Understanding History 1

Many of the items that follow have been lost to true history by purveyors of untruth who choose to pervert history for political reasons.  It serves as food for thought. Given our current need to stay at home I thought something like this would help pass the time.  Read those that peek your interest.

A  catchy title with a not so good message.  Quote: "We Teach Nothing, We Know Nothing—and That Could Cost the United States Everything." Quote: "History is not dusty books and broken swords and statues without arms and noses. History is how we got where we are -- and it's often a foreboding warning. In modern times it's a stream of events from the bloody French Revolution through Marx and Engels to the Cold War and the Killing Fields to Havana and Caracas to prisons full of Chinese dissidents being harvested for organs, to statements coming out of the mouths of people who, without irony, refer to themselves as social justice warriors and "Democrats." Socialism should be exposed for what it is and will always be: a mix of greed, lust, envy and slavery. If you are not allowed to own property, if you are not allowed to keep the fruit of your ideas and labors -- you are enslaved. That is the ultimate promise of socialism. But because we teach nothing, we know nothing. And that stands a strong chance of costing us everything." https://pjmedia.com/trending/because-we-teach-nothing-we-know-nothing-and-that-could-cost-the-united-states-everything/?   Our thanks for this tragic dilemma goes to our long time progressive/liberal friends and their vast revisionist history operations.

Quote: "It is the stuff of conspiracy theories. But it is also a fact that Albert Pike, an American soldier, attorney at law, writer, and Freemason seemed to know something about the world we live in today. He is the only Confederate soldier with a monument in Washington DC. And in 1871, he predicted the first, second, and third world wars. The first, he said would be fought to transform Russia into a haven for communism. The second, he said, would be fought to exacerbate tensions between Zionists and fascists. The third world war, he said, “must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. […]” This would by all reasonable accounts seem to be a paranoid fantasy. How could a Confederate general, who was considered to be a complete washout by his military peers, predict the jihadi movement — which has aspirations of threatening the entire non-Islamic world? The more we learn about Islam, the more it does appear to be designed from the ground up to be a weapon for use against the west."   https://libertyvideonews.com/the-history-of-jihad-you-wont-learn-anywhere-else/

This is history progressive Democrats want to remain hidden.  But, then some people persist in digging and reporting the facts. Quote: "How many ways have progressives worked with the Kremlin over the years? The examples are legion. When I was researching my book Dupes, the biggest challenge was sifting through all the self-described “progressive” individuals or organizations to figure out which were closet communists cloaked as liberals, and whether they collaborated with Moscow. When Congress in 1961 published its major investigation of communist front-groups, titled, “Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications,” one of the most popular title listings in the massive index was “Progressive.”  Progressive here, progressive there, progressive everywhere.  In fact, if you want a case of collusion between an American political party and Moscow in a presidential election, forget sniffing around 2016. Go back to 1948, where progressives created the smelly blueprint. That year, the Progressive Party ran for president one Henry A. Wallace. Wallace had been FDR’s vice president and was America’s preeminent dupe to Marxist-Leninists. He was horribly pro-Soviet. One of the stupidest things FDR did (and that’s saying something) was to make Wallace his vice president. Wallace’s public remarks defending Stalin’s USSR were so bad that Democrats demanded he be expelled as FDR’s running mate in 1944, even as FDR’s ideologically unhinged wife, Eleanor, protected him."  And,  "For progressives to sanctimoniously complain of Russian involvement in a presidential election is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy. For literally over a century, these folks never gave a rip about what the Russians were doing to manipulate Americans. Quite the contrary, 70 years ago the Progressive Party hooked up with the Kremlin in a presidential election, replete with its own candidate. And all along, as Republicans and conservatives sensed and pointed out these outrages, the left shrugged and called them red-baiting paranoiacs. And now the left wants everyone to care about Kremlin meddling merely because Hillary Clinton was the target? Don’t expect me to join your crusade, progressives. You’re too late — a hundred years too late."    https://spectator.org/when-progressives-colluded-with-the-kremlin-in-a-presidential-election/?

This is another inconvenient fact that the Democrats want to remain hidden.  Quote: "Franklin Roosevelt ushered in the National Industrial Recovery Act, NIRA, in the late spring of 1933. It was tragically supported by many industrial leaders at the time; as well as the Chamber of Commerce’s president, H.I. Harriman. A quote from Harriman illustrates the malevolent nature of government and corporate coercion that ran rampant in the early 1930s. The “laissez-faire economy, which worked admirably in earlier and simpler industrial life must be replaced by a philosophy of planned national economy.”[1] Author and researcher Marvin Olasky reported of the corrupt mindset of corporate leaders during this period. Olasky notes, “The partnership idea of corporatists and leftists, keystone of the original New Deal conception received great support from Washington corporate representatives. [It was reported] that Chamber of Commerce leaders ‘are ready to subscribe to the idea of governmental control of business to a degree that would have seemed incredible a year ago.’”[2]    https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/jimhuntzinger/2020/01/29/roosevelt-the-dictator-n2560323?

