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The Self-Hating Leftist

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Sean Thomas is writing about the UK, here, and how the pathological loathing of the British left for all things British is a major part of the reason for Britain’s steep cultural and societal decline. But with a few choice edits, his observations apply equally to the American Left.

Labourites Democrats and Lefties revile and deride so many of the things perceived as quintessentially British American. Take your pick from the monarchy Constitution, the flag, the Army, the history of rampant conquest Manifest Destiny, the biggest empire economy in the world, the supremacy of the English language, anyone who lives in the countryside flyover country, the national anthem, the City of London suburbs, the Royal US Navy and Marine Corps, a nuclear deterrent, the lion and the unicorn bald eagle, duffing up the French, eating loads of beef – all this, for Lefties, is a source of shame.

Basically, how can people who openly loathe their country be trusted to govern it? How can they be entrusted to defend their country and their culture against forces that would see it destroyed?

 

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  2. For us — and the Brits — this is the price our generation and our children will pay-dearly for our parents and grandparent’s generation choice of cohabitation disguised as “assimilation” vs. true cultural assimilation.

    – Tolerating English as a “second Language”.
    – The acceptable social and business-use on non-English languages.
    – Multilingual Education resulting in LA schools coping (badly) with over 127 languages.
    – Creation and encouragement of the faux-ethnicity of “Hispanic” and “Latino/Latina”.

    And the Triple-obscenities of Hyphen-“Americanism”, “African”-Americanism, and La Raza.

    “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.”
    “This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”
    “But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”
    “The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.”
    “The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”

    – Theodore Roosevelt,
    Address to the Knights of Columbus New York City- October 12th, 1915

    Pres. Roosevelt saw the dangers 100-years ago, and note that he delivered this address to a Catholic audience – not the WASPy Sons of the American Revolution.

  4. America may well be on the brink of collapse. How, then, to prevent it? I have some theories on that, each of greater or lesser practicality.

    1) Radical redrawing. One problem with the current political model is that metropolitan areas completely overwhelm the other parts of their states in elections. Redrawing the map so that each state has roughly equal population would go a great way to strengthening the representation of regional interests, and separate the views of cities and rural areas, rather than making a state turn on the views of the city folk. Cartographer Neil Freeman has crafted a map that does a nice job of it.

    2) American Union. Return to the conception of the states as sovereign nations, but decrease the number of states to 5 to 10, based on cultural, political, and geographical zoning. This would turn the country into something resembling the European Union, but with greater concern for member country-states’ sovereignty. States would be sovereign in all matters except those reserved for Congress, which would be an elected body that saw to all matters reserved for Congress: war, trade, etc. The U.S. military would be made up of citizens of all states, and would be used to respond to outside attacks: an attack on one is an attack on all. States would have their own militias that would be used to handle internal crises.

  5. I’m not so sure “self-hating leftist” is accurate. It’s not clear to me that they hate themselves – they seem quite pleased with themselves.

    They do hate the vulgarity of the middle-class (Margaret Thatcher was derided as a shop-keeper’s daughter by her “betters”). They see their mission as punishing the middle-class they disdain so much while seeing themselves as worthy of the comforts and privileges they would deny those they hate.

    It’s a class war: lefties aren’t of the “live and let live” persuasion; they use the institutions of the left to channel their hate. Sarah Palin serves as a good example: most lefties know little of her history as a mayor and a governor – she is woman with a middle-class background, no fancy colleges, and lots of kids. For that alone, she was hated. So much for admiring women of accomplishment.

    On the rare occasion that I have the stomach and patience to wade through comments at lefty websites, the hate and disgust for the commoners is on full display. These people are consumed with hate… it’s easy to see how tyrannies come to be and how genocides can occur.

    I certainly don’t subscribe to the fantasy that all people are smart – too much everyday experience tells me that there are plenty of idiots among us. But as dumb as many people are, they’ve still managed to make their way successfully through life, without the help of community organizers, for generations.

