When Morality Became Passé…..Democrats

[PoliticalChic]

1.You might think it began when you elected the President who taught children to ask about oral sex.....a Democrat.







2. Actually, it began much earlier. It took hold in the 1960s, and was due to the explosion of the post-war generation:

“Rathenau called [this] ‘the vertical invasion of the barbarians.’” Jose Ortega y Gasset, “The Revolt of the Masses,” p. 53.

The baby boomers were a generation so large that they formed their own culture. The generation from 1922-1947 numbered 43.6 million, while that of 1946-1964 had 79 million.



3. We call it postmodernism, and it is the central thesis of Leftist Democrat thought: there is no right or wrong, no eternal truth, and we fight anything or anyone that suggests restricting one’s satisfaction. That means morality.

“But the belief that autonomous individuals had the right to make subjective judgment about what was right for them in pursuit of their unchallengeable entitlement to happiness destroyed that understanding. Progressives interpreted liberty as license, thus destroying the moral rules that make freedom a virtue."
Melanie Phillips


Perhaps you recall these sort of headlines:

Obama's 'Postmodernism', Humanism and History - SAGE ...​

https://journals.sagepub.com › pdf › pfie.2009.7.3.349
by MA Peters · 2009 — The term 'postmodernism' has recently been used to describe President Barack Obama, and not by just one commentator. Jonah Goldberg in a recent USA Today ...

Obama's Postmodern Vision - National Review​

https://www.nationalreview.com › 2012/01 › obamas-p...
Jan 11, 2012 — In a word, Obama is a postmodernist. That is a trendy word for someone who leaves academia believing that there are not really absolute facts, ...

Ben Shapiro - If Obama is the first postmodern president​

https://m.facebook.com › posts › if-obama-is-the-first-p...
Apr 29, 2016 — If Obama is the first postmodern president, welcome to the first postmodern presidential primary:





4. Without morality, "me" becomes the only thing that matters.
“Many younger Americans also seem to have personal identities forged by what the New York Times columnist David Brooks refers to as the “culture of selfism,” meaning, “a culture that puts tremendous emphasis on self, self-care, and self-display.” Rather than viewing morality as living up to external standards like honesty, courage, and patriotism, Brooks writes, “Traditional morality has been replaced by self-indignation, being heard, telling your story and then, of course, condemning the bad people that make you feel judged or sad.”
“An American Divorce,” Welch.



5. In the anniversary week of Normandy, cognizant of that great generation dying out, consider what we lose in that generation.

“…older Americans have seen the before and after of the progressive blueprint in a real-world setting. They have watched their children and grandchildren become part of the lost generation, where self-esteem was promoted without real accomplishment, traditional morality was ridiculed, gender roles were flipped upside down, and the thought of being patriotic to your country was akin to being a country bumpkin.

The results of this social experiment are becoming very apparent to those real- world Americans who live up close and personal with modern-day progressivism in the workplace, in the schools, and in their neighborhoods. They see a world quite different from the utopia being extolled in the lecture seats at the Ivy Leagues. Who is in the best position to witness the leftist experiment without bias?”
Welch, Op.Cit.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

1.You might think it began when you elected the President who taught children to ask about oral sex.....a Democrat.







2. Actually, it began much earlier. It took hold in the 1960s, and was due to the explosion of the post-war generation:

“Rathenau called [this] ‘the vertical invasion of the barbarians.’” Jose Ortega y Gasset, “The Revolt of the Masses,” p. 53.

The baby boomers were a generation so large that they formed their own culture. The generation from 1922-1947 numbered 43.6 million, while that of 1946-1964 had 79 million.



3. We call it postmodernism, and it is the central thesis of Leftist Democrat thought: there is no right or wrong, no eternal truth, and we fight anything or anyone that suggests restricting one’s satisfaction. That means morality.

“But the belief that autonomous individuals had the right to make subjective judgment about what was right for them in pursuit of their unchallengeable entitlement to happiness destroyed that understanding. Progressives interpreted liberty as license, thus destroying the moral rules that make freedom a virtue."
Melanie Phillips


Perhaps you recall these sort of headlines:

Obama's 'Postmodernism', Humanism and History - SAGE ...​

https://journals.sagepub.com › pdf › pfie.2009.7.3.349
by MA Peters · 2009 — The term 'postmodernism' has recently been used to describe President Barack Obama, and not by just one commentator. Jonah Goldberg in a recent USA Today ...

