Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Wednesday, September 14, facilitated two flights of approximately 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. This is part of DeSantis’ push to draw attention to the border policies of President Biden.
The commentariat from several sides of the political spectrum have questioned the governor’s motives. Many described it as inhumane and cruel – a form of human trafficking, even.
The moral opprobrium visited upon the governor is fatuous. There is a moral upshot to his actions that few, in their sentimental reaction to the plight of displaced peoples, will bear witness to.
And it is this: the plight in Venezuela is not accidental. It was deliberate, planned and orchestrated by the people of Venezuela. As several economists and political theorists including James Piereson have pointed out, for the majority of the twentieth century Venezuela was one of the most prosperous South American countries. It had a very diversified economy replete with plenty oil reserves that permitted the country to acquire export surpluses. As a result, people there enjoyed a higher standard of living. However, the people of Venezuela elected an authoritarian socialist thug, Hugo Chavez, who ran on a socialist platform. When he won the presidency in 1998, he—like all socialist leaders who rush to nationalize industry—nationalized the oil industry. He levied huge taxes on corporations, and he redistributed land and income across the population. Venezuelans allowed him to revise their Constitution which granted him a longer term as president, and which also gave him more power and gifted what they believed were more positive and social rights to the people.
With rising oil prices during the early years of his regime he increased social spending, indiscriminately distributed not loans, but free money to various organizations and groups. During this period foreigners and foreign corporations began divesting and withdrawing capital from the country. Oil prices decreased—much to the horror of all socialists who, as many economists have pointed out, have little belief in or understanding of the price system. The concept of price fluctuations seems to have bypassed many of them as they were studying high socialist economic theory at the London School of Economics.
Well, we all know the plight of Venezuela. The Great Recession of 2008 saw the collapse of oil prices and the concomitant collapse of the currency, the massive withdrawal of capital, fiscal chaos, and suffering. Chavez’s successor, Nicolas Maduro, passed a law that allowed him to rule by decree and even created the “Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness.” This was a program that allowed the government to indulge in massive and reckless indiscriminate spending via a plethora of social programs.
Whether it is socialist Cuba, Soviet Russia, Cambodia, or North Korea, as socialism makes its pitiful and failed peregrinations around the world, few who are its advocates will bend to reality and see it is a doomed and catastrophic system that also too often relies on the criminalization of dissent.
It is obvious that Venezuelan voters chose their fate and destiny when they elected Chavez. They must reap the consequences they have sown.
The United States can no longer remain indefinitely the dumping ground and a stable source of benefaction for every failed socio-economic and political experiment of countries and their citizens that know better. They willingly ignore the historical record of failed socialist states. They refuse to admit that in the end reality is the final arbiter, and that there is an objective reality that is independent of their wishes, pleas, and desires.
DeSantis, whether he knows it or not, is taking a moral step to teach a vital lesson to all left-wing countries and their foolish citizens who are guilty of the worst form of political calumny. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. You cannot vote to nationalize and exorbitantly tax the brains and minds of your best citizens—which is what it means to nationalize any private industry—and then scream and flee in terror when your victims withdraw the products of their brain – their capital – and leave you to squander in your own ineptitude.
I saw this as a child growing up in Jamaica under the socialist regime of Michael Manley, who nationalized industry and taxed the decency out of remaining entrepreneurs who then fled to Canada and the United States. Jamaica was left with a massive brain drain and an unskilled labor force unable to operate and/or invest in the hollowed-out and gutted industries that went unmanned for years. Eventually the people voted Manley and his regime out of power for a political leader who advocated for and implemented a more market-oriented political economy.
Socialists—and anyone who votes for a socialist is a socialist—are parasites. They have already answered the question: “What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has earned?” with a rhetorical gesture—an inverted moral greed of the worst type: a sense of unearned entitlement to the earnings (the thinking) of others.
Any citizen from another country who thinks and endorses a political system that functions on the premise that a human mind can be nationalized and its products redistributed for public consumption has no moral business in the United States where each person is responsible for his or her own fate and destiny. Any refugee or asylum seeker fleeing from a system in which he or she played some role in upholding the belief that the products of one’s efforts belong to the community; that the state and society have a moral and financial responsibility to care for other people’s children; and that the most successful and productive people should be the most penalized precisely for their productive virtues—deserves to be sent back to where they came from and to learn how and why their moral imperative is to start a capitalist revolution in their own country.
