Posted on 03/01/2021 4:39:34 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
The left has been able to maintain a bulls**t reputation for decades as the party that parties. It’s the all-inclusive party of the “new” and the proud. At the Democrat Party, you could let your freak flag fly.
It was all a sham. In truth, the left and its Democrat Party are the most ideologically rigid entities in the western world. It meets disagreement with force, not open-mindedness or debate. It has a habit of “othering” people and you or a group you belong to may go from the toast of the town to being an “other” very quickly. Your acceptability only goes as far as your usefulness.
This is made all the more dangerous by the fact that the left is the establishment now. Institutions are under leftist control, be they our education system, sports leagues, and mainstream media and entertainment — all are under the guidance and rule-making of the left. It’s a systemic infection that has made the fascistic crackdown on opposing ideas acceptable. If the left decides to punish someone for wrong-think or blatantly lie about a person or group, its media allies will do what is necessary to make that move acceptable to the public.
While sitting and listening to the speakers at CPAC, the simple fact that the Democrats are the establishment became very clear, and that, what’s more, conservatives, libertarians, and Republicans are now the counter-culture.
It should be noted that the right, in general, always was the counter-culture. The Republican Party was founded on resistance to the Democrats’ established rules of slavery and continued to run against the social grain well into the civil rights era when it made equal rights a priority. Over time, however, the left sold the idea that the right was the establishmentarian entity...
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Very true. The modern left are the modern day prudes, and they are stale and past their sell by date.
Can we get some decent music? Things have been mostly dry for decades.
HOORAY Brandon Morse. OUTSTANDING article. Thanks very much for posting, ‘Cat. BTTT!
Shoot, most of us here knew this when Johnny Rotten came out as Conservative! “Punk is anti-establishment, the establishment hates Trump, therefore Trump is punk and **** and Johnny Rotten is being true to his punk roots by going full MAGA”. :)
Very true. The standard condition of man from time immemorial has been slavery, serfdom, and servitude. The American Experiment in self-governance broke that mold for the first time in all recorded history. We have been the counter-culture since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. The first colonies developed freedom-based governance. Leftists have always been for the status quo which is enslavement of everybody.
In other words, it's the same party it has always been.
Steenkin’ hippies...
Steenkin’ hippies...
Now we will see how “tolerant” the Left is of the counterculture, when it runs counter to their wishes.
Questioning authority or the narrative today means excommunication.
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I don’t know why it’s such a great thing to be on the outside of every power group. The liberty and freedom movement has lost the war. The Marxists have taken over every part of life, every institution, every organization, every business, every school, every government, hell they even took over every church. They own the damn world. How is this a good thing For the righteous to be eternal underdogs and perennial losers?
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