Bill Mahr, certainly not a “conservative,” has, much to his credit, increasingly come to be critical of the insanity that has infected the contemporary Left. Steve Hilton of Fox News recently did a piece on a N.Y. Times article of Jan. 7 which clearly implied such skepticism to be gaining momentum.
The article was entitled “What Surprised Us In Focus Groups With Voters About Jan. 6.” Polling a number of both Republicans and Democrats, the Times was shocked that many of the latter saw Jan. 6 not as not as an explosion of right-wing lunacy but as a natural reaction to a “progressive” political culture rife with both lies and hypocrisy…… a regime that falsely accused Trump of Russian collusion, that celebrated the ludicrous view that de-funding the police would Not result in a massive increase in crime, that suggested violence against Orientals was a product of White Supremacy even when that violence was perpetrated by Blacks, that denounced attempts to insure the integrity of elections as racially motivated, etc., etc..
Hilton’s conclusion is that the American Cultural Establishment, and that includes academia, the artistic and “intellectual” communities, the mainstream media and the Left in general, have lost the trust of much of the American public. The plummeting ratings of CNN which has apparently decided to fire the deplorable Joy Reid, would seem to validate that hypothesis. And the mid- term elections of 2022 are expected to yield massive gains for the Republicans in both the House and the Senate.
I am not so naive as to suggest that there are not unprincipled liars across the span of the political spectrum. But should the Ideas and Values espoused by the “conservative” advocates whom I follow be granted their rightful place in the mainstream culture, we, and by that I mean both Americans and Canadians, will perhaps be gifted with a Truly Progressive Civilization which respects the rights of Women, Minorities, etc., while also acknowledging that Individuals are complex beings that cannot be submitted to simplistic statistical expectations. It’s an ideal synonymous with what used to be revered as Liberal Humanism but has over the last 50 years come to be reviled as a species of Fascism. Hopefully the signs that more and more people are beginning to see through the mindless inanities of the Neo-Marxist Left are not mere illusions, and simpletons such as Kamala Harris, A.O.C., Joe Biden and our own Justin Trudeau, will be seen in 10 years or so as players in what was little more than a bad nightmare.