LIBERAL IDIOCY

CJ HOPKINS—The coming four years of recycled mass hysteria has already started. Jimmy “rest in peace wheezy” Kimmel is choking up on late-night television. Arnold “screw your freedom” Schwarzenegger has not been heard from and is probably in hiding. Some celebrity named Cardi B posted “I hate y’all bad” on the Instagram. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blamed the Blacks and Hispanics for betraying Kamala. Jason Stanley, the supercilious “fascism expert” who did that “Trump is Literally the Resurrection of Hitler” New York Times video back in 2018, has proclaimed this “The End of US Democracy,” again.

CHRIS HEDGES—Woke ideology is pervasive in liberal institutions, especially universities, but does it further and hamper the liberal values and inclusiveness it purports to advocate? It seeks to transform society through what Christian Parenti calls the moralizing micropolitics of politicized etiquette. It is fixated on the politics of language and symbols, the sins of cultural appropriation and misnaming and calls for centering historically oppressed groups. It advocates identity politics, prioritizing race, gender, indigeneity, sexual orientation, physical disability, mental health diagnoses, immigration status and socioeconomic status over political content. Woke discourse, Parenti writes, “is imbued with a therapeutic mentality expressed in safety-obsessed incantations about harm, trauma, healing, care and doing the work. Personal struggles take precedent over political struggles.

JIMMY DORE—A range of prominent commentators, business executives and celebrities including Dave Portnoy, hedge fund manager Eric Reiner, Ben Shapiro and Michael Rappaport chimed in to respond with apparent glee to the recent pager attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon. For individuals who express such concern over terrorism attacks that have killed and maimed Israelis, this giddiness represents a real surprise — or at least it would if they adopted a universal code of morality. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss these individuals’ love of Israel expressed through joy at the deaths of Lebanese children.

EDITORS—The team discusses Joe Biden’s disgusting career and legacy of racism and warmongering, not to mention shameless corruption. The media is clearly engaged in a rehabilitation job on this genocidal criminal, so it is necessary to expose Biden’s true public face. Ultimately, Biden simply represents the rot that characterizes the US party system, and in particular the Democrats, today’s war party. 

GARLAND NIXON—Using their immense media/cultural power, the liberal establishment in the US, Britain and other “developed countries” in the West, have redefined the meaning of “the Left”. The upshot is a huge cultural and political theft. The “left” nowadays does not resemble the real, historical, Marxist or even liberal left at all. Today’s fake left is packed with zealous warmongers, compulsive free speech witch-hunters, it hates socialism, despises trade unions, can’t tell what a man or a woman is, and embraces all the core tenets of libertarianism, a form of latter-day Calvinism on steroids. The upshot is the disaster we witness today: society is disintegrating, war—including nuclear war—looms in every corner, the culture is desiccated and mostly uncreative, controlled by Wall Street bean-counters; artists, instead of rebels are cowards, sellouts, and conformists; and the political class is rotten to the core.