The fascist Left regularly typifies the very qualities it professes to abhor. The only thing more pronounced than its totalitarianism is its stunning lack of self-awareness.
It&#8217;s ironic that leftists think of themselves as liberals, as the term &#8220;liberal&#8221; is historically and etymologically connected to the concept of liberty. Not only are they merely selective champions of liberty but the logical extension of their agenda is an eradication of liberty, from socialism to Supreme Court legislation, from radical redistributions of income to oppressive pseudo-environmental regulations.
What do I mean by &#8220;selective champions of liberty&#8221;? Simply that they believe conservative ideas are so odious they must be excluded from the classroom; social media; university student organizations; and, in too many cases, restaurants, yard signs and baseball caps.
Try teaching intelligent design in many public schools. In the name of science, they&#8217;ll exclude ID&#8217;s scientific findings. They believe that conservatives and their ideas are inherently racist and sexist and, in many cases, lead to violence, which means conservatives are not entitled to First Amendment protection or free expression on social media. It&#8217;s scary how these leftists have blinded themselves to their own hypocrisy and fascism in trampling the same rights they purport to celebrate.
Invisible authoritarians running social media platforms cite arbitrary rules of conduct that conveniently censor conservative opinion to allegedly ensure decency and decorum. Yet the opinions they muzzle are only dangerous and indecent if you define danger as the free expression of opposing views. While prohibiting conservative views that don&#8217;t remotely advocate violence, they permit overt leftist calls for violence. The chilling process by which this &#8220;private&#8221; and sometimes-government-supported censorship occurs is that leftists subjectively determine conservative speech is offensive or hateful and must be banned.
The First Amendment free-speech guarantees were designed precisely to protect controversial political speech, as uncontroversial expression obviously needs no protection. In the not-too-distant past, liberals understood that protecting the expression of all ideas was the essence of liberty. Yesterday&#8217;s American Civil Liberties Union defended the rights of neo-Nazis to march through Skokie, Illinois, in 1978.
Examples of the tyrannical leftist mindset abound. Nicholas Sandmann&#8217;s admission to Transylvania University in Kentucky incensed certain leftists. They clearly loathe Sandmann, who was brutally slandered by CNN and other leftists when activists accosted him for simply wearing a MAGA hat and standing for the pro-life cause.
&#8220;Does anyone else think it&#8217;s a bit of a stain on Transylvania University for accepting Nick Sandmann? I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a &#8216;both sides&#8217; defense, but it&#8217;s pretty counter to their mission and another instance of there not being equal sides to an issue,&#8221; wrote ACLU staffer Samuel Crankshaw on Facebook. &#8220;This kid clearly is a provocateur in training with no intention of learning. He exists only to troll, intimidate and play victim.&#8221;
&#8220;Counter to their mission&#8221;? What mission would that be: the promulgation of leftist propaganda and the suppression of opposing ideas? Note Crankshaw&#8217;s revealing admission that he doesn&#8217;t believe there are even two sides to the Sandmann controversy. This is more remarkable considering that the media&#8217;s original reporting of this event was debunked at the time and then more resoundingly discredited when Sandmann settled a major defamation suit against CNN and others.
Despite Sandmann&#8217;s vindication, this ranting ACLU ideologue can&#8217;t even acknowledge that Sandmann had a legitimate position. And without knowing Sandmann personally, Crankshaw presumes he has no intention of learning — leftist open-mindedness on parade.
Crankshaw isn&#8217;t alone. Transylvania University professor Avery Tompkins, who paradoxically identifies as a &#8220;diversity scholar,&#8221; went further. &#8220;If (Sandmann) were to cause problems by being disruptive, trolling, or engaging in unethical behavior of any kind, I would immediately document it &#8230; and he would just be putting himself in a position for me to file a conduct report,&#8221; commented Tompkins on Crankshaw&#8217;s Facebook page.
This unmistakably reads like a threat against Sandmann should he express his views. If that weren&#8217;t sickening enough, Tompkins&#8217; claims are preposterous. Sandmann wasn&#8217;t disruptive at the pro-life march. He trolled no one; a Native American man approached and taunted him, obnoxiously banging a drum in his face. Nor did Sandmann behave unethically, unless, perhaps, you believe that gathering in support of innocent unborn babies is unethical.
Tompkins&#8217; thinking is disturbing (though I would still defend his freedom to express this stupidity), as is his attempted intimidation of a student entering his university. It&#8217;s rich that on the university website, Tompkins is quoted as saying: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be the authoritative person in the classroom. &#8230; The classes are there for the students. It&#8217;s not my soapbox.&#8221; Hmm. Could have fooled this casual observer.
Tompkins&#8217; later apology in which he paid lip service to &#8220;diversity&#8221; is laughable. He is an adult with fully formed ideas, and a poster child for illustrating that the Left’s idea of &#8220;diversity&#8221; means anything but ideological diversity.
Another example involved leftist University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis, who defended an anarchist&#8217;s murder of Trump supporter Aaron Danielson in Portland. &#8220;He killed a fascist,&#8221; Loomis said. &#8220;I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective.&#8221; This abomination speaks for itself.
Before you call this an extreme example, note that this kind of thinking drives the widespread leftist violence throughout American cities that was enabled by Democratic governors and mayors.
I wouldn&#8217;t be so alarmed about any of this if the Left weren&#8217;t promising to ratchet up its violence if President Donald Trump is reelected. If you doubt this, you&#8217;re not paying attention, and as young people say, &#8220;That&#8217;s on you.&#8221; Prayers and more prayers for this great nation.
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All of my life, I have said that the Left’s moral compass is broken.
And all of my life, I was wrong.
Why I was wrong explains both the Left and the moral crisis we are in better than almost any other explanation.
I was wrong because in order to have a broken moral compass, you need to have a moral compass to begin with. But the Left doesn&#8217;t have one.
This is not meant as an attack. It is a description of reality. The Left regularly acknowledges that it doesn&#8217;t think in terms of good and evil. Most of us are so used to thinking in those terms — what we call &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; — that it is very difficult for us to divide the world in any other way.
But since Karl Marx, the Left (not liberalism; the two are different) has always divided the world, and, therefore, human actions, in ways other than good and evil. The Left, in Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s famous words, has always operated &#8220;beyond good and evil.&#8221;
It all began with Marx, who divided the world by economic class — worker and owner or exploited and exploiter. To Marx and to Marxism, there is no such thing as a good or an evil that transcends class. Good is defined as what is good for the working class; evil is what is bad for the working class.
Therefore, to Marxists, there is no such thing as a universal good or a universal evil. Those of us still in thrall to Judeo-Christian morality believe that good and evil are universal. In other words, whether an act is good or evil has nothing to do with who committed the act — rich or poor, male or female, religious or secular, member of one&#8217;s nation or of another nation. Stealing and murder are morally wrong, no matter who stole or who murdered.
That is not the case for Marx and the Left. In Marx&#8217;s words in &#8220;Capital&#8221; (&#8220;Das Kapital&#8221;):
&#8220;Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and the cultural development thereby determined. We therefore reject every attempt to impose on us any moral dogma whatsoever as an eternal, ultimate and forever immutable moral law.&#8221;
Fifty-three years later, Marx&#8217;s foremost disciple, Vladimir Lenin, architect of the Russian Revolution, proclaimed:
&#8220;We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat. &#8230; We do not believe in an eternal morality. &#8230; We repudiate all morality derived from non-human (i.e., God) and non-class concepts&#8221; (Address to the Third Congress of the Russian Young Communist League, Oct. 2, 1920).
As professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith, director of Harvard University&#8217;s Center for the Study of World Religions, wrote in 1957: &#8220;For Marxism there is no reason (literally no reason: our universe, the movement posits, is the kind of universe where there cannot conceivably be any reason) for not killing or torturing or exploiting a human person if his liquidation or torture or slave labor will advance the historical process.&#8221;
This is how Marx&#8217;s ideological heirs, today&#8217;s leftists, view the world — with one important difference: Morality is not determined only by class, but by race, power and sex as well.
RACE
It is left-wing dogma that a black person cannot be a racist. Only whites can be racist. And, indeed, all whites are racist.
It is increasingly a left-wing position that when blacks loot, they are only taking what they deserve, or, as the looters often put it, looted goods are &#8220;reparations.&#8221; A Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago, Ariel Atkins, recently put it this way:
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy&#8217;s or a Nike store because that makes sure that person eats. That makes sure that person has clothes. That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance&#8221; (Chicago Tribune, Aug. 17, 2020).
POWER
Another nonmoral left-wing compass concerns power. Just as right and wrong are determined by class (worker and owner/rich and poor) and race (white and people of color), good and evil are also determined by power (the strong and the weak).
That explains much of the Left’s hatred for two countries in particular — America and Israel. America is wrong when it does almost anything in the world that involves weaker countries — assassinates the most important Iranian terrorist, builds a wall between itself and Mexico, opposes unlimited immigration. It is wrong because it is much stronger than those other countries.
The Left’s antipathy to Israel derives from both the power compass and the race compass. Because Israel is so much stronger than the Palestinians and because Israelis are classified as white (despite the fact that more than half of all Israelis are not white), the Left deems Israel wrong. So, when Israel justifiably attacks Gaza for raining rockets over Israel, the world&#8217;s Left vehemently attacks Israel — because it is so much stronger than the people of Gaza and because whites have attacked people of color.
SEX
When a woman accuses a man of sexually harassing or raping her, the Left’s reaction is not, &#8220;Let us try to determine the truth as best we can.&#8221; It is, &#8220;Believe women.&#8221; One must automatically &#8220;believe women&#8221; because, on the Left, it is not only morality that doesn&#8217;t transcend race, power, class or sex; truth doesn&#8217;t either. That&#8217;s why leftists protest and riot whenever a confrontation between a police officer and a black person ends with the death of an unarmed black person. The police officer is automatically racist, and the death is automatically deemed murder. On the Left, the concept of objective truth is increasingly deemed a form of white supremacy.
So, then, it turns out I was mistaken all my life. The Left’s moral compass is not broken. The Left simply rejects such a compass.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: The Left’s Moral Compass Isn’t Broken …

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Two Seattle-area schools have utilized materials for second-graders that endorsed anti-police or leftist narratives. The seven-year-olds were offered curricula that included a video in which a black man is shot by police, triggering the comments, “The cops shot him because he was Black” and “It was a mistake that is part of a pattern.” Other curricula pushed leftist activism, including mantras such as “take a knee” and “white silence=violence.”
