Mac1958
Diamond Member
Okay, calm down, don't have a cow, this is just more of an ironic little thought exercise. From the Daily Beast:
How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump
It actually does make sense to an extent. I'm still having difficulty understanding the attraction of Donald Trump, but I do know some of it has to do with reaction to political correctness.
Now, as insane and fervent and psychotic as my opposition to PC is, I think they have knee-jerked a bit too hard here, giving the guy a pass on a zillion things just because they're pissed off about PC.
From the piece:
The American left created Donald Trump.
When I say “the left,” I do not mean the Democratic Party—or, solely the Democratic Party. Rather, the pestilence that is the Trump campaign is the result of a conglomeration of political, academic, media, and cultural elites who for decades have tried to act as the arbiters of acceptable public debate and shut down any political expression from Americans with whom they disagree. They, more than anyone else, created Donald Trump’s candidacy and the increasingly hideous movement he now leads.
The great mistake made by both liberals and their most extreme wing on the American left is to assume that ordinary people, once corrected forcefully enough, will comply with their new orders. This is, of course, ridiculous: Americans do not magically become complacent and accepting multiculturalists just because they’ve been bullied out of the public debate. They will find a new vessel for their views, and will become more extreme with each attempt to shut them down as the issue moves from particular social positions to the far more encompassing problem of who has the right to tell whom to shut up, and to make it stick. Nixon’s “Silent Majority” increasingly feels itself to be a silenced majority, and Trump is their solution.
.
How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump
It actually does make sense to an extent. I'm still having difficulty understanding the attraction of Donald Trump, but I do know some of it has to do with reaction to political correctness.
Now, as insane and fervent and psychotic as my opposition to PC is, I think they have knee-jerked a bit too hard here, giving the guy a pass on a zillion things just because they're pissed off about PC.
From the piece:
The American left created Donald Trump.
When I say “the left,” I do not mean the Democratic Party—or, solely the Democratic Party. Rather, the pestilence that is the Trump campaign is the result of a conglomeration of political, academic, media, and cultural elites who for decades have tried to act as the arbiters of acceptable public debate and shut down any political expression from Americans with whom they disagree. They, more than anyone else, created Donald Trump’s candidacy and the increasingly hideous movement he now leads.
The great mistake made by both liberals and their most extreme wing on the American left is to assume that ordinary people, once corrected forcefully enough, will comply with their new orders. This is, of course, ridiculous: Americans do not magically become complacent and accepting multiculturalists just because they’ve been bullied out of the public debate. They will find a new vessel for their views, and will become more extreme with each attempt to shut them down as the issue moves from particular social positions to the far more encompassing problem of who has the right to tell whom to shut up, and to make it stick. Nixon’s “Silent Majority” increasingly feels itself to be a silenced majority, and Trump is their solution.
.
