I can excoriate feminism's positions quite easily. With a rudimentary knowledge of biology and a little bit of logic, its not hard. Getting people to listen is hard. Women have a distinct knack for avoiding direct confrontations, and they've taught that skill to their male supplicants, so getting a feminist to even agree to a debate is nearly impossible.
Of course, even if you tore down each and every lie of feminism proper, they'd merely deflect. That is less a feminine technique than a socialist one, this idea that you are somehow not responsible for the various positions, and the consequences of those positions, held by your side unless you, personally, can be quoted as promoting them in some exacting language... which of course, socialists are trained not to do. Redefine terms, use broad language, and deny, deny, deny.
I'm rather more familiar with that technique than I would like, having discussed rather non-political positions with self professed socialists and communists, and discovered first hand that they refuse to be held to even the simplest of terms.
I have, on occasion, found myself pondering the roots of socialist thought in the ancient debates between rational and teleological thought, which was officially won by the Rational philosophers. Alas, teleology seems to be deeply ingrained in the human psyche, while rationality must be learned, and thus it ever returns. I myself have been guilty of it in the past, but when I was a child I may be excused for having thought as a child.
As a geek, I have a rather curious perspective on the matter in the form of gaming products from White Wolf. It is undeniable that White Wolf's writers and designers were quintessential college liberals, men and women with liberal arts degrees, degrees in the humanities and so forth... not one scientist or rationalist among them. Their rules systems were simple and reasonably robust within the limits of their early goals, but were not grounded in mathematical or statistical models... and when their grasp exceeded their reach in 'higher level' gaming... that is to say the demigods of Exalted, the actual Gods of Scion, and the mortal gods of Aberrant, the limitations of the system were vastly exceeded, and the rules began to fray and fail, though one may track the efforts to address these flaws, these inherent limitations, through the evolution of the rules across those game lines, and so of the three Scion, the last designed and released, works the best. Of course, the irony is that it works the best because while the player characters are actual Gods, creatures of Divinity, traversing the heavens and the realms of the dead with impunity, they have the most modest power sets of the three game lines mentioned.
But we were talking about teleology versus rationality in their games, which cannot be found in the actual rules nearly so much as the settings. The most obvious example is Mage: The Awakening, where all of reality is nothing more than a consensual illusion, and if enough people believe something hard enough, all of reality changes. This is a world where a meme-war is enough to erase your enemy from existence. Wishing something hard enough makes it true.
And that is fundamentally the heart of teleological thought.
And not coincidentally the heart of all socialist thought, not merely the more formal schools of socialism we recognize as actual philosophies, political or otherwise. This is the heart of modern leftist, progressive thought, that if your intentions are good enough, if you believe hard enough, then things will work out. All oppositional ideas must be rejected outright, regardless of how sensible they are, since they are tainted by lack of devotional purity. It doesn't matter that lowering taxes will improve the economy, its an idea supported by those dreaded, evil, vile Tea Partiers, and therefore cannot work... because reasons.
Prove that the Tea Party is not rife with racists? Well, that doesn't matter, they are still secret racists because they lack the purity of liberal belief, and thus must be corrupt.
Government has never, in the thousands of years of human civilization, created jobs or improved peoples lives? Well, the right people, with the right beliefs, simply haven't had enough power yet.
Now: At some level a number of bad actors do exist, people who don't actually believe, who don't actually think this way, who have merely ridden the coat tails of leftist, progressive indoctrination of school children for the power, but that can't explain everyone else. It can't even explain Obama and his administration.
If Obama were one of these bad actors, only after Power, if he was not in fact a true believer, we would be better off. This 'evil Obama' would, after all, move to ensure America remained powerful on the world stage, to better grow his own power. This Evil Obama would reinforce the Pax Americana, would bolster the navy and the army. He might start a few needless wars, cause countless deaths for nakedly political reasons... but the real, True Believer Obama has plenty of blood on his hands as well. Libya, Syria, Egypt... the doubling of the death toll in Afghanistan since his election, the drone wars and kill lists.
But at least we, at home, under the oppressive boot would be more safe, in the long run, from our enemies abroad. And make no mistake, we have enemies abroad. Every successful nation has, throughout history.
At least the violence of the police would not be capricious, could be avoided.
Its a terrible thing to recognize that a malicious, deliberately evil man would serve us better than the ideologue currently at the helm. The Ambitious Man would want the economy to grow, and might take even a few steps to see it happen, the Ideologue wants us reduced to hapless savages for the good of the world, in abstract.
I don't fault Progressives for being wrong. Everyone is wrong some of the time. I fault them for being willfully, deliberately wrong, for blinding themselves to the obvious. I fault them for being impervious to the lessons laid out before them. Only a fool doubles down on every failure, and only a madman repeats his failures exactly, while sure that this time will be different. Thus we know the Left is full of fools and madmen, and I weep for the voters who simply cannot be bothered to open their eyes and see for themselves.
I don't want to persuade. I don't want to educate. I want you to look for yourself, for once, and see for yourselves what is true.
I want you to realize that you have been lied to, are lied to, every day. That these lies are not casual, are not accidental, that they are coordinated, deliberate, and planned.
Gramsci's Long March began with the Journalists and moved rapidly into the schools. From there, every other institution falls quickly into line, because we can see only what we have been taught to see.
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