PANDEMIC OF DOUCHEBAGGERY or THE ROOTS OF CONSERVATIVE ANGER

 

 

“When fascism comes to America, it will come under the guise of Antifascism.”

                                                                                                           

Huey Long

 

I try not to use words like “douchebag” in my blog, but I’m angry, like, drycleaners triple-starched my boxers and it’s the only pair I have left, angry. The whole country has lost its mind.

 

Omnipotenblog has always hated Trump. Douchebag. But, in some ways, he ended up being, from a policy perspective, a happy surprise. Had he kept his mouth shut and stayed off Twitter, he might have even been considered one of the great presidents. Alas, he is the king of all douchebags, so we got four years of hysterical garment rending from his detractors. Channeling Henry VIII, Democrats have impeached Trump, leaving the trial for after he leaves office. Henry VIII had St. Thomas Beckett’s bones dug up 300 years after his death, found him guilty of treason and burned his bones. Would anybody, and I mean ANYBODY, doubt there are similar plans for Trump?   

 

The storming of the Capitol was terrible. Not one prominent Republican defended it. Contrast this with the overt support for rioters by Democratic members of Congress and the media. CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon recited love poetry to the rioters, who may have caused $2 billion in damage. Countless businesses were robbed, looted, and burned, diners in restaurants assaulted, and legislators and their wives attacked by mobs. A police station and its evidence room was handed over to be burned. Cities defunded police despite record rises in crime. Anarchists took over sections of two cities. Statues of Washington, Lincoln, and abolitionists were torn down. Douchebags tried to burn down St. John’s church in DC. Portland Antifa rioted for 100 straight days. They tried to lock the doors of a federal courthouse and burn it, knowing there were people inside. Media and Prominent Democrats were cool with just about all of it. Kamala Harris contributed to a bail fund for rioters. Democrats walked out of a Senate hearing rather than condemn Antifa. The “Summer of Love” saw dozens of police and civilians killed. Conservative journalists were chased and beaten by leftist mobs. A black Trump-loving MAGA hat wearer was shot dead in Milwaukee. The stuff was barely covered. Douchebag commentator Richard Fowler, claimed with a straight face that Democrats totally, strongly, and really bigly, condemned the violence last year. We are adrift in an ocean of gaslighting. In 2011, leftists occupied the Wisconsin capitol building for four months over a budget. But with one day of naughtiness by the crazies on the right, Democrats realized riots are scary and are ready to turn America into a police state.

 

  The Capitol rioters should go to jail, of course. They traumatized the nation. An officer was killed. When political violence becomes acceptable, our country cannot last. But was it some White Supremacist insurrection? Please. If so, it was the most pathetic, unplanned attempt in history. Yes, the pipe bombs and the guy with zip ties were scary. Some were surely willing to do great evil.  But most who entered the Capitol, about 1% total of the rally goers, acted like the dog who caught the car. These amateurs were largely maskless, and when they got inside, they meandered and took selfies. Sensing total victory was possible, Democrats immediately labelled every person at the rally, nay, every Trump supporter in the country, an insurrectionist. They want to put Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz on the terrorist no-fly list and expel members of Congress for the crime of wanting an election audit. Some openly worried that “White Supremacist members of Congress” would assassinate Biden. This is all nonsense on stilts.

 

    

·         Who are the true fascists? Let us count the assaults on traditionalists, the Constitution, and America’s institutions:

        Early 20^th Century Progressives argued for a “Living Constitution”, giving judges a framework to pretty much do what they want.

·         Woodrow Wilson began building an unaccountable 4^th branch of government, the federal bureaucracy. To challenge a federal regulation, one must go to a court, which is accountable to…the federal bureaucracy.

·         The 60’s began the destruction of sexual mores widely accepted since the beginning of time. The left began its long march through America’s institutions, infiltrating Marxism into education.

·         Biden borked Bork. The destruction of Reagan’s SCOTUS nominee normalized a climate of nastiness around judicial nominees. The abuse of Clarence Thomas was nothing compared to the savaging of Brett Kavanaugh. Future allegations? Child molesting. Maybe bestiality.

