Referring to Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez’s Congressional election victory last month, Democratic National
Committee chairman Tom Perez said in a radio interview last week that the
28-year-old rising star from the Democratic Socialists of America represents
"the future of our party." There is no other way to interpret
this except as a direct admission that Democrats see socialism itself as the
future of America, which will come as
no surprise to anyone on the right.
Democrats love to
dream about the future. The past is a tragic span of class oppression and the
present is the workers’ revolution in progress, but the future is where it’s
at. Like the proletariat heroes on Communist propaganda posters, leftists are
fond of gazing off into the distance at a glorious Shangri-LaShangri-La on the horizon.. What they tend to downplay is the genocidal
totalitarianism necessary to pave the way for that new dawn new dawn – but hey, you can’t make the
ideal omelet without breaking a few million eggs.
The future as
conceived by the left is always a utopian vision in which inconvenient human
nature has been hammered (and sickled) into compliance and in which equality of
outcome – except for the political elites at the top –is brutally enforced.
It’s worth reminding ourselves here that the word “utopia,” coined in the 16th
century by Sir Thomas More for his political satire of the same name, was a
play on Greek words meaning “no place” – for that is where utopia is to be
found. That is why the left insists on ruthlessly engineering reality and human
nature in order to mold them to fit the dream – or else. And that is why the
left always begins by declaring “We’re on the right side of history” and ends
by blithely proclaiming, “We’ll get it right next time.” In between, the
utopians leave behind a wasteland, an archipelago of gulags, and untold numbers
of murdered victims and crushed spirits.
And yet some on the left consider even
Hillary’s vision of the future to be not radical and illogical enough. The
so-called “intersectional” feminists declare, as one
headline put it, that “The
Future is Not Female - It is Two-Spirit, Trans and Non-Binary.” I hate
to be the bearer of bad news to them, but the narcissistic, gender-blending fantasies
of naïve millennials have no future at all beyond the safe spaces of academe.
They will quickly learn that the real world has no patience for
preferred-pronoun petulance.
Another example. The
leftist site HuffPost tweeted
recently about Desmond is Amazing, a 10-year-old drag queen (yes, you read that
right) who calls himself an LGBT advocate. “As Pride month comes to a
close, Desmond Is Amazing, the ten-year-old drag kid from New York, is proof
that the future is queer,” crowed HuffPost. Sorry, but a single manipulated child is hardly evidence
that the future is queer, whatever that even means. It should be clear to anyone
upon a moment’s reflection that if the future is queer, then the future is a
dead end in a single generation.
In response to the
HuffPost tweet, clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, author of the
bestselling 12 Rules for Life and certainly the most popular public
intellectual since Joseph “Follow your bliss” Campbell in the 1980s, tweeted, “In
what moral universe is it acceptable to encourage a 10 yr old boy to dress like
an adult male mimicking a sexualized adult female, use that as a ticket to fame
and then claim it as virtue?”
The leftist moral
universe, that’s which one. It is the topsy-turvy (im)moral realm in which everything
perverse and criminal is celebrated, while normal (yes, normal)
traditional values are deemed evil and oppressive. Jordan Peterson is not even a
conservative, or so he claims, and yet he clearly recognizes that the left’s vampiric
embrace of this child is not celebration but exploitation. Sorry, HuffPost
virtue-signalers, but the future is not going to be queer.
As always, the
leftists are wrong: the future will belong to neither socialists, nor just females,
nor any identity-politics splinter group, because that future spells division
and decay and doom. Of course, the left will keep trying, keep failing, and
ultimately the future will be conservative.
Why is
conservatism the future? The answer is simple: conservatism works. It offers not
a utopian promise but a future grounded in reality and built upon the best that
humanity has expressed and achieved. It is a future that protects the
independence and freedom of all equally, not one which enforces equality of
outcome and keeps everyone in thrall to mediocrity and to spiritual, as well as
economic, impoverishment. Conservatism as a political, economic, and social
worldview works because freedom works.
As Donald Trump’s provocative
presidency continues to expose the hateful radicalism at the heart of the
Democrat party, it becomes undeniable what the Marxists want: the tearing down
of everything. They want the abolishment of ICE and borders, of law and order, of
private property, of free speech, of the Constitution, of the family unit, of
traditional values, of Western civilization itself. The future they envision demands
the eradication of it all. As evidenced by the #WalkAway trend on social media,
more and more Democrats and Independents are being driven toward the common
sense of conservatism by this lunacy.
To many, the perfect
future the left promises is a lie as seductive as Satan himself. But peel away
the promises and what the left really offers is hate and annihilation, without
a real-world plan for building anything upon the ruins. Conservatism offers a workable
future for you, every one of us individually, not the same colorless dead
end for everyone in the collective. And that is why conservatism is the future,
and progressivism has none.
From FrontPage Mag, 7/10/18