The United States has now existed for two-hundred and forty-six years. Citizens of the world have had every opportunity to adduce America as evidence of what works socio-economically, and what will never be more than just high-theory and never a plausible economic system. They should adduce as irrefutable evidence that the United States is the most sought-after country in the world by people seeking to escape the ravages of Third World socialism and the kleptocracy, political repression, corruption and poverty that usually accompany it. Yet some citizens of the world, such as those of Venezuela and Colombia who recently voluntarily elected a left-wing socialist government, wish to place their desires, wishes and willful fantasies above stark economic realities.
For the sanctuary cities here in the United States that claimed that such asylum seekers would find a haven within their realms—what is the problem? Conjoin your actions with your stated values.
At some point it might be cheaper and more moral for the United States to simply take over and colonize those failed socialist states that are economic sinkholes to alter the endless flow of refugees, and to use the resources intelligently and judiciously in such countries to bring them up to a threshold of socio-economic and political decency. That, however, is the subject for another discussion.
For now, let me be clear that I am not making an argument against immigration at all—only that we re-think the governor’s actions in an unsentimental manner. Someone in America must teach citizens of the world that they are accountable for their recalcitrant and reckless governments. If enough refugees get angry, and resentment foments to a boiling point, then we might see more revolutions in countries where deliberately-designed forms of socialism, despotism and usurpation of individual rights are reigning.
The new moral questions that must function as framing devices as we continue the arduous process of developing and re-developing an immigrant policy and, ones that must be posed to refugees and asylum seekers are: why have people in your country (yourself included) allowed economic and political buffoonery, kleptocracy and corruption to supersede a proper rule of law? And: how much longer do you think the United States should be an enabler of bad political behavior and foolish economic policies?
Professor Hill, unfortunately everything you’ve said about Venezuela, Colombia, and Jamaica is now happening here in America. So that your justified shaming of third-world, banana republics, that have never known Capitalism but only Mercantilism and Fascism, is even more justified against America and Americans who should know better and are now betraying their unprecedented, exceptional, unique, and historical inheritance.
America has seen its most deadly enemy and that enemy is America, founded on an unsustainable moral contradiction, the contradiction between the moral code of altruism and self-sacrifice and Ayn Rand’s historical, paradigm shift, moral code of rational selfishness and rational self-preservation.
There is no way to sugarcoat it, there’s no way to have a soft landing. It’s either Moses and Jesus Christ or Howard Roark and John Galt. Pick one or the other, you can’t hold both as the moral ideal.
“This country—the product of reason—could not survive on the morality of sacrifice. It was not built by men who sought self-immolation or by men who sought handouts. It could not stand on the mystic [Judeo-Christian] split that divorced man’s soul from his body. It could not live by the mystic [Judeo-Christian] doctrine that damned this earth as evil and those who succeeded on earth as depraved. From its start, this country was a threat to the ancient rule of [Judeo-Christian] mystics. In the brilliant rocket-explosion of its youth, this country displayed to an incredulous world what greatness was possible to man, what happiness was possible on earth. It was one or the other: America or [Judeo-Christian] mystics. The mystics knew it; you didn’t. You let them infect you with the worship of need—and this country became a giant in body with a mooching midget in place of its soul, while its living soul was driven underground to labor and feed you in silence, unnamed, unhonored, negated, its soul and hero: the industrialist.” – John Galt, “Atlas Shrugged”
“America’s inner contradiction was the altruist-collectivist ethics. Altruism is incompatible with freedom, with capitalism and with individual rights. One cannot combine the pursuit of happiness with the moral status of a sacrificial animal.” – Ayn Rand
“Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.” – Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End Of Freedom In America”
We can always count on you, and your narrow world view, to bag on America. And it’s always the same cut and paste blather from characters in mediocre books, or the mediocre hack authors who wrote those horrible books that you mindlessly push on everyone. As is we asked to be deluged every damn day.
