America, not Америка

V.I. Lenin (1917)

“Better that this country should lose. Better that Kaiserism (Germany) wins than that Tsarism (old Russia) continues.”

— V.I. Lenin, from Netflix’s 2017 “The Russian Revolution”

Today, doesn’t it seem that progressives want “this country should lose"? As in, “Better that Socialism wins than that Freedom continues.” Revolution — in Tsarist Russia, in America — depends upon first destroying the established order.

A recent Issues & Insights editorial says:

we didn’t surrender to the Soviets. We have simply handed power to the left. The hard (and unrelenting) left controls most of the media, sets the tone for popular culture, and has hegemonized most of our institutions and many of our businesses.

So it seems. As Stanford Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson writes:

“Sovietization” .   .   .  refers to the subordination of policy, expression, popular culture, and even thought to ideological mandates. Ultimately such regimentation destroys a state since dogma .   .   . defeats meritocracy, creativity, and freedom. (emphasis added)

Under the criminal organization called the Democratic Party, Hanson reminds us,

The law is no longer blind and disinterested, but [bases] indictment, prosecution, verdict, and punishment on the ideology of the accused.   .   . There[’s no] detailing how particular individuals [are] personally harmed by the system.

In Hanson’s California,

the one-party state is Sovietized. Public policy is no longer empirical but subservient to green, diversity, equity, and inclusion dogmas—and detached from the reality of daily middle-class existence. Decline is ensured once ideology governs problem-solving.   .   .

And for the rest of the country,  Biden’s “Soviet-like edicts” of equity, climate change, and socialist redistribution have meant “soaring inflation, unaffordable energy, rampant crime, and catastrophic illegal immigration.”

Hanson recognizes that expertise is out under Sovietization; “everything and everyone serves ideology:” This is important. With Cultural Marxism, when “radical ideology defines success, then life in general becomes anti-meritocratic.” The people link advancement to party loyalty, not actual achievement.

Hanson asks: “Where does woke Sovietization end once accountability vanishes and ideology [yields only] incompetence and malfeasance?” 

To me, it ends with the Washington Generals (see below), the onetime professional clowns paid to blow it to the Harlem Globetrotters, game after game. The Beatles once sang, “Back in the U.S., back in the U.S., back in the U.S.S.R.”

Karl Marx himself said (1852), “the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” The Washington Generals, the revolutionary progressives' end. Farce.

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