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“The worse, the better”. Or in the original Russian, “Tzem huze, tzem lutze”. This simple phrase from the ashes of the Soviet takeover was polished into more sophisticated plans for targeted economic destruction and social change such as the infamous Cloward–Piven strategy.
What it really means is that the Left does not solve problems. Where they already exist, it worsens them, and where they do not exist, it creates them in order to make life worse.
Why is life getting worse? Because leftists believe that “the worse, the better.”
That’s also the premise of ‘Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America’, the latest book by James Simpson, who has spent decades writing about the Communist threat. As Simpson bluntly puts it in his introduction to his book, “we are experiencing the end stages of a Communist revolution that has been conducted against America for over one hundred years.”
(Also see Mark Tapson’s podcast interview with Simpson on episode 81 of The Right Take.)
‘Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America’ rejects the notion that our skyrocketing budgets, racial tensions, economic misery and social chaos are the results of unintended consequences, of incompetence, a failure to think things through or poor theorizing by the leftists who run our society, rather the worsening of our lives in every possible way is the whole point of the project.
The differences come from whether we think of the Left as a progressive movement or a revolutionary one. Leftists want us to think of them as progressives, when they are actually revolutionaries. And that is the argument that Simpson develops in ‘Manufactured Crisis’.
Simpson, an economist, former White House budget analyst, businessman, and investigative journalist, makes the straightforward case, bolstered by reams of data and analysis, that the Left, through its facades, cutouts and useful idiots, pursues unworkable programs like the war on poverty or net zero not because it genuinely seeks to achieve their goals, but because these programs waste huge amounts of money, redistribute wealth, divide up the country, foster grievances and their very unworkability ensures that we will be stuck with them forever.
The genius of the unsolvable problem is its very unsolvability.
“Since its inception, the War on Poverty has cost over $37 trillion after correcting for inflation,” Simpson writes in his section on welfare. “But have we made a dent in poverty? No, things just keep getting worse. That is deliberate. Keeping the poor on welfare, dependent and helpless, serves the Democrats’ purposes.”
Manufactured Crisis similarly exposes the unworkability of net zero. “To transition entirely away from fossil fuels, the US would need to build forty-seven solar farms, fifty-four wind farms, one nuclear power plant, three hydroelectric dams, and twenty geothermal, tidal, or biowaste
plants per month until 2050.”. And the nuclear plants would never even be allowed to operate.
Income inequality and climate change are both examples of manufactured crises whose solutions, social welfare and net zero, redistribute wealth under the guise of solving the crises while bringing on a much larger crisis that would crash our economy and destroy our country.
‘Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America’ delves into the various crises that we are experiencing to show that the solution is the real crisis being perpetrated by radicals who hope to use them to destroy everything we have in order to be able to implement their revolution.
Simpson quotes Karl Marx as saying that, “the Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.” The difference between the old Communists and their new disguise as progressives is that the latter no longer openly declare that this is what they are doing.
At least not unless you look at their TikTok videos instead of their campaign ads.
But they are still bent on the “forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions” as even the briefest exposure to a DEI training seminar or modern college course catalog all too easily shows. The pretense lies in pretending that the overthrow of all existing social conditions inherent to the push for equity, net zero, income equality and other similar rebranding of the goals of Communism can be accomplished through a ‘non-forcible’ overthrow of society.
“We have repeatedly been outmaneuvered by our Communist enemies abroad, and tricked, misled, and subverted,” Simpson writes. The Democrat Party, liberalism and nearly every flavor of leftist politics now stand for the same regimen of open borders, redistribution, equity, riots and national destruction no matter how they may try to appear reasonable and even patriotic.
“In 1985, as a newly minted economist fresh out of grad school, I became fascinated with Communism. Why, I wondered, would so many people in so many nations be so totally entranced with the Communist idea,” James Simpson writes in the preface to ‘Manufactured Crisis:’ The Communist idea has been dressed up, dispersed and disguised so that it is everywhere and nowhere. To many, Communism seems like a relic from another era rather than something that we have to deal with today. And yet the return of Communism may be all around us because the worse things get for us, the better they get for those who seek to destroy us.
‘Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America’ makes the case that the crises facing America are not the result of human error, but human malice, and not random but revolutionary.
The only War that Liberals are in full support of
Very interesting to learn more of James Simpson’s background from
this article. The Glazov Gang did an interview with Mr. Simpson a few
days ago which pointed to the illegal immigration tsunami flooding
America as also being manufactured – as a way to destroy our
country.
It seems many communist organizations supported by the United
Nations provide all kinds of resources to illegal itinerants so they can
be able to travel to the United States. They just wouldn’t be able to
do it on their own. One thing that struck me in that interview is that
Mr. Simpson said that it’s all about attaining power with the Communists.
No matter what crisis they manufacture for even a non-violent
revolutionary overthrow – that quest for power is the bottom line.
Excellent analysis, thanks Daniel !!!
Communists always pretend that their plans and goals are to do good or to improve the situation; in this way, when the actual result happens (more destruction of the current system), they have a cover story.
