https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-328.php
POSTED ON JUNE 12, 2020 BY SCOTT JOHNSON
THOUGHTS FROM THE AMMO LINE
Ammo Grrrll chronicles the FEMINIST BLUES, AND A SHORT HISTORY. She writes:

I am sure I am not alone in being sick to death of Antifa. Do not let the name fool you. “Antifa” has exactly as much to do with fighting fascism as “Planned Parenthood” has to do with bringing babies into the world. You can name a group or charity anything. I used to end my act with: “Ladies and gentlemen, as you leave, kindly donate to the Susan Vass Wildlife Fund. Remember, if you don’t give, I can’t lead a wild life…”

To avoid writing another word about Antifa/Democrat violence and anarchy, we will pick up our discussion about Feminism begun here two weeks ago. Feminism was never really about doing much for women – especially working- or middle-class women. Feminism was always about four things: first, a way to destroy every family as thoroughly as The Great Society had destroyed the black family with particular emphasis on the right to kill the unborn, what you might call “Planned Non-Parenthood”.

Two: It was meant to be a camel’s nose under the tent to lead to socialism. And third: A nasty power grab. It was a way to punish men, basically, for existing. Lastly, it was also a way for already privileged women to get a “leg up” in lucrative careers, instead of the time-tested old-fashioned Kamala way, which involved both legs. I know. I was there near the start. And radicals and leftists were behind it all.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/06/06/hayward-democrats-embrace-the-four-stages-of-ideological-subversion/
JOHN HAYWARD6 Jun 2020

“Progressive” ideology always rests on a conviction that the current “regressive” system is comprehensively unjust and must be destroyed by exploiting its weaknesses.

The most famous proponent of such tactics in recent years has been the late Saul Alinksy, the intellectual godfather of the modern Democrat Party, but former Soviet journalist and KGB informant Yuri Bezmenov laid out an even more concise strategy for subversion in a 1984 interview.

Alinksy’s seminal book specified 13 Rules for Radicals, but Bezmenov had only four “stages of ideological subversion,” and they will sound very familiar to anyone following the current wave of left-wing riots, or the politicized final stages of the coronavirus panic before it: Demoralization, Destabilization, Crisis, and Normalization.
Bezmenov defined ideological subversion, or “active measures” as the KGB preferred to call it, as a “slow brainwashing process” to “change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite their abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”

Each stage is detailed at the link, with examples.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1270329369874046978.html

Tyranny isn’t just about having strict laws. It’s about giving political elite and their supporters special exemptions from those laws. For example, you’re about to be told strict coronavirus lockdowns must remain in effect for everyone EXCEPT Black Lives Matter.

Every left-wing ideology – socialism, communism, fascism – is inherently tyrannical because they ALWAYS grant the elite and their favored supporters immunity from the heavy burden of control placed on others. The elite “need” those privileges and loyal supporters “deserve” them.

You can see this happening right now, with every single oppressive demand of the Left. Gun control for you, but they get armed guards; walls are bad, except the ones around their estates; your carbon footprint is too big, but theirs is just right.
…
Even “Abolish the Police” is thinly-veiled tyranny. The elite will absolutely have protection for their lives and property, and plenty of enforcement muscle to make you nasty little Deplorables obey their commands. Only the man and woman on the street will be sacrificed to crime.
The Left’s private-sector auxiliaries embrace the core principles of tyranny with gusto. Left-wingers routinely get a total pass for online posts that would get others banned instantly. People with the correct politics don’t get fact-checked or labeled for “glorifying violence.”

This is all totally justified in the minds of the Left because it understands that real power, the kind it needs to “fundamentally transform” an unwilling society, can ONLY be exercised through tyranny. Real power demands immunity to the laws imposed on everyone else.

Oppressive rules that also apply to the politically well-connected are a check on their power. They would hesitate to impose draconian rules they also had to obey. They need advantages in messaging and propaganda they would lose if they obeyed their own speech codes.

