And Progressives / Socialists worship Government to bring a “Heaven on Earth” and they have their orthodoxy and liturgy to which there is no dissent including that there can not be anything else before it.  Yeah, I wanna believe that the former Soviet Union, the early Communist China, Viet Nam, Venezuela and of course, North Korea are EXACTLY what the Workers’ Paradise was supposed to look like. Those on the Political Correctness college campuses all over the US may now believing in a religion all of their own (a self-flagellation type)? From a post at Instapundit, three sections of a “behind a paywall” post at the WSJ: JONATHAN HAIDT ON THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF CAMPUS RAGE:

Emphasis mine – and the money line is in the last ‘graph:

When a mob at Vermont’s Middlebury College shut down a speech by social scientist Charles Murray a few weeks ago, most of us saw it as another instance of campus illiberalism. Jonathan Haidt saw something more—a ritual carried out by adherents of what he calls a “new religion,” an auto-da-fé against a heretic for a violation of orthodoxy.

“The great majority of college students want to learn. They’re perfectly reasonable, and they’re uncomfortable with a lot of what’s going on,” Mr. Haidt, a psychologist and professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business, tells me during a recent visit to his office. “But on each campus there are some true believers who have reoriented their lives around the fight against evil.”

However, the “evil” is not about the tradition Christian sense of goodness and sin, but around political discourse (again, Conservatives think Progressives are misguided; Progressives believe Conservatives are EVIL).  And like any fundamentalist religion, well, these folks act like Westboro Baptist church members.

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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.

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New Hampshire’s local coven of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-NH) gave the state a C- on ‘infrastructure.’

The grade was determined by a team of professional engineers from across New Hampshire who assessed 12 categories of infrastructure. And they found that much of the state’s infrastructure requires investment and upgrades to keep up with its needs: Aviation (C+), Bridges (C-), Dams (C-), Drinking Water (C-), Energy (C+), Hazardous Waste (C), Ports (D+), Rail (C-), Roads (C-), Solid Waste (C+), Stormwater (D+) and Wastewater (D+).

You can read the entire report here. But the part that matters most, in my opinion, is this.

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Nope, not gonna link because, well, I’m not going to out someone who doesn’t want to be.  But first, my response:

THis is REALLY scary when you start thinking about the ramifications, not just about Rice being outed for outing others but that your friends just got yanked backwards as if they were movie stunt men. What’s that old saw about “a government that is big enough to give you everything…” – I think they’re starting to realize its offshoots and secondary effects.

And what captured my attention?

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I don’t know why Democrat Senators are so upset about Merrick Garland not getting a hearing on his nomination. But it is supposed to be the key reason they want to filibuster the Republican nominee. In that regard why would Democrat Senators ever vote for any nominee put forth by any Republican President?

Senator Schumer had a great idea during an interview with Chuck Todd:

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What we’re seeing today with the severe politicization of SCOTUS nominations (simply because Government has become so big and intrusive, the stakes for any nominee are YUGE!) does have a history, and one that Ted Kennedy (“The Swimmer”) way back gave a huge kickstart.  The history from a piece called “Ted Kennedy Killed the Judicial Filibuster” (emphasis mine):

This is Ted Kennedy’s fault:

Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.

This wasn’t a legal critique, it was character assassination, and it was character assassination that worked. One of the most thoughtful and qualified judges ever nominated for the Supreme Court was defeated as part of a pure political power play, one justified through slanderous and scandalous rhetoric.

It was and we’re seeing the ramifications today – what the Dems are doing are just a power play continuation.  But “oh Skip!”, you say, what about Garland??

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At every opportunity, New Hampshire Democrats and the anti-gun lobby sell their corrupted wares under a banner that increasingly reads “New Hampshire blah blah blah support background checks.” This marketing strategy is meant to paint with a broad brush the idea that a lot of us agree on the need for background checks for firearm sales while selling the idea that whatever checks exist are flimsy, inadequate, or even non-existent; whatever scares the target audience the most.

The answer is more of them. More background checks. More! Now!

Well, we haven’t passed any of those laws the Democrats wanted but this ought to make them happy. New Hampshire performed 40% more background checks in 2016 than in 2014.

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