Exactly a year
ago, coincidentally, I wrote for FrontPage Mag about the left’s obsession
with obscenity. In that piece I enumerated many examples of the
Democrat penchant for public profanity, and I noted that swearing sends
a thrill up the left’s collective leg because, as good Marxists, they consider
decency to be a contemptable bourgeois value; they still fancy themselves to be
counterculture revolutionaries sticking it to The Man. Nothing has changed in the last year; if
anything, the left has intensified its love affair with vulgarity as President
Donald Trump continues to trigger their basest instincts.
Language alert:
there are quite a few f-words ahead and I’m not going to censor them, so that you
can feel the full repellent impact of the left’s degrading, junior high school
mentality.
One unsurprising example
is foul-mouthed Kathy Griffin, whom you may remember as the purported
comedienne who thought it would be courageous and hilarious to pose with the
mock, bloody, severed head of President Trump. In the wake of the massive,
well-deserved backlash she received, she played the victim and claimed that
Trump had “broken” her. Apparently that last bit was true; as evidence, witness
this recent gutter
musing on Twitter:
FUCK TRUMP
FUCK PENCE
FUCK IVANKA
FUCK JARED
FUCK DON JR.
FUCK HANNITY
FUCK FOX & FRIENDS
FUCK RUSH LIMBAUGH
FUCK MELANIE
FUCK SESSIONS
FUCK STEPHEN MILLER
FUCK JOHN KELLY
FUCK KIRSTJEN NIELSEN
FUCK KELLYANNE
FUCK SARAH SANDERS
FUCK STEVE BANNON
Wow – so
convincingly argued. She followed that up with this ugly message
for Melania Trump, in response to a statement from the First Lady’s spokeswoman
regarding the treatment of children of illegal aliens at our border: “Fuck you,
Melanie. You know damn well your husband can end this immediately...you
feckless complicit piece of shit.” So brave and classy! Such hateful ravings are
typical of the privileged but irrational, uninformed Democrats who dominate the
entertainment industry. Celebrities crave nothing so much as adoration, so they
are fond of virtue-signaling in this manner for the benefit of their fans and
showbiz colleagues – not because celebrities have any insightful clarity to
offer (they don’t) but because it earns them social media “likes” and standing
ovations among their peers, as we shall see in a moment.
It’s not just
celebs, of course. Politicians too – or at least, very minor ones –feel no
compunction to maintain any kind of dignity or decency now. A New Mexico congressional
hopeful named Pat Davis disgracefully proclaimed “Fuck the NRA” in a
campaign ad last month. Just this week, Pennsylvania state representative Brian
Sims tweeted a photo
in which he proudly posed with middle finger raised in imaginary greeting to
Vice President Mike Pence. The caption read,
OFFICIAL WELCOME: @MikePenceVP let me be the first to
officially welcome you to the City of Brotherly Love and to my District! We’re
a City of soaring diversity. We believe in the power of all people: Black,
Brown, Queer, Trans, Atheist, & Immigrant. So...get bent, then get out!
There is so much
soaring (?) diversity in Sims’ district – unless you’re a straight, white
Christian like VP Pence. Then they’ll run you out of town because you’re a
hater. Amusingly, Sims misdirected his rude tweet to a Pence fan account on
Twitter, not to the Vice President's account.
Sims describes
himself on Twitter as an “LGBTQ activist, State Representative, civil
rights attorney, College Football Captain, Bearded, #RuPaulsDragRace fanatic, #LittleMermaid enthusiast.” (Based on this
and his tweet to Pence, he could also add “Capitalization Enthusiast.”) On his
Twitter page Sims is fond of such inflammatory stupidity as accusing
Republicans of throwing the children of illegal aliens into “Concentration
Camps” (capitalized, of course). Presumably he believes the left’s lunatic lie
that Pence wants to hurl the entire LGBT community into concentration camps as
well – hence his profane posturing in the aforementioned tweet.
This is the modern
Democrat party: blathering about diversity and love and the power of all
people, all the while reveling in profanity and openly hateful discrimination
against conservatives.
In the most
infamous recent example, Robert “Aging Bull” De Niro, once a celebrated actor
and now reduced by Trump-hatred to a better-dressed version of an unhinged
vagrant cursing at clouds, stepped onstage at the recent Tony Awards show to
introduce a performance by rocker Bruce Springsteen. Proving that President
Trump is living rent-free in De Niro’s head, he began thus:
“I’m gonna say one thing – fuck Trump.” De Niro then lifted his fists in the
air like a silverback gorilla displaying aggression, as the privileged audience
of Hollywood elite got to its feet and cheered rapturously. “It’s no longer
‘Down with Trump,’” he continued, “it’s ‘Fuck Trump.’” More primate aggression.
More ecstatic cheering.
De Niro’s
behavior was not only inappropriate for the setting (or any setting), it was juvenile and stupid, regardless of your
politics or who the President is. Spewing the f-word publicly at a political
opponent is a clear sign that you have run out of valid arguments, wit, and
dignity, and are left with nothing but inarticulate rage and frustration. It is
what you do when rabid emotion, not common sense, is most effective weapon in
your armory. Certainly, the contemporary political climate is insane enough to
drive anyone to the brink of inarticulate exasperation, but it is one thing to
express that profanely in private and quite another to do so before the whole
world – or at least the sliver of it that tuned in to the Tony Awards (it was
beaten in the ratings that night by Celebrity
Family Feud).
But this is what
Donald Trump has reduced the left to – or more precisely, what he has exposed them as: enraged children
seeking validation from each other in a pretense of anti-Establishment
rebellion, desperately trying to control our political discourse by deflecting
from Trump’s successes. As the President achieves such anti-Progressive aims as
galvanizing the economy, boosting black employment, enforcing law and order,
and asserting our autonomy at the United Nations, the impotent left has nothing
left but to snap at his heels with sophomoric epithets.
