Mao (in)famously once said that power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Do note how he phrased it: he’s not saying that guns equal power but, rather, that using guns equals power. It grows out of the barrel of the gun and, of course, what comes out of barrel from the smallest pistol to the heaviest artillery is a lethal projectile. He’s advising his followers to ruthlessly shoot their way into power.
This is cruel and ruthless but it is recommended by one of the primary tests of human experience: it works. Mao and his people killed anyone who got in their way and so obtained power. Chiang and his people – who were capable of killing quite a lot of people – lacked that last bit of supreme ruthless cruelty to impose their will on China. The Nationalists viewed the people on the other side as Chinese. As people they could, in the end, work with. They did not or would not see them for what they were and are: people entirely alienated from God who will do anything to win.
Couple of things crossed my TL over the past 24 hours or so and that is what got me thinking about power and how it is used. The first was a story in the AP:
Mass shootings broke out at festivals, block parties and other gatherings in a handful of cities this week as the U.S. celebrated July Fourth.
Gun violence left more than a dozen dead and almost 60 wounded, including children as young as 2 years old.
The second came my way via a link from @varadmehta on Twitter (who is a genuine must-follow if you have an account: you will not always agree with him, but you’ll learn stuff all the time) to this story:
After previously pledging to support school choice, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announces that he will cave to the teachers union bought and paid for Democrat majority in the PA House and line item veto the full $100M appropriation for voucher programs and scholarships that provide educational opportunity to low-income children.
Shapiro surprised a lot of people by his support for school choice – something which Democrats denounce as a Nazi White Supremacist homo-/transphobic blah blah blah totes evil thing that no decent person can support. We know why: breaking up the public school monopoly is a body blow to the Democrats. But Shapiro said he’d buck the party and back it…but now he’s flipped. We don’t know what pressure the unions and other Democrat interest groups brought, but they brought it. Likely threats of political and personal pain of a high order. The proposal, itself, is quite popular among Pennsylvania voters (as it is everywhere). Shapiro would almost certainly not lose a general election by supporting it…but he could have faced a primary challenger and if he’s got even the slightest skeleton in the closet, that could be brought up against him in the worst possible way with all elements of the MSM hounding him. So, he caved; lacked courage. But, that is nothing new in politics. But notice what the Democrats did here: in order to protect something hideous – the public schools and the teacher’s unions – they went to the mat. It doesn’t matter that the proposal was popular…what mattered was who had the power and the willingness to use it. The Democrats told Shapiro, one way or another, that they would use power against him if he didn’t repent.
Now, over to my first link: all those shootings. They are all in deep Blue areas and are the direct result of the collapse of police authority combined with now several generations of teaching people that barbarism is ok. Think about this: the same people who are calling a minor riot in DC an “insurrection” and sentencing people to years in jail for what amounts to trespassing set up the situation in the Blue cities where heavily armed savages would have the means of going on a rampage at the drop of a hat. This is no coincidence. This is intentional. Both are exercises of power.
It is very easy to establish and maintain public order. People have been doing it for a long time. And in America, it is in our national heritage. The stories of people like Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok are the stories of order being imposed on chaos. The hell-roaring mining towns were filled with young, aggressive men with lots of booze available. People like Earp, sometimes very roughly, brought order to such places. People were instructed by the ruthless application of power that drunken brawling and gunfights weren’t allowed. And, so, they stopped. We could easily do it again. Sure, some people would have to die, but not most – just some. Enough to get the message across; movies tell us that Billy the Kid and his friends all went down fighting. Truth is that while Billy was killed, most of the rest died of old age…the killing of Billy getting the message across. But nobody sends the law into these areas, now do they? And these days even less than before (the cops are likely unwilling to make arrests in certain minority-heavy zip codes for fear of losing their job and/or being send to jail on trumped up charges). This means that the chaos – the barbarism – is wanted. It is a desired end. As I’ve said before, the end here is the Left’s very Leninist view that all crime is actually the result of private property and a Capitalist system. When one of these thugs robs or kills, it isn’t the thug’s fault…it is yours. And you’re being justly punished. And to stop it you’ll have to give up your guns! See how that goes?
