There are countless contradictions on what passes for the left these days. We’re against sexism, they cry, and then they’ll while away entire days hounding every uppity broad who dares to question the trans ideology. We’re anti-racist, they say, even as they yell ‘Uncle Tom’ at any person of colour who deviates from their white liberal orthodoxies. Be kind, they tweet, in between their venomous crusades against TERFs, gammon, boomers, deplorables, ‘semi-fascists’, you name it.
We’re against austerity, they insist, and yet then they agitate for an austerity of apocalyptic proportions. This, surely, is the most stark incongruity of the modern left. They rail against every library closure or reform of welfare payments as an intolerable assault on people’s living standards, and then they take to the streets in their thousands in support of a degrowth agenda that would plunge vast swathes of humankind into penury. They’re far meaner than any right-wing penny-pincher they claim to oppose. MORE
We are the people they want to do those things — not them. When you keep all of that in mind you will understand it. (As Mr. Spock once said: “I said I understood, not that I agreed.”)
Trumps motto should be “It’s the Hypocrisy Stupid.”
Enviormentalism is you and I living like peasants, and the likes of Kerry, Biden, Obama, McConnell, Pelosi, Romney, Al Gore and the like living like kings.