Funny how there isn't even a tiny bit of grassroots outrage on the Left now that Biden has about four times as many "kids in cages" as Trump ever did. Lefties are robots, a buzzing hive mind that does NOTHING unless its leaders program it to act.
Remember this the next time DNC Media tries to cook up a story about "grassroots anger" on the Left, claims the "Internet is on fire" because six people tweeted something, or labels something sane and normal as "controversial" because a lefty org doesn't like it.
There is no left-wing "grassroots." There's nothing organic, sincere, or genuine about anything the Left does. Their deafening silence today about something that drove them to gibbering spittle-flecked outrage under the last administration is the eternal proof.
It's all orchestrated, it's all politicized and weaponized. Nobody on the Left makes a damn peep until someone in the corrupt Democrat hierarchy tells them to. The media doesn't signal-boost left-wing hysteria until the DNC tells it to. Nothing happens without grim purpose.
The Left doesn't care about "kids in cages" and they never did. That's why they kept screwing up and using Obama-era photos when they launched the hit on Trump a few years ago. The hive-mind was never instructed to care about the kids under Obama, so they knew nothing about it.
The entire Left looks like a bunch of toddlers who just discovered fire hurts when you touch it, because the hive mind was told to dismiss all talk of unaccompanied minors, fake "parents," and military-age males as Trump evading responsibility for Literally Hitler death camps.
You'd think there would be a smidge of grassroots unease on the Left over the coronavirus danger from Biden's tidal wave of illegal aliens, but nope. They haven't been instructed to care about that, so they don't. The Woke Virus does not infect politically favored groups.
So spare us any further talk about "popular movements" or left-wing "grassroots." There are robots, and the people who program them, and that's it. All left-wing activists are completely inert until someone in the Democrat hierarchy activates them. /end
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I'm aghast at the mainstreaming of antisemitism, but it's simply not true that it's the "last bigotry Americans accept." Anti-Asian bigotry is downright institutionalized at American universities, and anti-white bigotry is baked into every corner of elite culture and politics.
This is not just a semantic point, and the other acceptable - even mandated - bigotries in America are not unrelated to rising antisemitism. Antisemitism is a time-tested leading indicator of other bigotries to come in any society, the canary in the coal mine of prejudice.
Whenever those in power start deciding that some races or classes of people are simply inferior and should be treated as such under the law, the Jews are reliably among the first victims. It usually starts with them, but it never stops with them.
"Don't the Democrats realize that huge tax increases will cripple the pandemic-weakened economy and crush small businesses?"
Oh, they know. The shot-callers know. It's a feature, not a bug. Fewer people working is the Dem vision of utopia and permanent power.
The Democrats have a hard inner core of ruthless left-wing ideologues, surrounded by a mushy, flabby public layer of starry-eyed nitwits who are perpetually stunned to discover the rules of basic economics. The hard core knows EXACTLY what left-wing policies do to people.
The hard core, for example, knows minimum-wage hikes kill jobs. It's what they WANT. They are deliberately blowing up the bridges that lead from poverty to gainful employment and middle-class life. They need the hated middle class isolated and cut off from reinforcements.
The Great Reset model of democracy rebooted with an authoritarian core is selling itself with the exact same rhetoric the Chinese Communist Party uses. The CCP also claims its people are "free" and "safe" thanks to their strong central State.
Every single argument you're hearing from woke censors right now is word-for-word identical to what the CCP says when criticized for its tyranny and human rights abuses. No difference at all. Other authoritarian states are growing more proficient with the same rhetoric.
You still have robust freedom of speech - only a paranoid would claim otherwise! It's just that you're not allowed to say false things, as determined by the Ministry of Truth. And you can't say hateful things, as determined by the Ministry of Compassion.
Nations that value victimhood as the most important currency are not equipped to resist global domination by an aggressive and brutal fascist dictatorship.
Victimhood is one of the worst possible currencies to base a society upon - and over time it tends to degenerate into THE worst currency, violence.
Victimhood follows the laws of supply and demand, just like everything else: more is produced as its value increases.
Everyone wants to manufacture a hot commodity like victimhood. Everyone wants to control its value. Like other currencies, it suffers from inflation as the supply increases. People who used to think they were rich in victimhood find themselves sliding down the totem pole.
After years of employment growth, resurgent confidence, and the first stirrings of cultural renewal, Covid-19 shoved us back into Barack Obama's vision of Hospice America: a dying nation whose socialist caretakers consume our wealth while making our decline comfortable.
Obama's vision held that the American Century was largely a mistake, and our claims to greatness were hypocritical, unfair, and xenophobic. We belonged in those hospice beds, fading away to make room for a vibrantly multicultural world to take the reins of history.
To the Obama Democrats, American greatness was an illusion, achieved by ruthless inequality and exploitation. The socialists would see to it that our deathbeds were equally comfortable as the fire of innovation, industry, competition, and ambition died in America's graying eyes.
I'm not a fan of pointlessly inconveniencing voters, but this mad dash to make voting effortless is a horrible idea, even without considering the destruction of all ballot security and the increased risk of fraud. Requiring SOME effort makes for better voting.
One of the fascinating things about the Internet and social media age is how it has illuminated the changes in human behavior that come from eliminating ALL costs or effort from a given activity. We act very differently when the cost is a tenth of a penny rather than zero.
When it comes to voting, we unquestionably end up with a lower quality of civics and politics - and a VERY noticeably lower quality of elected official - when voting becomes a zero-effort activity. People respond to the message that voting is a frivolous activity.