What we see in both instances – Shapiro caving and barbarians murdering – is the ruthless exercise of power by people who are determined to rule no matter what. By any means necessary, as they say. They have no sense of decency. They have utterly rejected God. What is moral is what gives them power. What is immoral is anything that denies them power. And everyone who is not of them is on the chopping block. No, not everyone today, but everyone eventually…and they systemically use power to divide and confuse us so that we can be easily picked off. We can hope that God speaks to them and they repent – but as long as they are as they are, they can only be stopped.
And it will take the quite ruthless use of power to stop them. I’ve talked about this before; confiscations of wealth. Expulsion from institutions public and private. Jailing for some. The absolute insistence upon public order and decency. Armored against the false tears of the Left; unconcerned with what they call us. Just getting it done because if we don’t, we’re doomed. And I’m not talking about doomed to lose an election – I’m talking about doomed as in done to death. The Left never takes prisoners. It always keeps going. The punishments always grow more severe and applied to ever more people. What is unimaginable today is going to be commonplace in a few years. Just think of how they’ve moved the ball in the last ten years. They will not stop; so, we have to stop them.
Trouble is, I don’t think one in a hundred on the Right realize what is needed. A very few voices are now being raised stating the bleak truth…but not many. Still far too many looking at someone saying “ACAB” and thinking, “there’s a fellow citizen I can cooperate with!”. It isn’t like that. You may not hate them and wish them dead – but they hate you and wish you dead. The only question is which one of you will emerge triumphant?
It isn’t a matter, by the way, of becoming cruel and dishonest like the Left. We’ve no need to become inhuman. But we do have to be strong and allow no compromise. There is no mid-point between us; no way for each to be content with half a loaf. They left off that more than a century ago – they want it all and they will never stop until they get it all…or we take all from them and leave them incapable of further effort.
Our choice. We’ll see what we choose.
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what comes out of barrel from the smallest pistol to the heaviest artillery is a lethal projectile
The problem is most Leftists don’t know which end of the barrel the round comes out of. Most of them hate guns. It’s the main reason they’ve never started a violent revolution.
lol – that is true; but enough of them do know how to hire third world peasants to shoot us.
They are really at a double disadvantage: they hate guns, and their ideas don’t resonate with the majority of Americans. The only way they can implement their ideas is, (a) lie about them, or (b) implement them by force. Eventually either method runs up against a brick wall.
This is such important breaking news that I’m going to post the whole thing instead of just a link.
I wonder how The Lancet feels about being cancelled by Preprints.
Hey, did you hear that a Russian hooker vacuumed cocaine out of her belly button, collected it in an envelope, and left it in the library of the President’s personal residence at the White House?
LOL, can you believe this shit? Dan Bongino reported that the area the coke was found in, is highly secured and not available to the public. So here we have mentally retarded trans people getting naked on the white house lawn and cocaine lying around the west wing.
Thanks Biden voters.
I think they are getting ready to throw the Secret Service under the bus here, blaming them either for bringing the drug into the White House or failing to keep someone else from doing so.
BTW, anyone who has watched Miami Vice or similar shows knows that there is a quantity of drug known as a “dime bag”—not a “dime-SIZED bag” as dutifully reported in the press. I have no idea of how much dope is in a “dime bag” but I’ll bet it is more than what is implied by the “dime-SIZED” narrative. Given the prevalence of cocaine in the television industry I doubt that this is an honest misunderstanding (like that of my old auntie who could never understand what was so shocking about Monica Lewinski showing the president her thong, thinking she showed him her flip-flop sandal.)
The location where the cocaine was found keeps changing.
Key paragraph:
Unless, of course, the Secret Service is as corrupt as every other group in this administration.
