perplexed for people puzzled by how the Left views Russia:
By now it’s almost a statement of Faith that Russia is the greatest threat to our nation. Russia destroyed the electoral process in 2016. Russia elected Trump. Russia, it turned out listening to the impeachment hearings, has been an existential threat to our nation for years, ever since Putin. Except, of course, in 2012 when for some reason Russia was no big deal.
Nonetheless, the rest of the time Russia has been our enemy, continues to be our enemy, and is the greatest threat other than Global Warming we have to face. Which is odd. I remember when none other than Pat Robinson was laughed off the stage for suggesting Russia would still be a threat even after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Ah, the Soviets. I remember growing up hearing ‘Commie Pinko Plot’ said only in the most ironic and sarcastic ways. Those who blamed anything on Communism were mocked and ridiculed. A veritable Archie Bunker. Suggest that Communists were behind problems in our nation, in our upheaval, in our instability, and expect contemptuous sneers at best. Even when someone like Solzhenitsyn pointed out the obvious about Soviet meddling in our society, our pop culture and elite venues paid no heed. Even when Soviet agents came after the Soviet collapse and told us of their work undermining our nation, sewing seeds of discord among the youth, encouraging hatred and bitterness toward our country and its heritage, they were ignored.
Apparently the Soviets were awesome. They wouldn’t do anything like Russia today. Why, apparently those old communists and operatives were just A-OK, not like Russia today that we must fear, hate, and oppose at all costs because of the threat they pose to our very lives.
And what threat is that? Apparently the threat of tearing down a country founded on a Constitution and Declaration of Independence that a growing number of up and coming Americans will be more than happy to discard. Just like those who want to change the Constitution who nonetheless scream at Trump for being a threat to the same, so many youth hate Russia for trying to destroy the foundations of a country whose foundations they will happily destroy themselves.
Well done Soviet bots, well played. So one of five Millennials believe that the Communist Manifesto would be a better guarantee of rights than the Declaration of Independence. And that’s Millenials. Imagine those younger generations who were raised on the textbooks my sons were. In their world history text, Gorbachev, Mao, Marx and even Lenin receive great praise, with only sparse allusions to any negatives like mass killings or other violations of human life and rights. Our presidents? When mentioned at all, they were usually just minor tokens for bigger subjects. In fact, Mao warranted an entire two page spread singing his praises as the man who brought China into the modern world.
It goes without saying that such things as the New Deal, the War on Poverty, government healthcare, and other ideals associated with a Socialist model receive great praise in their curriculum. They did when I was in school. But then the bad of socialism and evil of communism was front and center. In my boys’ books today? Barely mentioned.
Greed, corporate corruption, white privilege and WASP bigotry are spelled out as the source of all evils in the world. So why do we think the up and coming kids wouldn’t look and conclude, as the survey found, that the world would be a better place with the brave and bold Soviets still in it. I think of that as my oldest in college told me his class on cultural anthropology is ready to take on the evils of binary gender theory, and how that big lie has been used by WECs* to bring terror and oppression to the world.
How did we become the generation the Founding Fathers never saw coming? Well, one way is becoming a nation that universally says sex is worth dying for. A nation that says that is one that will easily throw away anything else, like life, liberty, equality and democracy:
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| Because death is a small price to pay for a hookup. |
All that Russian collusion stuff, in addition to being a convenient excuse to explain why the smartest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful –wouldn’t suicide a fly– woman ever to seek high office ran the worst campaign in modern political history; in addition to being the foundation for the biggest political scandal in our history, the thus far largely successful cover-up of the Obama administration’s criminal surveillance of the Trump campaign; in addition to all of that, Russia! Russia! Russia! is also about gaslighting Trump supporters into believing they voted for a Manchurian candidate.
Because unreconstructed Cold Warriors like myself are supposed to hate all thing Russian.
Which just goes to show you the Left on this country doesn’t understand its fellow countrymen any better than it understands the true nature of Socialism.
Comment of the week Ernst! Take ‘er away Sam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXeIxtI–uc
The reason why Democrats loved the Soviets is because the Soviets were anti-Christian, and without Christianity the Democrats can murder pre-born children and sanctify sodomitic filth with nary a twinge of conscience.
The reason why Democrats hate the Russians is because Mother Russia has returned to her Russian Orthodox Christian roots, and Christianity condemns all that the Democrats are and all they say and all they do.
The reason why Democrats love the Pope is because in his heresies he acts non-Christian; and the reason why Democrats hate Trump is because he acts more Christian than the Pope.
I don’t think the Democrats hate the Russians. I think the Democrats think we hate the Russians. It’s a lame attempt to run the Alinsky playbook: Trump is a Russian stooge! Why don’t you hate Trump (like you’re supposed to)? Same play as the Trump is a filthy womanizer like Clinton! Why don’t you hate Trump (like you hate Clinton)?
The play doesn’t work anymore because we’re holding them to their total lack of standards. Take the beam out of your donkey’s eye, and then I’ll worry about the mote in my elephant’s
You could be right, Ernst. But even when I was on a submarine in the Cold War chasing Russians in the North Atlantic, none of us on our submarine hated our Russian adversaries. However, we did love our country, so if it came to a choice of whether or not Ivan was going to sink, Ivan would sink – all without the slightest bit of hatred. And every one of us on that sub – all 120 sailors – would regret what we had to do and mourn the loss of the lives of fellow submariners even if they were the enemy. I suspect the Russians felt the same way. Democrats just don’t get it.
If President Trump were colluding with the Russians, he’d be doing precisely what Obama did and what corrupt, incompetent Hillary promised.
From 60 years of observing the Dems and the treasonous left, I’m fairly certain they don’t love Russia. They hate America and ordinary Americans.
Again from 60 years of observation, liberalism is an emotional/psychological pathology.
LQC- you guys grasped the idea that they were wrong, not demons on human form.
That’s not an option for the shriekers.
A thing to keep in mind for surveys– if someone walked up to you and said “hi, do you have a minute to talk about our lord, Cthulhu?” it would be about as likely to end well as speaking realistic history to someone who asks you about a lefty political thing.
Same way that people on campuses won’t take the sucker bait and declare “a boy isn’t the same as a girl,” or any of the increasingly insane things that they’re asked by folks trying to prove a point. Doesn’t matter if the asker is on the left or right, there’s only abuse from that– so most aren’t going to bother to try to dance, they’ll just dodge until they can get away with the least trouble possible.
Cthulhu/SMOD 2020
Might be the ticket the Democrats are looking for.