leftism

Progressives Used To Be Against Book Burning

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Not any more. Today’s left-wing progressives have as much in common with latter day liberals as an elephant has in common with a fern plant. I guess they are both carbon based life forms. These people are not “progressive” at all. They are in fact an odd combination of the worst of Marxism and Nazism. The latest outrage is the despicable Southern Poverty Law Group, a leftist hate-tank, lobbying to get six Dr. Seuss books banned. This is the modern day digital version of book burning. Nazi, anyone?

As late as four or five years ago, maybe even one these imbeciles would have rightly been dismissed as lunatics. Not now. The are running the leftist culture war. This will not stop until we the people stop it.

Dr. Seuss Gets Blindsided by a Moral Minority | National Review

The Epidemic Of LGBTQ-ism Among Today’s Young

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Some recent polls suggest that close to 16% of youthful gen Z-ers identify as LGBTQ with large increases in “B” and “T”. I have seen some admittedly unscientific polls putting the number near 20%. What is the name of humanity is going on here? Throughout most of our recorded history homosexuality held held fairly steady around 2% and transgenderism around 0.2%. That started to change with the millennials born in the 80’s and 90’s and has exploded with those born around and after the year 2000.

‘This is social engineering’: Gallup finds huge jump in young Americans identifying as LGBT | News | LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Is this some major change in biology or “liberation” of what used to be taboo? Highly unlikely. What we are looking at is a Trojan Horse being used by corrupt leftists to destroy the country and traditional, moral culture. Especially when it comes to the explosion in perceived transgenderism, which was correctly viewed as a mental disorder until just a few years ago, nature does not support the numbers. Very few people are born anything other than definitively male or female. Hermaphrodites or those with ambiguous sex are very rare. With the far left taking over academia and media, they are pushing to normalize and mainstream transgenderism. Add in normal teen rebellion, confusion about sexuality in the teen years, peer acceptance, social media pressure (large numbers of teens report being influenced by this abhorrent medium), and the fact that in some quarters LGBTQ is now cool, and you have what some psychologists call “mass psychogenic illness”.

Why Is Transgender Identity on the Rise Among Teens? | Psychology Today

A strong case can be made that the “trans” movement is now the single greatest cultural threat to our society. If the left gets its way it will use this to destroy religious freedom: the Democrat Party is already trying. The good news if there is any is that the movement has a way of making enemies of other leftist “victim groups”. With transgender males fighting to compete in women’s sports feminism is clearly being attacked. As well, many gay groups are openly hostile to the radical trans movement, as are most people of color. If the trans movement is not stopped, additional even worse things will be headed America’s way. Next up: normalization of pedophilia.

Leftists Are Destroying Higher Education

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And are in turn trying to destroy America. An alternate title for this article could have been “Revenge of The Hippies”. The author does an excellent job documenting how 1960’s radicals infected higher education in the 1980’s and 90’s and gradually transformed traditional, classical fact and reason based education into agenda driven indoctrination. They in turn “educated” a whole new generation (the millennials and Gen Z-ers) who are today’s cancel culture social-justice warriors. These people flock to the fields of education, destroying primary and secondary schools, media and “journalism” (he correctly calls it “infotainment”), technology, social media and government. The evidence he offers is overwhelming: as late as the 1980’s college faculty identified as liberal or conservative at roughly a 50-50 split. In fact I am old enough to recall that my elite, now horribly leftist alma mater was relatively conservative as late as that era. I would not go anywhere near the place now. Nowadays most “elite” colleges and universities are virtual leftist monopolies, self identified.

The article is long but very important: (Higher) Education Is Destroying America – New Discourses

If You Are Not A Leftist In America You Must Now Think And Act like a Dissident

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I truly believe that traditional Americans: those that support freedom, individual liberty, capitalism, free will, and traditional American values are still in the majority with 60-70% of the country, but that doesn’t mean they have the power. It is clear that in institutions where the real power is: government, media, academia, technology and big business, the the balance of power has shifted toward leftism, tyranny and the erosion of individual liberties. The following article is very important and describes how we the majority must act to regain power:

Understanding and Embracing the Role of the 21st-Century American Dissident (brenthamachek.com)

Unfortunately it is too long for many people’s attention so I will summarize some of the most important points.

Liberty has been slowly eroded in the US for 100 years, it didn’t start in 2020. But the Wuhan Flu, summer rioting and the Jan 6 Capitol protest have super-charged calls for restrictions that only a few years ago would have been called tyrannical.

Institutions now have all the power, not people. We must work within these to retake power. Institutions are just things, not beings. Non-governmental institutions actually have greater power these days then does government.

There are multiple circles of constituents. Those of us who openly oppose tyranny are farthest away from power. Many more sit inside us who are either unaware or afraid, and can be converted to action. We must do that by questioning and educating them.

