Oh my, how the American left loves to hate "hate". But how very much in love with it they are when it serves their purposes and how very convinced they are that their embrace of it is licensed and justified. I want to acknowledge here the effect Dr. Nick Waddy's comments in his recent post "The' Blue Wave'is Fading to Red as we Speak" in his blog Waddyisright.com have had on this post.
Hate: the dictionary defines it as "a strong feeling of dislike or ill will"; its that alright but its more too. Its a superlative ; there is not a stronger word to describe intense antipathy. Its staccato simplicity increases its impact. It comes complete with its own exclamation point. It should be used carefully and advisedly but that requires the ability and willingness to perceive one's own shortcomings.
Leftists use the word with presumption and ease, as if to say "that we are just is self evident; therefore if we say its so, it is, by definition. We are free to make the accusation of hate and we need not inform it further; if you disagree we will direct it at you through the powerful media we dominate in politics, government, the press, broadcasting , employment, academia and should we work it so, as we intend, criminal law".
The ordeal of calumny forced upon our President ,as he knew it would be and for which his willingness to endure it at an age when most of us want to kick back stands exemplary of courage, principle and moxie, is proof of the left's blithe and vindictive disposition to excoriate any who venture to oppose it, with the radical charge of hate. His resistance to them, his open scorn for their self righteousness, his insolent enactment of measures such as the nomination of Supreme Court Justices the left rightly expects to be at cross purposes with them, garners for him perfervid remonstrances of "hate filled divisiveness and obvious empathy with groups who thrive on insane prejudices and antipathies".
I wish there were available a doctrinal mirror similar to the optical kind which we could direct to the left; it would reveal, though probably not to their deadened perception, that the left is essentially imbued with those faults they energetically ascribe to anyone who questions them; they are the very definition of full blown, vicious and relentless HATERS and they forfeit thereby all moral authority to task others for this offense.
Why are they this way? I've written about this before. Its because they conveniently reject painfully evolved standards, traditions and laws as "irrelevant, oppressive, summarily dismissable ". Marx, their muse, misused the Enlightenment to make this leap of onerous faith and the leftist boomers in their consummate naivete embraced his legacy to enable their airy assumption of Promethean insight and their terribly ungrateful rejection of their parents' values. That historic mistake, due to their multitude only had a tragically inordinate effect on our culture and our polity.
The left hates everything positive about American history, culture, religion, morals, law, economics, self defense and laboriously accomplished progress in human well being because these realities put the lie to their conviction that America is unforgiveably flawed and deserving of punishment and forced transformation at their hands. That anyone would disagree with this generates on their part the demonstrated at the very least, "strong feelings of dislike or ill will" which satisfy the nominal definition of hate and for which the left provides endlessly repeated affirmation.
Our history, yes, shamed by profound oppression yet found in the histories of most nations but in our national progress addressed in an affirmative and sincere manner which has yielded considerable though perhaps not yet fulfilled mitigation, is hatefully dismissed by the left, (eg. by thoroughly leftist thankfully former President Obama, in his "doubt America first" policies). Our culture is debased by debauched popular entertainment which is our shame before the world but which is celebrated by the left in their embrace of its exemplars in the leftist dominated world of television, film and song. Our dominant religion, Christianity,a belief meaningless without its embrace of primal love, the elemental opposite of hate, is joyfully attacked by unsupportably atheistic leftists with vigor and relish ,its every human fault foreseen by those who wish for its demise but have nothing, nothing with which to begin replacing it. The great Catholic Church is especially targeted by this purposeful assault. Our morals are sneered at by a leftist subculture which excuses all personal irresponsibility. Our capitalist and advisedly free economics, which have provided, for virtually all willing to work them, miraculous human well being, are dismissed by neo Marxists completely forgiving of Marxism's amply demonstrated brutality and inhumanity , as unproductive of "equality", as if human nature, given its inherent differentiation in intent and ability could ever manifest such a dream. Our military, which has demonstrated the most merciful and humane use of measured force ever, is yet undermined and defiled by a left nonetheless supportive of the savage war measures employed by Marxist states and Islamist entities such as Communist Vietnam and the murderous faction of Islam . Our law, a product of the most enlightened system of Western legal thought and democratic reform, that of the English and American tradition, is rejected by a considerable leftist faction of the profession and its schools as simply "elites protecting their privileges". Its principled, learned and laboriously accomplished devotion to accumulated wisdom reflected in predecedent is casually and recklessly replaced by the substitution of currently fashionable trends (eg. the dismissal of the fetus as uncomprehending tissue and the unrestrained redefinition of the millenia old institution of marriage). Our tortured American progress toward wisely administered order and acknowledgement of soundly developed social progress, is laughable to the detached and profoundly arrogant left.
They are, in all of this, enabled by essential and for them, indispensable, HATE, in all of its hypocritical destructiveness. Jack
4 comments:
Very interesting, Jack. I agree that it's important to remember that hatred of Trump, for instance, is secondary or even tertiary to the Left. In the beginning, they turned against the West itself, including America, and all else follows... Having said all that, what's curious is: why is the urge to hate, and the willingness to manifest that hatefulness, cresting NOW? Any thoughts?
Dr. Waddy: Almost unbearable frustration, doubly agonizing because of the emotional essence, the childish franticness and the torment of "justice" thwarted by Neanderthals, brought on by the denial to the left in 2016 of the supreme moment - the time when, much as when a football team gains a critical first down which everyone knows will run the clock out, they could be SURE that they had eventually assured victory in hand - that shattering rebuff, I think, explains their subsequent explosion of hatred and derision. Had they been defeated by Donald Duck it could not have been much worse for them; it would of course have been open season on ducks, regardless of laws regulating that practice. I'm looking forward to the details of your predictions of how they may implode should they be insolently denied yet again, at Waddyisright.com.
That makes sense, Jack. 2016 was a critical election, and the Dems were in a position to muscle us patriots onto the sidelines had they won, but it's my impression that their anger has been building for a long time, even as they got closer and closer to achieving their aims. Some say both sides have been growing more pugnacious, of course, and I don't think that's wrong. As always I blame a despicable press for much of the problem, but I wonder whether the Left's fury also bespeaks a profound sense of insecurity. Do they really think we're mere inches from Nazism, Jim Crow, and/or medieval theocracy? It's easy to snicker, but maybe they ARE that deluded.
Dr.Waddy: Never thought of that; I've always thought that they think ultimate sway is inevitable for them due to their unquestionable justness.What you say makes sense. Maybe alot of aging boomers fear they will not live to see the "dawning of the Age of Aquarius" now and are mad about it. They thought they were seeing it in '69 but reality intervened.
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