I am sorry for classical liberals who think otherwise. I do not really mind if my so-called repute is now thrown overboard, yet I would indeed regret to have ever refrained from speaking out the dictates of my conscience in trying times.
Let me state
this clear: Trump is not exactly my ideal, and of course, he is not a classical
liberal. If the election were between Ron Paul and him, obviously Ron Paul
would be the right choice. But such is not the world we live in. This is a dreadful
moment in history, whose seriousness is not quite grasped by lots of liberals
reading these lines.
For many
years now, the USA have been falling into a dramatic decline in their original
foundational ideals. Note that I am not referring to the everlasting debate
between the federalists and the anti-federalists. By foundational ideals I mean
the 1787 Constitution, the 1789 Bill of Rights, and the 1776 Declaration of
Independence –which, albeit imperfections inherent to all that is historical in
nature, are classical liberal documents.
Over time,
the USA started to deviate from those ideals, although a line could still be
drawn, at least, in the duality between Democrats and Republicans. We might say
that, from the Kennedys up to Al Gore, the debate was Rawls versus Nozick
–i.e., more active redistribution policies vs. expense restriction policies. J.
Rawls, hated by many libertarians, regarded those foundational documents as the
constitutional essentials to be
abided by all. Surely, I would vote for J. Rawls versus Trump.
Long before
the Kennedys, two Western ideas, two Western pathologies (phrasing a neglected García
Venturini) expanded throughout the West, and particularly across the USA. I’m
talking about the incoherent yet effective combination of neo-Marxism and
post-modernism.
Neo-Marxism
is a two-phase mutation of Marxism: The first phase has been fundamentally
economic, with the Cepal’s Dependency Theory –accepted, alas, by the Catholic
supporters of the Liberation Theology of G. Gutierrez (1958). A second and much
more detrimental phase is given by the assertion that there are new exploited
collectives, the hetero-patriarchal system being the new exploiter. The
exploiters are white pro-market Westerners, while the exploited are women, Afro-Americans,
indigenous peoples and gay, lesbian and trans persons.
It is worth
reminding that this kind of thinking undermines the very essence of the
original American political pact. In the case, there is no longer a whole of
persons (“all men…”) conceived as
subjects of rights before the power, but exploited collectives coherently denying
their exploiter a “Bill of Rights” assisting the latter. No longer can we speak
about a society where all human beings (whether homo or hetero persons, white
or Afro-Americans) are imbued with rights, regardless of their color, etc. (as flawlessly
concluded by the classical liberal Martin Luther King in his famous speech),
but about a society shrouded in the veil of class struggle setting ones against
the others. This automatically cracks the very essence of the USA.
Added to this
is post-modernism, which claims that there is nothing good or true in any
culture. Hence, nothing morally superior resides in a West where the idea of
individual freedoms emerged. The combination of both amounts to a cultural
atomic bomb for the West: the ideals of classical liberalism are attacked by
the neo-Marxism as an exploiting hetero-patriarchal system, but when the West tries
to defend itself, it fails, because there is nothing morally good –except (and
here lies the effective incoherence) Marxism, of course.
This has all
been taught to exhaustion in the US colleges since before the 1960s. Not only
has this been conveyed to generations of people lacking critical thought, but
further, whomever thought or thinks differently has been and is persecuted and
attacked in countless and cruel ways –as soundly shown by Axel Kaiser in his
last book[1]–,
thus producing a spiral of silence among those who secretly know that this is
worse than Hitler’s tanks –because the one and only advantage in Hitler’s case
was that he clearly looked like Hitler.
Consequences
transcend the already disastrous economic policies proposed by the left wing of
the Democratic Party. Americans have been all too gullible in assuming that the
Communist Party was not growing in the USA –just as those Argentines who assume
that communism did not grow in Argentina “because the peronismo existed”. The sheer truth is that the left wing of the Democratic
Party in the USA is the most efficient communist party in the history of the
struggle for freedom. Because those Marxist and post-modern ideals –which did
not hit the Kennedys– have now permeated the Democratic Party, being Kamala
Harris and Joe Biden their most paradigmatic representatives. Above all Kamala
Harris, the new president of the USA in case puppet Biden wins the elections.
The “program
of government” of this singular communist party in disguise could not be more
coherent with the most cherished destructionist ideals[2]
of the revolutionary communism.
1.
Destruction of the remains of
religious freedom, freedom to teach and free speech, with federal laws expanding
alleged hate and discrimination crimes to embrace whomever dares to act and
think different from the aspirations of the LGBT and Z lobby.
2.
Destruction of the remains of
religious freedom, etc., with the forced imposition by the federal government’s
of reproductive health policies, abortion and integral sexual education, allowing
no room for appeal to freedom of conscience.
3.
Destruction of the economy by the funding
of anti-market environmental policies which may include the irrationality
proposed by AOC at a federal level.
4.
Encouragement, by the federal government,
of attacks against life and property (lootings, etc.) by groups such as Antifa
and “only” Black Life Matters, portrayed as angelical “peaceful protesters”. Judicial
persecution of whomever exercises their self-defense right.
5.
Removal of the Second Amendment –citizens
bearing arms would become the bad guys, but not criminals or governments
bearing weapons.
6.
Destruction of the remains of
individual liberties by imposing at a federal level all dictatorial compulsory
confinements, cold-heartedly and harshly applied by Democratic governors and
mayors.
7.
Removal of all freedom of speech for
those who think differently, by resorting to fact-checkers, fake-news allegations
and the “denialist” offense. Totalitarian use of the Covid-19. Monopoly of
social communication by the Deep State in collusion with Facebook and Google.
8.
Judicial persecution of anyone bold
enough to denounce the crimes of the Deep State.
9.
Enlargement of the Supreme Court and
ensuing destruction of the independent Judicial Branch by turning the Judiciary
into another extension of the Democratic Party.
10.
More foreign debt escalation, fiscal
deficit, tax pressure and inflation as a way to fund all of the federal
government’s policies. Further devaluation of the dollar.
And I am
putting it mildly. Very mildly.
There is more
to it: In the best possible scenario –that is, in case Trump wins–, the
Republican Party will not be just one more party, but a “resistance” against
the seizure of power by the New Communist Party and complete destruction of the
USA. The question is, how much longer?
How much
longer will some manage to keep offering resistance?
How may the persisting
cultural tsunami causing all this be possibly halted?
Where to flee
if the worst should happen? Nowhere.
World War II
was appalling, but at least the enemy was clear, as were hopes in case of
defeat. Still, the enemy was not defeated –preventing Patton from getting to
Moscow was the most hideous mistake, the most tragic error of the US government
of the time.
What I mean
to say is that at least Hitler looked like Hitler, and his defeat was hope. Now,
the enemy is camouflaged; people fail to see it, and vote for it.
Trump’s
victory barely saves some time. Be well aware about what is at stake in this –pun
intended– “election”.
* Translated
and edited from the post by Gabriel Zanotti’s blog Filosofía para mí on October 25, 2020: http://gzanotti.blogspot.com/. Gabriel
Zanotti is Academic Director of Instituto Acton (Argentina).
Translated by Silvina Floria.
[1]
Axel Kaiser, La neo-inquisición:
persecución, censura y decadencia cultural en el s. XXI, Ediciones
Mercurio, 2020.
[2] On destructionism, see Mises, Socialism, 1922.
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