Without Remembering the Past, Wisdom is Impossible

Without remembering, wisdom is impossible. Wisdom is learning from our own lives and from the lives of others. Wisdom matters because good cannot be achieved without it. Good intentions without wisdom lead to either nothing or to actual evil. However much evil movements have appealed to the bad side of people’s natures, almost every one of them, communism being the most obvious example, also appealed to people’s good intentions.

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Exodus: God, Slavery, and Freedom, pg. 137

Remembering the Past Aids Wisdom

People attain wisdom in large part by remembering what happened in the past. No generation can attain wisdom without studying and remembering the past. None of those who believed in the 1960s aphorism, “Never trust anyone over thirty,” became a wise person. Without wisdom, all the good intentions in the world amount to nothing. Intending to do good without having wisdom is like intending to fly an airplane with no knowledge of airplanes or the laws of aerodynamics.

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Exodus: God, Slavery, and Freedom, pg.111

The Growth of a Lie

A lie keeps growing and growing until it is as plain as the nose on your face. A boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood.

The Blue Fairy in Pinocchio

Tyranny Can Never Be For Good of People

Think About It

Men are usually competent thinkers along the lines of their specialized training only. Within these limits alone are their opinions and judgments valuable; outside of these limits they grope and are lost—usually without knowing it.

Mark Twain, Christian Science, pg.52

Gratitude Needs Remembrance

Only when people remember the good others have done for them will they have gratitude. Unfortunately, however, most people remember the bad people have done to them far longer than the good. Or to put it another way, gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Exodus: God, Slavery, and Freedom, pg.111

Wisdom vs Knowledge and Intelligence

In recent years, many societies have lost reverence for the old. The reason wisdom, certainly in comparison with knowledge, is often undervalued or not valued at all. And one reason for that is knowledge is far more valued due to extraordinary advances in technology, medicine, and science. Likewise, intelligence is far more valued than wisdom—think of how many parents want their children to be “brilliant” versus how many parent want their children to be wise (in truth, few parents even think in terms of wise, a term that cannot be measured on tests). The loss to society has been immeasurable. Societies need wisdom far more than knowledge; indeed, knowledge without wisdom is likely to lead to catastrophe. Think how societies like Nazi Germany, the USSR, North Korea, and the Iranian mullahs misused both their intelligence and their knowledge.

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Exodus: God, Slavery, and Freedom, pg. 46

It is Dangerous Out There!

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Winston Churchill

Wisdom is NEEDED

All the good intentions in the world are likely to be worthless without wisdom. Many of the horrors of the twentieth century were supported by people with good intentions who lacked wisdom. … [W]e live in an age that not only has little wisdom, it doesn’t even have many people who value it. People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom. And the lack of wisdom—certainly in America and the rest of the West—is directly related to the decline in biblical literacy. In the American past, virtually every home, no matter how poor, owned a Bible. It was the primary vehicle by which parents passed wisdom on to their children.

Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible, Exodus: God, Slavery, and Freedom, pp.xvi-xvii

The Culture and the Church Have Lost Their Soul

We live in a world where personality has more street value than character. ... We find ourselves in a world where pleasures are embraced without moral norms or a sense of social responsibility.... The quest for truth has been replaced by the preoccupation with pleasure and entertainment.  Thus, we live in a world of the therapeutic and the psychological, where people are engaged in an endless pursuit of self-fulfillment and entitlement  Sin has become little more than the infringement of personal rights and privileges; there is little thought of defining it by the standard of the holiness of God. ...

[T]he church has lost its soul.  The quest for contemporary relevance has led it down the path of increasing irrelevancy and marginalization.  The evangelical church is on the brink of becoming another of the many social, do-good agencies whose purpose has to do with helping people to more fully enjoy this life while neglecting the implications of eternity.  While our culture has shown a marked inclination to secularism, the church seems to have followed suit….

John D. Hannah, Our Legacy: The History of Christian Doctrine, Introduction.

Science: The Secular Religion

Modern men and women have substituted “experts” for prophets and priests. Science is the secular religion, and “experts” are its prophets and priests.”