The odd behavior of Hunter Biden at the White House 4th of July celebration does lend credence to the theory that he was doing coke while visiting/staying there. No one else was agitated, visibly sweating or needing to run off to wipe his or her nose.
I think that they have a low opinion of you. As for me: I have no opinion. I’m just not interested.
If you ever, just even once, come across with an opinion which is not right out of the DNC script as transmitted by the news actors on television, I’ll take note.
There was a comment yesterday that Amazona, Cluster, and I think so little of Mark that we need to defend his thinking, or something to that effect. It’s been deleted, and now that I’m trying to recreate it in my mind, it makes even less sense than it did yesterday. Something in settings is messed up, because screen names have been replaced with a numeral 1 enclosed in brackets, at least that’s what’s showing on my screen, so I don’t know who the commenter was, Probably Forty if I had to guess. Anyway, I just want to state for the record that I think so little of Mark that I will celebrate 20 years on this blog early next year. I don’t always agree with him, but I respect his point of view.
I used to think we were headed toward a violent confrontation with the Left, and I often said so on this blog, but it appears that Conservatives are finally awakening to the dangers posed by Left-wing rule and taking appropriate Constitutional actions, ie., getting elected to school boards, city councils, etc.. I also stand by my statement from a while back that, if anyone is going to use violence to counter their political adversaries, it will be the Left. In fact, they already have. The Left has owned political violence since the late 1960s, notwithstanding the one-off event of January 6, 2021.
Back from the mountains of Idaho and a much needed break, although I think I left my cocaine somewhere. Maybe in the white house situation room. Can you believe this shit?? The Bidens are white trash and easily the worst family to ever occupy the White House. Illegitimately I might add.
Re: Mark, I agree with him 90% of the time, and I always learn a little bit from his take on matters whether we agree or not. Plus his grasp of history is impressive. I didn’t see the comment but I know exactly what the intention was … and that was to divide conservatives. Which the media tries to do everyday, in their own childish way. If you’re pro DeSantis you must hate Trump and vice versa, and on and on. For self proclaimed “non binary” people, their political bent is exclusively binary.
And you are correct Spook, the Democrat Left is all about violence. They’ve destroyed inner cities, killed innocent people, and ruined many lives all since 2020, and their violence since the 1960’s is also well documented, so don’t ever shy away from the fight. There is only one way to beat a bully, and that is to out bully them … and all options are always on the table. IMHO, the confrontation between American Conservatives and Woke Democrats is long past due. Bring it.
although I think I left my cocaine somewhere. Maybe in the white house situation room
Or maybe the Oval Office, heh.
Mostly it just gets so tiresome.
I have started to come across a couple Lefties getting red-pilled. They aren’t abandoning their Left views – these are some gay people, some trans people, some global warming people, that sort of thing – but they are understanding that if you dissent in the least, the Left turns on you and seeks to destroy. Meanwhile, we on the Right are very much, “cool opinion you got there, I think it is wrong” and move on.
But what I am saying, to make it clear, is that to beat the Left we must become ruthless. Not in the sense of cruelty and dishonesty – but in the application of power, legally obtained. I’ve talked about it – things like a wealth tax on super billionaires. Technically, non-partisan as it would hit any GOP or Right-leaning billionaires…but we know that most billionaires are far Left; so such a thing is a gut punch to the Left. Same thing with, say, confiscating the Ivy League endowments – with it being used to retire student loan debt and/or provide school choice funds for primary education. Once again, technically non-partisan…but another gut punch to the Left as they use these colleges (which are really no more than hedge funds with universities attached for tax purposes) to indoctrinate people and provide credentialed Maoists to rule the government and corporate bureaucracies. On and on like that – and as for jailing: it is a major – very, very major – felony to have a controlled substance in the White House. Someone brought it in and they already know exactly who it was – don’t try to sell me that the most secure residence in the United States – and perhaps in the world – has something like that happening without someone knowing. Whoever did it is looking at years in jail…I merely propose to enforce the laws and send them to jail. After all, if a grandmother is getting years for trespassing, nobody should object to that, right? No more MSM stories about Hunter being the story of a father’s love, ya dig?
