The Democracy for America
opened Robert Reich’s film “Inequality for All” in theaters across the country,
inviting interested Americans to organize movie nights with friends and “meet
other progressives in your neighborhood, and build our national community.”
As the Campaign Manager
for Democracy for America describes it, “This powerful and entertaining movie
takes a closer look at the American economy and what we can do to make it work
for everyone.”
How are we going to build
the national community? Will it be on the ashes of the formerly successful
capitalist economy brought to its knees by liberals who have destroyed every
sector of the economy and every level of our education system?
I cannot think of a more
successful economy than that of the United States, where even the poorest of
the poor have cell phones with landlines (80.9%), computers (58.2%),
televisions (96.1%), DVR (83%), refrigerators (97.8%), gas or electric stoves
(96.6%), microwaves (93.2%), air conditioning (83%), washing machines (68.7%),
dryers (65.3%), and dishwashers (65.3%). I personally did not own a dishwasher
until 4 years ago and I certainly did not feel deprived. http://www.breibart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/Americans-in-Poverty-Have-TVs-VCRs-Cell-Phones-Air-Conditioning
And, according to the
Democrats, come October 1, all Americans will have all the affordable
healthcare in the world, free for the taking, available on demand, anytime, for
any procedure possible, no rationing, and no wait. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-website-quietly-deletes-reference-free-health-care_757348.html
The American economy has
been the envy of the world and the most prosperous in the history of mankind
until five years ago when the decades-long work of progressivism is finally
bearing fruit and the economy is in shambles.
There is nothing we can do
at this point to make the economy work for everybody. The very people who have
voted all this fundamental transformation, social justice and equity, are now
finding themselves either unemployed, working part time, and without health
insurance or a qualified physician available to provide medical care. How is
that for progressive hope and change?
No matter what we do, no
matter what economic model we follow or what form of government we adopt, it is
impossible to have equality for all. There will always be someone smarter,
better educated, more beautiful, more successful, more entrepreneurial, more
determined, and luckier than you. Government cannot mandate economic equality. The
propaganda of economic equality will ultimately entice gullible citizens en
masse into equal misery called communism.
One of the goals of global
governance was to destroy books published before 1979, starting with children’s
books – an easy way to erase history from future generations and to feed them
manufactured, revisionist history in line with the progressive agenda.
In the past, discarded library
books were donated to various organizations or sold to the public to raise
money for local libraries strapped for cash. The Washington Post reported that
Fairfax County Public Library System in Virginia has “tossed” 250,000 books as
a plan to “reduce costs and bring the county’s library system into the digital
age.” Previously, books have been donated to a group called Friends of the
Library but no such donations had been made in seven months. County Supervisor
Lynda Smyth, who investigated the claim, found a dumpster full of books.
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-13/opinions/42041321_1_library-books-library-staff-library-patrons
Was the dumpster disposal
deliberate or just a mistake in the eagerness to digitize the system?
Ray Bradbury published a
dystopian novel in 1953 called “Fahrenheit 451.” In this novel, the American
society of the future prohibits ownership of books and “firemen” like Guy
Montag have the power to burn outlawed books found hidden by citizens eager to
preserve the printed word. Bradbury chose the title “Fahrenheit 451” because he
thought this temperature to be the point when paper self-ignited. The story presents
book burning as a way to prevent any dissenting ideas and goals.
Montag (Monday) is loyal
to this dystopian society; he lacks real knowledge, believes everything he
hears and all empty promises, experiences inner conflicts, and decides to free
himself. He survives nuclear
annihilation with other men who have memorized books to preserve them for a
time when printing would be allowed again.
Montag’s wife, Mildred, is
a superficial and delusional woman, who watches soap operas on her salon walls
(a type of flat-panel television), indifferent to the oppressive society around
her. She betrays her husband and notifies
the “firemen” that her husband is hoarding forbidden books. Close family
betrayal to the security police happened often under oppressive communist
regimes like the “Stasi” police in East
Germany and “Securitatea” in communist Romania.
The book ends with the
reassuring story of the phoenix rising from the ashes told by Granger who
explains that humans are superior to the phoenix because they remember how the
world was before it burned and can rebuild, making sure they never make the
same mistake again.
Unfortunately humans are
not that way as Bradbury’s character Granger portrayed them. They do forget mistakes
quickly, never learn from them, and thus repeat history. Granger thinks that a
large factory of mirrors should be built so that humanity can take a good look
at itself and have a reality check from time to time.
In a radio interview in
1956, Ray Bradbury explained that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 at a time when he was
concerned about censorship during the McCarthy era and the threat to freedom of
expression. Later, however, Bradbury explained his motive for writing the book
in “more general terms.” Interestingly, recent declassified documents reveal
that McCarthy was right all along, there were quite a few communists in
Hollywood.
It is a known fact that
communists have banned all books that disagreed with and contradicted their
basic Marxist ideology. But they were not alone. Hitler ordered many public and
well-orchestrated burnings of books and paintings that he found unacceptable to
his fascistic ideals and goals.
Leftists proclaim that
they “stand for democracy, progress, human rights, and social justice.” History
has shown, however, when they “seize power, they introduce slavery, terror,
famine, concentration camps, and mass murder.” One of the reasons they want to
ban books and replace them with liberal propaganda is that books become
indelible testimony to the lies and crimes committed across the centuries.
Making movies that distort economic reality is an easy way to dupe the masses
who were asleep in class or never took a business/economics course.
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