The Divisive Left by Shannon Love via Chicago Boyz
Every leftist today seems to honestly believe that they seek an equitable society in which all people of all persuasions live together in peace. When asked, they will proudly point out all the rhetoric they spout about inclusion and harmony. They will say that proves they bring people together.
In reality, the implicit assumptions behind leftists’ rhetoric foster suspicion, paranoia and outright hatred between Americans. Every time they open their mouths or touch a keyboard, leftists sow discord and hostility in American society and divide neighbor from neighbor.
Leftists induce everyone to see themselves as personally continually under threat from their fellow citizens. They induce everyone to believe that everyone else in society will cheat them or otherwise treat them unfairly. They induce everyone to think of themselves as individuals and groups constantly under siege and attack by virtually everyone else in America.
For an example of this one need look no further than the President’s own rhetoric. Every time he speaks about almost any issue, he pushes the implicit view that one group of Americans is cheating or attacking another group and that only people like himself can save them.
Take for example this recent statement [h/t Instapundit]:
“This year, the stakes are higher than ever,” he said, according to a transcript of his remarks provided by Democratic officials. “It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.
Obama is saying that the listed groups depend on Obama to get a fair deal in America. The “stakes” that are higher is the protection of the state against the dishonest and threatening actions of other Americans.
For women to support Obama because they are women, they must view non-women as a threat. They must mistrust men and believe they need Obama in charge of the violent power of the state so that he can protect them from the dangerous men.
For African-Americans to support Obama because they are African-Americans, they must view non-African Americans as a threat. They must believe that they cannot trust non-African Americans to the point that they need Obama in charge of the violent power of the state so that he can protect them from the dangerous non-African Americans.
For Latino-Americans to support Obama because they are Latino-Americans, they must view non-Latino Americans as a problem. They must believe that they cannot trust non-Latino Americans to the point that they need Obama in charge of the violent power of the state so that he can protect them from the dangerous non-Latino Americans.
And on down the list. Every speech on domestic policy that the President gives paints one group of Americas as evil and tells everyone else they need the government, headed by Obama, to protect them from their evil neighbors.
By shear process of elimination, the most dangerous Americans, the ones everyone else needs Obama’s government to protect them from, must be middle to upper-middle class white people who work in business and especially those who own businesses large and small…
… which is the demographic at the heart of the Tea Party.
The apparent sincere belief by many on the left that the wide spread Tea Party members are evil, violent people springs precisely from decades of indoctrination in which leftists are progressively trained to view their fellow Americans as evil, dangerous people from whom the benevolent state must protect them. They are especially trained to view white business people as evil. When they see a collection of white, small-to-medium-sized business-owners/self-employed, they automatically see a group of evil and dangerous people. They can’t help it. This is all they’ve been taught and all they say to each other.
This is much worse than smearing people out of cynical manipulation. They really do believe that people in the Tea Party are the monsters.
Bismarck said that war was the heart of the state. It’s more accurate to say that the suspicion, mistrust, fear, anger and hatred that drive entire peoples to war are the real heart of the state. All government action is grounded in violence, and to justify using government violence against others, the people must believe those others to be a threat. For the state to thrive, people must fear and hate others.
Fostering hate and fear is what leftists have been doing for the last 50 years. But whereas the traditional war monger casts foreigners as a threat, leftists tell people it is their neighbors that are the threat. In the long run, that is much worse.
Leftists haven’t yet driven themselves into such a delusional frenzy that they will resort to violence but that has historically been the end point of this kind of politics.
Far from healing divisions and creating a more cohesive and inclusive society, Obama and his cohorts are infecting us with suspicion, paranoia and hatred of one another. How long can we survive as a people when the majority of Americas believe that all other Americans are out to get them?
We need to start calling leftists out on this matter and make them and others aware of how hateful and divisive they are. We need to point out the implicit paranoia and hatred contained in almost every left wing speech. We need to remind them that it is they and not non-leftists who say that one group of Americans is a threat to other Americans.
We need to remind leftists that childhood is over and that is it time for them to stop living in their fantasies, and to look at the real implications of what they say and the real consequences of the actions that spring from their rhetoric.
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