Reply #37: Some people on the Left are angry and hateful...

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Though maybe not for totally economic or capitalist reasons.

Unfortunately, I can't help comparing our present era with the Progressive Era of the early 1900s, and find that like then both the Left and the Right have their own reasons to resent the status quo and instill their own ideals towards the perfection of society. Hitler's Holocaust was inspired by our eugenics, and eugenics was predominantly resentment by the middle class against the upper and lower classes. Though the targets are different, the overall sense of Control Freak mentality is very similar. So rather than hate, the road to hell can be paved with good intentions and for that reason can be all the more dangerous. In fact, our Constitution's greatest threat is from do-good regulations because regulations as a rule do not rise to the level of Bill of Rights protection. Both the Left and the Right have their favorite regulations for the good of society.

Notice how psychology is almost always left out of the equation. That to me is symptomatic of how the Right won. The rights of society over the individual prevail to the point that individuality is subsumed into the greatest good for the greatest number. That's the stuff on nationalism. Note how Haggard's potential psychological conflict is dismissed by most. The response even here is more or less framed by the Right, as was done with the Clinton blow job. Same response, different parties. So eccentric or flawed is outlawed and not even worthy of consideration. Only what is best for the national good is worthy of discussion, and we can forget about any attempt to understand. It doesn't matter. This view is now backfiring big time on the conservatives, since everyone is an individual and no one is perfect, but that doesn't mean it is dead.

While we can call them on their hypocrisy, there is a very real chance we will replace their nationalism with our own brand of social nationalism, whatever that might evolve into.

And your question is a dangerous one. It may very well be no one is snitching on anyone on the Left only because the Left isn't being hypocritical of gay rights. That doesn't ensure the Left doesn't have its own closet. The risk we take is that our own brand of nationalism will have as enemies those who don't beat to the correct drummer. I suspect Pelosi understands this and will try to avoid the same hubris the Right suffered from; the same hubris that is responsible for their downfall. It remains to be seen if the Left's base can so contain themselves.

Celebrating victory after a prolonged attack is only natural, but let's hope it is not institutionalized with laws and regulations that are so extreme they bring us down. What keeps my own view in check is the fact that about 60,000 people, mostly women, were sterilized during the Progressive Era "in order to form a more perfect union," and many in that era supported Hitler. No one party was to blame for that.