Dennis Prager

Fear

Abortion is NEVER Necessary

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What the Demokrat Party Seeks

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we  are interested solely in power. … We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object to of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

George Orwell, 1984

"Social Justice" is Envy

He Who Controls the Narrative…

In the end the Party [today’s Leftists] would announce that two and two made five [or a male could be a female or a female could be a male], and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of the experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. … The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), 1984

In 1984 the Thought Police could kill you for thinking truth and common sense; in today’s world you just lose your job or get kicked out of school, or ever beat up. But, as 1984’s protagonist Winston Smith says, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” Or that a man cannot change into a woman nor a woman into a man.

The Reason the LEFT Rewrites History

If the Party [today’s Leftists and Demokrats] could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, It never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. … And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same lie—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), 1984

Who is YOUR Authority?

If the source of law is the individual, then the individual is the god of that system...if source of law is our court then the court is our god.  If there is no higher law beyond man, then man is his own god... When you choose your authority, you choose your god, and when you look for your law, there is your god.

R. J. Rushdoony, cited by Erwin W. Lutzer, When A Nation Forgets God

What Would Your Choice Be?

When given a choice, most people probably will choose bread and sausage above the free market and individual liberties. ...many people would prefer economic equality along with tyranny rather than economic opportunity with freedom.

Erwin W. Lutzer, When A Nation Forgets God

When God Is Ousted From Government

When God is ousted from government, transcendent values are replaced by 

*) The raw use of power

*) Eroticism 

*) Arbitrary judicial rulings

*) The morality of personal pragmatism.

Erwin W. Lutzer, When A Nation Forgets God

Making a Point

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack. 

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg. 147

Family

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl—no superior alternative has yet been found.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg. 121

Criticism

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. 

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg. 110

Duty of Universities

The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers. 

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.106

Do What You Must

A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.104

About Slavery

The confining of discussions of slavery to that of blacks held in bondage by whites is just one of the many ways in which the agendas of the present distort our understanding of the past, forfeiting valuable lessons that an unfiltered knowledge of the past could teach. At a minimum, the worldwide history of slavery should be a grim warning for all people, and for all time, against giving any human beings unbridled power over other human beings, regardless of hows attractively that unbridled power might be packaged rhetorically.

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, Pg.221

Don’t Lower Standards

Vast amounts of evidence, accumulated over the years, show that the particular circumstances in which members of lagging groups have not only succeeded but excelled, have almost invariably been circumstances where there was no lowering of standards for them, and where ruthless competition was the norm for all.

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, Pg.200

The Magic of Words vs Education

In many cases, educators verbally transmute higher capabilities into “privilege.” Through the magic of words, and in the name of “social justice,” such educators oppose using the schools to facilitate the development of special individual abilities that can benefit society as a whole, because that can cause an expansion of educational disparities and the economical disparities that follow. Many of those with this social vision not only proceed as if society is a zero-sum process, in which benefits to one segment necessarily come at the expense of other segments, they also often ignore, dismiss or demonize other ways of looking at the situation.

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, Pg.191-192

Learn From Mistakes

If we look back on our past life we shall see that one of its most usual experiences is that we have been helped by our mistakes.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.100

Exhilaration

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg. 99

Don’t Turn Your Back on Danger

One ought never to turn one’s back on threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.98

Success

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.95

Life is A Relay Race

To deny that a particular factor can be assumed a priori to be the cause of inequalities in outcomes is not to deny that the chances of achieving those outcomes have in fact been grossly unequal in societies around the world, and over thousands of years of recorded history. In a sense, life is a relay race, and each of us receives the baton at a time and place over which we have no control. Our parents, our birth order, our country and our surrounding culture have already been predetermined for us. Some of the prerequisites for achievement can be affected later by individual choices or social policies, but by no means 100 percent in most cases, much less in all cases. No human being and no human institution has either sufficient knowledge or sufficient power for that. More important, we have zero control over the past— and, as was said, long ago, “We do not live in the past, but the past in us.”

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, Pg.187

Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals

A survey of more than 90,000 black, white and Hispanic high school and junior high school students from 175 schools in 80 American communities found that those black students whose grade-point average reached 3.5 or higher had fewer friends of their own race than blacks with lower grade-point averages. Such negative reactions by fellow black students to those among them who were higher achievers in school have been characterized as a rejection of those who were stigmatized as “acting white”— that is, behaving in ways that were equated with disloyalty to their race.

