Sunday, 13 September 2009 at 05:28
I had something horrible just occur to me in a dream, and thought it might be prudent to write it down... V.I. Lenin took power in Pre-Communist Russia by convincing the majority of Russian people (through various means such as grassroots campaigns, protests, and rallies) that his party was actually the majority (rather than an extremist fringe party who would have had no real power had the people not handed it to them after they decided to: ...) in power and then murdering the monarchy in power (Through a wonderful bit of deceit by the Czar's honor guard.)
The reason I bring this up is because the people in Czarist Russia were angry. They were tired of the aristocratic jerks pushing them around and wanted revolution, and rallied behind the first person to promise the czar's blood would run in the streets.
I will make a parallel here, and I hope you don't consider it to forward when I say that the American people are also angry. They're tired of constant bickering and of nothing ever actually being accomplished.
Now here's where I may lose some of you...
The Birthers, Tea Baggers, Wilsonites, Beckians, and O'Reilly-cons are the Bolsheviks.
Period. End of statement.
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We are the Mensheviks, people, the majority in the "minority." Glenn Beck and the others have begun creating their blind army; an army of zombies who can do nothing but watch FOX News all day, absorbing their propaganda, processing it through the lens which FOX News gave them, and then forming their FOX-friendly opinion of it.
What's dangerous about this is that, while the opinions expressed by the FOX n' Friends crews are not those of the majority of the country, their viewers are constantly told that they are.
They show footage of gun-toting protesters calling for the blood of the President to feed their freedom tree, and then they call them heroes, champions for their cause against the evils of Liberalism, and the tyranny it brings.
Thomas Jefferson called for everyone to take up arms against a government which was no longer serving the needs of the people, and in doing so, helped start a revolution that would eventually create our great country.
But his work, our home, is in danger of the exact thing that he proposed, from people who would have lined up behind him in 1776, believing his cause to be the noblest of all time.
In what I like to consider the modern age, with information available at your fingertips constantly for anyone who wants it, there should be no worry of anyone ever having to repeat history. Most every important event has been recorded so that future generations may look back on them, study them, and learn from humanity's mistakes, but no one ever seems to do so.
Just as the masses allowed themselves to be manipulated by Lenin's propaganda in 1917, simple, uninformed masses are allowing the very same, and in the end, are calling for the same results.
Information is powerful. Misinformation is powerfully dangerous.
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I'd like to hear your thoughts. Am I just being paranoid, or do my fears have ground to stand on? Leave comments below and we can engage each other to talk about what problems this groundswell of right-wing terrorists could provoke.
The reason I bring this up is because the people in Czarist Russia were angry. They were tired of the aristocratic jerks pushing them around and wanted revolution, and rallied behind the first person to promise the czar's blood would run in the streets.
I will make a parallel here, and I hope you don't consider it to forward when I say that the American people are also angry. They're tired of constant bickering and of nothing ever actually being accomplished.
Now here's where I may lose some of you...
The Birthers, Tea Baggers, Wilsonites, Beckians, and O'Reilly-cons are the Bolsheviks.
Period. End of statement.
***
We are the Mensheviks, people, the majority in the "minority." Glenn Beck and the others have begun creating their blind army; an army of zombies who can do nothing but watch FOX News all day, absorbing their propaganda, processing it through the lens which FOX News gave them, and then forming their FOX-friendly opinion of it.
What's dangerous about this is that, while the opinions expressed by the FOX n' Friends crews are not those of the majority of the country, their viewers are constantly told that they are.
They show footage of gun-toting protesters calling for the blood of the President to feed their freedom tree, and then they call them heroes, champions for their cause against the evils of Liberalism, and the tyranny it brings.
Thomas Jefferson called for everyone to take up arms against a government which was no longer serving the needs of the people, and in doing so, helped start a revolution that would eventually create our great country.
But his work, our home, is in danger of the exact thing that he proposed, from people who would have lined up behind him in 1776, believing his cause to be the noblest of all time.
In what I like to consider the modern age, with information available at your fingertips constantly for anyone who wants it, there should be no worry of anyone ever having to repeat history. Most every important event has been recorded so that future generations may look back on them, study them, and learn from humanity's mistakes, but no one ever seems to do so.
Just as the masses allowed themselves to be manipulated by Lenin's propaganda in 1917, simple, uninformed masses are allowing the very same, and in the end, are calling for the same results.
Information is powerful. Misinformation is powerfully dangerous.
***
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Am I just being paranoid, or do my fears have ground to stand on? Leave comments below and we can engage each other to talk about what problems this groundswell of right-wing terrorists could provoke.
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