In today’s North American society the extreme left has readily defeated the extreme right in the court of public opinion - the extreme right is not near as well organized and its racial agenda is repulsive to most decent people.
Given the chance the extreme right in North America would be every bit the threat to democracy and freedom as the extreme left has become.
Both extremes gravitate to totalitarianism for similar reasons.
The "extreme left" has in no way, shape, or form defeated anybody anywhere in the court of public opinion. Most of the American public recoils from the far left and what they stand for, e.g. Hamas, Defund the Police, open borders, transitioning minors, LGBTQ indoctrination in schools. Don't confuse far left with liberalism.
And what "racial agenda" exactly are you referring to?? I wasn't aware there was one.
The extreme left - the Marxist inspired element - has managed to defeat liberalism.
Liberalism is based on pragmatism, inquiry and debate.
The Marxist element in our educational systems quashed these freedoms and implemented their political dogma with which they used to create the leftist progressives that are now imbedded in our society.
The progressives muzzled, shunned and demonized both liberals and conservatives alike who had the temerity to question or contradict their agenda.
Given the core of the Marxist philosophy is social revolution, one of the primary strategies of progressivism is to promote confrontations between those they convince they are victims and those they identify as victimizers.
They were not successful their stock-in-trade stoking of the poor against the rich so they moved their class warfare to the racial arena.
The first time around it failed but given a second chance it was very successful.
They were able to cast white society as being incurably racist and thus requiring subjugation by non-white races - without any tangible proof.
No self respecting liberal, let alone a conservative, would ever buy into such a preposterous proposition but, when they voiced their concern, the progressive cancel culture ensured they were silenced.
I respect liberalism and its attendant tolerance but has been overwhelmed by the intolerant and exclusionary mindset of Marxist inspired progressives.
I would be one to welcome a political landscape peopled by genuine liberals and genuine conservatives.
What you're talking about is something completely different. You are talking about the leftist capture of the institutions, and on that you are 100 percent right. Your original comment said "court of public opinion," which implies that the average American is down with all of this. The people in the institutions are completely detached from and contemptuous of the average American unless they check some kind of intersectionality box. It seems we generally agree but it was a matter of semantics.
Curious as to what your definition of far right is.
It is the same as my definition of the far left: those people who feel they have to abrogate freedom and democracy to create the society they desire.
I cannot disagree more. The right, near or far, has no interest in abrogating any constitutional freedom whatsoever.
Perhaps you can cite an example.......
Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo on the extreme right.
Stalin and Mao on the extreme left.
In today’s North American society the extreme left has readily defeated the extreme right in the court of public opinion - the extreme right is not near as well organized and its racial agenda is repulsive to most decent people.
Given the chance the extreme right in North America would be every bit the threat to democracy and freedom as the extreme left has become.
Both extremes gravitate to totalitarianism for similar reasons.
The "extreme left" has in no way, shape, or form defeated anybody anywhere in the court of public opinion. Most of the American public recoils from the far left and what they stand for, e.g. Hamas, Defund the Police, open borders, transitioning minors, LGBTQ indoctrination in schools. Don't confuse far left with liberalism.
And what "racial agenda" exactly are you referring to?? I wasn't aware there was one.
The extreme left - the Marxist inspired element - has managed to defeat liberalism.
Liberalism is based on pragmatism, inquiry and debate.
The Marxist element in our educational systems quashed these freedoms and implemented their political dogma with which they used to create the leftist progressives that are now imbedded in our society.
The progressives muzzled, shunned and demonized both liberals and conservatives alike who had the temerity to question or contradict their agenda.
Given the core of the Marxist philosophy is social revolution, one of the primary strategies of progressivism is to promote confrontations between those they convince they are victims and those they identify as victimizers.
They were not successful their stock-in-trade stoking of the poor against the rich so they moved their class warfare to the racial arena.
The first time around it failed but given a second chance it was very successful.
They were able to cast white society as being incurably racist and thus requiring subjugation by non-white races - without any tangible proof.
No self respecting liberal, let alone a conservative, would ever buy into such a preposterous proposition but, when they voiced their concern, the progressive cancel culture ensured they were silenced.
I respect liberalism and its attendant tolerance but has been overwhelmed by the intolerant and exclusionary mindset of Marxist inspired progressives.
I would be one to welcome a political landscape peopled by genuine liberals and genuine conservatives.
What you're talking about is something completely different. You are talking about the leftist capture of the institutions, and on that you are 100 percent right. Your original comment said "court of public opinion," which implies that the average American is down with all of this. The people in the institutions are completely detached from and contemptuous of the average American unless they check some kind of intersectionality box. It seems we generally agree but it was a matter of semantics.
I agree - I think people are fed up with the progressive conceit that they are the moral and intellectual superiors of society.
You're equating Hitler to Maga's? Is there a sane brain cell operating up there? We're talking about Americans in the now, today Cinderella.
No, I am not equating the MAGA’s with Hitler.
Indeed I agree with their aspirations and hope that Canada can be restored to what it was before progressives had at it.
I believe that American conservatism places a high value on freedom and democracy and will not embrace the fanaticism of the extreme right.
As you might be gathering, I am a moderate conservative who has no use for either extreme.
What?