Meryl Streep, Martin Sheen,
Rosie O’Donnell and a legion of their fellow Hollywood illusionists, have taken
their stand against Donald Trump. Standing on their credentials as artists,
they tell us what is good for us, politically. As in all artistic endeavors,
they aspire to reveal a truth. The irony is, the truth they are exposing is
their own moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
How fitting, really! This
self-important clown troupe of make-believers, fantasists, and jesters, who
pretend to be someone other than themselves for a living, inspired by the
purveyors of fake news in the mass media, have formed themselves up as a
pathetic Maginot Line in an attempt to resist the ferociously honest guy who
couldn’t pretend to be someone else if he wanted to. At some level they must
see how imbecilic they appear but they can’t help themselves. The terror of
having a leader, unfettered by the shackles of political correctness who will
address reality and mock their willful blindness to it has them in full panic.
From all this, I take a core
lesson: These Liberals start with a false premise. The Left assumes that human
nature is basically good and that people can be changed. All leftist systems
posit or, at least, imply that the evil that people do and the flaws in human
character are due to outside influences, such as, bad economic systems or
established religions or faulty laws.
They also imply that with a progressive approach and a “new order” the
innate good can be realized and the world will be healed – or, at least, much
improved.
Of course, this has proven to
be a deadly trap in every historical case! Nazism (National Socialism!),
Chinese Communism, Russian Communism and Chavez in Venezuela were/are all
collectivist systems claiming to aim at a more egalitarian society. They also promised some form of “new man” who
would be of a higher and more selfless character. This is the Progressive anthem.
Progressives particularly
resent the Constitution of the United States because, explicit in its
conception and structure, is the assumption that human beings are not
necessarily good or bad but are creatures with both potentialities. With that
as a founding principal, the Constitution exquisitely balances safeguards which
enable the enterprise and ambition of all, while, at the same time, keeping
balance, opportunity and order through the competing branches of government with
equal but countervailing powers. It's less pure and noble sounding than the
leftist view, but it is reality.
Progressives imagine that human
nature is “nice” and infinitely malleable.
They “reason” that, left to their own devices, people will be happy and
content in a “natural” state. They ascribe all that is painful and even evil in
life is the result of flaws in “society” including “organized religion” or
“morality” or “the culture” or any other target that exerts control over human
behavior. This blameless image of the individual seems soothing and
comfortable, but the result is anything but comfort. It insinuates that
“freeing” the sweet angel of the human spirit from those controlling
institutions/forces is the way to achieve peace, health, enlightenment and
happiness. Wishing only to make life better and more equal for all, liberals
set about dismantling or, at least, arbitrarily refashioning all the structures
and values that maintain health, peace and equilibrium. In order to “free the
angel” inside us, they liberate the whole panoply of angels, including the dark
jinn of evil which also resides in the human heart.
Liberals despise you, the
working people of America. That is why they feel it their duty to “educate” and
“uplift” you. They snigger at you and your ethics and morals. But you know that
you need to work at being good. You know that your church or synagogue has
played a role in making you honorable. You thank God and the founders of
America for the liberty and opportunity to work, live and thrive here. You know
that life is not balloon parties, unicorn festivals and trophies for showing
up. You know fantasy when you see it.
Their idea of progress is to
tear away the proven culture and safeguards and replace them with a socialism
that pretends to supplant equality of opportunity with equality of outcome,
otherwise known as universal misery. In the name of “equality” and protecting
the planet, they want to bring all economic development to a standstill,
redistributing wealth so that industrious and clever people earn no more than
the most indolent and incapable. They call it “progress” but it is really a
corrupt ideology.
The zeal of
progressives springs from their feeling that only they know what is correct and
needed. They are willing to force people to agree to their view of things -
whether they like it or not. When reality becomes impossible to ignore and
their “progress” leads to conflict, chaos and inequality it is never blamed on
Progressivism. Hitler blamed the German people for not being strong enough,
communists blame capitalist counter-revolutionaries, and everybody blames “The
Jews”. Revolution, suppression and barbarity often ensue. Any idea that
contradicts the romantic egalitarian principles is punishable. In Nazi Germany,
they were known as crimes against The Reich.
In Soviet Russia, Red China and Castro’s Cuba, they are called
counter-revolutionary. If you were imprisoned or exiled for those things, you
were getting off lucky! And now, led by the brilliant pretenders and charlatans
of amusement and the “infotainment” aristocracy, we are being urged to
euthanize The Constitution through modernization and interpretation. They want
to bowlderize the very constitutional system of government which created the
finest, richest and most just nation in history. And for what? For a
collectivist government led by people who are so sure that they are correct in
everything that lawlessness, fiat and intentional ignorance are acceptable
tools for wielding political power?
So, let's have a big round of applause for the pretentious
aristocrats who have made it plain what we really should fear. They lay bare
the arrogance and febrile imagination of Progressivism and what it is trying to
do to our culture and constitutional politics.
When one side proclaims itself inviolably correct, and there are
no safeguards for those who disagree, you have totalitarianism. Only imagine,
if you dare, the murderous, totalitarian and nihilistic rage that would prevail
if the liberal elite had their way. Ruthless totalitarianism always ends up
requiring re-education camps, the punishment of retrograde
(counter-revolutionary) ideas. Those
dangers lurk just behind their smug, superior smiles and their righteousness.
Thanks, Meryl, et. al., for the reminder of who you are and who
we are. We made America great. With Donald Trump as our leader, we will make
America great again, and I am with him.
