March 18, 2019
Progressive Bullying and Spiritual Masochism
Timothy Birdnow
Tucker Carlson on the fake outrage of the Left - and the sniveling cowardice of their victims:
What's interesting is how reliably the other side pretends that none of this is happening. Republicans in Washington do a fairly credible imitation of an opposition party. They still give speeches. They tweet quite a bit. They make certain noises about how liberals are bad.
But on the deepest level, it's all a pose. In their minds, where it matters, Republican leaders are controlled by the left. They know exactly what they are allowed to say and believe. They know what the rules are. They may understand that those rules are written by the very people who seek their destruction, but they ruthlessly enforce them anyway.
Republicans in Washington police their own with a never-ending enthusiasm. Like trustees at a prison, they dutifully report back to the warden, hoping for perks. Nobody wants to be called names. Nobody wants to be Trump.
How many times have you seen it happen? Some conservative figure will say something stupid, or incomplete, or too far outside the bounds of received wisdom for the moral guardians of cable news? Twitter goes bonkers. The mob demands a response. Very often, the first people calling for the destruction of that person are Republican leaders. You saw it with the Covington Catholic High School kids. You see it all the time.
Kevin McCarthy spends half his day telling Republican members not to criticize progressive orthodoxy. Paul Ryan did the same before him. A couple of years ago, the entire Democratic Party decided to deny the biological reality of sex differences, an idea that is insane as it is dangerous. Republican leaders decided to not criticize them for it. They might get upset.
This is a system built on deceit and enforced silence. Hypocrisy is its hallmark. Yet in Washington, it's considered rude to ask questions about how exactly it works. Why are the people who considered Bill Clinton a hero lecturing me about sexism? How can the party that demands racial quotas denounce other people as racist? After a while, you begin to think that may be their criticisms aren't sincere. Maybe their moral puffery is a costume. Maybe the whole conversation is an absurd joke. Maybe we are falling for it.
You sometimes hear modern progressives described as "New Puritans." That's a slur on colonial Americans. Whatever their flaws, the Puritans cared about the fate of the soul and the moral regeneration of their society. Those are not topics that interest progressives. They're too busy pushing late-term abortions and cross-dressing on fifth-graders.
These are the people who write our movies and our sitcoms. They are not shocked by naughty words. They just pretend to be when it's useful. It's been very useful lately.
The left's main goal, in case you haven't noticed, is controlling what you think. In order to do that, they have to control the information that you receive. Google and Facebook and Twitter are fully on board with that. They are happy to ban unapproved thoughts, and they don't apologize for it. Same with the other cable channels and virtually every major news outlet in this country.
One of the only places left in the United States where independent thoughts are allowed is right here at Fox News -- the opinion hours on this network. Just a few hours in a sea of television programming. It's not much, relatively speaking. For the left, it's unacceptable. It demands total conformity.
Since the day we went on the air, they've been working hard to kill this show. We haven't said much about it in public; it seemed too self- referential. The point of this show has never been us. But now, it's obvious to everybody. There is no pretending that it is not happening. It is happening, and so, going forward, we'll be covering their efforts to make us be quiet.
End excerpt.
In the old Soviet Union the state run media - particularly Pravda, or "Official Truth" as the word roughly translates - attempted to control the thoughts of the public in a similar manner, and the other institutions were there to back them up. But eventually the public learned to differentiate, and they knew when the media began a smear on someone it was likely because that person was rocking their boat. In the end Pravda had the credibility of the Boy who Cried Wolf. America may actually take longer to figure this out, though, since instead of a formal revolution we have had a stealth one in this country and too few have yet to realize it. But in the end I suspect people will come to understand they are being lied to by the rules of this system of things.
