Did you know that “conservatives” Dave Rubin, Thomas Sowell, Condoleezza Rice and Amala Ekpunobi, all began on the political Left, only to reject it and become some of its staunchest critics? We are speaking here of a gay Jewish man and 3 people of Color, each of whom had the intelligence and integrity to renounce the superficiality of Identity Politics in favor of a more fully Humanist perspective, a perspective now pejoratively referred to as “right-wing.”
Did you know that Rashad Turner, who founded a Minnesota chapter of BLM in 2015, has since turned against the group, claiming that individuals such as Patrisse Cullors, one if its co-founders, have become millionaires while doing virtually nothing to improve the lives of Black Americans? It is not Systemic Racism, Turner now believes, that is keeping his people down, but rather their failure to take advantage of educational options available to all Americans. It is as a result of that conviction that he now heads a Minnesota Parent Union designed to assure quality education from K. to grade 12 for both the poor and Black kids of his state.
Did you know that Mark Fisher, founder of a BLM chapter in Rhode Island, has now become a staunch supporter of Donald Trump? “Everyone else sucks,” he recently stated in an interview. On the subject of Joe Biden, he said unequivocally: “I deeply have disdain for him, and I really dislike the vice president, as well.”
Validating “conservative” skepticism regarding much of the “woke” hysteria that ensued upon the death of George Floyd in 2020, the U.S. Senate, including all of its many Democrats, in Aug. of 2021 voted 99-0 to revoke funding for any city that continued to support efforts to “defund” their police force. While the mainstream media had given serious consideration to that proposition throughout 2020, and more than an average number of cops had retired as a result of their demonization, the resultant increase in crime across the country has proven the utter absurdity of this “progressive” initiative.
On Nov. 25, the Free Press of Bari Weiss published a wonderful piece by Paul Kix, a White father of three involved in a loving interracial marriage, who declared that what he had formerly revered as the Left’s righteous attack on Racism of any kind, had actually become brazenly Racist in its simplistic rants against so-called White Privilege, White Supremacism, etc., etc.. The sanctimonious Left, he concluded, has now become Racist to its very core!
RFK Jr., in spite of his family’s conspicuous affiliation to the Democratic Party, has now declared himself an Independent as he seeks the presidency in the upcoming 2024 election. His main concern would seem to be the eagerness of Leftist governments everywhere to use the COVID outbreak as an excuse to cancel the personal Freedoms of their citizens. Google him and you will be confronted by a slew of articles painting him as a “conspiracy theorist” for suggesting the defense of those freedoms ought to be the priority of any truly Democratic government. It’s a complex issue, of course, but the flip dismissal by Mainstream Ideologues of those who share Kennedy’s opinion, is ironically but another sign of the ugly authoritarianism of contemporary “liberals”! What better illustrates this irony than the Trudeau government’s demonization of Canada’s Freedom Convoy which, whatever the claims to the contrary, was not particularly violent, was not filled with racists, and was in no way intent on overthrowing the county’s government. Coincidentally, the legitimacy of its challenge to the various vaccine mandates which it deemed unnecessary and dictatorial, was recently validated by the publication of an Estonian medical study of more than a quarter million people which proved that the natural immunity of young, healthy adults protected them against Covid while entailing none of the proven, negative side effects of those government mandated vaccines. While I have read multiple articles validating that such side effects do exist, the mainstream continues to gives the notion no credence whatsoever. Hence the dismissal of RFK Jr. as just another “conspiracy theorist.” Hence the absurdity of a culture dominated by Leftist Ideologues who pretend to be liberal, while aggressively attacking anyone who dares defend the rights of the Common Man.
On Nov. 15 my city’s newspaper, The Hamilton Spectator, published a piece entitled “Rebels with a much different cause” which focused on the abandonment by several 1960s counter-cultural pop icons of their formerly Leftist views. The article is sub-titled: “Some members of the liberation-minded hippie generation seem to have jumped ship.” The two traitors highlighted in the article are Eric Clapton and Van Morrison who, in 2020, produced a song entitled “Stand and Deliver” which included the question: “Do you wanna be a free man/or do you wanna be a slave?” Their targets were the government mandated Covid lockdowns lamented by RFK Jr.. A few months later, the article reveals, Morrison “released a 28-track double album full of rants about supposed welfare abuse and government mind control.” The term “supposed,” of course, implies that the “under-privileged” would never dream of abusing the West’s generous welfare systems, and moreover that what many “conservatives” have come to define as our cancel culture is in no way an attempt at mind control. The article, that is to say, is an indictment of its subjects rather than an objective survey of their evolving political views. Indeed it ends by citing Rice U. history professor Douglas Brinkley who says its only natural that as we baby boomers get older, we get more conservative, more resentful of change and hence more susceptible to misinformation and conspiracy theories. Clapton, Van Morrison and the others mentioned in the article, it seems, while heroic in their rebellion against the moral/ideological conventions of the 60s, are now little more than simpletons for challenging the conventions of the self-righteous, narrow-minded, dictatorial Left.
A gift from the gods, Tamara Ugolini of the Rebel News Network today [Nov. 28] reported that new found evidence suggests government-mandated Covid vaccines were in fact responsible for far more adverse effects than Health Canada was ever willing to admit. This, she says, was in fact validated in a 2021 interview she conducted with 2 nurses who said they had been unequivocally discouraged from making any mention of those effects. The question before us, then, is whether “conservatives” who purport to be true democrats and defenders of the natural rights of every individual, are in fact manipulative purveyors of disinformation, or whether it is the political Left that has become addicted to its power and utterly unwilling to tolerate any questioning of its pervasively irrational world-view. While I know of many who have abandoned the Left and embraced a more “conservative” [i.e., Humanistic] world view, I know of none who have moved in the opposite direction.