(Writing in Taki's Magazine)
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The feds are reacting to this rise in homespun activist
coteries by creating a special counsel that will “coordinate the investigation
and prosecution” of these “domestic terror groups.”
A Department of Justice official recently announced that
radical Islamists pose less of a threat to the country than “anti-government
and hate groups.”
You heard right: Online trolls are a bigger danger than
fanatics who chop off heads.
In other words, if you disagree with the prevailing
attitudes toward government and culture, you’re on a list.
* FOLKS... WHAT'A'YA WANNA BET WILLIAM R. BARKER IS
"ON THE LIST?"
Progressives won the culture war; now come the spoils.
That means using the government to crush anyone who thinks outside the box on
race, sex, culture, and creed.
As Kurt Andersen wrote in the Gray Lady a few years ago,
the 1960s ruined everything. The one-two punch of the sexual revolution and the
civil rights movement vastly altered American culture and pushed it further
toward societal egalitarianism. “What has happened politically, economically,
culturally and socially since the sea change of the late ’60s isn’t
contradictory or incongruous,” Andersen professed. “It’s all of a piece.”
And what piece was that? “Selfishness,” according to
Andersen. “Going forward, the youthful masses of every age would be permitted
as never before to indulge their self-expressive and hedonistic impulses.”
With same-sex marriage the law of the land (and progress
soon to be made on the polygamy front), it only makes sense for the left to
impose its moral relativism on the rest of the country.
Like Canada and Great Britain before it, America is
slowly marching down wind of Orwellian thought crime.
Soon we’ll see tribunals for anyone who dares to broach
uncomfortable topics.
The accused will lose their respected status to fully
participate in society while also being cut off from earning a livelihood.
Their objections will not be up for discussion; it will
be silence, sharp and swift.
* CLEARLY THIS IS THE DIRECTION WE'RE HEADED IN.
It’s happened already. Once-venerable publications purge
unorthodox thinkers. Companies fire traditionalists from management roles. Big
banks survey employees on whether or not they support sexual deviance.
Mom-and-pop pizza shops receive death threats for living their faith.
This ain’t a conspiracy, folks. It’s as real as Justine Sacco’s tarnished life. Now Washington will start playing a role in shushing
insubordinate voices.
The government’s focus on domestic rabble-rousers is
nothing new. Years back, when President Obama first took office, the Department
of Homeland Security warned that white-power militias were on the rise. Back in
the ’90s, the Clinton administration fretted over “Patriot” groups who took
offense at the unneeded deaths of 76 Branch Davidians (including women and
children).
Going back further, paranoia over dissidents switched
political aisles, and you had Republican senator Joseph McCarthy harassing
communists. McCarthy may have been right — Soviet-sympathizing communists had
infiltrated the Roosevelt administration, including Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter
White — but that didn’t stop today’s liberals from appropriating the late
senator’s intimidation tactics.
If you look at history, it’s clear that government has
always been a tool for suppressing malcontents. The Jacobins took the
guillotine to Catholics during the French Revolution. Colonial puritans tried
and condemned erratic-behaving women. Socrates ate the hemlock for refusing to
recognize the gods of Athens.
No matter what society you have, be it homogeneous,
theocratic, dictatorship, pluralist, or democratic, the state will always be a
means to enforce popular will on a recalcitrant minority. As the old saw goes,
culture is upstream from politics. Half a century ago, conservative values
still held sway over social norms. Now the left’s ethos of self-serving anomie
is the reigning gospel.
So what will become of the small minority who still cling
to atavistic views?
As Yogi Berra quipped, “It’s tough to make predictions,
especially about the future.” But here it goes anyway:
Conservatives can survive this storm if they hunker down
and wait it out. The cult of liberalism is based on a rickety foundation, and
liberals don’t have the lasting fortitude to sustain their own belief system.
The Left’s death grip on America will eventually loosen, either by economic
catastrophe or birthrate diminution. Only then will sanity return.
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