As Jason Rantz reports at <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/2163901/rantz-washington-schools-pushing-anti-police-curriculum-second-graders/">MyNorthwest.com</a>, a second grade teacher at Grove Elementary in Marysville posted a video to the school’s online system titled “Animation Series: Something Happened In Our Town.” The video revolved around a young white girl and young black boy’s perspectives of a white officer shooting a black man.
“When the white girl asks why police shot the man, she’s told by her sister, ‘The cops shot him because he was Black.’ The girl’s mom says it was a mistake to shoot the man, noting that, ‘It was a mistake that is part of a pattern’ where white people are treated well, but not Black people,” Rantz noted.
In the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOhOFGcWm8&amp;feature=emb_logo">video</a> (below), Rantz continued, the black boy’s father tells his son the officer “won’t go to jail.” The boy’s brother says, “Cops stick up for each other. And they don’t like Black men.”
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Jodi Runyon, the school’s Director of Communications, Engagement, and Outreach, emailed Rantz, saying that the issue “was successfully addressed at the school level,” adding later that the video was supposed to be “an optional resource to build understanding in challenging times” and was removed after parents objected.
At Gig Harbor’s Discovery Elementary school in the Peninsula School District, some resources were posted online for the students’ virtual classroom in a section titled “Black Lives Matter Instructional Library.” One book was titled “A is for Activist,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5Z03fVol0&amp;feature=youtu.be">read</a> by Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello (below).
Rantz reported:
<blockquote>The book instructs students that “environmental justice is the way!,” celebrates May Day demonstrations, teaches students to demand “no justice, no peace” and “no war,” and asks students, “Are you an activist?” It also encourages students to “Agitate! Organize!” and promotes “Workers rights!” and “Union. Union yes!!” The story ends by promoting Zapatista, a far-left socialist political and militant group.</blockquote>
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A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML0RhMi8ksY">video</a> titled “Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights” (below), featured former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as students were urged to “take a knee,” organize a union and “strike.” The school had suggestions for various other resources, including The Woke Kindergarten YouTube host Ki, who on one page published a photo promoting “Police-Free Schools.”
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The school’s communications director replied to Rantz by stating, “We don’t have a comment for you on this topic.”
In early August, <a href="https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2020/09/how-can-seattle-schools-work-toward-racial-equity">SeattleMet</a> conducted a group chat revolving around &#8220;How the city’s schools can work toward creating just learning environments for students of color.&#8221; Erin Okuno, executive director, Southeast Seattle Education Coalition, stated:
<blockquote>In the work that we do at SESEC, we are very explicit about talking about racial equity. Because right now, if we don’t talk about race, and we don’t center racial equity, the conversation devolves into other things like gender equity, gender equality. Or, it becomes a class conversation which, when you start to talk about that, you don’t talk about race in America. So SESEC is very explicit about saying, &#8220;Right now we have to focus on racial equity.&#8221; If you come to our conversations or anything, we make sure we center communities of color first.</blockquote>
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As long ago as the 1970s, I came to a major realization. While watching fellow students at Columbia University demonstrate not just against the war in Vietnam but against America — &#8220;Amerika,&#8221; as many spelled it, the &#8220;imperialist,&#8221; &#8220;colonialist,&#8221; &#8220;mass-murdering&#8221; country — I kept wondering what made these people so hostile to the freest country in human history.
Then, one day, as a result of my having attended a yeshiva (an Orthodox Jewish day school) through high school, the reason became clear. Half of each school day was devoted to religious studies in Hebrew, and the other half was devoted to secular studies in English. This meant that I had been immersed in a religious worldview until college.
Though it was Jewish, this worldview could also be called &#8220;Judeo-Christian.&#8221; Students at traditionally Christian schools were immersed in essentially the same worldview. We were all taught that the most important battle we need to wage in life was with our own nature. Jews and Christians learned from the same Scripture that &#8220;the will of man&#8217;s heart is evil from his youth&#8221; (Genesis 8:21).
Therefore, being a good person involved a constant battle with our flawed human nature: our urges, appetites and innate weaknesses. This battle was also the only real route to a better world. Every individual had to work on him or herself to be decent, strong, courageous and self-controlled, and every parent had to work, first and foremost, on raising such people.
One day, I came to realize that this was not how the vast majority of my fellow students were raised. They were raised to believe that the great battle in life was not with one&#8217;s nature but with outside forces — with parents, in many cases, but most of all with society, i.e., America.
All of us, whatever our political outlook, have to confront personal failure, loss, disappointment and unhappiness. When confronted with these challenges, religious Jews and Christians are taught to look inward for both the primary source of their problems and the primary solutions to those problems: What have I done wrong? What can I change in my life to solve my problems?
Of course, some nonreligious liberals and conservatives also have this attitude. But most of them likely inherited it from religious parents or, at the very least, from parents who were raised in a religious home or a home that retained the remnants of such an upbringing, which was common in pre-1960s America. (It is therefore questionable how many secular parents will succeed in passing this attitude on to their children.)
The Left, which proudly rejects Judeo-Christian values, has adopted the opposite of the Judeo-Christian view regarding pain in life. Leftists (as opposed to liberals) hold outside forces responsible for their pain. That is the reason for the litany of left-wing enemies: capitalism, patriarchy, misogyny, systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, sexism, xenophobia.
So, then, if you are an unhappy American woman, you can work on yourself and your nature, or you can blame sexism and patriarchy, i.e., men, for your pained state.
If you are an unhappy gay American, you can work on yourself, or you can blame society&#8217;s homophobia for your unhappiness.
And, most significantly, if you are an unhappy black American, you can work on yourself and your life, or you can blame systemic racism and whites for your anger and unfulfilled life.
All this explains why the Left encourages every group except for white, Christian, heterosexual males to regard themselves as oppressed. The more oppressed women, gays, blacks, etc., see themselves, the more they are alienated from America and its values, and the more they gravitate Left. In light of this, I came up with a riddle:
Q: What do you call a happy black person?
A: A Republican.
Without an exception I can recall, over the course of decades, I have guessed the political affiliation of every black caller to my radio show within a minute of talking to them. If they sounded happy, I knew they were a Republican; if they were angry, I knew they were a Democrat. This has held true for male and female callers.
America has been a great country because it was built on the belief that we must all fight against our natures (and fight for our country). It is difficult to overstate the damage the Left is doing to this country by abandoning the fundamental Judeo-Christian teaching that we must fight our natures in order to lead a more decent and happy life and replacing it with the belief that we must battle America instead. This replacement inevitably leads to a population of unhappy, ungrateful and mean-spirited human beings — precisely the type of individuals you see rioting and looting, the type of elected officials who do nothing to stop rioters and looters, the columnists and academics who devote their lives to spewing hate-filled lies about America, and the Twitter mobs who comprise the toxic cancel culture.
It will lead to what the Left acknowledges it seeks: the end of America as we have known it.
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It wasn’t September 11, 2001, that made me a political conservative—a believer, I mean, in the intentions and philosophy of the American founding. I had already seen into the lie of leftism by the time the Islamic terrorists hijacked our jets and attacked. But the reaction of our cultural elite to those acts of mass murder convinced me I could not keep my conservatism silent.
I had been living out of the country for years before that. I had not fully realized how drastically wrong our culture had gone. The first shock of realization came from comedian David Letterman, then the host of “The Late Show” on CBS. As I recall it, Letterman took a few days off after the atrocity. When he returned, he spoke about trying to come to terms with what had happened.
It was either then or soon after that he asked a question that would become common among left-leaning celebrities, academics, and commentators: Why do they hate us?
And I immediately thought: Who cares? The version of Islam that drove those butchers to action was a low, ugly, stupid, and wicked creed centered on an oppressive god who was not God. Asking why those skeevy creeps hated a free Judeo-Christian nation like the United States was like asking why Hitler or Stalin hated us. They hated us because their life philosophy had turned them into hateful little sidewalk stains worthy only to be scraped off the soles of our shoes.
That is what bad ideas do to you. They’re like roads leading into the dark: once you accept their premises and start walking, you will end up in a land of midnight evil.
This is where our national conversation—if you can flatter the current idiotic screamfest with such a name—so often goes off the rails. We’re so busy tweeting gotchas at each other’s human failings that we don’t argue the real issues: ideas. Ideas and the policies that ideas produce.
Marxism is not a bad idea because Bernie Sanders is evil, but Bernie Sanders, given the chance, will do evil because Marxism is a bad idea. It operates on the same principle as slavery: you do the work, little man, and we in the big house will decide how to spend the fruits of your labor. Critical Race Theory is not a bad idea because Black Lives Matter protestors are violent. Those thugs are violent because they are in thrall to a bad idea. Critical Race Theory is racism. That’s everything it is.
Multiculturalism is a bad idea too. It is a product of moral relativism, which is even worse. Of course some cultures are better than others. The freer they are, the more tolerant they are, the more structured around sound moral principles they are, the better they are. To make excuses for lesser cultures is to patronize wickedness. No one says, “Oh, the pre-war American South should not be judged for keeping slaves. That was their culture!” Why then would anyone say that Islamic nations should not be judged for oppressing women or making war on unbelievers?
And again, it is not the flaws of a people that should be our central concern. The stock phrase “we aren’t perfect,” is a waste of breath. Nothing on earth is perfect. The point is: Our ideas are good. They are better than anyone’s. And some of them are better than anyone will ever have. The idea of individual liberty (because there is no other kind of human liberty), the idea of government in service to that liberty, the idea of equality before the law—these are pinnacles of human thought. There is no progress from them. Once you leave a pinnacle, you’re headed down. There is only progress toward these ideas. You behave more in keeping with them or less. That’s it.
For a few days after 9-11, we understood all this. We bought flags. We remembered what we stood for. We knew that evil exists and can be embodied in the actions of human beings. We saw clearly that, despite our flaws, our ideas are right and the ideas of the Islamists are wrong.
Those days are over now. Our late night hosts are all Lettermans. Our journalists are corrupted by leftism. Leftism has turned too many of our academics into intellectual buffoons. The Marxists, the racists, the multiculturalists, and the relativists are setting our cities on fire, and our sports teams and our businessmen and even some within our various governments are bending the knee to their bad ideas.