An empirical study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that having a higher percentage of black schoolmates had a strong negative effect on the educational achievements of black students— especially high-ability black students. Another study, of ability-grouping in general, found that educating students among others of similar ability levels improved the academic performance of high-ability students— and especially high-ability minority students.

Such patterns have by not means been confined to blacks or even to the United States Among Hispanic American students, those with a grade-point average of 4.0 averaged 3 fewer friends of their own ethnicity than did white students with a 4.0 grade-point average. Similar negative reactions to educational achievements among their peers have been found among Maoris in New Zealand, Burakumin in Japan and the white underclass in Britain.

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, pg.167

No Moral Background = Totalitarianism

Free Speech

Everyone is in favour of free speech…but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg. 81

Redefining Freedom

Many intellectuals, living in the safety and comfort of free societies, have found it expedient to redefine freedom, so that an expansion of government determination of economic outcomes, through an expansion of government compulsion, is not seen as a trade-off of freedom, as conveniently redefined.

In the world of words, the hardest facts can be made to vanish into thin air by a clever catchword or soaring rhetoric. In a public discourse where slogans and images have too often replaced facts and logic, words have indeed become for some what Hobbes called them, centuries ago— the money of fools, often counterfeit money created by clever people. Our educational system, which might have been expected to develop students’ ability to “cross-examine the facts,” as the great economist Alfred Marshall once put it, has itself become one of the fountainheads of insinuations and obfuscations. 

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, pg.148-149.

Redistributed Income?

Neither income nor wealth can be redistributed when it was not distributed in the first place, but earned directly from those who valued whatever was sold.

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, pg.147

Private Enterprise

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.79

Never Give In

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, Pg.38

Privileged?

Children who are currently being raised with the kinds of values, discipline and work habits that are likely to make them valuable contributors to society, and a source of pride to themselves and to those who raised them, are called “privileged,” and are taught in schools to feel guilty when other children are being raised with values, behavior and habits that are likely to leave them few options as adults, other than to live at the expense of other people, whether via the welfare state or through a life of crime, or both.

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, pg.124-125

Diversity or Balkanization?

A fragmented society of people polarized into separated group identities used to be called a “Balkanized” society, and the painful history of strife, bloodshed and atrocities in the Balkans stood as an example of how destructive that can be to all. But that was before the word “Balkanization” was replaced by the much nicer-sounding word “diversity,” from which all sorts of wonderful benefits have been assumed and incessantly proclaimed, without any empirical test of those claims.  This new and nicer-sounding word has also avoided having the painful history of the Balkans— and of similar places elsewhere around the world— being called to mind.

By “diversity” those who incessantly proclaim that word, and its presumed benefits, mean more than simply people with different cultures interacting. The word “diversity” is used to imply positive interactions, with benefits for the various participants and for society at large. But we cannot simply define our way into beneficial outcomes. Whether the promotion of separate identities— by race, sex or other characteristics— is beneficial or harmful in its consequences is an empirical question— and a question almost never confronted by apostles of “diversity.” The actual track record of promoting separate group identities, whether called “Balkanization” or “diversity,” has been appalling, in countries around the world.

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, pg.120

Black Poverty?

Despite the high poverty rate among black Americans in general, the poverty rate among black married couples has been less than 10 percent every year since 1994.

The poverty rate of married blacks is not only lower than that of blacks as a whole, but in some years has also been lower than that of whites as a whole. In 2016, for example, the poverty rate for blacks was 22 percent, for whites was 11 percent, and for black married couples was 7.5 percent.

Do racists care whether someone black is married or unmarried? If not, then why do married blacks escape poverty so much more often than other blacks, if racism is the main reason for black poverty? If the continuing effects of past evils such as slavery play a major causal role today, were the ancestors of today's black married couples exempt from slavery and other injustices?

As far back as 1969, young black males whose homes included newspapers, magazines, and library cards, and who also had the same education as young white males, had similar incomes as their white counterparts. Do racists care whether blacks have reading material and library cards?

