Amerika

Donald Trump alleges that a Deep State — the entrenched government bureaucracy — rules Washington for its own interests contrary to our interests, but the liberal media resists; however, we have seen this movie before, first with Tammany Hall and next with the Red Scare.

After WW1, most people in the West were despairing. We fought a “war to end all wars” and ended up instead having sacrificed the better parts of one of our fairest generations. We fought a war for democracy but the same problems persisted after the war, leading to despair.

Most intellectuals of the day turned toward “scientific” and “progressive” theories of the future, including eugenics and Communism. The former advocated making people more useful; the latter advocated subsidizing the useless so that they did not rise up and kill off the useful like they did in France in 1789.

In short, the people above 115 IQ points felt they were held hostage by those below 115 IQ points, and made plans to either reduce the overpopulation of such people (eugenics) or buy their loyalty with favors in the third-world style (Communism).

By the 1930s however it was clear that Communism was not headed toward Utopia, but the empires of Genghis Khan or Xerxes instead, and as its Asiatic nature became clear, Anglo-Saxons pulled away from it, which made it edgy… perfect for intellectuals.

Even more, with the rise of insurance and unions, collective reward schemes were a big deal in the minds of industry leaders. Why spend all this time fighting, when you could just write a check and make the problem go away? — except that the cost rose every year, of course!

Starting in the 1930s, the backlash against the intellectuals began, and this defined the template for Right-Left relations to the present day: the Left pushes Communism and diversity, the Right fights back with Christianity and capitalism.

The only way out of course is to demand culture instead of bureaucracy, which requires a mono-ethnic state and hierarchy, and that violates the ultimate taboo of everything since 1789, namely the illusion of (a) “equality” and (b) a shared understanding among all humans.

Many of us think the US was refighting the Civil War. The Northeast wanted a big powerful state to give out favors like Tammany Hall, and the South wanted a natural rights society where the productive rose above the rest and hierarchy prevailed.

Over the next twenty years, as the Democrats intensified their campaign for civil rights and socialist entitlements — including stunners like sending White kids to school with Black kids at bayonet-point — anti-Communist sentiment rose, peaking with Senator Joseph McCarthy:

Evidence from numerous sources definitively establishes a massive Soviet espionage barrage, employing numerous CPUSA partisans, against the United States government.

One such source is the Soviet archives, from which much information has been culled. Another is the Venona Project, a top-secret World War II enterprise in which U.S. Military Intelligence agents—distrusting Stalin—cracked the Soviet code and, for several years, decrypted and read numerous Soviet cables; Venona was declassified by President Clinton in 1995. A third is a trove of FBI files made accessible under the Freedom of Information Act.

But McCarthy’s most knowledgeable critics have never denied Soviet espionage. Rather, they always claimed (and still do) that by the time McCarthy burst onto the anticommunist public scene in 1950, the purge of Soviet agents and identified Communists at State and other government bureaus was complete.

McCarthy pointed out that Communist “subversives” were lurking in the US government, much like the Deep State today, by agitating for Leftist causes and being active in organizations supported by foreign governments, even if they did nothing directly to spy for the Soviets (although many did!).

These agitators learned from the French Revolution. If society is held hostage by Peasant Revolts as happened in the Late Middle Ages, parallel to the rise of the Middle Class, then the Left would weaponize the peasants against the middle classes and in doing so, extract loyalty from them.

This pattern repeats today, with Leftists buying prole loyalty through the social safety net and other entitlements, and conservatives trying to conserve productivity and genetic health from the endless tide of delusional neurotics and Dunning-Kruger acolytes.

It turns out that McCarthy was correct about Soviet — really Sino-Soviet — subversion:

The McCarthy period is the Rosetta stone of all liberal lies. It is the textbook on how they rewrite history — the sound chamber of liberal denunciations, their phony victimhood as they demean and oppress their enemies, their false imputation of dishonesty to their opponents, their legalization of every policy dispute, their ability to engage in lock-step shouting campaigns, and the black motives concealed by their endless cacophony.

The true story of Joe McCarthy, told in meticulous, irrefutable detail in Blacklisted by History, is that from 1938 to 1946, the Democratic Party acquiesced in a monstrous conspiracy being run through the State Department, the military establishment, and even the White House to advance the Soviet cause within the U.S. government.

As noted by others however, McCarthyism was not unique; he simply popularized it with the boldest attack to date, and ramped it up in the 1950s after many of the Communists and Soviet agents had been caught and forced into retirement.

His quest might be seen as an extension of the work of Harry S Truman or Martin Dies, who noticed the Communist infiltration, or Ronald Reagan, who recognized that the West had to prevail against Communism and the Asiatic incursion generally.

The rise of McCarthyism was then both an early and late recognition of the Cold War:

McCarthyism has a far longer history. While it’s true that the senator’s reckless accusations and guilt-by-association made him an extraordinary case, he was hardly an original. He owed much to an array of zealots and dodgers who preceded him, from Louisiana’s populist governor and senator Huey Long to Michigan’s Jew-bullying radio priest Charles Coughlin.

He wasn’t even the originator of the narrower brand of Red-baiting that he rode to fame. Texas Democrat Martin Dies, the first chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, pioneered in the 1930s and ’40s nearly all the techniques McCarthy would use a decade later. Dies helped develop the parlance of the movement by accusing New Dealers and others of being “soft” on Russia and “coddling” communists. He also loudly named names, including those of Franklin Roosevelt’s top aides.

