tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post3458166313463422442..comments2024-03-28T15:52:07.345-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : The Death of the LeftDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-9745361819030117072015-04-27T21:39:03.362-04:002015-04-27T21:39:03.362-04:00Wonderful to read and oh, so sadly true. Thank yo...Wonderful to read and oh, so sadly true. Thank you for the deep thoughts and eloquent writing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419716884491717552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-72800479687940943762015-04-23T11:21:13.451-04:002015-04-23T11:21:13.451-04:00I was raised a Democrat, but later in life I began...I was raised a Democrat, but later in life I began to question it, just at the time it tried to change its identity from Liberalism to Progressivism. For reasons I won't go into here (for brevity), I resisted the possibility of becoming a Republican. When my friends started to violently question my critique of the Democratic Party and charge me with being a Conservative Republican, I told them that I was worse than that: I want to rebuild the Democratic Party. It's high time for a Reformation. Here are the planks, my whisper into G-d's ear.<br /><br />-Help people who need help and only the people who need help.<br />-Helping people means assisting them to the point where they no longer need help.<br />-Liberalism must be re-grounded on freedom.<br />-Ending racism and sexism results in treating people as human beings and not as racial and sexual categories.<br />-There is no conflict between a limited and an effective government.<br />-Truth exists.<br />-Power must be subordinated to truth.<br />-Human life is an absolute value.<br />-Hyper vigilance can be an enemy to vigilance.<br />-We too are subject to the twist of irony, we must guard against hubris.<br />-The conceptual DNA of the Founding Fathers (limited government) must be guarded.<br />-The economy is is to be taken for granted, it must be nurtured. It is the source of revenue for governance. <br />Taxes must be minimal. Everyone should pay proportionally so that they have skin in the game. Progressive taxes may be inevitable but this too should be tempered, even to extinction. <br />The defense of freedom is a universal project, enemies of freedom anywhere in the world should be checked and rolled back. <br />American leadership on the world stage is not a right but it is a solemn responsibility. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-56282607529656574272015-04-22T21:31:13.583-04:002015-04-22T21:31:13.583-04:00There is something of a step-change underway, I be...There is something of a step-change underway, I believe. The dividends of academia are now in positive-feedback mode, meaning the crazier they get, the crazier they get. All the while, it bleeds out into the culture at large. If some future renaissance should materialize, long after this husk finally smolders away, they'd be wise to fling anyone out into the sea that proposes either fiat money OR a single penny of any sort of welfare for any purpose. - djrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-75838395599450956512015-04-22T12:37:38.986-04:002015-04-22T12:37:38.986-04:00On the subject of Cuban prostitutes, Fidel was cor...On the subject of Cuban prostitutes, Fidel was correct; they are the most highly educated prostitutes in the world. That's because the Cuban education system turns out graduates but there are fewer & fewer jobs for them. <br /><br />Not that having a job amounts to much in Cuba, where the average salary is about $20 per month. People have to find a way to make ends meet. A school teacher or an engineer can make more money driving a cab or turning tricks than working at her day job. As a result, many educated Cubans turn to prostitution on a part-time basis to make a bit of extra cash and put some food on the table. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-79054547699342337342015-04-22T00:57:27.958-04:002015-04-22T00:57:27.958-04:00This is what separates the USA as OUR Founders sto...This is what separates the USA as OUR Founders stood on immutable laws.<br />If "WE the People" stick with those Founding documents and the spirit that<br />created these freedoms in Liberty, things can be turned around ~!mtman2https://www.blogger.com/profile/14392132060839229704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-29717060717341416592015-04-21T13:58:43.821-04:002015-04-21T13:58:43.821-04:00Daniel, you're getting the cart ahead of the h...Daniel, you're getting the cart ahead of the horse here, sir. Most Americans haven't even realized that there's a fight going on yet, much less be mad enough to get off the couch and partake. I, Joseph P. Redneck, have not yet begun to fight. And I am Legion (to borrow from an old story!).<br /><br />Give it a few more years, then we'll all get to see first hand what happens to self-deceivers. Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany found out the hard way, too. <br /><br />Now folks, go make hay while the sun still shines, winter is coming.LFMayornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-64605587913451855912015-04-21T13:42:59.487-04:002015-04-21T13:42:59.487-04:00Wow! Daniel, you have a powerful way with words an...Wow! Daniel, you have a powerful way with words and truth. I would love to see you write about religion; just for the sake of seeing your brilliant mind shine. These political powers and worse yet, religious powers tromping around on people and their "would be" freedoms require a much softer light than you are shining on them in order to look their best. The light you shine on them makes every false motive, greedy appetite and the disingenuous morals they possess look as bad as they really are. If someone would create Theboldtruth.com then it could tell us who is wearing the white hat at home in their own country being honored at banquets for donating a "wing" to the local hospital and then donning a black hat when they go abroad to exploit other defenseless countries and their children. It needs to be an accessible website like a credit bureau. People can look up what these monsters real activities are when they think they are anonymous. There is no better exposure than the truth, painful but necessary.<br />Sisteroldmacdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817628493041561812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-34601436766222898932015-04-21T13:26:32.758-04:002015-04-21T13:26:32.758-04:00Elise Ronan, tell your sons to marry. If men don&...Elise Ronan, tell your sons to marry. If men don't have a family life, they get a lot of things wrong. Your advice to these young men reflects more on what is disabling our culture than you realise. fodderwingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-23597831233939613472015-04-21T08:45:50.783-04:002015-04-21T08:45:50.783-04:00Elise Ronan puts her 'faith in the American pe...Elise Ronan puts her 'faith in the American people', but fails to define or recognize who the American people have become. That is akin to stating that one puts one faith in black boxes, with no idea what those boxes hold, or if most of them are empty. Indeed, faced with a dozen black boxes of various shapes and sizes, even a person of extraordinary abilities could not predict what each of those boxes would reveal.<br />Assuming that Americans are a united people is wishful thinking at best.<br /><br />sophieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8933154913866095492015-04-21T06:22:42.322-04:002015-04-21T06:22:42.322-04:00Daniel, this is completely off-topic so no need to...Daniel, this is completely off-topic so no need to show this comment. I haven't seen any new articles in over a week at Frontpagemag. Is everyone on holiday?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27081972768958617322015-04-21T06:11:29.804-04:002015-04-21T06:11:29.804-04:00Y Ben David wrote: "Today, not only do they s...Y Ben David wrote: "Today, not only do they supposedly want to help protect people from themselves, those who want to control say they have the right to do so because people who don't eat they way they want cause a "social cost" on the rest of society due to higher medical bills, etc."<br /><br />Yet the left promote sexual lifestyles (even to school children) that are infinitely more expensive to society due to 40-150 times higher incidence of STDs, injuries, cancers, violence, addictions, mental health issues and early death. The left are guilty of illogical, irrational, hypocritical ideological positions - incredible cognitive dissonance - at every level from abortion and sexual lifestyles to diet to energy to politics.<br /><br />Sibyl S. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-26808493248024960272015-04-21T03:50:02.309-04:002015-04-21T03:50:02.309-04:00Constitutionalists, libertarians, minarchists and ...Constitutionalists, libertarians, minarchists and "proper Americans in general" are sadly going to go down with the good ship USA, hoping all the while that a new captain in four years will somehow come up with a plan to fix those trillions of holes below the water line in such a manner that wont interrupt their t.v. dinners.<br /><br />Those aforementioned "proper Americans" might yet save their culture and the future of their children if they're willing to cut loose the full-retard states, but trying to hold the union together will result in the fall of all involved.<br /><br />Sad, but a fact.Wombatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-58949396550415448032015-04-21T01:23:42.755-04:002015-04-21T01:23:42.755-04:00Sandalwood789-
I must confess that I don't fol...Sandalwood789-<br />I must confess that I don't follow New Zealand politics, although I understand that the Left was always very strong there, just like in Australia. My question is that has the Right, which has won three elections in a row, really made an attempt to change things, or did they win my merely "me-tooing" the Left and saying people should vote for them simply because they will administer the existing Establishment more efficiently but they had no intention of really changing anything. McCain lost in 2008 and Romney lost in 2012 using the same argument. Voters obviously felt that if you want Leftist policies, then vote for the real thing, not a pale imitation.