Posted on 06/14/2024 7:09:38 AM PDT by Salman
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Witness the idiotic protests opposing Israeli military action in Gaza. Gender-fluid, blue-haired protesters straight out of central casting seem unconcerned that their Hamas heroes would label them as deviants and gladly throw them off the roof of the nearest building if given the chance to do so. Feminist protesters decry “the patriarchy” while ignoring the reality that Palestinians regard gang rape as an acceptable tactic in war. For such people, it makes total sense that the Republic will rise or fall based on the fortunes of Ukraine and that we should be more involved in the never-ending Israel-Palestine blood feud. They know these things because they were told them by their masters and because it just feels so right.
This is the fountain from which populism flows. Trump has figured out something most other politicians have been incapable of seeing—i.e., that people actually care about results. While Politico writers fret about the fate of “democracy,” ordinary people worry about whether their daughter will be raped in a bathroom stall by a transexual weirdo and whether they will be able to afford groceries in the face of multiyear inflation. In other words, they worry about things that matter, not nebulous liberal principles or strangers on the other side of the planet.
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The leaders of the West have forgotten what it means to advocate for their people. Seized by liberal abstractions, they don’t even seem to accept that they have “a people” to advocate for. True democracy is an annoyance for them, because the plebs worry too much about bread, and not enough about girls’ schools in Nigeria.
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These points assume the Left still has a neuron firing somewhere in their brain. Not sure that’s true...
“In other words, they worry about things that matter, not nebulous liberal principles or strangers on the other side of the planet.”
Agree about focusing on things that matter.
Regarding strangers on the other side of the planet, one can guess for themselves the likelihood that Putin or ham ass will next want to kill you. Personally, I rate the former threat very low, and the latter threat medium high. So to me personally, the ham ass threat is among “things that matter.”
To each his own.
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This article was spot on.
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