In a bizarre way, the repulsive antisemitic “Gaza” protests have had one good result. They have exposed the actual character and malevolent goals of those responsible for the variety of disruptions that have plagued the nation across recent years.
Over the past decade or so, the same hard-left activists who are now in the streets purportedly for Gaza have terrorized cities and college campuses with threatening events that were miscast by biased media outlets as “peaceful.” They all had at least one thing in common, whether they were portrayed as Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, or supporting Gaza (actually Hamas.)
The stated purpose of these gatherings was not and is not the true motivation for the organizers. Rather, the ultimate goal is an assault on Western Civilization, free markets, and individual rights.
Despite the reality that the greatest era of prosperity and human freedom is a direct and specific result of the rise of Western Civilization over the past several hundred years, there is a subset of people who insist that it was a turn for the worse. They dislike the fact that, despite the general hike in standards of living, some have prospered more than others, and that repulses them. In their perspective, it would be better for everyone to be equally poor. Capitalism, the engine of that rise, is their target. They ignore the utter failures of rival concepts such as socialism and communism over the past century because at least everyone was equally miserable. Hence, occupy Wall Street and its numerous spinoffs.
But not everyone should be equal, as history shows.. A tiny percentage of elites, whether called Communist commissars or National Socialist fascists, carved out a privileged life for themselves. That role is now taken by powerful politicians, the Davos crowd, and shadowy Soros-style billionaires.
The United States in the 21st century is the most successful heterogenous society that has ever existed, with equal rights and opportunities for all. That fact infuriates those who seek to produce ethnic and racial division as a means to dissemble the melting pot that produced American society, for the purpose of disrupting and attacking the country from within.
The hard left’s most successful and widespread strategy has been the rise of environmental extremism. Progressives seek to use highly exaggerated or utterly falsified studies to insist that America’s milieu of a free market and individual rights must be overthrown to “save the planet.” Once again, facts are ignored. The centralized planning societies they want to institute have a far worse record of conservation and good stewardship than their capitalist counterparts. Governments that have followed their advice have succumbed to food shortages and economic pain, with no commensurate environmental improvement. In order to dismantle free societies across the world, they seek to eliminate property rights and constitutional safeguards to allow elitists to dictate how goods and foods are produced and distributed. The end result, of course is that those elites are free to travel the globe in private jets and dine on champagne and steak while insisting that you eat bugs and take the bus.
So, what does all have to do with the Gaza protests? Hamas is a socialist-oriented terrorist group that cares nothing for individual rights. They have committed some of the worst human rights violations since the Nazis ruled Germany. Their immediate enemy is Israel, a nation which allows personal freedom and has a free market, the twin enemies of the protestors. But every nation that allows personal freedom and each society that produces prosperity through free markets is in their long-range crosshairs.
Supporting a group so loathsome opened the eyes of those who were so willing to blind themselves to the lies and evil intentions of the hard left, and to the reality that the causes they allegedly support are nothing but camouflage for their ultimate, wicked goals.
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