THE SPIRIT OF INTOLERANCE

     Recently, I've criticized Dennis Prager a lot, but over the holidays he wrote an article which caused the Whacko Left a collective meltdown. He also wrote a sequel which seems to have had roughly the same effect. As we saw during four years of runaway Trump Derangement Syndrome, Leftist outrage is usually a weather-vane of truth---especially when the Left is forced to see themselves for what they really are. 

    Prager's articles basically tell some anecdotes of families broken during the holidays by intolerant ideologies. The Postmodern American Left is distinguished historically by its utter refusal to listen to facts or even contrary opinions. This is especially true of the Millennial and Zoomer generations. 

     The stories that Prager relates are truly sad; the callous behavior of the Liberals that he describes is fairly typical. Liberalism simply is what is for these people; and though few of them can give any other reason for supporting their doctrines than "everybody says so" they'll behave with the abandon of the worst religious fanatics defending what they themselves don't understand. The truly frightening thing is that if they're willing to throw aside their own families over ideological purity, God only knows what they'd do to the rest of us.

   Conservatives admittedly haven't been the best role models, as their recent treatment of immigrants and tolerance of Red Pill stupidity illustrates. And as I pointed out in the comments, well, this:

      Regardless of who or what is to blame, however, we are faced with a serious problem here. We are seeing a general trend in our society which evinces a deeply unsettling disregard for human life or even basic civilized behavioral norms. We saw this come out in drastic relief during the excesses of the Scamdemic as well as the insanity that came in the wake of the Roe v. Wade ruling. Unfortunately, we as a society learned nothing from any of this. 

     Besides considerable agitprop from vested interests, what is driving this rage and hatred is reductio ad absurdum of the social heresy that the personal is political combined with a heavy admixture of socially encouraged Narcissism and Paranoia. If anyone thinks that this will lead to anything positive, they simply need to observe the current conditions in authoritarian hells like Canada or the Netherlands because that will be our future and it doesn't matter materially whether the jackboot is on the Left or Right foot. 

    Whatever wishful thinking Americans might want to engage in to the contrary, we today are closer to seeing institutions like Auschwitz on our own soil than we'd like to admit. We already have them, in fact: institutions like the ADX prisons and Guantanamo (for now) are places where the horrors rival those of the Bastille or Andersonville; and we've also seen brutal abuses in the 'public-private' prisons in several states. Americans look the other way because (for now) such crimes happen to criminals and terrorists. It's but a simple matter to 'redefine' dissent as criminal behavior to bring the Concentration Camps here. I think that we all see---given our culture's tolerance of dissent---how close this possibility actually is to realization. 

    As if we needed any further proof, consider that a poll taken five years ago (the most recent on the subject available) showed that 3 out of 5 Americans have no reservations about the use of torture; and that includes 7 in 10 who identify as Conservative and nearly half of those who identify as Liberal.

    In his articles, Prager missed the bigger picture, but the snapshot he provided should tell us all that we are headed for a major social disaster if these attitudes continue to prevail. This is why I make it an especial point of calling it out on the political Right, because our side should know better and try to be better.