There is a real possibility, Denish D’Souza, is Trump’s Rasputin. He is Satan’s Twister – of the truth! He is a kiss-ass rat-fink for the Neo-Confederate Christian-right who has long sought to be free of the sin and guilt of slavery by blaming the North for forcing them to be Traitors of the United States of America. You got to watch the Tricky Switcher who takes the Moral and Patriotic High ground with a slight of tongue. Most of the Founding Fathers owned slaves, because the Constitution did not abolish slavery. Why doesn’t Dinesh attack the Founding Fathers – and the Constitution – have his Big Boss Man come in, somehow, and rewrite it? Trumper&Twister……….They’re not Uniters!
“Trump said in response to a question about bringing the country together, “I think some of the things that are said are terrible. And you know, it’s our people are so incredible — do you know, there’s probably never been a base in the history of politics in this country like my base. I hope the other side realizes that they better just take it easy. They better just take it easy because some of the language used, some of the words used, even some of the radical ideas I really think they are very bad for the country. I think they are actually very dangerous for the country.”
Three of my grandfathers were German Forty-Eighters. John Fremont and the Radical Republicans ran my kindred as their first presidential candidate. John was the first to abolish slavery in the State of Missouri, and incurred Lincoln’s wrath. Twister attaches his Boss Man, Mr. Trump, to Lincoln, because he was in office when slavery was abolished. German Socialists and Communists put Lincoln in office.
“Many German Forty-Eighters settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, helping solidify that city’s progressive political bent and cultural Deutschtum. The Acht-und-vierzigers and their descendants contributed to the development of that city’s long Socialist political tradition.[6] Others settled throughout the state.
In the United States, most Forty-Eighters opposed nativism and slavery, in keeping with the liberal ideals that had led them to flee Europe. In the Camp Jackson Affair in St. Louis, Missouri, a large force of German volunteers helped prevent Confederate forces from seizing the government arsenal just prior to the beginning of the American Civil War.[7] About two hundred thousand German-born soldiers enlisted in the Union Army, ultimately forming about 10% of the North’s entire armed forces. 13,000 Germans served in Union Volunteer Regiments from New York alone.
After the Civil War, Forty-Eighters supported improved labor laws and working conditions. They also advanced the country’s cultural and intellectual development in such fields as education, the arts, medicine, journalism, and business.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-Eighters
Tricky Twister then uses slavery as proof Democrats are like Nazis, who will not come along for another 75 years. Did Hitler look to the Democrats as a model for his tyranny? Yes he did! Twisted Nazi Thinkers studied our SOUTHERN laws made to oppress negros and native Americans. When you study the attempt to limit the spread of Slave States into our New States, you see Satan’s Twister looks more like Satan’s Swiss Cheese! My kin, Senator Thomas Hart Benton, was the Messiah of ‘Manifest Destiny’ and could not support his son-in-laws backing of the Liberal Germans who Hungarian Jews the right to vote. These are hippies – without drugs!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/what-america-taught-the-nazis/540630/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)
The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and other influential opponents of the Federalists in 1792. That party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s with the election of Andrew Jackson. Since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been more liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy, both parties changed position several times.[26]
“Especially significant were the writings of the German lawyer Heinrich Krieger, “the single most important figure in the Nazi assimilation of American race law,” who spent the 1933–34 academic year in Fayetteville as an exchange student at the University of Arkansas School of Law. Seeking to deploy historical and legal knowledge in the service of Aryan racial purity, Krieger studied a range of overseas race regimes, including contemporary South Africa, but discovered his foundation in American law. His deeply researched writings about the United States began with articles in 1934, some concerning American Indians and others pursuing an overarching assessment of U.S. race legislation—each a precursor to his landmark 1936 book, Das Rassenrecht in den Vereingten Staaten (“Race Law in the United States”).
Whitman’s “smoking gun” is the transcript of a June 5, 1934, conference of leading German lawyers gathered to exchange ideas about how best to operationalize a racist regime. The record reflects how the most extreme among them, who relied on Krieger’s synoptic scholarship, were especially drawn to American legal codes based on white supremacy. The main conceptual idea was Freisler’s. Race, he argued, is a political construction. In both America and Germany, the importance and meaning of race for the most part had been determined less by scientific realities or social conventions than by political decisions enshrined in law.”
