Last night while reading about Abraham Lincoln, I was inexplicably moved to get out of bed and get down on my knees, as I did when i was a little girl, and pray. I prayed for humanity, not for myself. I wondered why I had not been on my knees for so many decades; it felt good. I learned my faith on my knees. I put my face in my hands “and when I raised it I was surprised to find a few tears,” to quote you. Today I found so many good things on the web – and your blog is one of them. thank you. ~ MT

And still, every day, more and more Americans learn that the media lie to them, about things that they, individually, know. The party line, for example, is that Fox news organized the TEA party demonstrations. Millions of Americans went, and joke about how we are still waiting for our ‘astroturf’ checks. Democrat congressmen complain that all the questions about their health care bills are the same, as if the average American is too stupid or too lazy to read the bill. Don’t even get me started on climategate. My epiphany was in 2000, when my knowledge of election mechanics and voting machines, gained as a Democrat poll worker, showed me all too starkly how they were trying to steal the Florida election. The comments that this will generate will be all too predictable, various repetitions of the party line. I can’t convince anyone who did not have the experience, but, this is my experience. Neo learned her lessons the same hard way, in different circumstances, but, as with the examples I cited before, we have the experience of catching the leftist establishment in a major lie about a matter of fact, known to us. This is still happening, every day. We are still disorganized, loosely led, but, we are figuring out the facts. They may have fooled us about everything else, but, on this one topic, whatever it is, we know that they are lying.

your words are similar to others who found out they were useful idiots. tools of their own destruction. i am sorry you felt that.

however, realize that preventing that feeling can create a dissonance so strong in people, that they will deny it till they are marching through the gates.

Lenin called them “useful idiots,” those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam. – Bruce C. Thornton

and here is sowell on
Useful idiots
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell090100.asp

all one has to do is study the dark side of psychology. of which most are also in denial even though they may be looking at some of it in the morning paper. not realize things like desensitization, and jamming… or love bombing…

ask not what your teachings can do for or in the hands of sociopaths. one only has to see how kinsey (a sexual psychopath. how else did he get his figures as to sexual children?) redefined us to have a perverse view of children. we no longer can even look at family images without seeing pedophiles in ourselves. after all, in order to find them, one must think like them and then remove all images that might stimulate them because when you think like that they do what?

kinsey… meade… boas… friedan… the list goes on of the leftists that spent their time lying and promoting an agenda… why else celebrate “if it was rape then it was a good rape” of a 12 year old in the vagina monologues?

most have no idea of the history… they are good people who have abdicated their responsibilities, and are to scared and its too much work to actually choose a side on merit. now it might be too late to do so.

they fear the feeling you had more than than they fear the monster they are making.

there is plenty on each of those names above. but they still shape our culture heavily… just as i read a document today on feminist bioethics from stanford… they refer to tuskegee. however do they realize that the study was funded by leftists?

imany people still are using kinsey to justify many of the sexualization programs (lukacks – hungary) in a scientific way. but one only has to read his sexual behavior in the human male and realize that he had to be abusing babies to get his data.

so kinsey a ligitimized sexual predator, is our “father of the sexual revolution”.

Meade whose work was also a lie is the mother of what? oh yeah.. “mother of the world” (time 1969)

then there is is dewey, the communist spy that was the ‘father of modern education’.

friedan, a CPUSA writer, is the “mother of feminism” ny times 1970 (feminism in its modern form being a communist ideology. thats what the leaders say)

ah… the place is full chock a block of useful idiots.
you cant swing a dead cat without knocking dozens of them out

and they will not wake up till its way too late, and when its too late here, its too late for everyone forever. arent you glad we dont take this too serioiusly?

I was busy reading online about Iraq, trying to understand the situation there and to predict what might happen if we invaded or what might happen if we didn’t invade.

Mark LeVine, PhD, is a professor in the department of history, University of California-Irvine, and author of Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil.

I worked at Asia Times (the source of the above Levine article) for quite a while. It purports to promote an “Asian point of view” (the owner is a Thai Chinese) but in actual fact, the key editorial decisions are made by two white South Africans, both with fairly typical extreme left-wing political views. I used to sit at work day after day and watch the news editor reject what I thought were very interesting article pitches because they didn’t suit his agenda of painting the US as the villain in every international story. Furthermore, he was not above editing writers’ work specifically to point the finger at the US.

I’m not that familiar with Levine or his politics, and the article quoted by “truth” contains a lot of statements I would agree with (to be fair, the leftist tenor of this paragraph is rather cherry picked compared to the source article as a whole). But to describe Muslim behavior vis-a-vis the US as a “rational assessment” strikes me as pretty delusional. It seems to me that an irrational infatuation with violence as an end in itself (or as a means to 72 virgins) in the Muslim world is, at the very least, a major cause of the conflict between Muslims and seemingly everyone else (even Buddhists). And there are many on the left who are willing to do almost anything to avoid acknowledging that fact: they believe that the very weakness and backwardness of Muslims means they are victims, who by definition, are morally superior and deserve sympathy and protection. The possibility that the woes of Muslims are self-inflicted never occurs to them.

Parenthetically, I would note that the Muslim states which have the closest relations with the West and are the least associated with violent anti-Westernism, in either its Baathist or Islamic-fundamentalist forms, are in fact the most prosperous in the region (e.g. the UAE, Kuwait). This in itself is a compelling argument against the thesis Levine puts forth in his paragraph.

Narcissism isn’t what the military was created to fight.

How do liberals think? Democrats are wrong on just about every issue. Give a modern liberal a choice between Saddam and the United States he will not only take Saddam, but will side with him. The question becomes why? They’re not evil. They don’t mean to side with evil, and always doing wrong. So perhaps its stupidity? But they’re not stupid. The modern liberal looks back at the history of the last 50,000 years and finds that none of the policies have eliminated war, poverty & injustice. And the thing that creates all of those is the attempt to be right. So we must do away with the “thought of being right.” The best way to eliminate the attempt to think one is right is to work always to show that right isn’t right.

“Imagine no country, (not great countries, not good countries, but no countries), imagine no religion… “Lennon.

Tear down what is right and elevate what is wrong, until there’s nothing left to believe in. Nothing must be better than something else. There can be no good. And no bad. Then there would be no reason to go to war, because no one is right, and no one is wrong. Undermine the U.S. to show that its not worth fighting for. Elevate the Islamofacists – in fact, never refer to them as Islamofacists, or even terrorists. They are insurgents. Or like Michael Moore said, they’re no different than our Minute Men. America caused 9/11, not 9 Muslims. You get the point.