Derby of the Ideologies

"Because reality seldom comports to what an ideology says must be so, all ideologies seek power (in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the Ring of Power is power itself). Ultimately, their power must be total, because only total power can compel people to pretend the ideology is correct when their own eyes tell them it is not. In pursuit of total power, fascism, in its German form of National Socialism, killed 15 million people."

"In today's America, the cultural Marxists have shown their totalitarian ambitions on college campuses they control; in their hands, places that require freedom of thought and expression have become small North Koreas. Thanks to President Trump's courage in defying and assailing cultural Marxism, it is now in retreat here. Regrettably, it still has a death-grip on Canada, the UK, and some European countries."

Marxism and fascism are rival ideologies with structural similarities: each imposes a rigid philosophical blueprint and seeks power to force conformity. Both rely on selected philosophers—Marx or Frankfurt School thinkers for Marxists, Nietzsche for fascists—to justify reshaping society. Ideologies require total power to compel people to act against observable reality. National Socialism killed approximately 15 million people; Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist, and Pol Pot regimes caused around 100 million deaths in the twentieth century. Cultural Marxism exhibits totalitarian tendencies on some university campuses, while fascism sought to abandon Judeo-Christian elements of Western culture and revive pagan antiquity values.

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