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NewsReal #23: It's a Trap! The Left vs Right Paradigm

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Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:00 UTC

From 'conservatives' vs 'liberals', pro-mass migration vs anti-immigration, Islam vs the West, and even men vs women, Western society appears to be in a state of increasing social conflict.

Beyond the often legitimate rationale for holding these positions lie foundational and deep psychological differences between human beings, but is it possible that 'someone' is deliberately exploiting them, ultimately against the interests of all?

Joe & Niall also discuss US Sec. of State Mike Pompeo's speech in Cairo, in which he announced a brand new US foreign policy for the Middle East. How different is it from the Obama administration's?

Running Time: 01:13:45

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gtriber · 2019-01-14T15:07:41Z

hegalian dialectic method. opposing viewpoints are resolved somewhere in the middle.

in reality, the 'football' is slowly moved down the field towards the ultimate desired goal: nudge..nudge..

it is a multi-generational master plan. for example, agenda 21 or fear-porn..

Bezel Bub · 2019-01-14T15:49:20Z

No fooling...someone has to be pretty dense to not have figured this out, or maybe they just like to fight. It should not be us against each other...but us against *them*...

Ned Ludd · 2019-01-14T22:20:00Z

Liberals fear any uprising they cannot contain. Any mass action they do not control is deadly competition. They all have cushy jobs. As consultants, bureaucrats, academics, advisors. They trade on the radicalism of their youth. They sold their lard asses out long ago.

They will proverbially roll up in their Beemers and expected to be granted the stage. But if the rebels chose otherwise, the parasites are cast as Mensheviks. Trump is the enemy but you guys are traitors.

In a fluid situation opinion congeals fast. In 1860 few in the US north had respect for blacks. In 4 years, they were emancipated and armed. In South Africa the fierce apartheid regime collapsed in short order. It’s when people are in motion, that ‘s when they make and shift their power. The Yellow Vests rose out of earth sui generis. A very threatening phenomenon to an over-stretched and bitterly divided ruling class.

Can a credible true left compose and assert itself? Become a coherent pole of attraction, of focus, for the populist-inclined to rally to? To draw up strength and become contenders? A populist expression can heave itself against the state but it is limited by the unity of what people are against. Once momentum falters the ranks divide as power becomes possible. The insurgents find they do not agree on what they want. This is a classic scenario.

The antidote to this tendency of dissipation is the institution of the political party. This can be the agency that gathers and focuses popular discontent. For the populist impulse to translate into a positive overturn there must be in place an equivalent of the Bolsheviks. A focused Party, with a leadership, cadre, discipline and programme. An institution capable of advancing its aims and resilient enough to withstand blows from the opposition.

And nerve. If the mix is right it’s Michael Collins in Ireland. Tecumseh in the Ohio, Wallace in Scotland. If it’s not you get Wat Tyler, the Levellers, and Catolina. Those in the population disposed to populism are gelatinous. Plastic. Subject to morphic change. Depending on the course of events. And subject to the power of concentrated popular will.

Tchoutoye · 2019-01-14T23:33:17Z

For someone who acknowledges that the Left - Right paradigm is a trap (and I couldn't agree more), Joe still spends an awful lot of time bashing "Lefties". He sees the trap yet can't quite escape it himself.

pounamuknight · 2019-01-15T18:11:26Z

Unfortunately, Sott editors keep bumbling into this trap: justifiably criticizing the idiot "left" while ignoring the idiot "right"

gtriber · 2019-01-15T18:59:06Z

left...right...blah blah blah... if you are thinking and speaking in these left/right terms, you are still falling for the left/right games. don't ya know, the job/purpose/reason to exist for ALL career politicians is to keep the little people slathering amongst themselves...

Anyone lose a bunch of kangaroos? They were last seen jumping all over the New York's Justice Department and the DA's office.

Robotech

The people who should care, dont. Lets all move on. Unless this clearly dead equine, needs more whipping.

3.1415926535

The Globalists in Government, will ruin more lives without anyone caring about any of it. Its over, move on to the next Globalist ruse. If people...

3.1415926535

exercise and good diet : the best medicine

Giant Meteor 24

A symbolic event, perhaps ? While only "historic", it is still a stock exchange.

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