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The Left’s New Scapegoating

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Welcome Instapundit Readers!!

Earlier this week, Glenn blogged about how “some people seem to want to talk politics instead of work, or to turn workplaces into political cliques“.  More often than not, these “some people” are left-wingers, haranguing their co-workers and harassing anyone who dares offer a dissenting view to the workplace’s liberal orthodoxy.

My friend Charles Winecoff, whom when I first met him just a few months ago, seemed pretty tight-lipped about his experiences in a hostile Hollywood workplace, has since opened up, is now sharing those experiences with a wider audience on the increasingly indispensable BigHollywood blog:

And one thing I’ve noticed in the stifling PC smog of LA: the Obama generation doesn’t think twice about openly ridiculing folks who don’t follow in lockstep.  They’re still acting like there’s a Texan in the White House.  They can’t let go.  They don’t want to.  Because, like the believers of a certain 7th century ideology that’s made a big comeback in recent years, their objective is not, despite claims to the contrary, to coexist.  To quote Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, it’s “to rule.”

Instead of gossiping at the water cooler, today’s privileged jugend hover in packs around TV monitors to mock the usual suspects – poor old Sarah Palin, the Tea Partiers, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Miss California (chivalry is deader than dead).  Together, they telegraph their warning to anyone who might disagree:don’t.

Why, I wonder (and ask yet again) why do these people make it incumbent upon themselves to pipe up whenever they can to express their hostility of everything right-of-center?

They readily describe Republicans as evil without quite understanding what Republicans believe or what “evil” is, as if everything that do not understand must necessarily be evil.  They’ll turn the slightest exchange into a political harangue, eager to attack or otherwise malign those with a different point than they.

Charles offers a more witty and descriptive observation of this phenomenon than I ever could, so just read the whole thing, but his piece which I have since read through twice, having reviewed some portion multiple times, makes me wonder about the mind-set of the narrow-minded.  And not just on the left.

What makes someone so obsessed about the objects he reviles, that he would bring it up at the slightest provocation? Before I was “out” as a conservative to some of my gay friends and acquaintances–and this during W’s first term, I would listen in (without commenting) when someone stray comment reminded them how horrible the then-President was.

What provoked that harangue, I wondered?

Is it just some need to vent and they assume that in targeting Republicans, they assume they’ll find a more positive response from their peers?  It’s that old phenomenon from ancient religious tradition–scapegoating plain and simple, the new modus operandi of the Hollywood left–and their allies across the land.

Comments

  2. I’ve not commented on poor MS California because I can’t believe the liberals don’t realize how odd they look. So our President during the campaign said “I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman”. MS Calfiornia said in answer to a question posed to her the same thing. And the liberal Democrats and the media laugh and slam her. I am astounded that liberals don’t see that they are becoming fascists who march like storm troopers in lock step. 70% of Americans stil believe that traditional marriage should remain between a man and a woman. How do you mock that? And if the percentages were reversed, what happened to traditional liberals who supported minority rights. The right of the ruling majority to not squash the minority like they were silent serfs.

  3. I had similar experiences where I was doing contract work at a pharmacuetical ad agency in Chicago. It seemed that everytime I walked passed a work station, everyone was engaged in Bush and Republican bashing. I would often scrunch up my face at them as I passed them, not so much because they were being inappropriate, but because they weren’t doing their jobs. Yes, I was actually rather offended by their remarks and wouldn’t have seen it any different had they been smeering women, homosexuals or blacks, but does every “liberal” find it so difficult just to do their jobs these days? They all act as if they are offended by having to do work. Republican-bashing is what coffee breaks are for.

  4. Mark, as a boss of over 200 employees I agree with you. There is this lack of work ethic that is mind boggling. When you remind people that are on the clock to get some work done, they look at you like you are from Mars. The most puzzling thing is, how do they expect to be excellent and be the best, deserve more raises and promotions. It comes from performance not osmosus. But that’s the public school system. They don’t teach this basic life foundation.

  7. Why, I wonder (and ask yet again) why do these people make it incumbent upon themselves to pipe up whenever they can to express their hostility of everything right-of-center?

    Eh, it’s something in the Kool-Aid.

    Woah, this is too much.

    Indeed. I’d be embarrassed as all hell, if I were you. Then again, if I were you, I wouldn’t have the capacity to feel shame. I’d remain blissfully ignorant like a kid running around in a shitty diaper.

  10. #8 – Julie, I need to steal that “web-surfing” line from you. Priceless! And I thoroughly agree with it. 😉

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  11. I think the dynamic is actually quite simple and straightforward.

    I was once an obsessed leftist. It “just so happens” that at the time I was a leftist, I truly hated life. As such, whether I admitted it to myself or not, I was miserable. It was soothing to me to bitch about all my scapegoats to anyone who would listen and agree.

    So the dynamic is this: misery loves company.

  15. Im reminded of Hank Reardon finally figuring out what made the looters tick.

    “They are people who worship pain”

    Its funny, and by funny I mean sad. Most of the lefties I know can have fun and laugh. But almost none of them understand joy.

    God, what a horrible way to go through life.

    -j

  16. What is really becoming apparent over this alleged torture episode is how much dignity W had. It truly amazes me that even when he was getting constantly accused of crimes by the Democrats over EITs, he never pointed his finger back at the Democrats eventhough he knew they were just as culpable. He took the arrows and kept doing what he thought was right. I didn’t agree with alot of his policies, but you really have to admire the man. He was an adult among children.

  17. I suspect the vitriol comes from something much deeper. The same place the Arab “street” shouting death to somebody, the hatred of Klansmen, the people who beat Reginald Denny. I don’t know a great deal about Freud’s early theory about thanatos, the idea that there lies within our psyche a very (self) destructive, death loving portion. But the passion so many have towards the negative (hating miss california, ie stupid bitches) rather than positive (go Sox or whoever) does make me think this is a very important part of each human and it should be discouraged.
    confession – I was a hater in the 90’s toward Clinton, recovering venom spewing right wingnut who realized this type of thinking does no good.
    When I post, I try to say “President Obama” rather than some smartass name that might be funny but is counterproductive.

    PS We should try to remember the shared humanity and not hate, not Carrie Prejean nor Perez Hilton. We don’t win any hearts or minds by forgetting this.

  18. Anger makes people feel powerful. It’s hard to give that up and recognize your own unimportance in the actual scheme of things.

    It’s a classic dynamic, actually. The most dangerous time in a revolution comes right after you’ve won it, when you’ve got a lot of hyped up folks who still have guns. The easiest solution is to direct anger outward at an external enemy — even if you have to make one up. Think Iran and the creation of the Great Satan.

  19. They readily describe Republicans as evil … as if everything that do not understand must necessarily be evil.

    Now that’s ironic. Haven’t the lefties for years told us there’s really no such thing as evil; that’s its all in the eye of the beholder?

  20. Most astounding to me is the anger. They were beside themselves with it during Bush’s tenure, but now that they’ve got everything their enraged little hearts desired–liberal Democrats as far as the eye can see, the promise of government programs and entitlements to meet their every need and the satisfaction of seeing those criminally greedy capitalists (ptooey) finally get theirs–and they’re STILL madder than snot. There’s obviously no pleasing them so why try. Let them stew in their own vitriol. I’m only sorry that their behavior makes so many others miserable.

    We are fast developing a class of citizen that feels entitled to the good life without having to put forth much of an effort to obtain it (and a government that seems ready, willing and eager to accommodate). It’s probably the worst thing that can happen to a free society that thrives on hard work and achievement. Norway has discovered that the work ethic can be bred out in just two generations. We may not be far behind.