Obama's Postmodern Vision - National Review​

https://www.nationalreview.com › 2012/01 › obamas-p...
Jan 11, 2012 — In a word, Obama is a postmodernist. That is a trendy word for someone who leaves academia believing that there are not really absolute facts, ...

Ben Shapiro - If Obama is the first postmodern president​

https://m.facebook.com › posts › if-obama-is-the-first-p...
Apr 29, 2016 — If Obama is the first postmodern president, welcome to the first postmodern presidential primary:





4. Without morality, "me" becomes the only thing that matters.
“Many younger Americans also seem to have personal identities forged by what the New York Times columnist David Brooks refers to as the “culture of selfism,” meaning, “a culture that puts tremendous emphasis on self, self-care, and self-display.” Rather than viewing morality as living up to external standards like honesty, courage, and patriotism, Brooks writes, “Traditional morality has been replaced by self-indignation, being heard, telling your story and then, of course, condemning the bad people that make you feel judged or sad.”
“An American Divorce,” Welch.



5. In the anniversary week of Normandy, cognizant of that great generation dying out, consider what we lose in that generation.

“…older Americans have seen the before and after of the progressive blueprint in a real-world setting. They have watched their children and grandchildren become part of the lost generation, where self-esteem was promoted without real accomplishment, traditional morality was ridiculed, gender roles were flipped upside down, and the thought of being patriotic to your country was akin to being a country bumpkin.

The results of this social experiment are becoming very apparent to those real- world Americans who live up close and personal with modern-day progressivism in the workplace, in the schools, and in their neighborhoods. They see a world quite different from the utopia being extolled in the lecture seats at the Ivy Leagues. Who is in the best position to witness the leftist experiment without bias?”
Welch, Op.Cit.

This country is looking more like a Charles Dickens novel every day.

 

[Blackrook]

There's nothing new about decrying the decadent morals of the younger generation. I believe Cicero was doing it some 2000 years ago.

 

[DGS49]

At the core of Leftism is the moral principle that the ultimate sin is being JUDGMENTAL. It is "evil" according to the Left if you look at someone's lifestyle and/or behavior and criticize it, regardless of any rationale for such criticism. There no justification for being judgmental...PERIOD.

Consider the perennial news stories that pit the efforts of modern societies to bring "indigenous" communities into the modern world...to teach their children proper English, Western values and culture, to encourage them to pursue higher education, and so on. The Left looks at these initiatives as "evil" because to assess the indigenous culture as deficient when compared to modern culture is being judgmental. There can be no rational discussion of these cultures who, for example, after thousands of years had no written language, no wheel, no domesticated animals capable to doing any work, societies that were (are) worshiping things like wind, trees, fire, and so on. The Left views ANY such community and culture as being morally and essentially equivalent to every other culture. Ultimately the basis for this viewpoint is nothing more than a mindless rejection of making JUDGMENTS about people and culture...regardless of whether those judgments can be rationally and factually supported.

And conventional methods of evaluating performance are also rejected on pretty much the same basis. No-grading in schools, everyone gets a trophy.

It's all part of the same thing. No judgments. Everything (except Christianity) is OK.

 

[PoliticalChic]

There's nothing new about decrying the decadent morals of the younger generation. I believe Cicero was doing it some 2000 years ago.

And?

 

[Pete7469]

This country is looking more like a Charles Dickens novel every day.

I was thinking "Idiocracy" myself.

 

[PoliticalChic]

At the core of Leftism is the moral principle that the ultimate sin is being JUDGMENTAL. It is "evil" according to the Left if you look at someone's lifestyle and/or behavior and criticize it, regardless of any rationale for such criticism. There no justification for being judgmental...PERIOD.

Consider the perennial news stories that pit the efforts of modern societies to bring "indigenous" communities into the modern world...to teach their children proper English, Western values and culture, to encourage them to pursue higher education, and so on. The Left looks at these initiatives as "evil" because to assess the indigenous culture as deficient when compared to modern culture is being judgmental. There can be no rational discussion of these cultures who, for example, after thousands of years had no written language, no wheel, no domesticated animals capable to doing any work, societies that were (are) worshiping things like wind, trees, fire, and so on. The Left views ANY such community and culture as being morally and essentially equivalent to every other culture. Ultimately the basis for this viewpoint is nothing more than a mindless rejection of making JUDGMENTS about people and culture...regardless of whether those judgments can be rationally and factually supported.

And conventional methods of evaluating performance are also rejected on pretty much the same basis. No-grading in schools, everyone gets a trophy.