We say “Never forget,” but too late, we’ve forgotten. The lessons of 9-11 are lost. We need to remember what, for a few moments on that day, we knew.
We need to buy more flags.
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In his new book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FP4MP1K?pf_rd_r=Q9017A2AN5PZMRPCXC1R&amp;pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Woke Supremacy</a>,&#8221; author Evan Sayet exposes the totalitarianism that drives the modern Left, laying bare the intellectually vacuous ideology that drives them to seek the Kingdom of Heaven on earth no matter the cost.
According to Sayet, the foundation of &#8220;wokeness&#8221; is utopia: an imaginary world that every socialist philosopher, dictator, and artist has dreamed of since the Communist Manifesto. He singles out John Lennon&#8217;s 1971 song &#8220;Imagine&#8221; as the anthem of a generation that disregarded standards of morality to implement what they believe is the &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/True-Only-Heaven-Progress-Critics/dp/0393307956/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+true+and+only+heaven&amp;qid=1599338417&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">true and only heaven</a>,&#8221; in the words of historian and social critic Christopher Lasch.
Sayet maintains that the Baby Boomer generation, offered unprecedented peace and prosperity because of their parents&#8217; sacrifices, exhibited and glorified the sort of narcissistic infantilism that Sayet traces to 18th-century Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his idea of the &#8220;noble savage.&#8221; Rousseau&#8217;s thought repudiated Christianity&#8217;s doctrine of original sin to posit that man is born morally perfect but corrupted by his own institutions.
The fruit of Rousseau&#8217;s thought has manifested, Sayet argues, with the 20th century&#8217;s dueling philosophies of nationalism and socialism. After World War II leveled Nazi Germany, he says, the world was left with the communist Soviet Union&#8217;s globalist ambitions and the competing nationalist ideals of the United States, which maintained enormous power but didn&#8217;t seek conquest.
The remnants of the Soviet mind nevertheless continue among those who seek to establish their power globally, Sayet maintains, and such ambitions manifest most plainly in the behavior of the Left, which sees the State as a god. In their pursuit of a heavenly kingdom, he says, the woke are willing to disregard traditional standards of morality to achieve their destined aim of absolute power.
The woke&#8217;s new morality, Sayet explains, is an illogical self-contradiction. They value indiscriminateness above all else, while discriminating against those who fail to exhibit it. The highest good, according to the woke, is the maintenance of their own power. They resort to the nihilistic destruction of truth and words to assert their supremacy.
&#8220;The nationalism of people like President Donald Trump is a hitch in the globalist agenda,&#8221; Sayet writes, because it affirms the national division that has been in place since the Tower of Babel. Nationalism, though demonized, &#8220;is the only real-world bulwark against the crimes and atrocities that the Socialist system requires and – no matter the many and varied ideologies that have embraced it – it has never yet once failed to bring.&#8221;
Nationalism has proved itself to be the only thing that stands between freedom and the horrors of socialism, Sayet argues. The globalist, authoritarian, and totalitarian practices required to bring about the things socialists promise render the present culture war as &#8220;just the latest, and perhaps last, battle in the war between two diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive systems of governance.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/limbaugh-exposing-the-fraud-of-socialism" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LIMBAUGH: Exposing The Fraud Of Socialism</a>
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‘The Woke Supremacy’: Evan Sayet Lays Bare The Totalitarianism Of The Left

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Democratic St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson has temporarily relocated after far-left demonstrators repeatedly came to her home and demanded that she resign.
&#8220;The mayor on Wednesday confirmed that she and her husband, former television reporter Mike Owens, have been living at an apartment, also in the Central West End,&#8221; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch <a href="https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-mayor-temporarily-relocates-following-protests-at-her-home/article_b702bc52-0e93-5f99-883e-c6c1efa5d159.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Krewson said she and her husband paid for their alternate lodging out of their own funds. She said no city money or campaign funds were being used.&#8221;
“We have not lived at home for 2 months,” Krewson told a reporter. “We did it to deescalate the situation, to save police resources, and importantly because our neighbors were being disturbed and threatened.”
The mayor said that this &#8220;comes with the territory&#8221; of being mayor and that she decided to temporarily relocate because she &#8220;ran for this job — my neighbors did not.&#8221;
One of the protests that was en route to her home in late June ended up spiraling into a national news story when Black Lives Matter activists entered a private neighborhood and allegedly threatened attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey. Krewson stopped staying at her home shortly thereafter.
&#8220;Some demonstrators had called on her to resign after she read on a now-deleted Facebook Live video the names and addresses of protesters who handed her proposed city budgets that included defunding police,&#8221; the Post-Dispatch added. &#8220;The mayor later apologized, saying she was identifying people as she answered a routine question and that she didn’t intend to cause distress or harm to anyone.&#8221;
The news comes after Portland&#8217;s Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-moving-from-residence-after-far-left-extremists-attack-it">announced</a> this week that he was moving out of his condo building after far-left extremists attacked it and set fire in it.
The Oregonian reported that Wheeler told residents that lived in the building that it would be “best for me and for everyone else’s safety and peace” that he finds a new place to live.
“I want to express my sincere apologies for the damage to our home and the fear that you are experiencing due to my position,” the email said. “It’s unfair to all of you who have no role in politics or in my administration.”
Over the weekend, approximately 100 Black Lives Matter rioters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-lives-matter-rioters-attack-mayors-home-in-san-jose-after-he-has-defended-police">attacked</a> and vandalized the home of San Jose&#8217;s Democrat Mayor Sam Liccardo after he has repeatedly defended law enforcement.
“While there, some protesters spray-painted messages, including ‘F*** 12,’ referring to police, and ‘San Jose will be free soon’ on his house, threw eggs at it and burned an American flag and a Blue Lives Matter flag taken to the scene,” The Mercury News <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/31/vandalism-of-mayors-homes-takes-protests-to-a-new-level/">reported</a>. “Later that evening police reported a second incident of vandalism at San Jose City Hall, where one suspect was arrested, booked and jailed on a felony charge. Detectives in the San Jose Police Department are conducting investigations into both incidents.”
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St. Louis Mayor Temporarily Relocates After Far-Left Repeatedly Shows Up At Her Home

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Democratic St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson has temporarily relocated after far-left demonstrators repeatedly came to her home and demanded that she resign.

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In an interview published in NPR earlier this week, author Vicky Osterweil defended looting from businesses in the name of social justice and dismissed concerns about rioters attacking essential businesses such as grocery stores and pharmacies.
“When it comes to small business, family owned business or locally owned business, they are no more likely to provide worker protections. They are no more likely to have to provide good stuff for the community than big businesses,” Osterweil told <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting">NPR</a>.
The left-wing author, whose recent book is aptly titled “In Defense of Looting,” also bizarrely called the idea of respecting small business owners a “right-wing myth,” suggesting that it isn’t true that small business owners create jobs and are part of the community: &#8220;It&#8217;s actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small business owner must be respected, that the small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that&#8217;s actually a right-wing myth.”
“A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community. It is true and possible that there are instances historically when businesses have refused to reopen or to come back. But that is a part of the inequity of the society, that people live in places where there is only one place where they can get access to something [like food or medicine],&#8221; said the author. &#8220;That question assumes well, what if you&#8217;re in a food desert? But the food desert is already an incredibly unjust situation. There&#8217;s this real tendency to try and blame people for fighting back, for revealing the inequity of the injustice that&#8217;s already been formed by the time that they&#8217;re fighting.&#8221;
The release of the NPR interview comes as left-wing rioters have destroyed businesses and burned property in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the aftermath of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-police-release-name-of-officer-who-shot-jacob-blake-reveal-investigators-found-knife-in-suv">Jacob Blake shooting</a> by a police officer last Sunday.
According to Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Haul (D), Blake was non-compliant when officers tried to arrest him, and officers were also unable to subdue him with a taser. Haul also said that the officer only fired his gun at Blake after he leaned toward the open driver’s side of his own car door, where investigators subsequently recovered a knife.
During the interview with NPR, Osterweil also said that the concept of property rights is “derived through whiteness” and oppression toward black people.
“The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country. Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that&#8217;s a part of it that doesn&#8217;t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory,” said Osterweil.
The author also declared the idea of an “outside agitator” going to a town to riot is a myth itself, which traces back to the days of slavery, “when plantation owners would claim that it was Freedmen and Yankees coming South and giving the enslaved these crazy ideas—that they were real human beings—and that&#8217;s why they revolted.”
The Kenosha Police Department <a href="https://twitter.com/KenoshaPolice/status/1299093889534570496/photo/1">recently arrested</a> nine people from out of state after a concerned citizen reported a group of people meeting in a remote lot. Police allegedly spotted several of them filling up gas canisters, and in the subsequent arrest, police recovered illegal fireworks, suspected controlled substances, helmets, and other gear.
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‘Right-Wing Myth’: Leftist Author Defends Looting To NPR, Trashes Small Business Owners As Not Part Of Community

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Democrats can try but won&#8217;t succeed at distancing themselves from the violence they have enabled on American streets. People surely know where the Democrats have stood on this, and that they&#8217;re now backpedaling only because of polling data.
Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg outright blamed this anarchy on President Donald Trump. &#8220;The simple reality is that we are seeing more and more chaos and violence under the Trump presidency, and there&#8217;s no reason to expect that it would get any different or better if he were reelected,&#8221; said Buttigieg. &#8220;This is very much characteristic of living in Donald Trump&#8217;s America, and I think we&#8217;re going to see more and more of it as long as he&#8217;s in charge.&#8221;
To blame this violence on Trump because he&#8217;s in office is like blaming him for the border wall not being erected fast enough. It&#8217;s like blaming him for the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus when, in fact, he has persistently tried, over strenuous Democratic obstruction, to sensibly and safely reopen our economy. It would be like blaming him for abortions because they have persisted during his first term despite his valiant efforts for the innocent unborn.
It is inconceivable that Buttigieg is unaware Democratic mayors and governors have all but encouraged this mayhem. Many have consistently rejected Trump&#8217;s offer of federal law enforcement assistance to quell the riots. Many have cavalierly misrepresented the violence as peaceful protests. Democratic CNN has called the Kenosha riots &#8220;fiery but mostly peaceful,&#8221; and the Democratic Virginia Senate just passed a bill allowing assaults on police officers to be mere misdemeanors, for crying out loud.