…
Others wonder why the faithful subjects of the Left tolerate all this tyrannical hypocrisy, but it’s not hard to understand. Some of them hate the targets of tyrannical control so passionately that they’ll accept the loss of their own money and freedom without complaint.
…
With this in mind, a good step toward resisting tyranny is demanding absolute obedience to all laws by everyone. No special exceptions, no free passes, no backroom deals. Say NO every time the tyrants claim THEIR loyal followers don’t have to obey the way YOU do. /end

Companion piece: Judicial Watch wants to paint the streets of DC too.

https://www.cnsnews.com/index.php/article/washington/michael-w-chapman/judicial-watch-asks-dc-mayor-permission-paint-no-one-above-law

“Mayor Bowser made a decision to turn D.C. streets into a forum for public expression,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch seeks equal access to use this new forum to educate Americans by painting our organization’s motto and motivation, ‘Because No One Is Above the Law!,’ on a Capitol Hill street.”

“This rule of law message is timely, as it is a reminder that rule of law applies to – and protects – all Americans,” he said.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-6-6-some-progressive-bad-ideas-to-make-things-worse-for-black-americans

i wonder if you remember when i pointed out the date the last anti communist law was struck down… that was a good place to mark the book as when the end would come…

Only the left spends time combing through old social media posts, or deep-archives of news studios, to come up with damning evidence of wrong-think.

The right has more productive things to do.

I’m a curious fellow so I left the cafe to go listen to the man and see what he was up to.

Well, he was a patriotic Trump supporter, so he was shouting things like, “Trump is my President” and “I love America.” I told him I agreed but wanted to know why he was doing it. He said he goes to all protests this way to have his say. I smiled at him and went back into the cafe.

Not too long later I saw a big guy in a red shirt came up and interact with flag man. I went back to work on my laptop. Next thing I knew, I looked up and saw red shirt swinging at flag man. Some people nearby pulled them apart.

I went outside and listened to the cafe regulars who were talking. Even the liberals agreed that flag guy had his right to speak.

I was not amused.

Right before I read the comments you made in this thread, I was reading, in a book I have (and have written about before, here), a passage about that very topic. The author Haffner was a young man in Germany during the 30s, ended up escaping to England, but he wrote a memoir of the Nazi takeover times in Germany. Among other things, he wrote this on the subject of a lot of people joining the Nazi Party in March 1933:

They did it for many reasons, often for a whole tangled web of them, but however hard one looks, one will not find a single, solid, positive, durable reason among them – not one that can pass muster. In each individual case the process of becoming a Nazi showed the unmistakable symptoms of nervous collapse.

The simplest and, if you look deeper, almost always the most basic reason was fear. Join the thugs to avoid being beaten up.

How the Hell did this radicalisation of IT happen?

It didnt… the geeks are posing to stay out of trouble… ie. they are chicken…they stand up for nothing… they bend like grass in the wind… so they all know to put up a front and toe that line just not to have to look for work as most programmers and techs are so so… the better ones (like me) get in trouble… we felt we could find work, but that is less so than it was given the oddities in kick backs for h1b visas and other things… now companies are afraid that their work force may be noticed and the mob may show up… but engineers, techs, and such are people who work with a unforgiving reality, they do not have the luxury of delusion, but they do know enough to pander pander pander..

this is how so many people followed the freaky German guy, but really didn’t like it… many many many didnt, which is why he had such elaborate structures to prevent his being removed… he knew they were pandering and pretending in many ways, but he also knew that as long as they did, they were demonstrating who had control, and how beautiful a horse the deer he showed..

they know the level of the power they have by the numbers that pretend..
they do not care if they really believe it, its enough to feel the power of forcing people to do something they dont want to… thats the negative power people… the people who have to feel it… they do more and more just to find a way to show they have it… after all, doing what people want is supported and you never know if they are doing it because you have the power to compel them or they want to and you have no power at all.