“Yet while they [leftists] seek to tear down the center to rebuild something for the sake of society at large, the right-wing loser seeks only the elevation of his own people to a position of preeminence over others.”
Who are these “society at large” people whose imagined benefit justifies the razing of the “center”? If they are not themselves the “center”, who are they? If they are the “center”, what is the point of tearing down what they have already built in order to rebuild it? If they built it in the first place, are they not capable of rebuilding it on their own?
From whence do those who have taken upon themselves this task of “rebuilding” derive their authority to do so? Do they have special training or a moral superiority that guides them in this effort? Or are they just more people feeling left out of the game who are using the “society-at-large” trope as a lever to get in?
Progressivism has its roots at the end of the 19th century … a political manifestation of the long-since debunked “eugenics science” and driven by overt racism that was demonstrated by speeches and written opinions of the time. The premise of the Progressive movement was that certain people (read “White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants”) had, due to their superior intellects, a duty to direct society in ways beneficial to the masses but out of reach of their limited mental abilities. From that sprang the entire edifice of the massive State we live in today, where bureaucrats in D.C. decide the best way for teachers in Kaktovik, Alaska to teach Inuit children, where they direct farmers in Iowa on what crops to grow and where everyone is forced to flush their toilets in approved ways. The racist foundation faded slowly away, but the elitist proposition seems to have become even more deeply embedded.
I am left puzzling about the difference between the “right-wing loser” who “seeks only the elevation of his own people to a position of preeminence over others” and the Progressive (I won’t stoop to repeating the invective “loser” here) who, it would appear to me anyway, seeks the same preeminence over others, but uses “society at large” as clever camouflage for the troop movements.
But don’t listen to me. I’m just an old guy who’s been watching this thing grow and morph for nearly 80 years and who has become less and less sure of anything.