·         All criticism of Obama was labelled de facto racism. Yes, the birthers were abhorrent, but after multiple racially charged incidents, B.O. chose the inflammatory narrative every time, squandering the greatest opportunity in history for racial reconciliation by choosing agitation over healing.

·         White Privilege and Critical Race Theory became prevalent. “Critical” meant that all social problems must be focused through the lens of racial oppression. Explicitly Marxist, class warfare became race warfare. Racism was no longer discrimination and bias but the result of the eternal “sin” of whiteness. All racial disparity is now explained by racism. From this mindset, we get Jussie Smollett and 1000 other fake hate crimes. 

·         The lack of criminal charges over Clinton’s bathroom server and the destruction of her emails exposed a two-tier system of justice.

·         With over 70% of Democrats convinced without evidence that Russia hacked the election for Trump, they embraced a baseless conspiracy theory that Trump colluded with Russia. The DNC paid a Trump-hating foreign spy to travel to Russia and get disinformation from Russian intelligence. Allies in the FBI mangled facts to get FISA warrants to spy on Trump and initiate the Mueller investigation. The handpicked Trump-haters realized the story was false in less than a year but soldiered on for another two. Prominent douchebags like Adam Schiff and John Brennan, after testifying or hearing testimony of zero evidence in Congressional hearings, would immediately go on TV to proclaim the smoking gun would soon be revealed. Any day now. (All this is proven and documented. Look it up.)

·         “The Deep State” was coined because of constant leaks from the intelligence community.

·         Despite Collusion Delusion’s failure (How precious were the tears of Rachel Maddow?), Democrats found some ginned-up nothingburger call to Ukraine and got their impeachment anyway.

 

 

·         “Cancel Culture” was coined to describe suppression of conservatives. Despite a myriad of bakers and florists in big cities, douchebags targeted for destruction the handful of Christians who served them in all ways but their weddings. Leftists deplatformed, disinvited, fired, and corralled conservatives into tiny free speech zones. They doxed praying old ladies and screamed at teenage girls working at Chick-fil-A. Big Tech continues to censor conservatives unapologetically—It’s a long list—including suppressing a major news story right before the election.

·         The New York Times’ 1619 project was a spectacularly clumsy lie about the ideologies of America’s founding. It was so bad, they were forced to make substantive changes. The America-hating doctrine is taught in thousands of school districts.        

·         The left wants to destroy the very concept of gender itself and annihilate anyone who disagrees. Ask J.K. Rowling, who is constantly likened to Voldemort.

·         The media’s credibility imploded, to wit, in an act of self-parody, USA Today and Facebook fact checked a Christian satire website.

·         The pandemic lockdowns saw actual science ignored in favor of expert opinion. Despite low risk of outdoors transmission, surfers in the ocean were arrested and socially-distanced football moms were tazed for not wearing a mask. The striking increase in suicides, overdoses, alcoholism, child abuse, and domestic violence, was ignored. States shuttered churches and small businesses while favoring corporate big box stores.

·         Was the election stolen? I don’t know, but they sure tried. Think this has been debunked? Read this and this.

·         Finally, not happy with winning, Democrats began their “Purge, Cleanse, Destroy” campaign, branding Trump supporters as white supremacist seditionists and pledging to ramp up domestic security, which seems like a Gestapo-like secret police except TOTALLY not. Words like “cleanse”, “deprogram”, and “cult” are casually used regarding 75 million Americans. With zero intelligence of impending attack, they occupied the Capitol with 26,000 troops. Is anyone concerned?

 

So let us dispense with the false and pernicious lie that conservatives are the fascists. How does this end? God help us.

CIVIL WAR. THIS TIME WITHOUT BEARDS.

 I’m running out of metaphors to describe 2020. It needs a straightjacket and a horse tranquilizer. How can this not challenge liberals’ faith in the inevitable progress of humanity? To a conservative, civilization is the crust on a volcano. We’re always one calamity away from “Lord of the Flies.” What I see is a whole nation at each other’s throats. WHERE’S YOUR CIVILIZATION NOW, HUH??

