Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the progressives have a crisis of victory, that has led them to insanity. A crisis of victory you ask? Why yes, a crisis of victory, in that all the major advances desired by the oppressed for centuries, has been to close the gap between the lifestyle of the king and the peasant. Today the lowly plebeian has sanitary conditions, in the West at least, that far surpass that of a nineteenth century king, and the difference between a king today, and a serf, in sanitary conditions, availability of food and medicine, is negligible. While a king can have dozens of expensive cars, a working person can only afford one or two cars, which is no where near as large a gap as not having toilets, food and medicine. The progressives/liberals have achieved everything their forefathers could have imagined… so, crisis.
What do you fight for… once you have won? Especially if you are not interested in going home? The fun is in crushing the opponent. You find some other downtrodden to fight for. Heck, a real psychopath might even create a hierarchy of oppressed people, classify them and rank them according to their level of past oppression. That way they can fight forever. Today’s oppressed will be tomorrows oppressor, changing their ranking on the order of oppressed and oppressor, leading inevitably to their oppression. The only ones above oppression, forever the oppressors, will be the Warriors. They could even call themselves something ironic, social justice warriors, for example. If the goal is the fight, not an improvement in the lot of Man, that would probably be what someone bereft of morality would do.
Each victory leading to an ever more absurd cause to take up. Of course, each victory leads to the need to befriend a new oppressed people. At least Marx took up the mantle of the worker, the shoe leather of all economies, while today’s progressive has been reduced to taking up the cause of people… who like to sexually abuse children, dismember the unborn and manipulate children into self harm. One can only wonder what cause they will take up next, Satan worshipers, human sacrifice and cannibalism? To mimic Mark Dice, oh wait, what’s this? The progressives have forced a statue of the Devil onto the Arkansas capital, and people actually identifying as Satan worshipers have filed suit in Texas against pro life legislation, because it disturbs their “rite” of abortion… making it human sacrifice.
Today they have become so absurd they threaten the very advances in sanitation, nutrition and medicine that we already have. While claiming abortion is between a doctor and their patient, the same people have jailed a doctor, for refusing to do an abortion, have imposed restrictions on how doctors can treat Covid, and in the Obama care act, they demand doctors turn in patients if they hear their patients have a gun in the house. Talk about abusing the doctor patient relationship! In their tilting against the windmill of climate change, they are willing to return us to an earlier time, when heat, food, transportation and medicine was intermittent, if available at all. Sixty years ago, a rolling blackout in California during the summer would have been an outrage, today it is common.
God bless them, the world needs those who would fight for the downtrodden, but when fighting for the “downtrodden” creates far more downtrodden, then perhaps it is time to reassess. There are those who seek to fight for the oppressed, if they can’t find any, by Geoffrey they will make some. The problem with that strategy, as I have pointed out, is that it leads to the destruction of society, democracy and humanity… to save them. This is a crisis of victory. The progressives need to reassess their means and goals. They are reasonable people, in their own minds, talk to a progressive, try to stand the arrogant abuse and lack of self awareness, to endeavor, lovingly and caringly, to get through. Lets help them see what they are doing… obliterating everything they hold dear, to keep up a fight they won long ago.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
