https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/05\/can-rhetoric-on-the-left-fuel-bigotry-on-the-right\/560285\/<\/a><\/p>\nThe author\u2019s view is that the progressive\u2019s screamingly angry, hyperemotional rhetoric and violent physical responses to an opposing view of even the mildest sort drives people away from them, who would otherwise continue to embrace a slightly progressive left of center stance.<\/p>\n
This is what I have been saying repeatedly: the more these tantrum-throwing, foul-mouthed, ghoulish, violent zombies attack people openly, as they are doing now, the more they will drive the moderate centrist liberals to the right hand side of the political pendulum.<\/p>\n
By engaging in this public surge and display of unfettered hate \u2013 for there is no other name for it \u2013 they are revealing themselves for what they really are: extreme radicals and bullies willing to do anything, including burn down the house while you are in it, to get what they want. They do not believe society\u2019s laws and rules apply to them, because they regularly and intentionally (or stupidly) misinterpret the Law of the Land. They are encouraged to do so, and to traipse as close to the edge of anarchy as possible to get what they want, with no thought to the consequences.<\/p>\n
Now we\u2019re seeing some results of that behavior in Doxxing Boy\u2019s arrest, indictment, and soon-to-be trial and (we hope) conviction and vacation in a federal prison with some truly dangerous people as neighbors, as well as the Canadian soyboy salon ex-employee who kicked a woman at a prolife rally and is now in jail. The list of crass, crude and vulgar things sent and said to members of Congress in Cong Scalise\u2019s essay demonstrates clearly that this bunch of screaming howler monkeys are not, and may never be, civilized in any way at all.<\/p>\n
There are two kinds of millennials: one kind is the lamebrained idiots who climb the steps of the Supreme Court building and pound on the doors, screaming like demented zombies. I\u2019d guess that if they had time to spend a week in Washington, haunting the SCOTUS hearings and screaming like banshees when they are removed, they don\u2019t have jobs that they\u2019re worried about losing.<\/p>\n
The other type of millennial is the kind that has high-paying jobs in finance, technology, engineering, etc., is businesslike about running a household, knows exactly what they want in the way of housing and where they want to live, per the response to questions about them from realtors who are seeing a buying population growing in that group. They want families, not empty homes. They want \u201cstuff\u201d, not grungy jeans. Yes, they want clean spaces and crime-free streets, but don\u2019t we all? It isn\u2019t about bicycle paths. It\u2019s about safety for kids on a hike in the forest preserve, and schools where their kids learn something besides “mommy was my daddy and it’s okay”.<\/p>\n
These people are the mid-center centrist liberals whose views are attacked by those others, those loud-mouthed, hate-spewing progressives who label them alt-right for daring to be so centrist.<\/p>\n
This population group will be future conservatives, given enough time and enough hatred from the radical progressives that despise them. And there are, frankly, more of them than there are of the other type.<\/p>\n
The Atlantic article is not a short read. It will take some time on your part, but it is worth your time to read it. You may not agree with some of the author\u2019s specific points, particularly in regard to Bush and Obama and their reservations about using terms like \u201cradical Islam terrorists\u201d, which is to be expected.<\/p>\n
But the gist of it holds true. The so-called progressives are doing far more damage to themselves than any amount of argument from us could\u00a0 hope to produce. Fix yourself a pot of coffee or tea, get some snacky foods on a plate, and read it start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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