Your belief that Whitaker Chambers was some sort of double agent is BS.
In Chambers autobiography he tells us that he became paranoid when he was asked to go to Russia by the communists. Chambers knew from experience that other communist spies had disappeared.
At this point he could either go along and go to Russia or run for his life and go into hiding with his family. Chambers stayed in hiding until after the statue of limitations for his crimes ran out then and only then did he contact the US authorities and offer to turn others in if they would protect him.
After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), he defected from communism (underground and open party) and worked at Time magazine (1939–1948). Under subpoena in 1948, he testified in what became Alger Hiss's perjury (espionage) trials (1949–1950) and he became an outspoken anti-communist (all described in his 1952 memoir Witness).[1] Afterwards, he worked briefly as a senior editor at National Review (1957–1959). President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
The secretes Chambers turned over to the communists was quite genuine. Chambers was only worried about himself.
Leopards don’t change their spots. Neuroscientists now know that a belief system helps physically structure the brain. The pathways in the brain that support a belief system become physically stronger while the pathways that support the opposite opinions begin to wither away from nonuse.
The idea that Chambers would be communist one day and decide to be capitalist the next is physically impossible.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” However, the communists and the conservative share a common belief they both hate the American government.
One of the leading conservatives, Grover Norquist says, “That he just wants to shrink the American government until it is small enough, so he can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” The communist would like to do the same.
America was founded to get away from greedism of the European countries.
Almost all the wealth of a typical country at that time was held by a very few people with a large group of serfs that were often sold with the land.
This was long before Marx or communism was even a thought. America’s founding fathers could have adopted that model where all the land belonged to a landed gentry but America wanted to correct some of the inequalities found in the rest of the world.
In the beginning America was egalitarian with no concentration of great wealth but with the industrial revolution America began to see great concentrations of wealth but the Great Depression ameliorated it somewhat.
Greedism sees nothing at all wrong with the distribution of wealth where a very few hold most of the wealth of country like the countries that existed prior to America.
Trump wrote a book stating soon there will be no middle class in America only the extremely rich and the extremely poor that is the goal of greedism to eliminate the American middle class and their political power from organizations like unions.
Tell me why you think a Russian educated in a communist country like Ayn Rand was qualified to come over here and tell us how to improve our government that had been in place for nearly 200 years?
Rand was not a political scholar and had no qualifications other then she was a cult leader. This would be much like letting Charles Manson tell us how to improve the American government.
To start with Scientology is a recognized religion that is no worse than the other foolish god cults. Scientologist have even more faith in their cult then the Jesus freaks.
America was designed to be a collective by the founding fathers every citizen would have a say in government affairs it was forever to be the opposite of the aristocracy that existed at the time.
Everybody would like to pay less taxes and as for smaller government would you like to cut out bridge maintenance and replacement that should cut out a few 100 million but then the bridges would just collapse like the one in Italy this week.
It was Christmas when the Silver Bridge collapsed with bumper to bumper traffic on it 46 people died. WV had no regular bridge inspection program until after the bridge collapsed. Cutting out the yearly bridge inspections could save money to cut taxes no doubt we have millions of bridges.
We could eliminate the Police Departments and the Fire Departments everybody could with a gun and shoot anybody they please and everybody already has a garden hose to fight fires with.
But there is one area where this country spends ten times more than any other country on earth, the military, this is where most of America’s tax dollars are spent. If it could be cut back to only 5 times as much it would provide massive tax cuts for everyone.
During FY2017, the federal government spent $3.98 trillion on a budget or cash basis, up $128 billion or 3.3% vs. FY2016 spending of $3.85 trillion. Major categories of FY 2017 spending included Healthcare ($1,077B or 27% of spending), Social Security ($939B or 24%), non-defense discretionary spending used to run federal Departments and Agencies ($610B or 15%), the Defense Department ($590B or 15%), and interest ($263B or 7%).[4]
If you were on the roof of your two-story house during Hurricane Harvey, I’ll bet you would be damn glad to see that government boat. It is the communists that have trained you to hate the American government as much as they do.
Do you really believe there should be no limit on freedom of speech? If a neighbor yours got angry with you for not cutting your lawn and decided that he is going to fix you. He goes to of yours place of employment and tells your employer that you have been molesting his six-year-old daughter your and employer becomes so disgusted he fires you. Do you really believe that neighbor has that freedom of speech and remember false child molestation allegations are often made in custody battles?
You cannot say liberty out of one side of your mouth and say you want to control every vagina in America out of the other.
Freedom of your own body is the first and the most important freedom of all.
How much bigger conservatives will make government to watch and make sure no one has an abortion. This will be that will take a lot of law enforcement resources and court time making government much bigger. It will double the welfare rolls as the people that have abortions can’t support themselves or their families. It will make the drug problem much worse as the children will be born to drug addicts and raised by drug addicts. This will make crime much worse and require more prisons. Those unwanted children will have to be fed, clothed and require medical services. The drug addicts and whores that are forced to give birth them aren’t going to support them every time government forces a woman to have an unwanted child, taxpayers are going to pay and government is going to get bigger. Don’t ever say you are for smaller government because you are not. Your philosophy is going to make government much bigger. You can give lip service to smaller government, but your actions are for bigger government.
Law is based on a basic principal and that is what would a reasonable man do?
A phrase frequently used in tort and Criminal Law to denote a hypothetical person in society who exercises average care, skill, and judgment in conduct and who serves as a comparative standard for determining liability.
