Mark Levin Discusses Ameritopia with Glen Reynolds

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[Mickey The Professor]

Utopia and ideology go together like a horse and carriage, love and marriage, etc. The point is one cannot separate Utopia from Ideology in any society. The issue about freedom rises when conformity become obedience. Which is the case within the two main parties but much more so among the democrats. The democrats have become inflexible and strictly follow not only a style of thinking but now are a thought community with views and beliefs very different than the ones espoused by our founding fathers. I would say the democrats have become more like Bolsheviks. They were and are characterised by a rigid adherence to the leadership of the central committee, based on the principles of democratic centralism. The Bolsheviks believed and succeeded in creating a vanguard party, a mass revolutionary party composed of what they called "the most militant and class-conscious" workers capable of leading the masses of Russian workers. The democrats today in the US follow a strict party platform of big entitlement programs, reckless spending, and control over our free movement, speech, liberty and are anti-capitalists! With the election season upon us for a new president I urge everyone to vote for Mitt Romney and do like I do donate money or time or both to help ensure his election. In November on election night I want to be watching television and hear the announcers say Mitt Romney has won the presidential election!

[MBethany]

Mickey The Professor:
Utopia and ideology go together like a horse and carriage, love and marriage, etc. The point is one cannot separate Utopia from Ideology in any society.

Utopia is ideology, and ideology is Utopia. I joined this forum four months ago, hoping to discuss Ameritopia in depth with like-minded people. I hope and pray for Mitt Romney’s election, but Obama’s downfall would not mean the end of Utopianism in American politics. Utopianism is the mirage of a “perfect” society, the fulfillment of a dream-system, created by a presently admired “genius.” The Well Regulated State by philosophers was the “great” idea of Plato.

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, --no, nor the human race, as I believe, --and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day. (Plato, The Republic V)

This idea is the pest that is reproducing since the time of Plato. This living evil multiplied and took many forms. Throughout history the ever-growing and constantly mutating pest-colony of theorizers sucked the lifeblood of societies, and prevented their natural, free development. It is impossible to get rid of Utopianism until it is identified by its origin, and exterminated.

America became a land of opportunity because, at the outset, it escaped the straitjacket that the “geniuses” are trying to force on the people of “commoner natures.” But they are a persistent lot, because they are pests and parasites. They caught up with us in the twentieth century, and they are here to stay, unless we do something about it.