This referenced article mentions God and righteous spiritual beliefs but really you can just insert higher power. Those who see reason as the higher power and believe any means can be used to advance the worship of reason often fall into the trap of arrogance of egocentrism found in the worship of reason. Communism is a stalwart example of the intelligentsia finding communism as the means of controlling the world in a rational way once this ideology of reason moves to the political spectrum. What instead happens is the impulse to power corrupts even the worship of reason so eventually the irrational and dysfunction of both the USSR and Mao’s Chinese cultural revolution results. That is where the US is heading.
The US is here now in a great political battle of the soul of the nation. Communism/Fascism like activity has already occurred over the past years since Bush, Clinton, and Obama took office. This is especially true of Obama with his focus on race. Bush allowed a fascism creep with the patriot act post 911. 911 was a crisis capitalized on or was it a gain of function developed and advanced for political power. Clintons introduced the lust of the power impulse. These impulses are now embedded in the technocratic state of the unelected. The revolving door of lobbyist and the politician but also the judiciary. Wallstreet is onboard as is the FED. The military is bought off too with the military industrial complex. These ideas and systems are now embedded in critical palaces in government. The academia of universities has been infiltrated by this ideology for decades and now we have Woke, cancel, and safetyism. Safetyism is a unipolar intellectual position completely add odds with a representative democracy.
The inclusion of fascism with the comingling of large corporations with the will of the state but also the state in the will of the corporations. Monopolies for ideology is the quid pro quo. Mainstream Media is almost entirely on board with the propaganda aspect of the communism and fascism. This has been done with the consolidation of media empires. The web of free speech is endangered species. Keep in mind this modern comingling of fascism and communism are not at odds like they were in WWII. There they were nationalist ideologies. Now they are the Globalist hidden agenda to world domination. This is clearly expressed in the WEF discussions. The Davos crowd is behind WEF. We also see it in the CCP with the doctrine of social harmony of the Chinese state.
This combining of communism with its idealism of the progressivism and fascism with its alliance of totalitarianism of large corporations and government creates a powerful force of monopolies with the moral hazard of the “means justify the ends” of political policy. This is especially effective in the US because the reach of social and entertainment media which were once free spirited. The moral hazard is the slow degrading of the rule of law and generally accepted principals of free markets and the fairness of the market place. It also includes he moral relativism we see today with the social narrative of Woke. This is the corporate world of Walmart and Amazon against main street and small business. These places cannot be controlled so they will be muscled out by both business and the state.
This is essentially the end of the West as we know it and now a movement towards the control socialism of the Chinese model. The Chinese are moving in this same direction also but from the other side of the spectrum with the mingling of large corporations into the totalitarianism of its one-party state. China is actually going further with the rule of a strongman “chairman” of the state with Xi.
What is driving this great political turning is the realization from the elites that the world is in a desperate situation with climate change and the overshoot of population and consumption. The people now have to be controlled with technology and ideology so they can be programed to accept harsh responses to what is ahead. This is why so much George Orwell 1984 is discussed lately. That may sound good to environmentalist and social scientist except for the inevitable corruption of egocentrism of reason. These utopias of reason never work becuase they are out of scale with true human behavior of the tribe and the family. Power corrupts and total power corrupts absolutely. Once reason is corrupted anything goes as we saw in the French Revolution.
“Looking Through An Adversary's Eyes: A KGB Agent's Prophecy”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/looking-t ... 59634.html“Why are Intellectuals So Prone to Communism? Intellectuals tend to be fooled by radical ideologies. This phenomenon has drawn the attention of scholars. British historian Paul Johnson found that radical intellectuals share the fatal weaknesses of arrogance and egocentrism…Rapid scientific progress since the 18th century greatly strengthened humankind’s confidence in its own ability and fueled the intellectual trend of progressivism. People started to worship humanist reason instead of God. Reason is believed to be able to lead people to the path of happiness and morality. People want to create a utopia, a “paradise on earth,” which is the essential idea of communism. As the “pastors” of modern science, intellectuals believe that they are the interpreter of the truth, and their cause is so important that no means are off-limits to serve their ends. This has caused a deluge of blood and misery. Founding Father John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Interestingly enough, a ruthless communist dictator, Joseph Stalin, echoed his point from another angle, “America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” It is time for us to be humble again, look inward, and follow the true wisdom of righteous spiritual beliefs. This is our only solution.”