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, Pg.116

Numbers and Words

While numbers can be used in ways that are deceptive as regards particular issues, words can be used in ways that can be more sweepingly deceptive as regards how a whole society is seen.

Numbers may deceive us because of their apparent objectivity, but words can deceive more comprehensively because of their emotional appeals that numbers seldom have. There may be very legitimate reasons to react adversely to words like "war," "racism," or "murder," but it is the illegitimate invoking of emotionally charged words that is especially dangerous— as anything that overrides thought, or substitutes for thought, can be dangerous. Emotional manipulation is, however, only one of the dangers when words are used in ways that obscure both realities and the connections of cause and effect behind those realities.

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities, pg.115

History

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just, and when they wish to be just they are often no longer strong.

Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 3/26/36. cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.18

The Constitution is Dying

Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.

Joseph Sobran

The LEFT Hates Independence

What do automobiles, guns, and home-schooling all have in common that makes the liberals hate them? All these things reduce individual dependence on the government and on the grandiose schemes for other people's lives created by liberals and imposed by government.

Thomas Sowell

Become an American or LEAVE

Democracy?

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.22

The Danger of Allowing Islam

Once upon a time, the Islamic world was a superpower and its jihad an irresistible force to be reckoned with. Over two centuries ago, however, a rising Europe—which had experienced more than one millennium of Muslim conquests and atrocities—eclipsed and defanged Islam. As Muhammad’s civilization retreated into obscurity, the post-Christian West slowly came into being. Islam did not change, but the West did: Muslims still venerate their heritage and religion—which commands jihad against infidels—whereas the West has learned to despise its heritage and religion, causing it to become an unwitting ally of the jihad.

Hence the current situation: Islamic jihad is back in full vigor, while the West facilitates it in varying degrees; hence the irony: “At a time when the military superiority of the West—meaning chiefly the USA—over the Muslim world has never been greater,” observes historian Alan G. Jamieson, “Western countries feel insecure ind the face of the activities of Islamic terrorists. . . . In all the long centuries of Christian-Muslim conflict, never has the military imbalance between the two sides been greater, yet the dominant West can apparently derive no comfort from that fact.”

In short, if Islam is terrorizing the West today, that is not because it can, but because the West allows it to. For no matter how diminished, a still swinging Scimitar will always overcome a strong but sheathed Sword.

Raymond Ibrahim, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West, pg. 296-297

Courage

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.18

The Danger of Islam is Always Current

Millions of people of the white civilization—that is, the civilization of Europe and America—have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come into contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past.

Hilaire Belloc. Cited by Raymond Ibrahim in Sword and Scimitar, pg.295

Don't Be Afraid of the Light

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Judging Politicians

For my own part I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities which he excites among his opponents. I have always set myself not merely to relish but to deserve thoroughly their censure.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.16

Study the Past

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

How Will You Be Judged?

We shall not be judged by the criticisms of our opponents but by the consequences of our acts.

Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg.14

The Worst Tyranny

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis.

Colleges Are No Longer About Education

Colleges today are increasingly collections of hostile identity groups, each clamoring against the crimes of the other. Students are not invited to step outside themselves, to step outside their own time, and to look at things as they have been understood by the best over time. If they did that, they would learn and grown not by invention but by discovery.

Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College, “Four Pillars: Educating for America”

Don't Ignore Evil

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Albert Einstein

Teachers Create Artificial Stupidity

The Fantasy of Utopia

Politicians Don't Care About Our Problems

What Is Needed for Stable Civilization

Where you do not have stable marriage
and you do not have stable parenthood, 
and you do not have stable families,
you cannot have a stable economic system,
you cannot have a stable social system,
and you cannot have a stable civilization.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Slippery Slope

Ya Think?!?

Equal Rights?

The Real Endgame of the LGBT Agenda

That is their [the LGBTQXYZ mob] endgame. They NEVER just wanted “tolerance” or “acceptance” or “equality” or even homosexual marriage. What they are really after is the full endorsement and celebration of their lifestyles and agendas, and the complete eradication of any and all opposition.