It's all part of the same thing. No judgments. Everything (except Christianity) is OK.

I like this post.

One of Charles Murray's books also pointed to that, and decried it.

One change in societal attitude has been the “ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class.

In his best-seller, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,"
Charles Murray points out the subterfuge, and demands, for the sake of society, that the elites point out the errors of poor life choices, and speak up!



10. IThat means not only epitomize traditional morality in their own behaviors....but have the courage to criticize the aberrant behaviors that are the cause of poverty and crime.


Yup....be judgmental.​

“For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage” For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage (Published 2012)​

“One group still largely resists the trend: college graduates, who overwhelmingly marry before having children. That is turning family structure into a new class divide, …” Ibid.​

1. The elites must preach what they practice.

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. The idea that the Democrats have shunted aside morality, and imposed postmodernism takes significance when one tries to accommodate views such as
...men can become pregnant,
...the world will end in 12 years,
...there was an insurrection by the Right,
... or that abortion isn’t really killing.





The Left/Progressives/Democrats reveal who they are when they claim that there is no truth. In fact, those movements hide behind that view….. Post-Modern, Post-Christian, Post-Justice…..it could be called all of these, but the theme of all is that there is no right or wrong, no societal ethics…..only winning and losing.



"Barack Obama: The Postmodern President

By Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal - August 10, 2012
President Obama spent his formative years in academia, so he's no doubt familiar with postmodernism, the literary theory that rejects objective reality and insists instead that everything is a matter of interpretation and relative "truth." At any rate he's running the first postmodern Presidential campaign, now organized almost exclusively around allegations about his opponent that bear no relation to the observable universe.



What the doctrine says, in short…..is that they can lie, kill, steal….and there is nothing wrong with any of it.
Democrats don't even put criminals in jail any longer.


Yes….that’s what you vote for voting Democrat.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

1.You might think it began when you elected the President who taught children to ask about oral sex.....a Democrat.







2. Actually, it began much earlier. It took hold in the 1960s, and was due to the explosion of the post-war generation:

“Rathenau called [this] ‘the vertical invasion of the barbarians.’” Jose Ortega y Gasset, “The Revolt of the Masses,” p. 53.

The baby boomers were a generation so large that they formed their own culture. The generation from 1922-1947 numbered 43.6 million, while that of 1946-1964 had 79 million.



3. We call it postmodernism, and it is the central thesis of Leftist Democrat thought: there is no right or wrong, no eternal truth, and we fight anything or anyone that suggests restricting one’s satisfaction. That means morality.

“But the belief that autonomous individuals had the right to make subjective judgment about what was right for them in pursuit of their unchallengeable entitlement to happiness destroyed that understanding. Progressives interpreted liberty as license, thus destroying the moral rules that make freedom a virtue."
Melanie Phillips


Perhaps you recall these sort of headlines:

Obama's 'Postmodernism', Humanism and History - SAGE ...​

https://journals.sagepub.com › pdf › pfie.2009.7.3.349
by MA Peters · 2009 — The term 'postmodernism' has recently been used to describe President Barack Obama, and not by just one commentator. Jonah Goldberg in a recent USA Today ...

Obama's Postmodern Vision - National Review​

https://www.nationalreview.com › 2012/01 › obamas-p...
Jan 11, 2012 — In a word, Obama is a postmodernist. That is a trendy word for someone who leaves academia believing that there are not really absolute facts, ...

Ben Shapiro - If Obama is the first postmodern president​

https://m.facebook.com › posts › if-obama-is-the-first-p...
Apr 29, 2016 — If Obama is the first postmodern president, welcome to the first postmodern presidential primary:





4. Without morality, "me" becomes the only thing that matters.
“Many younger Americans also seem to have personal identities forged by what the New York Times columnist David Brooks refers to as the “culture of selfism,” meaning, “a culture that puts tremendous emphasis on self, self-care, and self-display.” Rather than viewing morality as living up to external standards like honesty, courage, and patriotism, Brooks writes, “Traditional morality has been replaced by self-indignation, being heard, telling your story and then, of course, condemning the bad people that make you feel judged or sad.”
“An American Divorce,” Welch.



5. In the anniversary week of Normandy, cognizant of that great generation dying out, consider what we lose in that generation.

“…older Americans have seen the before and after of the progressive blueprint in a real-world setting. They have watched their children and grandchildren become part of the lost generation, where self-esteem was promoted without real accomplishment, traditional morality was ridiculed, gender roles were flipped upside down, and the thought of being patriotic to your country was akin to being a country bumpkin.

