What is the "tragic truth" about "America’s millennials" in addition to other Western leftists?
A month ago, progressives were having a conniption fit over Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the election
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Bruce Thornton on Front Page Mag.
So of course, now that Trump has won, they are rioting, vandalizing,
staging “cry-ins,” ditching class, group-hugging, tweeting threats,
calling names, seeking counseling, and doing everything in their power
to make sure that their party declines even further. If this behavior
continues, and if––a big “if” –– Trump governs the way he promised, we
may be witnessing the start of the progressive disintegration.
Start with the melting snowflake millennials, all those “cocksure women
and hensure men,” as D.H. Lawrence once described feminists of both
sexes. These layabouts have become used to throwing tantrums whenever
they don’t like something or they feel “unsafe.” Most of them are
spoiled brats, the pampered detritus of the middle class. But don’t
forget the Alinskyite activists who manipulate these juveniles and bus
them in on George Soros’ dime. These two-bit Leninists are adept at
using “useful idiots” in order to further their aim of destroying
America’s political and social order. They’re skilled at manipulating
empty slogans like “income inequality,” “fair share,” “social justice,”
“diversity,” “inclusion,” and all the other bumper-sticker bromides in
order to consolidate and increase their power and influence.
If the delicate millennial Eloi were really interested in
reforming their team instead of indulging phony moral exhibitionism,
they would start with the Democrat party. No true leftist would have sat
still for the nomination of a candidate so obviously part of the
fat-cat ruling class as Hillary Clinton. (And no, he wouldn’t be happy
with Bernie Sanders either, a bumbling blowhard who thinks imitating
Sweden’s “social democracy” ––which means an overregulated capitalism
leavened with over-generous social welfare benefits––is somehow an
epochal revolutionary change.) It was electoral malfeasance to choose a
geriatric insider and establishment plutocrat with no charisma and a
long record of abusing her privilege and power. So, kiddies, go protest
against the DNC and Barack Obama. They’re the reason the Republican
party is the strongest it’s been since 1928.
Next, look at yourselves. As Piers Morgan––no conservative he––said
recently,
“The tragic truth is that America’s millennials are a bunch of
phone-addicted, selfie-obsessed, hashtagging, snapchatting,
kale-munching, twerking, lazy, whining, ill-informed, politically
correct, cossetted narcissists who find absolutely everything mortally
offensive and believe there are 165 ways to sexually identify.”
It
follows that your politics are merely symbolic, expressions of your
inflated self-regard, privileged life-style, and arrogant pretensions to
sophistication and intelligence. Unsurprisingly, as Morgan points out,
according to the National Institutes of Health, 40% of you think you
should be promoted every two years despite performance, 77% of you can’t
name a senator from your home state, and 80% of you think you’ll be
richer than your parents, even as you pile up student debt earning junk
“studies” degrees utterly useless for employment in the real world.
In contrast to symbolic politics, real politics is grubby
hard work: knocking on doors, registering voters, and not just preaching
to the choir, but converting new voters. Follow Obama’s advice to
Republicans three years ago: “You don’t like a particular policy or a
particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win
an election” (HT Cal Thomas). By the way, you won’t win many elections
by demonizing nearly half of voters as ignorant, racist, sexist,
homophobic, Islamophobic, and cisgendered “irredeemable deplorables.”
More important, you need to vote. Only half of your 24-million-strong cohort voted
in this election. You also need to understand that not everybody
between the ages of 18-29 thinks exactly like you. Thirty-seven percent
of millennials voted for Donald Trump. Instead of crying and vandalizing
and screaming question-begging epithets, you should figure out how to
talk to your fellow millennials and make persuasive, fact-based
arguments based on coherent principles. But of course, if you could do
that, you wouldn’t be progressives.
Then there are the Dems.
They long ago embraced a balkanizing identity politics based mainly on
demonizing those white voters who pulled the lever for Trump. They
pander incessantly to race hucksters and rich women and sleek
“Hispanics,” most of whom never cut grapes or even speak Spanish. They
embrace counter-factual nonsense like “white privilege,” when they of
all people should know that the color of privilege in America is the
currency shade of green. They and their wholly owned subsidiaries, the
mainstream media and the educational industry, enforce a preposterous
political correctness that is intellectually lazy and morally bankrupt.
They trade in group-identities often based on stereotypes and
generalizations that old-school Jim Crow segregationists relied on. The
blatant hypocrisy of a political correctness that never protects
Christians, poor whites, or conservatives finally angered enough voters
to set aside their distaste for Trump and put him in office.
Yet despite that rebuke, after the election the Democrat elite indulged
the same old nonsense. [They] tried to play the “sexist” card to explain
Hillary’s defeat, posited a preposterous “whitelash” of racists, tarred
the careerist James Comey as a Republican mole, whined about the
Electoral College while trying to suborn Electors, conjured up sinister
Klansmen and alt-right storm-troopers, insulted 49 million Americans as
haters, and prophesized an imminent fascist coup engineered by Trump’s
goose-stepping Goebbels, Steve Bannon. Rather than come up with new
ideas, they’re doubling-down on the stale paradigm that demography
guarantees them a permanent coalition comprising various identity-groups
united by the promise of more set-asides and wealth redistribution, and
bicoastal plutocrats who compensate for their privilege by catering to
the minority masses they make sure never enter their gated compounds
except to make the beds and mow the lawn. They don’t consider that
Trump’s victory could make that plan obsolete if he follows through on
his promise to tighten up on immigration.
Finally, instead of rethinking their exploded economic myths and
abandoning a divisive identity politics, many Dems want to keep steaming
full speed ahead toward the next electoral iceberg. Look at the two
candidates touted as replacements for the tarnished DNC interim chair
Donna Brazile. Howard “Screaming” Dean, erstwhile presidential candidate
and governor of a state with fewer people than Fresno County, is a
tax-and-spend, “fair share,” regulation-happy, identity politics tribune
and radical egalitarian redistributionist of the kind whose policies
have given us sluggish growth, job-killing regulations, and astronomical
debt. The other choice is Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison,
a zealous Muslim convert by way of the ultra-racist Nation of Islam. He
is tainted with anti-Semitism, apologetics for Iran and terrorists like
Hamas, virulent hatred of Israel, wacky 9-11 conspiracy theories, and
the usual progressive blame-America-first foreign policy and
magical-thinking economics. No surprise that he has been endorsed by the
Jacobin Cherokee Elizabeth Warren, and ex-Senator Harry Reid, Obama’s
legislative Luca Brasi.
The few sane Democrats counseling a
change of course are unlikely to halt the self-destruction of so many
failed progressive gods. Only Trump can prevent that “consummation
devoutly to be wished” by failing to keep his campaign promises.