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 ...
$1.56 for a delivered, high-quality bagel is not expensive. If you really feel it is, consider the overage a donation to the cause.
“Progressivism” has always been about the “collective”… a groupthink mindset enforced on all the people. With the recent election setbacks, those who follow the “collective” have become collectively insane! They will only gey insanier as their failure increases.
I wish they had bialys.
Hummm..... ya' learn something every day here at FR.
Characterizing and exposing them in truthful simple powerfully accurate terms is an illusive task. Your quote from the article speaks to this point.
They are shape shifters, easily morphing from one form to another as their fanciful visions collapse. They change their name. Liberals become progressives, communists become socialists, global warming becomes climate disruption, abortion becomes reproductive rights. They are very good, very clever at using the language.
Unfortunately there is no easy simple way of describing their affliction. It is a pathology that is both obvious yet impossibly complex, defying ready made verbal antidotes.
Some seek to neutralize their cultist spell with soothing friendly persuasion, hoping to gently awake he zombie before it kills again. Michael Medved comes to mind.
I am of the belief it is more effective to destroy the beast with powerful fearless attacks that devastate and humiliate, leaving the monster stripped of its phony nonexistent costume, revealing its utterly grotesque rotting corpse, its real shape and the one it would impose on all of us.
Winning is a powerful recruitment tool. Those in the middle tend to gravitate to the victor. Rather than worry about who they are and what motivates them, just keep humiliating, diminishing and demoralizing them. Bandwagon voters will serve the margin of victory.
Bump
Minimum order for mail order is 2 baker's dozen.
Yummy looking selection.
I haven't even seen egg bagels for a while!
I read the original article in full. It was both educational and provocative.
Trump will need to gut the bureaucracy if his victory is going to be anything more than a temporary deceleration towards the “cultural hegemony” that is the progressive goal. I don’t expect them to go quietly either.
I strongly recommend reading the original essay in full. I also sent links to several members of my family. I especially hope that my millennial children will read it.
Bookmarked.
I’m skeptical that a logical well-written article would influence any progressive, though.
Over the years I’ve come to realize that there are a lot of people who seem to think we can reach some kind of nirvana where everyone thinks alike. If not through persuasion, then through force.
Despite the fact that this has NEVER HAPPENED in the entire history of humans, there are people on the left (and sadly some on the right as well) who deep down believe it is possible for everyone to come together and think the same way, believe the same things.
The left takes it a step further and assumes (demands really) that identity groups think alike. Blacks and women, for example. If you step out of these boxes, even a little bit you are labelled not-black, not-woman or self-hating etc. They never seem to realize that many people do not think of themselves exclusively as one in the same as the prescribed identity group.
They never seem to see how racist and sexist this is. Which just piles on to the Vesuvius size delusions they harbor.
Another thing I’ve noticed of he left (and again by some on the right as well) is not comprehending the difference between disagreement and hatred/racism/sexism/non-patriotism etc. They don’t acknowledge larger principles over “what’s in it for me” or their knee jerk emotion du jour.
Probably the most disturbing takeaway from this excellent article is progressive destruction of American Constitutional principles and the inability of restoration without further harm to them. Political correctness is so pervasive that eliminating it might border on the application of revolutionary justice, not a more benign meeting of the minds and cooperation.
My own experience includes observation of liberal/progressive folks of close personal association. They are fundamentally inflexible and conforming due to their educational and common cultural experience. Were I to give them this article (or any like it), their response would to be ignore it either because they could not understand it or lack the capacity for its rebuttal. I am very happy —even gloating—that Trump won, but I remain pessimistic overall.
Obama has been our first emperor. A Donald Trump presidency, far from reversing the ruling class’s unaccountable hold over American life, would seal it. Because Trump would act as our second emperor, he would render well-nigh impossible our return to republicanism.
It was published Feb 2016.
Now you tell me which one to click on and I will read it.
What little feedback I’ve had from liberals; they quickly
point to “how the TEA PARTY supposedly misbehaved” when
Hussein Obama was elected in order to excuse their mass
meltdown after TRUMP was elected.
I KEPT trying to tell the “Freeper Madness” blog people
that TRUMP was going to win the election. I kept posting
PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP, POTUS. They kept sticking
their fingers in their ears and saying, “Lalalalalalala”
and now have “punished” me by banning and blocking me.
I tried to tell them that no one was coming to Hillary’s
rallies, yet TRUMP’S RALLIES were MASSIVE. They persisted
in calling me stupid; but then acting all “cognizant”
that HILLARY CLINTON *might not win. Well, they coulda
fooled me. They insisted on living in Never-Neverland;
but maybe most of them haven’t rioted and looted - YET.
Being a schmuck, I thought, “Grand idea!”
After trying and trying to get 2 bakers dozen, and reading I had ordered 3 dozen, I quit.
I would have loved to have gotten some really good bagals. Lox and bagels is one of my favorite foods in the world.
Sigh
If that’s all I had to fork over, of course that’s not a lot of money. But forking over $40 for 26 bagels IS a lot of money to a working stiff like me. I cannot justify that sort of expense. I donated money to Trump for the primaries and the general, and bought bumper stickers, that was my financial donation to the cause.
I’m not skeptical. I’m certain that it will not. I recommend it more for the edification of our side.
After trying and trying to get 2 bakers dozen, and reading I had ordered 3 dozen, I quit.
I would have loved to have gotten some really good bagals. Lox and bagels is one of my favorite foods in the world.
Sigh.
You are not a schmuck - not really sure what that it is - and it is a grand idea. I would try again during business hours. Clarice has quite a following and her article might have sent lots of ppl to the website.
So glad to hear you tried, though, pls try again :)
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