The results of this social experiment are becoming very apparent to those real- world Americans who live up close and personal with modern-day progressivism in the workplace, in the schools, and in their neighborhoods. They see a world quite different from the utopia being extolled in the lecture seats at the Ivy Leagues. Who is in the best position to witness the leftist experiment without bias?”
Welch, Op.Cit.

yes, when you allow people to choose between civilized thought or thuggery, it is much easier to move to the lower common denominator than try to elevate yourself to be a much better person.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

There's nothing new about decrying the decadent morals of the younger generation. I believe Cicero was doing it some 2000 years ago.

Yeah, nothing like marginalizing the events today with those of the past. When you dont learn from history, you tend to repeat history.

 

[Oddball]

At the core of Leftism is the moral principle that the ultimate sin is being JUDGMENTAL. It is "evil" according to the Left if you look at someone's lifestyle and/or behavior and criticize it, regardless of any rationale for such criticism. There no justification for being judgmental...PERIOD.

Simultaneously, their political correctness, cancel culture, critical theories, and social justice warrior-ing are judgmentalism on both steroids and crack.

But postmodernism is nothing, without its complete dearth of self-awareness.

 

[PoliticalChic]

yes, when you allow people to choose between civilized thought or thuggery, it is much easier to move to the lower common denominator than try to elevate yourself to be a much better person.

I have often felt that what makes Leftism/Democratism attractive is that it allows adherents to do anything they like, no restrictions.....even when you get caught.


It is a step backwards to the law of the jungle.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Yeah, nothing like marginalizing the events today with those of the past. When you dont learn from history, you tend to repeat history.

Amen.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Simultaneously, their political correctness, cancel culture, critical theories, and social justice warrior-ing are judgmentalism on both steroids and crack.

But postmodernism is nothing, without its complete dearth of self-awareness.

Often, a pretended lack of it.

You've noticed how often Democrat posters pretend they actually beleive the lies their party tells them.

 

[Oddball]

Yeah, nothing like marginalizing the events today with those of the past. When you dont learn from history, you tend to repeat history.

They're erasing history.

 

[Oddball]

Often, a pretended lack of it.

You've noticed how often Democrat posters pretend they actually beleive the lies their party tells them.

You see it on a daily basis here....They accuse everyone who isn't on their team of doing exactly what they're doing....Nearly always in the very post they're putting up.

 

[bodecea]

There's nothing new about decrying the decadent morals of the younger generation. I believe Cicero was doing it some 2000 years ago.

This from a guy who this day: 1) said everyone hates Congress so it's no big deal they were attacked, and 2) is asking the forum for it's approval if he lies to a woman in order to get sex.

 

[PoliticalChic]

This from a guy who this day: 1) said everyone hates Congress so it's no big deal they were attacked, and 2) is asking the forum for it's approval if he lies to a woman in order to get sex.

This from a guy who this day: 1) said everyone hates Congress so it's no big deal they were attacked, and 2) is asking the forum for it's approval if he lies to a woman in order to get sex.

Would you like another opportunity to actually respond to the OP that hurt you so deeply????




1.You might think it began when you elected the President who taught children to ask about oral sex.....a Democrat.






2. Actually, it began much earlier. It took hold in the 1960s, and was due to the explosion of the post-war generation:

“Rathenau called [this] ‘the vertical invasion of the barbarians.’” Jose Ortega y Gasset, “The Revolt of the Masses,” p. 53.

The baby boomers were a generation so large that they formed their own culture. The generation from 1922-1947 numbered 43.6 million, while that of 1946-1964 had 79 million.



3. We call it postmodernism, and it is the central thesis of Leftist Democrat thought: there is no right or wrong, no eternal truth, and we fight anything or anyone that suggests restricting one’s satisfaction. That means morality.

“But the belief that autonomous individuals had the right to make subjective judgment about what was right for them in pursuit of their unchallengeable entitlement to happiness destroyed that understanding. Progressives interpreted liberty as license, thus destroying the moral rules that make freedom a virtue."
Melanie Phillips


Perhaps you recall these sort of headlines:

Obama's 'Postmodernism', Humanism and History - SAGE ...​

https://journals.sagepub.com › pdf › pfie.2009.7.3.349

by MA Peters · 2009 — The term 'postmodernism' has recently been used to describe President Barack Obama, and not by just one commentator. Jonah Goldberg in a recent USA Today ...