Here is another tyrannical move made by FDR.  Quote: "It has been 87 years since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use. This happens to be one of the episodes Kevin Gutzman and I describe in detail in our book, Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush. From the point of view of the typical American classroom, on the other hand, the incident may as well not have occurred. A key piece of legislation in this story is the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, which Congress passed on March 9 without having read it and after only the most trivial debate. House Minority Leader Bertrand H. Snell (R-NY) generously conceded that it was “entirely out of the ordinary” to pass legislation that “is not even in print at the time it is offered.” He urged his colleagues to pass it all the same: “The house is burning down, and the President of the United States says this is the way to put out the fire. [Applause.] And to me at this time there is only one answer to this question, and that is to give the President what he demands and says is necessary to meet the situation.”   https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2020/04/05/the-great-gold-robbery-of-1933/

Add this to the list of inconvenient facts about FDR.  It is well established that he ran the presidency like a dictator.  He also surrounded himself with like minded thugs as this author explains. Quote: "President Roosevelt, as I have previously noted here, here, and here, was a presidential thug and ran his administration like a dictator. As is typical of such men, he also brought men of ill-temperament and brutal tactics into his administration. Hugh Johnson, one of Roosevelt’s former speechwriters, also purposely invoked Christianity as a leverage tool to push the NRA: Johnson loved to use religious metaphors, especially when speaking about the “Holy Thing” which was the NRA, “the Greatest Social Advance Since the Days of Jesus Christ.”  He compared his critics to “Judases” and responded to complaints by writing, “I often think of Moses.  His NRA was a code of only ten short articles and according to latest reports it isn’t working perfect even yet – after some 4,000 years of trial and error and even after the great reorganization of the years 30 to 34 A.D.”[1]  Hugh Johnson was nothing less than a crude ruffian who was “emotional and impetuous.” “He was a boisterous, hard-drinking man with a cigarette on one side of his mouth and profanities often coming from the other side,” and “[l]ike Roosevelt, Johnson failed in his business ventures during the 1920s.”  

This sends a strong message about who the great man General George Patton was. Quote: "Many stories of heroism, devotion to duty, and faith have come out of the Battle of the Bulge that was fought 75 years ago this month.  One of the most enduring of these stories is of Patton’s prayer."   https://townhall.com/columnists/larryprovost/2019/12/15/the-story-of-general-pattons-prayer-n2557760?

An interesting bit of history lost in the minds of far to many.  Quote: "The U.S. Constitution was a document designed to place restraints on the federal government the Founders were creating, not a document to restrain the people or the states. This is an important distinction. The Constitution would not have been ratified if not for the promise of a bill of rights to further check the federal government. That’s because most of the Founders — particularly the Anti-Federalists — feared the Constitution wasn’t strong enough to prevent the federal government from stealing power from the states. It was commonly understood prior to 1861 that the states reserved the right to secede. There had been talk of secession by the New England states many times. They called it “disunion.”  And,  "So we see that secession was not a wholly Southern construct. Even Abraham Lincoln, as a representative, recognized the states had the right to secede — he only changed his mind after became president. To “save the Union” — which Lincoln stated at the outset was his goal in prosecuting the war, whether he had to preserve slavery or abolish it to do so – Lincoln trampled on the rule of law when  he sent federal troops to occupy the seceding states and force them back into the union. The natural result of Lincoln’s actions is the imperial presidency we have today."  And,  "Lincoln’s claims in his address “that government of the people, by the people, for the people ” would somehow “perish from the earth” if the Union lost the war was hogwash. Representative democracy would have continued in the Union and in the Confederacy regardless of the outcome. The  Union and the Confederacy could have existed side by side as trading partners an allies, just as Mexico and Canada do today. And remember, neither side entered the war over the issue of slavery. Lincoln’s stated purpose for invading the Confederacy was “preserving the Union.” Finally, the final outcome of the Civil War did not usher in “a new birth of freedom.” It did quite the opposite. It consolidated federal power, neutered the 9th and 10th Amendments and gave birth to the fascist system and the imperial presidency under which we now suffer. There is no check on federal power, the states are essentially meaningless and the political class is running roughshod over the Constitution and our traditional institutions. Do Republicans really want to think of themselves as belonging to the party of Lincoln?"   https://boblivingstonletter.com/alerts/we-have-lincoln-to-blame-for-the-mess-were-in/   This has been a long time dilemma for Republicans. For those who may be interested.  I am a registered Republican for primary voting purposes only.  I am, instead, an independent conservative with some libertarian positions and a full red blooded American.