Recently I had an argument on Facebook with a Global Warming True Believer. (Facebook kept removing my comments after a short time, I might add, because I was giving over unapproved information.) This guy kept mocking me as a conspiracy theorist, because I pointed out that the information the media was giving - and certain government owned entities like NASA's Goddard Institute (GISS) or NOAA - were promoting the theory and trying to suppress the critics. See, this guy still believes we live in an America with a free intellectual market. I don't doubt his sincerity, only his credulity. He hasn't paid enough attention to know he's being lied to, or at least being manipulated with partial truths.
So, because I was not playing the game, I was relegated by him as "anti-science", "conspiracy theorist", etc. I wasn't giving the right responses. It's rather like the prayers said in a Catholic Mass; the Priest says something and the Lay People respond. "The Lord be with you" ... "and also with you." I wasn't responding properly. Hence, I am an heretic, a danger to the Church of Progressivism.
As Tucker points out, the amazing thing here is that so many on the right accept the Orthodoxy, accept the right of the Left to control the narrative and to smite the evildoer, even while they themselves may be "evildoers". It's a kind of co-dependency, a spiritual masochism. We need a ten step program for Conservatives in this country.
Or at least a more discerning spirit as to who is really a conservative and who is just using us. So many in Washington have sold their souls and appeal to our side purely as a way to stay on the gravy train. In the end they will sell us out for a few pieces of silver.
We've got to stop accepting the Progressive bully squad and start fighting back. The only way to stop a bully is to knock his teeth out. Let's start callousing our knuckles!
Tucker Carlson on the fake outrage of the Left - and the sniveling cowardice of their victims:
…no matter how bad it gets, no matter how despised and humiliated you may be, there is one thing you can never do -- one thing that is absolutely not allowed. You can never acknowledge the comic absurdity of the whole thing. You can never laugh in the face of the mob.
You must always pretend that the people yelling at you are somehow your moral superiors. You have to assume what they say they are mad about is what they are actually mad about. You have to take them at face value. You must pretend this is a debate about virtue and not about power. Your critics are arguing from principle, and not from partisanship.
No matter what they take from you in the end, you must continue to pretend that these things are true. You are bad, they are good. The system is on the level.
But what if we stopped pretending for a minute? What if we acknowledged what's actually going on?
One side is deadly serious. They believe that politics is war. They are not interested in abstractions or principles, rules or traditions. They seek power, and they intend to win it with whatever it takes. If that includes getting you fired or silencing you, or threatening your family at home, or throwing you in prison, okay. They know what their goal is. If you are in way, they will crush you.You must always pretend that the people yelling at you are somehow your moral superiors. You have to assume what they say they are mad about is what they are actually mad about. You have to take them at face value. You must pretend this is a debate about virtue and not about power. Your critics are arguing from principle, and not from partisanship.
No matter what they take from you in the end, you must continue to pretend that these things are true. You are bad, they are good. The system is on the level.
But what if we stopped pretending for a minute? What if we acknowledged what's actually going on?
What's interesting is how reliably the other side pretends that none of this is happening. Republicans in Washington do a fairly credible imitation of an opposition party. They still give speeches. They tweet quite a bit. They make certain noises about how liberals are bad.
But on the deepest level, it's all a pose. In their minds, where it matters, Republican leaders are controlled by the left. They know exactly what they are allowed to say and believe. They know what the rules are. They may understand that those rules are written by the very people who seek their destruction, but they ruthlessly enforce them anyway.
Republicans in Washington police their own with a never-ending enthusiasm. Like trustees at a prison, they dutifully report back to the warden, hoping for perks. Nobody wants to be called names. Nobody wants to be Trump.
How many times have you seen it happen? Some conservative figure will say something stupid, or incomplete, or too far outside the bounds of received wisdom for the moral guardians of cable news? Twitter goes bonkers. The mob demands a response. Very often, the first people calling for the destruction of that person are Republican leaders. You saw it with the Covington Catholic High School kids. You see it all the time.
