No Republicans Need Apply

NRO ^ | 12 Feb 2017 | Kevin Williamson

[Rummyfan]

One of the less understood criticisms of progressivism is that it is totalitarian, not in the sense that kale-eating Brooklynites want to build prison camps for political nonconformists (except for the ones who want to lock up global-warming skeptics) but in the sense that it assumes that there is no life outside of politics, that there is no separate sphere of private life, and that church, family, art, and much else properly resides within that sphere.

Earlier this week, I expressed what seemed to me an unobjectionable opinion: that politics has a place, that politics should be kept in its place, and that happy and healthy people and societies have lives that are separate from politics. The response was dispiriting but also illuminating.

[Rummyfan]

A Buddhist writer once described two kinds of material unhappiness: the absence of what one desires and the presence of what one despises. But the Buddha was known to associate with worldly men and their unclean enthusiasms in much the same way that Jesus slummed around with prostitutes and tax collectors, instructing us by example to seek after lives that are as large as our love and not as small as our hatred. The people who close their doors against those who simply see the world in a different way, who scream profanities at Betsy DeVos or chant “You should die!” at Jewish musicians, are people who cannot rise far enough above their own pettiness to understand that the thing they fear is the thing they are.

[miss marmelstein]

I wouldn’t be so sure progressives don’t want to build prison camps. I’m seeing something I never saw before. Of course, they’ve always hide in plain sight and I was too blind to see.

[indthkr]

Leftist ‘Tolerance’ bump for later...

[originalbuckeye]

If you can find the Weather Underground Manifesto, written in the early 70’s, it calls for all those who aren’t in line with the ‘progressives’ to be sent to reeducation camps in the Southwest. If after the reeducation, they still aren’t in line, they are to be eliminated. Not joking. But I’m not sure the Manifesto hasn’t been scrubbed from the Internet......I haven’t checked lately.

[Hans]

I fear Kevin W. has supped at the same Progressive table of hate once to often. The devil has become pleasing.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, I believe you! Well, they’ve waited 200 years to destroy our republic. They may finally be achieving their dream.

[donna]

totalitarian

a : of or relating to centralized control by an autocratic leader or hierarchy : authoritarian, dictatorial; especially : despotic

b : of or relating to a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation especially by coercive measures (such as censorship and terrorism)

[polymuser]

I recall that Obama’s mentor and pal Bill Ayers, in his 1970’s bombing days, called for 20 million non-proggies to die.

[MtnClimber]

The elimination of conservatives, the weather underground met with chinese communists who told them they would need to eliminate about 25 million who would not go along with communism. Bill Ayres admitted to this in his book “Prairie Fire”. This was also reported by an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the weather underground.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[correctthought]

Yeah, I remember that too. They also estimated 25% or so death rate of the US population. They were cool with that.

These lefty rioters, or at least their organizers, would probably be happy with that sort of political action too.

[correctthought]

Correction: not 25% but 25 million.

[correctthought]

I remember reading 15 years ago of a demo progressive local candidate in WA, that suggested out loud that we may need “re-education” camps for republicans.

He was forced to stop campaigning, but, I think this is a not uncommon mindset of the left in this country.

Wish I kept a copy of the story.

[laconic]

Remember what the dad in “Red Dawn” told his sons when they secretly visited him at the fence in the communist reeducation camp: “Avenge me!”

[TalBlack]

, not in the sense that kale-eating Brooklynites want to build prison camps for political nonconformists...”

Think so? Point out that, say, homosexuals are degraded deviants and see what they think of you...

[correctthought]

I shudder to think where we’d be if clintigula’s consort managed to win or steal the election.

I pray for our president’s safety and strength to root out the progressive fascists in the beauracracy, repeal of the “affordable” health act, and not get bogged down by his frenemies in the legislature.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Oh I agree.

Just when you think they couldn’t get ANY WORSE, the are TOTALLY UNHINGED

They’re invited CW II and it won’t end pretty for them

[Iron Munro]

It looks as if this guy came pretty close to calling it correctly:

Chaos Will Erupt Across America In Less Than 100 Days... No MatterWho Wins The Election

Tuesday, August 30, 2016
by Mike Adams

If Trump wins, the left goes full terror.

As I've publicly predicted numerous times over the last year, if Donald Trump wins, the radical extreme leftists go on a violent rampage that leads to the rest of us begging for martial law.

http://www.naturalnews.com/055146_social_chaos_election_results_popular_revolt.html

[JimRed]

Point out that, say, homosexuals are degraded deviants and see what they think of you...

Mentally ill degraded deviants.