woodguru wrote:
Who's responsible for it????
F**e news, i***tic rhetoric
The GOP has tried the Russia investigation without the benefit of information and evidence. The right can easily look at indictments Mueller handed down and read what the evidence provided to the court for the indictment is if they want to see part of what Mueller has. Yet the real f**e news, which is what the right goes on and on about has nothing to do with the facts that are in front of our faces.
Trump rallies have been like hatred pep club rantings. During the e******n it was dangerous for a black to be in the crowd, anyone against Trump would be d**gged out with people taking punches (cheap shots to be sure) along the way.
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H**E. The left owns it. The left h**es God and those who love Him. The left h**es Christians and Christmas. The left h**es the wealthy, the rich, and those who succeed. The left h**es Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The left h**es people who think for themselves. The left h**es self reliant individuals. The left h**es conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians, and independents. The left h**es unborn babies and marriage between a man and a woman. The left h**es pretty much any and every thing that doesn't march to the beat of its drum.
Why the Left Is Consumed With H**eShelby Steele
Even before President Trump’s e******n, hatred had begun to emerge on the American left—counterintuitively, as an assertion of guilelessness and moral superiority. At the Women’s March in Washington the weekend after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the pop star Madonna said, “I have thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House.” Here hatred was a vanity, a braggadocio meant to signal her innocence of the sort of evil that, in her mind, the White House represented. (She later said the comment was “taken wildly out of context.”)
For many on the left a h**eful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle. “America was never that great,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently said. For radical groups like Black L***s M****r, hatred of America is a theme of identity, a display of racial p***e.
For other l*****ts, h**e is a license. Conservative speakers can be shouted down, even assaulted, on university campuses. Republican officials can be harassed in restaurants, in the street, in front of their homes. Certain leaders of the left—Rep. Maxine Waters comes to mind—are self-appointed practitioners of h**e, urging their followers to think of hatred as power itself.
How did the American left—conceived to bring more compassion and justice to the world—become so given to h**e? It began in the 1960s, when America finally accepted that s***ery and segregation were profound moral failings. That acceptance changed America forever. It imposed a new moral imperative: America would have to show itself redeemed of these immoralities in order to stand as a legitimate democracy.
The genius of the left in the ’60s was simply to perceive the new moral imperative, and then to identify itself with it. Thus the labor of redeeming the nation from its immoral past would fall on the left. This is how the left put itself in charge of America’s moral legitimacy. The left, not the right—not conservatism—would set the terms of this legitimacy and deliver America from shame to decency.
This bestowed enormous political and cultural power on the American left, and led to the greatest array of government-sponsored social programs in history—at an expense, by some estimates, of more than $22 trillion. But for the left to wield this power, there had to be a great menace to fight against—a tenacious menace that kept America uncertain of its legitimacy, afraid for its good name.
This amounted to a formula for power: The greater the menace to the nation’s moral legitimacy, the more power redounded to the left. And the ’60s handed the left a laundry list of menaces to be defeated. If r****m was necessarily at the top of the list, it was quickly followed by a litany of bigotries ending in “ism” and “phobia.”
The left had important achievements. It did rescue America from an unsustainable moral illegitimacy. It also established the great menace of r****m as America’s most intolerable disgrace. But the left’s success has plunged it into its greatest crisis since the ’60s. The Achilles’ heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in the name of fighting menaces like “s******c r****m” and “structural ine******y.” But what happens when the evils that menace us begin to fade, and then keep fading?
It is undeniable that America has achieved since the ’60s one of the greatest moral evolutions ever. That is a profound problem for the left, whose existence is threatened by the diminishment of racial oppression. The left’s unspoken terror is that r****m is no longer menacing enough to support its own power. The great crisis for the left today—the source of its angst and h**efulness—is its own encroaching obsolescence. Today the left looks to be slowly dying from lack of racial menace.
A single white-on-black shooting in Ferguson, Mo., four years ago resulted in a prolonged media blitz and the involvement of the president of the United States. In that same four-year period, thousands of black-on-black shootings took place in Chicago, hometown of the then-president, yet they inspired very little media coverage and no serious p**********l commentary.
White-on-black shootings evoke America’s history of r****m and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although they are truly menacing to the black community. They evoke only despair. And the left gets power from fighting white evil, not black despair.
Today’s left lacks worthy menaces to fight. It is driven to find a replacement for r****m, some sweeping historical wrongdoing that morally empowers those who oppose it. (C*****e c****e?) Failing this, only hatred is left.
Hatred is a t***sformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing. So it has become a weapon of choice. The left has used h**e to t***sform President Trump into a symbol of the new r****m, not a flawed president but a systemic evil. And he must be opposed as one opposes r****m, with a scorched-earth absolutism.
For Martin Luther King Jr., hatred was not necessary as a means to power. The actual details of oppression were enough. Power came to him because he rejected h**e as a method of resisting menace. He called on b****s not to be defined by what menaced them. Today, because menace provides moral empowerment, b****s and their ostensible allies indulge in it. The menace of black victimization becomes the unarguable t***h of the black identity. And here we are again, forever victims.
Yet the left is still stalked by obsolescence. There is simply not enough menace to service its demands for power. The voices that speak for the left have never been less convincing. It is hard for people to see the menace that drives millionaire football players to kneel before the f**g. And then there is the failure of virtually every program the left has ever espoused—welfare, public housing, school busing, affirmative action, diversity programs, and so on.
For the American left today, the indulgence in h**e is a death rattle.