(Translated from Spanish into English by Inés Rosan).
Yes, I’m sorry… I am sorry for the classical
liberals who think otherwise, and I am not
sorry for my alleged ‘good reputation’,
that can be thrown overboard right now. The one thing I would indeed regret would be not to have spoken out in these hard times as my conscience dictated.
Do I need to clarify the obvious once again? Apparently
I do. Trump is not exactly my ideal. He is NOT a classical liberal? Of course
he is not. If the election were between
him and Ron Paul, of course, the adequate choice would be the latter. But we
don’t live in that world. We are living in
a terrible historical circumstance the dire gravity of which is difficult to
grasp for many such liberals reading these lines.
It’s been many years since a terrible decline
of its foundational ideals began in the United States. No, I´m not referring to
the endless debates between federalists and anti-federalists. I’m alluding to
documents -with all its imperfections, as are all doings in human history- such
as the Constitution of 1787, the Bill of Rights of 1789, and the Declaration of
Independence of 1776, which were all true expressions of classical liberalism.
Those are the ideals to which I’m referring.
Of course, as time passed, the U.S. started
deviating from those inaugural ideals, BUT one could note a turning point, at
least in the duality between democrats and republicans. It could be said that
from the Kennedys to Al Gore the debate was Rawls vs. Nozick, which is to say active redistribution policies vs. expense
restriction policies. J. Rawls, whom many classical liberals hate, regarded those foundational documents
as the constitutional essentials
which had to be adhered to by all. Today I’d vote for J. Rawls against
Trump without a second thought.
Long before the Kennedys, two western ideas
–two pathologies of the West (as the forgotten García Venturini called
them)-started spreading throughout the Western world and particularly in the
U.S.: I mean that incoherent but effective combination between neo-Marxism and
postmodernism.
Neo-Marxism is a mutation of Marxism. It had
two stages: the first one, essentially economic, with the Cepal´s Dependency Theory, regrettably accepted by the Catholics who supported G. Gutiérrez’ Theology of Liberation (1968); and the second one,
more destructive, in which the postulate
is that there are new exploited collectives and the new exploiter is the entire
hetero-patriarchal system. The exploiters are the white pro-market westerners
while the exploited are women, African-Americans, indigenous peoples, and homosexuals,
lesbians and transexuals.
It will never be clarified enough how this way
of thinking undermines in its very
essence the foundational American political pact. There no longer is an all-encompassing
collective of people (“All men…”) who are the subjects of rights, but exploited
collectives who coherently deny the exploiter its “alleged” Bill of Rights. In that case we
cannot speak anymore of a society where all human beings (homo and
heterosexuals, black and white) have inherent
rights, regardless of their skin
color, etc. (as flawlessly concluded
by the classical liberal, Dr. Martin Luther King, in his famous speech) but a society built on class struggle. That automatically breaks the very essence
of the United States of America.
Added to that is Postmodernism, according to
which there’s nothing good or true in any culture. Therefore, that Western
world in which the idea of individual freedoms emerges is not morally superior
in any way. The combination of both amounts to a cultural atomic bomb for the
West. On the one hand, the ideals of
classical liberalism are attacked by neo-Marxism, as a hetero-patriarchal
exploitative system. On the other, when the
West tries to defend itself it can’t do so because “in it, there is nothing morally good” except, of course (and therein lies the effective incoherence),
Marxism.
All of this has been taught to exhaustion at U.S. Colleges since before the 60s, and not only has it been passed
on to several generations of culturally illiterate, who lack any critical
thinking, but the ones who thought or think differently have been persecuted
and attacked in countless and cruel ways, as has been soundly shown by Axel Kaiser in his
last book[1], causing a spiral of
silence among those who secretly
know that all this is worse than Hitler’s tanks. Because at least (I’ll say it
even if a friend cautioned me for over two hours against it) the ONE advantage we had with Hitler was that he seemed Hitler.
