In this sad, politically-correct age, where everyone strives
to be offended by something, we are told that we must believe women, in every
case, no matter what. We can’t say anything critical of an African-American,
Hispanic or Muslim. Members of the ever-growing, ever more assertive LGBTQIA+
community are sacrosanct. One mustn’t disparage a Native-American. Even
Satanists and Wiccans are demanding respect as they enter the societal
mainstream. And don’t even think of teasing a progressive—unless you enjoy observing
the hissy-fit that will inevitably ensue.
Everyone
is free, however, to join in the orgiastic frenzy of vicious, ad hominem
attacks on the current President of the United States, Donald trump. Odd.
There
is another incongruous fact about the current obsession with identity politics
and offensive terminology. The vast majority of nasty nicknames for racial and
ethnic groups come from…racial and ethnic groups. That’s correct, most of the
derogatory names for minorities have historically been coined by competing
ethnic and racial groups in close proximity. Whether it has been the English
and Irish, Serbs-Croats-Slovakians-Slovenians, Chinese-Japanese, Greeks and
Italians, Shiite and Sunni Muslims, Jews and Arabs, or the Russians and, well,
almost everyone else, ethnic factions have been badmouthing each other…… and
fighting each other…… since time immemorial.
Historically,
the sad fact is: the more homogenous a nation, the less volatile.
The one
great exception to that rule has been the United States of America. Never has
there been so large a country so diverse in terms of race, nationality and
religious affiliation. Yet, due to its few, yet vital, founding concepts and
ideals—and the subsequent melting pot—the U.S. has been staggeringly successful.
And that success is broad-based. African-Americans have been presidents and
Supreme Court Justices, women attend college at a greater rate than men, people
of any nationality can do or be whatever or whomever they wish, Mosques dot the
landscape, gays earn more money-- on average-- than heterosexuals do, lakes and
places are reverting back to their Native-American names, and illegal aliens
are sheltered in sanctuary cities.
And
yet, ironically, hypocritically and demonically, the country-- and a significant
portion of its population—are under sustained attack as never before for being
racist, homophobic, and misogynistic. The most prosperous, tolerant—and
decent—nation in the history of the world is being treated by leftists as if it
were the Third Reich. Don’t laugh, they are using those very comparisons,
throwing truly offensive (not to mention patently absurd) terms around like
“fascist,” “Nazi” and “Hitler.” Most of those lobbing verbal neutron bombs
around are themselves white and privileged. And they rarely get called on it,
in large part due to fake news outlets and the (mock) media. Amazing.
Tragically,
in part because of the incessant drumbeat of malicious lies, the country is now
split. Progressives, ironically, have smeared and slandered those who hold
traditional values, marginalizing them-- and even excluding them from college
campuses and mainstream media outlets. They aren’t just guilty of inadvertent
“micro-aggressions,” they have used brutal language and even violence to
further their ends. Moreover, if those they are savaging ever have the temerity
to defend themselves or fight back, they redouble their attacks and re-slander
their victims as deplorable, right-wing hate-mongers prone to violence.
And they now wish to impeach a
president, not because that president committed “high crimes and misdemeanors,”
but because they want to…consolidate their power. If they are successful,
republican government of, by and for the people is dead.
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