 

The rhetoric has become dangerous. Now, recklessness is Trump’s bread and butter, but Nancy Pelosi has called him an “enemy of the state” and Republicans “domestic enemies.” Liberal sociologist Jonathan Haidt, who is dedicated to fostering mutual understanding of the political tribes, admits these times are different, and the only way out of it is “love,” a wholesale cultural commitment to a different ethic. For a hopeful liberal, who likely believes in that progression of history nonsense, it is a stunning and pessimistic concession.

 

Predictions are always wrong, but since opining is a stronger compulsion to Omnipotentblog than even that thing I do with my toenails, I continue. First, the bad news. A Yougov study found 70% of Millennials—“The Gratingest Generation” as George Will calls them—would vote for Socialism given the chance. Only 50% approve of Capitalism. 36% approve of…(sigh) Communism. 22% believe “society would be better if all private property was abolished. (Wait. 14%…huh? Yeah, I know.) 64% of Generation Z has a favorable opinion of Socialism. Both Millennials and Gen Z reported that Communism was presented more favorably in school than previous generations. One recent study found 64% of undergraduate college students believe recent rioting and looting was justified. 52% favor slavery reparations, and 51% said America is “inextricably linked to white supremacy.” 72% of conservative students censor themselves. At the University of Chicago, ranked highest in freedom of speech, one student wrote, “I vote because Corona virus won’t destroy America, but Socialism will.” For her thoughtcrime, she was widely denounced by her peers, threatened with violence, and told she didn’t belong at the university.

 

Columnist Steve Rowland cites Stanford historian Niall Ferguson claiming America’s “doomsday clock” is at “2 minutes to Fort Sumter.” Rowland cited polls showing 1/3 think civil war could break out within the next 5 years and 7 out of 10 believe we are 2/3 of the way to civil war.

 

A Quillette.com study from June set out to explore the left’s desire to deculturate America. The study intentionally probed the outer limits of radical thought. The results were disturbing. 70% of Liberals and 79% of Very Liberals want major changes to the constitution. 44% and 58% want Mt. Rushmore destroyed. Large numbers want racial quotas in museums, history books, street names, and for national parks to revert totally back to nature. 17% of Very Liberals want the official language changed. (If it’s Cockney, I’m in.)

 

In 2017, national security expert, Keith Mines, noted conditions are similar to what he saw in other countries. He felt the U.S. had a 60% chance of civil war over the next 10 years. “It’s just like 1859; everyone is mad about something and everyone has a gun.” He stated other experts’ predictions ranged from 5% to 95%. The consensus was 35%. And that was five months before Charlottesville. A recent survey showed a 95% and 139%, respectively, increase in gun and ammo sales, shattering previous records. 

 

After the tumult of the 60’s and 70’s, sociologist and historian, Robert Nisbet, offered ten conditions of revolution. An argument could be made that all of them apply to 2020.

·         Recent dramatic changes in the economic or societal order.

·         Breakdown in respect for and by authority.

·         Recent increase in societal wealth. (People getting a taste of what could be.)

·         Recent liberalization, allowing those recently “freed” to sense what is possible to gain.

·         Intense politicization/polarization.

·         Intellectual elites taking advantage of politicization to increase own status.

·         Disconnected or random catalyst that brings social temperatures to a boil. (COVID???)

·         Crusaders coalesce under a clear moral banner to attack societal norms (SYSTEMIC RACISM!!!).

·         Presentation of an idyllic, utopian vision as alternative to the current corruption.

·         An existing guilt amongst members of the ruling class (WHITE PRIVILEGE???).

 

Democrats recently war-gamed scenarios for a contested election. The exercise ended with California, Oregon and Washington seceding and the U.S. military having to step in to remove Trump. Hillary Clinton has suggested Biden should concede the election “under no circumstance.” And Trump has notably refused to commit to a peaceful transition. He frequently predicts massive fraud and chaos due to millions of ballots sent out unsolicited. The Democrats accused Trump of sabotaging the Postal Service to sow election chaos.

