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Leftist Organizations Are Not What They Seem
The CDC is, in theory, a non-political federal agency with the sole purpose of tracking and studying infectious diseases. Many people, however, have started to wonder if the CDC is not simply what it appears to be. Its response to COVID seemed to have more to do with political concerns than scientific ones, and whispered suggestions that perhaps the CDC is not just a neutral health agency have gone from conspiracy theories to reasonable questions. But still, it’s just a health agency, right? Even thinking that it may have ulterior motives feels a little strange.
The FBI is, in theory, a non-political federal agency with the sole purpose of enforcing federal law. Many people, however, have started to wonder if the FBI is not simply what it appears to be. Its endless investigations of Donald Trump (while it found no problems with the actions of various Clintons and Bidens) seemed to have more to do with political concerns than legal ones, and whispered suggestions that perhaps the FBI is not just a neutral law enforcement agency have gone from conspiracy theories to reasonable questions. But still, it’s just a law enforcement agency, right? Even thinking that it may have ulterior motives feels a little strange.
Our educational system is, in theory, a non-political complex series of organizations with the sole purpose of educating our children. Many people, however, have started to wonder if our educational system is not simply what it appears to be. Its endless efforts to indoctrinate our children (teaching them what to think rather than how to think) seems to have more to do with political concerns than educational ones, and whispered suggestions that perhaps our schools are not just a neutral educational system have gone from conspiracy theories to reasonable questions. But still, it’s just an educational system, right? Even thinking that it may have ulterior motives feels a little strange.
Our news media is, in theory, a non-political private industry with the sole purpose of informing our citizens about current events. Many people, however, have started to wonder if our news media is not simply what it appears to be. Its careful selections of which stories to cover (while presenting everything from a leftist viewpoint) seemed to have more to do with political concerns than informational ones, and whispered suggestions that perhaps our media organizations are not just a neutral news media have gone from conspiracy theories to reasonable questions. But still, it’s just news media, right? Even thinking that it may have ulterior motives feels a little strange.
I’ll stop because I’m getting bored, and you probably are too. Copying and pasting an entire article is boring – I feel like Joe Biden in college. Or Joe Biden in law school. Or Joe Biden in Congress.
Dang! There I go with the repetition thing again! Sorry!
But my point is that leftist organizations such as the CDC, the FBI, our educational system, our news media, the CIA, social media, the entertainment industry, most large & powerful corporations, and so on and so forth – all these organizations have a very interesting feature in common:
They are all not what they seem.
They are all simply leftist organizations, which exist to promote leftism. But none of them acknowledge that basic fact about their very reason for being.
Conservatives have The Hoover Institution. Leftists have the CDC, the FBI, the educational system, the news media, Hollywood, social media, and so on. None of which are ostensibly leftist organizations – they’re just the good guys.
I wonder how that power struggle will turn out?
The CDC pretends to be interested in our health. The FBI pretends to be interested in federal law. Our educational system pretends to be interested in educating children. Our news media pretends to be interested in informing the public.
And they do just enough of those things to provide cover for their true purpose: promoting leftism.
This is a reasonable tactic if you know that you’re on the wrong side of the argument.
If you thought that you might possibly be on the right side of the argument, then you would openly stand up for what you believe in. Only if you know that you’re wrong would you go to such great lengths to hide your true purpose.
If you know that any time someone challenges you to debate the issues, that you will lose decisively, then you plan from the outset to deflect criticisms.
C’mon, man! You can’t criticize the CDC – they’re trying to protect us from disease! You can’t criticize the FBI – they’re trying to protect us from criminals! You can’t criticize the educational establishment – they’re trying to educate our children! You can’t criticize the news media – they’re trying to inform the public!
So any criticism of leftism is automatically and instantly converted into an attack on benevolent organizations. An attack on America itself, really.
And leftists don’t have to do anything. Their cover provides them complete protection. They’ll never have to debate policies. Debates that they know they would lose. They just sit back and allow the opposition to destroy themselves by attacking school children or whatever.
Conservatives view this as underhanded and devious.
Leftists, however, view the same behavior as virtuous. When even the CDC understands that all that really matters is leftism, then they must be just wonderful people.