How can modern day Democrats be involved in sustaining, or creating a “racist regime” while twenty million registered black voters – are oblivious to this? This is nuts! Is Tricky Twister trying to peel off more black votes for Trump? You don’t need many.
“The number of black voters also declined, falling by about 765,000 to 16.4 million in 2016, representing a sharp reversal from 2012. With Barack Obama on the ballot that year, the black voter turnout rate surpassed that of whites for the first time. Among whites, the 65.3% turnout rate in 2016 represented a slight increase from 64.1% in 2012. ”
Denish reminds me of a Sneaky Nazi Youth Fink who has been kissing-up to right-wing top brass. He even dated Ann Coulter – and praised FDR. Ronald Regan made him his loyal Water-boy. Did Twister clap and jump for joy when Governor Regan sent the National Guard to squash Free Speech and People’s Park?
What a Nazi prick Twister is. If J.Edgar Hoover were still alive, he would call him “My Gunga Din” . Hoover slimed the Free Speech Movement, went after Martin Luther King, John Lennon, and the Kennedys. He backed Republican causes and conducted illegal wire taps when he was the head of the hated FBI, who are tormenting Twister’s Lying Messiah! Twister was dismissed from King’s College, a Political Christian Propaganda Center, for having two lover-wives, or, something like that. He was – acting like a two-faced Liberal!
Satan’s Twister claims the Democrats are secret Nazis and oppressor of free speech and other Freedoms. This is why Trump has to tell so many lies to counter the fake news of the Nazi-like Democrats. To prove his point, he points to the early Democrats who were slave owners in THE RED STATES where Trump rallies his base. You have to look at the Southern Strategy to understand how the parties got – TWISTED. Denish associates Hillary Clinton with the KKK that bombed black churches. Hoover targeted blacks and King’s church fearing he would become the ‘Black Messiah’
Truth Twister has studied the Southern Strategy, and has given it a new life with his Satanic hatred for The Truth! My Rosamond ancestors fought the British alongside the Swamp Fox, owned slaves, and killed Indians, who killed us in kind. They took our woman, raped her, and she born a chief’s son. There wasn’t a Nazi in sight to help us – or the Native Americans! We slugged it out. We won!
Then, here come the Bullshitters! We were Real Rednecks – too! When FDR declared war on the Nazis we went back over there and killed us some more Germans. We would have killed them all if we could have taken our Coon Hounds with us. We are crazy sons-0f-biches! Not one of us was a good liar, or, a bad one! What is there to lie about. We were the real deal!
Jon Presco
The Moonshiner Murders
Above is a picture of Yates Standridge. He was one bad man. He killed Sam Rosamond’s father, and blew his wife’s arm off with a shotgun. Look at the size of his hands. You don’t want them lethal weapons clamped on your neck like an old greasy vice in a machine shop. He killed a man in jail. He escaped from jail. The Rosamond boys tried to bushwhack him, but shot the wrong man. Some fled to the oil fields of Oklahoma. Did they eventually…..get their man?
http://3sistershistory.blogspot.com/2015/12/divena-mae-dixon-and-yates-standridge.html
It was extremely dangerous to go after this man they called ‘The Wolf’, and you did not want him on your trail. If you saw him coming, you slunk away, hid in any shadow that would have you. He was no joke, no Hee-Haw Clown in some Jesus-Freak Carney Show. He was the real deal, the reason Vernon Rosamond preached to the good citizenry, while Velma played the organ. You better believe there is a Devil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
“Really admire Dinesh. He backs his actions with facts and figures. Kind of hard to disagree with facts. Added bonus is he’s a legal immigrant who’s brilliant.”
The Southern United States as defined by the Census Bureau
In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3] As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South that had traditionally supported the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.[4] It also helped push the Republican Party much more to the right.[4]
In academia, the “Southern strategy” refers primarily to “top down” narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners’ racial grievances in order to gain their support.[5] This top-down narrative of the southern strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed southern politics following the civil rights era
The German Freethinkers League (‘Deutscher Freidenkerbund’) was an organisation founded in 1881 by the materialist philosopher and physician Ludwig Büchner[1] to oppose the power of the state churches in Germany.[2] Its aim was to provide a public meeting-ground and forum for materialist and atheist thinkers in Germany.
