Voters are incensed about Biden’s “garbage” remark. It was a classic “Kinsley gaffe:” an occasion on which a politician fails to censor himself and lets slip the truth about what he thinks or feels. But it wasn’t Biden’s first. Remember this exchange with a Detroit auto worker? Biden has always regarded himself as above us groundlings who cherish our rights.
Biden’s attitude is representative of his regime, his party, and the Left throughout history. Review this Baseline Essay for the genesis and consequences. Now and then they let it out into the open.
When Thomas Sowell wrote in A Conflict of Visions about the contrasting world views and attitudes of Left and Right, he gave us a steam shovel with which to dig past the particulars of “issues” and reveal the attitudes beneath. The attitude of the Left has always been haughty, scornful of those who disagree with it. That haughtiness extends through its own numbers, as well. The more highly placed view those below them not as individuals to be respected, but as chess pieces to be moved about as their strategists dictate. It’s implied by their assumption of moral and intellectual superiority, which undergirds their collectivist social-engineering mindset.
The time for decent Americans to get incensed about it was actually long ago. We ought to have been furious to be spoken to and treated that way since the origin of “progressivism.” Why we weren’t is an exercise I must leave for my Gentle Readers.
A passage from a great novel comes to mind. It’s too long to embed all of it here. The representative of a Lunar colony struggling to free itself from bondage, which has only just thrown off the yoke of an Earth-imposed colonial administration, states to a United Nations committee that any “commitments” made by that administration are null and void. Here is the response of that committee’s members:
“Rabble!” growled the North American. “I told you you were being too soft on them. Jailbirds. Thieves and whores. They don’t understand decent treatment.”
“Order!”
“Just remember, I told you. If I had them in Colorado, we would teach them a thing or two; we know how to handle their sort.”
[…]
“And besides,” the Argentino put in, “they breed like animals. Pigs!”
Yes, it’s fiction… but fiction that sails very close to the wind of reality.
If you weren’t angry before this, are you angry now? If not, why not?
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Why all the indignation? We all know they hate us. I consider them TWANLOC and enemies, as they so clearly consider us.
I’ll trouble all readers with saying it again: The Progs from the very start slyly chose words that told us what they intended to do. Proressivism is gradualism is incrementalism. At each new step they would charge those who could see where they intended to take us as extremists, as slippery-slopers. And so the less insightful shrugged at your warnings.
We know how Jeremiah and Cassandra felt. We now face the nightmare of having been correct and ignored.
Death Cult thinking keeps the Progs’ conscience untroubled.