Posted on 05/05/2013 5:01:27 PM PDT by neverdem
Why the Left hates families: MELANIE PHIILLIPS reveals how the selfish sneers of Guardianistas made her see how the Left actively fosters – and revels in – family breakdown...
For the Left, I am the target of deepest hatred.
For my trenchant views, expressed in this newspaper, they call me ‘insane’, ‘reactionary’, ‘racist’, a ‘Nazi’, a ‘shroudwaver’, a ‘witch’ and a ‘warmonger’.
I have been accused of ‘unmatched depths of ignorance and bigotry’ and being the ‘queen of mean’.
It was even suggested (in a particularly extreme spasm of hyperbole) that I eat broken bottles and kill rats with my teeth.
This resort to crude insult against anyone who dares to challenge their shibboleths is typical of the Left. It doesn’t argue its case. It simply tries to shut down debate by bullying its targets and labelling them as extremists and enemies of humanity in order to frighten people away from listening to them.
But they reserve a special loathing for me. This is not just because I refuse to be cowed.
It’s because I was once one of them, one of the elect, a believer.
I come from the kind of family in which it was simply unthinkable to vote Conservative. For my parents, the Tory Party represented the boss class, while Labour supported the little man — people like us.
My father was haunted all his life by the poverty he endured growing up in the old East End of London in the Twenties and Thirties.
His family of six lived in two rooms; he never had enough to eat. He left school at the age of 13.
As a university-educated young woman with hippie-style hair and an attitude, I, too, generally toed the standard Leftist line in the late Seventies and early Eighties.
Poverty was bad, cuts...
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Well worth reading, this is a long and detailed article that shows how the left wins its arguments, not by arguing the facts, but
by demonizing and berating those who disagree with them, especially one of their own who has seen the Conservative light.
It exposes liberal logic *snort* at it’s silliest.
Instead, it promoted ideology, malice and oppression. Rather than fighting abuse of power, it embodied it. Increasingly, I saw how journalists on highbrow papers write primarily for other journalists or to impress politicians or other members of the great and the good.
They don’t actually like ordinary people — especially the lower middle class, the strivers who believed in self-discipline and personal responsibility.
The left proclaims to love humanity; it's people that they can't abide!
This revealed another sad truth about the Left. What matters to them above all is that they are seen to be virtuous and compassionate. They simply cannot deal with the possibility that they might not be.
They deal with any such suggestion not by facing up to any harm they may be doing, but by shutting down the argument altogether.
That’s because the banner behind which they march is not altruism, as they kid themselves. It is narcissism.
A good fictional representation is the “The Psy Corps” books based on Alfred Bester in the Babylon 5 books. The Psi Corp is mother and father. All telepaths are brothers and sisters. Register and join the corp, or get medicated and tortured or go on the run and often get killed. The corp controls where you live, what you do, who you can marry and the children you can have - and then the corp raises the children as they see fit.
It is a fascist state, and all the mantras are liberal.
When I was 10, I thought the federal government out to cut Mississippi loose, tow it out to sea, and sink it with all hands. (I was focused on simple answers.)
The change began when I weighed in my mind the prohibitions, penalties, and invasions of businessmen's freedoms written into the 1964 Civil Rights Act (that Barry Goldwater voted against with his conservative conscience) and a year later saw newsreel footage of a black schoolgirl gloating over the Jewish and other white teachers in New York who'd just been peremptorily fired for "racism" (being white) the minute a black-led school board was seated.
Those were my first intimations that justice and fairness weren't on just one side, and that the Civil Rights Movement (c) wasn't exactly what it had represented itself to be.
The business in New York was damning. The Jewish teachers were without a doubt nearly all card-carrying liberals, but the black school board had served notice that, if you were white, you could never be liberal enough, and that it was fair deserts to fire you for "racism" in order to give your job to a black Alinskyite rabble-rouser.
Are you referring to "social Darwinism"?
Victorians were pleased to jump on that one because it confirmed their social prejudices -- see H.G. Wells's The Time Machine.
Once I figure out what it is, I might use it myself! ;D
“I enjoy converts from the left”
Me too. Converts in general tend to convert hard.
And racism, too. Hitler’s political theory was founded on the concept of a superior breed being the natural rulers of mankind.
conversation = conversion
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