“tiresome” is the right word.
We talk about the divisions in our society and I think the most tiresome is the one illustrated by the division between those of us who take our problems seriously and those who just see them as launching pads for indulging in narcissistic temper tantrums. I think forty is a great example of this.
For all his posturing as a “thinker”, for all his admittedly coherent writing style, when you look at the content there is never a single serious, productive, element to any of it. He sits on the sidelines like a vulture, just looking for something to ridicule, snipe at, or quote some contradictory comment from someone else that is supposed to destroy what we have said or thought or cited. I’ve often referred to his type as “blog vandals”—they contribute no original thought or productive ideas, just lurk in hopes of finding something to savage or sneer at.
And the narcissism shows up in other ways, such as his conviction that he is considered so important that HE MUST BE SILENCED. But it’s really more like scraping dog shit off your shoe before coming into the house. It’s not as if a little poo would be the end of the world. It might stink up the place a little, for a while, but it’s really no big deal. But it’s an unnecessary annoyance, with no redeeming value.
Some of us give serious thought to the problems of the nation and offer ideas of how to address them. These thoughts might not always illustrate great or deep thinking, but they are sincere and they are serious, and they are our ways of trying to deal with matters that we truly care about. I don’t get a sense of that from forty, and never have. All I have ever gotten from him is what I keep coming back to as vandalism—-a desire to tear down or damage what belongs to someone else. A sneering, snarling nihilistic need to attack what others find important or valuable.
I don’t think anyone respects that. And on top of that is that mewling demand to be taken seriously, as if there is any content there that calls for that. It’s just ego, but tinged with a malice that makes it really really …..tiresome.
Zuck has launched his new social medial platform, Threads, to directly compete with Twitter…so the story goes.
To be sure, Zuck wouldn’t mind if a huge amount of Twitter’s market share moved over but looking at it, the purpose is clear: to get Progressives into a bubble where the Narrative is never challenged. Some Libertarian and Right people tried to set up accounts there and they were immediately censored…and will almost certainly be shadow-banned if allowed to remain at all. That is what tells the tale: that the reason for making Threads is to get Left people out of Twitter where they are increasingly exposed to dissenting voices and get them into a place where all they’ll hear is affirmation of Left views. They are worried about losing their congregation!
Another example of this is the Entertainment Establishment treatment of The Sound of Freedom – the new anti-child trafficking movie; they are calling it Q-Anon paranoia. Now, why would they do that? It is based on a true story. We know that child trafficking is common. Everyone is opposed to child trafficking, right? Shouldn’t this be a chance to do something as a people cutting right across ideological lines?
Well, to nutshell it, no.
You see, you’re basic Progressive doesn’t even know there’s a crisis at the border. The TV hasn’t told them. They are also unaware of the amount of child trafficking going on…both on our border and around the wider world. Once again, TV hasn’t told them…but if they find out that it is happening and that the US government – as well as governments around the world – are turning a blind eye to it then that would cause outrage and the worst thing in the Progressive world: questioning the Narrative. So, what the Establishment is doing is trying to convince Progressives to not see it. To once again keep them in their bubble.
This is why when our Progs show up here of late, if I respond at all it is just to tell them that they’ll have to come up with something, anything which isn’t off the script. Prove to me that they tried some independent source of information and/or engaged in some genuine thought. I doubt most of them ever will.
The thing is, those “Left views” are always pure emotion, never actual Leftist views on the best structure for governing the country. They are always about how they FEEL, and that is almost always either about what affect THEM or what lets them feel morally superior because of some position they have adopted.
That’s what really bothers me about the death spiral of this country—so little of it is due to serious, sincere, decisions about a political model, and so much of it is nothing but hyper-emotive fluff. I think that even few of your “credentialed Maoists” are credentialed in actual Marxist or Maoist dogma—they are just part of the ignorant stew of “I wants” and “I feels” and most of all, the most controlling of all, is their knee-jerk antagonism to the Invented Other they have been trained to hate.
