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The ‘Complexity’ of Idiocy
American Greatness ^ | 25 Nov, 2023 | Thaddeus G. McCotter

Posted on 11/25/2023 5:45:19 AM PST by MtnClimber

The Left is less a political movement than a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility.

Often, yours truly has expounded (okay, ranted) upon the term “narrative,” which is just an artful euphemism for “lie.” A device drawn from fiction, as opposed to non-fiction, it facilitates lying by eliding the need for providing the facts and proving the truth of one’s assertions. Consequently, it is a boon to propagandists, who can harp on a “narrative” ad nauseum to provoke and persuade the public to do as the purveyor of the lie seeks.

For the Left, one oft used word signaling an impending narrative is the word “complexity.” Usage of this word allows the Leftist to cull and, importantly, dispense with whatever facts or allegations they choose to create a narrative. This is critical in instances where the facts at hand lead to an ineluctable conclusion – i.e., the truth – that is antithetical to the Left’s aim. Let us explore four instances of the Left’s “complexity” of idiocy driving a narrative harmful to America and the world.

In American domestic policy, the Left is not content with foisting cancel culture upon the country and coopting the corporate media to control the political debate. The Left wants to silence any dissent to its authoritarian aims. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution recognizes and protects the God-given rights to each citizen of “political rights,” such as free speech. One would think the constitution’s prohibition would be the last word on censorship; but one would be underestimating the Left’s power to pretend the clear prohibition of government censorship is, instead, “complex.”

Consequently, as they have on college campuses, the Left has been weaponizing federal and state governments both directly and through colluding with private entities to censor free speech. Creating the camouflage of “complexity” by pretending there exists a transcendent right not to be “offended” and purporting to be promoting “safety,” the censorious Left’s aim is to cloud the truth that the supreme law of the land prohibits the government from infringing upon Americans’ free speech and all political rights. And no amount of faux complexity can obscure the fact that there is nothing more dangerous than a censor.

In the realm of American foreign policy, a classic example is the Left’s obstinate determination to appease the terrorist regime in Iran. Citing imagined “moderate” mullahs, ignoring the Iranian people’s courageous efforts to be free, and abiding the delusion Iran’s nuclear program can be managed for solely energy purposes and separated from the regime’s exportation of terror, the Left has manufactured the complexity it hopes can convince someone other than themselves that this barbarous, tyrannical government does not really mean it when it screams, “Death to America! Death to Israel!”

Spoiler alert: they really mean it.

The Iran Deal, too, also affords the opportunity to examine how the Left uses their other “prog whistles” of “nuance” in conjunction with “complexity.” After ginning up sufficient “complexity” regarding an issue, the Left then breaks out “nuance” to both preen about their alleged intellectual and moral superiority and to justify an otherwise obviously imbecilic policy decision. Once that imbecilic policy decision results in the expected disaster, the Left regurgitates how the situation is “complex” to avoid the bitter fruits of their “nuanced” lunacy. In sum, this three-legged fool of policy making it is nothing but a formula to escape accountability for the consequences of their actions and ideology.

On the world stage, far from dissipating as it metastasizes from the domestic Left into the global Left, the complexity mounts to more egregious heights of hypocrisy and willful blindness. Consider rogue regimes’, the global elite’s, and the United Nations’ sympathy and/or outright support of the terrorist organization Hamas against democratic Israel. This is manifested in the “complexity of idiocy” in the mealy-mouthed objections to Hamas’ terrorist atrocities against Israelis and their tourists that never fail to include a tacit or implicit “but.” This is merely the hypocritical version of the vile declarations of Hamas supporters who claim “resistance” – i.e., the killing, raping, torturing, and kidnapping of Israeli civilians and tourists – is “justified” because Gaza is “occupied.” Gaza is not occupied by Israel. But the Left’s narrative requires its protagonists to be victims, so they can justify any action, however evil, against their imagined “oppressors.” And, because of their hubristic belief they are better than anyone else and, ergo, empowered to propagate the “noble lie” to attain their allegedly “altruistic” aims – voila! – the Left transmogrifies the terrorists into “liberators” and their victims into “oppressors.” While seemingly lost upon and/or callously dismissed by the global Left, the perversity of their global Left’s “complexity” and “nuance” is not lost upon nor capable of being dismissed by the Hamas terrorists’ victims.

Equally, it is also instructive what the Left deems not complex. Ponder their Manichean, paranoiac narratives of “us good, them bad” that (to them at least) justify their every indulgence and excesses. The Left has no compunction in pronouncing a former duly elected president as an abject threat to their fundamental transformation of “democracy” into anything but; brand nearly half the country who voted for him as potential domestic terrorists – especially if they “cling” to their religion and rights.

The Left’s “complexity of idiocy” is the bitter fruit of a disordered soul. As a result, the Left is less a political movement than a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility under the threadbare cloak of intellectual “complexity” to foist its radical, extreme, and dangerous policies upon Americans. Then again, in fairness to the Left, amidst these chaotic times most things are “complex” for tiny, bigoted minds.