Get over it. Other than the silly Leftist totalitarians in power for now, America is a generous, altruistic and mostly Christian nation. It always has been. It always will be.
Sucks to be you.
Christianity IS Leftism. Christianity is collectivism, Judaism prepared the way for Christianity and both Judaism and Christianity prepared the way for Islam and Marxism.
How much tax-payer loot is your altruistic, leftist, collectivist, Lutheran Church receiving from our altruistic, leftist, government to aid and abet the Illegal Alien Invasion in the name of altruism and self-sacrifice?
How much tax-payer loot is the altruistic Catholic Church, the altruistic Methodist Church, and altruistic Jewish organizations receiving from our altruistic, self-sacrificing government receiving to aid and abet the Illegal Alien Invasion in the name of altruism and self-sacrifice?
You have met the enemy and the enemy is your own religion. Your altruistic, self-sacrificing, Lutheran Church which you go to every Sunday and SUPPORT.
“There was also Martin Luther, regarded by the Nazis as a major hero, who was the greatest single power in the development of German religion and through this means, an influence on the philosophies of Kant and Hegel. Luther is anti-reason (“Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason”), intensely pro-German, and crudely anti-Semitic (“Fie on you wherever you be, you damned Jews, who dare to clasp this earnest, glorious, consoling word of God to your magotry, mortal, miserly belly, and are not ashamed to display your greed so openly”). He formally enlists God on the side of the state. Unconditional obedience to the government’s edicts, he holds, is a Christian virtue. “In like manner we must endure the authority of the prince. If he misuse or abuse his authority, we are not to entertain a grudge, seek revenge or punishment. Obedience is to be rendered for God’s sake, for the ruler is God’s representative. However they may tax or exact we must obey and endure patiently….
“There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason”, Luther had said, “Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.”…
As for the Lutherans, most had followed the lead of such figures as Pastor Adolf Stoecker; they had rejected capitalism as an evil, Jewish idea, incompatible with the spirit of Christianity….
Religious writers often claim that the cause of Nazism is the secularism or scientific spirit of the modern world. This evades the fact that the Germans of the time, especially in Prussia, were one of the most religious peoples in Western Europe; that the Weimar Republic was a hotbed of mystic cults, of which Nazism was one; and that Germany’s largest and most devout religious group, the Lutherans, counted themselves among Hitler’s staunchest followers” – Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom In America”
“Holy Scripture and the Welfare State” – Richard M. Salsman
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardsalsman/2011/04/28/holy-scripture-and-the-welfare-state/?sh=722c49f424f2
Why is it that so many atheists think they’re experts on Christianity? Since when are trolls experts on the theological and temporal aspects of Christianity, or anything else for that matter?
I ain’t not no Christian. I’m a atheist and I don’t pertend to know nothing ’bout Christianity, ‘sept it goes by faith and faith only. Judyism goes by works, or by works and faith. But, verily, verily, I say unto thee, the way of human life is by reason and by reason only. For in the consciousness of man, which lacks instincts, the data of the senses impinge directly upon the mind, meaning, upon the volitional faculty, leaving man with the necessity of choosing. Faith, and even works without reason, by themselves, lead only to dissipation. But, reason and reason by itself, and only reason, is the way of human life. So be it.
He isn’t even an expert on Christianity. His expertise is made up in own mind.
BTW I hate the new format. How about you? No edit link and still no block button.
Christianity is NEITHER “leftist” nor ” collectivist”. I have no clue as to where you get that bit it is NOT anywhere rmentioned nor describe in the bible, which is our foundational textbok.
Guess again
THX, Oh ye of the one track mind who can’t get past his own tired rhetoric. Except you copy and pasted it on a day that ends in ‘y’. Do you think repeating this garbage over and over again is going to make me change my mind about my church?
If you ever actually man up and put your money where your mouth is, here is how to get in touch with Lutheran Social Services:
Take it up with them, if you have the guts. But I know you won’t. You are a coward
Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota
2485 Como Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
800.582.5260
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
8765 W Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631
Toll-Free: 800-638-3522
Here’s a hint: If I ever ran into someone like you on the street, blabbering about Objectivism and your hatred of Christianity, I would laugh my head off and then keep walking.
