Posted on 01/11/2017 5:00:28 AM PST by Kaslin
The aftermath of this extraordinary election, likely the most important in American history, has been fraught with controversy and confusion.
The collapse of the fourth estate, for example, is a signal and unfortunate consequence. Weeping "journalists," misguided and error-embracing "analysts," bias, fraud, malfeasance, and falsehoods mark the end of a once proud profession.
In the political and popular culture of the American left, there is a widespread and disturbing hatred and intolerance for those in the opposition that overwhelmingly eclipses a similar reaction to the election of George W. Bush.
The political culture now is so sour and the response of many who favored the losing party so extreme, so partisan, unforgiving, and unpleasant, that it seems clear that something much more than a presidential election defeat is the cause.
The absence of a unified theory of the collapse of the American progressive neo-Jacobin utopian left could be of some value in addressing these important questions.
Among the many reasons that explain the Democratic candidate's defeat is the fact that the constituency of the left is the totality of all living and future humanity. Their agenda is global and humanity-wide in scope; their countrymen are not the highest in the order of value, but merely take their place among the family of mankind. A rebellion against this view was at the core of the election result.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Those people never give up.
I’m thinking of Obama as Robespierre.
Yes, they never give up. As the title of a 1967 book by Thomas Molnar put it, Utopia is the Perennial Heresy.
-—unified theory of the collapse of the American progressive neo-Jacobin utopian left——
Well well, there we have it.
there are so many metaphors mixed in that statement it may take several days to sort it all out.
Rather than 1789, we should be thinking of 1792 and the elimination of the urban nobles who set themselves as above the people rather than the citizens with the guillotine.
The year of 2019 or perhaps 2020 and Hillary’s and Nancy’s and Barack’s head on the block is yet to come
A very high percentage of our Millennials are still trapped deep in this cult. I've been arguing with a bunch of them this morning on another site, and the vision of "Trump golden showers" fits so perfectly with what they have been taught to believe about the man that they are violently attacking 4chan and trying to prove that the site's timeline doesn't add up and the story is real.
We just barely found enough older Americans this time to smack the utopians in the mouth, but without some kind of national de-programming effort (Trump's Tweets are a start) we'll be right back here in 2020 trying to fend off St. Cory Booker or St. Kamala Harris, who unlike the evil Trump actually care about people. /rolleyes
As dangerous as a wounded and cornered animal
He makes a good point. Even though the election of Donald Trump is a victory for American conservatism, liberalism is a global cancer. If the renewed conservative movement doesn’t spread around the world, his election will be at best a delay of the socialist juggernaut.
We need to globalize conservatism or we’ll eventually be crushed by the communist internationale. Trotsky’s dream will come true and there will be a single Nation of the Proletariat.
The wiser generation could help by refusing to pay for their children’s destruction at Leftist universities. Their students should have to pay for their miseducation. Trump should severely limit the amount of student loans per student, so at 26, these “children” wouldn’t still be sitting at the feet of their programmers, swilling all the mental slop dished out by their Communist professors. The current education system is doing their students and the country grave harm.
There are people on the left who are authentically utopian, but they are a very small faction.
The majority, the so-called “center left”, are voluptuaries for state power. Obama and most Dem politicians, and many Republicans, are of this type.
A large portion are nihilists, the self-styled “anarchists” of the revolutionary left. Although they desire revolution, they are not utopians any more than Stalin or Hitler were utopians.
“I’m thinking of Obama as Robespierre”
Perhaps he will meet a similar fate.
When I was in school years ago, I had a friend who was much older, who had returned to school. When he was young, he was a Moonie for several years, and lived on one of their communes. I asked him why he did it, and he said, “because of the p***y”.
As a single conservative living in Manhattan, my prospects would be much richer if I were a member of the lefty cult. Even on a 1-hour first date, politics never fails to come up as a topic. The political orientation of NYC and other major metro areas is self-reinforcing.
It is war, it is good versus evil, it is the few seeking the property and control of the many, it is envy, and it is ingratitude. The war continues and we as the champions of individual freedom must continue to beat these Marxist pigs down with unrelenting energy. Their spirit and will to fight must be crushed. See the lessons of George Patton.
I also think that many liberals identify so much with their politics that they take it too personally when they lose and they are only able to see the “loss” and not the opposing sides. As a professor, I have so many liberal “friends” that are melting down and are so full of “hate” for conservatives that they won’t socialize with us any more. Conservatives have other aspects of their lives; in the past, we did not melt down because Obama won. We saw positive aspects to our lives beyond politics. But liberals see Trump as a personal attack because so many of their values and identities are so locked with “liberalism.” But the fact that they minds are so closed and “illiberal” never occurs to them.
I don’t know what the remedy is to return them to sanity. I hope time works its wonders, but the bitter feelings are so deep and feed upon each other.
It’s good to review this prescient interview from time to time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5It1zarINv0
The remarks related to your final sentence start at 1:08:00.
Bottom line: it will take at least 15-20 years to return our nation to sanity, and then only if we start taking “active measures” now.
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