“The collectivists have found, in ecology, a new excuse for the creation of more controls, more corruption, more favor peddling, more harassment of industry by more irresponsible pressure groups.” – Return of the Primitive
After a four-year break from the hysteria of global warming, newly enthroned President Biden has returned America to the farcical Paris Agreement that promises to save the world by lowering the earth’s temperature by 2 degrees, a completely arbitrary number. As expected, not one participating country has met any of their announced goals, and even fewer are trying. In fact, once the scheme was instituted, it didn’t take long before a NOAA whistleblower exposed how an exaggerated study was used to sell the agreement to dopey nations in the first place. Proving that this shady globalist non-binding arrangement serves little more than a wink and a nod to their autocratic overlords.
On the 50th Anniversary of Ayn Rand’s 1971 book, “The New Left”, Peter Schwartz's 1999 updated version, “Return of the Primitive” explores the New Left’s budding agenda in a series of essays. Fatigued by the traditional leftist ideology of Marxist labor theory, a shift was made to what Rand called anti-reason, anti-individualism, and anti-capitalism. This trifecta formed the basis of their new philosophy of anti-industrialism, intended to destroy Western values and culture while shooting a soul-ending arrow through the heart of American exceptionalism. By eradicating technology, Luddites romanticized a return to the earth and the garden where everything is equal and fair, and docile. A half-century later, Rand’s prophecy still stands the test of time.
The “New Left”, then and now, found strength through violence, promoted emotion over logic, and was rabidly anti-American. Both versions demanded free college, the neutering of the police, radical environmentalism, and cultural diversity while bolstering the cult of identity politics. And despite the fluctuating (and distracting) focus of the movement, be it free speech, feminism, civil rights, or gay rights, the goal was always the same: power.
This reformed new party drew their inspiration from German-born theorist, Herbert Marcuse. While a professor at Columbia and Harvard, he would radicalize many a student, including Angela Davis, a long-time Communist activist. His guiding philosophy included “liberating tolerance” which permitted no acceptance of right-wing beliefs, by denying both speech and assembly. Once that was achieved, the marketplace of ideas was limited to their own left-wing speech and propaganda.
Modern-day progressives continue the tradition of the Old “New Left” through their anti-speech and anti-assembly agenda, most notably Big Tech’s deplatforming of not only the POTUS, but tens of thousands of right-of-center accounts from Twitter, Facebook, and the like, and then refusing them their own platform, all under the guise of imaginary hate-speech. With the election of a left-wing President and Congress in 2020, plans are already in place to further suppress progress through the elimination of the Keystone pipeline, and the implementation of a regressive New Green Deal that promises to decelerate the benefits of capitalism.
The best defense to the Old “New Left” is a return to individualism and the melting pot of our early days when immigrants were anxious to leave their countries behind to become full citizens of the United States. Here, they found a fusion of cultures, with shared ideals, and a common belief in the structure of a government that would protect individual rights and liberties.
The election of Joe Biden promises to usher in a dark era of restrictions, compliance, fear, and harassment, all while surreptitiously stripping America of her most cherished values and beliefs. The left has told us who they are. Recognizing this will help prepare us for the Renaissance to come.
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