Obama's Postmodern Vision - National Review​

https://www.nationalreview.com › 2012/01 › obamas-p...

Jan 11, 2012 — In a word, Obama is a postmodernist. That is a trendy word for someone who leaves academia believing that there are not really absolute facts, ...

Ben Shapiro - If Obama is the first postmodern president​

https://m.facebook.com › posts › if-obama-is-the-first-p...

Apr 29, 2016 — If Obama is the first postmodern president, welcome to the first postmodern presidential primary:





4. Without morality, "me" becomes the only thing that matters.
“Many younger Americans also seem to have personal identities forged by what the New York Times columnist David Brooks refers to as the “culture of selfism,” meaning, “a culture that puts tremendous emphasis on self, self-care, and self-display.” Rather than viewing morality as living up to external standards like honesty, courage, and patriotism, Brooks writes, “Traditional morality has been replaced by self-indignation, being heard, telling your story and then, of course, condemning the bad people that make you feel judged or sad.”
“An American Divorce,” Welch.



5. In the anniversary week of Normandy, cognizant of that great generation dying out, consider what we lose in that generation.

“…older Americans have seen the before and after of the progressive blueprint in a real-world setting. They have watched their children and grandchildren become part of the lost generation, where self-esteem was promoted without real accomplishment, traditional morality was ridiculed, gender roles were flipped upside down, and the thought of being patriotic to your country was akin to being a country bumpkin.

The results of this social experiment are becoming very apparent to those real- world Americans who live up close and personal with modern-day progressivism in the workplace, in the schools, and in their neighborhoods. They see a world quite different from the utopia being extolled in the lecture seats at the Ivy Leagues. Who is in the best position to witness the leftist experiment without bias?”
Welch, Op.Cit.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. Postmodernism maintains that the old rules, the traditions, and morality of earlier Americans, is outmoded.

Yet the more universal the Democrat postmodernism takes hold, the more mass shootings, the more chaos and criminality, the more division and disruption in our society.




“What is true in raising kids is also true in how a society is managed. When a child’s past is rooted in guilt and their future is steered toward envy and entitlement, they will become angry toward others and doubtful of themselves. They will follow false prophets who purport to have easy answers to complex life problems. This is what we have done to a generation of millennials whose lives have been forged by being “liked” on Facebook, harboring guilt about their heritage, and not having any reliable moral code aside from expressing feelings and being in harmony with the planet.

The Marxist academics have cleverly figured out how to embarrass and marginalize any voice that dares to speak out against the present-day assault on two-parent families, Judeo-Christian values, and limited government.” “An American Divorce,” JN Welch





We live in a culture that targets males, specifically straight white Christian males......and guess who many of the mass killers turn out to be.
Don’t be puzzled about young men who want to die, and kill little children.

It’s what they have been inculcated about their being a male, they have grown up in a culture that states that being gay is better.....they are victims, but everyone must celebrate their "pride."
There's no straight, white male pride month.....quite the opposite.
What's the word you think of when you see "........masculinity."?

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

7. Postmodernism maintains that the old rules, the traditions, and morality of earlier Americans, is outmoded.

Yet the more universal the Democrat postmodernism takes hold, the more mass shootings, the more chaos and criminality, the more division and disruption in our society.




“What is true in raising kids is also true in how a society is managed. When a child’s past is rooted in guilt and their future is steered toward envy and entitlement, they will become angry toward others and doubtful of themselves. They will follow false prophets who purport to have easy answers to complex life problems. This is what we have done to a generation of millennials whose lives have been forged by being “liked” on Facebook, harboring guilt about their heritage, and not having any reliable moral code aside from expressing feelings and being in harmony with the planet.

The Marxist academics have cleverly figured out how to embarrass and marginalize any voice that dares to speak out against the present-day assault on two-parent families, Judeo-Christian values, and limited government.” “An American Divorce,” JN Welch





We live in a culture that targets males, specifically straight white Christian males......and guess who many of the mass killers turn out to be.
Don’t be puzzled about young men who want to die, and kill little children.

It’s what they have been inculcated about their being a male, they have grown up in a culture that states that being gay is better.....they are victims, but everyone must celebrate their "pride."
There's no straight, white male pride month.....quite the opposite.
What's the word you think of when you see "........masculinity."?

Masculinity, these guys would give their lives to protect women/Toxic Masculinity, doesnt give a shit about women and would watch them get raped.