 

Afraid yet? Is there any hope at all? Eh, some. The general trend in America is actually away from Socialism. The same Yougov study above found an increase of 47% to 53% of Americans unlikely to vote for Socialism from 2018 to 2019. 56% of Americans define Socialism much more positively than it is, suggesting the good branding of Socialism is really an illusion.  58% view concerns about Communism as just as or more relevant than during the Cold War. There is also a trend away from Marxism amongst the younger generations. 8% fewer Gen Z than Millennials prefer Communism. Their approval of Socialism also decreased by 8% from 2018 to 2019 versus a mere 1% decrease by Millennials.  

 

It should be clear by now that race isn’t the real issue here, but what do polls say about defunding the police? Despite actual decreases in budgets in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles, most Americans are against it. While one study showed 57% of blacks are in favor of defunding the police, another showed 81% want either the same amount or more police presence in their neighborhoods, including 79% who had recent interaction with police.

 

It is accepted dogma that the nation is hopelessly polarized. But maybe it’s not as bad as it seems. Two organizations presented data suggesting the perception is much worse than the reality. The higher the consumption of news—which is mostly, “Can you believe ____ said ____??”—, the bigger the perception gap.

 

 

 

So what are Omnipotentblog’s odds of civil war? Well, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 70%. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 30%. Other days, I just suck my thumb. I do, however, put odds of post-election civil unrest at precisely 99.64%. Will it be massive? Will fat, middle-aged bloggers and Republican suburbanites be sucked into hastily-formed militias to take on left wing mobs? De Toquesville argued that revolutions are inherently unlikely in democracies; Too many have too much to lose. In “Fractured Republic”, Yuval Levin argued that just as social conservatives overplayed their hand years ago, so too will the left. Since fairness is deeply ingrained in the American character, the exhausted majority will rebel against radicalism. Are we still a reasonable and fair people? Lord, I hope so. My money is on this: Regardless of who wins the election, leftists will press on. Democrat-run cities that defenestrated the police will devolve into the cesspools of crime they were in the 70’s and 80’s. Large numbers of Americans will continue to be indoctrinated through the explicitly Marxist and pseudo-religious tenants of Critical Race Theory. Its adherents will continue to agitate. But because class hatred is not in America’s DNA, and because 180 years after DeToquesville, history continues to prove him a genius for the ages, they will not get what they want: the overthrow of Capitalism. It will leave them embittered by failure, enraged at the lack of progress, and blaming…well, everyone. They will not fall to their knees and repent; Leftists never do. They will simply wonder why their children and the rest of America reject their nonsense. They will be as miserable and lost as ever. Like now.

 

Ah, destiny.

FOR BY RACE ARE YE SAVED

 

Nearly every conservative writer and barking dog on TV has noted the religious flavor of our revolutionary mood. Even liberal commentators have used the term “Original Sin” to describe American slavery. A Puritanical spirit has overtaken the land as the disciples of Wokeness embrace a secular version of Calvinist Total Depravity. Grace, however mysteriously doled out by John Calvin’s Predestinarian God, is limited in Wokeness to the randomness of genes. Melanin is salvation. Traditional Christophobia has always argued against the harshness and judgmentalism of Christianity. “Mean people, those Christians. They hate the gays, you know.” The Christians’ retort is, “But grace! For God so loved the world!” and such. The great irony is that Christianity’s replacement has no grace at all, no expiation of the cardinal, unforgiveable sin of whiteness, only eternal guilt, perpetual subservience, restitution, and reparation. When the total suffering of non-whites across all time and space has been matched by the whites, only then may humanity live in peace and equality.

 

Umm. No thank you.

 

 

Sinners in the hands of an angry mob.

 

Christian sin and racism as defined by Wokeness have much in common. You don’t have to murder to deserve hell “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” As you are born into sin, so you are born (If white, of course. Goes without saying.) into racism, the only sin that matters. The Bible, despite its complexity, is often very black and white: saved and unsaved, heaven and hell, the flesh and the spirit, etc. etc. Yet, one is struck by the binary nature of Wokeness. It is not a component of the whole; It is the whole. Robin DiAngelo, author of the holy scripture “White Fragility,” stated, “Nice, white people who really aren’t doing anything other than being nice people are racist. We are complicit with that system. There is no neutral place.” The good are the sheep and the Anti-racists who shepherd them. The rest are wolves.

