These taboos have become weapons of the left in the war that is raging in America, a civil war waged against us by the left. I believe that the Democrat party in the extreme elements of it on the left have become increasingly philosophically bankrupt but the main prop of this empty vessel is the unshakable belief that they are superior to the right because we are racists.
… From Nathan Bedford's About Page
The author has done us a very great service in describing the rank hypocrisy of the left concerning liberal orthodoxy about race. I believe there is one more layer of the onion to be peeled away to expose not just hypocrisy but real cynicism and worse.
The author describes how the left deploys racism in the service of its ideology. If one identifies the philosophical excrescences of The Frankfurt School as the impelling forces of leftist ideology in America today, one sees that racism has so thoroughly marinated into the flesh of the Democrat party that one can no longer separate cause from effect, chicken from egg. As The Frankfurt School consciously sought ways to provide the West, particularly America, the rationalizations with which to dismantle its own civilization such as especially The Critical Theory and Relativism, those who adhered to this epistemology were forced into cynicism. We see the outworking of these pernicious ideas promoted by Cloward and Pivin to bankrupt the whole system. We see it in another generation in the writings of Obama's philosophical mentor, Saul Alinsky.
Bent on dismantling Western civilization because it represented the final obstacle to the ultimate victory of world socialism, The Frankfurt School developed the theories of relativism and the critical theory as a way of discrediting the great institutions which hold our civilization together: the family; the church; the rule of law; our Constitution; our history; patriotism; and the very idea of the nation state. What better way to discredit America than to indict it for racism? Taken to its extreme, and the forces of purposeful civil disintegration by their very nature drive to the extreme, the critical theory ultimately means there is no truth, no reality, no right, no wrong. Inevitably, the drift is into cynicism.
Dostoevsky describes it as something even worse. The cynicism devolves into nihilism. The reflexive negativism leaves one utterly adrift, cynical, and vulnerable and without even the decency to recognize, much less recoil from, evil. One need only cite abortion, even partial birth abortion, to illustrate this phenomenon in blood. Dostoevsky talks about not merely destroying the idea of a thing but the very thing itself.
This is the current state of the Democrat party as described by the author and as I have attempted to describe it in the About Page. In this devastated state the leftist seizes upon the hypocrisy of his own racism to rationalize his condition. The author illustrates this characteristic with the hypocrisy of Ted Kennedy.
This explains how easy it is for the left to hook up opportunistically with virulent, militant Islam which ultimately must be its mortal enemy. It will throw Islam over when the time comes, just as it now throws the Jews over for this moment of convenience. The lesson foretelling the fate of African-Americans can be seen by anyone who is not willfully purblind which means everyone, evidently, except African-Americans themselves.
So the racist hypocrisy of the modern left is not merely a cudgel handy to belabor the right, silence critics, end debates, and win elections, it is the underpinning which props up an otherwise decadent superstructure. If they let go of it, they die.
