WHY
THE LEFT HAS NO CREDIBILITY
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
By Professor
Steven Yates
January 28, 2017
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January 28, 2017
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The
other day, information
came my way about the fate of Yazidi girls and women at the hands
of ISIS. The Yazidi are a Kurdish people indigenous to what was Mesopotamia.
They live primarily in what is now the Nineveh Province in what is now
northwestern Iraq, although there are Yazidi communities in both Syria
and Turkey. Their religion is a blend of Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism
and Christianity, with links to Sufiism.
They had already been caught between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. Not being Muslims and being a peaceful people, they were sitting targets for the Islamic State.
They had already been caught between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. Not being Muslims and being a peaceful people, they were sitting targets for the Islamic State.
ISIS
militants came to the Yazidi region of Shingal on August 3, 2014. Thousands
of Yazidis were killed, kidnapped, or sexually enslaved. The article
I received spoke of Yazidi girls being “sold” for a few
packs of cigarettes.
Mirza
Ismael, who chairs the Yazidi Human Rights Organization-International,
said, “Some of these women and girls have had to watch 7-, 8-, and
9-year-old children bleed to death before their eyes, after being raped
by ISIS militia multiple times a day. ISIS militias have burned Yazidi
girls alive for refusing to convert and marry ISIS men. Why? Because we
are not Muslims and because our path is the path of peace. For this we
are being burned alive: for living as men and women of peace.”
There
is, of course, a massive international slave and “sex worker”
trade in that part of the world. Girls who have not yet entered puberty,
some of them kidnapped, are repeatedly gang raped by ISIS militiamen many
of whom are pedophiles. If the girls cry out in protest, they are beaten
bloody, often to death. Those who try to escape and are caught can have
their noses or ears or hands or feet cut off.
Radical
Islam, of course, sees women as less than property. It is illegal in countries
controlled by Radical Islam for women to receive an education. Most can’t
read or write their native language. They are forbidden to leave their
houses without male approval.
I present
this live horror show as the perfect backdrop for these highly-touted
(by Western corporate media, anyway) women’s marches in Washington
and other major Western cities following the Trump inauguration, protesting
actions they seem to believe the Trump administration is about to undertake.
There
were many speakers at these events. One of them, actress Ashley Judd,
read a poem in which she asked why “tampons are taxed when Viagra
and Rogaine are not.”
In this
one query, given all we reviewed above, you should see the reasons why
the American Left has no credibility — none whatsoever. It had none
before the Donald Trump era began on January 20. But now the fact (and
it isn’t an “alternative fact”) is out in the open,
or should be.
People
like Ashley Judd, other celebrities including far wealthier and more famous
ones like Madonna, live in a bubble of privilege — and I don’t
mean that leftist invention, “white privilege.” I mean the
privilege of being able to open their mouths and be heard by millions
despite their utter cluelessness.
One
of the criticisms I sometimes hear of U.S. citizens is that when all is
said and done, we know little of what goes on outside our borders. I doubt
most Americans have heard of the Yazidi, or know that ISIS overwhelmed
them on August 3, 2014. After all, I’m sure Kim Kardashian did something
that week!
It is
unclear how many women participated in these grandiose marches. What is
clear is that they have no idea how well off they are compared to their
counterparts elsewhere in the world. As children they were taught to read
and write. They went to school alongside boys. As adults they can come
and go as they please, without asking permission. They can go to college
and pursue careers. They can gain visibility (with or without actual talent).
Some of the world’s wealthiest celebrities are American women.
Yes,
yes, yes, I know there were women who struggled and fought for those rights.
I saw a list on the Left-leaning Medium site just the other day. I also
know that today’s whiners aren’t qualified to polish those
women’s shoes.
One
of their biggest fears seems to be that under the Trump administration
and the new GOP-controlled Congress they might lose the “right”
to kill their unborn children and have the U.S. federal government pay
for it if they can’t pay for it themselves, which means taxpayers,
some of whom are pro-life, will continue being coerced into helping fund
the killing of unborn babies.
They
are afraid Planned Parenthood might be defunded and shut down. I have
the feeling, though, that the Madonnas and Ashley Judds of the world have
enough money between them — that there is enough money in the community
of celebrity women generally — that they could keep Planned Parenthood
open, privately funded, and serving women’s legitimate health needs.
I wonder if this has occurred to any of them. Probably not. They would
have to stop whining, get up off their celebrated duffs, and start doing
something useful.
Why
do I keep mentioning Madonna?
Because
the other day she was quoted as having thought about “blowing up
the White House.” When I read that, what raced through my mind was,
“Why isn’t that a terroristic threat?”
Then
Secret Service started looking into the matter. She did some of her fanciest
backpedaling, saying her remark was taken out of context. I don’t
believe she meant it literally, of course. She was just doing what Left-leaning
celebrities do best, which is shoot off their mouths. But with the thought
now out on the table, who knows what one of her fanatic followers might
do?
The
American Left has lost control of the public narrative. Other voices,
including from alternative media with alternative narratives, are now
being listened to. Leftists can’t stand it, and are reacting as
they typically do when they can’t have their way: getting verbally
abusive and violent.
Outside
the now-infamous Deploraball [sic.] in Washington the night before the
Inauguration, writer
James Allsup, a Trump supporter from Seattle, was targeted outside
the event by leftist protesters along with some of his fellow attendees.
Pushing and shoving ensued. After hearing someone yell, “Die, Nazi!”
Allsup was punched while others filmed it, then struck in the head with
a metal flagpole. He had to go to the ER for stitches.
