Propaganda versus Truth

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On Race:  Leftist identity politics divides people into categories based on identifiable differences, such as race, instead of along traditional broad-based party lines.  Based on  those contrasts, the Left assigns rules based on where each person fits into their perceived oppression hierarchy.  For people on the Right, skin colour is irrelevant.  

On Speech:  For the Left, words that prove them wrong are a form of violence and should be outlawed or silenced by force.  People on the Right who may not agree with that ideology will still defend the Left’s right to voice it. 

On Property:  The Left feels entitled to “other people’s stuff” and will engage governmental bureaucratic force to try and get it.  On the Right, Adam Smith’s philosophy still reigns in that a person owns themselves and all fruits of their labour. 

On the Environment:  For the Left, the sky is always falling, which leads to extremist actions such as the Christchurch shooter (1), the El Paso Walmart shooter (2), and the Unabomber (3).  All were done in the name of saving the environment.  Those on the Right depend on empirical evidence in their decision making, not misconstrued ideas and self-righteousness. 

On Family:  The Left leans on government for parenting.  The Right believe autonomous self-sufficient strong families are what lead to successful children.

On Science:  For the Left science appears cherry-picked from Left-wing gurus. For the Right, it is the systematic observation, measurement, experiment and formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.  Skepticism is a fundamental part of science. 

1 Opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical/ecofascism-justifications-terrorist-violence – Christchurch and El Paso shootings.
2 Huffingtonpost.ca/entry/el-paso-shooting-manifesto
3 Fee.org/articles/is-the-unibomber-and-ecobomber/

Heading Back to an Old System?

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It would be very reassuring if all public sector meetings began with a recognition of the private sector of the economy.  For it is there where the wealth is created that provides the income on which taxes are levied to pay for all our well-paid public servants and their grandiose plans. There is likely no hope for this ever to happen anywhere in the Cowichan Valley, because our Federal and Provincial representatives, together with most of their municipal colleagues, seem to have never been members of this part of the economy. Few, if any, of them appear to have ever had a paycheque that the taxpayer did not sign. It is reminiscent of the time when an educated but unproductive elite needed the feudal system for their survival.

Alistair MacGregor’s private member’s bill to cut off access to the coastline for deep sea vessels awaiting berths at local ports is an example of legislation proposed to meet the convenience of very few people. That his new bill would have the result of providing yet another unneeded obstacle for our stumbling economy seems irrelevant to him.  It shows a complete lack of appreciation that west coast port operations are one of the few bright spots remaining in the national industrial establishment. Excessive taxes and inconsistent regulation have sent capital fleeing to other countries and not enough seems now available to improve the operations of the port in order to reduce or quell the need to moor expensive ships in remote locations.

Mr. MacGregor’s proposal is yet another reminder that once viable Canadian industries are now surviving on reduced revenues and curtailed markets. Our local, Provincial and National governments are very creative in finding ways to consume the wealth provided by taxpayers but seem utterly incapable of understanding what needs to be done to produce it.

Entryism

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“Entryism” is a political tactic used by radical groups to infiltrate larger, more acceptable organizations and gain power.  The most famous example is the “French Turn” a tactic recommended by Trotsky to take over French labour unions in the 1930s.  Those practicing “Entryism” hid their real identity in order to take over.  In other words, they pretended to be something else: center leftists, benign socialists, anything but Trotskyites.

They joined French workers’ organizations so they could push them towards Trotskyism through stealth and intimidation.  The question for our time is  “Is Entryism still happening?”  If you define it in broader terms than Trotskyism, the answer is yes.  For example, in the United States, leftists have changed the Democrat Party and pushed it toward Socialism.  It isn’t the old Democrat Party anymore.  It is the party of “The Squad,” all of whom are socialists and radicals. Entryism worked.

Locally, we would be well advised to watch for entryism in all its forms.  If an organization talks about collectivism, communalism, redistribution and breaking down free enterprise, then Entryism may be at work.  The most important thing to remember is that “Entryites” are not going let you know their real purpose.  That is the danger.  American socialist Norman Thomas said, in 1944:  “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism.  But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America (sic) will be a socialist nation, without ever knowing it happened.”   Entryism at its finest.

Mysterious Phenomena

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There is mysterious phenomena at play when workers transform from a Capitalist system to a Communist system.  This is evidenced in the latter by a lack of productivity and loss of natural incentive.  Can this be solely the workers’ lack of ownership in the process, or might there be something additional at play?

To answer this one may look at human psychology, specifically human relationships.  When one toils for one’s self or family, natural altruism is a factor.  However, it could be argued that there is also a certain sense of altruism toward one’s community.  But that idea does not translate fully between the scenarios.

For example, a “breadwinner” may be self-compelled to work sixteen hour days under grueling conditions but will not willingly do so under force from others.  That is a given, but it still does not explain the basic scientific reason.

For this one may turn to physiology and measure the hormones released through repeated positive human connectedness.  This connectedness is driven by mysterious phenomena, which humans call love, and the release of serotonin from bonding, through reciprocal acts of appreciation, within close knit familial units.  With this reasoning and context, it may be scientifically rationalized that labour under the Communist system is driven by fear and force, while labour under the Capitalist system is driven by love and reward.