The Entire Progressive Experiment is an Exercise in Contradiction and Hypocrisy - Granite Grok

The Entire Progressive Experiment is an Exercise in Contradiction and Hypocrisy

P.J. O'Rourke on Liberalism - sniveling bratsThis is the opening quote of an excellent article by John Hawkins, at Townhall.com.

“I also now realize, with brutal clarity, that in the progressive hierarchy of identity groups, Muslims are above gays. Every pundit and politician — and that includes President Obama and Hillary Clinton and half the talking heads on TV — who today have said ‘We don’t know what the shooter’s motivation could possibly be!’ have revealed to me their true priorities: appeasing Muslims is more important than defending the lives of gay people. Every progressive who runs interference for Islamic murderers is complicit in those murders, and I can no longer be a part of that team.” — Anonymous at PJ Media

John goes on to point out the obvious contradictions and hypocrisy of the left but adds something of an explanation for the behavior.

As my friend Evan Sayet has explained, it has to do with the liberal emphasis on “indiscriminateness.”

They were raised to believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative. That the only way to be moral is to not discriminate between right and wrong, good and evil, better and worse, truth and lies because your act of discrimination – discriminating between these things might just be a reflection of your personal discrimination, your bigotries.

I can’t do it justice without reposting it all here, so go and read it for yourself, but the easiest way to explain it is that they’ve got a mental illness and it is their mission in life to spread this sickness of the brain to as many people as they can.

How else do you explain, as John writes, Liberalism’s hostility to people with strong religious convictions when this describes almost every Muslim on the planet.

“Liberals go on and on endlessly about a war on women and Islam treats women like garbage.”

Liberals trash our troops when they accidentally kill civilians but Muslims who slaughter their own women and children in large numbers, and are heralded as heroes, earn no such disdain and depending on who they are killing advocates and defenders on the left.

And one of my favorites,

The Left has gone so insane over imaginary violations of “gay rights” that liberals are in favor of driving Christians out of any profession that caters to weddings and they insist that women have to use the bathroom with men because the less than .2% of men who “feel like” women would be uncomfortable using the men’s bathroom. Meanwhile, Islam goes with homophobia the way peanut butter goes with jelly. There are a number of Islamic countries where being gay is a crime with jail or even DEATH as the penalty.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

The contradictions are by no means limited to Muslims or violence. I think you’d be hard-pressed to find even one issue or policy the left claims to champion that is not also simultaneously being violated by legions of progressive cultists rabbiting the examples of their ideological leadership.

Not one thing they claim to stand for can be universally applied to anything except the blind pursuit of power.

What is more sobering is the reality that there really are no protected victim classes in the progressive movement.

Being black, gay, female, gender fluid, Democrat, Independent, a child, a teacher, or an advocate of any or all of their axe-grinding issues du jour is no guarantee of protection now or ever. You are all, every one of you, every victim of so-called white-western-capitalist oppression, expendable in their pursuit of power. Nothing you believe today protects you from destruction at the hands of those who claim to be your protectors and advocates. At any moment, you may find yourself marched up the side of their temple and sacrificed in the name of some greater narrative whose end-game is power over everyone.

You are all ideological chattel, carrying bitter water that may one day prove to be poison.

Perhaps that explains why so many of you are such inexplicably uptight bastards all the time. Somewhere in the back of what is left of your mind, there is a niggling twitch that has not yet succumbed to Democrat party programming.  Some fundamental feature of human existence that challenges the intellectual pogroms of modern progressivism.

I’m sure you’ll try to prove me wrong in comments but then that will just prove me right because not one of you will attempt to explain all the contradictions catalogued above. But you are welcome to try.

 

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