Posted on 08/30/2002 1:58:16 PM PDT by Richard Poe
FIRST THERE WAS COMMUNISM. Then Fascism. Then Nazism. Then Communism again. Now there’s a new ideology in town. It’s called Tranzi-ism.
Like previous "isms," Tranzi-ism has the potential to plunge our world into a howling maelstrom of war, poverty and dictatorship.
Yet, weirdly, most Tranzis don’t even know they are Tranzis. Some call themselves "progressives." Some affect free-market sympathies. Some espouse a "Third Way" between communism and capitalism.
Don’t be fooled. They are Tranzis, one and all.
Tranzi stands for Transnational Progressive – a term coined by Hudson Institute researcher John Fonte, in a new article entitled, "The Ideological War Within the West."
According to Fonte, elite institutions ranging in size and influence from the National Council of Churches to the United Nations are pushing the notion that, "the nation-state and the idea of national citizenship are ill suited to deal with the global problems of the future." They propose abolishing nations and replacing them with a single, global government.
Under ordinary circumstances, no one would lose sleep over some crackpot theory circulating among UN bureaucrats. Unfortunately, for reasons that are still not entirely clear, virtually every government in the world appears to have embraced Transnational Progressivism, and is working around the clock to make global government a reality.
Fonte warns that the coming global regime will not respect liberal freedoms. Though couching his message in the polite euphemisms of academia, Fonte essentially suggests that the Tranzis will impose a kind of racialist police state, in which historically downtrodden or oppressed groups will be encouraged by the "elites" to rise up and get even with their former oppressors.
"Dominant" groups (I guess he means white men) will be forced to yield power to "oppressed" groups in all areas. In the economic sphere, the system will compel "dominant" people to give up their jobs to "oppressed" people, until every job category reflects the proportion of "oppressed" people in the population.
But it won’t stop there. The proportion of "oppressed" people in the population will constantly grow. That’s because another tenet of Tranzi-ism holds that "dominant" countries must welcome immigrants from "oppressed" countries in unlimited numbers.
If any "dominant" people protest, they will be jailed for "hate speech."
When I read Fonte’s essay, my first impulse was to yawn. He seemed to be stating the obvious. Anyone who has tuned into talk radio or surfed the Web in the last ten years already has a pretty good idea of what the "elites" are planning.
Yet, Fonte’s article became an instant cult classic among the bloggers – linked, praised, glossed and debated on blog sites throughout cyberspace.
"His work is valuable because it names the beast," writes Godless Capitalist on the popular blog site Gene Expression.
David Carr – a London-based blogger who posts on the "rational libertarian" Web site Samizdata.net – put it thus:
A lot of us have known for some time there was something wrong in the world but it was difficult to pin down and put our fingers on. It was something that has no face and no name. Like fog it swirled all around us but not being corporeal we lashed out in all directions, landing blows on nothing. It was like an itch we could never scratch.
Carr has a point. We don’t really know who is masterminding this plot or why.
When I worked for David Horowitz at FrontPageMagazine.com, we used to call these people "the left." But many of those pushing the "leftist" agenda seem to be high-level statesmen, wealthy blue-bloods and heads of multibillion-dollar corporations. Class struggle just doesn’t seem to explain their behavior.
If indeed the Tranzis are leftists, they are leftists only in the sense that a butterfly was once a caterpillar. They have long since emerged from their chrysalises and spread their wings to fly.
It was David Carr who gave the Transnational Progressives their now-universal nickname: Tranzis.
In the end, Carr’s nickname – even more than Fonte’s rather nebulous concept – may prove to be the catalyst that focuses world attention on this grave new threat to our liberty. As Carr observed, it is hard to fight something until you know what to call it.
The word "Tranzi" nicely evokes the ideology it represents. It has a nasty, sneaky sound, like Commie or Nazi. And, like those earlier words, it is easy to say and remember.
Fonte may have stated the obvious. And Carr merely thought up a nickname. But together, they have sparked a debate that even now may rouse our world from its slumber.
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Richard Poe is a New York Times bestselling author and cyberjournalist. His latest book is The Seven Myths of Gun Control.
Oh. O.K. For a minute there, I thought they were referring to Ru-Paul and his/her crowd.
Too busy working on your takeover of the East Coast huh?
Try www.instapundit.com. He is very strong on 2nd Amend. and has links to tons of other "bloggers".
"Tranzi" appears to have been coined thirteen days ago, on August 18. This mention on Samizdata.net appears to be the first. All the early mentions of "Tranzis" on blog sites seem to credit David Carr with coining the word, and many point to this page.
Once it was introduced, the word "Tranzi" spread very quickly through the "blogosphere."
The existence of this hegemony is so much one of their principal core assumptions that it goes without question - this does not allow them to consider the fact that it was at least partly fantasy and partly exaggeration to begin with. This allows them to further fantasize that the "oppressor" groups are going to humbly accept the yoke or be easily forced into it, and that a new round of oppression will somehow make up for past offense, whether real or perceived. It is the application of this theory by a huge majority that explains what is taking place in Zimbabwe at the moment. Where the oppressed groups are not in majority it is a path leading to a great deal of bloodshed.
I can imagine this statement coming from both the Loony Left and the Renegade Right.
Of course, the underlying assumptions of such pathological types may be addressed in general, under The Lies of Socialism, which deals in some detail with the Nazis as a significant manifestation of the far Left, and their relationship to the rest of the complex
The pseudo-intellectual roots of the movement for an undifferentiated humanity, are addressed in Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education.
The way to answer such as these, is explored in The Big Truth.
However it may keep metamorphosing, the Left has come up with virtually no really new ideas since the French Revolution. You dignify these people more than they deserve, when you compare them to a butterfly and a caterpillar. They would be better compared to a form of pathogen. For truly they are just that in relation to any healthy human society.
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