By 1885 the group had 5,000 members.[1] The largest organization of its sort in Germany at the time, by 1933 the German Freethinkers League had a membership numbering some 500,000.[3] The League was closed down in the spring of 1933, when Hitler outlawed all atheistic and freethinking groups in Germany. Freethinkers Hall, the national headquarters of the League, was then converted to a bureau advising the public on church matters.[3]
In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley, formed a protest movement to repeal a campus rule banning students from engaging in political activities.
Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover suspected the free speech movement to be evidence of a Communist plot to disrupt U.S. campuses. He “had long been concerned about alleged subversion within the education field,” journalist Seth Rosenfeld tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross.
So Hoover ordered his agents to look into whether the movement was subversive. When they returned and said that it wasn’t, Hoover not only continued to investigate the group but also used “dirty tricks to stifle dissent on the campus,” according to Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld’s new book, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power, details how the FBI employed fake reporters to plant ideas and shape public opinion about the student movement; how they planted stories with real reporters; and how they even managed — with the help of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan — to get the UC Berkeley’s President Clark Kerr fired.
This is the story of feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand up to him. From the day John Kennedy was elected President until Bobby was assassinated.
In August 1967, the FBI created a COINTELPRO against “Black Nationalist–Hate Groups,” which targeted SCLC, King, and other civil rights leaders. King was identified as a target because the FBI believed that he could become a “messiah” who could unify black nationalists “should he abandon his supposed ‘obedience’ to ‘white liberal doctrines’ (nonviolence) and embrace black nationalism” (Senate Select Committee, 180). In the last few months of King’s life, the FBI intensified its efforts to discredit him and to “neutralize” SCLC (Senate Select Committee, 180).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093208/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy each considered dismissing Hoover as FBI Director, but ultimately concluded that the political cost of doing so would be too great.[68]
In 1964, Hoover’s FBI investigated Jack Valenti, a special assistant and confidant of President Lyndon Johnson‘s. Despite Valenti’s two-year marriage to Johnson’s personal secretary, the investigation focused on rumors that he was having a gay relationship with a commercial photographer friend.[69]
Hoover never joined a political party and claimed he was “not political”. In fact, he admitted privately, he was a staunch, lifelong supporter of the Republican party. He secretly aspired to be president and considered running against Franklin D Roosevelt, whom he thought suspiciously left-wing. Hoover publicly expressed support for Senator Joe McCarthy shortly before McCarthy claimed Truman’s State Department was harbouring 200 members of the Communist party. His agents slipped file material to the senator for use in his infamous inquisition, while publicly denying doing so.
In domestic policy, Johnson designed the “Great Society” legislation by expanding civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education, the arts, urban and rural development, public services, and his “War on Poverty“. Assisted in part by a growing economy, the War on Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line during his administration.[1] Civil-rights bills that he signed into law banned racial discrimination in public facilities, interstate commerce, the workplace, and housing; the Voting Rights Act prohibited certain requirements in southern states used to disenfranchise African Americans. With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the country’s immigration system was reformed, encouraging greater emigration from regions other than Europe. Johnson’s presidency marked the peak of modern liberalism after the New Deal era.
In foreign policy, Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted Johnson the power to use military force in Southeast Asia without having to ask for an official declaration of war. The number of American military personnel in Vietnam increased dramatically, from 16,000 advisors in non-combat roles in 1963 to 525,000 in 1967, many in combat roles. American casualties soared, and the peace process became bogged-down. Growing unease with the war stimulated a large, angry anti-war movement based chiefly on university campuses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
One of the Media files was a policy statement so brazen that, as some editorial writers stated at the time, it seemed more like what might be found in the files of the Soviet KGB or the East German Stasi rather than in the files of an intelligence or law enforcement agency in a democratic society. In it, FBI agents were urged to “enhance the paranoia……get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox.”
