Among Big Left’s great crimes against history is the complete devaluation they have achieved against the term “Fascist”. To much of the parts of society that routinely use the word, it now means “anyone not on board with today’s left’s narrative”.
No, really:
And Big Left knows what it’s doing, since the other options have also been hijacked. Call someone a Nazi, and you’re overwrought. Call someone a Communist, and people start jabbering about the Red Scare.
“Authoritarian” works, but it doesn’t have quite the same emotional impact – and Big Left has been diluting that one by associating it with Trump – a demonstrably less authoritarian president than Obama or The Potato.
So given the options, what does one call a political figure or party that:
- Their ends justify their means – including the use of government force to secure compliance
- Tries to co-opt the institutions of society to further their political ends, starting with government and schools and ending with the family itself?
- Aggressively “sorts” society into “good guys” and, especially, “others” to use as scapegoats and deflections from one’s own actions – up to and including creating an official version of “reality” that may or may not have much in common with the real thing.
Let’s take a thoroughly educational look at a politician who seems to check off all the boxes for…well, the “A” word. And maybe some definitions of the “F” word.
The Real Authority
Maye Quade is a fully-fledged creation of leftist institutions – and pays obeisance to them:
But she certainly has no love lost for society’s actual institutions.
Like parenthood.
She wants to nullify parents trying to teach their children morality and ethics, so her side doesn’t have to work quite so hard to uproot them. j
This is, of course, on top of her very casual relationship with telling the truth if it’s not in her political interest.
Might Makes Right
Maye Quade may not actually have the executive power to sicc government and its monopoly in the use of force on her political (and finanncial?) enemies.
“I would love to eminent domain all 98 of these crisis pregnancy centers and turn them into affordable housing for people who do have children,” said Sen. Maye Quade. “I would love to turn them into food banks and diaper banks and formula banks. Like, these are things that actually support people having children when they decide they would like to have children, and everything that crisis pregnancy centers are doing is not that. None of it is that.”
Aggressively Sorting
Maye Quade has a staffer who’s got a bit of a “virulent anti-Semite” vibe.
This is, of course, shocking in that the aide is more antisemitic than Maye Quade’s own equivocating weasel-word-larded antisemitism:
Your tax dollars are paying for this.
It should go without saying Senator Maye Quade, like all leftists, is more aggressively yet casually racist about “othering” apostates – in this case, Senator Tim Scott, a Republican and African-American:
…which is a perfect invocation of Berg’s 11th Law.
And, like every good gaslighting abusive partner, it’s all really your fault:
Hard to miss the fact that the “consequences” in her “culture” are entirely one-sided. But that’s the nature of the abusive gaslighter. But then, I did mention creating an alternate, “official” reality, didn’t I?
No, really – an actual alternate reality…
…deviance from which is considered heresy.
I mean, a Republican with a similiar record of shilling for naked authority, advocating the co-option of instutions and relentlessly cutting out “others” to use as enemies would be called an “authoritarian” at the very least.
And yet it’s Senator Maye Quade that walks the walk
I’d love to eminent domain her house, bulldoze it and turn it into a parking lot.
Sometimes I wonder if Erin realizes she is a hothouse flower, able to survive only because modern American society tolerates and subsidizes her even as she demands modern American society be destroyed. I doubt it. It probably never occurs to her (or others like her) because nobody likes to think of themself as being a historical anomaly, an evolutionary dead end, Judas to an entire civilization.
Even as little as 100 years ago, lesbians didn’t live in open relationships, they didn’t adopt children, they didn’t live off hand-outs from the wives of men who made and sold things, they didn’t expect the world to remake itself to avoid offending them. They were too busy surviving, same as everybody else. Even 50 years ago, when the Boat People followed our maimed and crippled Vietnam veterans home from Southeast Asia, “Peace Studies” was barely beginning to be a thing on college campus but existed nowhere else in the world. It was a fantasy not a major.
When the Lesko Brandon administration spends the dollar into a hyperinflationary economic collapse like the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe, the donations to leftist causes will dry up and what marketable skills will she have? Insult comic? Court jester?
One wonders if Erin would rather share a bathroom with a bear or a man who calls himself a woman?
The abused word that irks me the most now is the new “N”-word: Narcissist. Suddenly everyone you don’t like is a narcissist, and narcissism is the greatest scourge of our society that must now be rooted out. It’s likely an anti-Trump drumbeat or dog whistle. It may also be because the previous N-word, Nazi, has lost its meaning. Any headline or comment I see now with “narcissist” in it is automatically ignored.
I’m having trouble putting stiletto heels on that bint.
Regarding Quade’s stance on trans issues, she’s got only one child (whose DNA, hers or her wife’s?), and so I think she’s somewhat insulated from the worst realities of letting “trans women” onto teams, and hence into locker rooms and bathrooms. That most crucial reality, IMO, is that it’s impossible to tell the difference between a pre-op “transwoman” and a guy who should be on Megan’s List who wants to use that locker room access for his own purposes. Second biggest issue is that in sports, larger, stronger males are going to get girls hurt.
She’s got only one child, doesn’t work out with the rest of us, doesn’t do sports, and she’s a protected political class. So she’s not going to care until she’s threatened at the polls.
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What a disgusting THING this THING is. Gross on so many levels. I wish the absolute worst for ‘it’.
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