Many in “opposition” like us work in these large institutions.

We all have the same natural rights but government and other institutions have eroded these rights.

The dissident must question everything, make predictions, ask questions of those you know who may not be dissidents yet, keep track of martyrs, work within the system, recruit people who are currently passive but against oppression, focus on the future and realize it will take time.

Here is one example. There are many conservative, freedom loving people who are terrified of Covid and therefore very supportive of lockdowns. Simply ask them how on the one hand they can want freedom yet support lockdowns? And when they say “safety” ask what that means and at what costs and give them data on how the Covid risk has been grossly exaggerated.

For those who are “passive oppressors” ask them what “rights” they hold dear and then ask them if they don’t think those can be taken away?

Super Bowl Ratings Tank

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Despite a dream match-up with the NFL’s number one offense in Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes vs Tom Brady, Super Bowl ratings plunged 15% to the lowest level since 2007. The apologists are blaming Covid reduced viewing parties, cord cutting and the bad game (KC’s injury ravaged O-line grounded its offense). I’m calling BS. The NFL better watch out: this is the warning shot. The entire event was desultory. Non-stop tributes to the Wuhan Flu and racialist BLM driven virtue signaling. Even the ads stunk for the most part. The broadcast was depressing and the game worse. You won’t find many bigger football fans, and even I found the event unwatchable, and I had a dog in the fight: the Chiefs who I have been with from a small boy during their first Super Bowl run in 1969. The 2020 Super Bowl was a joy for us long-suffering Chiefs’ fans. 2021 felt like a funeral for the NFL.

Make no mistake: as I warned the far-left Marxists are trying to take over and ruin sports, just like they ruin everything. If the NFL doesn’t watch out it will be destroyed. The playoffs were devoid of all the leftist silliness, but the Super Bowl was ruined by it.

Super Bowl Ratings Crash – OutKick

The Left Ruins Everything, Now It’s Coming For the Military

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Leftists, Marxists and Democrats, all one in the same now, seek to take over everything. They do it by slowly absorbing every aspect of culture and society. Despite much opposition, they are succeeding in education, entertainment, government, news media, sports, technology, business in general and now…the military. One of the new Defense Secretary’s initiatives is to root out “far-right extremists and hate groups” within the ranks. This false narrative has of course been created by Democrats and their corrupt media toadies. They are chasing a phantom, it does not exist. Nonetheless:

DOD Uses Witch-hunt for Extremists to Set the Stage for a Purge of Conservatives from the Military (redstate.com)

If you look hard enough for witches, you will find witches. This will only do one thing: damage if not destroy the US military. But then again, that is the goal.

I’m going to do a little thought experiment. Looking at the above key areas of society, I will rate from 0 (best – no impact) to 10 (worst – total control) how much the left has infiltrated and damaged each of them. 5 would be neutral.

Education – 7. Public education and the university system have indoctrinated a couple of generations of America-hating radicals. However, by many metrics they are now on the brink of failure, and private education is thriving as are other alternatives. There is hope. Still, leftists educators have cause untold harm. This is where it all started. Trending positive though.

Entertainment – 8. Pretty obvious.

Government – 5.5. The far-left controls the White House and Congress but the GOP controls a majority of states. The Federal bureaucracy is heavily left though. Still, there is hope. With all the effort the left puts into taking over government it is somewhat amazing that the country is split 50-50 by vote.

News media – 6.5. The media centers and print are bastions of leftism, but conservatives have much power on radio, the internet and has (had ) Fox.

Sports – 4.5. Sports used to be largely conservative. The far-left has tried to use race and the BLM movement to take them over. They don’t seem to be succeeding, as too much “woke” is turning off fans.

Tech – 8. This is the most alarming. Tech has swung far-left in the past decade and is now dominated by corrupt, anti-liberty companies Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Amazon. They have to be stopped.

Business – 6. Also alarming. Business used to be agnostic (other than liberal Wall Street) but is now being brow-beaten by the left to become “woke” and get in line.

PBS Fires Lawyer After He Was Caught On Tape Spewing Hate At Conservatives

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Michael Beller, a vile parasite of a human should never work again. Sorry. A now former PBS lawyer was caught on tape saying that kids of Republican parents should be put in re-education camps, the White House should be fire-bombed and cheering Covid deaths in red states. This slug oozes creepy leftist elitism. The only shock was that he was fired before the ink was dried on the story.

Don’t kid yourself. Disgusting Marxist creeps like Beller have always been around. He’s cut from the same cloth as Stalin, Mao, Castro and Pol Pot, only much dumber. The only difference is few years ago he would have been considered a loon in this country, but now he represents the heart of the Democrat movement. Conservatives should play back his comments at every Democrat townhall in the country. Watch them squirm as the try to disavow this.

PBS lawyer seen on video calling for children of Republicans to be put in reducation camps (msn.com)