How The Left Fucked Itself

Another day, another gruesome terrorist attack by the “Religion of Peace”.  "Naughty Lists" seem to be the hot new thing to do; see Amanda Carpenter and her McCarthy-esque “Trump Supporting Heathens to be Shunned From the Great GOP Cabal” list (now, rather passé) and, more recently, from The Buckley Club, this shit: https://archive.is/TkkAj - another list of "Conservative Traitors" to be admonished and shunned at a later date.  I find these compilations so fucking offensive and juvenile, I can't even articulate it.

In light of the soaring popularity of compiling Mean Girls-esque lists of traitors (read: people whose opinions simply differ from yours), it seems the time is ripe for another list; a list of excuses employed by the Apologist Left when the verboten idea arises that perhaps some incompatibility exists between radical Islam and what we typically refer to as Western culture.
“Racist!” - Islam isn’t a race, it’s a religious, fascist, misogynist, authoritarian dogma.
“Bigot!” - My opinion differs from yours where Islam is concerned.  You are intolerant to my opinion. Thus, you are the bigot. Concern or disagreement with an ideology is not bigotry. Rejecting out of hand the concerns of someone with an opinion differing from yours, however, is the literal definition of bigotry.

“America created ISIS!” - Unlike the Left, I will not immediately and completely reject the possibility that this premise has some measure of merit.  Criticism of a violent, archaic, barbaric philosophy is not an endorsement of faulty foreign policy.  The Middle East has been a quagmire for decades, and the reasons are plentiful, intermingled, and complex.  To attempt to summarize the overarching reason as “It’s America’s fault” is both nauseatingly disingenuous, intellectually dishonest and is a myopic simplification of a broad, multi-faceted issue.

“Not All Muslims!” - Agreed. Clearly, this problem isn’t laid at the feet of “All Muslims”, but it is interesting that while we’re sternly admonished and shamed by the underlying sentiment implicit in the “Not All Muslims” trope, there is a deafening silence where the “Not All” Muslims should be loudly and publicly stepping up to disavow and decry these horrific acts of senseless violence being perpetrated by “only a scant few” of them.

And yet? Nothing. Crickets.  Not a single Muslim leader ever makes a bold, public, unequivocal condemnation of the actions of “a few” “radicalized” Muslims.  World leaders appear on television within minutes after attacks like these are perpetrated, condemning them, insisting that somehow, sometime soon, we’ll finally eradicate these “few bad apples”.  Until the next time.

“We must take in refugees!  How can you be so hateful towards women and children?!?” - Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the Left desperately clings to the fantasy that all of the refugees are just poor, downtrodden, oppressed peace-loving souls who are desperate to escape the horrific hell-hole from whence they come, that they just want to come to America and live peacefully, and not a one could possibly harbor any radical, violent, hateful ideas or would ever harm America!  The left willfully ignores the terrible realities of life in once-peaceful European countries.  They deny the explosion in crime, rape, violence, intolerance that has come along with unchecked immigration of Muslims from ME countries.  They welcome these “refugees”, provide for them, feed them, house them, afford them the ability to live a free, peaceful, civilized life - to leave behind all of the horrors they once knew.

What is the reward for the magnanimity of western countries?  Suicide bombings, murder of innocent citizens, assaults, rapes, closed-off communities where Muslims live and replicate everything they purported to want to leave behind.  Worse still, the more base aspects of their oppressive ideology comes along as well.  Western women and children, who once enjoyed lives mostly devoid of the heinous crimes condoned and encouraged by adherents of Islam, now live in fear - in their OWN HOMES, their OWN countries, of acts of sexual and physical violence at the hands of barbaric animals unfit to live in Western society.  Sure, Not All.  We get it.  Not all.  But Not NONE, and even ONE is TOO MANY.

Being vilified and denigrated for a reticence or unwillingness to invite this kind of violence, this kind of intolerant, murderous, misogynist horror into our countries, our communities, our daily lives, is an affront to the most rudimentary logic, the most basic human instinct.  It is a dangerous instance of not only a willful ignorance and a myopic denial of harsh reality, but is an affront and insult to anyone with the most rudimentary critical thinking skills.
Funny how it’s so often younger, more affluent, “educated” Liberals who cling so vehemently to this insidiously naive notion that “everyone is, at their core, good and kind, and those who aren’t are just misunderstood, suffering the effects of oppression”.  This is the natural by-product of a generation or more of inculcation into the group-think which worships feelings over facts, denigrates any system that in any way encourages self-sufficiency or exceptionalism, and insists that everyone get a trophy just for showing up.  If there is no reward for excellence, no one will feel bad or inferior; and in time, no one with have any reason to strive for better, to achieve greater, to evolve beyond what is normal, average, acceptable.

We have a deep chasm of divide growing between the right and left, between conservative and liberal, here in the US.  The validity of any of the claims or beliefs on either side are loudly and viciously drowned out by the flames of hate being fanned by the media, by academia, by those with a vested interest in dividing and conquering us all.

It always comes back to the narrative - the pervasive message being played on loop so we’ll all fall in line and behave in accordance with whatever happens to serve the masters at any given time.  In recent years, we’ve seen the emergence and propagation of a staunch liberalism, or rather, a bastardization of what was once described as Liberalism.  As with the trajectory of feminism over the last 3 or 4 decades (the metamorphoses from classical feminist thought to the ugly hydra of “3rd wave” feminism we see today), Liberalism has evolved from a system espousing values of liberty and equality, to that of a Frankenstinian, cancerous pandemic of rigid conformity of thought, stiff penalties for any variance from the acceptable patterns or thought or action, and an abject fear and loathing of anything external that in any way challenges or worse, contradicts the mandatory group-think.  Should you dare to hold an opinion contrary in any way to the collective, you are punished without trial, afforded no opportunity to defend yourself nor to clarify your position.  You are mocked, vilified, marginalized, and shunned, as you would be for similar infractions in other closed societies like the Amish, or Scientology or Amway.  The penalty for violation of the warm, safe security of the hug-box echo chamber is figurative death.  You are rejected, cast out, abandoned, left to survive in a strange, foreign violent world where you no longer enjoy insulation from the terrifying and harsh realities of the real world.

Following each of the terrorist attacks, attacks happening with a growingly alarming frequency, despite the protestations of the apologists; like clockwork, Facebook profile pics are changed to graphics of flags, iterations of solidarity, prayers, prayers and more prayers.  Thoughts and prayers crowd the ether like locusts, hugs and feels and calls for peace and love and unity echo through the land; until concerns begin to be raised, the issue presented for discussion.  And then comes the insulting, vilifying, marginalizing backlash from the Left, accusations of bigotry, racism, intolerance - all because someone dared to allude to the possibility of a problem with Islam.

"People on the right are angry!  They’ve violent!  They’re intolerant, awful, terrible people who should die in a fire!!"  That’s the never-ending narrative put forth by the Left where the Right is regarded.  The so-called party of tolerance and acceptance is anything but; it is a lie, a farce, a dangerous ideology unto itself, masquerading as some special, safe, inclusive club that cares not about race, creed, color, gender.  The reality is starkly different.