This is an unfortunate bit
of suppressed history some will want to either deny or ignore. Quote:
"Not only Russia, but also many other countries in Eastern Europe, Asia,
Africa, and Latin America have been forced to provide that “practical
lesson” in the political tyranny and economic disaster that socialist
society, especially in its Marxist permutation, offered to mankind. It
stands as a stark demonstration of the disastrous consequences when a
society fully abandons a political philosophy of classical liberal
individualism, an economic system of free markets, and an acceptance of
self-interested human nature functioning within a social arrangement of
voluntary association and peaceful exchange. Let us hope that with this
year marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the communist revolution
in Russia mankind will learn from that tragic mistake, and come to
realize and accept that only individual liberty and economic freedom can
provide the just, good, and prosperous society that humanity can and
should have. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/progressivisms_bigoted_past_and_present.html
This item continues the
discussion of the facts of progressive's past and present bigotry.
Quote: "Progressivism embraced racism early in its history, a line of
thought that continues to this day, only with different targets of
scorn. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, two of the early
advocates of progressivism in America, often manifested racial and/or
ethnic prejudice. Although he believed in Anglo-Saxon racial
superiority, TR generally soft-peddled his views about blacks. But, he
frequently mouthed shibboleths about Jews. His antipathy toward
hyphenated Americans who were not from the British Isles or northern
Europe was also well known. As president, Wilson exhibited his Southern
heritage by a series of acts, from screening D. W. Griffith’s racist
movie, Birth of a Nation, in the White House to resegregating
domestic and military bureaucracies. Wilson may have been the most
virulent white racist to occupy the White House since slavery
ended." http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/progressivisms_bigoted_past_and_present.html
This is a bit of
unfortunate, but true, history. It regards the consequences of the
Woodrow Wilson presidency. Quote: "The chaos and economic depression
sowed by the war and the Treaty of Versailles helped open the door to
some of the worst dictators in modern times, including Germany’s Adolf
Hitler, Italy’s Benito Mussolini, and Vladimir Lenin–whom Wilson
intensely disliked because "he felt the Bolshevik leader had stolen his ideas for world peace," as historian Thomas Fleming noted in his 2003 masterpiece, The Illusion of Victory: America in World War 1.
Despite winning the war, Wilson’s Democratic Party was crushed at the
polls in both 1918 and 1920. H.L. Mencken wrote on the eve of the 1920
election that Americans were sickened of Wilsonian "idealism that is oblique, confusing, dishonest, and ferocious."
Have today’s policymakers learned anything from the debacle a century
ago? Wilson continues to be invoked by politicians who believe America
can achieve great things by warring abroad. The bellicosity of both
Republican and Democratic leaders is a reminder that Wilson also failed
to make democracy safe for the world." https://fee.org/articles/woodrow-wilson-made-the-world-unsafe-for-democracy/
About Herbert Hoover and
his presidency. Quote: "This narrative, promoted by Arthur Schlesinger,
Jr. in the postwar years and countless others in the decades that
followed has never been fair or wholly accurate. In the 1980s, such was
even proven to be the case, through new studies of Hoover written by
historians Richard Norton Smith and George Nash. But this correction
never took hold in the popular imagination." http://freebeacon.com/culture/herbert-hoover-great/?
This is an interesting piece regarding the battle for the Supreme Court. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/04/07/nixon-lbj-the-first-shots-in-the-judges-war/
This item deals with the history of Muslim actions and their subsequent impacts. http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/how-muslim-atrocities-impacted-world-history/
Very interesting discussion of George Washington's chef. https://spectator.org/george-washingtons-runaway-chef/
This item reveals much
about Andrew Jackson the most of us probably did not know. Parallels
to other times in our history including today are noted. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/12/a-new-jacksonian-era/ Here is part II in this series. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/13/a-new-jacksonian-era-part-two/
This is a twist on the narrative surrounding Hitler's motives/intentions. Quote: "Hitler
didn't want a world war, and had no stomach for fighting England,
according to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Louis Kilzer, author of
"Churchill's Deception" (Simon & Schuster, 1994). Hitler
believed the future of Western civilization depended on the cooperation
of Germany and her Aryan cousins: England and the United States. His
territorial demands were limited to conquering Communist Russia, which
he regarded as a proxy for Jewish world ambitions. He was determined to
avoid fighting a war on two fronts. The
"miracle at Dunkirk" was in fact an extraordinary peace overture to
England. We don't normally associate Hitler with such magnanimity. In
May 1940, the British were on the verge of defeat. The English army was
trapped at Dunkirk. Rather than take them prisoner, Hitler halted his
generals for three days allowing 330,000 men to escape. "The
blood of every single Englishman is too valuable to shed," Hitler said.
"Our two people belong together racially and traditionally. That is and
always has been my aim, even if our generals can't grasp it." (Kilzer,
p.213) This
is not an attempt to exonerate Hitler. His ideology of Aryan racial
supremacy and his treatment of "inferior races" are abhorrent to me. My
own grandparents were murdered by the Nazis. I believe people can take
pride in their race or nationality without seeking to dominate others." http://www.rense.com/general50/itle.htm
This is related background to the previous item. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill,_Hitler_and_the_Unnecessary_War
A neat history of technology. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/17/the-history-of-technology-from-the-earliest-tools-to-the-modern-age/
Some may challenge the early phase of this depiction. I tend to. I
don't think they have the proof they claim to possess. My read is that
much of the early stuff is guesswork. Things like carbon dating have
proved to be far less than reliable.
In 1918 Russia, leftist
Bolsheviks conducted a campaign of murder so vast and depraved that
media and entertainment organs committed themselves to forever shielding
the public from its horror. The Red Terror was a starburst of logical
conclusion liberalism that has persistently evaded capture in American
museum dedications and feature films. Though this omission was certainly
not from a lack of enthusiasm. Of its many publicly-mute recountings I
thought Wiki’s entry captured the spirit of the occasion well. Please do
read it all. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/01/30/literal-obliviousness/
Progressivism Part I. http://www.freedomworks.org/content/referendum-failure-progressive-era-part-i-progressives-pervert-our-constitution
Progressivism Part II. http://www.freedomworks.org/content/progressivism-part-ii-fdr-and-supreme-court
George Burns
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