Until recently liberty prevailed in America, even though it was defeated in most of the world by egalitarianism, which is authoritarian-enforced equality, particularly as manifested in the mid-Twentieth Century Communist states. During Marx’s time, though he thought it was inevitable, egalitarianism was not sweeping the political landscape. The problem, as Marx saw it, was that people were busy with life and willing to live and let live, or to put it in modern terminology, they were insufficiently Woke. His strategy for taking over the world was to call for class consciousness: victims, oppressors, and those who might save themselves by becoming allies of the victims; and it worked. In Russia, these groups were the poor peasants, the so-called proletariat; the middle peasants, who became allies of the proletariat; and the more successful peasants, or kulaks, who were identified as the enemies.
Because of the classless nature of liberty, previous attempts at dividing Americans with this tactic hadn’t reached the tipping point, the 51% threshold needed in a democratic nation to overturn the status quo, so agitators switched from class to race, and took the tactic one step further, exacerbating the pressure by utilizing one of Saul Alinsky’s most notorious rules for radicals: “rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities to the point of overt expression; stir up dissatisfaction and discontent; and provide a channel into which people can angrily pour their frustrations to the point of conflict;” combined with a “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” attitude. Adding to that, Elites likewise see social contentment as an impediment to their power, so the agitators are supported by both ends of the political spectrum, leaving the Middle Class, typically consisting of conservative white men, as the enemy, and liberty the loser.
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