Posted on 10/07/2022 5:03:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In 1921, Chatto & Windus published Aldous Huxley’s first novel, titled Crome Yellow. Meant to be satire, it was a far-cry from his most well-known dystopian work, Brave New World — but it includes a portentous passage, one that unambiguously encompasses the scope and character of the American left and the Democrat party:
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
It’s almost like he had a crystal ball, writing that for an American audience in a post-Trump era….
What was introduced in a work of fiction, has now become reality, and we’ve seen it manifest in a nearly immeasurable number of ways. Emanating solely from the left, socially-encouraged transgressions have ranged from insidious, to outright murderous. The demonization of conservatives has been part of the movement for political “progress”; the drawing and quartering of babies in the womb is a peak freedom in the virtuous struggle for reproductive “justice”; and callous homicide is a justified act in the fight against “MAGA extremism.”
Although I introduced a Donna Brazile essay to the American Thinker readership last week, the breadth of her political proselytism was too vast not to address in a new context, which is this: Huxley’s posited theory, now reveals itself in perhaps the most frightening way of all — weaponized federal agencies targeting political opponents is accepted and encouraged, because it’s part and parcel in the ‘crusade’ against “threats to democracy.” From Brazile’s editorial:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Glad to help! Most times when I see a reference to an older book, especially something written pre-1930, I first look to see if PG has it. They are an incredible resource.
Excellent. Thanks for the link.
They’re not talking patriotism.
Just as the Left soils institutions, they’ve soiled our language.
In Leftspeak, “Democracy” is the freedom to vote rat. After electing rats we are to sit down, shut up and love their destructive policies . . . or else.
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