Excerpt says it all
https://spectator.org/an-angry-old-white-guy-watches-the-democratic-debate/
An Angry, Old White Guy Watches the Democratic Debate
Abraham H. Miller
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As Joseph Nye Welch said to Joseph McCarthy, “…have you no sense of decency?” The whole disgusting lot of you!
Translated:
Korea Blue House Verified account @TheBlueHouseKR 4h4 hours ago North Korea and the United States began talks at 3:54 pm and continued talks for about an hour until 4:51 pm. The three leaders left the house of liberty together and said good-bye with a hug. President Moon Jae-in and Trump went out to Kim Jong-un. (Photo: Yonhap News)
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3760587/posts?page=1
An Angry, Old White Guy Watches the Democratic Debate
that’s a great article, mairdie - 98% of FR should be agreeing with it!!!!! (2% trolls, not so much..)
https://amgreatness.com/2019/06/29/whos-the-radical-on-confidence-and-common-sense/
Who’s the Radical? On Confidence and Common Sense
By Mark Bauerlein
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I just heard a fellow on CNN say that Donald Trump has radicalized the Republicans. Let’s be clear on what is and isn’t radical.
A well-patrolled border is not a radical policy. An open border is a radical policy.
To believe in two genders is not radical. To insert gender identity into Title IX is.
To praise Western Civilization as a legacy of political freedom and artistic genius is not a radical opinion.To regard it as promotion of white supremacy is a radical opinion.
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It may appear ironic or hypocritical for liberals to charge the president with radicalism, but it quite predictably follows the Alinsky-like rule that says: “Always accuse your opponents of the foul play that you commit.”
The wilder the Democrat candidates get in their championship of pet projects of the hard Left, the more they and their mouthpieces in the media have to tar the other side with a worse extremism. That’s one way to legitimate a far-left proposal: concoct a far-right that blocks it, a far-right that is patently stupid and vicious. The way is then paved for more “justice” or, at any rate, more change.
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Got that? Common sense, you see, isn’t based in nature or human nature or time-tested traditions. It is a form of repression, and once it is lifted, to reinstate common sense is to restore that repression. Common sense is disguised ideology. It must be fought tirelessly, not least because human beings are ever disposed to slip back into bias and scapegoating (so the progressive thinks). We need to find, therefore, new occasions by which to take down commonsensical notions, the “trans community” being the current favorite.
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Progressives have managed to persuade a good portion of the citizenry that certain off-the-wall ideas are salient and practicable. They know it is a fragile consensus among every group except the social justice brigades. Trump’s common sense, launched with an equal and opposite confidence, raises a sharp needle to the identity politics/gender theory/socialism balloon. By now, we should have dozens of Republican politicians doing the same thing.