If Joe Biden or any other Democrat at the Democratic National Convention denounced the violence, I sincerely missed it.
Then, something happened. No, Democrats didn&#8217;t all of a sudden become outraged at the criminal assaults and property destruction against people whose only sin was to own businesses in a convenient location for Marxist arsonists and opportunistic looters.
Democrats apparently discovered through internal polling and focus groups that most Americans are appalled by this leftist orchestrated breakdown of law and order, and that they actually care about safe streets. Shocker.
CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon seems to have changed his mind on the riots — but not because he has had a law and order epiphany. &#8220;The rioting has to stop,&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;It&#8217;s showing up in the polling. It&#8217;s showing up in focus groups. &#8230; it is the only thing right now that is sticking.&#8221;
&#8220;The problem is not gonna be fixed by then&#8221; — the election — &#8220;but what they can do — and I think &#8230; Joe Biden may be afraid to do it. I&#8217;m not sure. Maybe he won&#8217;t; maybe he is — he&#8217;s got to address it,&#8221; said Lemon. &#8220;He&#8217;s got to come out and talk about it.&#8221;
Lemon must be too obtuse to understand what he is telegraphing about Biden when he speculates that Biden might be afraid to address the violence. What possible reason could he have to be afraid to condemn it? What justification could there be for such wanton lawlessness?
One of Biden&#8217;s handlers must have seen the polling data, too, though, for after months of silence on the matter, Biden finally faintheartedly denounced the chaos, saying: &#8220;Needless violence won&#8217;t heal us. We need to end the violence now — and peacefully come together to demand justice.&#8221;
Well, Mr. Biden, why haven&#8217;t you urged Democratic governors to take charge of this madness? Why haven&#8217;t you encouraged them to accept President Trump&#8217;s offers of federal assistance? And just what do you mean that we ought to all come together to demand justice? You know that Trump condemned the George Floyd killing within hours of its occurrence, yet some of your Democratic friends are acting like he kneeled on Floyd&#8217;s neck himself.
It&#8217;s not just Pete Buttigieg trying to pin the violence on Trump. I heard Fox News&#8217; Juan Williams make the same argument. Indeed, the entire Democratic Party apparatus, now that it has strategically decided it better shift gears and publicly oppose the violence, is poised to blame the anarchy on Trump, not just because it is happening during his presidency but also because Democrats claim he is an evil racist who engenders an atmosphere of racism in the country.
This cynical slander of Trump and his supporters as racists has got to stop. But it won&#8217;t, because it still works for Democrats politically.
The Democrats&#8217; enabling of street violence is another matter. They obviously miscalculated and are now paying a steep price.
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Republicans are the party of law and order, and Democrats are the party of lawlessness and disorder. Democrats own these riots. They own this endless leftist drumbeat of hatred toward America and everything it stands for.
Unhappily for them, people have awakened to just how far left Democratic leaders are willing to go, and it&#8217;s not playing well for them, including in the precious swing states they need to win back the presidency.
They can now pretend to oppose the violence until they are as blue in the face as the uniforms of the cops they demonize, but it&#8217;s too late. They chose the wrong time to side with criminals torching our cities — a time when Americans are feeling particularly unsafe and insecure. No one is going to believe they didn&#8217;t know exactly what they were doing, and few will buy that they&#8217;ve had a genuine change of heart.
Karma.
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LIMBAUGH: Blaming The Violence On Trump Is A Bridge Too Far

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This critic avoids personal anecdotes in film reviews, but this one deserves an exception.
Several months ago I had a phone argument with my closest friend. He believed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did a fine job during the pandemic, ignoring the thousands of nursing home patients who died under his watch.
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/07/22/andrew-cuomo-nursing-homes-coronavirus-janice-dean-new-york-column/5472713002/">Janice Dean has a story</a> he needs to read.
My friend also believed in the Russian collusion narrative, which has been falling apart in slow motion for months despite the mainstream media’s shocking indifference.
We disagreed. Our voices got heated. He hung up on me. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-fake-news-takes-a-personal-toll-on-us">We haven’t spoken since</a>.
Extreme media bias, the kind on furious display in the Age of Trump, is turning Americans against Americans in ways that are both acute and hard to measure. My friend and I don’t vote the same way anymore, something that doesn’t bother me a whit.
We no longer cling to the same set of facts. The rise of extreme bias and Fake News, which makes this possible, sticks in my craw.
Yet that factor is ignored in “Stars and Strife,” an otherwise well-intentioned look at our increasingly tribal times.
Writer/director David Smick couldn’t know his film would drop at a time when patriotism would be “problematic” for a sizable slab of one political party. “Stars and Strife” assumes we all love our country as a starting point, but it worries our fractured age puts America’s future in doubt.
That’s undeniable. We’ve read the news today, oh, boy.
From there we’re treated to a grab bag of cultural woes, from shrieking fights on “The View” to activists behaving badly across the country. Politicians aren’t making things better. In a shocking display of restraint, the film doesn’t flood the zone with President Donald Trump’s more divisive moments.
Smick would have plenty to work with, but there’s an equal amount from the Left, too. “Stars and Strife” keeps things as apolitical as possible given the nature of the narrative.
A grateful nation thanks him.
FAST FACT: Smick brings an <a href="http://www.davidsmick.com/Smick_Bio.html">eclectic resume</a> to his <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11796535/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">first feature film</a>, “Stars and Strife.” He’s contributed to a number of prestigious outlets, including The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Plus, he’s the chairman and CEO of Johnson Smick International, Inc., a D.C.-based macroeconomic advisory firm.
The nation’s overriding problem is clear, and Team Smick underlines it with a cavalcade of cutesy, on the nose video clips.
We’re at each other’s throats thanks to social media, income inequality, corporate welfare, and a lack of upward mobility, among other woes. Conservatives may argue with some possible solutions here, like a plan to make the primary system less partisan and the need for a third major party.
“Stars and Strife” wants to push the conversation forward, not focus on disagreements.
The film, embraced by Executive Producer (and openly liberal) Barry Levinson, strains to avoid Michael Moore-style theatrics. Smick is front and center here, in the grand Moore tradition, but he’s not doing performance art or manipulating events for maximum impact.
He’s holding the documentary together, providing a calm, soothing voice for both sides to consider.
For every interview subject on the Left (Larry Summers, Leon Panetta) we’re treated to a chat with someone on the Right (James Baker,<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/arthur-brooks/"> Arthur Brooks</a>).
Solutions are scattered throughout the movie, although realistically our current plight rejects a one-size-fits-all approach. We’ve become a nation of lonely, disconnected souls.
Who would argue with that… but how do you fix it?
Perhaps the film’s most healing moments come courtesy of activist Hawk Newsome. Who’s he? Newsome is the head of New York’s Black Lives Matter chapter. He shares a powerful story of crashing a Trumpian rally and speaking before an audience willing to cheer their commonalities.
One wonders what Newsome thinks of BLM’s tactics over the last two-plus months.
“Stars and Strife” loves this country in an authentic, palpable way. Historically, America has been a force for good, asking other nations only for enough land to bury our dead, Smick notes. “We are the good guys,” confirms former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan.
Immigrant success stories abound, one more inspiring than the next.
“Stars and Strife’s” very existence suggests something hopeful, that a left-of-center industry can produce a documentary like this just when we need it most.
HiT or Miss: “Stars and Strife” has its heart in the right place and mostly avoids ideological bromides. It still ignores a massive problem in modern American tribalism, something that can no longer be denied.
A version of this article appears on HollywoodInToto.com.
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Faith is on the decline nowadays, and it is no wonder. Most people in these postmodern times are convinced that it’s impossible to know anything with settled certainty — so they can’t really believe anything, either. When you aren’t even sure whether objective truth exists, the suggestion that there is something to believe in simply doesn’t make any sense. Begin with the assumption that nothing can be known for sure, and religious convictions are automatically out of the question.
In case you hadn’t realized it, that kind of thinking now dominates our society. The concept of settled, knowable truth is widely considered intellectually inept and politically incorrect. There’s “my truth” and “your truth,” meaning everything is ultimately just a matter of perspective. In other words, truth claims are really nothing more than just personal opinions, and they deserve to be treated that way. Every point of view, no matter how bizarre, demands equal respect. Because, after all, no one can say for sure what is ultimately true.
How did we get here? This is the wreckage of a post-structuralist epistemology, where all texts must be deconstructed; any spiritual precept or article of faith must be met with unyielding skepticism; certainty is deemed the very height of arrogance; feelings count more than facts; and common sense, moral values — even knowledge itself — are scorned as relics of a more naïve epoch of human history.
There is zero tolerance for religious faith in a climate like that.
Western society was built on beliefs that are rooted in Scripture, starting with the truth that God exists and has made Himself known. The whole weight of the United States’ Declaration of Independence hangs on truths about God and His creation that our nation’s founding fathers regarded as “self-evident.”
They were right about that. All creation is filled with important realities that are self-evident — axiomatic — beginning with the very foundation of all truth. The Bible says some basic knowledge of God is innate in every human heart: “That which is known about God is evident within them.” (Romans 1:19)
Furthermore, God constantly displays His glory through creation in a way that is hard to miss. Whether you study the vastness of the universe or examine a single drop of pond water through a microscope, you will see ample evidence of God’s infinite power, wisdom, creativity — and a host of other attributes. These truths (precisely the kind of ultimate, objective realities the postmodern mind rejects) are purposefully built into all of creation at every conceivable level.
Scripture goes on to say, “God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:19-20)
Humanity’s problem is that because of our sin, we resist accountability to God, so we suppress that innate knowledge and ignore or try to explain away what is literally spread across the universe in all its resplendence before our eyes. Because fallen minds refuse to see what is obvious, they lose the ability to make sense of anything. “For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools.” (vv. 21-22)
I’ve been quoting, of course, from the opening chapter of the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans. He goes on to chronicle a pattern of decline that has been repeated in cycles throughout human history. It is a descent into sin and depravity that has brought down every one of history’s most powerful empires and currently threatens our civilization. It is a path that goes from unbelief to complete intellectual futility, and it drags whole societies through idolatry, uncontrolled lusts, degrading passions, and every conceivable expression of unrighteousness.
