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Mik Ball's avatar

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.

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Kate's avatar

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.

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Mik Ball's avatar

I agree - I think people are fed up with the progressive conceit that they are the moral and intellectual superiors of society.

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