Seeing and using the switchover
There's something missing in the switchover of east and west.

Background: The export version of Leninism has morphed into Gramsci and taken over the West. Within Russia the domestic Soviet system was just a veneer on top of tsarism, and now that the veneer is gone, tsarism is back.

Before the switchover, Russia's external propaganda carefully cultivated Western leftists AND Western supercapitalists. Agent Saul Alinsky and Agent Ayn Rand created an extreme cognitive dissonance between two natural tendencies in the West. It worked. The satanic synthesis is Gramsci. Smash civilization, smash the poor, give everything to the super-rich.

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Modern Russian propaganda seems to have missed the switchover. RT and Sputnik are still aiming at hippies, agreeing with everything MSNBC/Fox/CNN/ABC/CBS/ETC say on all topics except Ukraine. They love Earth Day, hate fracking, love Sharpton, hate cops.

They won't get very far this way. Putin himself understands the switchover correctly. He knows that Russia's maintenance of traditions and re-embrace of the Orthodox faith are the best selling points; but his message doesn't seem to be coming through the existing channels.

Islam's propagandists initially missed the same point, and now understand it.

Al-Qaeda was appealing to Commies through Adam Gadahn-Pearlman. This didn't work very well for one blazingly obvious reason: Commies are firmly ferociously savagely sadistically in charge in the West. They complain and pretend to be rebels, but they know that they've won the battle here. Why would they need to fight and die for God when they've already won for Satan? It's silly.

ISIS turned around and started appealing to serious Christians and traditionalists who are being disrespected and prosecuted and starved by the in-charge Commies. Result: Lots of recruits.

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In looking for something I'd said earlier about Earth Day, I bumped into this unbelievably fucking stupid statement from 2005:

"Adam Gadahn, identified as an environmentalist and Mohammedan (redundant, I know) says...."

Even when blindly following the neocon myths about Islam, how did I make that bizarre connection? I simply wasn't paying fucking attention.

But I pulled out of the stupidity temporarily in 2007, seeing the problem rather clearly for a moment:

The text itself is obviously the work of Pearlman/Gadahn or some similar Western Leninist converted to Mohammed. It's rather well done, but not as smooth and persuasive as Ahmadinejad's propaganda. It's an interesting mix of Marx and Mohammed, with an essentially valid critique of modern China-über-Alles global capitalism, which has in fact declined to a dangerously corrupt condition.

Most of the persuasion is aimed at the Leninist choir, with one interesting and up-to-date exception: "And the reeling of many of you under the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgages..."

Fortunately, Pearlman/Gadahn is a birthright Commie who grew up in a tight leftist community, so he doesn't quite understand the feelings of non-Communist westerners. I say fortunately, because a less restricted mind would have seen a more promising crack for his propagandistic wedge in our sense of utter and total corruption. A writer who was raised in a Christian environment, even if he converted to Marx and then to Mohammed, would have made great use of Wide-Stance Craig and similar incidents. The question would be easy to ask and hard to answer: Is Western democracy doing anything for you?

In short, we are in a critical position, similar to the 1930's in the failure of both democracy and capitalism. Democracy is failing in the same way as before: Hoover was seen as paralyzed and helpless, Bush is seen as paralyzed and helpless. Capitalism is failing in a different direction now, but still failing for all except the billionaires.

We are ripe for a replacement.

Polistra has been asking: Would Sharia really be all that much worse? She hasn't started trying on burqas yet, but that point is not far off.

FDR understood the danger perfectly, and took dramatic steps to co-opt and counter the appeals of both Soviet Communism and German Fascism.

Needless to say, Bush wouldn't even know how to sense the danger, let alone how to counter it.

So we are comparatively lucky so far, in that our modern Leftists have abandoned the economic side of Marxism, and thus abandoned their previous appeal to the poor. And we are comparatively lucky that Osama's main ambassador to the West has such a narrow understanding of Western problems and Western thinking. We can't count on the enemies to remain incompetent, though.

That's remarkably clear, even a bit prophetic. It was just before the 2008 Goldman Coup that drastically increased poverty and focused our attention on it; and it was also before Satan's final victory march got rolling in 2009. After that one moment of clarity I dropped back into neocon idiocy for a while, then started reading independent sources about the broad tendencies of Islam and got slightly less stupid. Maybe it will be permanent.

Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, switchover, Гром победы

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