The end result is “a depraved mind” (v. 28) — a soul utterly given over to wickedness, irrationality, and contempt for everything that is truly righteous. In an act of divine judgment, God withdraws His grace and allows an individual (or an entire culture) to reach that point of moral and spiritual insanity. Here’s how the apostle says it:
<blockquote>Just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. (vv. 28-32)</blockquote>
We have literally watched this play out in living color, with Jerry Springer narrating, as our culture has sped down the exact path of spiritual decline Paul outlines in that chapter. Hollywood, hip-hop, shock radio, and a host of other pop-culture obsessions — helped by mainstream media and the secular academy — have indoctrinated recent generations to accept and even encourage every imaginable kind of depravity and radical “alternative lifestyle.”
We’re not supposed to notice the overtly self-destructive nature of popular moral deviancies or the aberrant subcultures they spawn. Anyone who is still offended or appalled by such things is considered ignorant or ill-bred. Our mainstream media have displayed a stubborn determination to advance and encourage the moral meltdown. They will, for example, portray months of lawlessness and rioting as legitimate expressions of free speech — insisting that it has been &#8220;mostly peaceful,” even though the destructive result is clearly evident to anyone with eyes to see.
Meanwhile, nothing is more politically incorrect than religious belief. Genuine faith in God is commonly represented as a dangerous, disqualifying disorder. Just this week, for example, former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, speaking live on a national news network, suggested that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo does not qualify to serve in public office because he is “overtly religious &#8230; which in itself is problematic.”
Governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic offers more stunning examples of how far our culture has gone in losing its religion. States and counties across the nation have classified places like casinos, abortion clinics, liquor stores, and massage parlors as essential businesses, permitting them to remain open — while churches are commonly categorized as “nonessential” and kept closed. The governor of California and county officials in Los Angeles have shown a determination to keep our church closed, even while encouraging massive political protests by angry people in the streets.
Although public discourse today is full of cries for justice and structural change, there is simply no way to affirm any coherent standard of justice —much less is there any hope of change for the better — apart from a sweeping return to the God of Scripture, who is the source of all truth. We desperately need a generation of men and women who will open their eyes to that reality, turn from the unbelief and cold skepticism that define our culture, and flee for mercy to the God they have spurned. The good news is that God does offer full and free forgiveness and abundant blessing for those who will heed the call of Jesus Christ and come to Him in repentant faith.
More from John MacArthur: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/macarthur-we-cannot-yield-to-caesar-that-which-belongs-to-god">Why We Opened Our Church And Will Not Yield To The Whims Of The State</a>
Dr. John MacArthur is the pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is the author of more than 400 books, a featured teacher with the Grace to You media ministry (<a href="http://gty.org/">gty.org</a>), and is chancellor of The Master’s University and Seminary.
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MACARTHUR: Losing Our Religion

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Parents, legislators, taxpayers and others footing the bill for college education might be interested in just what is in store for the upcoming academic year. Since many college classes will be online, there is a chance to witness professors indoctrinating their students in real-time. So, there&#8217;s a chance that some college faculty might change their behavior. To see recent examples of campus nonsense and indoctrination, visit the Campus Reform and College Fix websites.
George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley warned congressional lawmakers that antifa is &#8220;winning&#8221; and that much of academia, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is complicit in its success. In his testimony before Congress Turley said: &#8220;To Antifa, people like me are the personification of the classical liberal view of free speech that perpetuates a system of oppression and abuse. I wish I could say that my view remains strongly implanted in our higher educational institutions. However, you are more likely to find public supporters for restricting free speech than you are to find defenders of free speech principles on many campuses.&#8221;
The leftist bias at our colleges and universities has many harmful effects. A University of California, Davis, mathematics professor faced considerable backlash over her opposition to the requirement for &#8220;diversity statements&#8221; from potential faculty. Those seeking employment at the University of California, San Diego, are required to admit that &#8220;barriers&#8221; prevent women and minorities from full participation in campus life. At American University, a history professor wrote a book calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. A Rutgers University professor said, &#8220;Watching the Iowa Caucus is a sickening display of the over-representation of whiteness.&#8221; A Williams College professor has advocated for the inclusion of social justice in math textbooks. Students at Wayne State University are no longer required to take a single math course to graduate; however, they may soon be required to take a diversity course.
Maybe some students will be forced into sharing the vision of Professor Laurie Rubel, a math education professor at Brooklyn College. She says the idea of cultural neutrality in math is a &#8220;myth,&#8221; and that asking whether 2 plus 2 equals 4 &#8220;reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.&#8221; She tweeted, &#8220;Y&#8217;all must know that the idea that math is objective or neutral IS A MYTH.&#8221; Math professors and academics at other universities, including Harvard and the University of Illinois, discussed the &#8220;Eurocentric&#8221; roots of American mathematics. As for me, I would like to see the proof, in any culture, that 2 + 2 is something other than 4.
Rutgers University&#8217;s English department chairwoman, Rebecca Walkowitz, announced changes to the Department&#8217;s graduate writing program emphasizing &#8220;social justice&#8221; and &#8220;critical grammar.&#8221; Leonydus Johnson, a speech-language pathologist and libertarian activist, says Walkowitz&#8217;s changes make the assumption that minorities cannot understand traditional and grammatically correct English speech and writing, which is &#8220;insulting, patronizing, and in itself, extremely racist.&#8221;
Then there is the nonsense taught on college campuses about white privilege. The idea of white privilege doesn&#8217;t explain why several historically marginalized groups outperform whites today. For example, Japanese Americans suffered under the Alien Land Law of 1913 and other racist, exclusionary laws legally preventing them from owning land and property in more than a dozen American states until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. During World War II, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned. However, by 1959, the income disparity between Japanese Americans and white Americans had almost disappeared. Today, Japanese Americans outperform white Americans by large margins in income statistics, education outcomes and test scores, and have much lower incarceration rates.
According to Rav Arora, writing for the New York Post, several black immigrant groups such as Nigerians, Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Barbadians and Ghanaians all &#8220;have a median household income well above the American average.&#8221; We are left with the question whether the people handing out &#8220;white privilege&#8221; made a mistake. The other alternative is that Japanese Americans, Nigerians, Barbadians, Ghanaians and Trinidadians and Tobagonians are really white Americans.
The bottom line is that more Americans need to pay attention to the miseducation of our youth and that miseducation is not limited to higher education.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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WILLIAMS: Back To Academic Brainwashing

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More than two years ago, I wrote a column titled &#8220;Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins.&#8221; I listed eight examples:
— The universities.
— The arts: music, art and architecture.
— Sports.
— Mainstream Judaism, Protestantism and Catholicism.
— Race relations.
— Women&#8217;s happiness.
— Children&#8217;s innocence.
— And, perhaps most disturbingly, America&#8217;s commitment to free speech.
One should now add the sciences.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the Left’s ruining of science. This had already begun with the Left’s attacks on &#8220;objectivity,&#8221; the most essential value in science — the very thing that makes science possible. The Left declares objectivity, which it now puts in quotation marks, a characteristic of white supremacy.
One example is that science departments in universities throughout America have declared their intention to hire physicists, biologists and other scientists based on gender and race, not scientific expertise. A few years ago, all five candidates on the shortlist of applicants to the physics department of the University of California at San Diego were females, &#8220;leading one male candidate with a specialty in extragalactic physics,&#8221; reported Heather Mac Donald, &#8220;to wonder why the school had even solicited applications from Asian and white men.&#8221;
Mac Donald updated her findings in a piece published this week: &#8220;The dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, pronounced himself &#8216;absolutely dedicated&#8217; to turning the engineering school into an &#8216;anti-racist organization.'&#8221;
A recent example was the declaration by more than 1,000 doctors and other health care providers that despite all their previous warnings against public gatherings as health risks: &#8220;As public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings (mass protests against racism) as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health.&#8221;
Yet another example of leftism overwhelming medical science is the medical profession&#8217;s denial of the benefits of hydroxychloroquine and zinc in the early days of a COVID-19 infection. That physicians, including the Food and Drug Administration, would label a drug dangerous that has been used safely for more than half a century, and by many thousands (such as those with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus) every day for decades, is a medical and moral scandal. The medical profession has placed politics not only ahead of science but also ahead of saving lives. The medical profession, the FDA and the CDC have lost the faith of half of the American people and, over time, will lose the faith of the majority of Americans. It is difficult to envision the medical profession regaining its credibility in this generation.
One of the world&#8217;s most prestigious medical and scientific journals, The Lancet in the U.K., withdrew an article it had published that dismissed the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients. The article contained made-up data. As The New York Times reported, Dr. Richard Horton, the editor in chief of The Lancet, called the paper retracted by his journal a &#8220;fabrication&#8221; and &#8220;a monumental fraud.&#8221;
The journal published the fraudulent study about the alleged dangers of hydroxychloroquine because of pressure from pharmaceutical companies, which have nothing to gain financially from widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a cheap, generic drug, and because the journal loathes President Donald Trump, who, when the first reports of successful treatment with hydroxychloroquine surfaced, had announced use of the drug could save lives. Horton had labelled Trump&#8217;s withdrawal of U.S. funding of the World Health Organization &#8220;a crime against humanity&#8221; after the WHO&#8217;s politicization of the coronavirus, including behaving as a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party when it condemned Trump&#8217;s Jan. 31 ban on travel from China.
The number of Americans killed by the medical boards, the pharmaceutical boards, the FDA and the CDC for not allowing doctors to prescribe hydroxychloroquine in the early days following a patient&#8217;s diagnosis with COVID-19 and outside of a hospital setting, and the number killed by the doctors who could but would not prescribe hydroxychloroquine, is likely in the tens of thousands. On my radio show, Yale University epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch said, &#8220;Because we were blocked from using it (hydroxychloroquine) in the United States to the present point, probably at least 100,000 people have died.&#8221;
Based on the retracted study in The Lancet, The Washington Post headlined &#8220;Hydroxychloroquine Drug Promoted by Trump as Coronavirus &#8216;Game-Changer&#8217; Increasingly Linked to Deaths.&#8221; And social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter immediately remove any citation of a scientist who promotes hydroxychloroquine.
