Make Mine Freedom
This is from 1948, and the fact that it so presciently predicts the contours of our current political situation is evidence of the clarity and truth of basic concept.
Some concepts are so simple that they can be explained in a children’s cartoon, and yet, somehow, out intellectual elites cannot comprehend them. Why is that, do you suppose?
To my shock, the site where I first came across this video (I will not provide a link) was overflowing with comments mocking our American Way, our freedoms, our free market. The hatred was overwhelming.
When did it become socially acceptable in this nation to hate this nation, to hate oneself, and to wish for the chains of a slave, but socially unacceptable to wish to live as a free man, proud of the hard won freedom our forefathers bequeathed to us?
By no coincidence, it happened in the same generation when it no longer became socially acceptable to call up on the name of Christ in public.
The cause and effect connection between the two is this: Christians regard the human person as an image and likeness of God. Even the life of a condemned man on death row is sacred, and he is not to be treated with disrespect, even if you kill him.
The modern Left, whether socialist or fascist or nihilist or progressive or all three, regards the human person as a raw material built out of inanimate molecules, born of apelike ancestors, and in the midst of a transition to a nonhuman superman of the future.
Raw materials have no dignity and no rights, nothing sacred about them. The concepts are meaningless in the modern Leftist universe. They cannot conceive of liberty, except as a by-word for sexual excess and perversion, and do not desire it, or understand why any honest man would.
Ask them to explain themselves. Their ‘explanation’ will consist of a condescending sneer and one or more of the word fetishes they use in lieu of thought: racist, sexist, homophobic.