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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsThe West’s Foes, Foreign & Domestic — Kevin Donnelly, Quadrant
Instead of acknowledging the strengths and benefits of a heritage dating back to ancient Greece and Rome, the Left rails against a culture it denigrates as eurocentric, misogynist, imperialistic, racist and rapaciously self-serving. Is it any wonder common cause has been made with Islam? “(the Left’s) carping negativity continues to thrive. Using neo-Marxist categories of exploitation and oppression to find ‘victims’ of their own country’s mendacity, as a device to whip it – so Australia becomes racist, cruel to refugees, misogynist, homophobic and increasingly riven by inequality. The tropes endure, with Islam the current exploited and oppressed repository of virtue.” And the school curriculum is also being subverted by the cultural-left.
The Progressive Disintegration: The self-destruction of so many failed progressive gods.– Bruce Thornton
These layabouts have become used to throwing tantrums whenever they don’t like something or they feel “unsafe.” Most of them are spoiled brats, the pampered detritus of the middle class. But don’t forget the Alinskyite activists who manipulate these juveniles and bus them in on George Soros’ dime. These two-bit Leninists are adept at using “useful idiots” in order to further their aim of destroying America’s political and social order. They’re skilled at manipulating empty slogans like “income inequality,” “fair share,” “social justice,” “diversity,” “inclusion,” and all the other bumper-sticker bromides in order to consolidate and increase their power and influence.
New UN Boss Tells Europe Migration Unstoppable, Says Politicians Should Ignore Voters — Breitbart
The incoming Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) told a room of policymakers in Europe on Wednesday that “migration is not the problem but the solution”, and said politicians should ignore voters. The idea that management of migration is a matter of national sovereignty is extremely limited.
Random Note #195,742 — Government needs to remember — it’s the narrative, stupid — Peta Credlin
When Ted Kennedy was asked why he was running for President in the democrat primaries against incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980, the response was one very long, embarrassing, cringe and squirm inducing silence. He had nothing to say. It was this incident displaying a lack of preparedness to answer the most basic of questions that betrayed a Kennedy dynastic, entitlement mindset that killed off and blew up his candidacy. In other words he was running because he was running. It was a family expectation. Ditto Clinton.
Logic: It wins the debate every time — It’s all Greek to a warmist — Quadrant
Short and sweet and nails the logic or lack thereof, of the climate catastrophists It's all Greek to a warmist
Random Note #189,682 — Agility And Innovation Or Inertia and Torpor
To quote Ronald Reagan, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.
Who Are Wise, Who Not? — Victor Davis Hanson
For now, Donald Trump has proved that the animal cunning necessary to survive in the jungle of Manhattan real estate — duplicitous and venal politicians, all-powerful unions, incompetent and vindictive regulators, fair-weather bankers and investors, and dozens of special-interest crusaders — trumps the definition of traditional political wisdom: finding a young hip graduate from the right school with the right résumé to hire the right people to run the right sort of campaign.
Democracy trumps the victim generation: Janet Albrechtsen — The Australian
Make America great again? The starting point ought to be making America tough again. And we could aim to do the same in Australia. A few hundred years ago, colonial pioneers forged a new home in a daunting but beautiful country. Less than 100 years ago, postwar migrants sought out a new and free country, laboured through a Depression to build lives for their families. A few generations ago, resilient young men went to war to fight against Nazi Germany. Now, a pampered generation of men and women, many of whom don’t have much regard for democracy, seek out therapy for themselves and their children when an election result doesn’t go their way. Few things mark the worst of modernity as clearly as this rush among highly educated professionals to be victims of a democratic election on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — About The Misery Industries
Bingo!!!! Now where have I heard these sentiments before? Noel Pearson has nailed it again (“Racist ABC eager for us to live in misery”, 22/11). Like all industries, the grievance industry needs an ongoing market in order to thrive. ... The ABC, the human rights...
Prof. Jordan Peterson: “Bloody neo-Marxists have invaded the campuses
Prof. Jordan Peterson: “Bloody neo-Marxists have invaded the campuses