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[Louis Foxwell]

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[raybbr]

Well, I was going to say that!

Amazing how Greenfield can codify the insanity of the left in one article.

[loveliberty2]

". . . these behaviors do not emerge from mere political convictions, but from politics as religion."

Yet, these cultish Progressives lack the self-awareness to understand how their minds have been captivated and possessed by this "politics-as-religion" ideology; and a nation, once known for its "anticipation" of "tyranny" and avoidance thereof, has become overtaken by the ills once associated with Europe and other parts of the world!

See below the words of Edmund Burke describing the Americans of 1775; then, compare that description to one you might apply to Progressive citizens of today.

"In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." - Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation

[Billthedrill]

88% of American Indians, 87% of Hispanics, 82% of Asians, 79% of white people and 75% of black people believe that political correctness is a problem. Only 30% of progressives do.

And that's the flip side of the poll we were discussing here on FR the other day. And, as Greenfield points out, take out the overwhelmingly white progressives from the 79% and you have - it's already a landslide, what's worse than that? An enormous consensus to say the very least.

Quite a number of FR commentators have long held that these are essentially religious fanatics on the Left and this puts a dimension on that. What isn't entirely visible is how much of that minority opinion is of the ruling class: wealthy, by far majority white (take a look at 2016's Democratic slate for confirmation), and striated within the chambers of influence in academia and the media. They're noisy not just because they can be, but because they have to be. These are a new aristocracy and aren't shy about letting the rest of us know it.

But the Founders had not properly anticipated how politics might become its own religion. Even though the events of the French Revolution had made it clear that the age of political religion had arrived.

That might have been a bit of a stretch. The Constitution was written in 1787 and the Bastille didn't fall until July 1789. The Terror wasn't until 1793. Only Edmund Burke had any accurate foresight about the likely outcome (Reflections on the Revolution in France)and he was dead before it happened, although it is true that one of the Founders, Thomas Paine, railed at him for it in his reply (Rights of Man). I'd have to give them a pass on that one. After all, the fellow who was most opposed to political parties, Thomas Jefferson, ended up founding one. That was a critical and amazingly fluid period in political history and it's tough to see the end when you're bouncing around in the middle.

Nevertheless, this new would-be aristocracy had best take a long look at what happened to the French one in the streets of Paris before they start to clamor for violence. Be careful what you pray for, you just might get it.