Liberty Relearned

Liberty Relearned

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  • It's just repackaged Marxism
    • With the pervasiveness of Critical Race Theory (CRT) which has been used to justify leftist racism, why is it any surprise that there is the rise of hate crimes against Asians and more recently Jews?
      • Since the early 20th Century, Communists have sought to exploit existing racial tensions in America to destabilize our society so it can be brought down and replaced with their collectivist Utopia. 
      • CRT cannot explain poverty and unemployment among American whites or in other racially homogeneous countries. 
      • CRT's parent theory, Critical Theory, (aka Cultural Marxism) taken to extreme such as in the old Soviet Union or in modern-day Venezuela has not solved the problems of poverty and lack of opportunity, so what makes anybody think CRT taken its logical extreme would fare any better?
      • Is it finally time to ditch the masks and end virtually all Covid restrictions?  Who, if everyone has had a chance to be fully vaccinated, are we still maintaining the restrictions for?



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      • Enter the Woke

        What is wokeness?  How does it connect to leftism and Marxism? 

        • First and foremost, Wokism is inextricably linked to Leftism and Leftism to Marxism. Marxism, being amoral at best, and immoral at worst, requires the veneer of virtuousness to continue on and grow after its calamitous defeats in the 20th Century. In order to survive, it required a moral component, something to give its adherents' lives moral direction and meaning as they sought to supplant the previous moral and religious foundations of Western culture based upon the Judaeo-Christian ethic. Enter Wokism.  Wokeness is the need to demonstrate one's virtue, or “wokeness” by advocating for certain causes that the Left, under the ethical framework of Cultural Marxism, has deemed worthy.
        • In woke or cancel culture, unlike with most classical religions, there is no grace, and in the case of an individual, there is no penance to be had. The values of wokism are, arbitrary and capricious, therefore forgiveness for sins against wokism is likewise an arbitrary and capricious thing, to be given or withheld by the collective will of the woke. Accusation, judgment, and sentencing against those targeted for cancellation are performed simultaneously and immediately, there is no appeal or penance that an individual can perform to avert sentencing. Capitulation or apology, therefore, has no mitigating effect on the cancel culture mob's behavior against the accused. Cancellation is at once, both accusation, and final judgment.
        • The true end goal of wokism, as a Marxist phenomenon is to achieve power for its faithful. That they believe (or a least espouse the belief) that following the actions prescribed by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, will result in complete destruction of what is referred to as Western Civilization, and from its ashes will arise the Phoenix of a collectivist Utopian society.



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        • CRT and Thee

          Dinesh D'Souza addresses the topic of Why Asian Americans Are being Assaulted by African Americans  Here is my take:

          • You don't hear about violence against Asians too much anymore in the MSM.  It doesn't fit their racist narrative of white supremacy being the chief cause of all minority problems. The rise of black on Asian hate crimes destroys the premise that America has a systemic race problem. Also, critical race theory declares that if one group outperforms another group socioeconomically, that the better performing group is doing it at the expense of the lesser performing groups. If CRT is telling people this, why should it come as any surprise when its believers start committing hate crimes against Asians who, as a group, are at the top of the economic ladder in this country?  CRT teaches this must be because their status is undeserved and comes at the expense of blacks. #stopCRT
          • CRT is of course based upon Critical Theory (sometimes known as Cultural Marxism), a central tenet of Marxism that teaches any group with more power than another group will take advantage of and victimize the weaker group. When the proletariat revolution envisioned by Marx failed to materialize, the Fascists reframed it as a struggle between stronger and weaker nations. When that didn't work out as Gentile and Mussolini envisioned, the proponents of socialism needed to come up with new struggles to stoke.  A natural one to exploit was the race struggle of blacks and other minorities in America. Modern socialism through Cultural Marxism/Critical Theory continually seeks out new "victim" groups to stoke tensions between them and the predominant group, so black against white, rich against poor, secular against the religious, etc. The purpose of all this pitting of groups against the other is nothing less than to bring down Western Civilization, which they fantasize they can replace with their Utopia, (which conveniently requires the presence of a woke elite at its top running things.) 

            • My conclusion:  Black on Asian violence is a byproduct of decades of indoctrinating Americans with critical race theory. 

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          • We the Government

            Welcome to season two of the Liberty Relearned Podcast!

            The President's SOTU Address aka Biden's “We the Government” speech.

            • The target audience apparently was those who lack critical thinking skills and the economically illiterate
            • Why was a bunch of people who have all been presumably immunized against COVID-19 wearing masks at the SOTU?

              • The message the President was evidently trying to send was you still need to wear a mask.  He would tell you it was leadership by example.

              The message most people heard was:  “Immunization gets you nothing.”

              The real example was pointless obedience to government edicts
            • The $4.1T in new spending.

              • The “Infrastructure” plan.  (talked about at length in episode 51.)Congress using the same “bait and switch” language in describing it.  They're selling it as an infrastructure plan, but what you really get is about 7% infrastructure and the rest Green New Deal crony capitalism.

              Biden’s plan to pay for all sorts of child care and education expenses would cost according to some estimates, $1.8T. That’s on top of the proposed $2.3T in infrastructure. That’s a total bill of $4.1 trillion. To put that in perspective, the US brought in $3.46 tr in tax revenue in 2019. That means that if 100% of ALL income taxes collected went JUST to those two schemes and nothing else, $0 for military, $0 for FEMA and other emergency relief, nothing but those two items, we could not pay for them. Assuming a national debt of roughly $28 tr: If we dedicated 100% of tax revenue to pay down our existing debt, it would take about 8 years. If you believe that raising taxes on the rich and corporations would cover that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you. This means, either Biden is an economically illiterate fool, or he thinks you are.
            • We the Government...