 

Not a church service. Definitely not. (Click for video.)

 

 

In, “America,We Had a Good Run,” Omnipotentblog noted how the Western decline of traditional religion is being channeled into all manner of pseudo-religious beliefs like astrology, occultism, UFO’s, and even trolls. David French wrote of his Harvard friend, who loved to mock the fairy tale of Christianity while bragging of her child’s “Indigo Aura.” Some on the right, too, have replaced hymnals and homilies with quasi-religious devotion to outlandish and gnostic conspiracy theories like QAnon.

 

I came across this book at a mental health symposium. Science!

 

In, “No,the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why.” Professor James Lindsay describes a secular philosophy dripping in religious fundamentalism. A framework of assumptions manifesting itself in safe spaces, trigger warnings, and deplatforming, shields believers from heresy and doubt. The rejection of discourse lies in the notion that arguments and facts themselves come from a world completely saturated in white supremacy. In accepting a reasoned debate, one accepts the racist scaffolding that frames it. Therefore, debate is pointless; You would only be accepting rules stacked against you and your truth. Experience is the final arbiter, the final conclusion. And if some melanin-blessed person’s “truth” is that they are not a victim of white racism, that they are free and have agency, well, what more proof do you need he is an Uncle Tom? As one writer put it, the whole thing is a Kafka Trap: The more one objects, the greater the evidence of his guilt. Among other things, a Smithsonian curriculum on race listed “Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness” as:

·         Objective, rational thinking.

·         Cause and effect relationships.

·         Quantitative emphasis.

·         Delayed gratification.

·         Hard Work.

·         Politeness.

·         Time.

 

You see, belief is truth, and math is racist. (Don’t tell the Indians and the Arabs.)

 

But why is all this madness happening NOW, for crying out loud? One reason may be that we are finally seeing the ripened fruits of a generation of indoctrination, triggered by the trauma of forced Covid isolation. Another is the personal isolation and ghettoization of information wrought by technology. And some say literally all of this is because of abject hatred for Trump-Hitler. Another explanation is a phenomenon widely described but little understood: the loss of confidence by elites in their own values. In Charles Murray’s excellent book “Coming Apart,” he describes the nature of white poverty. He focused on whites to remove race from the discussion. He showed, convincingly, IMHO, that the roots of poverty exist wholly apart from racism. Elites practice bourgeois values. They get as much education as they can, get married before having children, work hard, and save. Divorce rates are low. This group instinctively travels the road to success and then stunningly turns around to scorn such values as racist and patronizing. The solution to poverty, according to Murray, is simply for the elites to preach what they practice.

 

Shelby Steele, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a black man, explains, “There is a great deal of shame in what America did to black people. Whites acknowledge that…It has compromised their moral authority, weakened their power in American life. There is in the white part of American society…a need to recover moral authority. So often, white institutions will take our problems on, not because they want to fix those problems, but because it restores moral authority and power. I call that white guilt power.”

 

After 9/11, I asked an Orthodox Jewish friend of mine how he explained the intense hatred many Muslims felt for Jews. “It’s a spiritual problem.” And a spiritual problem requires a spiritual solution, he said. The Bible says man is inherently sinful, and the more one knows about people, the more it becomes obvious the human psyche is a machine built for self-justification. Yet, the Bible says that nature itself is a witness to His majesty. Despite vast levels of comfort and abundance in Western society, if St. Augustine is correct, no amount of pleasure and security will fill the God-shaped vacuum in the human heart. Successful or not, faithless or not, we cannot escape the constant murmur of sin in our souls. White guilt may be peculiarly modern. Guilt itself is timeless.