We’ve talked about my objection to targeting people because they are rich, but I find a lot of merit in your comments about university endowments. This is one of those things that sounded like such a good idea at one time—ask alumni to continue supporting their alma maters once they begin to benefit from the educations they received. But it has morphed into quite a scam.
These schools are taking government funding, while sitting on billions of dollars, and they are benefiting from the government interference in the student loan scam. Being able to benefit from guaranteed income has allowed them to vastly increase the costs of attending while expanding the administration branches of these schools, till they bear little resemblance to the institutions of learning they used to represent. So they now support huge departments that have little or nothing to do with actual teaching or education, they offer meaningless programs designed to attract slackers while bleeding off tens of thousands of dollars for degrees which are useless and represent empty platitudes and racist indoctrination, among other deceptions. They trade on the status gained by their former excellence, and many if not all of them take huge sums of money from China, compromising them as we face challenges to our liberty and way of life from that direction.
So I am in favor of ending the whole endowment scam. Cut the tax benefits of leaving money to a school, in the same way we should cut tax benefits to churches that exceed their identity as places of worship and become political agents. Force schools to fund their own student loan programs. Limit the amount of money that a school can take from a foreign nation or entity, and require that it be justified in detail. And if a school is receiving government funding it should meet standards of education, including a justifiable ratio of administration to teachers to students.
This would not be targeting them just because they have billions of dollars, but because they have become elaborate, tax-funded, anti-American mechanisms for the transfer of wealth and the political indoctrination of our youth.
Another example of this is the Entertainment Establishment treatment of The Sound of Freedom – the new anti-child trafficking movie; they are calling it Q-Anon paranoia. Now, why would they do that? It is based on a true story. We know that child trafficking is common.
Even our own State Department estimates (on the State Department website) that there are 27.6 million victims of human traficking worldwide at any given time. That’s all ages, and they don’t break it down by age group, but even if only 10% are children, that’s still nearly 3 million children at any given time.
I got back too late last night to log on, so I’m playing catch-up. Wild weather caused enough flooding in my ranchland property to wash out the miles-long dirt road to my place, so it was a few days of enforced isolation, which I didn’t mind at all. A few roof panels blown off outbuildings but all in all, not a disaster area.
If there was whining about me, it was probably from forty, who seems to be rather obsessed with me and my powers. Though I’m a little hurt that they have evidently been downgraded to the point where I need backup from Spook. His efforts to stir up internal conflict on the blog are transparent and pathetic.. His constant reminders that someone here betrayed a trust and can, therefore, not be trusted are old and worn out but seem to be all he has, though now it seems he is trying to drag Spook in. It has evidently not yet sunk in that when you lack all credibility you lack all credibility.
I’ve been taking the cockeyed optimist position for a long time now that we (the Right) can prevail without violence, if we just get our shit together, find a focus and find a voice. We now have some real warriors in Congress—mostly in the House, but if Banks gets into the Senate he might be able to galvanize some of the squishes and fossils there.
As for the much-ballyhooed “political violence” of January 6, I’ve seen more violence at Super Bowl celebrations. Take out the false flag contingent on January 6 and you have some people doing the equivalent of jaywalking with such a very few outliers that they have had to have charges massively pumped up and exaggerated and then been bullied into guilty pleas by their exposure to Lubyanka-style incarceration. While true historians will find January 6 to be a shameful stain on our nation’s history, it will be one of government malfeasance on a level that has still not been fully revealed.
Here’s some pretty good advice going forward:
I’m tired of fat, ugly, whiny, privileged, entitled black women trashing this country. They are human trash themselves, and one reason why they are so angry is that their men hate them and treat them like dirt. Over 70% of black children have no father in the home. It’s not Americas problem, it’s a black culture problem.
