What is not at stake for the GOP is the soul of the party. That won’t
change. For Democrats it likely will, quickly and dramatically. The
Democratic Party of Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid died in
November 2016. For two years, has it been grieved. Tomorrow the American
people will vote to choose its successor.
I suspect nothing changes. They are now as they have been just not hidden.
As the authors concede, a major limitation
here is that ignoring heritability may not be the only problem with the
U.N.’s models. The simple fact that the demographic transition exists
shows that environmental changes can happen far more quickly than
evolutionary changes—and if new environmental changes push
fertility down even further, they could cancel out or even outweigh the
bounce-back brought by other forces. In the long run, we’ll probably be
outsourcing pregnancy to robotic wombs and uploading our brains to the
cloud, after all.Till then, whether we’ll see a population
rebound is an open question. That the modern world will change humanity?
That seems guaranteed.
That is a disturbing basis on which to license speech. The full
decision goes even further, and is a revealing glimpse of the state’s
willingness to shrivel “free speech” to the point where the term is rendered meaningless:“The Regional Court further stated that anyone who
wished to exercise their rights under Article 10 of the Convention was
subject to duties and responsibilities, such as refraining from making statements which hurt others without reason and therefore did not contribute to a debate of public interest.
A balancing exercise between the rights under Article 9 on the one hand
and those under Article 10 on the other needed to be carried out. The
court considered that the applicant’s statements were not statements of
fact, but derogatory value judgments which exceeded the permissible
limits. It held that the applicant had not intended to approach the topic in an objective manner,
but had directly aimed to degrade Muhammad. The court stated that child
marriages were not the same as paedophilia, and were not only a
phenomenon of Islam, but also used to be widespread among the European
ruling dynasties.”Great. So maybe in Rotherham they should just start marrying the
six-year-olds and all will be well. It should hardly be necessary to
state that freedom of speech except for “statements which hurt others”
and do “not contribute to a debate” or “approach the topic in an
objective manner” is not freedom of speech at all, but merely-narrowly
construed state-regulated speech. And in Europe the courts are perfectly
cool with that:“The interference with the applicant’s freedoms under
Article 10 of the Convention had therefore been justified. As to the
applicant’s argument that those who participated in the seminar knew of
her critical approach and could not be offended, the Court of Appeal
found that the public seminar had been offered for free to young voters
by the Austrian Freedom Party Education Institute, and at least one
participant had been offended, as her complaints had led to the
applicant being charged.”That was an anonymous undercover “journalist” – because the media
regard “E S” as a greater threat than the Islamization of Austria.
Within
weeks of his White House appearance, West charges that Ms. Owens made
claims that he is part of the growing BLEXIT movement, where many blacks
are rejecting the Democratic Party. Instead of amiably clarifying the
matter with Owens over who designed BLEXIT tee-shirts, West has
reportedly bolted from the political arena back into the safe realm of
music and design. That is not a problem, except for the people of
Chicago.West
was a momentary ray of light as someone who might rescue Chicagoans
from the horror in their streets and work with them to provide safe
harbor for themselves and their children. Many held hope that West was
their knight arriving to save his hometown from poverty and
violence. Supporting positive change brings hope. Failing to deliver
brings despair.
Why are Democrats so good at tolerating cognitive dissonance? It
helps to have an extremely short attention-span and live only in the
moment. The Left prides themselves on having no sense of history. That
way, they don’t remember that they used to believe the opposite of what
they believe now, even if that was last Thursday—and they’ll get all
the validation they need from their trendy friends.That’s one of
the reasons Leftists love to tear down monuments to quash whatever
history they don’t like. To them, gender is a social construct and so
apparently, is history. Basic facts about yourself are mutable and you
can choose whatever gender or ethnicity you want. Then, Voila! The
second you join the group, you are immutably oppressed. See how that
works?
Jordan Peterson prefers the term “postmodern neo-Marxism” and condemns it as dangerous – for which he is targeted in the media and accused of preaching “patriarchy, misogyny, and illiberal politics.”
Senator Rand Paul sees cultural
Marxism as the driving force behind grievance politics – groups
identifying as victims of exploitation to gain moral prestige and
political advantage.Liberals don’t bother to debate what the term means. They deny that it means anything at all. Recently, Salon dismissed cultural Marxism as “a hoax concept.” The Daily Dot denounced it as “little more than a racist dog whistle.” Even the libertarian magazine Reason ridiculed the concept as an invention of “the conspiratorial right.”
In
our own day, this has led to the extremist conclusion that individuals
are little more than mouthpieces for communities based on race, class,
sex, ethnicity, and sexual identity.Sound
familiar? Every community is said to have its “own” truth, based on
its unique experience and perspective – which cannot be judged by anyone
outside the community. This ghettoized vision reduces individuals to
puppets of social forces: they hold beliefs not because they have good
reasons, but because they are black or white, a man or a woman, Asian or
Hispanic, or whatever.Yet,
ironically, while neo-Marxists treat everyone else’s beliefs as
relative to social conditions, they treat their own beliefs as objective
and universally true.
The bulwark against the evil isms practiced as a matter of course by the Left in America is the nationalism that is on the ballot on Tuesday. In the America that Donald Trump and the Republican party seek to conserve – thus the name “conservatives” – the “collective” is all Americans without regard to blood, race, sex or level of economic or other achievement.
Neither is there an ideological difference between the socialist Hitler’s belief in a “master race” and Don Lemon and Louis Farrakhan’s belief in an inferior race of white people or the new and racist concept that all people with white skin have lived a life of privilege.
CultML 