And they have always known that real-deal churches and Christians are the final obstacle standing in the way of complete and final hegemony. Thus they are actively on search and destroy missions for any recalcitrants who still will not bow down and embrace their agendas and worship at their altars.

Bill Muehlenberg, “Why Are So Many Christians Paralysed by Fear and Compromise?”

Political Language

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, Why I Write, cover quote.

What “Democratic” Socialism Looks Like

Socialism is usually defined as "common ownership of the means of production." Crudely: the State, representing the whole nation, owns everything, and everyone is a State employee. This does not mean that people are stripped of private possessions such as clothes and furniture, but it does mean that all productive goods, such as land, mines, ships and machinery, are the property of the State. The State is the sole large-scale producer. It is not certain that Socialism is in all ways superior to capitalism, but it is certain that, unlike capitalism, it can solve the problems of production and consumption. At normal times a capitalist economy can never consume all that it produces, so that there is always a wasted surplus (wheat burned in furnaces, herrings dumped back into the sea, etc, etc.) and always unemployment. ... 

In a Socialist economy these problems do not exist. The State simply calculates what goods will be needed and does its best to produce them. Production is only limited by the amount of labour and raw materials. Money, for internal purposes, ceases to be a mysterious all-powerful thing and becomes a sort of coupon or ration-ticket, issued in sufficient quantities to buy up such consumption goods as may be available at the moment.

George Orwell, Why I Write, pg.47-48

I don’t normally have a commentary with citations on this blog, but I posted THIS citation for the sole purpose of commenting about socialism.

Orwell stated he believed in “democratic” socialism, but all that means is that there isn’t an authoritarian running the show, just a government.  In reference to rich people, he said that butlers and “private incomes” are “monstrosities.” His outlook on income was that the government would decide what minimum income would be, and then the richest would not be allowed an income greater than ten times the minimum. With Orwell’s plan he would eliminate the “mere owners who live not by virtue or anything they produce but by the possession of title-deeds and share certificates.”  Of course the fact that said owners worked their way up to owning such production facilities, and often even invented them and built them, doesn’t seem to faze this man who tells us exactly what “democratic socialism” would do to everyone.  He says with State ownership, “nobody shall live without working.” So to his mind, managing production facilities wouldn’t be working. He rightly says resistance to his ideology “will come from the big capitalists, the bankers, the landlords and the idle rich.”  As with all socialists, you can certainly see his envy of those above his status — although I wonder just how much income he derived from the sale of his books; you know, his capitalist engagement.  Farmers will no longer own their land but if they are “competent” they “will continue as a salaried manager.” And if your occupation is as a “money lender,” then your life is “worthless.”

Additionally, he looks to raising the age at which one can leave government schools — obviously to keep them under government indoctrination for as long as possible. And as far Orwell is concerned, “Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.  It is actually the opposite of Conservatism…”. So how does he explain that the vast majority of conservatives in the USA are also very patriotic?

Well, what I see is that socialism, “democratic” or not, is a rank violation of personal right of every sort.  And yet the ignorant people on the LEFT in the USA are demanding that the USA become a socialist nation. 

For a Democracy to Function -- Ideas

For a democracy to function, there must be a free exchange of ideas. Leftists do not believe in this. For the leftist, the consent of the governed and the opinions of the voters must be manufactured through the use of propaganda and the censoring and punishment of wrong-think. The propaganda and censorship is everywhere. It begins in preschool and continues throughout one’s education. Leftist­-approved correct-think is provided in every format—television, movies, books, magazines, video games, and even in standardized test questions. Expressing wrong-think is dangerous, physically and financially.

The result is massive censorship even though the US is a “free” society where speech is “protected.” However, in the surveillance systems being imposed worldwide, only leftist speech is protected; rightist speech is ruthlessly suppressed.” I am sorry, Sir. Your card has been declined because of your political views. I am afraid we’ll be closing your bank account too. Consequently, the dissident right must meme, troll, write books “in a mood of revelry and laughter,” and speak in code. This is something Straussians understand. This fact gets to another reason that leftists hate democracy; censorship of wrong-think cannot be enforced in the privacy of the voting booth.

B.A. Pervert, The Dissident Right Embraces Realism, Not Nihilism