<br />For that matter, I find it odd that so many conservatives look back on the Reagan years as some sort of golden age. Much of the social rot we see today accelerated greatly in that era (e.g. single motherhood). Don't forget that conservatives who claim to support fiscal prudence let Reagan get away with building up the biggest budget deficits in history. Reagan also pushed all sorts of deregulation which sound "free marketish" in theory but which lead to many companies swallowing up other companies with the end result there being much less competition in the "free market".<br />Thus, seeing the Republican field today, I frankly think they will have a very difficult time defeating Hillary (the "excitement" of having the first woman president, just like everyone was excited at having the first black President) and even if they should get elected, they will still have to face the fact that it seems a clear majority of Americans LIKE the idea of the US becoming a stagnant, degenerate European-style anti-nationalist welfare state. Sorry to be so gloomy.Y. Ben-Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-77318126393897082372015-04-21T01:13:47.826-04:002015-04-21T01:13:47.826-04:00Elise Ronan-
Americans may once have been rugged i...Elise Ronan-<br />Americans may once have been rugged individualists who resented government intrusion into their lives, but that seems to have changed. Look at all the legislation and attempts to control one lives "for their own good". For example NYC Mayor Bloomberg's attempts to control selling soda pop. At the University of California in Berkeley I understand it is forbidden to smoke ANYWHERE on campus, even if they are out in the open and not bothering anyone (full disclosure-I am a non-smoker but I think they have the right to pollute their bodies as long as they don't bother me with it). Look at all the attempts to besmirch those who eat meat or fast foods. Today, not only do they supposedly want to help protect people from themselves, those who want to control say they have the right to do so because people who don't eat they way they want cause a "social cost" on the rest of society due to higher medical bills, etc.<br />My observation is that the America that once existed, and what were considered quintessential "America values" is evaporating rapidly, and nothing can bring it back. Read Charles Murray's book "Coming Apart".Y. Ben-Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-80322513968858676502015-04-20T12:47:59.313-04:002015-04-20T12:47:59.313-04:00Progressive Canadians are the typical child rapist...Progressive Canadians are the typical child rapists in Cuba, Thailand etc. Anon is just one of the Marxist tools we have in Canada, likely a Trudeau supporter (or jock supporter). Canada has NEVER fought an American War EVER. We have only been in British or UN missions. Ignorance and greed are progressive characteristics primarily.politiciansRscumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-57418332744869205852015-04-20T07:50:28.381-04:002015-04-20T07:50:28.381-04:00Progressive Canadians raping children in Cuba........Progressive Canadians raping children in Cuba..... never heard about it. Must of happened when I was in Afghanistan fighting another American war.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-79607449756315516562015-04-20T04:06:50.139-04:002015-04-20T04:06:50.139-04:00*Outstanding* article!
"If we win, then a ...*Outstanding* article! <br /><br />"If we win, then a defeated and revitalized left will go back to fulminating and ranting, plotting and scheming its way to a victory that will kill it." <br /><br />I agree that they will go back to "fulminating and ranting" but I don't think they'll exactly be "revitalised". I use the situation here in New Zealand as an example. <br /> Down here, the left have been hammered in three consecutive elections. What's more, the MSM (leftist of course) are looking very sick indeed here. <br />Ok, the US may be different but I don't see any "revitalised left" down here in New Zealand. <br /><br />I see *education* as crucial to the future (and charter schools in particular). If charter schools in the US can continue to grow in number (and it looks like they will) then the left has a HUGE problem on its hands. The young people coming out of those schools are unlikely to be as brainwashed by leftist propaganda as those exiting government-run schools. That is *good news* for the right! <br /><br />I see the left as wasting a huge amount of energy on slogans and abuse. I say "fine. Please keep on doing that - we'll keep on building quality charter schools." <br /><br /> Tortoise and the hare, folks, and the right-wing tortoise is about to hit its afterburners....... :) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-80790667067794342162015-04-20T02:21:42.035-04:002015-04-20T02:21:42.035-04:00Elise Ronan made a grave mistake in her last parag...Elise Ronan made a grave mistake in her last paragraph that nullifies the rest of her optimism. Western discourse is no longer open. It is essentially closed with the atheistic, secular, libertine Statist religion of Leftism being the only allowed topic of discourse, as if there was no other grand political philosophies, let alone theistic religions. It is devolving into an outright war against cognitive liberty in just the last few years under the ever tyrannical and Puritanical banner of Political Correctness.<br /><br />The cultural and philosophical weapons of mass destruction employed for this intellectual tyranny are nihilism and subjectivism; and all their spawn like multiculturalism and moral relativism.