 

I must make another point, which may seem disconnected, but is not. Many commentators have observed that the whole liberal cause is an “unrequited desire for community.” Sociologist Robert Putnam’s “Bowling Alone” documented the dissolution of society’s civic culture and social capital as far back as 1950. The British government recently set aside millions of pounds to study and solve the problem of loneliness. Republican Senator Ben Sasse, wrote an extremely well-received book called “Them: Why We Hate Each Other—And How to Heal.” His conclusion is that the fractiousness and division in our country is because of loneliness. This yearning for community cannot be bifurcated from the deep, existential need for meaning. Volumes of research say the actively religious are happier. The Apostle Paul says to not neglect meeting with one another. We need meaning and community and often we get the one from the other. Going to church? Two birds. One stone.

 

The violent riots near my home elicited deep sadness in me. There is great anger in this country. If the diagnosis is correct, the decline of faith and the rise of loneliness and isolation have caused a conflagration of pain. One great truth of life is that the only things inevitable are death and taxes. But the great truth of human nature is that Man needs Man and Man needs God.

 

Revive us again, oh Lord.

 

KILL ALL THE WHITE STATUES, THEN WE’LL BE FREE.

“I don’t want knowledge. I want certainty.”

                                                David Bowie, Law (Earthlings on Fire)

The tiny car circled the ring several times and stopped. Clowns began to pour out. 9, 10, 11, holy crap, 12! And another and another. The good people of America keep thinking we have reached peak stupid. And then another clown gets out of the car.

 CNN’s Chris Cuomo saves America, one deadlift at a time.

Jonathan Haidt’s copious data shows that the right understands the left much better than the left understands the right. While the right has no shortage of clowns and demagogues, it is leftist ignorance that is the clear and present danger. With a single simplistic idea in his head, the average white statue killer is fueled by ignorance. Yet, this idea has been nurtured and cultivated by academia and other elites with a well-planned and comprehensive agenda. The riots are no accident. And it should be obvious by now they are not about race. These riots are the fruit of a tree planted long ago, and below is the ship of fools responsible.

Counter Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacque Rousseau (1712-1778) was an angry, petty man who wrote brilliantly about the problems of modern society. A believer in the natural goodness of man in his primitive state, he wrote, “Man is born free but is everywhere in chains.” The movies “Avatar” and “Dances with Wolves” illustrate the romantic idea of Rousseau’s “Noble Savage”. A return to innocence is impossible, however. Possibly the single most important influence on the modern left, he believed the only solution was a radical, top-to-bottom reorganization of society.

Rousseau

German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) believed history is directional and progressive and not cyclical. On a rug in Obama’s oval office was stitched a quote from MLK Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” When you are warned to be on the right side of history, thank Hegel.

Hegel

We can thank German Philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883) for identity politics and class warfare. Critical Race Theory and Intersectionalism are Marxist in form and function, using race as a proxy for class. In the utopian Das Kapital, profit and property are theft. History is not made by “great men” but by the Zeitgeist or “spirit of the times.” Equality—an absolute one, devoid of individual reward and consequence—trumps all other social considerations. Force is required to achieve it, of course, as the current stakeholders will not relinquish their power by gentle persuasion. Competition and individualism are “chaos” to the Marxist, anathema to the need for order and control. The individual must disappear into the collective as the only source of meaning and moral transcendence. To a Marxist, the hive-mind of Star Trek’s “The Borg”, is not a horror story, but a fantasy. Read The Borg President, one of my best.

King of all Wankers

When Hillary Clinton referred to herself as an early 20^th century Progressive, she was surely steeped in the philosophies of, among others, 28^th President WoodrowWilson. In their writings are the seeds of the modern Democrat Party. Enormously consequential, Wilson is often considered one of America’s best presidents. He was also very, very racist, and the policies during his administration were overtly fascist. The Progressives’ influence on the modern left is complex and broad. However, one unique gift is their faith in experts and central planning. Responding to the endemic corruption of the Gilded Age, where patronage ruled government appointments, Wilson was a strong believer in Technocracy, an army of unaccountable, lifetime-tenured bureaucrats. Leftists have an unshakeable belief in their own talents, in their abilities to solve any problem. The modern nanny state is Wilsonian Progressivism at its core.