Kevin McCarthy spends half his day telling Republican members not to criticize progressive orthodoxy. Paul Ryan did the same before him. A couple of years ago, the entire Democratic Party decided to deny the biological reality of sex differences, an idea that is insane as it is dangerous. Republican leaders decided to not criticize them for it. They might get upset.
This is a system built on deceit and enforced silence. Hypocrisy is its hallmark. Yet in Washington, it's considered rude to ask questions about how exactly it works. Why are the people who considered Bill Clinton a hero lecturing me about sexism? How can the party that demands racial quotas denounce other people as racist? After a while, you begin to think that may be their criticisms aren't sincere. Maybe their moral puffery is a costume. Maybe the whole conversation is an absurd joke. Maybe we are falling for it.
You sometimes hear modern progressives described as "New Puritans." That's a slur on colonial Americans. Whatever their flaws, the Puritans cared about the fate of the soul and the moral regeneration of their society. Those are not topics that interest progressives. They're too busy pushing late-term abortions and cross-dressing on fifth-graders.
These are the people who write our movies and our sitcoms. They are not shocked by naughty words. They just pretend to be when it's useful. It's been very useful lately.
The left's main goal, in case you haven't noticed, is controlling what you think. In order to do that, they have to control the information that you receive. Google and Facebook and Twitter are fully on board with that. They are happy to ban unapproved thoughts, and they don't apologize for it. Same with the other cable channels and virtually every major news outlet in this country.
One of the only places left in the United States where independent thoughts are allowed is right here at Fox News -- the opinion hours on this network. Just a few hours in a sea of television programming. It's not much, relatively speaking. For the left, it's unacceptable. It demands total conformity.
Since the day we went on the air, they've been working hard to kill this show. We haven't said much about it in public; it seemed too self- referential. The point of this show has never been us. But now, it's obvious to everybody. There is no pretending that it is not happening. It is happening, and so, going forward, we'll be covering their efforts to make us be quiet.
End excerpt.
In the old Soviet Union the state run media - particularly Pravda, or "Official Truth" as the word roughly translates - attempted to control the thoughts of the public in a similar manner, and the other institutions were there to back them up. But eventually the public learned to differentiate, and they knew when the media began a smear on someone it was likely because that person was rocking their boat. In the end Pravda had the credibility of the Boy who Cried Wolf. America may actually take longer to figure this out, though, since instead of a formal revolution we have had a stealth one in this country and too few have yet to realize it. But in the end I suspect people will come to understand they are being lied to by the rules of this system of things.
Recently I had an argument on Facebook with a Global Warming True Believer. (Facebook kept removing my comments after a short time, I might add, because I was giving over unapproved information.) This guy kept mocking me as a conspiracy theorist, because I pointed out that the information the media was giving - and certain government owned entities like NASA's Goddard Institute (GISS) or NOAA - were promoting the theory and trying to suppress the critics. See, this guy still believes we live in an America with a free intellectual market. I don't doubt his sincerity, only his credulity. He hasn't paid enough attention to know he's being lied to, or at least being manipulated with partial truths.
So, because I was not playing the game, I was relegated by him as "anti-science", "conspiracy theorist", etc. I wasn't giving the right responses. It's rather like the prayers said in a Catholic Mass; the Priest says something and the Lay People respond. "The Lord be with you" ... "and also with you." I wasn't responding properly. Hence, I am an heretic, a danger to the Church of Progressivism.
As Tucker points out, the amazing thing here is that so many on the right accept the Orthodoxy, accept the right of the Left to control the narrative and to smite the evildoer, even while they themselves may be "evildoers". It's a kind of co-dependency, a spiritual masochism. We need a ten step program for Conservatives in this country.
Or at least a more discerning spirit as to who is really a conservative and who is just using us. So many in Washington have sold their souls and appeal to our side purely as a way to stay on the gravy train. In the end they will sell us out for a few pieces of silver.
We've got to stop accepting the Progressive bully squad and start fighting back. The only way to stop a bully is to knock his teeth out. Let's start callousing our knuckles!
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