America’s Stupid Future
26th November 2011
The Other McCain is not afraid to ask the hard questions.
“Look deep into her eyes: Is she the stupidest person on Earth, or does she actually know what she’s advocating?” (The death toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution is estimated from 1.5 million to 20 million.)
Her name is Colleen. She’s a 20-year-old student from Vermont – 95% white, where the unemployment rate is a relatively low 5.6%.
She attends Johnson State College, where in-state tuition is a modest $8,568 a year. We may therefore dismiss as implausible any idea that Colleen is part of an oppressed group whose plight justifies “revolution,” cultural or otherwise. So why was she in Zuccotti Park last week? Dunno.
It’s the romanticization of victimhood. Liberalism teaches kids to identify so profoundly with “victims” that, no matter how comfortable or privileged their own circumstances may be, they have to protest on behalf of the downtrodden, the exploited, the oppressed. Otherwise, they feel inauthentic, full of guilt about being un-victimized.
We live in a country where the people who complain the loudest about oppression are not oppressed in any rational sense of the term. Coupled with the fashionable concern for ‘poor’ people (who aren’t really poor as the rest of the world understands the word) and ‘rich’ people (who mostly earned what they have and are still pilloried as blood-sucking parasites), there comes a time when one is forced to conclude that the inmates are in charge of the asylum, and the safest thing to do is find a convenient hiding place in which to wait for things to get better — if, indeed, they will get better.
November 26th, 2011 at 06:52
She actually knows what she is advocating. Every Hollywood actor and producer who made pilgrimage to Cuba; every writer and politician to kowtowed to Chavez; every playwright and reporter who praised Stalin; every student and Democrat who admires Mao, every single one knows what they are doing. They dream about it, wish it, will it, desire it, and unless checked will implement their schemes of mass murder.