So there is no pressure from fellow leftists to change this behavior. And it’s working – leftists now control nearly every important American organization – so why would they change?
So it won’t change. Republicans can’t debate policy with Democrats. Republicans can only attack school children. That is their only recourse, to attempt to slow the advance of leftism.
Democrats know that they will lose every debate, because a long history of the results of leftist governments varies from disappointing to horrifying. So they prevent those debates from happening. By deflecting criticisms to ostensibly neutral and benevolent organizations. Which means that even if Republicans wanted to debate policies, they simply can’t. Which means leftists win the only way they can – by forfeit.
Leftism is the most destructive force on the planet over the past couple hundred years, at least. So leftists must hide behind organizations that appear nice. You nasty Republicans wouldn’t stoop so low as to attack nice benevolent organizations, would you? After all, us leftists are all about peace and love! Really!
It may sound devious to you. But it sounds virtuous to a leftist.
And thanks to the success of this system, we have a lot of leftists. And we have a consensus among all those leftists that this behavior is virtuous. Which makes it virtuous.
After all, this is a democracy, right?
Published in General
The United Nations and The WHO all involved a set up which either the CDC/NIH fell for, or else perhaps there is much more to this story.
Fauci’s actions during the AIDS crisis caused 17,000 American fatalities. Any mere mortal who would not consider the application of bactrim, an existing remedy for other ailments, and which needed only emergency approval for the projected year that Fauci’s “Gold Standard Remedy” was to undergo testing, and who then caused mass murder by not promoting bactrim’s emergency use would have been impeached from their office at NIH. Not only that, the individual might have been charged w/aggravated murder.
It’s all well and good if some official wishes to tackle the problem of combatting an ailment by developing double blind controlled testing. But to lie through one’s bureaucratic teeth & let the 17,000 Americans who died of AIDS go for 15 months without any remedy while a Gold Standard is tested, & then to repeat those actions 3 decades later by withholding HCQ protocols, ivermectin, etc, with the results being the same official pointing to half a million fatalities while the rushed into production vaccines were promoted – all I can say is enough is enough.
If a local dr knowingly withheld a drug used for other conditions but was showing great promise among dozens of other American doctors who used it for a new ailment, that dr might find himself up for at least civil lawsuits relating to malpractice. Or that individual dr might find himself charged with aggravated murder, especially if it was easily proven he withheld the available drug so that a drug he had invested in could complete drug trials.
Dr Fauci has no excuse. He co authored a published paper that indicated the great potential HCQ held in combatting corona viruses. He must certainly be aware that over the last 5 years, Congress took on the task of making it quite easy to re-designate any drug being used for any other ailment for some necessary new purpose, if that drug has been widely used with a great safety record.
He patented the very glyco protein – an elementary component of one of the COVID 19 vaccines. This patent was granted in 2015.
It is time he paid for his murderous reign. The one component of his reign of terror that is uncertain is exactly how many COVID fatalities he caused. The San Jose Mercury just published its article this week on re-adjusting down the COVID fatalities by 25%, after weeding out those who may have tested positive for COVID but who died from massive injuries sustained in auto accidents or died from terminal cancers.
But whatever many COVID fatalities that remain would have been 83% fewer, if any of the remedies used in other nations had been promoted in our country rather than denied. For those fatalities, he should be given, if found guilty in a court of law, the death penalty.
I’ll put you down as opposed to Empire then. And that for you nationalism is a principle that should apply to every nation, not just a good that you want for your own?
This is over my head, but I have always thought that American that lives in Israel that always talks about nationalism makes a lot of sense. I can’t think of his name right now. I am not qualified to get in a big discussion about it, to be clear.
Yoram Hazony. I thought his speech at Yale was really good.
Of course I think my opinions are correct. If I thought they weren’t, I would have different opinions.
I presume my opinions are correct as well. But it’s easy for me to assume that everyone else is riddled with ignorance, superstition and hysteria.
The left believes in more and more central planning and social engineering. They cannot sit still in this sense. They are going to be disingenuous about anything to get their way. When you talk to them they are going to talk to you tactically in this sense. That is my new observation. If anybody has anything to add to it, I am highly interested.