R&B artist Jill Scott is slammed for savage national anthem rendition branding the U.S as ‘home of the slave’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12273573/R-B-singer-Jill-Scott-slammed-savaging-National-Anthem.html
As long as we keep flaunting our inclusivity by having America-haters chosen to sing the National Anthem we are going to keep seeing it butchered by low-lifes like Scott.
I am more and more convinced that every single problem experienced by black people is directly due to the black culture in this country. It’s as if the Left advertised for a demographic to commit educational, economic and social suicide by creating and then expanding a division between it and the rest of the country, and blacks swarmed to sign up.
I think this started to resonate with me when Obama first came on the scene and we saw the members of his church, that of the “Reverend” Wright. These were affluent, successful black people experiencing the best that our nation has to offer, and they led two lives—one of normalcy, moving among us if you will in fine clothes, driving nice cars and living in good neighborhoods and having good jobs, while living lives of seething rage and hatred of the nation that made those lives possible. Most of us never see that underbelly of virulent hatred and resentment cloaked in middle class disguises, and it came as quite a shock to most of us.
These were not ghetto people, living in awful conditions in violent neighborhoods just trying to survive. These were affluent people living upper-middle-class lives, yet wallowing in blind racial loathing of others merely for the color of their skin. And, BTW, they were not reaching out to help those IN the ghettos. I looked very carefully at the time and never found a single reference to any outreach from Wright’s church, or Plfager’s, to help those who needed help. But they did pony up for a multi-million dollar house for Wright—in a white neighborhood.
The toxicity of this culture was astounding. And it has spread, become more mainstream, more visible. Now they are openly attacking black people for not being part of it, people like Clarence Thomas, openly declaring color-based warfare.
These were affluent, successful black people experiencing the best that our nation has to offer, and they led two lives—one of normalcy, moving among us if you will in fine clothes, driving nice cars and living in good neighborhoods and having good jobs, while living lives of seething rage and hatred of the nation that made those lives possible.
Spot on. Sociologists will have a lot to study. The damage Democrats have done to this country is immeasurable.
Is this not one of the most hypocritical messages ever?? And of course, it’s from woke Democrats
This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.
Ben and Jerry could start this trend by turning over their entire capitalist ice cream empire, and every single one of their multiple homes to Native Americans. I’ll wait.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/ben-jerrys-parent-company-gets-stock-rocked-ice/
Someone needs to explain to me what QAnon actually is … other than a strawman set up by the Left. Aside from that, note how the author diminishes the very real threat of child sex trafficking. This is who Democrats have become. Vile, despicable people.
These films are created out of moral panics. They’re created out of bogus statistics. They’re created out of fear. And with something like Sound of Freedom, it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings that are run by the high-level elites and only people like Tim Ballard and only people like Jim Caviezel, and by extension, only people like the ticket buyer can help bring these trafficking rings down. So, there’s a very participatory element. You’re not just going to see a movie, you’re just killing two hours on a hot day. You are helping bring down these pedophile rings and save children. Now, it’s not true, but it’s a very comforting and it’s a very warm feeling to have.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2023/07/08/cnn-movie-sex-trafficking-moral-panic-meant-appease-qanon
It’s been interesting to see the Internet, originally seen by the Left as a wonderful tool for propaganda, also being used to undermine that propaganda and reach tens of millions of people with the truth. Without the Internet, the Left might have been able to spread rumors about this insidious movement that “poses a danger to democracy” with some degree of success, because there wouldn’t have been any way to exchange information about it. As is, the scam fell apart very quickly, in spite of Leftist efforts to revive it and get all panicky about it.
Q-Anon was a Leftist creature from the very beginning, another of its false flag efforts where it (1) created something outrageous, (2) attributed it to the Right, and (3) then pointed at it and howled about how awful it proved the Right to be. Conservatives never heard of it, other than from foaming-at-the-mouth Libs pointing scoldy fingers and howling about how this proved the stupidity/insanity of the Right. If a conservative were to say, in so many words, “This is something I should investigate” then that person could be branded forever as a “Q-Anon ” lunatic even if he or she took a quick look at it and immediately dismissed it as quackery.