THX, Oh ye of the one track mind who can’t get past his own tired rhetoric. Except you copy and pasted it on a day that ends in ‘y’. Do you think repeating this garbage over and over again is going to make me change my mind about my church?
What’s it like to be trapped inside your own version of Hell where no one cares what you have to say. You are getting fewer responses than ever with this terrible new format.
If you ever actually man up and put your money where your mouth is,……. get in touch with Lutheran Social Services:
Take it up with them, if you have the guts. But I know you won’t.
You know, I actually don’t disagree with much of what you usually write, but don’t your fingers get tired?
“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.” ― Ayn Rand
No wonder Alzheimer Joe’s handlers have screwed America up as much as they have.
You aren’t fighting for anything except your own ego.
How did those poor and deprived Venezuelans get their cell phones and tickets to Florida? I wonder how many of them rode the No Border Biden Express?
This is Obama’s and Soros’ plan: Flood the U.S. and Europe with as many non-white, non-Christian illegal immigrants as possible to dilute the white, Christian vote. Soros believes Christians were responsible for the Ho lo ca ust and Obama just plain despises white people, using dumb, feckless and guilty white leftists to carry out his agenda. It’s just that simple.
Soros dislikes Jews. I don’t know if he blames Christians for the Holocaust, but Soros’s actions of assisting the Nazi’s, and his behavior and actions regarding Jews, indicate he doesn’t like them.
Soros might have ancestors that were Jews, but he’s Hungarian, and an atheist. He plays the Jewish card to fend off his critics.
Hungarians can’t be Jewish?
But DID the people of Venezuela “choose” Chavez? Or was he chosen for them as Biden was chosen for us?
does not matter, They had other options before Chavez nd Maduro came into powe,r or even after.
Exactly. Jimmy Carter was an observer in the ’98 election, and even though there was widespread and blatant fraud, he certified it anyway, because he said there might be widespread “unrest,” if he didn’t. I think it had more to do with his not certifying the Nicaraguan election after widespread and blatant election fraud, and the communists losing in the second election. Either way, every election since in Venezuela has been rigged.
I think I read awhile back that the elections in Venezuela were stolen.
It’s worth mentioning that Venezuela has been an ally of islamic terrorists. As are all leftists.
What do they have in common that bonds them together? Those ideologies are both extreme dictatorships rules and controlled by the criminal types who just want to rip off anybody who has earned something. And kil and destroy whoever stands up to them. Total savages.
The word, savage, seems fitting, but it refers to pre-civilization or even pre-language, when nobody knew better and never had known better. Barbarian might be a better word, or some word that designates people who know, and then choose crime, on as wide a scale as they can reach, even worldwide.
If all free and even semi-free countries are ended, their common bond of being criminals will cease to have meaning and motivation to them, but their differences will come to the forefront. Then, they’ll war with each other over those, to oblivion.
If, on the other hand, all countries become free countries, everybody’s common bond (except for the very few crooks, easily kept in check) of rights and freedom will continue, in perpetuity, as the overarching pinnacle of human relations, which is the source of meaning and motivation, and differences will be hashed out in free markets for everything, and in votes in elections and legislation as the way to decide how best to maintain law and government to facilitate this common bond of rights and freedom in response to the changes wrought by free markets.
By using the definition of “socialism” you’d have to say that a growing minority in the USA have been socialists for a LONG time – at least since LBJ’s buying of the black votes! It’s amazing that these “immigrants” (invaders) can hike THOUSANDS of miles to get to OUR Nation and then need to be bussed or FLOWN around! They should be given maps and water and surplus C Rations and sent on their way to the DEMOcrat Sanctuaries! They should be warned that any deviation from their paths will result in IMMEDIATE deportation BACK to their HOMES in whatever craphole they escaped! This is the DEMOcrats’ wet dream so let them have it!
