Culture war winners are not gracious to losers
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By Jim Thompson
HCP columnist
Let us start with the French Revolution. An estimated 40,000 people were killed and 300,000 arrested in this event from the period September 1793-July 1794. Among the dead were Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Robespierre.
The Bolshevik Revolution, starting in 1917, is a bit harder to quantify. Generally, this time period is considered from 1917 to February 1922. The estimated death toll ranges from 110,000 to 1.3 million. However, the communists were just getting started. For the period following that up, until about 1937, the death toll is estimated between 6.1 million to 8.1 million.
The Nazi Revolution, non-battle deaths are considered to be around 21 million. These are calculated in Rummel’s Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder.
Mao’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76) death toll estimates reach as high as 20 million.
Today, the United States is in the midst of a cultural revolution, one supported by a major political party – the Democrats. What the final death toll will be, it is too early to say, but there are certainly deaths already. The Democrats have historically demonstrated they are not gracious losers, and as evidence I present exhibit 1: Hillary Clinton. She is followed by a whole cast of characters, from Nancy Pelosi to Chuck Schumer to Barack Obama.
This cultural war has been building for years, starting in the late 1960s when people like Hillary Clinton were in their early 20s. The leaders of this movement have had a “take no prisoners” attitude in theory for a long time and if they succeed in taking control of the federal government in this next election cycle, we’ll likely go from theory to practice.
If you are counting deaths, you may wish to count the abortions they have promulgated in this country with that cultural change of 1973, where you can already put the death toll over 60 million.
Nancy Pelosi is on record as saying, if they become the majority, federal funding of abortions is coming.
See how easy it is to kill millions and make it look nice? The French were novices. Their guillotines were literally in the public square for all to see. Since then, despotic groups have tended to sanitize their heartless deeds by doing them behind closed doors and high walls.
The usual human defense mechanism when reading what I have written so far in this column is to subconsciously think, “I think his ideas are crazy; but if they are not, at least they are out in the future or somewhere else.”
Allow me to dissuade you of that comfort.
The abortion deaths, quietly accepted by all, are real, counted by legitimate authorities and already past tense. The violence and civil unrest in this country is here and now, and it is in Democrat-controlled cities: Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Kenosha, New York, Los Angeles, Louisville and Atlanta.
This, despite over 80 stories having been written in the mainstream media trying to convince us these riots and the looting are small and no big deal.
If you don’t think there are forces afoot to permanently change our culture, you need to hear what Vicky Osterweil, author of “In Defense of Looting,” said on NPR in late August: “When I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot. That's the thing I'm defending. I'm not defending any situation in which property is stolen by force. It's not a home invasion either. It's about a certain kind of action that's taken during protests and riots...”
She continues: “…A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community. It is true and possible that there are instances historically when businesses have refused to reopen or to come back. But that is a part of the inequity of the society, that people live in places where there is only one place where they can get access to something [like food or medicine]. That question assumes well, what if you're in a food desert? But the food desert is already an incredibly unjust situation.
"There's this real tendency to try and blame people for fighting back, for revealing the inequity of the injustice that's already been formed by the time that they're fighting.”
These are the kinds of people taking to the national stage. They have a definite agenda to change the culture for good, permanently, and everyone better get out of their way if they don’t want to get hurt.
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press. He may be reached at jthompson@taii.com.
HCP columnist
Let us start with the French Revolution. An estimated 40,000 people were killed and 300,000 arrested in this event from the period September 1793-July 1794. Among the dead were Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Robespierre.
The Bolshevik Revolution, starting in 1917, is a bit harder to quantify. Generally, this time period is considered from 1917 to February 1922. The estimated death toll ranges from 110,000 to 1.3 million. However, the communists were just getting started. For the period following that up, until about 1937, the death toll is estimated between 6.1 million to 8.1 million.
The Nazi Revolution, non-battle deaths are considered to be around 21 million. These are calculated in Rummel’s Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder.
Mao’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76) death toll estimates reach as high as 20 million.
Today, the United States is in the midst of a cultural revolution, one supported by a major political party – the Democrats. What the final death toll will be, it is too early to say, but there are certainly deaths already. The Democrats have historically demonstrated they are not gracious losers, and as evidence I present exhibit 1: Hillary Clinton. She is followed by a whole cast of characters, from Nancy Pelosi to Chuck Schumer to Barack Obama.
This cultural war has been building for years, starting in the late 1960s when people like Hillary Clinton were in their early 20s. The leaders of this movement have had a “take no prisoners” attitude in theory for a long time and if they succeed in taking control of the federal government in this next election cycle, we’ll likely go from theory to practice.
If you are counting deaths, you may wish to count the abortions they have promulgated in this country with that cultural change of 1973, where you can already put the death toll over 60 million.
Nancy Pelosi is on record as saying, if they become the majority, federal funding of abortions is coming.
See how easy it is to kill millions and make it look nice? The French were novices. Their guillotines were literally in the public square for all to see. Since then, despotic groups have tended to sanitize their heartless deeds by doing them behind closed doors and high walls.
The usual human defense mechanism when reading what I have written so far in this column is to subconsciously think, “I think his ideas are crazy; but if they are not, at least they are out in the future or somewhere else.”
Allow me to dissuade you of that comfort.
The abortion deaths, quietly accepted by all, are real, counted by legitimate authorities and already past tense. The violence and civil unrest in this country is here and now, and it is in Democrat-controlled cities: Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Kenosha, New York, Los Angeles, Louisville and Atlanta.
This, despite over 80 stories having been written in the mainstream media trying to convince us these riots and the looting are small and no big deal.
If you don’t think there are forces afoot to permanently change our culture, you need to hear what Vicky Osterweil, author of “In Defense of Looting,” said on NPR in late August: “When I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot. That's the thing I'm defending. I'm not defending any situation in which property is stolen by force. It's not a home invasion either. It's about a certain kind of action that's taken during protests and riots...”
She continues: “…A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community. It is true and possible that there are instances historically when businesses have refused to reopen or to come back. But that is a part of the inequity of the society, that people live in places where there is only one place where they can get access to something [like food or medicine]. That question assumes well, what if you're in a food desert? But the food desert is already an incredibly unjust situation.
"There's this real tendency to try and blame people for fighting back, for revealing the inequity of the injustice that's already been formed by the time that they're fighting.”
These are the kinds of people taking to the national stage. They have a definite agenda to change the culture for good, permanently, and everyone better get out of their way if they don’t want to get hurt.
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press. He may be reached at jthompson@taii.com.