This piece suggests that the Democrats and Congressional Black Caucus owes the public an explanation. Their association with this racist is curious given the false proclamations that it is the Republicans, Whites and Christians who are racist. The Democrat history of rank racism is only reinforced by the CBC's support of Louis Farrakhan a rabid anti-Jewish and anti-white racist. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/why_does_the_congressional_black_caucus_get_a_pass_on_farrakhan.html
The political left/progressives/Democrats have long dealt in subversive racism and stoking subtle racist troubles by supporting organizations like Black Lives Matter and backing racial hate mongers like Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. Quote: "The clown car of identity politics runs smoothest when it has a common enemy: white people. Coalitions like the Women’s March assemble an array of groups who are united by their hatred of Trump, white people, Israel and root beer. And it works as long as no one lifts up the hood and looks at the engine. Black nationalism is racist, sexist, anti-Semitic and homophobic. The Nation of Islam isn’t an exception. From Jeremiah Wright, “Italians… looked down their garlic noses”, to Eldridge Cleaver, “rape was an insurrectionary act” to Amiri Baraka, the ugliest possible supremacist bigotry is its natural state. "We are all beautiful (except white people, they are full of, and made of s___)," Amiri Baraka wrote. "The fag's death they gave us on a cross... they give us to worship a dead jew and not ourselves." “I got the extermination blues, jew-boys. I got the Hitler syndrome figured... So come for the rent, jewboys,” the Guggenheim fellowship, PEN and American Book Award winner, and former Poet Laureate of New Jersey ranted. Baraka was one of the country’s most celebrated black nationalist poets and he was a former member of the Nation of Islam. Baraka’s Black Mass circulated the NOI’s racist creation myth. It was the NOI’s conviction of black superiority and white inferiority that attracted Baraka and so many other black nationalists. The NOI is one of a variety of black supremacist religious groups, from the similarly exotic Moorish and Black Hebrew churches, to NOI splinter groups such as Five-Percent Nation and black nationalist churches like the one attended by the Obamas and presided over by Jeremiah Wright. But religious black supremacism is only a component of a larger cultural movement that lies at the heart of black nationalism and mingles historical conspiracy theories with racial supremacism. This piece provides details. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269596/intersectionality-tribalism-and-farrakhan-daniel-greenfield These groups and their left wing political supporters have been stoking the flames of racial divisiveness for a very long time. As usual the left says one thing but does another. This can only be considered stoking hate for radical left wing political purposes. It certainly is not promoting civility and racial harmony. It is notable that race relations worsened under our first black president, Barack Obama, who while in office stirred the racist pot.
The left wing media is nothing if not a propaganda agency for left wing ideas. Quote: "An army of child soldiers groomed by their media handlers and sent into battle under the Soros banner are descending on deep blue cities today to march for their limelight. The playbill says it’s about gun control, though, so a few words of wisdom for this callow mystery meat generation: Guns are not the problem; people, culture, and policy are the problem." And, "Make no mistake, the March For Their Limelight is the first nationally organized feeler to accustom the populace to repealing the 2nd Amendment. Agitprop will be in high gear today; women will be pushed to tears with a cavalcade of sob stories. Challahwood fruitcakes are naturally attracted to a movement of narcissists, identifying strongly with stupid, pissy brats hogging the camera reciting shitlib boilerplate to a doting jewitan media, hoping to distract from their sexual perversions. Only a nauseating little despot like David Hogg can deep six this whole operation by getting on camera and cursing and stamping his wee feet to the tune of “It’s a Soros World After All”." https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/03/28/march-for-their-limelight-the-little-narcisshits/
This item advises us to reject identity politics from both the right and left. It is wisdom worth adopting. Quote: "It is true that our experiences are shaped by the way we are categorized by others, which is why the same experience can cause varying emotions among people belonging to different groups. But that does not lead to the conclusion that truth and reason should be discarded in favor of a multiplicity of truths, or “non-truths,” rather. Imagine that two different groups hold opinions on matter X that are fundamentally contradictory towards each other. We cannot hold that both of their statements are simultaneously true unless we reject the law of non-contradiction as it was formulated by Aristotle. Thus, it makes more sense to call them non-truths. The fact that people’s group identities engulf and influence their perceptions, views, and emotive reactions is an objective fact. It is not an invitation to dismiss any notion of truth. Embracing a culture of radical discussion and the pursuit of truth does not mean everyone has to either actively engage or listen to conversations he or she would feel uncomfortable with. Secluding your own group is hardly a call to engage with the majority that may have excluded you in the past. If you feel the need to disengage, go ahead and do so. People disengage with content they don’t resonate with all the time by changing the topic during a conversation, not taking part in certain discussions on Facebook or even by the books, movies, and music they do, and don’t, consume. We carry our likes and dislikes as ingrained filters within us and, for the sake of mental sanity, that’s a good thing. It becomes problematic once people start imposing their safe spaces onto others. When people start shouting down speakers they disagree with. When they threaten them and become physically violent, they are no longer merely using their own filters to avoid feeling uncomfortable. They are going beyond that by imposing their filters onto others. Ultimately, this creates a culture based on divisionary antagonism and a perpetual feeling of otherness for those excluded from the designated tribe. People advocating for identity politics may have good intentions, but that is not enough to make their actions commendable. In the end, they are using the same methodology deployed by the Alt-right and other racial identitarians." https://fee.org/articles/reject-the-identity-politics-of-the-alt-right-and-the-control-left/?
