Progressives’ Final Solution

     The use of racial divisiveness has long been a hallmark of the Progressive Left.  The stoking of racial hatred and ignorance at universities by peddling “critical race theory” or other such grievance studies and attempts to push “multiculturalism” has grown more explicit over time, and is perhaps approaching a crescendo.

     These “studies” often involve how “anglo-normative” values or “White privilege” oppresses non-White “persons of color” and can lead to White people being oppressed by their own whiteness!  The proffered solution to these problems is to destroy “Whiteness” (or alternatively, “kyriarchy“), so that it may be replaced by some vision of utopia.

     We have now reached the point where that proffered solution is being put into effect: A mass shooter confessed he learned to hate white people in college.

During his testimony Wednesday, Thandiwe suggested that his reason for even purchasing the gun he used in the shootings was to enforce beliefs he’d developed about white people during his later years as an anthropology major at the University of West Georgia.

“I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today,” he said. “In terms of slavery, it was something that needed to be answered for. I was trying to spread the message of making white people mend.”

He said the night before the shooting, he attended a so-called “Peace Party” intended to address his concerns about helping the black community find equal footing, but two white people were there.

“I was upset,” Thandiwe said. “I was still upset Friday. I took the gun to work because I was still upset from Thursday night.”

     Thus, we can clearly see that the Progressive Left has truly found its final solution.

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All Your Children Are Belong To Us

     Defenders of the status quo in educations can oft paint truly horrific scenes of children being harmed, brainwashed, or left behind due to “evil” “Reich-wing” conservatives; typically the proffered villains are the evil “corporations” since that is what corporations do, right?

     This, of course, ignores the fact that in many of the large and urban districts where the extreme left has a deathgrip on education, students are failing to learn, and many don’t even graduate at all.  Rather than accept that the problems are with bad teachers, failed teaching methods, or bad curricula, the modern day Kinderführeren end up blaming private schools and even homeschoolers.  The true target of their ire, though, is the great leftist boogie-man, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

     An article over at the extreme leftist blog “Common Dreams” blames ALEC for pushing vouchers that allow poor and minority students to break from a failed system, for pushing testing to objectively find out if students are even learning in the classroom, or allowing schools to outsource some services in order to not waste money on unionized public employees.  But above all else, the Edu-crat establishment is fearful that by loosing their monopoly on our children, they will not longer be able to warp and manipulate their young minds.  Their honest claim can be summed up as “All Your Children Are Belong To Us”

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The New Feudalism, Heard Through the Grapevine

     Raisin farmers are facing a $650,000 penalty unless they hand over almost half of their crop of raisin to their Lord Seigneurs the Federal Government.

“The court agreed to address the constitutionality of a “reserve tonnage” program overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under a law dating from 1937, near the end of the Great Depression.”

     Aside from the wisdom of defending a program that originated from the paragon of regulatory sanity [/sarcasm].  The main problem, is that this is a violation of the 5th Amendment which requires “just compensation” for takings:

“The federal government, without providing the just compensation required by the Fifth Amendment, extracts title to a hefty portion of a farmer’s annual raisin crop as a condition for giving the farmer permission to sell the remainder of his crop on the market,” attorney Michael W. McConnell, a former federal appellate judge, wrote in a brief for Fresno-area farmers Marvin and Laura Horne”

     Ultimately, this is but an obvert example of the “New Feudalism” wherein toiling masses are required to feed the Leviathan, only to have their productivity redistributed in accordance to the precepts of “justice” and “equality,” in return for the handouts and beneficence of the state, leaving those that toil only marginally better than those who kick back and suck on the government’s teat.

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Convicted Rapist Organizes Demonstration to Support Disarming Potential Rape Victims

     A recent gun show in Ohio was protested by a dozen or so by opponents of American’s 2nd Amendment civil liberties.  Included in their denunciations was the commonly spouted lie of illegal gun sales:

“‘We know that guns are being sold on the floor inside Hara Arena illegally’ said Jerome McCorry. ‘No background checks no identification of any kind.’

McCorry said ‘AK-47s and M16s are not gonna be used for hunting, they’re not going to be used to protect anybody. These are the weapons that are coming back and being used in mass murders and mass killings.'”

     The irony, of course, in McCorry insisting that any gun is useless for self defense, is that McCorry is actually a convicted rapist, as revealed by Chad D. Baus at the Buckeye Firearms Association:

“Anti-Gun-Protestor Jerome McCorry” and “Rapist-and-Convicted-Felon Jerome McCorry” are one and the same person, and WHIO-TV and The Dayton Daily News have been treating this man as a legitimate voice of reason that should be considered in the debate over whether or not rape and other crime victims should be able to buy firearms in order to protect themselves from attack.

     This should serve as a sound reminder that greatest thing a rapist fears, is a woman (or child) who can fight back with the one kind of weapons that serves as a true equalizer:  Guns.

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Cory Booker, Dan Quayle, and the English Language

     Certainly, spelling and grammatical mistakes happen, especially when one is typing away furiously to quickly send out a tweet.  Crypto-Progressive and Newark Mayor Cory Booker is certainly no exception:

     The irony here, is that while some on the right tittered and his tweet, the media has been generally silent, and even dismissive of this.  This stands in stark contrast to the way that Dan Quayle was treated when he “corrected” a student’s spelling of “potato” by adding an “e”… just as the answer card prepared by the boys teacher stated:

     And some people wonder why many claim the media to be biased?

