Anatomy Of A Closet Leftist
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
by Gerald L. Atkinson
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can not longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
Cicero, 42 B.C.
Treason is too strong a word to describe what is going on in America today. There are good-hearted, well-intentioned people who are undermining the American republic today just as Rome was being undermined in its day by Cicero’s ‘traitors.’ They act out of the ‘goodness of their hearts’ and in their own best interests – using Cicero’s quote – “[moving] amongst those within the gate freely, [speaking] in accents familiar to their victims, and [wearing] their face and garments…[rotting] the soul of a nation, [working] secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city. [They] infect the body politic so that it can not longer resist.”
Within the context of Chaos Theory, such people – some acting in concert, some acting on their own, and all acting in their own best interests – interact in ways that are unfathomable on the surface, but which taken together in the confluence of ‘little streams’ that feed the ‘roaring river,’ feed a revolution so strong that it cannot be overturned, even by the use of force. These influences, carried by their ‘memes’ (rather than genes[1][2],), spread quickly and simply take over a civilization by the shear force of the roaring rapids that propel them. In today’s ‘river,’ the ‘roaring rapids’ are the mass media and those who take advantage of it to spread the gospel of their revolution. The people who carry these influences are the ‘power elites’ of the civilization. Their ‘rapids’ only become visible (to the uninitiated and unaware or the ‘absent minded’ in Irving Kristol’s words[3]) just before the dark cloud of the future they portend descends upon the civilization. Maybe just in time to avert disaster – or maybe not.
One example of this phenomenon is illustrated by the case of Deborah Roffman. She is typical of the Boomer elite, the eight-million or so of the Boomer generation who started their counter-culture revolution in the mid-1960s and attempted to bring it to conclusion by rising to executive power in the 1990s. She is one of those who spawned the women’s liberation movement which became the ‘sexual revolution’ that encouraged young women to assume for themselves the male libido as a mark of being ‘emancipated.’ The societal result of this revolution was a disaster for women. Illegitimate children, single parenthood (resulting in poverty), men who bred and ran (if it was given free, why take the responsibility for the children?), welfare run amok, children raised in foster homes, children raised without fathers growing up in the gang culture, and a resulting, broad scale, gender war between men and women.
Now that this disaster has been visited on America and its results are clear for all to see, what do the Deborah Roffmans of her generation claim (in their middle-age years)? They claim, without acceptance of a shred of blame or guilt for its damage, that they are the ones to lead America out of the darkness of their own making. Ms. Roffman is now a ‘sexologist.’ “The young ones[4] call her ‘The Sex Lady,’ and after 25 years teaching sex education, Deborah Roffman has earned her unofficial title…she believes children are ready for sexual information much earlier than adults think they are. She starts teaching the basics in fourth grade.”
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