Oh, that fourth instance where the facts belie one of the Left’s “complex” narratives? “The Democrats are the smart party.”


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; chaos; complexity; disorder; hamas; idiocy; iran; leftism; rights; thaddeusgmccotter; theleft
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To: MtnClimber

Brando
It’s what plants Crave !
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It Is Complicated.


21 posted on 11/25/2023 7:06:00 AM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: MtnClimber

The left has so much rage and hate everything is a target but you never hear or see them go after communism to them it’s a tool for their end results control.


22 posted on 11/25/2023 7:13:40 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: MtnClimber

second paragraph-

-Often, yours truly has expounded
-an artful euphemism
-facilitates lying by eliding the need for
-it is a boon to propagandists
-harp on a “narrative” ad nauseum
-the purveyor of the lie seeks.

It rolls on like this throughout the piece.
I understand all the words- No biggie.
And yes, they make sense.

But collectively it’s pretentious- and distracting from the central point: The powerful exploiting Idiocricy.

Does Thaddeus write and speak like this all the time?
Or is this just an exercise is Thesaurusy?
How’s that for a made up word?


23 posted on 11/25/2023 7:15:31 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Alberta's Child; sauropod; marktwain; Lurker
Dr. Jordan Peterson has said that the most baffling aspect of leftism is the bizarre affinity radical feminists have for radical Islam.

Islam is useful toward leftist ends of "bring it all down," but the reasoning ends there. As to the outcomes, the blurry visions of its useful idiots of 'a future without white guys,' they have faith, or "think" that once they are done with Christendom and its relicts, they can use their historic tools of psychology in public education to tame Islam. But they've never dealt with a people who pray five times a day, myelinating nerve axons in the hippocampus into hard-wired evil (not to mention that they don't dare, cowardly bullies being what they are). Islam will chew up the left and spit it out, per plan.

Where it goes from there is explained in an obscure book, To Eliminate the Opiate, by Orthodox Rabbi, Marvin Antelman.

Of course I could provide the historic details that tie all that together, but you'll have to wait for my next book. :-)

24 posted on 11/25/2023 7:17:48 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: MtnClimber

The idiocy is thinking you can negotiate with these people.


25 posted on 11/25/2023 7:29:30 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Taxman

ping


26 posted on 11/25/2023 7:43:47 AM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: Macoozie

How about “Thesaurcery,” as in making magic with words.


27 posted on 11/25/2023 7:50:45 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: MtnClimber

Leftists like to claim that everything is complicated to make themselves feel smarter, and “you’re just a stupid redneck who is incapable of understanding the issue(s).”


28 posted on 11/25/2023 7:52:42 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: MtnClimber

Hey Thad...by “The Left” do you mean Individuals who lie and trend toward totalitarianism? Identify those individuals and their words and deeds. Identify the anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-American collectives that they work with.


29 posted on 11/25/2023 8:02:15 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber
I find that much of liberalism is based on the desire to be popular and to hang out with the "cool kids". They want to be thought of as smart and good so the believe whatever the media tells them is the fashionable way to think. It's easy to follow the herd and not question what you are being told. As such they are easy to manipulate.


30 posted on 11/25/2023 8:04:50 AM PST by CtBigPat (There are people in this world who would kill you for a dollar, and the worst wear business suites. )
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To: MtnClimber

There comes a time when you have to rule-out idiocy and admit that something is “evil.” You can’t rationalize evil. It just is. I don’t know how much more evil this country can stand but can you imagine how evil things were before the flood? Nice try MR. McCotter!


31 posted on 11/25/2023 8:59:13 AM PST by old school
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To: unread

I have watched many of the”People on the Street” being asked questions & the illiteracy it shows up is amazing. Some of these folks are apparently college educated. I only have a high school education(from bygone days)& I surely see what they don’t. It is pretty unsettling to imagine what our nation seems to be coming to.


32 posted on 11/25/2023 9:33:04 AM PST by oldtech
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To: AndyJackson
Right, ‘sick’ as in wholly alienated, disaffected and some of the most dangerous misfits in our society!

Of course, the DNC and the ‘media’ LOVE them. Pandering to this crowd crowd of idiots and getting THEIR vote is like beating your 80 year old grandmother at ice hockey.

33 posted on 11/25/2023 10:13:20 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: MtnClimber
The Left is less a political movement than a neurotic clown collective arrogantly spouting toxic imbecility.

Downgraded from an "Insane Clown Posse"?

34 posted on 11/25/2023 10:17:34 AM PST by x (My brothers are Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring Company.)
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To: SMARTY

Sick as in evil as in possessed by Satan.


35 posted on 11/25/2023 10:17:35 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmark


36 posted on 11/25/2023 10:25:26 AM PST by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: MtnClimber

📌


37 posted on 11/25/2023 5:02:25 PM PST by griswold3 (I cannot change the Tide but I can learn to Sail)
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