The thing is, it was always as clumsy and transparent as the wardrobe-coordinated “white supremacist” FBI marchers and the screeching woman in green who has become a standard, now for making fun of them.
I just keep coming back to the same core question: If Leftism is really such a superior political model, such a better way to govern a nation, why can’t it be explained and promoted and advocated for what it is? If it’s really the answer to how best to govern a nation, why does it depend so heavily (exclusively) on all these disguises, tricks, feints, distractions, deceptions and avoidances of actually discussing the nuts and bolts of how it works and its history when applied?
Even those Leftists who are open about their agendas always focus on their desired OUTCOMES—-“this is what we want to accomplish”. But they very carefully avoid any discussion of the structure of the system that allows this or benefits from it. (Case in point: they touted the alleged benefits of the “vaccine” and the belief that some people should be forced to do “what’s good for them”, in the interest of protecting society and saving lives, blah blah blah. They skipped over the blatant tyranny of a single man signing a document forcing people to inject an experimental drug or lose their jobs, their military positions, even the freedom to travel. The sleight of hand was to loudly proclaim the inherent morality of what they wanted to accomplish, while simply ignoring the methods being used, or their implications.)
They actually tend to get very huffy if you point out that theirs is a system of consolidation of power in the hands of a few, who then impose their agendas on everyone.
I wonder when it is going to sink in that the Left is tacitly admitting its preference for sexualized children, human trafficking and sex slavery. Right now I think some are convincing themselves that they are merely presenting thoughtful responses to parental concerns, a new movie, etc. But we out here in the Heartland get the message and understand it—these people are fighting to protect something that is very important to them, and that is the freedom and eventual social acceptance of using children as sex objects.
They got a lot of mileage out of linking child abuse to the Catholic Church with their nonstop shrieking about PEDOPHILIA !!!. Once it started to become more well-known that it was not pedophilia, as the victims were pubescent or post-pubescent, and more importantly that they were boys and young men targeted by homosexual priests the complaint became a grenade that could explode back on them and they started to tone down that rhetoric.
A few years ago there was a flurry of objections to The Bluest Eye being mandatory high school reading under Common Core, but that objection was directed more at Common Core, where it was more easily deflected. I remember a mother trying to read passages from the book on a radio talk show and being told that it would not be allowed under FCC decency in broadcasting standards, I looked the book up and it was a toxic mess of racism and sexual perversion, stridently defended by the Usual Suspects for the Usual Reason–that objecting to it was racist—as well as some interesting variations, ranging from how it was important to educate people about what it is like to be black (which stopped when someone realized that was saying that to be black means being an incestuous pedophile) and my favorite, that it was important to teach children how the mind of a pedophile works.
Now the objections are to the material itself, and it is harder for the degenerate Left to defend it. There is their typical fallback position of simply lying, basically trying to divert attention away from the content to claims that restricting access to sexually graphic material in children’s libraries is exactly what Hitler would have done—from “banning books” to “almost like a book-burning” blah blah blah blah blah. (That got treated with the appropriate amount of respect in today’s PJ Media article on Gavin Newsome posing in a bookstore in Boise blathering on about its “banned books”—which are all prominently displayed behind him, openly for sale.)
They are trying to shift the discourse to “banning books” and now to sneering at a movie and by extension anyone who likes it, but they are being outflanked by their own efforts, as we see pictures of naked men acting out sexual perversion in front of children, chanting “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children” and braindead suburban moms teaching their toddlers to stuff money into g-strings worn by men pretending to be women. Their very well publicized actions merely illustrate the overall theme of the radical Left, which is to use children as objects after grooming them to be compliant. Which is, after all, a logical extension of claiming they have no inherent value as human beings while in the womb, and that their very existence is dependent on the whims of others.