A fourth example is the American Psychological Association, or the APA, choosing leftism over psychology in declaring, &#8220;40 years of research (show that) traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.&#8221;
The one good thing to come out of the APA&#8217;s pathologizing masculinity is that people searching for a competent psychotherapist for themselves or their child now have an easy method by which to identify the incompetent: Simply ask the prospective therapist if he or she agrees with the APA statement. If they do, or if they merely hesitate to distance themselves from it, you know you want another therapist.
Forthcoming columns will deal with more areas of life ruined by the Left, including, most troubling of all, America itself.
As seen in their treatment of the statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the Left can tear down, but it cannot build.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on Sept. 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: Everything The Left Touches It Ruins. Now Add Science.

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A recent seemingly insignificant news story disturbingly reveals the intensity of the American Left’s intolerance and authoritarianism. Coupled with the Left’s ongoing mission to destroy our cities, this is an ominous sign of what America will look like if the Democratic ticket wins the presidency.
The story was under the headline &#8220;Brett Favre Faced Social Media Backlash Thanks to Donald Trump.&#8221; After detailing Favre&#8217;s NFL quarterback accomplishments, the writer gets to the point: &#8220;Favre may have faced criticism for how he handled his few final seasons with Green Bay, but it hadn&#8217;t damaged his reputation as one of the all-time greats. However, he may have just made a choice that will alter how many perceive him off the field away from football.&#8221; Favre&#8217;s reputation &#8220;may have taken a significant hit with what he did by playing golf with President Donald Trump.&#8221;
Favre faced serious hate and backlash on social media, according to the writer. &#8220;There are reasons for people to pile on that choice as some believe Trump is the representation of disappointing flaws, both morally and ethically, during his presidency,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Regardless of what Favre does moving forward, he will forever be associated with the president. It may have only been a picture, but a picture in many ways can say a thousand words.&#8221;
Notice that this wasn&#8217;t even about Favre making a controversial political statement, such as those celebrities make at their self-idolatrous award events. He just played golf with Trump, which triggered enormous social media backlash from the Left — similar to the blowback NFL quarterback Drew Brees received for having a family photo with the president — to say nothing of how Brees was condemned for speaking out against kneeling for the national anthem, until he groveled, apologized three thousand times and reversed himself.
This should be no surprise to anyone. Cancel culture is a creature of the Left. Leftists are the ones who comb the recesses of internet archives for any morsel of damning evidence they can use to destroy people&#8217;s careers over a politically incorrect opinion uttered even many years ago. Leftists are the ones who feel free to drive conservatives out of restaurants.
How many people do you know who would be afraid to put a Joe Biden bumper sticker on their car or a Biden sign in their yard? Ask around and you&#8217;ll find tons of people afraid to publicly support Trump.
But this is about more than destroying people&#8217;s careers for refusing to own the latest leftist cultural fad or identity politics command. This is not simply the targeting of a public figure for, say, denying that there are 70 genders. It&#8217;s about the wholesale demonization of half of America&#8217;s population — the half that supports President Trump. 
Observe how glibly the writer just assumes that it is a given Trump supporters are tainted by their support. Notice how he doesn&#8217;t even question the moral legitimacy of the backlash Favre received. Instead, he affirms it. He doesn&#8217;t just say Favre&#8217;s sin was playing golf with Trump but &#8220;what he did by playing golf with &#8230; Trump,&#8221; as if to double emphasize the innocuous act. Can these people not hear themselves?
The takeaway from this story has little to do with Favre, who serves merely as a convenient prop — as representative of all Trump supporters.
Conservatives are not allowed to express their opinions in America&#8217;s dominant media culture. They are not allowed to like President Trump. Their entire character will be called into question if they do.
The irony is that the Left created Trump politically. It is the very type of intolerance the Left now displays toward Trump supporters that birthed the environment in which Trump emerged. Most Trump supporters see him as the last best hope to save America from the nihilistic, unforgiving, despotic and violent Left.
The Left desperately pushes the narrative that if you support Trump, you are a heartless, racist, sexist homophobe, relying on its slanderous caricature of Trump as all those things.
Memo to leftists: We reject your depiction of Trump as a racist. We reject that he&#8217;s dangerous for America; the opposite is the case. And we fervently reject your word about much of anything, as you&#8217;re still shamelessly spreading the ludicrous lie that he&#8217;s a Russian agent.
The Left has now come fully out of the closet and shown its unquenchable contempt for America and how far it is willing to go to overthrow our constitutional republic. Given the radical leftists&#8217; abominable behavior, do they really think they can shame us for supporting the main human being standing in the way of their revolutionary aims?
No, we won&#8217;t apologize for supporting President Trump. And the more extreme the Left shows itself to be, the stronger will be our resolve.
If the Left and its enablers want to compare notes, we&#8217;ll be happy to do so. A vote for Biden is a vote for anarchy, for the disintegration of law and order, for economic paralysis, for stunning intolerance and for the forfeiture of America as we know it, to the incalculable detriment of Americans, especially the younger generations who may not realize the full import of this would-be voluntary abolition of our liberty.
Unlike the Left, we won&#8217;t personally condemn Biden supporters, many of whom are our friends. But we do scratch our heads over how so many decent people can be utterly clueless about America&#8217;s fate under the iron rule of a Democratic Party, which has sold itself to leftist extremists.
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LIMBAUGH: Demonizing Trump Supporters Only Strengthens Their Resolve

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Americans have long been proud of the fact that, unlike European countries, America never went the route of totalitarianism as embodied in communism, fascism and Nazism.
This achievement may be coming to an end.
In order to understand why, it is first necessary to understand why European countries embraced — or fell victim to — totalitarian doctrines.
Until World War I, the primary beliefs that gave life meaning, both on a national and personal level, were Judeo-Christian religions and patriotism (love of one&#8217;s nation). What gave people moral guidance were Judeo-Christian values.
For most Europeans of the younger generation, World War I, with its seemingly senseless slaughter of millions, ended belief in Christianity and, in many cases, ended the people&#8217;s faith in their nations. God was deemed absent; religion was deemed unnecessary; and national identity was widely seen as a cause of the war.
That left a void that was almost immediately filled by communism, fascism and Nazism.
In Russia, World War I led directly to the Russian Revolution. Even before the war ended, in 1917, the czar was overthrown, and later that year, the Bolsheviks (the Russian communists) took over. As awful as the czar was, there was far more freedom under him than there was in the Soviet Union until the fall of communism 72 years later, not to mention the murder of more people — 20 to 40 million — under the Soviet regime.
In Italy, the rise of fascism followed World War I. And in Germany, the Nazis came to power just 15 years after the end of the Great War. Nazism conquered most of the European continent during WWII, and after Germany&#8217;s defeat in 1945, the Soviets imposed communism over all of Eastern Europe.
Though there were communists, communist fellow travelers, Nazi sympathizers, racists and anti-Semites in the United States, neither communism nor fascism nor Nazism took root here. The primary reason was that, unlike most Europeans, Americans did not lose their faith in Judeo-Christian religions and values or in America after World War I. America remained so religious that, in 1954, the words &#8220;under God&#8221; were inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance recited daily in American schools.
However, by the 1950s, faith in America, Christianity and what we call bourgeois middle-class values was largely limited to older Americans. The post-World War II baby-boomer generation was already being indoctrinated in secularism and anti-Americanism. As early as 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school prayer was unconstitutional.
By the late 1960s, vast numbers of baby boomers were attending demonstrations that were as much against America — routinely characterized as an imperialist and colonialist aggressor country with an evil military — as they were against the war in Vietnam. It was not uncommon to see America spelled &#8220;Amerikkka&#8221; or &#8220;Amerika&#8221; at protests and in graffiti.
When I was in graduate school at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I was taught that men and women are not inherently different from one another and that the Cold War was between two superpowers (equally at fault), not between freedom and tyranny.
Another generation has passed, and the post-Christian, left-wing baby boomers have come close to achieving complete success. The mainstream print and electronic media, universities, high schools and elementary schools, the arts and now sports have all been conquered by the Left. Except for sports, from the beginning of the 20th century, they were almost all liberal, but now they are Left.
We now have the answer to the question: What will happen to America if Americans lose faith in God and country as the Europeans did after World War I? What will happen to America when Christianity dies as it did in Europe after World War I?
The way things now look, America may have its bout with some totalitarian doctrine — almost surely some form of leftism. Liberty has never been a left-wing value. From Lenin on, wherever the Left has come to power, it has suppressed liberty, beginning with free speech. Already, despite a Republican president and a Republican Senate, America has less free speech than at any time in its history. Exactly one year ago, I testified before a Senate subcommittee and wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal about YouTube (owned by Google) placing more than 100 Prager University, or PragerU, videos on its restricted list.
And things have gotten much worse. Last week, PragerU was locked out of its Twitter account for retweeting a press conference of eight physicians in Washington, D.C., which had already received 17 million views, and Facebook has just informed us that if we even cite studies that show possible benefits of hydroxychloroquine (with zinc) in the early stages of a patient with COVID-19, we will lose our Facebook account.
And then there is the &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; — which is merely a euphemism for leftist suppression of dissent. People are booted from internet platforms, fired from their jobs or have their reputations smeared and their businesses ruined for differing with the Left — on anything.
We are also undergoing a nonviolent (as of now) version of Mao Zedong&#8217;s Cultural Revolution, with individuals forced to issue humiliating public recantations of their beliefs and attend reeducation sessions (we don&#8217;t yet have reeducation camps, but they should not be ruled out as a possibility if the Left is in control).
Another communist norm taking root in America is the rewriting of the American past. We are living a famous Soviet dissident joke: &#8220;In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it is the past that is always changing.&#8221;
On almost all social issues and many economic ones, the American Left is more radical than the Left in Europe. Europeans across the political spectrum are more wary of ideological fanaticism because of the vast scale of death and suffering that resulted from communism, fascism and Nazism.
One might say that Europe was inoculated against fanaticism. Europeans are more preoccupied with working less, traveling more and being taken care of than with ideological movements. But America, which has not suffered under fanatical, irrational, liberty-depriving ideologies, has not been inoculated.
Without such a vaccination, what replaced Christianity in Europe may well do the same in America.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: Why America Is In Real Danger

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A bill sponsored by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) has passed the House and is currently in the Senate for committee review and an eventual vote. H.R. 7608 is entitled the “State, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act.”
