I Have Gone Over To The Dark Side

Man Mountain Molehill left a link to this New York Times story: More Than 400 Writers Sign Petition Protesting Donald Trump. Which leads to this.

Because the history of dictatorship is the history of manipulation and division, demagoguery and lies

And to avoid the divisions that flow from dictatorship we need what? A one Party State? Two parties with one owner? What?

And these are our “Top” writers? Well they certainly aren’t our top thinkers.

You now have a list of authors to avoid. Should you choose to do so.

I predict another Trump rise of 3%. Take that you pointy heads.


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11 responses to “I Have Gone Over To The Dark Side”

  1. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Leftists and fundamentally ignorant types such as NY Times readers like to throw around the word “fascist” with abandon. I doubt 1 in 10 could give you a coherent explanation of what Italian Fascism actually was. Hillary comes closest. Except former anarchist, former communist, writer and editor Benito Mussolini was a vastly better public speaker and all around nicer person. Just substitute Libya for Ethiopia.

    Sanders is just another pig-ignorant Marxist-Leninist, I doubt he’s read much of either.

    Meanwhile, Trump is a populist/nationalist/showman. Strip away the bombast and he’s mostly pretty much middle of the road.

  2. great unknown Avatar
    great unknown

    You can take this entire manifesto, replace the name Donald J. Trump with B. Hussein Obama, and have a rather honest statement.

    As it stands, however, it is just one more work of fiction.

  3. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    How many walls did Backpack Aroma build?

  4. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Wow! Trump took tax deductions! Lots of them! I’m shocked, I tell yez, shocked! When will the horror end?

    Resolved: Donald Trump, evil incarnate or Satan himself?

  5. CapitalistRoader Avatar
    CapitalistRoader

    Peel back the layers and Trump’s success is fundamentally conservative. It reminds me of what I’ve read about 1950s presidential politics:

    [Conservatism] stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
    William F. Buckley, National Review, November 1955

  6. Ignoramus Avatar
    Ignoramus

    More Than 400 Writers Sign Petition Protesting Donald Trump.

    I am reminded of a locker room conversation from high school days.”My father signed a petition against the Vietnam War, along with a bunch of Ivy League professors.”

    That was my first introduction to Virtue Signalling. Instead of Ivy League professors, we have 400 writers.

  7. Ignoramus Avatar
    Ignoramus

    What are the length and link limits for posting? I just submitted a posting that got sent to the spam bin.

  8. Simon Avatar

    Ignoramus:

    What are the length and link limits for posting? I just submitted a posting that got sent to the spam bin.

    I have no idea. You probably used a “bad” word. In any case here it is:

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    For another example of authors and virtue signaling involving the mass signing of a letter, consider the Open Letter of the 400 [August 14,1939] As Published in Soviet Russia Today, Sept 1939. The Non Aggression Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union was signed on August 23,1939, and the invasion of Poland began on September 1,1939.

    On the international scene the Fascists and their friends have tried to prevent a united anti-aggression front by sowing suspicion between the Soviet Union and other nations interested in maintaining peace…. .

    With the aim of turning anti-fascist feeling against the Soviet Union they have encouraged the fantastic falsehood that the USSR and the totalitarian states are basically alike. By this strategy they hope to create dissension among the progressive forces whose united strength is a ?rst necessity for the defeat of fascism.
    Some sincere American liberals have fallen into this trap and unwittingly aided a cause to which they are essentially opposed. Thus, a number of them have carelessly lent their signatures to the recent manifesto issued by the so-called Committee for Cultural Freedom.
    This manifesto denounces in vague, unde?ned terms all forms of “Dictatorship” and asserts that the Fascist states and Soviet Russia equally menace American institutions and the democratic way of life…
    To this end we should like to stress ten basic points in which Soviet socialism differs fundamentally from totalitarian fascism.
    1. The Soviet Union continues as always to be a consistent bulwark against war and aggression, and works unceasingly for the goal of a peaceful international order.

    The Poles, Lithuanians, Letts, and Estonians subjected to Soviet invasion as a result of the signing of the Non Aggression Pact would undoubtedly have agreed with you.

    7. From the viewpoint of cultural freedom, the difference between the Soviet Union and the Fascist countries is most striking. …Those writers and thinkers whose books have been burned by the Nazis are published in the Soviet Union. The best literature from Homer to Thomas Mann, the best thought from Aristotle to Lenin, is available to the masses of the Soviet people, who themselves actively participate in the creation of culture

    And the Soviet Union didn’t censor?

    9. The Soviet Union considers political dictatorship a transitional form and has shown a steadily expanding democracy in every sphere. Its epoch-making new Constitution guarantees Soviet citizens universal suffrage, civil liberties, the right to employment, to leisure, to free education, to free medical care, to material security in sickness and old age, to equality of the sexes in all ?elds of activity, and to equality of all races and nationalities.

    Very transitional.

    10. In relation to Russia’s past, the country has been advancing rapidly along the road of material and cultural progress in ways that the American people can understand and appreciate.

    Summation: shortly before the signing of the Non Aggression Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, a group of 400 prominent American intellectuals beclowned themselves. Among the 400 signer, mostly writers and academics, we find the following writers.

    Dashiell Hammett, writer
    Ernest Hemmingway
    Granville Hicks, writer
    Langston Hughes, poet
    Rockwell Kent, artist
    Clifford Odets, playwright
    S.J. Perelman, writer
    James Thurber, artist, writer
    Jean Starr Untermeyer, poet
    Louis Untermeyer, poet

    Different people, different cause, but the same idiotic virtue signaling 77 years later. Moral: any time you see a horde of authors sign an open letter, run away as fast as you can.

  9. LetsPlay Avatar
    LetsPlay

    I think they should qualify the term “writer.” And just where were all these “smart” people when Barry Sotero was being fawned over for his “Gee, for a black guy, he sure can talk good” crap. Made me want to puke!

    As expected, no one on the list that I read. Just who are these guys anyway?

  10. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Writers are basically people who sit around in their underwear all day staring at a keyboard. Other than a certain amount of verbal acuity and imagination they don’t get out much or know much beyond their own social circle, or NPR and the NY Times.

  11. fred-2 Avatar
    fred-2

    Writers? So what? Get to the important people. What do the 3rd graders of East Podunk say?