Posted on 12/04/2016 4:50:15 AM PST by Kaslin
At first I dismissed the Democrats' subsidized street riots and vandalism, moronic election recount demands, and perfervid attacks on Trump and his supporters in the press as a demonstration of their juvenile, narcissistic refusal to accept defeat. Then I read the brilliant essay by Angelo Codevilla
It’s a bit long and I know your Sundays are busy but if you can’t read it all at once, I’ll summarize what I think are the most significant points in the hope that if the topic is of interest you’ll read it all. He traces the notion of political correctness from the 1930 Communist movement through Antonio Gramsci’s “cultural hegemony” configuration to the modern Democratic Party and finds in them a familiar strain:
[A]ll progressives, Communists included, claim to be about creating new human realities, they are perpetually at war against nature’s laws and limits. But since reality does not yield, progressives end up pretending that they themselves embody those new realities. Hence, any progressive movement’s nominal goal eventually ends up being subordinated to the urgent, all-important question of the movement’s own power. Because that power is insecure as long as others are able to question the truth of what the progressives say about themselves and the world, progressive movements end up struggling not so much to create the promised new realities as to force people to speak and act as if these were real: as if what is correct politically -- i.e., what thoughts serve the party’s interest -- were correct factually.
Communist states furnish only the most prominent examples of such attempted groupthink. Progressive parties everywhere have sought to monopolize educational and cultural institutions in order to force those under their thumbs to sing their tunes or to shut up.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The American progressives are the result of Hitler’s failure
American progressives predate Hitler by several decades.
Got to go to work right now but want to read article later. Very interesting, thanks for the summation.
Positively correct! Jonah Goldberg did a good book on the topic that deserves reading. I'm not in agreement with Goldberg on his politics, but "Liberal Fascism" is well done and historically accurate.
For those looking to understand the looney left and how they've manifested into agents of societal rot, this is a good read.
Know thy enemy.
BUMP!
FROM THE ARTICLE:
"Goldberg’s Bagels is a small kosher bakery in Baltimore,
When a customer attacked pro-Trump supporters outside his store, claiming Trump was a rapist and racist, the shop owner tried to quell the disturbance by asking the woman to leave. She further insulted Trump and then his supporters. This prompted Mr. Drebin, the shop owner, to express his own support for Trump, after which his Facebook page was filled with insults suggesting Drebin approved of “anti-Semitism, misogyny, xenophobia and alt-right leanings.” The entire PC shtick.
His business dropped by 15%.
Keep this stuff up and someday there won’t be a Democratic Party. In the meantime, I note that Goldberg’s Bagels has a website, and you can order by mail. They’re very delicious, (So is Chik-fil-A, by the way.)"
https://goldbergsbagels.net/mailorder.php
The bagels are 11 bucks for a baker's dozem - 13. They look delicious and I am ordering some today ... excellent article.
And Stalin’s success.
It looks more like the soviet socialists, national socialists, and American progressive socialists were three facets of the same totalitarian mindset. At least until recently, the American version lacked the antisemitism of the other two, but that gap has been filled in by today's socialist progressives. Our homegrown socialists are now just as malignant as their failed comrades in the socialist brotherhood.
well I would definitely order them since I cannot find any boiled bagels here locally, but with shipping it works out to $1.56 per bagel. Just too steep for my wallet. I bet they are delicious though!
yes
I posted Hitler’s failure, but also McCarthy’s failure. He showed the way but was thwarted.
Yep, I usually get frozen everything bagels from lender's :) but I am going to put this in what I laughingly call my budget and try to order a dozen once a month. I think we really need to support the trump supporters who come under fire and suffer loss. We are still at war, sad to say.
Thanks, I just finished reading it...it is truly brilliant.
In a sane world, one with morals and a sense of self preservation, each and every adherent to the aforementioned cabals would be subject to interment and re-education until they are redeemed.
Failing that, execution for crimes against God and humanity.
“The American progressives are the result of Hitler’s failure.”
And Lenin’s success.
I might have to myself.
It’s bookmarked so maybe next payday I will for Christmas stuff.
What an odd comment. What do you mean by that.
Correctemundo! You can find them in the Roosevelt administration, Theodore, not Franklin and in Woody Wilson's too. Germany and Hitler and Goebbels learned from us.
Good article. This election was the Gettysburg of the American culture. The Left lost. The skirmishes will continue.
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