Posted on 01/18/2024 5:26:01 AM PST by MtnClimber
The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style” of conspiracy-fed extremism.
But far more common, especially in the 21st century, has been a left-wing, hysterical style of inventing scandals and manipulating perceived tensions for political advantage.
Or, in the immortal words of Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”
The 2008 economic emergency crested on September 7, with the near collapse of the home mortgage industry.
Obama took office on January 20, 2009, more than four months after the meltdown. In that interim, the officials had finally restored financial confidence and plotted a course of economic recovery.
No matter. The Obama administration never stopped hyping the financial meltdown as if it had just occurred. That way, it rammed through Obamacare, massive deficit spending, and the vast expansion of the federal government. All that stymied economic growth and recovery for years.
In 2016, Donald Trump was declared Hitler-like and an existential threat to democracy.
Amid this derangement syndrome, any means necessary to stop him were justified: the Russian collusion hoax, impeachment over a phone call, or the Hunter laptop disinformation farce.
Eventually, the left sought to normalize the once unthinkable: removing the leading presidential candidate from state ballots and indicting him in state and local courts.
Nothing was off limits—not forging a federal court document, calling for a military coup, rioting on Inauguration Day, or radically changing the way Americans voted in presidential elections.
In October 2017, allegations surfaced about serial sexual predation by liberal cinema icon Harvey Weinstein.
The #MeToo furor immediately followed.
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There does not seem to be a boundary on leftist behavior. I guess that is why they have so many famous genocides.
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It's a level of functioning where logic or intellect are negated and don't apply, so it puts them (they think) on a par with more intelligent, informed and mature people.
They like being hysterical
“ There does not seem to be a boundary on leftist behavior.”
There isn’t. Hence my tagline.
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>> they have so many famous genocides
giving new meaning to: “scared to death”
“There does not seem to be a boundary on leftist behavior”
The absence of humility and a complete lack of fear of The Lord gives birth to that behavior.
Few democrat politicians I know of believe in a Supreme Being....without that concern, in their minds they are free to “Do what thou wilt”...no conscience, no boundaries, no bottom to hit.
IOW lost.
She at one time was very attractive someone Lazz would surely hit, even now in his depressed state, but all the hate and stupidity flowing between those ears has taken its toll. Damn the leftards in academia, they are the ones that own much of today’s chaos in society.
The hysterical style is one aspect of the Cluster B culture we have been dragged into.
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Hard to keep people at a fevered pitch continually. The more they rant and rave, the more people will tune out.
Terror is the only way their system works. As they get more power, they will create more terror
Sometimes real, sometimes hyped crises lead to these contrived left-wing hysterias—like the January 6 violent “armed insurrection” or the “fascist” “ultra-MAGA” threat.
Otherwise, the progressive movement cannot enact its unpopular agendas. So it must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis it can.
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hysterical
Etymology:
From hysteric + -al, from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the womb, hysterical”), from ῠ̔στέρᾱ (hustérā, “womb”).
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Wow! You beat me to it. I was going to post that quote...:)
Nice job!
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