<br /><br />The tree of Liberty cannot stand much longer whilst its roots are infected with the mind fungus of these Leftwing ideologies, let alone handle the self-inflicted damage caused by the narcissistic belief that a society and a culture can continue when its most talented citizens refuse to pro-create and instead chase after narcissistic materialistic goals instead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-17328392289289504422015-04-20T00:22:28.412-04:002015-04-20T00:22:28.412-04:00Great and powerful summary of what the country and...Great and powerful summary of what the country and the planet is facing with this "diseased obsession" perpetuated by the Left! While I read this piece I was reminded of an old book I read a long time ago. Orwell's "1984." proconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03940947326335879520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-46416102559998800082015-04-19T21:42:17.767-04:002015-04-19T21:42:17.767-04:00Well that was certainly a pick-me-up. I was afrai...Well that was certainly a pick-me-up. I was afraid it would be depressing.Belasarionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05253845209548113168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7076693048273520642015-04-19T21:35:16.838-04:002015-04-19T21:35:16.838-04:00DenisO,
Nixon? Surely you jest. Scum of the Earth...DenisO,<br /><br />Nixon? Surely you jest. Scum of the Earth. a couple of quotes for your edification:<br /><br />"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it." - John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.<br /><br />"[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks" Haldeman, his Chief of Staff wrote, "The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to." <br />M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-82302175081027932962015-04-19T21:30:06.536-04:002015-04-19T21:30:06.536-04:00The Right clings to the worst features of failed s...The Right clings to the worst features of failed socialism by supporting Prohibition. A failed Progressive Policy from the early 20s and the late 30s. <br /><br />OTOH the left discredits its own impulses by fighting Prohibition. More popcorn. M. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1257338864876628252015-04-19T20:29:27.698-04:002015-04-19T20:29:27.698-04:00"When will WE develop an effective, globally ..."When will WE develop an effective, globally pro-active strategy, that will be directed against our CORE enemies"<br /><br />When we realize we've lost something. When we stop being greedy. When we realize laziness and compliance only offer so much and we're willing to work for what the Jones's have.Julie Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04052180639238272441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-50992837641774649492015-04-19T18:09:29.805-04:002015-04-19T18:09:29.805-04:00Ludwig Von Mises called all Socialists ideas destr...Ludwig Von Mises called all Socialists ideas destructionism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-11209403578410952722015-04-19T15:13:19.248-04:002015-04-19T15:13:19.248-04:00We are Europe now and were conquered the same way:...We are Europe now and were conquered the same way: via the siren calls of that old whore, the Welfare State.<br /><br />You say:<br /><br />"And then the Chinese will come along to take advantage of the cheap labor." <br /><br />They're already here. Who owns the Panama Canal? Who owns the most real estate in California (aside from the govt) and in western Canada? Who is swallowing Australia? Not to mention the increase in territorial conflicts - Japan, the Philippines, etc - as China builds up its brown water/blue water navies. It is reopening the old Silk Route and no Somali pirate dares to attack Chinese shipping - at least not more than once.<br /><br />They're smarter and they're more disciplined than any of the soi-disant intellectuals in the West. They're excellent copiers and use the products/cultural artifacts of the West that it finds useful - e.g., their state-controlled Christian Church and the musical education of their children via Bach and Mozart...let a million pianos bloom.<br /><br />Christianity makes for obedient productive citizens a quality our Left finds threatening; music literacy increases math abilities, and in turn all the rest of the knowledge included in STEM disciplines. Here, we cut music classes.<br /><br />The Han (Chinese) have contempt for the rest of humanity except where they are useful. The biggest obstacle to growth is their own corruption. Nonetheless, they may come to the aid of Israel when she is isolated and abandoned by the ninnies in the West who run things. Like the Han Chinese, Orthodox Jews are endogamous...that will be one less worry for China. I'm sure they're well aware that in IQ studies, the Ashkenazim score higher than the Han. Just based on those two facts, Israel will get some respect from a culture not used to respecting anyone else.<br /><br />For your perusal:<br /><br />http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/04/the-advent-of-the-chinese-imperium/<br /><br /><br />Dymphnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06040064724546519425noreply@blogger.com