Then there was Truman, arguably a McCarthyite before McCarthy himself. He told himself that his 1947 Loyalty Order (which mandated background checks on 5 million federal employees and applicants, with FBI follow-ups on suspected subversives) would head off more draconian measures advanced by Republicans. Journalist Garry Wills saw it differently, as he explained in 1976: “It is unfortunate that McCarthyism was named teleologically, from its most perfect product, rather than genetically – which would give us Trumanism.”

Truman, who saw how WW2 ended and Korea began, realized the true nature of Communism: it is an addictive vision like winning at gambling, taking a lover that your spouse does not know, that one perfect snort of cocaine that makes everything good, winning the lottery, or going to Heaven.

It is Utopia, which is addictive because it is a negative disguised as a positive. It is an absence of everything that troubles you. By that very nature, it is an incomplete world, but like a scam on the boardwalk, it has the opposite of what you fear disguised as what you want. You fall for it.

American intellectuals were out of options. Democracy had clearly become malignant and was trying to take over the world. National Socialism and Fascism had been defeated for being scary. No one was ready to admit that the French Revolution was a mistake (yet).

They turned to Communism, since when you have no clue, you choose the Hail Mary pass that seems like it will make everything right — but nothing does that! — and embrace the furthest extension of democracy and equality you can: those things enforced at gunpoint.

Like all dupes, the intellectuals considered themselves clever, and bit down hard when McCarthy was proven right ironically by American spying and Soviet records:

The materials that first made their way to the surface in the early 1990s — records from Moscow’s Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Recent History — provided proof past peradventure that the Communist Party of the United States was subsidized by the Soviet government and used as a base for extensive espionage.

It has long been known that the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) had been paid for by the Soviet Union. But acknowledgment of even this truth has been hard to come by. In liberal and leftist circles the term “Moscow gold” was accompanied most often by derisive laughter and the riposte that it was not Moscow gold but the paid dues of FBI informants that kept the CPUSA afloat. Actually, it was both.

The recent publication of a batch of Venona transcripts gives evidence that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were rife with communist spies and political operatives who reported, directly or indirectly, to the Soviet government, much as their anti-communist opponents charged. The Age of McCarthyism, it turns out, was not the simple witch hunt of the innocent by the malevolent as two generations of high school and college students have been taught.

With the fall of the Soviets, Communism revealed its true colors, but the intellectuals remained stumped; they had no other options. And so, after only a few years, they started up banging the tin drum again about Utopia, sharing, peace, and equality.

You think humanity would learn that the things we desire most are simply escapes from our fears, and the guises that they arrive in — pacifism, altruism, tolerance, empathy, sharing, acceptance — are always manipulations.

In the big picture, Communism is a death trap, the intellectuals fall for it every time in order to make themselves seem smart, and McCarthy like Reagan and Truman understood the essence of the struggle we found ourselves in:

The fact is, however, that McCarthy was right. Maybe he went over the top; maybe it wasn’t necessary to point the finger quite so rapidly or in quite so many directions. But the poor guy was exasperated; he had taken on the greatest criminal conspiracy the world has ever known, and was all but weaponless before the secrecy and deception whereby it worked its grim enchantment. Of course, we don’t know the full extent of the damage inflicted by our communists and fellow travelers. But we have a fairly good idea. For example, it was thanks to the penetration of British diplomatic services during World War II that Marshal Tito’s partisans were adopted by Western governments as the rightful rulers of Yugoslavia, and that the brave Albanians who went to liberate their country were betrayed to the communists. It was the influence of communists and their friends–in diplomacy, in the academic world and in journalism–that led to the easy acceptance of the illegitimate governments of Eastern Europe after 1948, and which caused us to turn a blind eye to the sufferings of millions, so as to lick the boots of their masters.

Societies die because they expand outward instead of upward. The few who can think create functional institutions and behaviors that benefit everyone. The population explodes, and soon a secondary market in catering to the new people appears.

This market hires lots of people who do stuff outside of actual production. All of the red tape and bureaucracy comes from this sector. As more people are able to have jobs, where you must satisfy a boss more than get anything done, the population of waste humans expands.

These waste humans behave like a parasitic infection. They paralyze healthy instincts and nurture self-destructive ones. They expand their industries, starting with shops and services, and eventually move into industry and government.

Soon society operates as a life-support system for people who could not hunt, run a farm, make a tool, write a novel, or build a house. Taxes follow, and then social mobility, which increases competition at jobs and squeezes out the good so the bad can take over.

Eventually the society becomes a closed-circuit loop, producing what it wants and borrowing against tomorrow to buy it today, and people stop breeding. They are too busy with jobs, education, and managing the many complexities of life. To fill the gap they import foreigners.

Remarkably the beliefs of foreigners seem to be the human default: societies where people are shamed into sharing, run by overlords who trade favors for loyalty. The waste people think this is a good deal because they have maximum power over their private lives.

In the long-term however this turns out not to matter because the meaning of life is found in bonding with it, not retreating into the self, so the waste humans become neurotic and restless, then later move into full-on schizoid behavior.

Communism operates as a solution and justification for these problems. Instead of the problem being low quality, it argues, the problem is that we do not subsidize the waste humans, and therefore anyone who is not egalitarian is bad and must be removed to make room for more waste humans.

In this way, Communism follows the classic third-world model: the overlords grant favors, everyone does whatever they want, and no one creates, builds, or maintains much of anything. The individual rules supreme and reality is demonized.

Rejecting reality forms the final step of the death-cycle. Since we live in reality, and its patterns pervade everything that exists, denying the way it operates causes us to be constantly propping up our inferior substitutes.

In the end however reality wins out and the tyrannical society collapses, leaving behind a third-world wasteland that cannot manage or defend itself. Whether paid by the Soviets or not, having people who even think that Communism is a good idea means the waste people are already winning.

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