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News of the Week for Feb. 3rd, 2013

 

News of the Week for Feb. 3rd, 2013
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Is the Future of Texas Blue?

     Texas now stands as a sane bastion of low taxes and business friendliness in a country lorded over by Pres. Obama. In large part, this is due to the solid hold over the state by Republicans. While many in the leadership of the Texas GOP are far from rock-ribbed conservatives, they have nonetheless stood against the blue tide of the Progressive left.

     The once Democrat state abandoned the democrats as they changed from blue dogs conservatives into the Progressive statists they have not become. However, Texas is second only to California in terms of its population, and hence the number of Electoral Votes to be cast every four years. With a burgeoning Hispanic population, the left sees Texas as ripe for a Democrat take-over; San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro‘s prominent speech during the DNC 2012 convention is proof enough for that.

     It remains to be seen if Texas can be turned “blue” with the millions of conservative refugees from blue states arriving to the state. But with such a tempting prize, there are plenty of those on the left that wish their Progressive cancer to fully metastasize and invade every corner of every state in the Union.

     A little mood music, perhaps?

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Pillars of Society

     Guest post by “Cato,” originally from the comments at the Ace of Spades HQ.

     What the Leftist does not understand is that the core of their philosophy, the noble savage of Rousseau, is absolutely wrong. Civilization is not the default state of mankind, and we are not enlightened creatures when “liberated” from the traditions, customs, and history that they think hold us back.

     These things do not hold us back, they are the product of millennia of trial and error, mankind finding the things that work to keep society glued together so that we can overcome the darkness inherant in all of us, overcoming our very nature so that we can work together and advance. This is not axiomatic, but a fragile and tenuous thing never more than a catastrophe away from failure.

     When you alter such structures so long established, you send shockwaves through the system. Our founding fathers understood this, saying in the Declaration that forms of governance long established should not be altered for light and transient causes.

     A few changes every now and then, and we overcome the difficulty and find ways to make new ideas work. Equal justice before the law, liberty, the end of slavery, etc. None of those came easily, despite clearly being a desirable state, because the whole social order had to change to accommodate the new way of thinking.

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Progressives’ Futuristic Blues

     Walter Russell Mead writes over at The American Interest writes on the “Blue Social Model” of the Progressive left and where it is likely to go in the future.  It is an insightful examination of where Progressives believe society will, and ought to, go.  It is well worth reading in its entirety.  There are a few points, however, that deserve being expanded and commented upon.

     The Progressive left sees the inevitable death of the middle class, of the hated bourgeois and petite-bourgeois.

“This view holds that the death of industrial society means the death of the mass middle class. When millions of people can’t make a living “making stuff” in factories anymore, wages for the unskilled will fall. America will be increasingly polarized between a small group of high skilled creative professionals and a larger group scavenging a living by serving them: mowing their lawns, catering their parties and so on.”

     In lieu of an actual Middle Class, with the Middle Class values that allowed them to take command of their own lives and families via financial independence, the left wishes to impose the trappings of a Middle Class by government welfare and handouts.  They do not wish to preserve the Middle Class, but replace it with a Dependency Class.

“The people who work in the cutting edge firms, directly or as contractors, will do extremely well and live fascinating lives. But the rest of the country will be cut off from wealth creation. For 4.0 liberals, the programmatic consequences are obvious: tax the productive private sector in order to fund a dignified life for those in education, health care and especially for the large majority of the population without the skills or the creativity that would qualify them to join the productive minority.”

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Kyriarchy

     What is “kyriarchy” and just what does it have to do with core ethos of the radical Progressive left? “Kyriarchy” is the framework through which the Progressive left views race, gender, class, and sexuality; and it is the framework from which they plan the destruction of America and the building of their fevered visions of utopia.

     The Progressive left sees people as simply categories, as mere classifications. It is integral to how they think, and integral for what they plan on doing.

     Sadly, the idea that being “colorblind” is racist has been around for decades now. The far left believe that American society is intrinsically racist to the point that even the most innocuous thing perpetuates racism.  The Progressive left expand this to include gender, sexuality, and even class.

     This serves to denigrate people into simply being classifications. Thus a person is reduced to their classification, and told that their interests are what the left deems those interests to be. In order to achieve these pre-defined interests, people must work for all the other interests of the non-straight white male individuals, under the guiding hand of self-declared intellectuals (e.g. those with useless degrees like an MA in Gender Studies). This is basically social corporatism.

     And there is nothing the left hates more than non-white, non-straight, female, or non-Christian individuals who dare to believe what the self-declared intelligentsia declare that they ought not to think.

     They believe that people must be “conscience” of race, because only then will they discover how everything about American culture and civilization is racist and evil. The same applies to sexual orientation and to gender and/or one’s biological sex.

     They believe that straights, whites, and males are “privileged” and that unless American society is destroyed and rebuilt with “social justice” in mind, then those straight white males will ALWAYS oppress everyone else, even if they don’t actually treat people unequally or think of race at all.  It is a conspiracy without need of conspirators.

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