The "Progressive" movement
like all proto-totalitarian movements has morphed into a thug like cult of
fanatics who are humorless, insensitive and intolerant of anyone who gets in
their way.
They take on
pseudo sacramental symbolic rituals speech and actions of the religions they so
despise because their lives are empty and divorced from the reality of the
human condition.
They want a society where
the collective will as defined by a select elite few squashes individual wants,
needs and rights like a bug.
To get to the utopia of
automatons they desire, they have to dismantle western civilization, brick by
brick. In the process of doing this they have become the purveyors of truly
asinine and idiotic ideas due to their lack of connectivity to historic norms
that have stood the test of time... hence the circus we are threatened with
being imprisoned in at the present.
America is in the midst of
the of the rise of neo-Jacobin politics trying to create a French
Revolution "deux" to replace ex post facto, the revolution which gave us our
freedom and liberties. Ironically it is also simultaneously going down the "Red
Book road" via a domestic version of China's "Cultural Revolution" where those
who don't demonstrate sufficient ideological purity and zeal, first become
pariahs while on their way to becoming enemies of the
state.
We all know how both
revolutions ended. Citizen Genet is somewhere in hell smirking that the
Americans have finally taken his advice, and are getting their revolution
right. But we can all suppose that he is still fervently hoping for more
blood and beheadings before we finally come at the place where all "Progressive"
transformations eventually arrive.
Currently we now are faced
with an ever growing and ever changing list of what is appropriate ( and safe)
to both believe in and express publicly. Deviation from the Progressive party
line now can mark a person for personal destruction. Lose your job...lose your
reputation...and somewhere down the line, history teaches...lose your
life!
The progressives who occupy
a space on the political spectrum sandwiched between
Fascists...Maoists...Marxists... Stalinists... and Nazis are, like their
comrades, all about grievance and outrage whether they are snotty coeds paying
$65,000 a year at Dartmouth who demand unisex toilets as the way to combat all
the "isms" they believe in their self indulgent minds oppress them. Or they are
the Rainbow Swastika brigades who demanded
the "dismissal" of Brendan Eich at Mozilla because he gave money in 2008 to
oppose same sex marriage. and therefor is now somewhere between a monster and a
non-person.
Then there is the honorary
Doctorate that Brandeis was supposed to give to Ayaan Hirsi Ali who has spent
her life exposing the evils of female genital mutilation, honor killings, child
brides and all the other misogyny that Sharia has inflicted on Muslim
women...including herself. But the Hamas / Muslim Brotherhood creation CAIR
(Council on Islamic -American Relations) complained and now the degree has been
withdrawn because in the words of its gutless President "her past words are
inconsistent with Brandeis's core values". Of course what past statements are
not elucidated and one can now only imagine what the core values of Brandeis are
today.
For over a decade we have
been sounding the alarm bell about the rise of political correctness in our
society, politics and culture. The rise of PC in either or all of these areas
is essentially the main tool for the Alinsky left to attain power by turning the
world upside down by attempting to rewire human nature and rewrite human
history.
PC keeps repackaging
itself as the tip of the spear of the forces of the historical vanguard...what
ever the hell that means. As you pick through the adolescent angst that is
the substitute for reasoned and rational thinking ...the message seems to be...
forget all you know and all you have been taught ...its all wrong and has made
you the oppressor...the racist...the sexist...the homophobe...the
Islamaphobe...the 1%...and now you must be punished unless you are willing to be
re-educated.
Today we are rapidly
becoming prisoners of ideas and dogmas so bizarre or so stupid that sane
people who are not paying close attention usually end up refusing to believe
that these ideas are taken seriously by others. The new truths being spread on
college campuses and in the popular culture include the propositions that
heterosexuality is deviant...Christianity is insanity ...marriage is slavery
(unless you are gay ...then it is freedom)...the Israelis are Nazis..the
Palestinians are the "Jews"....all clergy are sexual predators...Blacks cannot
be racists...but criticism of Obama for any reason...is... Discrimination is
proved by statistics because lack of equal outcome in every aspect of life
demonstrates unfairness and unfairness is synonymous with inequality and
inequality is caused by discrimination.
The second amendment is no
longer valid (if it ever was in their minds) and there is no room for religion
in the public square. Any one who expresses his or her religious beliefs in
public is now more likely then not in certain areas of the country, to be met
by scorn or a law suit particularly if the discussion or action takes place in a
public school or on public property. And no one seems to argue back that
mindlessly limiting where a person can express or practice his or her religion
is a clear violation of their first amendment rights. Moreover few if
any put forth the increasingly obvious fact that the state has de facto adopted
a state religion of non-religion or anti-religion.
All of the above dogma is
proclaimed with deadly earnestness because progressives and their fellow
travelers on their side of the spectrum in fact have no sense of humor and don't
abide a sense of humor in others. Imagine working a comedy club with people
looking and acting like Saddam, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Khomeini, Osama, Kim Jung
Un, Pol Pot, Lois Lerner and Harry Reid in the audience. That is what many
conservatives experience speaking on college campuses today about anything that
runs counter to progressive PC orthodoxy.
A prior guest, Professor
F.H. Buckley of George Mason School of Law wrote a witty and perceptive book
entitled "The Morality of Laughter"in which he pointedly said
"The loss of a sense of
humor has impoverished academic discourse where nonsensical theories that could
not survive the test of ridicule are now taken seriously. Before adopting a
fashionable idea, we ought first to inquire whether it twigs our sense of
humor'"
In other words if it is so
stupid that Stewart, Miller Fallon, Kimmel, Letterman, Colbert or SNL see the
joke ...we should flush it and send its authors for treatment.
Erlandsson
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