Perhaps this should go in the “you can’t make this stuff up” file:
In California, we’re forced to drink out of paper straws but in Georgia, Kamala Harris supporters can go to a rage cage and destroy perfectly good plates for an agenda that Trump doesn’t even support. So much for joy and the environment, eh? #HypocritesForHarris https://t.co/6jo8knFJu0
— -=Addison=- (@four20girl) October 6, 2024
Have you ever seen the phrase carefully nurtured disease before this? Because that’s what Leftists’ “rage” really is. It’s been cultivated like a hothouse plant for decades, such that today, Leftists need “safe spaces,” “scream sessions,” and “rage cages.” Needless to say, nothing of the sort appears among us in the Right.
It’s occurred to me that hatred of this magnitude cannot “stand alone.” It must be married to something else. C. S. Lewis proposed fear:
[H]atred is best combined with Fear. Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful — horrible to anticipate, horrible to feel, horrible to remember; Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. And Hatred is also a great anodyne for shame.
And it is plausible, considering how many on the Left know that all that stands between them and irrelevance (if not starvation) is Big Mama Government. But another possibility is one I’ve breached before:
For quite some time, left-liberals have preened themselves for their moral superiority — what Thomas Sowell calls their “vision of differential rectitude” — to those who disagree with them. On the strength of that assumed superiority, they have deemed themselves exempt from the requirements for courteous persuasion, for demonstrable results, even for candid presentation of their intentions to us benighted ones. Instead, they’ve used political power of several forms to impose their preferences on the country, have retroactively revised their goals when they failed to meet the ones they originally stated, and have increasingly turned to stealth to get their way. They have disdained to stand to account for any failure, be it practical or moral. They have shielded those of their own who’ve demonstrably exploited political privilege for personal gain, though they’ve condemned the ordinary self-interest of private citizens and have done all they could to thwart it.
Clearly, one must not argue with those one hates. Their imputed moral inferiority renders it not only unnecessary but undesirable. How could a Leftist award the implied status of moral equality to a Rightist by arguing with him? That would undercut his whole concept of himself as a superior being.
Yes, yes, it’s circular, but you knew that already.
There have been several on the Left who’ve proposed “re-education camps” for us in the Right – coupled to extermination for those of us who refuse to swallow their swill:
Larry Grathwohl, an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated The Weather Underground, claims Ayers told him where to plant bombs. He says Ayers was bent on overthrowing the government.
“The thing the most bone chilling thing Bill Ayers said to me was that after the revolution succeeded and the government was overthrown, they believed they would have to eliminate 25 million Americans who would not conform to the new order,” said Larry Grathwohl, a former FBI agent.
Regard them well, your “moral superiors.” No doubt they would claim that they don’t hate anyone… as they’re herding you into the boxcars on the way to the “re-education camp.” Draw your own conclusions. Mine are as stated above: they suffer delusions of moral superiority, which inevitably trigger hatred toward those who refuse to acknowledge it.
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I have a cousin in academia who fits this to a tee. Attempting to counter my arguments with “You’re going to have to come up with a better argument than Sean Hannity’s talking points.” as a means of dismissing everything I say.
I got him real good once. He almost turned purple when I told him the following, “You know Jim, you really shouldn’t scream about Trump too much. After all, it’s because of Republicans like you that we got Trump in the first place.” that line sent him into a mental tailspin. After demanding to know how someone like him was responsible for a Trump presidency, I told him that pre-Trump, the slew of republican presidential candidates were all worthless, pathetic losers, who would rather “Lose with dignity” than fight and win. Translation: We’re too cowardly to fight because we don’t want to be called names. Along comes Trump who not only hit back, but hit back ten times as hard. For the first time in my life, lefties had a republican president that they had no idea how to handle. Was he going to keep every one of his promises? Nope. Was he attacking subjects no other republican would be caught dead addressing? Yep. And that’s why he got the nomination. The effect on him hearing this was the equivalent of throwing a vampire out into the sun. It was fun to watch.
@Doug:
Exactly. Are you familiar with Evan Sayet’s HE FIGHTS?
Also, Sayet’s transcribed talk about the Left? Regurgitating the Apple.