Woodrow Wilson

Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) The Post-Modern Sartre believed reality is a social construct. If you ask a “peaceful” protester whether the situation truly justifies her brick through the Macy’s window, you might hear, “This is my truth.” By substituting “my” for “the”, you have instant justification for anything imaginable. When Don Lemon, a man apparently incapable of embarrassment, savaged Terry Crews for Wrongthink, he was later asked about it. “My role as a ‘journalist’ (quotes added) is to speak from my truth, and from my lens and from where I come from. And I don’t think those things are biases.” Touché, Don.

Smartest man in America.

Against this stand Newton and Plato. Newton’s belief in a God that is fixed and predictable caused him to believe the natural order itself was discoverable, the very concept responsible for science. Plato believed that truth, despite its mystery and elusiveness was like a solid object, standing firm against wish and belief. To reject objective truth is to enable a glib dismissal of crusty dogmas of the past, especially religion, which, you know, is just a bunch of he said/she said. Those familiar refrains, “We need to have a discussion” or a “national conversation” about things? By “discussion”, they really mean “shut up and listen”, of course, but they often don’t know what they want, exactly; They just want something different. Their ideological ethereum is how leftists, without irony, hold the right accountable for the sins of its past while completely ignoring their own. They sometimes, in astounding displays of gaslighting, claim the historical left was really the right, because, you know, left = good and right = bad. It’s a neat trick. The good fruit of post-modernism is the open-minded, tolerant liberal who loves free speech. The bad fruit is the insufferable coffee shop loud-talker who emphatically rejects truth as non-existent while maddeningly claiming to have no ideology at all.

“Umm…isn’t that itself a truth claim?”

“Shut up.”

Jean Paul Sartre

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). Gramsci’s contribution was the argument that Marxism cannot focus solely on economic or political issues. Marxism will gain influence when it builds an intellectual and moral culture in the hearts of the people. He argued for building a “Counter Hegemony”, a culture of working class intellectuals whose primary function is to make the masses critical of the status quo. Gramsci would be pleased with the news having devolved into endless salvos of outrage porn, for only the angry cry out for change. More than any other, Gramsci is responsible for the intense indoctrination in the schools.

Antonio Gramsci

Herbert Marcuse—Marcuse, of the influential Frankfurt School, is considered the preeminent theorist of the New Left. His most consequential contribution may be his understanding that the left cannot not prevail in a fair fight. To triumph in the clash of ideas, the left must reject their opponents’ legitimacy and crush them. We can thank Marcuse for Cancel Culture, for the epidemic of doxing and deplatforming. Since Western Society is root and branch oppressive, tolerating it contributes to social oppression. Tolerance is hate. Hate is tolerance.

                                              

Herbert Marcuse

In 1983, Soviet defector, Yuri Bezmenov, gave a talk regarding KGB tactics for subverting Western nations. First, take over the education systems and teach the children to resent their governments, to despise their liberties as tools of inequality and oppression. It would take a generation but when those children came of age, full of resentment and entitlement, they would be ready for the next step, the systematic destruction and reframing of their nation’s history. Topple the statues. Destroy the art and symbols of the nation. Then, create enmity between law enforcement and the citizen, between the employer and the worker. And most importantly, attack religion, that existential pain-killing opiate of the human heart. Pain is necessary. For if the heart has anything which gives it comfort or contentment, it will never yearn for something greater.

The intellectual class, bitter they are not in their rightful place on the throne, has long promoted Communism in America. In 1919, journalist Lincoln Steffens returned from the tremendously bloody Russian revolution and proclaimed, “I have seen the future and it works.” In 1932, Walter Duranty of the New York Times, won a Pulitzer prize for reporting that concealed two million dead from a famine perpetrated by Stalin to break the Ukrainian will. Presumably, both acted in good faith, believing the dream of equality was achievable. Yet, while BLM leaders openly admit they are trained Marxists, the average protester probably just wants a little justice and equality. Who could be against that? Full of sentiment and angst and desire for good things, most of them probably aren’t bad people, just pawns, “useful idiots” as Lenin called them. And idiots they are. Useful? Not to a people desiring to remain free.