    The masses have a far better track record that the self-appointed “leader classes” that run the show. When a yokel screws up, the damage is limited. When the geniuses that brought us the social welfare state screws up, the damage to human beings is almost unlimited (see, oh, Ferguson, MO for a good example).

    The Ivy League elites have been running the show, government and business, for a couple of generations now and they’ve certainly made a dog’s breakfast of it.

  6. @4: Sean, Mark Steyn poses a good question in “After America”: how much are people in sane states like Wyoming and Texas, etc willing to pay to keep 50 stars in the flag?

    At some point, states like California, Illinois, and New York will be swallowed up by public pension debt and welfare – no longer able to kick the can using financial chicanery – and the feds will have little option but to conjure up more fiat money.

    Given the disdain that a lot of people in, say, San Francisco, have for those of us in flyover country, it’s hard to imagine the people of Kansas or Nebraska clamoring to pay more taxes to bail out Pelosi’s California.

  7. I am actually in favor of Americans learning multiple languages, those languages of course should be those that push civilization/business forward such as German, Chinese, Japanese, & Russian. A gay Hispanic nurse was saying about that stupid Americans should speak more than one language I said I agree and that I got along fine in Germany but needed a pocket translator in other European nations.
    They hate Sarah Palin because she had a good job based on merit and a large family something the left cant get without blowing their way to the top like the recent revelations about Quinn and Sarkeesian in the video game industry.

  8. George Orwell, 1941:

    England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution.

  9. So “loving” American includes:

    Not paying taxes and supporting companies that are betraying America.

    Forcing people to subscribe to your religion, arresting and throwing tear gas at members of the press, threatening to kill people who are protesting.

    Allowing criminals to own firearms.

    Police forcing a man out of his house so they could set up surveillance
    http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/brief-history-third-amendment-cases

    Idolizing a totalitarian dictator

    Opposing sanctions on an totalitarian dictator

    Suggesting that America is so weak that it would suffer from sanctions on an totalitarian dictator.

    Believing that Orthodox totalitarian culture is superior to the US culture.

    Killing unarmed people

    Supporting stoning gay people or putting gay people under “piss soaked grass”

    Denying that all people are equal

    All of these and several others are views conservatives hold. You openly talk about destroying MY government and how you need guns to do so. You ignore every part of the bill of rights except the 2nd Amendment which in your eyes should have no restrictions and you proceed to suggest that that Liberals hate America. If you loved this country, you would be willing to make sacrifices for it. Instead you care more about money and your religion then this country. Which is why you oppose paying taxes and idolize and adore a Christian conservative thug who shoots down planes of innocent civilians.

  11. In its quest for a Leftist utopia, progressives must demonish everything that exists. To them nothing that exists is perfect, nor is it of value. They hold in contempt tyhe accomplishments of generations because problems remain. They are blind to their flaws, envy, hatred, and greed.

    They believe man is perfest, despite evidence to the contrary. Show me a liberal and I’ll show you a fascist screwing to get out and guard the camps.

  12. James Edward demonstrates the mindset of the deviant Left perfectly. Of course all people are equal, ret telling that to Helen Keller or Danny DeVito, or Nelson Rockefeller.

    You can always tell a true believer when they use the words “equality,” “justice,” “fairness,” “tolerance,” AND the “law.” All concepts that they and Islam hold in equal esteem while in the minority but once in power they make Hitler green with envy,

    Now who are we to believe the experience of thousands of years of civilization or James Edwards, noted sodomite.

  13. 9.So “loving” American includes:

    Not paying taxes and supporting companies that are betraying America.

    Already answered and thoroughly exposing you as a hypocrite, James Edward.

    Now since you support murdering white government officials and not paying your taxes, you simply have no credibility to make the accusations you are making. Your racist hate and tribal mentality blinds you and makes you thoroughly unfit to operate in American society.