The Battle of Competing Resentments - Granite Grok

The Battle of Competing Resentments

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The Democrat party is the party of labels, stereotypes, and prejudice.  It is the party of division.  It feeds off this division to pursue power based on what it promises it can do with that power to get any given division of society whatever they claim or can convince them to think they deserve.  These rights or entitlements are based on the left’s victim-class caricature of not just how the world has done someone wrong, but how they could can never overcome it without Liberals using the power of the government to get even on their behalf.

Democrat Party labels include women, gays, blacks, illegal immigrants, blue-collar union members, underpaid-teachers, criminals, divisions by class, income, age, entitlement status, gender status, urban, rural, coastal, inland, by who they claim is oppressing you, or as combinations of any or all of the above.  These divisions must compete for attention,  influence, and resources plundered by the state, a system of rewards calculated solely on the value of the ability of any given victim class to keep them in power.

The problem with this arrangement should seem obvious, aside from the hypocrisy and contradiction of it’s purveyors.  It relies on an incompetent bureaucracy lead by angry megalomaniacal children, a package of damaged goods, and people who clearly hate themselves as much if not more than the people they are using as “slaves” to fulfill their political pleasure.  The slaves are their victim class pawns, inspired with resentment, hyperbolic language, and with metronomic repetition, sent on a forced march to the ballot box with false promises the Left insist they can keep if they are allowed to remain in power a little bit longer. (Oh, and if you dare to worship ay anyone elses ‘alter’ the world as you know it will come to an end.)

Like all capricious gods, favoritism is like fashion.  If you dare to venture outside the approved narrative you can expect to be kicked off the island.  Some of those should expect a public lashing by the media or even an army of officers sent to eat out your substance;  IRS, FBI, DHS, EPA, Child and Family Services, investigators, anonymous witnesses who saw kiddie-pron on your computer, protests at home or work, or some other manner of intense public abuse at the hands of any number of so-called non-affiliated, non-profit, local interest groups, all of whom can (coincidentally) can be tied to large left-wing donors or causes.

But that is the risk you take when you enlist in the battle of competing resentments.  One wrong word or deed could cast you from the progressive Olympus to suffer with the mere mortals down below

No more table scraps for you unless you grovel and claw your way back up, best accomplished by finding a way to get credit for pointing the progressive gods at someone they can hate-on more than you.  And if, by chance, that hate leads them to more power, all may be temporarily forgiven.

All in all there is not one positive goal in the Democrat Party.  Everything they want is achieved at the expense of others, through plunder, incomprehensible regulation, state agency intimidation, ignorance, fear or any conceivable form of financial or cultural despotism.

No one is capable of anything without them and their intrusive state.  Self-reliance is scorned.  Individual achievement is offensive.  Unity is impossible.  Envy is standard issue.  Resentment is their currency of issue.

They do not bring people together, they secure them like beasts of burden and keep them lashed together with favors, bribes, and fear.

The progressive inheritance is a war of diversity that uses competing resentments meant to keep us divided so that we will never have the strength or the desire to oppose them.  Anyone who reuses to play by their rules is pilloried by their media watchdogs, or hounded by political pressure groups that spring from the ground like weeds summoned by some mad gardener.   You are either with them or you keep your mouth shut.

It is the oldest form of government mankind has ever known.  It is rule by kings and oligarchs, a connected few who talk about law, make the law but are always above the law, when the law stands between them and rue over everyone else.  And the only way to secure whatever might pass for temporary rights or liberties is by agreeing to their terms for your obedience.

They divide us because they are weak, and they cannot be more powerful unless we are weaker than them.

 

This video is one we should all watch at least once every few months to remind us of the roots of the narrative and cultural Marxism that supports the battle of competing resents.

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