Looming Red

In this Heritage Center speech by Evan Sayet, comedian, commentator, and former writer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Mayr, the concept of Liberalism (with a capital “L”) not being liberal at all is well covered. It is not about the liberation of individual sovereignty from the coercion of the state. The Progressive-Liberalism movement is merely a permissivism movement. It is neither liberal, nor progressive.

Evan Sayet calls modern Liberalism “a cult of indiscriminateness” or in other words a movement surrounding the concept that everything classically moral is immoral. He says that this comes from a core belief in the systemization of discrimination by former generations, making all moral standards immoral on the grounds that they could only have been arrived at by discrimination against behavior, belief, or difference. So, the only standard to judge something immoral is whether it has any legacy tradition.

Thus, in the 60′s you got, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty.” Anyone over 30 is set in the old ways. John Lennin’s song, Imagine, comes straight out of this core belief. If there is nothing like a heaven, nations, religion, and all the people are living for today then there can be no moral codes that come from discrimination. What do you have to fight for if you have nothing to believe in. There is no wrong or right, because you can only arrive at wrong and right declarations through discrimination. And the only way that one can be discriminate is if one has beliefs. If you don’t believe in anything, then you don’t discriminate against anything.

The reason that an ideology as objectively condemnable as socialism and communism or actually marxism will not be condemned by a left that witnessed with the rest of us Tiananmen Square, gulag prison camps, Stalinist show trials, and the Berlin Wall is that what is immoral to us in the west is only immoral because of some unfairness from the west inspired by discrimination. To accept condemnation of the obviously objectionable evils of the world is simply to concede to the discrimination of our society. Terrorists only terrorize because of what we did to them. Cuba only communized because of the capitalist tourism that took advantage of their island. Abortion is moral because it gives power to the woman who is disadvantaged by sexist society. There is no ambiguity in a feminist who is against the war in Afghanistan.

This speech finally put a voice to the one thing I have been trying to identify about the left. They are permissivists not liberals, that is true, but it is that they belong the cult of indiscriminateness that makes indiscriminately permissive. This means, in a constitutionally defined small federal government nation like ours, they can but only be for the opposite of statist centralized government. That is why “Yes We Can” chanted by millions does not invoke even the slightest irony that it had nothing to do with what those chanters could do but what a handful would do to further state control with government takeovers of private companies, the co-option of the healthcare industry, and nationalization of the banking industry.

Tags: Classical Liberalism, Liberalism, Permissivism, Progressivism

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