The Left's war against America
By James Henry
TNA News with Commentary Saturday 20 January 2001
Few people appreciate the power of ideas. When they experience
the social and economic effects of intellectually inspired long-
term trends, many tend to ascribe the process to a conspiracy of
some kind. (If only that were so). More than 160 years ago J. S.
Mill wrote of how the ideas of a few writers can eventually
influence the thinking of a nation's intellectuals.
Keynes made a similar point when he wrote: "Madmen in authority,
who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some
academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power
of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the
gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but
after a certain interval. . . . But, sooner or later, it is
ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or
evil."
The strength of the Left has, in my opinion, always lain in its
understanding of the power of ideas. With few exceptions the so-
called right has tended to treat ideas with disdain, preferring
to concentrate on traditional values, as if these were
independent of ideas. This gross error by conservative forces
allowed Leftist ideas to capture the media, universities, much of
the school system and the entertainment industry, especially
Hollywood. In a sense, its greatest triumph was in giving America
the most corrupt administration in the nation's history.
Once a nation's so-called elites begin to think alike, regardless
of the content of their ideas, they will tend to direct the
nation along a path that accords with their world-view. Once we
understand this fact, even the most incredibly stupid statements
will make sense. Let's take as an example Clinton's Deputy
Secretary of State Strobe Talbott's publicly expressed view that
the United States might not exist in its current form in the 21st
Century because he believes that nationhood will have become
obsolete. (A view not shared by Russian, Polish, Chinese,
Japanese and Korean governments, just to name a few).
Anyone with Talbott's views would not have found a position in a
responsible and intellectually sound administration. But this was
the sensitive '90s and Bill 'I-feel-your-pain' Clinton lounged
about in the Oval Office while being serviced by interns. It took
a Chinese columnist, Peter Zhang, to cleverly sum up the
situation with the observation that America is being run by the
"Arkansas Hick and his merry band of '60s dipsticks with their
fairyfloss intellects and LSD-coloured view of the world [who]
continue to pursue policies that puts the United States mainland
at considerable risk."
And the '60s is the key. The likes of Talbott and the Clintons
have their intellectual roots in the left-wing ideas that swept
through American universities in that radicalized era. The
malevolent fruits of that intellectual plague captured the
humanity faculties and after 30 years of relentless Leftist
indoctrination succeeded in thoroughly polluting the nation's
intellectual environment. The products of this intellectual
pestilence now dominate the media and much of the legal
profession, including the judiciary; our schools have been
contaminated to an extraordinary degree as has the entertainment
industry. Even corporate boardrooms have succumbed to this
poisonous brew.
The basis of this ideology is a pathological hatred of America.
Understanding this fact makes us realise that Talbott, a former
journalist and college roommate of Clinton, is not really calling
for a world government but the destruction of the USA, an
oppressive, exploitative and racist society. These were the ideas
that the likes of Talbott absorbed during their college days and
they have never renounced them. This is the principal reason why
Talbott and the rest of Clinton's "merry band of '60s dipsticks
with their fairyfloss intellects" are so light on China1. It's
really all America's fault, meaning "white America". This lot are
so riddled with shame and guilt (well, nearly all of them) they
are prepared to sacrifice America's interests in order to atone
for her alleged sins while exculpating their own.
Talbott is an interesting example of the political decay and
hypocrisy of America's self-anointed political elites. He shared
the radicals' enthusiasm for the 'peace movement' and their
doctrine of 'moral equivalence' that not only equated America's
faults with the totalitarian Soviet Union's atrocities but also
accused Reagan of being provocative, of being the villain, but
never the Soviets. Talbott's ridiculous assertion in Time that
the collapse of communism proved the peace movement had been
right all along served to demonstrate that this ideological moron
is congenitally incapable of learning the lessons of history. The
trillions of dollars the US had spent on holding Soviet barbarism
at bay were, according to Talbott, a complete waste of resources.
That Reagan's defence push finally precipitated the Soviet
collapse did not even register with Talbott. No wonder State
Department veterans treated him and the rest of Clinton's Leftist
trendoids with contempt.
The Washington-based Institute of Policies studies has been at
the brain center of the Left's war against America. Established
in 1963 by Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin (both former
government bureaucrats) and funded by the Rubin Foundation (Rubin
was a thief, a Soviet agent and a member of Stalin's Comintern).
The IPS is a phony educational organisation, registered with the
IRS as a 501 (c)(3) organisation, that has waged a relentless war
against this country, supporting its enemies abroad, including
Hanoi, the Sandinistas, Castro, the defunct Soviet Empire, etc,
and giving aid to its enemies at home. According Raskin the US
deliberately started the Cold War as part of its plan to "reach
for the brass ring: world hegemony."
The insidious and destructive influence of the IPS pervades the
media and deeply penetrated the Oval Office, with Clinton giving
appointments to IPS luminaries like Derek Shearer, Anthony Lake
and Morton Halperin, a former Kissinger aid and a character
witness for Philip Agee, traitor and KGB agent. (Incidentally,
Agee still has strong connectections to the IPS). These people
are not even the tip of the IPS iceberg; hundreds of people with
IPS links are now operating ? or should I say maggoting away ?
through government agencies and departments. To these ideologues
America is the real enemy.
Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute provides a graphic example of
the degree to which the Left has corrupted our universities,
turning them from centers of learning to centers for hating. The
Institute encouraged Noel Ignatiev to launch "whiteness studies,"
the absurd basis of which is that "whiteness" is a "social
construct that is oppressive and must be abolished." Far from
being amusing, disciples of this racist left-wing cult produce a
magazine called Race Traitor. To this crowd to be white is a
social cancer that has to be removed by violence. If you think
there is not much to choose between these left-wing fanatics and
Nazi's, you'd be right.
That these ideological thugs are preaching race hate and inciting
racial violence seems to meet with the approval of the Harvard
faculty and other universities, the mainstream media, the
Democratic Party and most of America's publishing houses. Why?
Because they too are infected with the self-hating leftist
ideology of the '60s. It should be patently clear that their
ultimate aim is the destruction of America. It is their ideology
that drove prayer from our schools and devastated educational
standards; it is the same ideology that foisted multiculturalism
on us and damns its critics as racists; this is the ideology that
is subverting our cultural heritage by indoctrinating our
children with a hostile view of their history and culture.
The Left's malicious nihilism is impacting on every aspect of the
nation's culture. The almost farcical response of Clinton to the
discovery of Kennewick Man is a sickening example of the
pervasiveness of the Left's ideology and its contempt for
scientific truth. Kennewick Man was thought not only to be more
than 9,000 years old but of Caucasian origin. If this turned out
to be true, then a momentous scientific and cultural discovery
would have been made.
But such a discovery would not fit the Left's ideological view of
the US. In keeping with this view, Clinton ordered the site
destroyed and the bones vandalised in the hope of destroying any
possibility of determining the remains racial origins. This is a
calculated Orwellian attempt by the Left, through Clinton, to try
and control the present, and hence the future, by destroying
historical evidence. There is no clearer example of the Left's
power, influence and malice, especially in the media.
The Left's campaign is not a culture war but a war against a
culture by creatures who have nothing to offer but hate and
loathing. These ideologues and their media allies are the real
enemy. These are ones who have to be confronted and defeated.
1Clinton's venality and moral turpitude should not blind anyone
to his basic Leftist beliefs. He honestly believes, like Teddy
Kennedy (the hero of Chappaquiddick), that he should be forgiven
every trespass because his 'heart' is good. He'd be pathetic if
he wasn't so dangerous.
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