Middlebury College Cancels Lecture on Totalitarianism by Conservative Philosopher

So whatever happened to the party of Reagan and Eisenhower? At one time the GOP used to be the more liberal party. Now it’s the party of Trump, Steve King, Bannon, David Duke, Richard Spencer and the ‘alt right’ nazis. There’s even a new classification of terrorist, the ‘MAGA terrorists’ (Nick Cruz, the MAGAbomber, Bisonette, etc).

Deviation from the totalitarian view is forbidden.

Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom. Traditional social institutions and organizations are discouraged and suppressed, making people more willing to be merged into a single unified movement. Totalitarian states typically pursue a special goal to the exclusion of all others, with all resources directed toward its attainment, regardless of the cost. https://www.britannica.com/topic/totalitarianism
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Yes Leftists … freedom is homophobic, racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic….

at least when those words are defined by pro-violence, pro-hate, pro-ignorance Left-wing bigots.

Perhaps the “high” point in clarity of thought and social progress in UK society evolved during the years 1914-60 when as a direct consequence of two of the most destructive and expensive wars, society achieved a better balance in the work life equation by women gaining the right to vote {because of their efforts in wartime} , their function as actual and potential home makers and mothers was recognised and aided, and advances in medical help with a wider direct cost free provision was possible for the working man for the first time.

There were jobs aplenty with training in all essential skills and trades for the many not the few as well because society was able to focus on our needs to repair and provide without the socialist or liberal inspired “guilt burden”of “saving the third world” or indeed competition with the rest of the world based upon the cheapness of their labour and plentiful supply of it undermining our own society. The concept of a first world developed nation state was paramount at that time.

What replaced this developed application of logical commonsense thinking was the emergence of a “rights and entitlement” culture based not on what could be the product of honest productive labour, saving while doing without, but a more socialist culture of guilt, exploitation, a “for every winner there must be one who suffers” concept.

This new trend was of course a manifestation of cultural Marxism and it found a ready made home in higher education halls, politics and media. Most of us remember the great surge in new post war musical and arts talent which appeared in the UK starting in the early sixties when the swinging London scene was recognised celebrated and copied around the world, but riding on the back of that wave were the seeds of a weakening of recognition of the common sense ability to recognise the difference and relationship between freedom, licence, responsibility, human and personal obligation and the consequence for ones actions.

I evolved as a consequence of much thought a simple way to recognise how the conflicts and contradictions around such issues could be recognised in my own home town, {this can be applied by anyone else too}.

I studied closely maps of my town I knew very well, and I could identify by the layout of streets, the provision of parks and other public open spaces together with other characteristics like the straightness and logical order in residential streets and roads when such developments took place. The most ordered neighborhoods where parks were provided, and the houses all faced the same way along largely straight roads were the legacy of late Victorian,Edwardian and “between the two wars” Britain. This was very much a “black is black and white is white” period.

During the sixties and particularly today, houses became like scattered toys along roads which resembled spaghetti.
Parks were missing entirely, they were replaced with acres of bare grass football pitches devoid of interest. This trend in urban planning can still be seen, it reflects much of the arising societal conflicts and reevaluations combined with lower personal standards of the time.

I attributed this to more “liberal” younger planning minds inside those who had never had to perform military service in days of empire or wartime or pitch tents in straight lines or even try to survive under difficult circumstances under the eye of the enemy or senior NCO’s who were well known for THEIR uncomplicated logical thinking..

The willingness and ability to create a personal “timeline” by the application of history and logic can be useful today, it has the ability to order, direct and focus thoughts essential if we need to understand “how we got to where we are” kind of thing.

The real problem is that of weak college administrators caving in to every Leftist threat. Every time they yield to Leftist shut-down words (‘racist’, etc) they diminish the Conservative cause. Administrators don’t have to concede at every skirmish, they should assert ‘free speech on campus’ and stand firm…