The bill provides fiscal year 2021 appropriations for the Department of State, Department of Agriculture, the EPA, various foreign relations initiatives, and related programs. It is the “related programs” that has those who care about American history concerned. If one peruses the 772-page bill, they will find buried way down in the middle somewhere Sec. 442. It reads as follows:
<blockquote>REMOVAL OF COMMEMORATIVE CONFEDERATE WORKS
Notwithstanding any other provision of law or policy to the contrary, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, the National Park Service shall remove from display all physical Confederate commemorative works, such as statues, monuments, sculptures, memorials, and plaques, as defined by NPS, Management Policies 2006.</blockquote>
On the surface, this appears to be just an implementation of the drive to remove Confederate monuments and memorials from the public square. The mantra from the activists in favor of moving out these homages to the Confederacy has been that they should be moved to museums as they are a part of history.
Unfortunately, where Confederate monuments are concerned, there is no solution which would seem to satisfy all. And for those on the far-left, for whom it is always about the next crusade as they continue to march toward that unreachable mirage of a terrestrial Utopia, even allowing monuments to those who fought, and suffered, and died in battle where the combat actually took place is just too much. And H.R. 7608 is a manifestation of this vision of an American landscape wiped clean of any vestiges of one-half of the most consequential and cataclysmic event in U.S. History.
There are some twenty-five Civil War battlefields or related historical sites that would be subjected to the axe of H.R. 7608. That is because hallowed grounds like Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Vicksburg, Manassas, Petersburg, etc., are under the auspices of the National Park Service. If this bill is passed, as it now reads and can be interpreted, within six months of its passage every monument to Confederate participants on the very locations of some of the biggest and bloodiest battles in American history would be removed.
One can make a reasonable argument for taking down Confederate statues from the public square. After all, should African Americans on their way to work or just strolling the streets be forced to do so in the shadow of those who fought for an upstart nation that, had it been victorious, would have kept their race in chains?
But once removed, what are we to do with these monuments? Some have argued, as stated earlier, that they should be relegated to museums where they lose the aura of celebration and instead become tools for learning and remembering our past. There are, however, real logistical issues here. Even if a museum wanted them, it is not easy to store many tons of brass and stone.
It would seem, then, that the battlefields are the most logical refuge for these orphans of our past. Those who venture to Gettysburg, Antietam, or Shiloh do so precisely to learn about the fighting that took place there, and what it meant to American history. And it is, quite simply, impossible to give an accurate and full account of these engagements without telling the story of the men on both sides of the lines, both individual commanders, and the many units from so many states who did combat.
How can one, for example, possibly understand the story of Gettysburg without delving into the mind of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee? He was the man whose decisions, more than any others’, shaped the nature and ultimate outcome of the three-day bloodbath. It was Lee who invaded Pennsylvania, Lee who gave the nod to his generals to attack the Union Army outside of Gettysburg that first fateful morning, and it was Lee who then stayed to fight what would shape up to be the first major Confederate defeat of the war. And no better way can one understand the mind of Lee, to see what he saw, than to stand beneath his monument on Seminary Ridge, astride his horse Traveler, and gaze with him across the mile-wide open field toward that Union line where he sent so many of his soldiers to their dooms. The equestrian statue of the rebel leader is powerful in its sense of longing and regret. One can almost hear him as his battered and bloody survivors stream past him having had their grand assault violently repulsed saying to his men, “This has been all my fault.” Lose Lee and you lose the very essence of the Battle Of Gettysburg. The same can be said for his commanding officers, each with their own part to play in the drama. It is so with every battle of the war. Take away Albert Sydney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard, and you lose Shiloh. Banish Stonewell Jackson and James Longstreet to the ether, and 2nd Manassas just ceases to be.
And furthermore, how can one recount a true narrative of these battles while the voices of those men in the rank and file who fought for the South are muted and their visages erased? The story of these historic places is one of men, often in their teens, scared out of their wits, covered in grime and dust, and the caked blood of their comrades who’d already fallen all around them, who engaged in some of the most brutal and up close and personal modes of warfare one can imagine. Their emotions and experiences at those moments of terror knew no politics. A survivor of Antietam later recalled that at one point the action was so severe, his senses so overloaded, that the landscape appeared to briefly turn red. One imagines that during combat so intense, no Southerner loading, ramming, and firing as the balls whizzed all around him, was thinking of the larger question of slavery or free navigation of the Mississippi. As one Union private, David Thompson, 9th New York Volunteers, wrote after walking the still-smoldering Antietam battlefield after the bloodiest day in American history had ended:
<blockquote>All around lay the Confederate dead…clad in “butternut”&#8230;As I looked down on the poor, pinched faces…all enmity died out. There was no “secession” in those rigid forms, nor in those fixed eyes staring at the sky. Clearly it was not their war.</blockquote>
The fact is the Civil War did happen. And some 300,000 Southern men died fighting for their cause, even if it was, as Ulysses Grant said, “one of the worst for which people have ever fought. And one for which there was the least excuse.” But that doesn’t diminish the very real suffering of the Confederates who fought over these blood-soaked grounds. And even if one doesn’t wish to give those men at Gettysburg, who lined up and stared across an open field to the other side where they saw a solid line of blue with artillery lined hub-to-hub up on Cemetery Ridge just waiting for them, any credit at all for their feat, at least allow their story, on that place, to be told in toto to weave the complete tapestry of this great human tragedy that affected so many on all sides. And still does.
Speaking on behalf of Gettysburg in particular, Les Fowler, president of the Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, has made a plea to the Senate to modify this bill to preserve the battlefields as they are. “We urge the U.S. Senate to strip out this provision that would destroy the unequaled collection of monuments, Union and Confederate, that set Gettysburg apart as the great battlefield park and top visitor destinations…The monuments representing all of the soldiers who fought here are a crucial component of interpreting these sacred grounds.”
Another veteran battlefield guide, Deb Novotny, makes a broader appeal. “The monuments serve as tools for us to tell the story not only of this battle but of the struggle of our nation to heal itself after the war.”
Some 75,000 Confederate troops engaged the Union Army at Gettysburg. That salient fact of history cannot be avoided or discarded. How does one go about erasing their memories from a place like this? If there remain any places in the country where it is contextually fitting to remember them, while acknowledging the moral bankruptcy of the broader notion for which they took up arms, it is on the fields where they fought and strove and perished.
It is said that the ghosts of soldiers, Confederate and Union alike, walk the now quiet fields of battle, unable to find peace with their violent deaths on the receiving end of enemy bullets, bayonets, shell fragments or solid shot that cut their lives short. They are a part of these places.
The cause of the Confederacy should be remembered for what it was: a new nation dedicated to the proposition that the black man was inferior to the white man and, as Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said: “slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.” But the battlefields, where those twisted notions went to die, and where all sides of those particular isolated events must be heard to gain a true understanding of what happened there, should not be the place to make such a symbolic rejection to what is an obviously revolting raison d’etat. The battlefield belongs to the soldiers who fought there. And it belongs to all who wish to travel to these grounds and hear all the voices from the past tell us what they saw and did there. History is not always pleasant. But it must be remembered. Otherwise we are living in a land of make-believe. That is not the country I want us to be.
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SCHAEFFER: Civil War Battlefields: The Left’s Next Target In The War On History

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There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places. A tyrant&#8217;s first battlefield is to rewrite history. Most notable were the political purges of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet government erased figures from Soviet history by renaming cities — such as the Imperial capital of St. Petersburg to Petrograd and Leningrad and Stalingrad — and eradicating memories of czarist rule. Stalin&#8217;s historical revisions also included changing photographs and history books, thereby distorting children&#8217;s learning within educational establishments.
Most of the effort to rewrite American history has its roots among the intellectual elite on our college campuses whose message has been sold to predominantly white college students who have little understanding of how they are being used. Much of their current focus is on tearing down statues and changing names that they deem offensive. They have denounced George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Without much understanding of history, they have demanded that Princeton University remove the name of Woodrow Wilson, who was a progressive, from its public policy school and residential college. Some are urging Yale University to change its name because its benefactor Elihu Yale was a slave trader.
To purge our society of names associated with evil is going to be quite a task. I suggest that we set up a formal commission to deal with this formidable challenge. Maybe we can name it the Commission to Eliminate Bad Memories. There are some challenging issues. What should be done about our nation&#8217;s capital, Washington and District of Columbia? After all, George Washington owned slaves, and Columbia is the feminine form of Columbus. Speaking of Washington, its football team, the Washington Redskins, has finally agreed to temporarily call themselves Washington Football Team until they can find a snazzier name.
Renaming things is a big job. Our military has several fighting aircraft named with what today&#8217;s tyrants might consider racial slights, such as the Apache, Iroquois, Kiowa, Lakota and Mescalero. Perhaps offensive to PETA, we also have military hardware named after animals, such as the Eagle, Falcon, Raptor, Cobra and Dolphin.
Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune wrote, &#8220;Now that Washington&#8217;s NFL team has announced its &#8216;retirement&#8217; of the racial slur that has been its brand name since 1933, I am tempted to gloat a little.&#8221; In response to Page&#8217;s article, there is an email making the internet rounds that raises naming issues. What about the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians?
The New York Yankees might offend Southerners because there is no team named for the Confederacy, Some people, particularly Catholics, might be offended by or deem it sacrilegious to have sports teams named the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres. Then what about team names that glorify savage barbarians and criminals who raped and pillaged such as Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Pittsburgh Pirates? The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants might be promoting obesity and the Milwaukee Brewers promoting alcoholism.
There is another naming issue that needs resolution. I have been working 40 years at George Mason University. Despite his monumental contributions, such as our Bill of Rights, George Mason was a slave owner. Therefore, in keeping with the times, George Mason University is due for a name change. How about Al Sharpton University, Jesse Jackson University or Black Lives Matter University? Does objection to these names make one a racist?
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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Fearing that Donald Trump may lose in November and the presidency may go to whoever Joe Biden chooses as a running mate, I’ve been brushing up on my left-wing reasoning so I can get through the next four years without being thrown off Twitter. Let me see if I have this right. Speech is violence. Silence is violence. Violence is mostly peaceful.
Ninety percent of black Americans who are murdered are murdered by murderers who are also black, so we need to defund the police because white people.
