One
of my pet peeves is that words actually have meanings and people tend to misuse
them all the time. The Progressive Left is the master of this, actually changing
the meaning of words to fit their narrative. For example, Planned Parenthood
provides "women's healthcare". No they don't. They perform abortions. Throngs of
people breaking windows, assaulting others and lighting stuff on fire is not a
"protest". It's a riot. Finally the folks in the streets participating are not
"anarchists". They want free birth control, free healthcare and free tuition.
Anarchists actually believe in the self governance through participation in
voluntary institutions, not Obamacare.
Now
for the most maddening misuse of language. When folks on the political Right
call Democrats and their grassroots activists "liberals". In reality, nothing
could be further from the truth. And I am going to tell you why we need to knock
it off.
The
political Left has evolved into a completely illiberal movement.
Liberalism throughout European and American history was defined by the hallmarks
of free markets, individual property rights, free expression, individual freedom
and freedom from unwarranted government intrusion. According to Encyclopedia
Britannica:
"Liberalism,
political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the
individual to be the central problem of politics. Liberals typically believe
that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others;
but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty. As
the revolutionary American pamphleteer Thomas Paine expressed it in “Common
Sense” (1776), government is at best “a necessary evil.” Laws, judges, and
police are needed to secure the individual’s life and liberty, but their
coercive power may also be turned against him. The problem, then, is to devise a
system that gives government the power necessary to protect individual liberty
but also prevents those who govern from abusing that
power."
Hmmmm.
The party of Mr. I Have A Pen And A Phone are the Liberals? The same guy whose
administration lost a higher percentage of cases in front of the Supreme Court than any
modern President? Of course they aren't. What Barack Obama and the current
iteration of the Democratic party actually espouse are Progressive values and Fabian Socialist principles. Progressives
truly see the Constitution as a fluid document and are responsible for genius
reforms such as the popular election of Senators and the 16th Amendment which
allowed for unbridled Federal taxation.
These
moves paved the way for the Fabian wet dream of crippling the federal system in
the United States, centralizing power to a group of folks who are supposedly
smarter than you in the central government, and an expansive welfare state. If
you have never heard of Fabian Socialism the best description I have seen comes
from Jerry Bowyer in his article for Forbes "Barack Obama, Fabian
Socialist" in 2008:
"Fabians
believed in gradual nationalization of the economy through manipulation of the
democratic process. Breaking away from the violent revolutionary socialists of
their day, they thought that the only real way to effect “fundamental change”
and “social justice” was through a mass movement of the working classes presided
over by intellectual and cultural elites."
It
is no wonder that Baby Boomers have moved to the political Right over time. The
generation of college educated working class kids that burned their bras,
started the Free Speech movement in Berkeley, fought for civil rights and
defined speaking truth to power in the modern era looked around. By 2008 they
were stuck in a party that sought to divide us, insists on conformity and limits
choice and individual freedom in almost everything other than whether or not you
get to kill an unborn child.
What
started as a tendency to divide people into the have's and the have not's during
the Industrial Revolution has evolved to the modern Progressive strategy of
dividing by every possible characteristic. Gender, race, sexuality, economic
status, disability and most recently geography just to name a few. And if you
don't subscribe to their views about any of the issues facing these groups you
are a racist, misogynist, xenophobe Nazi who needs to check their privilege if
you are white or be shamed if you are a member of one of the said minority
groups and dare to utter a non-conforming opinion. I fully expect Netroots
Nation will soon include a policy work group for Asian female to male
transgender midgets with asthma. And I am not kidding.
So
just stop referring to the Democrats and their Far Left grassroots organizations
as Liberals. Overall
the vast majority of all synonyms for liberal are positive characteristics. There is nothing
positive about the collectivism advocated by the political Left, unless you are
a political or intellectual elite. For the rest of us, it just makes our lives
equally shitty. There is nothing positive about the shaming of large groups of
people for their values and ideals because they don't conform. There is
certainly nothing positive about the politics of personal destruction, property
damage and violence the political Left endorses and encourages to shut down
dissent, intimidate their fellow citizens or force compliance with their
agenda.
There
is a reason that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was stumped when she was asked to
differentiate between the Democratic Party and Socialists during the Democratic
Primary. As of 2016, you simply couldn't. There is also a reason that since the
Democrats lost an election their Far Left grassroots organizations have gone on
a nationwide temper tantrum. The slow march of Socialism through our
institutions of government, the media, education and even entertainment
advocated by the Fabians came to an abrupt end with the rise and election of
Donald Trump.
The
media and entertainment industries have never been faced with a population who
shrugs off their influence so readily or loudly in modern memory. The Democrats
have been decimated at the state and local level and now are in the minority at
the Federal level. So these activists have embraced the tactics of the
revolutionary working class of the late 19th and early 20th Century
while lacking any real moral claim to being oppressed because nothing else is
working. The mask is slipping and their policy goals are become readily
apparent.
So
let's finish this. Stop calling them liberal. They aren't. As if to prove my
point, they went on a destructive violent rampage last night to shut down a
speech from an openly gay, Jewish immigrant who has the freedom to call his
speaking tour "Dangerous
Faggot". And you know what? To the tolerant Far Left he is. Because
he says things like this:
"Don't
fight identity politics with identity politics. White pride, white nationalism,
white supremacy is not the way to go. The way to go is reminding them and
yourselves that you should be aspiring to values and ideas. You should be
focusing on what unites people, not what drives them apart. And you shouldn't
give a shit about skin color. You shouldn't give a shit about sexuality. You
shouldn't give a shit about gender. And you should be deeply suspicious of the
people who do." - Milo Yiannopoulos
Terrifying
isn't it? Maybe if you're a Fabian Socialist.......
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