Hatred Institutionalized

George Rebane

That our country has passed the tipping point from a democratic republic has been maintained and recorded in these pages for some years now.  Since the election of Donald Trump as our 45^th president there has been a sea change in the national regression.  Never before have major national institutions turned so virulently against a sitting president and dedicated themselves to the destruction of his administration.  The only benefit that this assault has delivered for the rest of the country is that it has unambiguously revealed the agenda, means, methods, and memberships of the country’s agencies and institutions devoted to bringing about the global collective that was the early dream of the 19^th century progressives cum communists.

RR’s talking points on these and related matters are often in the forefront of what eventually becomes national commentary.  This observed sea change is no different.  Here I want to bring to your attention three aspects of what is going on in the country.  We’ll start first with the one-sided and now institutionalized hatred of the Right by Democrats as the newly radicalized party of the Alt-Left.  The following screed was apparently distributed to county Democratic Parties to accompany their announcement of the 4mar17 national “Protest Trump Gatherings” some of which turned into riots with smashed windows, burning trash and tires, and tear gas.  Our own Nevada County ‘Calendar of Upcoming Local, State, and National Events’ contains the following ‘Description’ for the regional riot that was organized in Berkeley, CA.  The quotes and emphases are in the original published handout.

“On March 4^th in the capital of the US, there will be a gathering and march of Trump supporters.  Just as Trump’s fascist agenda has emboldened white supremacists and misogynists everywhere, this march is sure to attract the worst of the country’s authoritarian shitheads.  (In Berkeley, the events are specifically being organized by members of the Alt-Right, connected to groups like the ‘Proud Boys.’)”

“While some argue that confronting fascists in the streets will only draw attention to them, we know better than to remain complicit(sic).  Fascists don’t deserve a single outlet or forum to promote their disgusting ideology.  Events like these empower and embolden these scum to further organize.  We are calling on antifascists, anarchists, and anti-authoritarians everywhere to resist what is sure to be an open display of racism and misogyny.”

There you have their message in the raw.  It is they – think also of our local Democrat Party – who are the arbiters of free speech, deciding which outlets and forums to deny those “scum” whose ideologies they consider “disgusting”.

In a recent comment stream on these pages I opined the following when informed (here) of the latest incident of blatant racism within the Left –

This kind of statements coming from leftwing factions are nothing new. In the US the Democrats have always been the most virulous racists the country has ever seen beginning with the foundation of the Democrat party in the early 19th century. It is they who backed slavery, terrorized post-bellum blacks, established and enshrined Jim Crow, founded and supported American eugenics, and finally sacrificed the emerging black middle class to create a cohort of permanently disadvantaged, ignorant, yet reliable voting block which they have enjoyed for the last 50 years.

In the 20th century they picked up on the political manipulations of Lenin, and were the fifth column backers of communism in the US. Now they are versed in loudly accusing everyone else of what in fact they practice - violence, hatred, discrimination, and an unabashed promotion of leviathan as an overarching totalitarian state. We have to remember that for them the individual is nothing but an expendable cipher that can be manipulated, deployed, and dispensed with for this or that political purpose. The collective is all, everyone else is assigned to classes that must be vilified and then destroyed. It is simply their nature.

In response a distinguished reader of the Left protested – “I wouldn't deny that all those horrible things were done by those despicable Democrats, but how come they all switched parties after the dirty liberals demanded an end to segregation?”

Given the above and what we see daily across our land, did anyone else notice any party switching going on?

To underline the argument even more, I draw your attention again to the Middlebury College proscription (pictured here) of conservative sociologist Charles Murray in the ‘Freedom and Unity’ state.  Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Daniel Henninger provided his 8mar17 ‘McCarthyism at Middlebury’ corroborating perspective on the affair put in the larger context.

The violence committed against Charles Murray and others at Middlebury College is a significant event in the annals of free speech. … Since the day the Founding Fathers planted the three words, “freedom of speech,” in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Americans and their institutions have had to contend with attempts to suppress speech. … The right to speak freely has survived not merely because of many eloquent Supreme Court decisions but also because America’s political and institutional leadership, whatever else their differences, has stood together to defend this right. … But maybe not any longer.