The files revealed that even people who expressed mild liberal opposition to the war or support for civil rights in letters to newspaper editors or in correspondence to their congressional representative acquired dossiers that were added to FBI files. Most of these targets came to the FBI’s attention because of ideas they expressed, or ideas informers surmised they held.
But the Media files revealed that African-Americans, Hoover’s largest targeted group, didn’t have to be perceived as having liberal, or even radical or subversive, ideas to merit being spied on. Nor was it necessary for them to engage in violent behavior to become a watched person. Being black was enough.
The Media files revealed directives that required FBI field offices to watch African-Americans wherever they went—in churches, in classrooms, on college campuses, in bars, in restaurants, in bookstores, in their places of employment, in stores, in any social setting, in their neighborhoods and even at the front doors of their homes. Probably few of them realized that the bill collector at their door might be an FBI informer.
The Hitler Youth were used to break up Church youth groups, and in anti-Church indoctrination, used to spy on religious classes and Bible studies,[18] and interfere with church attendance.[19][20] Education and training programs for the Hitler Youth were designed to undermine the values of the traditional elitist structures of German society along with their privileges; their training also aimed at an obliteration of social and intellectual distinctions between the classes, so as to be replaced and dominated by the political goals of Hitler’s totalitarian dictatorship.[21] Besides promoting a doctrine of classlessness, additional training was provided that linked state-identified enemies such as Jews with Germany’s previous defeat in the First World War, and societal decline.[22] As historian Richard Evans observes, “The songs they sang were Nazi songs. The books they read were Nazi books.”[23]
Little did I know that I would finish reading Dinesh D’Souza’s book, The Big Lie, in a Starbucks in Seville, Spain. It speaks to the power of the author’s spell to keep me reading instead of exploring the wonders of the Andalusian jewel city. But we are not dealing here with any book. This is D’Souza’s valiant attempt to remind us that we are dangerously misled by our political discourse and cultural assumptions and that if we don’t do anything to defend classical American values we may lose the country to a movement whose goal is to implement nothing less than a fascist agenda. Yes, you heard that right. Fascism. That movement is not the Tea Party or the alt-right; it is the Left, which is closely associated with the Democratic Party.
To accuse the Left and Democrats of fascism will strike many as silly, but D’Souza, a Reaganite Republican, provides a compelling case, one that needs to be addressed with informed discussion, not emotional outcries. The author reminds us that it was the Democrats who championed slavery, removed Indians from their lands, established slave camps, created the Klu Klux Klan and introduced laws for marriage and immigration restrictions. It’s hard to believe it now, but icons of the political Left, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, admired fascists and Nazis, while writers like Gertrude Stein could in all seriousness state that Hitler deserved a Nobel Peace Prize. The outbreak of World War II and the horrors of the Nazi regime may have driven this history underground and out of public consciousness, but fascist ideas reentered the country in the form of philosophical ruminations by refugees from Nazi Germany. Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse established a base in the United States not to defend American values but to condemn them as reactionary and stifling to true freedom. They abhorred American-style capitalism and mainstream family values and, in the case of Marcuse, promoted “polymorphous sexuality” to liberate the libido.
In a strange case of transference, the radical movement, of the 1960s, influenced by such thinkers, blamed the victim and set out to question and dismantle their traditions and champion a progressive agenda that includes state intervention in all facets of social and economic life. Forgetting that categories like “Left” and “Right” are French imports without much resonance in American history or culture, they labeled conservatives, i.e., Americans who want to uphold the principles of the American Revolution, as members of the Right, and, therefore, fascistic. They had—and still have—no idea that fascism was first and foremost a movement of socialists and avant-gardists who wanted to establish the state above citizens and solve all problems that way. Hitler couldn’t be clearer in 1927 when he said “We are socialists. We are the enemies of today’s capitalist system of exploitation.” Even his anti-Semitism stems from the Marxist association of Judaism with capitalism.
