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George Rebane

In these tense times, a faux normalcy cloaks the serious troubles afflicting our nation and the world. As I’ve long argued in these pages, the concurrence of geopolitical missteps, cognitive biases, and the quiet creep of collectivism demands more than passive tolerance of the Left—it requires active containment. Drawing from paradigms I’ve learned from minds far sharper than mine, I’ll unpack the folly of cozying up to autocrats cum tyrants, the psychology of beliefs, the dangers of unchecked socialism, and the Left’s mangling of science and political ideology. My aim is to revisit why merely tolerating the Left is a recipe for societal decay.

We’re living in a moment where surface calm hides a storm of ideological threats that left unchecked will restructure our society.  With many others I’ve been sounding the alarm on this danger for years, not because I’m some oracle, but because I’ve paid attention to the lessons of history and human nature.

Geopolitics: No “Good Relationships” with Tyrants

Let’s start with the global stage. Trump’s claim of having “good relationships” with Putin and Xi is a pipe dream. You can’t pal around with leaders whose national strategies hinge on America’s decline—China and Russia chief among them. The best you get is a civil handshake, not a bromance. Autocracies only respect force; they see diplomacy as a stalling tactic until they hold the upper hand. Trump’s instinct for win-win deals, honed in the boardroom, doesn’t translate to communist regimes that view every negotiation as zero-sum. They’ll string you along until you’re weak or they’re desperate.

Case in point: Ukraine. The fastest way to end Putin’s war is to arm Ukraine with long-range missiles—Tomahawks, specifically—and greenlight their use against deep Russian targets. That’s not warmongering; it’s the language of power that dictators understand. It would also put China on notice about Taiwan, delaying Xi’s expansionist dreams. Anything less is just kicking the can down the road, inviting more aggression. History shows appeasement only emboldens tyrants—think Munich 1938. Force, not flattery, brings them to the table.

The Psychology of Belief: Facts Don’t Matter

Shifting gears, let’s talk about why bad ideas persist. It’s easier to sell people on nonsense that fits their tribal beliefs than to persuade them with reasoned truths. (Plato learned this from Socrates 2,500 years ago.)  Humans crave group membership over rational thought—always have. That’s why the old saying about having your own opinions but not your own facts is bunk. Every day, the public square proves people can and do have their own facts, histories, and logics, cobbling together personal realities that defy evidence. Social media echo chambers and partisan media only amplify this.

This cognitive quirk explains why collectivism—socialism, communism, you name it—keeps rearing its head. Its simplistic pitch of “diversity, equity, inclusion” through redistribution hooks the gullible, promising fairness while delivering shackles. If you just tolerate this ideology in a free-market capitalist society, it spreads like cancer. You can’t sit back and hope it fizzles out. It takes active containment—educating the young on the failures of collectivism, from the Soviet Union to Venezuela, and keeping the debate alive in public forums. Without that, the left’s feel-good slogans will continue eroding the foundations of liberty.

The Rebane Doctrine: Fooling All, Always

I’ve long held in what I call the Rebane Doctrine that not only can you fool some people all the time and all people some of the time, but you can also fool all people all the time. Look at the Bolsheviks or Nazis—entire nations bought into catastrophic lies about the promises of collectivism. Today’s “No Kings” rallies, with tens of millions railing against Trump as some wannabe dictator, are a case study. They ignore his administration’s unmatched transparency in policy and action. Agree or disagree with his methods, albeit somewhat haphazardly applied.  -The record speaks for itself: tax cuts, deregulation, peace through strength. Yet the left’s narrative paints him as a cartoon villain, and the sheeple lap it up, proving my doctrine’s grim truth.

Misreading the Political Spectrum

The left’s ignorance of political ideology is another sore spot. They embrace socialism and communism as harmless alternatives to capitalism, blind to their track record of misery. Worse, they mislabel fascism as right-wing to tar conservatives as evil. Let’s set the record straight: fascism is big-government collectivism, a leftist ideology. The Right, at its core, minimizes government’s role, if anything, trending toward anarchy in its extreme. The left’s spectrum runs from autocratic collectivism—socialism, communism, fascism—to totalitarianism. The right’s extreme is no government at all. Calling fascism “right-wing” is a deliberate distortion, and it’s why the left’s moral posturing falls apart under scrutiny – minimally practiced today.

Science as Consensus: The Left’s Anti-Science Stance

Finally, the Democrat Party’s approach to science is anything but scientific. Bypassing evidence, they treat consensus as truth.  Their obsession with catastrophic global warming is the poster child for this narrative. Science isn’t a popularity contest; it thrives on skepticism, testing, and falsification. Yet Democrats push policies based on apocalyptic models, not hard data, shouting down dissenters as heretics. This isn’t science—it’s propagandizing dogma dressed up in lab coats. Real scientific practice demands constant questioning, not blind allegiance to a majority vote.  (A prime example – the whole field of control and estimation theory falsifies the hubris of centrally controlled large governments embraced by collectivists.)

The Path Forward: Containment, Not Tolerance

So, what’s the answer? Just tolerating the Left won’t cut it.  As history warns, their ideas, left unchecked, metastasize into autocracy,. We need a multi-pronged defense: arm allies like Ukraine to deter global autocrats, educate our young on the virtues of free markets and the perils of collectivism, and keep the public square buzzing with debate to expose leftist fallacies. My geo-strategic model, built on lessons from smarter minds, has held up over the years. It’s not about silencing the Left but containing their influence before their redistributionist utopian policies beggar us all.

The stakes are high. From geopolitical miscalculations to domestic ideological drift, the threats are real. We can’t afford to sit idly by, lulled by a false sense of normalcy. The Rebane Doctrine reminds us that mass delusion is always possible, and the left’s current trajectory—embracing collectivism while mangling science and history—is a clear and present danger. It’s time to act, not just tolerate. Let’s teach, debate, and deter, or risk losing the liberal and free-market capitalistic society we’ve built.