The results of all this transcend the already
disastrous economic policies proposed by the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Americans have been too naive in believing that the Communist party was not growing in
their country, the same way Argentinians believe that communism has not grown
in Argentina “because Peronism is here”. The pure and simple truth is that the
left-wing of the Democratic Party is today,
in the U.S., the most efficient Communist party in the history of the
fight for freedom. Because those Marxist and postmodern ideals that had not
reached the Kennedys, now have reached
the Democratic Party and permeate it
more and more, with their most paradigmatic representatives being Joe
Biden and –especially- Kamala Harris, who would be the actual new
president of the U.S., should puppet Biden win the election (Ring any bells, Argentinians?).
The “program for government” of this singular Communist
party in disguise could not be
more coherent with the most cherished ideals of destruction[2] of revolutionary Communism.
1) Destruction of what’s left of
religious freedom, freedom of teaching and speech, with federal laws that expand even more the criteria for
alleging hate crimes and
discrimination, considering them to be perpetrated by
anyone who dares act and think differently from what the LGBT -through Z- lobby dictates.
2) Destruction of what’s left of religious freedom, etc. through the imposition -forced on everyone by the federal government- of “reproductive health” policies, like “comprehensive sex education” and abortion by the federal government, without the possibility of any appeal to freedom of conscience.
3) Destruction of the economy by the funding on a federal level of anti-market environmental policies, which include even
the insanities proposed by AOC, on a federal level.
4) Encouragement by the federal
government of all kinds of attacks on life and property (looting,
etc.), carried out by groups such as
Antifa and –only- Black Lives Matter, presented as
angelical “peaceful protesters”. Judicial persecution of those who exercise legitimate
defense.
5) Elimination of the Second Amendment.
Because the wrong would be citizens carrying weapons, not criminals and
governments doing so.
6) Destruction of the remains of civil liberties by imposing
–on a federal level- all dictatorial mandatory confinements, cold-heartedly and cruelly carried out by democratic governors and mayors.
7) Elimination of all freedom of speech
for those who think ‘differently’ -through “fact-checkers”, accusations of reporting “fake news”-
and the criminalization of it (being a “denialist”). Totalitarian use of
Covid-19. Monopoly of social communications by the Deep State in collusion with Facebook and Google.
8) Judicial persecution and killing of
everyone who dares denounce the crimes of the Deep State.
9) Expansion of the Supreme Court and
the consequent destruction of an Independent Judicial Branch, by
turning the Judiciary into one more extension of the
Democratic party.
10) Increasing –even more- foreign debt,
fiscal deficit, tax burden, and inflation as a means of funding all the
policies of the federal government, which would cause an accelerated escalation in the devaluation of the U.S.
currency.
Believe me when I say I’m putting it very mildly.
And more good news:
best case scenario –that is, Trump winning- the situation will
be such that the Republican party will no longer be a party but a “resistance”
against the New Communist Party taking overpower, and the total
destruction of the United States. The question is: how long could they resist? How much
longer will some be able to offer
resistance?
How to stop the ‘cultural tsunami’ that was the origin of all this?
Where to flee if the worst should happen?
Nowhere.
World War II was
awful, but at least it was clear who the enemy was and what hopes remained
should defeat be the outcome. However, there was no defeat: stopping Patton
from getting to Moscow was the worst mistake, the most tragic error of the U.S.
Government at the time.
But what we meant was that at least Hitler seemed
Hitler and his defeat was hope.
Now the enemy is
camouflaged, people don’t see it and vote for it.
Trump winning,
people, is barely winning some time.
Be well aware of what’s at stake in this –never
more appropriately called- ‘election’.
Gracias por la claridad en la exposición de tu fundada pre-ocupación por los problemas que el ciudadano común no está observando -me incluyo entre ellos-.
ResponderEliminarTu exposición explica, también, el crecimiento alarmante de la izquierda radical en la Argentina que en las últimas elecciones del 2019 logró superar al voto tanto de derecha como conservador con total holgura (Del Caño y el ala radical de la izquierda, sacaron más votos que Espert y Gómez Centurión, juntos. si mal no recuerdo)
Nuevamente gracias por la advertencia y a trabajar con los alumnos y los allegados en esto que muy pocos están advirtiendo, el famoso, "Vamos por Todo" que significa sencilla y claramente que vienen por la República, la Constitución, las instituciones tradicionales, las instituciones religiosas y todo aquello que desde la política no puedan "controlar" [al estilo Orwelliano de La Rebelión en la Granja]