No, Virginia, it isn't the Communist
Plot or Secret Evil Geniuses that who invent and
push the leftist nonsense. The Soviet Union is gone,
and the disastrous nonsense keeps coming.
Most of today's horrible ideas begin
with professors on campuses in the West. Ideas that
the left likes are invented or at least developed
among social science professors. From time to time,
one of those professors floats an idea that sells
like hotcakes on campus.
It spreads from there.
For example, American academics and
the media and yuppies and Europeans used to sell
socialism as the Wave of the Future.
Socialism said that the government
had to take over the entire economy and turn it
over to the bureaucrats who were trained by professors.
The "intellectuals" would rule in the
Inevitable Socialist Future.
But different forms of socialism killed
at least a hundred million people in the twentieth
century. Socialist failure in the Third World and
in Communist countries kept most of the world in
poverty. See September 30, 2000, THE
KEY TO PROSPERITY: DON'T BE A DUMBASS and OUR
IMMIGRATION POLICY SAYS THAT MONEY IS MADE BY MAGIC.
And June 17, 2000 -- KINKY
SEX, AGAIN.
Real socialism has been discredited
at incredible cost, over and over, until even Communists
now admit it's silly.
That was a disaster for the left.
Intellectuals and radical students and the media
and yuppies used to say that bureaucrats must run
American life because Socialism was the Wave of
the Future. It was also Accepted European Opinion.
Now another idea was needed to make
an argument for bureaucratic rule.
Soon it became a popular idea on campus
that bureaucrats should run all aspects of American
life, not for socialism, but in the name of Saving
the Environment. This was not a plot, it was a natural
development.
Social science professors on Western
campuses run what amounts to a Liberal Seminary.
They teach leftism, and they try to formulate leftist
ideas that will sell. After Socialism As the Wave
of the Future died, they tried many new excuses
for bureaucratic (aka Intellectual) rule.
Finally, the Environment excuse sold
like wildfire among students. So Environmentalism
as an excuse for Intellectual Rule went out by the
usual leftist route: It was first tried out on 1)
leftist students. When it sold there, it naturally
it spread 2) to the media. The media sold it 3)
to leftist Yuppies.
Europeans bought Bureaucrats Must
Rule To Save The Environment from what they considered
the American Intelligentsia. Only then did it become
Accepted European Opinion.
The idea that led to the Kyoto Treaty
started on American campuses, spread by the routine
leftist route, and is now Idealism, Intellectualism,
and Accepted European Opinion.
Other policy disasters became Accepted
European Opinion by the same route.
The idea that Criminals Are Just Victims
Who Need Lots of Social Programs To Save Them followed
exactly the same route. It sold on campus, so it
sold to the media, so it sold to yuppies, so Europe
swallowed it whole.
Academics changed clean air from a
legitimate concern to an overboard leftist excuse
for bureaucratic rule. They changed the idea that
even criminals have rights to a giant leftist world
view that was a disaster. They changed education
to leftist indoctrination. None of this is accidental.
Academia tells us openly that it is
dedicated to the leftist agenda. They openly suppress
all real dissent from that agenda.
And we pay them to do it.
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