The college’s “hundreds of faculty and alumni” signed a letter withdrawing Dr Murray’s invitation as they ascended to the belief “that Murray’s ideas have no place in rigorous scholarly conversation.”  In response to such constitutional atrocities Henninger asks the key question regarding the point I am making here – “Why hasn’t one Democrat stood in the well of the Senate or House to denounce, or even criticize, what the Middlebury mob did to Charles Murray and the faculty who asked him to speak? Have any of them ever come out against the silencing of speech they don’t like?”

But perhaps all is not lost.  Soon after the ‘disinvitation’, a group of courageous Middlebury faculty decided that enough was enough, and collected themselves under the notion of ‘Free Inquiry on Campus’ to rebut their own McCarthyists and those already established across the land by making the point that “learning is possible only where free, reasoned and civil speech is respected.”  All Americans, regardless of the political leanings, should hope that this sprig of backbone will sprout and grow on other campuses where draconian speech-codes dictate what can be thought, spoken, and written.

Finally, we review how our own government has already gone the extra mile and quietly eliminated (through unconstitutional laws) ALL of our 4^th Amendment protections by removing The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Andrew Napolitano, the nation’s youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge and FN’s senior legal analyst, explains the details of how ‘1984’ has arrived in our living rooms, and the absence of any realistic remaining safeguards US citizens have against “unreasonable searches and seizures”. ‘Spies among us -- Congress has created a monster that is coming for us’ is definitely worth a read even if it does curl your toes the wrong way.

In the piece you’ll discover why the debate about Trump’s evidence for claiming that Obama has ordered a ‘wiretap’ of his campaign is completely moot.  Obama had access to ALL of Trump’s already recorded campaign and private communications.  It is virtually impossible to prove what the former president chose to examine and share, since those exchanges occurred within the very bowels of the Deep State.

Now consider the use of these capabilities when our republic finally becomes the handmaiden of the global collectivists whose minions are now more motivated and emboldened by the day.

Comments

[jon smith]

"Never before have major national institutions turned so virulently against a sitting president and dedicated themselves to the destruction of his administration."
Never before have we had sitting president of whom every living president has declared unfit to hold office. These aren't just left wing dolts marching with pink hats.

[Todd Juvinall]

Oh yes they are. You libtards are simply mean spirited and wrong. We like what we see. America is on its way back after 8 years of failure by Obama and the democrats. Get used to it.

[Don Bessee]

The 'jon' @ 1222 is seriously trying to use the Bushes as a support for his argument and then tosses in the peanut farmer? Lest all take a moment and think back to what they have said about the Bushes. Talk about a massive case of situational ethics!

Hey the 'jon', why don't you post a picture of you in your pink pussy hat?

"These aren't just left wing dolts marching with pink hats." That's right, they are communist dolts, socialist dolts, snowflake dolts, blm dolts, dem looser dolts, mom's basement dwelling dolts as well as left wing dolts. ;-)

[fish]

Posted by: jon smith | 09 March 2017 at 12:22 PM

Nobody cares what former presidents say.....

He was elected......learn to live with it.

[George Rebane]

Wasn't aware of that constitutional codicil about having your administration destroyed if all living former presidents don't like the sitting president. Learn something new every day.

[uestion.]

What's there to like about our Liar in Chief George. He's a narcissist, serial liar, sexist egomaniac.

[fish]

Posted by: uestion. | 09 March 2017 at 02:02 PM

He isn't Hillary Clinton and he upsets leftys a great deal.

Really.......what more could you want in a president in this day and age?

[George Rebane]

I suppose there's a chance that our leftwingers will address the post's topic sooner or later. My money is on later.

[Walt]

You can add institutionalized butthurt. The more things get better, the redder that Leftist Baboon butt gets. It makes the wildest BS to be said. For instance, " We women give birth to 50% of the population." Then from Berkeley, " we can't even go to forests because of color"."(find my last post from last light to read that loonacy)

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

re: GR @ 2:53 They never will. This has evolved from any kind of argument about policy and has morphed into a sort of church movement. I expect that a close examination of anti-Trump street warriors would show similar physiological changes as you might see in any religious frenzy. People can definitely be crazy about seemingly trivial matters as Patriarch Nikon found out.

This business of going to civil war over an attempt to control national borders is probably a first in the history of the world, but aside from Trump bragging about a billionaire's ability to grope willing women and insulting his political rivals (and a subset of Mexican boundary-crossers), it's about all I can detect as a philosophical underpinning of the movement. It's odd.

You do have to admire the freedom to use the words 'scum', 'Nazi', 'disgusting', etc. in a kind of Tourette's of abuse. It's the sign of people who are hyping themselves up for more direct action. When a mainstream political party uses Der Stürmer-style language, you are well on your way to more lively times.

OTOH, I'm happy to see Team Red start to come around to a more anti-Surveillance State mindset. If that actually pushes through to a privacy oriented set of actions, it might all be worthwhile.

None of this is new, of course.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927

Notice that the ACLU used to be on the side of the angels on this one.

[Bill Tozer]

Think the best quote about the topic was posted a couple weeks ago.

"Trump did not create the liberals' hate. He exposed it."

Projection is an apt word lately. Guess you can add the word fascist to the list of what constitutes a Deplorable. Fascist is my new badge of honor.
To echo Dr. Rebane's post:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/looking-for-fascism-in-america-look-left-on-campus/article/2616621

"One final note: the Associated Press ran a story about the response to Murray's speech in Middlebury that twice in its first three paragraphs repeated characterizations of him as a "white nationalist." The Washington Post, to its shame, printed the story unchanged. This is a disgraceful libel, as anyone who knows Murray's work or knows him personally knows very well. The AP writer and the Post editor who passed the story along relied for their second characterization on the Southern Poverty Law Center — a dicey source as Harry Zieve Cohen of The American Interest and Charlotte Allen in The Weekly Standard make clear. Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron, if he still wishes to claim the mantle of an objective journalist, should find out how this vile slur got into his paper and make an appropriate disclosure and apology."

Ha! Never happen.

[Account Deleted]

This whole topic is dismal. The Middlebury incident was just one more thug fest by the left. They won. Again.
Where was law enforcement?
Is anyone here aware that probably less than 5% of Americans even know about this sort of regular occurrence?
Even more depressing is George's hope in a handful of folks that resemble the promise of being rescued by the Crain brothers. (TV show)
"But perhaps all is not lost. Soon after the ‘disinvitation’, a group of courageous Middlebury faculty decided that enough was enough, and collected themselves under the notion of ‘Free Inquiry on Campus’ to rebut their own McCarthyists and those already established across the land by making the point that “learning is possible only where free, reasoned and civil speech is respected.”
Oh - huzzah! So courageous to speak out against a bunch of animals.
I'll admit I didn't get much (pay wall) but what I read sounded like like a bunch of nellies ready to surrender if a few social niceties are
met.
They cave right off by identifying Murray as 'controversial'. He's a human being that was invited to speak. He doesn't advocate violence or law breaking. Anyone who is preventing that from happening is an enemy of our Constitution and our civil rights. Period.
Why this is tolerated is making me just hold my head. Our country is lost if this is not stopped. Legally - by law enforcement.
Any other way is folly.

[fish]

Posted by: Scott Obermuller | 09 March 2017 at 05:05 PM

"But perhaps all is not lost. Soon after the ‘disinvitation’, a group of courageous Middlebury faculty decided that enough was enough, and collected themselves under the notion of ‘Free Inquiry on Campus’ to rebut their own McCarthyists and those already established across the land by making the point that “learning is possible only where free, reasoned and civil speech is respected.”

Oh I imagine both history and empirical observation is guiding their path.

The Violent Vibrant Snowflake Corps is already showing a nasty tendency to cannibalize their mentors when there's even the slightest hint of deviation from the revolutionary path. If they could guarantee their safety and maintain their status without making this concession I'm sure they'd be completely sanguine about the beating up of crimethinkers and their enablers.

[Account Deleted]

"The Violent Vibrant Snowflake Corps is already showing a nasty tendency to cannibalize their mentors when there's even the slightest hint of deviation from the revolutionary path."
In the short term - 5 - 10 years or so, at least, this sort of behavior has been shown to be quite effective.
In the Soviet, it worked for quite a spell. In China it is on-going after several generations.

[Todd Juvinall]

Obama's bro just sent out his birth certificate for Barry. Kenyan.

[Account Deleted]

But Ms Clinton says - "What difference – at this point, what difference does it make?"

[Bill Tozer]

I listened to an interview with a young calm articulate man who was part of the group that invited Milo to Berkley and had to come up with the security deposit (anonymous donation of $7,000 helped). Anyway, his job was to sit back and record the protest line outside. The campus cops where on the balcony above him. He neither displayed pro or con, nor emotion. He just recorded the outside in an unbiased manner.

Here is what grabbed my attention: After some time, it became apparent that being neutral was not an acceptable option in the eyes of the rabid scum demonstrators. At first they went after oblivious Milo/Trump supporters waiting to attend....the ladies with red ball caps and like dressed people....and left our neutral observer alone. But, then the mood turned ugly and if the haters deemed you not with them, then they attacked the bystanders. Either you are for them or you must be the enemy. The young student wax pummeled as the cops on the balcony right above him watched and did nothing. Oh, they fired some rubber bullets when the arsonists got too close to the building, but did not lift a finger to break up the mob attacking even curious bystanders.

The young conservative approached an officer to file a report, but the campus police refused to take a report. After the young man went to the ER for concussion and other injuries, he again tried to file a police report. Again he was told that the Police were not accepting reports of incidents.

Two things impressed me. First, he still thinks it is possible to have a dialogue about free speech (in general terms) on campus and many on campus feel that violence is not the appropriate way to have a dialogue. Well, I guess that is progress.
Second, there is no middle ground. Either you hate Trump or you will be scorned, spit on, followed around campus, harassed, have personal property vandalized. This is what campus life had been for the Young Republicans since the election.....BEFORE Milo was scheduled and after the burning of a campus building causing $100,000 damage. Actually, it had nothing to do with Milo. Milo just brought attention to what has been going on before most even heard the name Milo.

The point is if you say a word not critical of Trump from a fair observation or even utter a quasi kind word if Trump does something right, you are now the enemy, even if you are a Lib. Look at the vicious way they turned on Van Jones after Trumps address to Congress....and Van Jones is about as Left and Commie as they come, lol.

No more using your ability to reason or state the obvious. That is unacceptable and not an option. They are blinded by hate and demand that you or I hate Trump as well. Demand. They demand we see things exactly the skewed way they see thing...or else.

[Todd Juvinall]

Well well well, looks like the Vermonters have had enough of this Mayor. Berni Sanders better rethink his love of those Syrian refugees. The Mayor of Rutland lost his re-election to a "no Syrians" here guy. The losing Mayor was a proponent. Maybe even socialist Vermont gets it?

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2017/03/09/vermont-mayor-who-pushed-for-refugee-resettlement-defeated-in-reelection-effort-n2296545?utm_content=buffere23cd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[Bonnie McGuire]

Well now we know what our former street riot organizer President meant by his promise to "change" America. Riot and revolution! Division and war in America! It's been going on a long time using activists who (with gov) have been destroying businesses one by one.
But the funny irony is that former President Obama was awarded the Peace Prize shortly after his election.

[Account Deleted]

George at 2:53 - "I suppose there's a chance that our leftwingers will address the post's topic sooner or later. My money is on later."
Always the optimist. I admire that in you George.
I tend to be a realist. A happy warrior realist, but a realist non the lest.
My money's on never.
What would they say?

[Jerzy]

A great article. We have a similar situation in Poland but still probably to a slightly smaller extent. People who express any kind of support of the current ruling party are pushed to the margin and even further. To the dump, usually being offensively accussed of ignorance, mental disability and 'redneckism'. No real arguments given apart from 'freedom', 'progress' and 'equality'.