A few examples:
* Abortion on demand – pretend to care about women’s rights, when actually you want to destroy the soul of the nation.
* Get rid of Batista, and usher in the “savior” Castro – pretending to care about the freedoms and rights of the people of Cuba, when actually you want to set up a communist dictatorship 90 miles from the United States.
* Transgender rights! – pretend to care about “transgender” people, when actually you want to destroy the souls of girls and boys.
More examples are:
* Climate change: pretending to care about the environment, but actually you want to eliminate the energy supply of the West and bankrupt the West. (By the way, I’m still waiting for The Coming Ice Age that literally ALL SCIENTISTS EVERYWHERE warned us about in the 1970s and 1980s.
This may be instructve:
While in MIT grad school in late 1970, I shared an apartment in a row house in Allston, part of the City of Boston.. After we residents on the block suffered through a basement fire and a plague of cockroachs, one of us called in the Allston-Brighton Community Tenants’ Union, a basicallysocialist group, to organize us against the landlord. This led to a conflict. We mostly wanted to get the City to inspect our buildings and get the landlord to do his job., But the ABCTU agenda was to use the crisis to turn tenants against America. So, when we asked how to file the right paperwork to get the City to act, our not-so-helpful community organizer from the ABCTU demurred, saying that success through this avenue would make us too dependent on the System. In the end, we filed with the City anyway and got our wish for action. Meanwhile, I moved to the next town, Brookline. Shopping on Comm Ave opposite BU, I ran into our old organizer, who said he had joined the Spartacist League, a hardcore communist group. The clear moral of the story was that anything leftist activists do is strictly to promote the Revolution, no matter what the “official” cause may be.
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This may be instructive:
While in MIT grad school in late 1970, I shared an apartment in a row house in Allston, part of the City of Boston.. After we residents on the block suffered through a basement fire and a plague of cockroaches, one of us called in the Allston-Brighton Community Tenants’ Union, a basically socialist group, to organize us against the landlord. This led to a conflict. We mostly wanted to get the City to inspect our buildings and get the landlord to do his job, but the ABCTU agenda was to use the crisis to turn tenants against America. So, when we asked how to file the right paperwork to get the City to act, our not-so-helpful community organizer from the ABCTU demurred, saying that success through this avenue would make us too dependent on the System. In the end, we filed with the City anyway and got our wish for action. Meanwhile, I moved to the next town, Brookline. Shopping on Comm Ave opposite BU, I ran into our old organizer, who said he had joined the Spartacist League, a hardcore communist group. The clear moral of the story was that anything leftist activists do is strictly to promote the Revolution, no matter what the “official” cause may be.
Interesting story!
I guess for today, it boils down to hate for America ( communists leftists islamists) versus or love for humanity and America, Hate versus love.
I was surprised when immediately after surviving 9/11/01 in NYC I saw evening news casters display their anti American feelings and show sympathy for the terrorists (Muslims). At the time, I was dumbfounded. My art school friends never checked to see if i had survived (I was very close by). When I spoke to them again they showed no sympathy for those killed and said proudly “America got what it deserved”
I was naive, I guess, to not understand who they were. Not friends.
Sounds like an interesting book, perhaps as important as Diana West’s still-unappreciated “American Betrayal”. One can only hope that Mr. Simson does not end up being crucified on the same hill as Diana West was. The establishment destroyed her reputation and any hope for a future for her, brilliant as she is.
It is a rotten shame that all pundits and commentators on Communism keep repeating the same old, same old as though’Communism’ were a self-perpetuating force that cannot be withstood or deterred by the average man. If they were to speak of the source of Communism, every individual would have a fair chance to stand against it and its tenets, that source of course being the devil himself, satan. Next to Santa Claus and trans everything, Communism is one of satan’s greatest lies and tools to confuse, confound and create chaos and anarchy, enabling him to drag millions more down his road to perdition.
If the people knew, they could then invoke the most powerful source in the Universe, the One who created the Universe and everything in it, Jesus the Christ, and pray for His interevention and speedy defeat of this demonic force.
In lieu of that happening, Jesus has promised Himself to return and right the wrongs of mankind as He brings His judgments on this evil and Christ rejecting world. Yes, it’s all about Jesus and only Jesus. 1.5 billion Hindus do not accept Christ as God. 1.4 billion Chinese d0 not believe that Jesus is God. 1.3 billion Muslims do not agree that Jesus is God. 1.2 billion Catholics don’t believe that Jesus is enough, they need traditions, sacraments and majic plus Jesus. another billion or so of various religions do not believe in Jesus Christ as God and Lord. Even another billion Protestants do not believe that Jesus is the ONLY way.
Hmmmm. That’s almost everyone on the planet. That’s why Scripture says in …”Matthew 7:13-20 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it”.
MANY and FEW. (I went fishing the other day and caught a FEW fish). Hmmmmmm. Are you on the narrow path ?? Look around you at the world and recognize that Jesus is returning, as He promised 2,000 years ago, when the world was on the brink of total self annhilation and chaos. Soon and very soon.
Rev. Roy………..<