Posted on 01/02/2018 8:32:01 PM PST by ReformationFan
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously observed that socialism works until you run out of other peoples money. Identity politics also works until you run out of other people. And then #MeToo becomes #NotMeToo.
Other peoples money can be borrowed against. Thats why we have the national debt that we do. But identity politics has multiplied too abruptly and explosively to postpone the reckoning much longer. What were once simple categories of three races and two genders has mutated into an infinite alphabet of sexual identities, a Big Bang of ethnicities, national, cultural, racial and religious, each with its own microaggressions, that easily tops two hundred and shows no signs of slowing down its expansion.
Intersectionality, the Das Kapital of identity politics economics, tries to manage the complex network of interactions even as it purges Jews and white people. And now its even starting to purge men.
The left is running out of other people.
#MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, the campus purges of whiteness and toxic masculinity, the civil wars within the LGBT alphabet soup all point to the other people crisis of the left. The latest social justice wave has made men, white people and even white gay men into hate objects. The resentment coalition of identity politics is fracturing into a tribal war of identity microgroups against everyone else.
The economics of socialism and the political economics of identity politics both come down to the core leftist creed of redistributing the wealth and privilege supposedly hoarded by a minority. Seize all the wealth from the rich and fund free health care. Take away white privilege and open up society. Open the borders of the United States to the Third World. Shut down factories and end all pollution. Destroy capitalism, the patriarchy, heteronormativity, whiteness and every other strawman raised up by the left.
That is the engine of the three radical Rs of the left: Resentment, Revolution and Redistribution.
Its a scam. Like every scam, it relies on using the greed of the mark against him. Con artists are in the easy money business. They promise the men and women they scam that they can have easy money. But its only the con artist who ends up easily making money out of the deal. Thats the scam the left pulls.
Its why leftist politics is the greatest and deadliest scam ever perpetrated in human history.
The Russian peasants who were promised their own land were instead chained to feudal collectivist farms. They were reduced to sharecroppers who were unable to leave the lands of their masters. The workers who were promised bread starved in the cities. The soldiers who were promised peace died in a more horrifying war. When Stalin told his mother that he was the new czar, the scam was complete.
It was the same story from the Soviet Union to Communist China, from Cuba to Cambodia, from the ghettoes of blue states to the rusting factories of union shops, from the decaying farmlands of Europe to the blighted working class of Britain. The scam ends with mass misery for everyone except the leftist scammers. The revolutionaries get rich and powerful while everyone else loses everything.
But every scam has a choke point. Thats where the bait turns out to be the hook. Its where the revolution runs out of other peoples money and comes for your life savings. Its when environmentalism doesnt mean shutting someone elses factory, but raising your energy bills, banning your plastic bags and shutting down the business that pays your wages.
Its when the new horrible racist or sexist of the week isnt that guy on the news. Its you.
The choke point is when the revolution you supported runs out of all the other people who supposedly had it coming. And its machinery of smears, thievery and murder (for the people) reaches you.
The great scam of the left is convincing the majority that the solution to their problems lies with a small minority. Get rid of the 1 percent and the 99 percent will live like kings. Get rid of a few southern racists and we can all be brothers. Ban X, regulate Y and outlaw Z and well all be better off for it.
The choke point is when the small minority expands to include you. And then its no longer a few billionaires. Its the upper middle class. And then its the entire middle class. Its all white people. Its all men. And then its everyone. The minority turns out to be the majority. And thats the scam.
Identity politics is approaching its own choke point. Its running out of other people.
The theme of intersectionality is that everyone is privileged and everyone is oppressed. The choke point of identity politics is being hidden behind complex formulas that openly stigmatize all white people and all men, but thats the bait that actually and ultimately lines up everyone for privilege redistribution.
The war on whiteness, a racist academic construct, is the identity politics equivalent of the denunciations of the middle class. The white privilege slogan makes it clear that the left isnt just coming for a small indefensible minority (which is where the left always starts its lynch mob), but for a narrow and envied majority. White people in identity politics, like the middle class in economics, are the choke point where the seductive 1 percent lie gives way to the lesser lie that splits society apart.
Intersectionality is the identity politics equivalent of Bolshevism. Inside its rhetoric and formulas is the final and fatal truth that it isnt merely a narrow minority that must be dispossessed, but everyone. Its not only a small minority or even a majority that is guilty. Everyone is oppressive. Everyone is guilty.
Universal guilt is the jagged hook waiting at the end of the shiny lure. The left educates its marks into resenting easy targets and then expands that resentment into circles that eventually encompass our entire society. No race, class or gender is truly exempt. Eventually the purges even reach the acolytes of the left. Just ask the old Bolsheviks of the USSR or the leftist media heads rolling under #MeToo.
Its the final stop of leftist politics where all its rotten ideas sink into the muck. Everyone is guilty of polluting the environment. And everyone must pay the carbon tax. Everyone has privilege and must check their privilege. Everyone has too much money. Even if they hardly have anything at all.
The left is not in the business of partial revolutions. That too is part of the scam. Its revolutions are total. And totally fatal. The revolutions begin with the 1 percent, but they are meant to end with 100 percent.
Leftist revolutions run on resentment and greed. And when they have worked through the most obvious targets of that resentment and greed, they will turn on anyone who can be resented or envied.
And thats everyone. Everyone is enviable to at least one other person. And thats enough.
Intersectionalitys mantra of universal privilege and guilt is in the toxic DNA of leftist politics. Everyone is guilty. Everyone must pay. No race, gender or class provides any ultimate immunity from the reckoning. With so many identities, the next purge can come from anywhere. Even as the left rages against Trump, its own civil war is underway. Sandernistas are battling Clintonistas. Every group is asserting its own oppression. Leftists are readying a final purge of pro-life Dems. Campus culture denounces whiteness. Everyone is waiting for the next social justice hashtag to sweep through with its wave of political terror.
The revolution is here. And leftists are running out of other people to feed to the guillotine.
The Left breaks up the American public into an unending set of groups and sub-groups.
Then they set each one against the others. Soon every group is offended by some slight. Or considers themselves a victim of some injustice. Or feels entitled to some special treatment.
The democRATS strategy then is to ride in on the white horse to save the day and provide free stuff to everyone.
I guess this article is saying that they are running out of new segregated groups.
Historically it is referred to as divide and conquer. Leftist in general however are just the useful idiots. The left right game is just the first division. Up and down is where it is at baby. The Deep State, the up, is just using the useful idiots to destroy the citizens, the down.
You found Daniel!! I post every article from his site with a 400+ ping list. Would you like to be added?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.