You take a conventional man of action, and he’s satisfied if you obey, eh? But not the intellectual. He doesn’t want you just to obey. He wants you to get down on your knees and praise the one who makes you love what you hate and hate what you love. In other words, whenever the intellectuals are in power, there’s soul-raping going on. – Eric Hoffer
This is one of the most horrific things I think I’ve ever read, but more people need to read it, all the way to the end. To Shatter Men’s Souls – John Carter’s Substack
I served in West Berlin. I despise the Communists and everything they stand for. But the Soviets never pretended that homosexuality was holy, that pedophilia was good, and they never tried to ethnically cleanse and replace their own population with third world barbarians.
The modern Left, epitomized by the zealots of the Democrat party, now rule our formerly great country. As their leaders age, they grow ever more desperate to see True Communism implemented in their lifetimes.
Clicked the link, realized I’d read that one already.
I have to quote Col. Kurtz.
The horror.
The horror.
Exactly.
That is truly scary, and IS, in a nutshell, the left’s goal for us peons… I will not go out on my knees, regardless of the pressure put on me.