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The Left Controls Everything, But Everything is Still Not Enough

The Left has the cities, the colleges and the universities, the K-12 public schools, the police departments and the military, and they have the ‘scientists’, the academics, and the financiers in their pockets; they have the bulk of publishers, movie makers, and media outlets, the political privileges and ‘affirmative actions’ enumerated for and enjoyed by those of their ‘protected’ class. They have the ‘justification’ of ‘social justice’ for acts of vandalism, theft, assault and murder, the claim of ‘tolerance’ where they cancel, harass and doxx. And yet, despite all of this, they claim that it’s not enough, that they’re under attack, and that they are doomed by ‘the right’. 

The truth is that what passes as ‘the right’ today is a fabricated fiction, a convenient enemy. The arc of history for Western society has, in its clear and definitive departure from classical liberalism, demonstrated a secular shift to the radical left, with ‘the right’ (in its true form) a distant memory for some, a foreign concept to most, or a man holed up in defense of the forgotten cause. 

The truth is that Leftism so dominates the political landscape that bigger and bigger government, along with further and further encroachments, is not just the trend but the general expectation. The truth is that Leftism is to politics what breathing is to humans: it continues without much thought, with only relatively minor concessions made along the way by members of the establishment in order to keep some semblance of order; to preserve some of the artifacts embedded in the national fabric; and to pacify the people who aren’t yet ready but who, over time, continue to yield to the gradual encroachments upon their lives, their liberties, and their quality of life. 

Among those who believe that they are ‘doomed’ by ‘the right’, they have been conned not just by popular reimaginings of the left-right paradigm, but by the narrow frames in which information is presented, and the narrow six-inch screens by which they formulate their conceptions of ‘life’ and ‘the world’ — all to the benefit of the state and the greater establishment at the expense of truth, liberty, and the individual. All at the expense of a real appreciation for the vast majesty of thought, beauty, and adventure that exists beyond the narrow confines of those six-inch screens.

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