Dear Liberal Progressives of the U.S:
- December 21, 2016
- NomadMonad
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@NomadMonad
My view of what it means to be the Liberal Left was transformed after our Brexit experience. I took a real hammering for campaigning for LEAVE, and my social media newsfeed was replete with a narrative that “Brexiters” are bigots, racists, and unintelligent working class who did not understand the issues.
Let’s just put that to the test. My own British constituency, is the 11th most wealthy, and second most educated, where 70% of the adult population are University graduates, ahead of Cambridge even. So you would expect, wouldn’t you, that REMAIN would win by a landslide? However, the remain vote, with a turnout of 77% was only 51/ 49%.
And so it is with Donald Trump. Social scientists are busy retrospectively creating “closet conservatives” “reticent right wingers” to attempt to explain this phenomenon, the same phenomenon which they were unable to previously identify.
You see, the trouble is that when the media and establishment sneer at JAMs (Just About Managing), those without a college education, blue collar workers, then those very voters will turn to the right when the left fails them.
Not everyone who voted for Trump is a racist or a bigot. People turned away from Hillary not because she is a woman, but because she represented the establishment, and offered no palpable change whatsoever.
The prevailing view of the elite left gives us one world view only. Political correctness dictates that we can only say A, B, or C, not X, Y and Z, and so we learn to fall silent, lest we be labelled bigots. That is, until the privacy of the polling booth.
The Left is losing support throughout the Western world, and is responsible for this result precisely because it has decided that any other way of interpreting the world is unacceptable.
Dismissing the opinion of your opponents, or closing down the argument will never win votes. Lack of engagement with real concerns, replacement of debate with insult, rejection of any other opinion which does not conform to certain parameters, will doubtless alienate the very people who might potentially be your supporters.
They will inevitably turn away and take their revenge at the ballot box.
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For instance, if your best friend won't even allow you to say "Happy Birthday" to them are they even still your best friend?
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Yuck. Surely there's something better to talk about that politics.
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You have always encouraged us, your deplorable neighbors, to be open-minded, to be tolerant, to build consensus and to appreciate diversity. In light of recent electoral events, we think you have a golden opportunity to practice what you so tirelessly preach.
We sense that you are upset, bewildered and disturbed by your new president. We are sorry you feel that way, and hope we can make the next four years easier for you. Please keep in mind that many of us irredeemably deplorable clingers endured eight years under that community agitator, although he had not received our vote. We also put up with the grating, strident scoldings of that woman senator and ex-Secretary of State for a long time. While we certainly despised many aspects of their agenda, we did not march, chant hateful slogans, or smash up any property. We did not inundate electors with pleas to switch, nor did we threaten even one. We did not melt down on YouTube or fill Facebook with melodramatic profanity-laden tirades. Please pause to consider this. Perhaps it is time to be tolerant and to appreciate the political diversity of our Democratic Republic. Calling people fascists, racists, misogynists and bigots is getting old now. Instead of telling us what our values are and why we are such bad citizens, why not join us in some small way as fellow Americans on a quest for greatness?
Yes, we know. It bothers you that we do not get all our views from NPR, MSNBC and the NYT. We are aware that our vibrant variety of news sources is not pleasing to your erudite sensibilities. (And please forgive us for not being as apocalyptically alarmed as you are over "Global Warming"). We are aware that the tactical failure of vote recounts, pressuring electors, and throwing infantile tantrums has left you feeling hopeless and without a game plan.
Mother Russia is also concerned about you, for you are in fact as dear to her as any of her adopted children. In your deeply troubled state, she longs to embrace you. Maybe this is an opportunity for you to seek solace in Orthodoxy and to delight in the richness of timeless Christian ritual. This would be far better activity for your souls than crying over lack of gender-fluid bathrooms and easily-procured abortions. Mother Russia is grieved by your confused notions regarding faith and family. Rather than celebrate perversity, why not participate in true diversity and join us in making our sovereign nation great once more.
Liberal progressives, we have need of your enlightened and broad-minded creativity in these troubling times.
Sincerely,
a brainwashed dupe and minion of Vlad Putin