The decision whether an accused is guilty of a given offense might involve the application of an objective test in which the conduct of the accused is compared to that of a reasonable person under similar circumstances. In most cases, persons with greater than average skills, or with special duties to society, are held to a higher standard of care. For example, a physician who aids a person in distress is held to a higher standard of care than is an ordinary person.
No limits on rights violates that most basic of all principals. Believing that someone has the right to go into a crowded nigh club and yell fire resulting in several deaths is absurd. The right of the night club patrons to live trumps the fools right of free speech. You advocating that are most precious military secrets could be given to Russia because the government employee has an absolute right to free speech. There are thousands of examples where limits are placed on free speech.
If you were the only person in the world your rights might be absolute but the problem with rights is that someone’s rights will eventually violate someone else’s rights.
Should you be able to tell your neighbor that your buddy is having an affair with his wife when he isn’t?
The neighbor then kills your buddy it is absolutely absurd to believe that rights should not have limits.
Oliver Wendel Homes is considered one of the of the most outstanding justices and it shows in that decision.
There will always be conflicts between one man’s rights and the rights of others. The only way to resolve those conflicts and that is to establish limits on those rights.
You are the one that believes that rights should be unlimited.
Why should a serial killer’s right to happiness be limited? After all, killing people is the only thing that makes him truly happy. You of all people should not want to put limits on a serial killer’s right to happiness. It seems you would put limits on someone else’s rights.
Murder might not be a right, but pursuit of happiness is, and different things make different people happy. Unlimited free speech would end up with a number of people dead if someone yelled fire in a crowded night club. Dead is dead whether at the hands of a serial killer or a fool with unlimited free speech.
The designed purpose of an AR-15 is mass murder to murder as many people as possible in the shortest period.
That violates the right to live for thousands of victims.
The argument that all guns will be banned is foolish we already had an assault weapon ban in force between 1994 and 2004 and all guns were not banned in fact no more guns were banned.
You must read a lot of fiction, but I don’t. Neuroscience is not a pseudo-science.
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There is no such thing as an ex-communist. Philosophies grow the brain.
Oh please. A political philosphy has nothing to do with one's bio make-up, give the psuedo science a rest.
To learn a skill, you repeat that skill time and again. If you are going to learn to throw a football you practice and do it again and again. Why?
Because you are rewiring your brain to get better at that skill.
There are some schools of thought that you visualize doing something correctly rather than doing it wrong and that visualization provides positive results. There is no doubt that if you can rewire your brain to ice skate you rewire your brain when you embrace a philosophy. If you lift weights your muscles grow stronger the neurons in your brain do the same with use they get stronger and the opposite pathways get weaker.
And old saying stated “that you are what you eat” but a far more accurate saying would be you are what you think. Your thoughts actually do make the man. You really don’t follow many different fields of study, do you? You are not very curious about other fields of study.
You may have read all 1146 pages of “Atlas Shrugged” but I don’t think you understood the books message.
It is a roadmap for the death of capitalism as we know it.
How you could read anything else the Russian princes wrote is beyond me. The plot of the book, the poor mistreated ungodly wealthy going on strike, is probably the most preposterous work of fiction ever conceived it would rival the most extreme narcissist view of himself.
The belief that only the ungodly greedy are responsible for all of man’s accomplishments and the rest of the population is no more then “beasts of the fields” is both offensive and reprehensible.
It does reflect Reagan’s worldview that the rich will share the crumbs through “trickle down economics.
The facts of Ayn Rand’s life go to show her character. Several people in her cult were well aware of the affair and the break up was extremely messy and public.
This happens in most cults the head of the cult is always a narcissist and cult members expected to pay tribute to the great one often through sex, so it was not at all surprising that the Russian Princes commanded a cult member to service her when she was older. Clinton sex life was front page news unfortunately the times were different when Ayn Rand was molesting her cult members.
“Atlas Shrugged” actually makes a case for unions in that the way the rich go about achieving their ends is to go on strike.
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Rand does not object to strikes but she believes only the ungodly greedy should have the power.
If you were a student of history, you would realize what happens when a strong third party develops. One of the two major parties will adopt some of the third party’s best proposals and take the wind out of the third party’s sails.
Franklin Roosevelt is responsible for stopping a strong communist movement in the United States.
This influence can be seen today in social security, workers compensation, unemployment, and government work programs like WPA. Farm subsidies and price support for farmers also came from that movement.
The battle against socialism was over in the early 30s but “Atlas Shrugged” wasn’t published until 1957 when the Republicans controlled the Whitehouse there was no major socialist inspired legislation pending or any large social movement in America when Ayn Rand was “saving” us from socialism. Rand was twenty years to late for the battle.
So, what was she selling?
A supreme race of businessmen.
Rand takes a stand against regulations of any kind. That regulations are bad and just an impediment put in the way of businessmen.
If air pollutions regulations had not passed there would be far fewer people in America today.
There would be much more lung diseases like COPD. Even now 7 million people die worldwide each year because of air pollution.
Rand’s idea that businessmen would regulate themselves for the good of their fellow men is absurd.
If a picture is worth 10,000 words search for air pollution in the 50s and look at that pictures of Los Angles.
Do you think the business men care that 7 million people die each year?
Trump is doing everything he can to push the dirtiest form of energy and roll back the regulations so that another 1350 people a year will die in America.
Dying from COPD is especially bad way to die starving for oxygen, but it makes no difference to Trump there is money to made. Trump is not going to live by those old coal fired plants.
