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2/7/14, "Hate is the Force that Gives the Left Meaning," Daniel Greenfield, Canada Free Press
"The American left has never had it this good. It has never had two terms
of an unabashed and uncompromising leftist in the White House dedicated
to its agenda functioning as a dictator without the military uniform,
making and unmaking laws at a whim, siccing the IRS and Federal
prosecutors on political enemies and transforming the country at a
breathtaking pace.
Obama is what generations of the left have dreamed of and worked
toward. This is the flicker of hope they kept alive after JFK’s
assassination, the Nixon years, Carter’s collapse and the long stretch
of Reaganomics. This is what Bill Clinton robbed them of prematurely by
gauging his actions against the polls instead of blasting full steam
ahead regardless of what the public wanted.
The left finally has its Un-American tyranny. So why is it so angry?
Watch MSNBC or browse any left-wing site and you see a level of anger
that would make you think that Al Gore had just conceded or Nixon had
just won reelection. There’s more anger in the privileged circles of the
left than in the political rearguard of the Tea Party.
That anger trickles from the top down. Obama’s interview with Bill
O’Reilly was yet another opportunity for the most powerful man in the
country to blame a vast right wing conspiracy. A day doesn’t pass
without another email from Obama, his wife, Sandra Fluke or Joe Biden
warning that without another five or ten dollar contribution, the
“right” will take over America.
The left has unchallenged control over the government, academia and
the entertainment industry and yet it talks as if the country is 5
seconds away from Sarah Palin marching into Washington D.C. at the head
of an army of Duck Dynasty fans to outlaw abortion.
The apocalyptic political paranoia and the uncontrolled outbursts of
rage haven’t changed much since 2003. Ten years later, the ideologues in
power still act as if George W. Bush is serving out his fourth term.
Every day on MSNBC, a stew of conspiracy theories about oil companies,
Israel, the Koch Brothers, Wal-Mart and Karl Rove leaves a slimy trail
across the television screen.
On the internet, manufactured outrage has become the only progressive
stock in trade. Did Jerry Seinfeld say that he values humor over racial
quotas? He’s a racist. Did an ESPN magazine out a compulsive liar who
also happened to be pretending to be a woman? Lock him up. Did Mike
Huckabee say something that could be misinterpreted with enough ellipses
and out of context “Twitterized” quotes? Before you know it, he’s a
sexist pig.
Pageviews are the obvious profit motive behind all this and yet it
says something deeply disturbing about a progressive readership that
eats up hate and doesn’t react to anything positive. The rash of fake
hate crimes feeds into that same perverse need for an enemy to hate and
fight. The left used to pretend that it wanted to do something positive.
But now that it has the power, it can’t stop searching for someone to
hate instead.
The left is more comfortable being angry than being anything else; it
finds it easier to rally the troops against something than for
something so that even its triumphs only lead to more anger. The MSNBC
tweet about an interracial Cheerios commercial was revealing of a deeper
problem within the left. It was assumed that the MSNBC audience
wouldn’t care about an interracial ad unless it could somehow pretend to
“spite” the right by watching it.
Obama’s awkward stumble from cause to cause, letting the old Bush
policies run on Autoplay unless a crusade kicks in, as it eventually did
on gay marriage and illegal immigration, is indicative of the problem
with the left’s governing style. As with an interracial Cheerios
commercial, it cares less about gay marriage or legalizing illegal
aliens than it does about stirring up conflict.
Like an overgrown teenager for whom music or clothes aren’t about
enjoying life or expressing an identity, but about upsetting and
offending his or her parents, the left needs the negative validation of
the right to be secure in its bad choices. Without that negative
feedback to affirm its rebellion, its pet causes no longer seem all that
compelling or meaningful.
That is another reason why the left began neglecting some of its
bread and butter issues after Obama won. Aside from the need to protect
its own man, it wasn’t really all that interested in closing Gitmo, gay
marriage or opposing the War in Iraq. The things it wants to do are
never as important to it as its obsessive need to feel that it is
fighting against the right.
For all the Obama Worship, the left is more united by hatred for
Sarah Palin or Ted Cruz or any other conservative villain of the month
than by its support for its own leaders. It derives its identity more
from the things that it is against, the middle class, the country, the
businessman, the white male, than from the things that it is for.
The left’s sense of self is strongest when it is attacking, not when
it is inspiring, when it is destroying, not when it is building.
Deprived of an external enemy, its ideologues carve out narrow
orthodoxies and denounce each other for violating them. When the right
and the center have been purged, the purges of the left begin and don’t
end until there is nothing left except one tyrant-guru and his terrified
minions. Or until some outside force throws a pot of cold water on the
quarreling and shrieking acolytes brawling over minor points of
doctrine.
The small scale bloodsport documented in the outward reaches of
feminism by The Nation in its article “Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars” as
transgender rights activists denounce Eve Ensler for excluding them by
using the word “Vagina” and black feminists denounce white feminists for
ignoring their concerns. This is what the left begins doing when it has
free time on its hands. It doesn’t stop fighting. Instead its wars
become pettier power struggles over points of doctrine.
When all enemies to the right have been eliminated, the left doesn’t
find peace. Its ideology is a weapon, its gurus are egomaniacs and its
followers joined to fight. When it wins in an arena, whether it’s
academia or entertainment, the winners begins warring against each other
proving that even in an ideological vacuum, its ideology remains a
destructive force whose followers would rather denounce and destroy,
than educate and enlighten.
As a victorious parasite writes its own obituary, a successful left
is a threat to its own existence and the only thing saving the left from
the violent disintegration into its own insanity is the right.
Hating the right is the only thing that keeps the left together. When
it doesn’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, it dissolves into a wet
puddle of goo. If it didn’t have Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney and
every other figure who took his turn starring in their grim theater of
the Two Minutes Hate, it would revert back to the petty infighting of a
thousand minor eccentric causes.
The left needs to believe in a vast right-wing conspiracy. It needs the
Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, Evangelical Christians, AIPAC, oil companies,
defense contractors and every other element of its conspiracy theories
to keep its gurus and followers focused on the “real” threat instead of
purging each other for tone policing, insufficient privilege checking
and any other outrage of the week.
Like the Salafists shooting and shelling each other in Syria, the
ranks of the left are filled with dogmatic and intolerant fanatics whose
only goal in life is the absolute victory of their point of view. Their
mutual fanaticism and aggrieved sense of victimhood gives them more in
common with each other and that very commonality is the source of their
mutual hatred. Only they can understand each other well enough to truly
want to kill each other as no outsider possibly can.
Hate is the force that gives the left meaning. It isn’t hope that
animates its leaders and thinkers, but the darker side of human nature
that calls on them to destroy and to kill. That dark side is why the
left’s victories end in tragedies, why the red flags are painted with
blood and when its followers have run out of enemies to kill, they turn
on each other and destroy their own movements with firing squads, gulags
and guillotines.
The left finds its identity not in its utopian visions, but in the
things and people it wishes to destroy.
Only by knowing what they hate,
do its followers know who they are." via Lucianne
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