Posted on 06/26/2023 3:50:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What the Left now fears most is the revolutionary model it has bequeathed to America—and what might happen if its monstrous creation falls into politically incorrect hands.
The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000.
The antecedents to its current madness were once previewed in the old party’s extremist wing of campus radicals of the 1960s and 1970s. They were accentuated by Black Lives Matter and Antifa during the Obama years, forged during the COVID lockdown and George Floyd riots, and polished during the era of Trump derangement syndrome.
On almost every issue, Democrats have repudiated their prior reverence for the Supreme Court.
They distrust individual liberty and free expression.
They now worship the money and clout of corporate America.
Racial ecumenicalism and integration are seen as passé.
There is little need for borders to protect vulnerable American workers, given the advantages of inviting in millions of poor illegal immigrants without audits.
Democrats have transmogrified into a Soviet-style socialist binary of rich and poor, run by an elite nomenklatura that dictates its orders to its foot soldiers of the underclass. An entire new left-wing vocabulary—clingers, deplorables, irredeemables, dregs, chumps, ultra-MAGA, semi-fascists—has come to express their hatred of the middle class.
On the Supreme Court
The Left has adopted Franklin Roosevelt’s once infamous (but now sanctified) 1937 approach to destroying the autonomy of the Supreme Court by threatening to pack it.
Note how any means necessary are justified in their attacks. Swarm the conservative justices’ private homes to leverage future opinions, with the assurance that an ethically bankrupt Justice Department will never enforce existing laws prohibiting such intimidation of the justices.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
I think that the true leftists have always loved having the power to destroy.
VDH ping
The Democrats didn't like integration before 1964.
The Democrats don't like integration today.
I'm not sure how much credit we ought to give Democrats for spending just a few decades somewhat agreeing with Republicans that integration was fine and skin color didn't matter.
And the "civil-libertarian" business? Let's talk gun control. Second Amendment. A basic civil liberty. The Democrats hate it. Largely because, you know, the negroes might get guns.
For a smart guy VDH sure does take his time figuring things out.
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Marxism and individuality cannot coexist.
They [The Left] distrust individual liberty and free expression.That is an inaccurate statement.
It isn't that the Left distrusts individual liberty and free expression of the individual. The Left (i.e., Marxists) must utterly destroy individual freedom and free expression.
The goal of Marxism is to transform the human organism from an individual being into a collective or hive. The individual and any freedom to act or speak that the individual has must be eradicated for Marxism to become the dominant form of human existence.
Despotic tyranny.
Doesn't seem to me like they fear a damn thing. What's to fear when you can literally get away with anything?
Just wait until he figures out this whole thing is global.
The Left is like Cancer, you can never get rid of it, the best you can do is put it in remission. But it only takes that one time for it to go terminal, and it’s all over.
The innate will, urge, or drive of some people to force collectivism on society seems to be related to the human herd instinct. It is quite clear that this instinctual weakness is being exploited by certain people and their political organizations as a means to gain power.
And, yes, it has been with us forever...and will be with us forever.
It is most certainly a societal cancer and all we can hope to do is hold it at bay.
To successfully hold it at bay, it is important that we understand it and recognize its features and actions.
I noticed that also.
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——Black Lives Matter and Antifa——
and LBQMAKY
Are all false political constructs created as tools to be used by the propagandists to exert pressure and control in and from the City State Bastions.
The only glimmer of hope for America is the complete destruction of the City State Bastions that seem to be imploding like the ill fated submarine. The carbon fiber cloth and resin construct just can’t resist the external but self induced pressure being experienced
VDH is pretty good at describing the problem.
What he sucks at is articulating any solutions. But if he actually did that he’d lose his cushy gig writing about things.
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I will argue that since the only solution is a war destroying the leftists, to do so in print invites arrest, torture by lawyers, and imprisonment.
The course left to VDH is to describe the problems and let the readers come to the conclusion that they must revolt and kill off the oppressors
IMHO that's a proper set of boundaries I wish all professors honored.
“ IMHO that’s a proper set of boundaries I wish all professors honored.”
The problem is that “all” professors don’t honor it. The vast majority openly despise those boundaries and are doing their level best to destroy not just the United States but all of western civilization.
So while VDH is playing by the Marquis of Queensbury rules the Left is disemboweling us.
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That was their goal all along.
Finally, how did the Left reinvent itself as a revolutionary Jacobin party and so easily stage its revolution?
First, it claimed that there is no Republican Party when in fact there has never been a more viable one that is racially inclusive and representative of the beleaguered middle class. Instead it is to be smeared as “ultra-MAGA” and “semi-fascist” and supposedly as “unrecognizable” as the new Left is demonstrably recognizable as militant socialist.
Second, the Left destroys people.
Cancel culture, doxxing, deplatforming, and shadow banning are all synonyms for left-wing character destruction, an updated electronic form of Trostkyization and Lavrentiy Beria-style “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” persecutions.
Anyone who strays—a Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Matt Taibbi, or an Elon Musk—will be targeted by the woke bureaucracies, libeled in the media, and ostracized by the popular culture.
The message is one of deterrence: stay properly left and you are accorded the James Comey/Andrew McCabe/James Clapper/John Brennan/Anthony Fauci/Hunter Biden/2020 rioters exemptions from legal accountability for lying under oath, rank profiteering, or abject violent rioting.
Swerve improperly rightward, and you will be vaporized by the long arm of the politicized law.
Really, really excellent review of where we stand today with the left now in charge. Well worth your time to read!
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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