They do this because they have no feelings of guilt about stealing the votes of their neighbors. I fully agree and I would presume to recast your remarks to be that the left has stolen the culture. We are now in a culture in which the ends justify the means, 2+2 equals anything but 4, truth and lies are interchangeable and right and wrong, and therefore guilt, is a matter of perception.
How did we come to this place?
It's quite simple really, the left has co-opted our epistemology. The Frankfurt School is a good place to begin then follow its evil spawn of critical theory, race intersectionality and postmodernism as it leaches out into the whole culture.
Currently, James Lindsay has been advancing the most thorough and rigorous research on this phenomenon which has escaped from our universities as from a Wuhan lab and infected our entire school system, our corporations, our media our churches, all levels of our government's and our law courts.
Once we lost this battle we lost, at least temporarily, the war.
There is no fundamental basis apart from intersectionality to gain a sense of "guilt about stealing the votes of their neighbors." Hence, stealing white votes on behalf of a candidate favored by Blacks is not stealing but redressing "intersectional" wrongs.
This is why we are losing the war.
Thanks for all your extended comments on this issue. They are thought provoking.
While this thread appears to be destined to inactive permanently, I’ll limit my comments to (103) to say this: individual Judeo-Christianity morality and beliefs upon which this country was founded and despite coming up short in practice many times over our 200+ years, no longer significantly influences how we govern ourselves, and hence our country and other institutions.
Without that internal self-restraint, and attempt to live by say the 10 Commandments, the ends justifies the means in all things. It becomes easier to understand, why we are here. We are moving on a path similar to ancient Rome.
I would presume to recast your remarks to be that the left has stolen the culture... How did we come to this place? It's quite simple really, the left has co-opted our epistemology. The Frankfurt School is a good place to begin then follow its evil spawn of critical theory, race intersectionality and postmodernism as it leaches out into the whole culture. From the post Even Homer Gets Mobbed: A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’
Their ethos holds that children shouldn’t have to read stories written in anything other than the present-day vernacular—especially those “in which racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of hate are the norm...” The subtle complexities of literature are being reduced to the crude clanking of “intersectional” power struggles. Thus Seattle English teacher Evin Shinn tweeted in 2018 that he’d “rather die” than teach “The Scarlet Letter,” unless Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel is used to “fight against misogyny and slut-shaming.”
Outsiders got a glimpse of the intensity of the #DisruptTexts campaign recently when self-described “antiracist teacher” Lorena Germán complained that many classics were written more than 70 years ago: “Think of US society before then & the values that shaped this nation afterwards. THAT is what is in those books.”
-PJ