Modern American Progressive activists tend to think of themselves as an avant-garde movement at the cutting edge of a new wave. In reality, they are practicing a time worn script seen repeatedly through the ages. The trend has reached a crescendo since the 2016 election.
Throughout history, extremists of every sort have convinced their followers, and perhaps themselves, that their actions were justified. Absolute monarchs subscribed to the belief that their power came from God. Nazis alleged that they were restoring Germany. Communists claim they represent “the people.” Theocrats insist they are the one true voice of a deity.
The excuses may differ, but the reality is the same; conform or be punished. The methods are also similar. Block dissenting voices, utilize or threaten violence against those with differing views. Any action, including mass murder, aggressive warfare, censorship, deception and violence, are, in their eyes, valid because the means, no matter how extreme, justify the ends.
Within the United States, there is a rapidly growing and deeply disturbing trend that mirrors the attitudes and actions of totalitarian movements. On college campuses, guest speakers not conforming to a hard-left perspective are kept away, through violence or the threat thereof; non-progressive professors are not hired; centrist or conservative students are intimidated or ostracized. The actions of the Berkley rioters are not functionally different from the time-dishonored precedent of their fascistic forebears of the 1930’s.
Dr. Laurie Patton, president of Middlebury College, writing in USA Today, describes a scenario that has become unfortunately typical:
“Students protested when [a non-leftist] speaker took the stage. They prevented him from speaking and went on to disrupt attempts to continue the program…when [the speaker and moderator] left the building, outsiders [and] students physically confronted them and surrounded their car. [The moderator] was injured…”
In contrast, leftists speakers utter extreme anti-centrist and anti-conservative positions with impunity. One example: New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand delivered a profanity-laced address at New York University’ recent commencement exercise aimed the current White House. She faced no disruption.
As these students graduate and should they eventually assume positions of authority, book burning and the imprisonment of dissenters will not be far behind.
You will not hear these concerns expressed in most news analyses.
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The co-opting of federal agencies for partisan purposes, such as that which occurred when the IRS was used to attack Tea Party groups in the prior Administration, mirrors methods used in totalitarian governments, such as the USSR, in which the Communist Party, not the actual government, held true power.
In American grammar and high schools, traditional fact-based education has been replaced by politically-oriented indoctrination. Radical-left texts are utilized not as alternative viewpoints but as standard guides. The New York Post recently noted that a Brooklyn middle school teacher assigned an anti-capitalist screed as a homework assignment. A Texas text book asked students to compare the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center to the Boston Tea Party.
Objective science takes a back seat to Progressive philosophical course work, particularly “sustainability.”
As with all totalitarian movements, Progressivism utilizes a kind of reverse phraseology. The “AntiFa” (anti-facist) movement is, at its core, fascistic, in both practice and philosophy.
The concept of preventing “offensive speech” is merely the latest excuse to suppress differing perspectives. Advocates of censoring so-called offensive speech should review history. Eliminating the absolute power of monarchs, establishing representative government, allowing religious freedom, ending slavery, giving equal rights to women, all were considered deeply offensive concepts to many when they were first proposed.
The tolerance by the left of dictatorial regimes is disturbing, but quite revealing. Obama’s opening of relations with oppressive Cuba was inappropriate; so, to, was the refusal to condemn and take forceful action against radical Islam, which endorses the death of nonbelievers. Support by many prominent progressives, both those elected to office and in the entertainment industry of the destruction of Venezuela by a dictatorial socialist regime is inexcusable. Kindred souls feel no need to criticize each other.
Since the election of Donald Trump, the advocacy of violence against the elected president has become epidemic—and increasingly acceptable on the left. Writing in the Federalist, Daniel Payne notes “…There is reason to be genuinely, authentically concerned with the direction in which the left is headed. To cope with the political defeats they suffered in 2016, liberals appear to be embracing and championing political violence.” This, also, resembles the actions of totalitarian movements across the ages.
Leftists have brought America to a precipice.