This
was only one example, and it is hardly an outlier. We reported on the
harassment of Trump supporters and attendees of his rallies as far back
as last spring, when thousands of University of Illinois at Chicago students
took to the streets, compelling Trump to cancel a scheduled appearance
out of public safety concerns.
It was
not Trump supporters, moreover, who began to shut down major thoroughfares
and interstate highways trying to block attendees from reaching Hillary
Clinton rallies.
Now
there is abundant evidence that the Left is in total meltdown mode. A
friend of mine who lives in Texas sent
me this the other day.
I know
that was painful. She either didn’t know she was being filmed or
didn’t care.
Do these
people have any idea how silly they look and
sound?
Author
and blogger Charles Hugh Smith has a brilliant
essay about what happened to the Left. He goes further into the history
of Marxism then we need to worry about here, but what it boils down to:
their obsessions with political correctness and identity politics cost
the Left the support of the American working class.
For
all practical purposes, they threw this support away, because so many
American workers are straight white Christian males, and straight white
Christian males are history’s biggest villains, didn’t you
know?
A lot
of Democrats have yet to figure out that had they not throw this obviously
important segment of the electorate under the bus, their candidate might
have won!
That
wouldn’t have given the Left credibility. The Clintons sold out
to the postmodern religions of money and power years ago; neither would
know any other reality if it walked up and bit them. Hillary’s arrogant
refusal to campaign in certain states was a dead giveaway: she didn’t
think she’d need the white working class vote to defeat Donald Trump.
She
lost each of those states to Trump. Reality always gets the last laugh.
Now,
Bernie Sanders has
offered to work with Trump on trade issues. Sanders just might be
getting it (maybe, I hope).
The
American Left’s ignorance may be exceeded only by its volume and
its capacity for violence, but leftists are not Donald Trump’s most
formidable enemies.
The
globalists — or the super-elite, the global elite, or the
international financial cartel, call them what you will — are Trump’s
most formidable enemies. Those paying attention know they just held their
annual World Economic Forum confab in Davos, Switzerland. The number one
topic: “populist” insurgencies in Europe (think: Brexit, Geert
Wilder in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen in France) as well as in the
U.S., i.e., the growing resistance to their economic domination of the
planet, with all its externalities which include the wanton destruction
of advanced nations’ middle classes and mass migrations caused by
their incessant wars. Globalists, incidentally, like wars! Wars are very
profitable! Ask those in the upper echelons of Halliburton!
The
proximate cause of the European “populist” insurgency is Muslim
mass migration which is tearing their countries apart. France, reeling
from multiple terror attacks over the past couple of years, has a problem
dwarfing anything the U.S. has to worry about.
I’ve
long thought Trump misplayed his hand with Mexicans. He could have pointed
out that Mexico’s agricultural workers were hurt as badly by NAFTA
as the U.S. manufacturing base. He would have had Hispanic communities
on his side, as he moves to renegotiate or scrap super-elite-driven “free
trade” deals and enforce U.S. immigration laws just as Mexico enforces
its immigration laws.
Muslims
from places where ISIS is now established are far more dangerous. When
a leftist whines about Islamophobia — among all the fake
phobias the Left has invented over the years, that one has to be the stupidest!
— I want to ask her how many more San Bernardino type workplace
shootings or Orlando type nightclub massacres she would countenance, and
what she would say to families of innocent people killed by newly transplanted
Muslim immigrants who turned out to be ISIS sympathizers?
I’m
sure the pseudo-intellectuals who championed Europe’s open borders
policies didn’t think they’d be dealing with violent, unassimilable
populations destroying neighborhoods in France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden,
and elsewhere. So please don’t somebody write me and tell me nothing
like that could happen in the U.S.
Well,
under Donald Trump’s watch it won’t happen. I think —
I hope! — we can be assured of that!
The
problem, though, remains the globalists, the super-elite. They haven’t
gone away, and I don’t believe for five seconds they are willing
to allow one rogue “blue collar billionaire” to upend plans
they’ve been working on longer than most of us have been alive without
trying to do something about it — something possibly worse than
anything Madonna might have thought up. Just keep in mind: Trump has inherited
a mammoth stock market bubble; global debt has never been higher; the
only thing standing between the present world and a massive depression
is continued money printing by central banks. Were there a planned economic
downturn — the Meltdown of 2008 on steroids! — given their
control over corporate media, and given the gullibility the Left regularly
displays, for globalists to get away with blaming Trump and other “populists”
would be child’s play!
These are the things that worry me the most right now! Plus the fact that everything the Left is saying and doing to try and weaken and de-legitimize Donald Trump plays right into the hands of the globalists.
These are the things that worry me the most right now! Plus the fact that everything the Left is saying and doing to try and weaken and de-legitimize Donald Trump plays right into the hands of the globalists.
If the
Left wanted to make itself useful, its members would forget their marches
and start monitoring pro-globalist sites on the Internet. There are quite
a few, actually, like The
Economist, Foreign
Affairs, Foreign
Policy Magazine, Bloomberg,
and Project
Syndicate. Globalists, in their hubris, cannot keep their mouths
shut, either. Across the aisle, survivalist author Brandon Smith has useful
advice on how globalists think. My book Four
Cardinal Errors: Reasons for the Decline of the American Republic
(2011) is still in print, as is my “The
Real Matrix” series. The latter is incomplete, but not terribly
dated.
In other
words, now that Donald Trump is President there is work to be done informing
those who care about where the real danger lies. And frankly — I
hate to be blunt about it, but — leftists, you are in the way!