Posted by
CKHustler on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:16:59 PM
Unity is constantly thrown around by the left. Unity can only occur under 3 circumstances. One, you surrender your point of view. Two, they surrender their point of view. Three, both sides compromise. Now, this is political unity, the third possibility cannot cause actual unity, so it really ends up being two possibilities. Either your side or my side wins. Now what is the motivation behind this unity? Why does everyone need to believe the same thing? How does unity occur? Lets use history a bit for help on this question.
Which other movements were rooted in unity? Certainly the fascist movements in Italy and Germany both championed unity above reason or logic.
"The
National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to
revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation." -Adolf Hitler
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic
virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into
unity." - Benito Mussolini
"that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual" -Adolf Hitler
"It is faith that moves mountains, not reason" -Benito Mussolini
It is no wonder that all books not agreeing with the Nazi platform were burned in Germany. Hitler also charged the crowds with a "revolt against reason". Italy had a much more tempered version of Germany, but only because Mussolini wasn't trying to exterminate a part of his population. The people of Italy had the same restricted freedoms and movement towards unity. Note that all versions of unity coming from the left always include coercion. Woodrow Wilson had thousands of political enemies jailed during his presidency. Hitler and Mussolini did much the same. Of course Hitler went above and beyond anyone else in this regard. Notice the millions that were killed over in Russia for their unity purposes during the communist regime(even before WW2).
Unity itself is not the harbinger of truth. Unity is often a suspension of the search for truth and a turn for mob rule. Why is it that our founders did not give us a democracy? They knew that mob rule never works and soon freedoms are restricted as the people are used against themselves. The person is smart, people are stupid.
How does this relate to today? Democrats are constantly preaching about unity, but what kind of unity? Are they ever willing to truly compromise? Any dissenting points of view are always snuffed out as early as possible, without debate. This healthcare debate is a great example of where they were unable to have a true debate on the points of the healthcare bill and instead focused on feelings. Any person who brought up dissenting views was immediately demonized as if they were Sarah Palin herself. Or they are charged with hate mongering. With how the democrats are reacting to dissenters, it is clear that they do not believe they can compete on the battlefield of ideas. But they have unity right? Silencing other points of view is a way of bringing about false unity...the kind of unity Democrats strive for.
If unity is to be brought about, it must be done with ideas, not force. I know everyone remembers Reagan around these parts. He simply used common sense to convince people, with ideas, that his view was right. Anyone see another person doing that today? Chris Christie in NJ is rallying not just Republicans to his ideas of cutting the spending, but Democrats are starting to get on the bandwagon. True unity is when people join you for the ideas, not force or manipulation.
This post turned out much different than I thought it would lol. Ill post it anyways. It really comes down to the radical motto. "The ends justify the means". They want unity, false though it may be, and they will do anything to achieve it, including elimination of dissenters.
"All that is necessary for evil to
triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke