August 7, 2023

The hard left actually believes it reflects the opinions of all Democrats and indeed all liberals.  This is simply not true.  The hard left is in conflict with the majority of Americans, left, right or center.  Does Mayor Adams of NYC agree with the border policy of the present administration?  Does anyone living in the areas distressed by their policies?

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The hard left is a tiny minority, yet it yields amazing power, in the media, government, the courts, business, bureaucracies, and politics.  These self-proclaimed “elites” (hard left) are largely in control of what we see and hear.  Yes, they even call themselves “elite.”

As David Brooks of the New Your Times mentioned, liberal elites (of which he is admittedly one) are so sure of their superiority (to those of us who have not been trained by professors in superior hard-left schools) that they dismiss the rest of us, many of whom are smarter and more knowledgeable, as common rabble, barely deserving of any constitutional rights.

David refers to those of us who didn’t attend the superior colleges as “less educated.”  But to them, “education” has nothing to do with learning useful facts, but with philosophy — and philosophy alone.  His “educated class” in society considers less enlightened Americans of a different, lower class, regardless of education.  “It’s easy to understand why people in less-educated classes would conclude that they are under economic, political, cultural and moral assault — and why they’ve rallied around Trump as their best warrior against the educated class.”

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So if you are not a left-wing zealot, you were simply not properly educated?

If you see yourself as superior (“elite”), then by definition, you see others as inferior.  The problem (along with the fundamental misconception that they are superior) is that many on the hard left have lost their liberal foundation — being the champions of equal rights for all.  To paraphrase George Orwell, the hard left feel they are “more equal” than those of us who were not properly indoctrinated.

If you didn’t attend the right college, you are to be ignored, regardless of your degrees, knowledge, or intelligence — because hard-left superiority is a faith-based religion founded upon worshiping whoever is in the hard-left spotlight today.  I call it “Liberal Fundamentalism.” 

Liberal Fundamentalism changes daily.  You need to keep track of their current policies daily to maintain your philosophical superiority.

Yet he does acknowledge the problem that this causes:

Like all elites, we use language and mores as tools to recognize one another and exclude others. Using words like problematic, cisgender, Latinx and intersectional is a sure sign that you’ve got cultural capital coming out of your ears. Meanwhile, members of the less-educated classes have to walk on eggshells, because they never know when we’ve changed the usage rules, so that something that was sayable five years ago now gets you fired.