You know, if this crop of ghouls and demons is speaking, and making a strong claim, by and large it is a willful falsehood. When they claim Republicans are engaged in “voter suppression” what they are really objecting to is the suppression of fake votes, illegal votes, which is to say the disenfranchisement, in reality, of a number of voters equal to the number of illegal votes.
In the last election perhaps up to 30% of the black community cast their votes for Donald Trump. Given that his victory was stolen, that means a third of the black votes cast were disenfranchised. We are told this is bad, which is true except when it is good. It depends entirely on the Party’s needs. Die Partei Ueber Alles.
They claim we are racist, but there is no Republican equivalent to ANY of the Jim Crow laws, even though they claim all the real racists left the Democrats some time in the 1960’s. Well, if so, where is the evidence? Where are ACTUALLY racist policies, you know, like separate drinking fountains for blacks (I can’t honestly remember if this has actually been done in the present era yet, since farce and reality are indistinguishable), or separate graduations (has been done), or separate housing (has also been done)?
If the Republicans are the racists, WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? I will note Republican hero Barry Goldwater helped found the Arizona NAACP.
Republicans are Individualists. This does not mean we believe in greed. We believe in the idea that individuals can be and should be held accountable for their individual actions, but NEVER for the actions of a group in which they belong only accidentally, such as their ethnicity, race, or gender. That is the defining aspect of Collectivism, which we view as intrinsically unjust and evil.
Intellectually, Conservatism is vastly more interesting philosophically than Leftism. Marxism consists almost entirely in stupid ideas iterated an inane lengths, all of which have been falsified by the very History that Marx made his God. It’s a poorly written fantasy novel.
This opposition to Collectivism and support of the Individual as the moral basis of society is REPUBLICAN 101. This is BEDROCK. This is a core value. It is a LIBERAL principle, one which states that all men and women are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of Eudaemonia (Jefferson’s intended meaning), and the ownership of property (Locke’s original formulation).
We are reading now, from these horrific people, that banning Critical Race Theory, which has a direct lineage back to the Critical Theory of the Marxist Frankfort School, or so I understand, will prevent teachers from teaching HONEST history. Truth truth truth. Truth is under attack. Teachers won’t be able to teach, we are told. Bad bad bad. Vote no on that horrible bill, naive gullible fools are told.
Well, let me give you an example of the sort of thing legislators are trying to ban. The particular version of this law I am quoting makes teaching any of the following punishable by daily fines of $5,000, to be paid either by the school or the school district.
To be clear, you are not ALLOWED to teach that:
1. One race, sex, or religion is inherently superior to another race, sex, or religion;
2. An individual, by virtue of his or her race, sex, or religion, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously;
3. An individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or her race, sex, or religion;
4. Members of one (1) race, sex, or religion cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race, sex, or religion;
5. An individual’s moral character is determined by his or her race or sex;
6. An individual, by virtue of his or her race, sex, or religion, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, sex, or religion;
7. Any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race, sex, or religion; or
8. Meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist, sexist, or oppressive, or were created by members of a particular race or religion to oppress members of another race or religion.
Ponder for a moment–you should not need more–what sort of person would object to the notion, for example, that the chance of a person’s birth should not be used in moral judgement against them.
Now ponder, and this may take a bit longer, how WE GOT TO THE PLACE WHERE THIS DISCUSSION EVEN NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE.
How is any of this not patently and horrifically regressive?
We are at a point where any honest Democrat who sees this sort of shit either needs to raise hell in their own party, or leave the party.
And clearly the Mass Formation Psychosis LONG precedes COVID. COVID was just layered easily and seamlessly on top of it. This psychosis is the defining aspect of the Far Left, of the Headless Ones, as I have called them, the core “elite” (what is the word for standing out as a leader in a sea of moral and intellectual mediocrity?) of this mass delusion.
Should we not be long past the point of debating whether or not people should be judged by the color of their skin?
I wake up daily and wonder how we survive SO MUCH STUPIDITY.
I don’t have an answer, but I choose to believe I improve the odds as much as it is possible for me to improve them by posting things like this.
Everyone reading this, if anyone, needs to be fighting these people in their local comments sections, to be debating small points as unacrimoniously as possible with people they know to be Leftists, and in all cases trying really really hard to THINK CLEARLY. It is so hard. They make it so hard on purpose. They are ringing bells and creating constant noise, and when you are continually reacting to the latest atrocity against common sense and common decency it is hard to remember to see the whole of the picture. That is the aim, and that is the method, obviously.
And to return to the point of debate, big picture stuff is off the table. What the Left loves to do, and does effectively, is stipulate abstract points, then claim everyone who opposes them opposes those points. The lifting up of the poor. Improved race relations. Justice. Caring and empathy. They use these words, and as long as the debate happens at that unanchored, non-specific level you cannot debate that. It is all insincere cant, consisting mostly in lazy narcissistic self congratulation, but even most of THEM don’t realize that, because they ARE lazy, self congratulatory and emotionally rigid. It would be, and I hope will be, eventually, emotionally painful for them to realize just how long and how badly they have been failing most the people they claim to care about the most deeply.
But to take one obvious example, you could show this list of teaching being disallowed and ask them if they would want to defend any of them. That is reasonable, in my view. And most will not have seen the actual CONTENT of any of these bills. They are simply accepting–complacently and obediently as usual–the lies being told.