Leftists Whipping Themselves Into a Jacobin Frenzy
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There's no question that animosity exists on both sides of the political spectrum, but have you noticed how personal it has become for many on the left?
It is disturbing how intolerant and filled with rage leftist extremists have become, and how many more people are falling into the category of leftist extremism.
But what concerns me as much as this pattern of ill will and abuse from leftists is that it is unchecked by their peers and often applauded. Instead of encouraging people to appeal to the better angels of their nature, they are beckoning them to summon their demons and become part of a mob mentality -- as if we're witnessing a replay of events that preceded the French Revolution.
It's unsettling that they rationalize their misbehavior as justified, even warranted. They've convinced themselves that conservatives' views are so noxious they've forfeited any expectation to be treated civilly and they deserve to be shunned, muzzled and boycotted -- especially members of minority groups who have strayed from the reservation. They are "garbage people," "deplorables" and subhumans who are not entitled to equal rights, let alone decent treatment.
Leftist mobs violently protest conservative campus speakers and harass conservatives such as Kirstjen Nielsen, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Pam Bondi, Mitch McConnell and Stephen Miller in public places. Conservatives are censored on Twitter and Facebook. Google, the mainstream media and other social media platforms refused to run ads for the pro-life movie "Unplanned," and Twitter often censors pro-life tweets.
Conservative students are shamed into silence on college campuses while their ideas are demonized in the surreal cause of promoting diversity and inclusiveness. Leftist students vandalize pro-conservative posters and seek to eradicate tributes to conservatives -- such as the efforts by students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to remove the name of Savannah native Justice Clarence Thomas from one of the campus buildings because he is "anti-woman." Anti-woman? Just how crazed are these people?
Students at the University of California, Davis protested a photo of a heroic slain woman police officer holding a Thin Blue Line flag as "anti-black" and "disrespectful." For some, nothing is sacred, and to those lusting after another opportunity to be offended, everything is a provocation. Leftist protestors pepper-sprayed a group of high school kids meeting about free markets and the Constitution. Though many were hospitalized, the media ignored the event.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio impotently called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A's Manhattan restaurant because the chain owner, Dan Cathy, is a Christian who believes in traditional marriage. If you oppose Obamacare, it's not because you believe there is a better way to improve health care but because you don't want children to have access to it -- as Jimmy Kimmel unapologetically asserted. If you support Social Security reform, you want old people to get sick or die. If you favor border enforcement, you are a xenophobe and a racist. If you oppose abortion, you want to deprive women of their autonomy and health care.
This is the kind of pervasive demonization of conservatives that leftists are engaging in every day, which leads to the horrific mentality that it's OK to deprive them of their rights and treat them as second-class citizens.
Luke O'Neil, in an op-ed in The Boston Globe, expressed regret that when he waited on Bill Kristol at a restaurant 10 years ago, he did not insult him and spoil his food with urine and blood. Ironically, Kristol is one of President Trump's most ardent critics today, but a decade ago he was the bane of the left because of his support for America's war with Iraq. O'Neil remembered having served Kristol when he learned that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen resigned her post this week. He fondly recalled her being "shame-marched" out of a restaurant nine months ago because of the Trump policy that allegedly separates families at the southern border. He suggested that waiters would have been serving America if they had tampered with Nielsen's food. Far from being sorry for his piece, O'Neil later tweeted in response to conservative criticism, "People who carry out policies of ethnic cleansing or cheerlead for disastrous wars leading to tens of thousands of suffering or dead should not expect to be able to show their faces in public anymore thank you for understanding this basic premise."
Such unbridled personal nastiness reminded me of liberal writer Jonathan Chait's admission in 2003 that he loathed then-President Bush. What was most striking was not his antipathy but that he knew he risked nothing in sharing it -- that the people whose respect he cared about would approve and think no less of him. He wrote: "I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it. ... I hate the inequitable way he has come to his economic and political achievements and his utter lack of humility (disguised behind transparently false modesty) at having done so. ... I hate the way he walks -- shoulders flexed, elbows splayed out from his sides like a teenage boy feigning machismo. I hate the way he talks -- blustery self-assurance masked by a pseudopopulist twang. I even hat the things that everybody seems to like about him."
The left's extremism -- its embracing of ever nuttier ideas, its sanctimonious hubris, its routine descent into personal ugliness, its relishing of incivility, its willful censorship, its discrimination against Christians and its dehumanization of conservatives and Trump supporters -- is growing at an alarming pace. I pray that adults remaining on that side of the aisle can someday regain control of this careening leftist political juggernaut.
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“It's unsettling that they rationalize their misbehavior as justified, even warranted. They've convinced themselves that conservatives' views are so noxious they've forfeited any expectation to be treated civilly and they deserve to be shunned, muzzled and boycotted -- especially members of minority groups who have strayed from the reservation. They are "garbage people," "deplorables" and subhumans who are not entitled to equal rights, let alone decent treatment.
Leftist mobs violently protest conservative campus speakers and harass conservatives such as Kirstjen Nielsen, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Pam Bondi, Mitch McConnell and Stephen Miller in public places. Conservatives are censored on Twitter and Facebook. Google, the mainstream media and other social media platforms refused to run ads for the pro-life movie "Unplanned," and Twitter often censors pro-life tweets.
Conservative students are shamed into silence on college campuses while their ideas are demonized in the surreal cause of promoting diversity and inclusiveness. Leftist students vandalize pro-conservative posters and seek to eradicate tributes to conservatives -- such as the efforts by students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to remove the name of Savannah native Justice Clarence Thomas from one of the campus buildings because he is "anti-woman." Anti-woman? Just how crazed are these people?
Students at the University of California, Davis protested a photo of a heroic slain woman police officer holding a Thin Blue Line flag as "anti-black" and "disrespectful." For some, nothing is sacred, and to those lusting after another opportunity to be offended, everything is a provocation. Leftist protestors pepper-sprayed a group of high school kids meeting about free markets and the Constitution. Though many were hospitalized, the media ignored the event.”
the further left they go, the fewer will follow them.
all they are doing now is ripping their own party to shreds.
their bs under obama is why trump was elected.
the bs under trump will get trump re-elected.
their continued bs will get another conservative elected after trump
the more vile and violent they get? the better off we will be
it's all very predictable, but I am enjoying the show regardless.
I agree. The more unhinged and triggered we can instigate the left into, the more they show hate and intolerance toward Christianity and conservatives, the more their internet providers discriminate, the msm, fact checkers, and the SPLC defames, and the more vile academia becomes toward us deplorables, the more the public will reject them all.
expect much gnashing of teeth.
it will be fun
They are still coping with the results of the 2016 election and most recently their hopes were dashed by the Mueller Report. Now there may be an investigation of the rogue elements within the FBI. By the time the 2020 election is over, they'll all be seeking Psychiatric therapy.
we don't have to do anything except sit back, watch, and laugh.
the road ahead will do all the work.
at this point they are on auto-destruct - nothing can stop it.
I think that you are right. They are doing it to themselves.
The key is us physically surviving and living through their days of rage in the meantime.
The first former Obama official has been indicted by the special council. Dems will be completely unhinged as more of them go to prison for what they did to Trump.
The first former Obama official has been indicted by the special council. Dems will be completely unhinged as more of them go to prison for what they did to Trump.
Keep on with that. The man was out of the Obama administration for two years when that all went down. He was a Manafort lackey.
Trying to act like it was about Obama's administration is misleading. It is far from that.
Fair enough. I still don't agree with it though, from either side.
Even when Manafort went down, it was for things from before he was employed by trump.
Coming from Town Hall one of the largest purveyor of lies and false news
Good pick Keep
Town Hall has so far escaped the fascist clutches of the gang at MBFC, so expect to see much from it until they get around to rerating it as they have done lately to many conservative sites we used to see here.
Just stopped by for my morning dose of malarkey, I think I'm good through the weekend, thank you.
"Democrats for president" should use this commercial and rename it to "Democrats FREE 2020" !
They've "Hooked" their base into "doing anything" with that kinda promise they keep spouting !
Ever seen the vids of full blown Nutz waiting at the door of a shop for a huge sale going on ? They'd kill to get that cheap,cheap,cheap Big Screen.
The Dems know that.
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Or even the UK once Brexit happens.
That coment is nothing more than a total lie
So much for speaking ones mind. What a total joke of an advertising slogan. That comment was removed only due to ideological bias on the part of the one doing so. Reagan, Thatcher, and other conservatives have often said similar comments about socialism.
Actually it wasn’t. It was the truth and and I make no apologies for saying, stand by it and for those who remember the censored comment double down on it.
How do you know any thing in that comment has any truth to it. Making up their own stories is the major way to make a comment on social media
Indeed. Also, the author was published in many sources from The Stream to any of dozens of newspapers since he’s a contributor to Creators Syndicate.
The fact that Reagan and Thatcher and other conservative leaders said in their own words exactly the same thing....I stand by and double down on what I was speaking my mind about.
And Reagan’s quotes about liberals are all right on and completely true.
It’s time to bring back Reagan’s quotes about welfare queens too!
Perhaps now we should remind people what the Jacobins did when they whipped themselves up into their revolutionary frenzy....