If today’s emancipated progressives believe that their white, church-going, Republican grandfathers are fascists or Nazis for upholding traditional values, they should think again. The fascists of Italy and Nazis of Germany couldn’t have been more different or progressive. Mussolini and Hitler loved art and music and both were atheists. Hitler despised Christianity and lived with a mistress. Himmler and Goebbels were also atheists; the former, who lived with a mistress, had a passion for organic farming, while the latter was interested in romanticism and aspired to be a writer and artist. So many Nazis extolled the value of natural living that one historian found in Nazism “the first major expressions of modern environmentalism.”
Fascists and Nazis, in other words, fit the bill for our concept of progressives. This explains why Mussolini and Hitler found in FDR a kindred spirit. When the latter introduced the National Recovery Act as part of the New Deal, Mussolini exclaimed, “Ecco un dictatore!” (Behold a dictator!). Lest we forget, FDR, who ruled for 13 years, was the president who interned 120,000 Japanese-Americans in “concentration camps” and implemented other discriminatory policies. Today, Leftists and Liberals (I use an uppercase for Liberals to differentiate them from classical liberals who advocated nationalism and other ideas that have become unpopular) think that they have the monopoly on the definition of freedom, and they use academia, the media, Hollywood, and even comedy shows (clowns) to spread their false consciousness and brainwash public opinion. Sponsored by George Soros, a man who once had visions of himself as godlike, many organizations are dedicated to the cause of toppling Conservatives and their causes.
There is no doubt in my mind that anyone who wants to get a sense of how a Conservative or Republican sees his or her country, this is the book to read. At least, I am hoping that D’Souza articulates what many Conservatives and Republicans are struggling but failing to express. One could disagree with everything D’Souza says, but that doesn’t make his book or ideas unworthy of reflection and discussion. I have no idea how to respond or react to his political polemics since I don’t feel that strongly about Democrats or Republicans. D’Souza despises Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, but I think they are some of the smartest presidents the United States has ever had. They didn’t have the charisma of Ronald Reagan (the author’s hero), but they understood the world they lived in and tried to steer their policies in that direction. In a way, the problem for me in this book is D’Souza’s political partisanship. This is, in some sorts, a manifesto, not a neutral reflection on what’s afflicting America.
Yet, I am very proud of D’Souza. Here is a naturalized citizen (like myself) who has understood America and what it stands for better than natural-born Americans (to avoid saying natives). I think the American Revolution is the landmark event of modern times, and so does he. Many immigrants have dedicated their energies and passions to making money and being successful, but D’Souza has made the defense of the United States his main commitment. Which Conservative or Republican is doing this as articulately as he does? It takes someone who was born in India to come to the rescue of true American values. Natural-born Americans are, presumably, oblivious to their own heritage, since so many of them are impressed by politically correct ideologies, whose provenance they have no clue about. How could they know that the Nazis tried to make every German fit into the Gleichschaltung (having every citizen buy into Nazi ideology) when they have no knowledge of history? Gleichschaltung is, in fact, our notion of “political correctness.” Express your true opinions at your own peril!
If only for this reason, I cheer D’Souza and recommend this book to anyone who wants to have a broader view of the current political situation in the United States. At a time when we have folks who praise or condemn things based simply on how they feel, it is refreshing to find someone who builds an argument based on a knowledge of history. As I implied before, I am not with D’Souza when he delves into partisan politics, but I do respect, even admire, him for his commitment to America and the ideals for which it stands. He could be wrong, but show me any Conservative or Republican pundit who has done a better job at explaining Republican ideology, especially since the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
Also, The Big Lie turns the tables on name callers and explains why big government has always been viewed with suspicion in America, why states’ rights is a check on federal diktats, and why we need tax reform. D’Souza even tackles the divisive issue of abortion and pro-choice, tracing the roots of an organization like Planned Parenthood, which caters mostly to poor women, to the eugenics movement which advocated forced sterilization of whole classes of people to purify the white race.
Finally, when D’Souza accuses the Democrats of playing the race card, he touches on the ultimate gimmick of today’s political culture, for it is indeed Liberals and Democrats who patronizingly insist on classifying people by their skin color so as to feel good about protecting them from the racists among us and, at the same time, keep them in their color-shaded place. The dark-skinned D’Souza doesn’t fit their type, but he would care less, as long as he continues to make it clear that he is solo American.
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