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I’m Fighting the Left’s Culture War One Bagel at a Time
American Thinker ^ | December 4, 2016 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 12/04/2016 4:50:15 AM PST by Kaslin

At first I dismissed the Democrats' subsidized street riots and vandalism, moronic election recount demands, and perfervid attacks on Trump and his supporters in the press as a demonstration of their juvenile, narcissistic refusal to accept defeat. Then I read the brilliant essay by Angelo Codevilla

It’s a bit long and I know your Sundays are busy but if you can’t read it all at once, I’ll summarize what I think are the most significant points in the hope that if the topic is of interest you’ll read it all. He traces the notion of political correctness from the 1930 Communist movement through Antonio Gramsci’s “cultural hegemony” configuration to the modern Democratic Party and finds in them a familiar strain:

[A]ll progressives, Communists included, claim to be about creating new human realities, they are perpetually at war against nature’s laws and limits. But since reality does not yield, progressives end up pretending that they themselves embody those new realities. Hence, any progressive movement’s nominal goal eventually ends up being subordinated to the urgent, all-important question of the movement’s own power. Because that power is insecure as long as others are able to question the truth of what the progressives say about themselves and the world, progressive movements end up struggling not so much to create the promised new realities as to force people to speak and act as if these were real: as if what is correct politically -- i.e., what thoughts serve the party’s interest -- were correct factually.

Communist states furnish only the most prominent examples of such attempted groupthink. Progressive parties everywhere have sought to monopolize educational and cultural institutions in order to force those under their thumbs to sing their tunes or to shut up.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; gramsci
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1 posted on 12/04/2016 4:50:15 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The American progressives are the result of Hitler’s failure


2 posted on 12/04/2016 4:52:18 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closets?)
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To: bert

American progressives predate Hitler by several decades.


3 posted on 12/04/2016 5:01:59 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

Got to go to work right now but want to read article later. Very interesting, thanks for the summation.


4 posted on 12/04/2016 5:03:16 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: DuncanWaring
American progressives predate Hitler by several decades

Positively correct! Jonah Goldberg did a good book on the topic that deserves reading. I'm not in agreement with Goldberg on his politics, but "Liberal Fascism" is well done and historically accurate.

For those looking to understand the looney left and how they've manifested into agents of societal rot, this is a good read.

Know thy enemy.

5 posted on 12/04/2016 5:13:36 AM PST by paulcissa (Democrats want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: Kaslin

BUMP!


6 posted on 12/04/2016 5:21:06 AM PST by PGalt (CONGRATULATIONS Donald Trump)
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To: Beowulf9; All
Got to go to work right now but want to read article later. Very interesting, thanks for the summation.

FROM THE ARTICLE:

"Goldberg’s Bagels is a small kosher bakery in Baltimore,

When a customer attacked pro-Trump supporters outside his store, claiming Trump was a rapist and racist, the shop owner tried to quell the disturbance by asking the woman to leave. She further insulted Trump and then his supporters. This prompted Mr. Drebin, the shop owner, to express his own support for Trump, after which his Facebook page was filled with insults suggesting Drebin approved of “anti-Semitism, misogyny, xenophobia and alt-right leanings.” The entire PC shtick.

His business dropped by 15%.

Keep this stuff up and someday there won’t be a Democratic Party. In the meantime, I note that Goldberg’s Bagels has a website, and you can order by mail. They’re very delicious, (So is Chik-fil-A, by the way.)"

https://goldbergsbagels.net/mailorder.php

The bagels are 11 bucks for a baker's dozem - 13. They look delicious and I am ordering some today ... excellent article.

7 posted on 12/04/2016 5:22:38 AM PST by true believer forever (Fight the Attacks against Trump: PLANT YOUR FEET, LEAN INTO IT, BEAT IT BACK.)
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To: bert

And Stalin’s success.


8 posted on 12/04/2016 5:24:22 AM PST by IronJack
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To: bert
The American progressives are the result of Hitler’s failure

It looks more like the soviet socialists, national socialists, and American progressive socialists were three facets of the same totalitarian mindset. At least until recently, the American version lacked the antisemitism of the other two, but that gap has been filled in by today's socialist progressives. Our homegrown socialists are now just as malignant as their failed comrades in the socialist brotherhood.

9 posted on 12/04/2016 5:29:08 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: true believer forever

well I would definitely order them since I cannot find any boiled bagels here locally, but with shipping it works out to $1.56 per bagel. Just too steep for my wallet. I bet they are delicious though!


10 posted on 12/04/2016 5:29:31 AM PST by visualops (WooHoo Trump Train! Get on board or get out of the way!)
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To: Pollster1

yes


11 posted on 12/04/2016 5:29:58 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closets?)
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To: Pollster1

I posted Hitler’s failure, but also McCarthy’s failure. He showed the way but was thwarted.


12 posted on 12/04/2016 5:31:07 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closets?)
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To: visualops
well I would definitely order them since I cannot find any boiled bagels here locally, but with shipping it works out to $1.56 per bagel. Just too steep for my wallet. I bet they are delicious though!

Yep, I usually get frozen everything bagels from lender's :) but I am going to put this in what I laughingly call my budget and try to order a dozen once a month. I think we really need to support the trump supporters who come under fire and suffer loss. We are still at war, sad to say.

13 posted on 12/04/2016 5:35:38 AM PST by true believer forever (Fight the Attacks against Trump: PLANT YOUR FEET, LEAN INTO IT, BEAT IT BACK.)
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To: Kaslin
Then I read the brilliant essay by Angelo Codevilla

Thanks, I just finished reading it...it is truly brilliant.

14 posted on 12/04/2016 5:38:19 AM PST by Popman
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To: Kaslin
Progressives, fascists, Democrats, NAZIs, Socialists/Communists and the KKK are equally reprehensible and complimentary unto themselves.

In a sane world, one with morals and a sense of self preservation, each and every adherent to the aforementioned cabals would be subject to interment and re-education until they are redeemed.

Failing that, execution for crimes against God and humanity.

15 posted on 12/04/2016 5:39:18 AM PST by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: bert

“The American progressives are the result of Hitler’s failure.”

And Lenin’s success.


16 posted on 12/04/2016 5:40:55 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Best election ever.)
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To: true believer forever

I might have to myself.

It’s bookmarked so maybe next payday I will for Christmas stuff.


17 posted on 12/04/2016 5:43:25 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: bert

What an odd comment. What do you mean by that.


18 posted on 12/04/2016 5:44:53 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: paulcissa
American progressives predate Hitler by several decades

Correctemundo! You can find them in the Roosevelt administration, Theodore, not Franklin and in Woody Wilson's too. Germany and Hitler and Goebbels learned from us.

19 posted on 12/04/2016 5:45:05 AM PST by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Kaslin

Good article. This election was the Gettysburg of the American culture. The Left lost. The skirmishes will continue.


20 posted on 12/04/2016 5:50:41 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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