Tagging onto the back of my previous post is this one by Prof. Victor Davis Hanson (one of my favorite writers), on more of the new Progressive Religion’s attributes (emphasis mine):
The Obama victory of 2008 had a profound effect on the Democratic Party, suggesting that the “power” of getting elected twice gave “truth” to Obama’s polarizing brand of organizing groups based on ethnic and racially based grievances, in concert against a supposedly fading and bigoted establishment. (This axiom is in need of some postmodern revisionism after the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the loss of most governorships, state legislatures, the Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court.)
The Alt-Left largely dismisses the old liberal idea of 1960s Civil Rights. Liberals once promoted integration and the goal of an American melting pot empowered by the time-honored traditions of racially blind integration, assimilation, and intermarriage. The liberal goal once was a common American culture and experience where race became subsidiary. Yet we hear little from liberals any more about non-discrimination and integration. Instead, preference, diversity, and segregated safe spaces become the new discriminatory and reparatory agendas.
The new religious tenets which cannot ever by broached – or even questioned. It is the political version of the Star Trek Borg – you will be assimilated or be destroyed. And make no mistake – they will try to destroy you; I and the other Groksters have seen it personally and up close.
The Alt-Left also believes that racial, ethnic, sexual, and religious identity is essential not incidental to character—as evidenced from the profound by the recent racialist statements of would-be candidates to head the DNC, to the ridiculous, as the careerist-driven and invented identities of a Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Ward Churchill or former white/black activists such as Rachel Dolezal and Shaun King attest.
Blatant appeals to racial chauvinism such as those of La Raza (“The Race,” a phraseology popularized in Franco’s Spain in imitation of Hitler’s Volk) or “Black Lives Matter” (that went to great lengths to reject counter ecumenical arguments that “All Lives Matter”) are not just tolerated as useful political props, but institutionalized by the Alt Left to the degree that the Obama Justice Department used fines collected from financial institutions to redistribute to such Alt-Left radical identity political groups.
Another tenet is the age-old left wing idea that the noble ends of “fairness”—equality of result, and government mandated redistribution—justify almost any means in obtaining them. . . . The Alt-Left also does not really believe in free speech, at least as it was calibrated by the New Left of the 1960s that mandated “free speech” zones on campus, wrote academic handbooks outlining the need for protected expression, such as the Yale University’s highly regarded Woodward Report, or, in hippie fashion, equated free speech with advocacy for obscenity and pornography. Reading Mark Twain is hurtful and should be banned, screaming “F—k you to a Yale professor’s face is free speech and to be encouraged.
Not only is the catechism antithetical to Traditional values, we have seen that the Alt-Left (and lesser Progressives and Socialists – can we call them alter boys, Deacons, and Sunday School teachers?) have refounded Government to be its Inquisition forces – just ask the nascent TEA Party organizations that the IRS decided to interrogate for years on end with legal and IRS regulation tactics taking the place of The Rack, burning at the stake, and the Iron Maiden (along with other sundry forms of torture). Let’s also not forget shunning and “running them out of town on a rail” in their utter single-mindedness to destroy a person that “sins” against their orthodoxy.
No, these are the evil ones – in serious need of de-programming for not only are they destroying themselves but Society as well. Let’s be clear – no one really wants to live in their Heaven on Earth and I agree with what needs to be said to those of this particular faith: “almost always, ‘[Expletive] you!’”
To be honest, I have always tried to eschew the use of gutter language but more and more (and as I get older and older), I am getting to that point of believing that such language is not only the correct response but the ONLY response to these versions of Mao Re-education camp leaders. They are not about Liberal Freedom (unless you believe in the version shown in Orwell’s 1984) but submission.
You know, like Islamic Jihadis – “convert, or die”.
