PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash

<p>The battle of nature vs. nurture, are we born who we are or are we a product of our environment, has pretty much been settled by Clinical Psychologists like Jordan Peterson: your genes determine who you are as a person, meaning you inherit the important ingredients like intelligence, conscientiousness and altruism. Intelligence most people understand even though it's politically incorrect...

<p>The modern Left has adopted their own definition of "liberty," insisting all Western nations have liberty. They even have rankings where America is lacking in liberty as defined and determined by them. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Post-Modernist Marxists do espouse a kind of liberty that recognizes people should have control over their lives, but it differs...

<p>France had a revolution in 1789, the same year that the U.S. form of government began in earnest, because their king spent all the country's money on things like supporting the American revolution; an exquisite irony. The French revolutionaries looked to the U.S. as an example of liberalism. Back then, liberalism was getting free of Kings, potentates, and the church; supposedly putting Th...

<p>The tactics used to propel Identity Politics are blunt but effective:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Controlling what people say is the most powerful weapon in the Identity Politics arsenal.</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Because being offended is subjective, it puts the pers...

<p>The Left, primarily draped in the confusing camouflage of Identity Politics, call themselves “The Resistance” since the election of Donald Trump. It's unclear what they're resisting? Apparently they seek the overthrow of a duly elected American President, or perhaps they mean The Patriarchy? Whatever, it bodes ill for anyone not playing the Identity game, and needs resisting of its own. T...

<p>It used to be that The Right were the judgmental, sanctimonious scolds, usually in the context of organized religion, but The Left has assumed that dubious distinction. The Left is primarily made up of people that were bullied as children. Add the mantle of victimhood, and the anonymity of the Internet, and now as adults they form the army of Social Justice Warriors, the foot-soldiers of...

<p>For something like the #metoo movement to be effective, the audience who listens to it must be totally complicit in its intended use. There can be no dissenting voices because even casual consideration of destroying people's lives based on hearsay, and reinterpreted decades after the fact by faulty memories and the lens of self-interest, doesn't seem like a good idea. Anyone would reject...

<p>The whole Black Lives Matter concept is political maneuvering: you have to stake out a position to make a deal; the stronger the position, the more you can ask for. Given BLM's prominence and quick success in dominating the spotlight, I suspect they will succeed. Is it good for everyone else? Hell no. Is it further dividing the country? Hell, yes, it's incredibly selfish, but so are all o...

<p>The idea of inherited guilt, a Catholic dogma, is the foundation of Identity Politics. The biblical concept that the son is responsible for the deeds of his father is one of the issues America revolted against, yet that very idea is central to the Progressive theme of shared guilt for past racial & gender exploitation. How is it that this tactic was not disputed out-of-hand? Are peopl...

<p>There is a seemingly coordinated effort to redefine words to fit into the Identity Politics narrative. The Left has always used language as a weapon, and they're winning the language war now on the Internet by redefining words like “fascist,” “socialism,” and “Nazi” to serve their purposes. Since their goal is collectivism, of which socialism is an acknowledged example, any taint on the w...

<p>There is true disrespect, even hate, from the young towards old white males, probably the result of the constant association of white males with all that is bad in the world. Most of the people involved in Antifa were raised on entertainment where the only villains were white men because all other groups complained they were being discriminated against. Though businessmen were often the c...

<p>Even virtual civil wars require strong-arm tactics and intimidation in real life. Once “fascism” was equated to “Nazi” as an inexcusable topic even to discuss, the idea arose that a group should forcibly counter this imaginary horde of fascists, so emerged the anti-fascists, or Antifa, and anybody who is not in lock step with the Identity Politics narrative is a target. Online bullying is...

<p>Like the Free Speech movement before it in the 1960s, Berkeley is the origin of the Anti-Free Speech movement today. Most people who hear about this challenge to the First Amendment, even on The Left, can't believe it, especially if they remember that era. However, younger people have no reverence for Free Speech and actually find it appalling that anyone can say anything they want even i...

<p>There is no better way to seize control than by making an issue subjective with you deciding. Being offended is the perfect foil; not only can only you decide whether or not you are offended, you also get to control the timing of the offense, and and corrective action. You can even demand penalties on the person who offended you. The “I'm offended” attack is one that exploits the courtesy...

<p>Let's review the top issues having to do with Identity Politics:</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Losers in The American Dream are trying to kick over the card table rather than play by the rules.</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: nor...

<p>The Constitution acts as a counter-force to democracy, protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority, but The Constitution now serves a role the Founders never imagined, which is subjecting the majority to the whims of the minority. Cases-in-point: transgender bathrooms, disabled parking & access, religious accommodations, and onerous safety regulations. Small Special Inter...

<p>Entertainers, feeling guilty for their tremendous success for so little contribution, find solace in adopting the vocal hair-shirt altruism of The Left. The occasional Right-leaning actor is scorned and shunned, a reverse McCarthyism. The awards shows drip sanctimony, and even football has been infected. They excuse their loss of viewership to everything but alienating the audience, becau...

<p>Marxism is a very alluring ideology to the bottom half of the population that benefits from taking from the top half. It never really caught on in the U.S. even though early in the last Century it was being promoted in the labor unions, and had significant popular support. The emerging Middle Class, focus on individual liberty, and belief in The American Dream of a classless society, neve...

<p>A Two-Party system combined with Social Media allows tiny segments of the population to wield power far greater than their small numbers may suggest. How did self-identify which bathroom to use ever seem reasonable? How did an old man in make-up, with balls intact & conservative politics, become a cause celebre? How did gender pronouns get banned in colleges? This mouse-that-roared si...

<p>Somehow, probably because of their youth and the fact that they congregate in areas like San Francisco and New York, people who work in tech are overwhelmingly Lefty political ideologues. The smarter you are, the more successful you are at a young age, with people surrounding you similarly young & successful, it turns you into an elite. These people just naturally think they know bett...

<p>Most of the graduates with useless social science degrees, as indoctrinated and hostile to the status quo as they might be, actually have little impact on society at large. Why would anyone hire them with such poor preparation to provide anything of value to an organization? Unfortunately, the most insidious impact these programs make is the training of Human Resources personnel. Through...

<p>When students have borrowed huge sums of money to attend college but are unprepared or unqualified to succeed, the schools don't stop taking their money, instead they shuffle these hapless students into useless and irrelevant social studies programs about “women” or “gender,” whose professors are overwhelming, if not totally Left-leaning. This is the infection vector of Identity Politics...

<p>The word “elite” is often applied to people who think they should be allowed to dictate policy because of their special status or knowledge, something liberty-conscious Americans are highly suspect of and only reluctantly accept unless based on merit. Unfortunately, The Collectivist Left is infused with a sense of grand superiority, that their values should be everyone's, and that anybody...

<p>The goal of Identity Politics is to reverse power and control from the status quo to identity groups that have historically not been as successful in a societal game, The American Dream, that involves conscientiousness, aggression, and personal responsibility. They battle against what they call “the patriarchy,” which are the traditional values of meritocracy, competence & entrepreneu...

<p>"The Patriarchy" is code for what those of us in a previous generation grew up with as “The American Dream,” which rewards meritocracy. This includes science, scholastic achievement, merit-based bonuses, and anything where there is competition that the best wins out. Since the founding of America, this dream has created lots of winners which provided success and progress, but al...