              • “Our Constitution opens with the words, "We the People".  It's time we remembered that We the People are the government. You and I.  Not some force in a distant capital. Not some powerful force we have no control over. It's us. It's "We the people." – President Biden

              “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”―Benito Mussolini

              The two sentiments mesh pretty well, don't they?
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            • 1st Anniversary Episode

              The Liberty Relearned Podcast is one year old!  In this special podcast, I'm replaying a variety of segments from the first year of the podcast. The outtakes cover a range of topics from COVID-19, leftism, Cancel Culture, and of course, conservatism. 

              Here are the clips: 

              • Conservatism Explained, American vs. World Conservatism Explains American Conservatism and how it differs from conservatism in other countries. 
              • Tyranny Down Under is a cautionary tale from Australia and how their draconian COVID restrictions were affecting personal liberty in that country, and what we might see here that would be similar. 
              • From the 2020 Christmas Special, What the Founders believed- Focus on John Locke and the theory of natural rights
              • Bring the Troops Back Home  Why did we need all those troops and a barbed wire fence around the Capitol? Political theatre. 
              • Bigots From the first episode dedicated to the topic of bigotry.  Cancel Culture is a form of bigotry. 
              • Bigotry Revisited What if the left applied critical race theory (CRT) to themselves?
              • Free Speech Special (clip 1) What does the left's war on free speech say about them?
              • Free Speech Special (clip 2) Facts vs Feelings
              • Thanks for listening!  


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              • War of Words
                In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.  --George Orwell
                “The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice, have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different.”
                ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
                The left's assault on the English language continues, most recently with their attempt to redefine the word "infrastructure". 
                "Control the language and you control the debate," is an axiom in the worlds of politics, the law, and anywhere else where influencing thought is considered valuable. The left, being well aware of this has been working for decades redefining words. Terms like racist, fascist, and justice have been so far removed from their meanings as to become unrecognizable to those of us who know the original, correct definitions. They've even sought to blur the definitions of such basic concepts as male, female, and marriage. Now leftists in government seek to do the same with the term "infrastructure". How and why are they doing this?
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              • The Historic 50th Episode!

                Celebrating the landmark 50th episode of the Liberty Relearned Podcast. In this episode, we go back to basics. The point of the blog and the podcast are to remind people that liberties, once lost or traded away are very hard to get back. For the life so far of the podcast, our liberties have been under threat, particularly since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis.  It was surprising in some cases, just how easily some of our Constitutional rights such as the freedom of religion were lost.  Since then, the assaults on our rights as Americans have ramped up under the Biden/Harris administration. Recently, the President has stated that none of the amendments are absolute. Given his policies to date, it's hard to argue that he does not believe this. Certainly, the Left, in general, does not. We are reminded then how precious our freedoms are, and they are not guaranteed as some of us might have thought until very recently. 

                #liberty #naturalrights 

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              • Easter Message 2021

                At this time last year, it must have felt like we’d never get past the pain and sorrow associated with Good Friday, and go on to the joy of Easter, at least not in our everyday lives. When we think of Good Friday, we think of Jesus’ scourging, his pain, and suffering on the cross. We think of the immense grief his mother and followers must have felt. Many of us were going through our own pain, bearing our own crosses. After a Good Friday year, we can, at last, celebrate an Easter year, a year of rebirth and renewal. We slowly return to normal, just as the world slowly returns to life in the spring.

                How this relates to everyone:

                • We are in a cycle of renewal and rebirth when it comes to the COVID-19 crisis
                • We started in the autumn of normalcy, then we entered the dark season that marked the death of normalcy and freedom.
                • We are now entering into the spring, where freedom and normalcy are slowly coming back to life, thanks mainly to the vaccines, and of course, the return of nice weather in the Northern Hemisphere. In America and in other countries by the end of the actual spring, there could be enough vaccine availability that anyone who wants to be, will be fully vaccinated.  At that point- Who would we be maintaining the restrictions and mask mandates for?
                • The summer will come.  In many countries, COVID deaths plummeted in August 2020. This year, with the vaccines, we could be racking up “goose eggs” in some states and countries-- days, maybe even weeks without a single death.

                  • Be cautioned!  When it comes to the chronic, existential crisis of keeping America a Constitutional Republic, we are in the autumn. With faith in ourselves and the Creator, this too shall pass. Christians and Jews have endured much greater tyranny than what some of our current political leaders have in mind for us.  Some of it, very recently.  Keep the faith, spread the Word, and endure.

                  Even the non-religious should beware, religious freedom is low-hanging fruit for those engaged in tyranny.  All that we consider “natural rights”, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness; the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments are in danger.

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                • Critical Race Theory Exposed
                  Holy cow!  I thought I knew a little about Critical Race Theory (CRT), but this paper recently put out by the Heritage Foundation written by Christopher F. Rufo totally blew my mind.  Please read this article: Critical Race Theory Would Not Solve Racial Inequality: It Would Deepen It. It's a little long but well worth the time to read. Here's a summary from the article:
                  “Critical race theory is an ideology which maintains that the United States is a fundamentally racist country and that American institutions such as the Constitution, property rights, color blindness, and equal protection under the law are vestiges of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalist oppression—all of which must be overthrown in the name of “anti-racism.” Ultimately, critical race theory and “anti-racism” policies would deepen racial divisions and undermine the very institutions that are essential to addressing poverty and inequality across all racial groups. Policymakers concerned about these issues should reject critical race theory and orient public policy toward rebuilding the institutions of family, work, and education, which have been proven to lift Americans of all racial backgrounds out of poverty.”
                  As explained in the article, CRT in its ultimate form is anathema to all American Conservative thought.  The objective of its proponents is nothing less than the complete overthrow of our American way of life in favor of a race-based, fascistic autocracy with unelected leaders at its head
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