“The roots of America’s welfare state lie in the Populist-Progressive Era of the late 19th century and early 20th century, especially with the Protestant social gospel movement, which held that Christian ethics and “social justice” should drive public policy, including wealth redistribution, trust-busting, graduated tax rates to punish the rich, cradle-to-grave handouts, and missionary-style imperialistic ventures abroad to spread the faith and make the world “safe for democracy.” The concept of social justice, which jettisoned the idea that we actually earn and deserve what we get in life, was first adopted by the Jesuit Luigi Taparelli in the 1840s, as drawn from the work of St. Thomas Aquinas.” – Richard M. Salsman, “Holy Scripture and the Welfare State.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardsalsman/2011/04/28/holy-scripture-and-the-welfare-state/?sh=722c49f424f2
Just because Salsman said it, doesn’t make it true. It’s simply his bloated opinion.
Great idea!, giving ’em maps, water and C-rations, and sending them on, if we have illegal immigration in the first place. The best idea is to keep ’em all out and just let people in legally and orderly. Legal immigrants will know not to deviate from their paths, which means, not to commit crimes, but to be law abiding. Then, they might become citizens.
BAND AID ALERT!
Sending migrants to Democrat cities (regardless how good it feels to do so) is a band aid on self-inflicted would that only sends such migrants deeper into America and thereby that much more difficult to get rid of.
Instead, they need to be sent back to their countries of origin, if possible, at their own expense or their nations.
Better yet, we need to eliminate all of America’s current unlawful (that is, biblically unlawful, both illegal and legal) border policies, replacing them the Bible’s border laws, beginning with the First Commandment and its statutes and civil judgment.
Today’s open-border agenda isn’t anywhere near America’s biggest border threat:
“For I, saith Yahweh, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.” (Zechariah 2:5)
Without Yahweh, God of the Bible, as America’s principle wall of protection, the border will never be completely secure.
Compounding America’s border problems is that America has become so ungodly that, not only is God not her wall of protection, but He’s become her greatest enemy. America officially rejected Yahweh as her Sovereign and thus His immutable moral law as supreme in 1789 when she replaced Him with We the People as her Sovereign and His moral law (including the First Commandment as America’s principle border and immigration law) for the biblically seditious Constitution as supreme, per Article 6.
It was then that America began her suicidal trek to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently find herself teetering on, being pushed over the edge by alleged Christians and patriots who are bent on promoting the genesis of her national woes as the solution to the problems created thereby.
“[B]ecause they have … trespassed against my law … they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind….” (Hosea 8:1, 7)
Today’s America is reaping the inevitable ever-intensifying whirlwind (including her border and immigration woes) resulting from the wind sown by the constitutional framers and fanned by today’s hoodwinked Christians and patriots who have been bamboozled into believing today’s whirlwind can be dissipated by appealing to the wind responsible for spawning the whirlwind.
For more, see Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of free online book “Bible Law vs, the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at Bible versus Constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 3.
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AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE VOYING FOR SOCIALISTS LIKE AOC AND BIDEN. WE CANT BLAME VENEZUELANS WHEN WE ARE JUST AS BAD. WE ARE BECOMING VENEZUELA
ANY ONE of those venezolanos who found themselves wandering about on Martha’s Vineyard had the option of applying for political asylum in the first country in which they landed after fleeing Venezuela. No excuse. And once located inside the US not having navigated the necessary paperwork to stay here legally MUST be returned immediately. And to make tht return trip even MORE painful, and educate their fellows considering following in their footsteps, fly them back to Caracas. Let them face the ugly music they’ll have played for them after illegally fleeing their own country and now being returned.
The guy asleep at the helm in the White House needs to either wake up and DEAL with this issue, or quit. He’s got five hundred times the legal gounds for impeachment than Trump ever did. or Nixon.
Liberty and JUSTICE for all? t’would be nice, eh?
Religion is an early form of philosophy, it is man’s first steps in trying to understand the nature of the universe, the nature of existence, his own nature, and his relation to existence. The soul of a civilization is its philosophy, to the extent that its philosophy is rational the soul of that civilization will be a rational soul, to the extent its philosophy is irrational, that civilization will be irrational and if irrational enough will wipe itself out of existence.
