Perhaps youâve heard the warning âwe have within us the seeds of our own destruction.â
According to Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, it applies in spades to Liberals. That perfect weapon is liberalâs own obsession with identity politics, which is then used by conservatives âto destroy liberalism from within.â
1. Attention, conservatives:
Political correctness is a weapon that will âdisable your adversaries by preoccupying them with their own vanities and squabbles, a bit like a drug so good that users focus on the high and stop everything else they are doing.
2. âŚthe American left has been hacked, and it is now running in a circle of its own choosing, rather than focusing on electoral victories or policy effectiveness. Too many segments of the Democratic Party are self-righteously talking about identity politics, and they are letting other priorities slip.
3. âŚpolling data suggests that up to 80 percent of Americans are opposed to politically correct thinking in its current manifestations. Latinos and Asian-Americans are among the groups most opposed, and even 61 percent of self-professed liberals do not like political correctness.
4. The PC weapon reared its head again this week when Senator Elizabeth Warren made a big show of her genealogical test showing she is some small part Native American. To someone immersed in the political correctness debates, this obsession with identity might seem entirely natural.
5. The reality is that many Americans already think that the Democrats talk too much about identity. Warren would have done better to drop the topic altogether, as both right-wing and left-wing critics agree. Instead, she has kept the identity issue in the limelight, and reminded Americans that elite, mostly Democratic-leaning institutions, such as Harvard, like to pat themselves on the back for their diversity in ways which seem phony to most of the rest of us.â Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Many of us on the Right apply the obligatory terms âstupidâ and every iteration of the term, to the Leftists, reliable Democrat votersâŚ.but Cowenâs thesis seems to prove it: moving away from political correctness, identity politics, once eminently successful for the Left, seems as difficult as stopping a speeding locomotive when the track is out.
Excellent.
Keep that train a-rollinâ!!!!!
According to Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, it applies in spades to Liberals. That perfect weapon is liberalâs own obsession with identity politics, which is then used by conservatives âto destroy liberalism from within.â
1. Attention, conservatives:
Political correctness is a weapon that will âdisable your adversaries by preoccupying them with their own vanities and squabbles, a bit like a drug so good that users focus on the high and stop everything else they are doing.
2. âŚthe American left has been hacked, and it is now running in a circle of its own choosing, rather than focusing on electoral victories or policy effectiveness. Too many segments of the Democratic Party are self-righteously talking about identity politics, and they are letting other priorities slip.
3. âŚpolling data suggests that up to 80 percent of Americans are opposed to politically correct thinking in its current manifestations. Latinos and Asian-Americans are among the groups most opposed, and even 61 percent of self-professed liberals do not like political correctness.
4. The PC weapon reared its head again this week when Senator Elizabeth Warren made a big show of her genealogical test showing she is some small part Native American. To someone immersed in the political correctness debates, this obsession with identity might seem entirely natural.
5. The reality is that many Americans already think that the Democrats talk too much about identity. Warren would have done better to drop the topic altogether, as both right-wing and left-wing critics agree. Instead, she has kept the identity issue in the limelight, and reminded Americans that elite, mostly Democratic-leaning institutions, such as Harvard, like to pat themselves on the back for their diversity in ways which seem phony to most of the rest of us.â Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Many of us on the Right apply the obligatory terms âstupidâ and every iteration of the term, to the Leftists, reliable Democrat votersâŚ.but Cowenâs thesis seems to prove it: moving away from political correctness, identity politics, once eminently successful for the Left, seems as difficult as stopping a speeding locomotive when the track is out.
Excellent.
Keep that train a-rollinâ!!!!!