It is absolutely fatal to attend a Trump rally, but perfectly safe to go to a riot.
It is perfectly safe to have a massive funeral for a dead Democrat congressman, but absolutely fatal to gather ten relatives to bury your grandfather.
Trump is a monster to want to reopen the economy, but the fallout from the economic shutdown is his fault.
Trump calling for law and order in Democrat cities violates Twitter policies on glorifying violence, but when Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls for the extermination of the Jewish people that’s a political discussion.
Socialism, which always and everywhere exacerbates inequality, is the cure for inequality, while capitalism, which has made the entire world far wealthier than it’s ever been, is unjust.
The term “gaslighting” comes from a 1938 suspense play by Patrick Hamilton called “Angel Street.” The play, which became the movie “Gaslight,” is about abusive husband Jack Manningham, who seeks to hide the fact that he’s a murderer and a thief by convincing his wife that she’s insane. He does this by trying to make her think she does not see what she sees — the gaslights dimming — or hear what she hears — his footsteps in the apartment above.
Jack Manningham is now, of course, chairman of the Democrat party. All right, that’s a joke. I think. But it is true that America’s leftists are gaslighting us like never before. Every day, every hour, they are using their dominance of America’s information industries to make us believe we don’t see what we see and hear what we hear.
We see their cities burning, but they tell us they’re mostly peaceful. We hear them call America racist and disrespect the National Anthem and the flag, but they tell us they’re patriots. They try to cancel free speech, free worship, and the right to bear arms, threaten to abolish the Electoral College and pack the Supreme Court — and then they tell us it’s Trump who’s a danger to the Constitution. 
We are, all of us, living on Angel Street.
Of course, as an award-winning and dashingly attractive suspense writer myself, it is easy for me to see the problem with the gaslighting plot. In order to make it work, the villain has to completely isolate his victim. The moment anyone says to her: “No, you’re right, the gaslights are dimming,” the whole conspiracy falls apart.
That’s why Democrats wouldn’t let Attorney General William Barr respond to their dishonest and scurrilous charges during his House hearing this week. If he had spoken, America would know that the Democrats are more of a crime family than a political party. That’s why Heather Mac Donald — the best reporter in the country in matters of policing — has to be silenced on YouTube. If she’s allowed to speak, we’ll know the troubles of black Americans have nothing to do with the cops. Even any suggestion that Trump might be right about Hydroxychloroquine is grounds for censorship on Twitter. He’s been right about immigration, China, globalism, and the wars on terror — we wouldn’t want to find out that our experts are empty suits and Orange Man Bad is actually the smart one.
The thing is: You don’t need to censor people when you’re telling the truth. You need to censor them when they’re telling the truth.
It seems at times the gaslighters are winning. Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York is quite literally responsible for the deaths of thousands of old people through his high-handed incompetence in dealing with the Chinese Flu, and yet, after months of media love, he’s one of the most popular governors in the country. Only 29-percent of Americans disapproved of the Washington Redskins’ name, and yet the skins caved in to pressure and changed it. Joe Biden recently told reporters, “I don’t know where I am,” possibly one of the truest statements he’s made in his career, and yet he seems to be leading in the polls against an abrasive but highly competent president.
I don’t know if there’s a Silent Majority out there that still believes in America. I just hope there’s a Silent Majority that still believes in reality.
I guess we’re going to find out.
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In our politically obsessed society, references to George Orwell&#8217;s “1984” are so common that they are at risk of becoming cliché. Terms like “thoughtcrime” and “doublespeak” are effective retorts to the reliable buffet of political lies told every day. The American Left have made <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/11/teaching-1984-in-2016/508226/">repeated</a> attempts to claim that the United States under the Trump administration is <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teens-1984-george-orwell-trump_n_5892445ce4b070cf8b8060a7">synonymous</a> with the “dystopian world in which war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength” described in 1984. However, when we analyze the themes explored in George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel, we increasingly feel that we are reading what appears to be the American Left’s playbook.
1. History
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
On multiple occasions, the Left have demonstrated a desire to rewrite history with two primary objectives. The first is to escape their own history, and the second is to reshape history to enable their future. After all, the Democratic Party is forever tarnished by the legacy of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow. Even after the controversial and refuted “switch,” Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s repeated use of the phrase “n***er bill” during the Civil Rights era exemplifies the fact that the American Left never truly banished racism from its platform. Instead, they embraced a paternalistic bigotry of low expectations which exists to this day.
While this strategy is applied to American history through absurdities like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/historians-shred-nyt-1619-project-claiming-slavery-defines-america">intellectually fraudulent</a> “1619 Project,” the same effort has been exerted against inconvenient elements of world history. The fact that fascism is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-the-deadly-double-standard-of-communism-vs-fascism">rejected</a>while communism, socialism, and Marxism are accepted is testament to the success of the American Left in purposefully failing to educate younger generations on the inevitable failure of Leftist regimes.
Because of this erasure of history, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/politics/biden-charlamagne-tha-god-you-aint-black/index.html">comments</a> from Joe Biden like “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black” or that Mitt Romney would put African Americans “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tells-african-american-audience-gop-ticket-would-put-them-back-in-chains/">back in chains</a>” are ignored. It is why those who openly describe themselves as communists, socialists, or Marxists are embraced and celebrated. It is why we seem to be repeating the mistakes of the past.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
2. Language
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
After history is reformatted to be politically convenient, the next component of the Left’s Orwellian strategy is to gain control of our language in order to achieve ideological ends. There are countless <a href="https://americanmind.org/essays/the-terms-of-our-defeat/">examples</a> of this tactic, including the redefinition of racism to align with the flawed notion of intersectionality, the demand that you prove fealty by chanting “Black Lives Matter” with no regard for its underlying premises or the radical organization it supports, or the assertion that we must “Believe Women” despite the obvious fact that men and women are equally capable of duplicity.
The Left understands that achieving full control of language will open the gateway to their subsequent goal of controlling our culture. The generational removal of methods of dissent or disagreement, alongside the subjective redefinition of words for political gain, will be difficult, if not impossible, to undo. For this reason, and this reason alone, the Left focuses on speech more than anything else. “Speech is violence” justifies a violent reaction to speech, until the only speech that remains is deemed politically acceptable.
“It&#8217;s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
3. Truth
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one&#8217;s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
As the Left’s grip on our language grows tighter, and historical excerpts which debunk their radical principles and positions are intentionally wiped away, they are finally equipped to target and redefine the ultimate and central metric of ideological debate: truth and logic.
While the notion that politicians have a habit of being deceptive shouldn’t be a shocking revelation, the Left’s modern approach to the definition of truth goes far beyond the intentional use of simple falsehoods. To put things bluntly, we have left the realm of “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” and have instead entered an illogical universe where sex and gender simultaneously have no meaning while also being characteristics of upmost importance.
Just like Orwell in 1984, we use the mathematical certainty that “2 + 2 = 4” as an example of concrete truth. However, even such binary notions have been slowly eradicated, with the culturally dominant Left demanding that we accept a fluid version of truth which disregards fundamental logic. For example, if men are women and women are men, how can the Left concurrently posit that our society is dominated by a systemic scourge of malicious misogynistic males who forcefully hold females in positions of subjugation and servitude?
“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”
4. Freedom
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
As truth becomes subjective, the unfortunate outcome is that freedom is diminished. The very notion of freedom has been subtly redefined to remove its original connection to individual liberty with the necessary partner of personal responsibility. Instead, freedom has become tainted by notions of selfishness and entitlement, with no regard for the individual freedom of others. In short, the negative rights of all have been replaced by the positive rights of some.
While this problem also exists on the American Right, the American Left approaches freedom in the same manner as George Orwell, with a distinct focus on the restriction of thought and speech.
Those who speak objective truths —  such as referencing <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism">statistical evidence</a> which counters the claim that police brutality is both racist and systemic, or that life cannot be measured as valid or invalid along a scale of convenience, or even that men and women are different — are castigated as bigots, societally “cancelled,” or even punished.
The fact that the Left attempts to justify such attacks on free speech — whether truthful or not — under the guise of achieving some notion of equality or tolerance is irrelevant when we consider that, without freedom of speech, we can never be free.
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
5. Propaganda
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
No oppressive regime can exist in a vacuum, and all require a method of enforcing their demands. While the (remaining) pages of history are riddled with stories of power achieved through violence alone, the mainstream Left is potentially more dangerous because they exercise control and power not through the violence of groups like Antifa — whom they are happy to passively support — but through the control of truth through curated propaganda in the form of “objective journalism.”
The term “fake news” is so overused (and often misused) that it has lost all meaning. Unfortunately, this has allowed the dishonesty of the mainstream media to hide in plain sight. Instead of performing their assumed “duty” as objective journalists, they have morphed into an elitist gaggle of activists. Instead of screaming their demands in the streets, they shape their reality in our collective psyche through their words and voices.
Ultimately, the blame for this prevalence of shameless lies falls not just on the declining fraternity of journalists, but on society as their audience and consumers. However, it is arguably impossible for a society to question the given narrative when its freedom has been diluted, its ability to question stunted, and its understanding of contextual history rewritten. The nail in this particular coffin is the despicable compulsion of the political and journalistic classes to present adherence to subjective policy as proof of one’s virtue. By doing so, they bypass the need for debate or justification, instead providing people with a lazy method of proving virtue and ideological purity.
The mainstream media have abandoned any hint of objectivity, but continue to benefit from the generational levels of trust and respect earned by their predecessors. Until that changes, their deceitful words will remain powerful, and as a result they will continue to be convenient mouthpieces for the Left.
“Orthodoxy means not thinking&#8211;not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
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George Orwell’s marvelous yet terrifying novel is a hauntingly appropriate novel to reference when criticizing the actions of any political movement. However, in recent years it appears as if the American Left have started to treat it not as a work of fiction, but as a guidebook for power.
Their objective is made simple if our children don’t read — and more crucially understand — profound political works like 1984. Why do you think the Left wants to control our education, our history, and our words?
More from Ian Haworth: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-the-difference-between-cancel-culture-and-free-speech">The Difference Between Cancel Culture And Free Speech</a>
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HAWORTH: 5 Ways Orwell’s ‘1984’ Perfectly Describes The American Left’s Quest For Power

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