Mythology is closely tied to art and aesthetics. Art developed out of mythology. Art is a necessity of mankind. But what kind of mythology and what kind of art does a civilization have? There are mythologies that are life affirming and mythologies that glorify death and destruction. There is heroic, life affirming art, and then there is the nihilism of modern art, and the grotesque, man-hating, life-hating art of the Christian Dark Ages. Have a look at this essay — METAPHYSICS IN MARBLE
by Mary Ann Sures, https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/culture-and-society/culture-and-society-more/metaphysics-in-marble/
The modern intellectuals are essentially under the influence of Immanuel Kant even if they don’t realize who their philosophical father is. What did Kant’s philosophy attempt to do, what did his philosophy seem to do? Kant tried to, seemed to, limit and discredit reason in order to rescue faith, super-naturalism, mysticism, religion, and the moral code of self-sacrifice and altruism from the devastating onslaught of reason. By seeming to have limited and discredited reason Kant opened the door to any and all forms of unreason. Kant made subjectivism, i.e., irrationality, respectable and acceptable.
Since reason is limited, impotent, to know true reality, a man can be a woman, if he feels he is a woman. Who are you or I, or that man, to argue he is or is not really a woman? Reason, according to a Kantian intellectual is limited only to the surface, superficial, appearance of things. What a man or a thing really is, the thing in itself, is beyond reason. That transcendent dimension can only be known through faith, instinct, emotion, feeling, supernatural revelation, or some other means that is not reason.
Today’s intellectuals are destroyers of rational values because they operate under the influence of Kant. The demolition job is the seeming demolition of reason that Kant purported to have accomplished. He did no such thing but idiot intellectuals operating under his influence proceed as if he did.
“I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge [reason], in order to make room for faith.” – Immanuel Kant
“One of Kant’s major goals was to save religion (including the essence of religious morality) from the onslaughts of science. His system represents a massive effort to raise the principles of Platonism, in a somewhat altered form, once again to a position of commanding authority over Western culture….
Plato was more than a Platonist; despite his mysticism, he was also a pagan Greek. As such he exhibited a certain authentic respect for reason, a respect which was implicit in Greek philosophy no matter how explicitly irrational it became. The Kantian mysticism, however, suffers from no such pagan restraints. It flows forth triumphantly, sweeping the prostrate human mind before it. Since man can never escape the distorting agents inherent in the structure of his consciousness, says Kant, “things in themselves” are in principle unknowable. Reason is impotent to discover anything about reality; if it tries, it can only bog down in impenetrable contradictions. Logic is merely a subjective human device, devoid of reference to or basis in reality. Science, while useful as a means of ordering the data of the world of appearances, is limited to describing a surface world of man’s own creation and says nothing about things as they really are.
Must men then resign themselves to a total skepticism? No, says Kant, there is one means of piercing the barrier between man and existence. Since reason, logic, and science are denied access to reality, the door is now open for men to approach reality by a different, nonrational method. The door is now open to faith. Taking their cue from their needs, men can properly believe (for instance, in God and in an afterlife), even though they cannot prove the truth of their belief. . . . “I have,” writes Kant, “therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.”…
There are two different kinds of subjectivism, distinguished by their answers to the question: whose consciousness creates reality? Kant rejected the older of these two, which was the view that each man’s feelings create a private universe for him. Instead, Kant ushered in the era of social subjectivism—the view that it is not the consciousness of individuals, but of groups, that creates reality. In Kant’s system, mankind as a whole is the decisive group; what creates the phenomenal world is not the idiosyncrasies of particular individuals, but the mental structure common to all men.
Later philosophers accepted Kant’s fundamental approach, but carried it a step further. If, many claimed, the mind’s structure is a brute given, which cannot be explained—as Kant had said—then there is no reason why all men should have the same mental structure. There is no reason why mankind should not be splintered into competing groups, each defined by its own distinctive type of consciousness, each vying with the others to capture and control reality.
The first world movement thus to pluralize the Kantian position was Marxism, which propounded a social subjectivism in terms of competing economic classes. On this issue, as on many others, the Nazis follow the Marxists, but substitute race for class.” – Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom In America”
I get it now. You are really a cut out for Rand, Peekaboo, Salsman and Nixey. You are simply a robot midlessly spouting everyone else’s B.S.
Yeah, a trolling robot. Impossible to have a discussion with him.