Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "If We Lose John Locke, We Lose America | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. I took two courses in political ideology in the mid-90s, when you had people on both sides of the spectrum proclaiming that ideology was dead and a new era of peace, a Pax-Americana described by some in dialectic terms as the end of history had arrived. Fortunately, I had a great professor who could break down ideology and its application brilliantly and could articulate conservative principles more effectively than anyone I have met before or since, and he was a card carrying democrat. We took our eye off the ball when The Wall came down and bought into the notion of a New World Order professed by Bush and his crowd. I warned people then that authoritarian governments may be waving white flags but their ideas haven't gone away. I was told my thinking was archaic in the early 2000s when I sided with authors such as Samuel Huntington who challenged the neocons view of the future. While we were complacent the commies did what commies do, they continued their long march through the institutions. Fast forward to 2021 and we are, to put it bluntly, f***ked. They flanked us while we got distracted with other stuff. Ask 100 college graduates who John Locke was and I'm sure 95 would either have no idea or they would think he was some cop involved in the slaying of an unarmed black man. There is an old adage that claims those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Well, those who don't know their history become what Lenin termed, useful idiots. We were warned. We just didn't want to believe authoritarianism could take root in our system because it wasn't in our collective DNA. To quote John McClain: "Welcome to the party pal."
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