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| 2019-03-05 |
| h/t Instapundit [PJMedia] Social media has been full of the Democrats talking about the Stormy Daniels affair with the joy and sniggers of three-year-olds who just discovered there’s a word for what you do on the potty. This is predictable and not at all upsetting, because if these people had any political sophistication and understanding of history, they wouldn’t support a party that is more fully behind the full-on communism that has killed a hundred million human beings in the 20th century and bids fair to at least an attempt to continue its work in the twenty-first. Also, most of them have the understanding of history of Occasional Cortex and think that politics is a sort of game. All they’re really doing is signaling their membership in the "tribe." All well and good, but there is an aspect of this that worries me: they actually expect l’affaire Stormy to change our minds about Trump. And from their polls ‐ snork, giggle, remember 2016? ‐ they’re absolutely convinced they’re winning. This worries me because it tells me just how far from reality their mental processes have gone, particularly their image of us. ...the problem is that the Left believes a lot of things about us that spectacularly aren’t so. They believe we’re all religiously conservative. They believe we all live in small southern towns and dropped out without a high school diploma. They believe we are all violently anti-gay, believe men should command women, are all white supremacists, etc., etc., etc. It’s always hilarious when one of them comes to my blog to accuse me of being a southern redneck who is afraid of people who aren’t like me. This is funny since there are nobody else like Sarah - how many Portuguese born women who became major American SF authors you know? This illusion of the Left is necessitated by the fact they have elevated Marxist credo to a messianic religion. They believe it as one believes revealed truth, with no doubt and no thought. (If they thought, they wouldn’t believe it.) And in believing it, they think that, of course, anyone who opposes them must be evil. The only way not to think we’re evil is to think we’re otherwise impaired ‐ you know, in Mr. Obama’s charming words, "clinging to their guns and religion and afraid of people who aren’t like them." |
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| #1 Can you say "sniggers"? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-03-05 22:18 |