Radical environmental leftist try to convince us that only they have the global environment at heart. They need to be acknowledged as the experts, that only their ideas and recommendations be enacted and want us to ignore what the real experts are working on. See this item for a more rational view. Quote: If environmentalists are so concerned about population growth, why do they seem to unanimously support the use of wind and solar power? The answer is because these forms of energy are more expensive than fossil fuels, which means it's unlikely they could soon catalyze population growth in the same way nuclear fusion could. For example, the Institute for Energy Research found that solar power is three times more expensive than power generated from existing natural gas or nuclear plants. If nuclear fusion becomes the world's most important power source in the twenty-first century, you can expect the climate change crisis to quickly evaporate. In its place, the "Population Bomb" fear-mongering of the 1970s will once again rear its horrifying head." https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/why_the_environmental_left_is_secretly_petrified_by_truly_renewable_energy.html
This is a very interesting piece that suggests that the deep state so often bandied about as reality is really nothing more than the government's embedded ruling administrative state. That is the permanent bureaucratic agencies filled with mostly left wing employees that remain in place as presidential administrations come and go. Upon reflection there may be something to this. Quote: "I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories. When people ask me whether there is some sinister, behind-the-scenes cabal running Washington, I tell them that petty corruption, self-interest, and “public choice are much better explanations for the nonsensical policies being imposed on the country. So you won’t be surprised that rhetoric about the “deep state” rubs me the wrong way. If the term simply was used to describe D.C.’s bloated, self-interested, and left-leaning bureaucracies, that would be okay. But it seems that the phrase also implies some sort of secret master plan on the part of shadowy insiders. To be blunt, the people in Washington don’t have the competence to design, implement, and enforce any type of master plan. Yes, we have a Leviathan state, but it’s much more accurate to think of Uncle Sam as a covetous, obese, and blundering oaf (as illustrated by my collection of cartoons)." And, "Most of the authors cited today correctly want federal judges to fix the problem by limiting the power of bureaucrats to make and enforce the law. That would be desirable, but I’d go much further. We should eliminate almost all of the agencies, programs, and departments that clutter Washington. Then the problem of the administrative state automatically disappears." https://fee.org/articles/administrative-law-is-the-real-deep-state/? I really do think this guy is on to something.
A very thoughtful piece on the vital role fathers play in the lives of their sons. The liberal mantra that belittles and devalues males has invited into our culture a void that badly needs to be filled. Quote: "At this point, no serious person can argue that boys as a group aren’t facing profound challenges. No recitation of statistics about the composition of boardrooms or the ranks of computer programmers (representing high-achieving outliers) can change the fundamental fact that boys by the millions are falling behind. Boys by the millions are lost. They’re losing ground at school. They’re more than three times as likely to commit suicide. They’re more than twice as likely to die in an opioid overdose. They’re almost seven times as likely to be a victim of gun violence. Much of the cultural and ideological war over masculinity boils down to two competing concepts — channeling or transformation. The traditional — or channeling — view says that this male nature, more aggressive and physical, represents neither virtue nor vice. It just is. The necessity is to train a young man to channel his essential nature to virtuous ends, to give him a meaningful purpose that resonates with his core identity and sense of self. To oversimplify (and paraphrase a key scene in American Sniper), wolf or sheepdog? Make the choice. The channeling philosophy requires male role models. It requires a father or (second-best) a father figure who can guide and train a young man as he grows. At best, the the father shows and tells. He models the values and behavior he wants to see in his son, and he affirmatively teaches him why he lives the way he does." And, "There’s an old, oft-abused saying, “boys will be boys.” To the extent that it excuses destructive or oppressive behaviors, it’s pernicious. But it’s also a statement of fact. Boys will be boys, with all their physicality, aggression, and exuberance. The task of a nation and a culture is to channel that nature to virtuous ends and to applaud the proper development of their distinct masculine identities. That’s what good fathers do. That’s what Peterson does. In the battle against social transformation, I pray their voices win the day." https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/03/28/its-right-and-necessary-to-let-boys-be-boys/
This item examines the environmentalist movement's objection to new scientific discoveries that will significantly reduce energy costs.
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