Diogenes
1 account to rule them all
It's been said that the left can only destroy; it doesn’t build anything (other than government).
In support of that observation, here is a list of many of the things I believe the left ruins and often destroys.
No. 1: Art.
The left long ago conquered the art world. Consequently, since the early 20th century, a lot of modern art has descended into a cesspit of ugly, meaningless and nihilistic crap — the opposite of what Western art had always been.
No. 2: Music.
What the left did to the eyes in art, it did to the ears in music. Most contemporary music seems ugly, meaningless and uninspiring. The people who praise such music appear to be music critics and, of course, music professors.
No. 3: Journalism.
Journalists were once highly respected. Unless a piece was listed as “opinion,” people generally believed they were getting, to the best of a journalist’s ability, as truthful a report as possible — “just the facts.” Today, on virtually any issue, they are getting opinion, not truth. The purpose of nearly every major newspaper and other “news” outlet is the same purpose Pravda had in the Soviet Union: to transmit the party line.
No. 4: Colleges and universities.
The left has destroyed universities as places of learning devoted to seeking truth and therefore welcoming, even cultivating, diverse opinions. Nearly every left-wing idea implanted in the minds of Americans emanated from a university.
No. 5: High schools and elementary schools.
Many schools in America — private as well as public — now teach children that America is systemically racist and that they are not born male or female, but at can choose whether to be one or the other — or neither. And increasingly, American educational institutions deny that objective truth exists, even in mathematics.
No. 6: Happiness.
You can meet happy and unhappy liberals and happy and unhappy conservatives, but you are unlikely to ever meet a happy leftist. The only question is whether the unhappy gravitate to leftism or whether leftism makes people unhappy. Both may be true.
No. 7: The family.
People on the left increasingly choose not to get married and not to have children — in other words, not to make families. And their welfare policies serve to disincentivize the creation of families.
No. 8: Women.
The rates of depression among young people, especially young women, are higher than ever recorded in American history. One reason might be that for half a century, women have been told, as one famous feminist saw put it, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” But the fact is that, according to the popularity of dating apps, it seems the vast majority of (heterosexual) women appear to a man to be fulfilled, just as the vast majority of (heterosexual) men need a woman to be fulfilled.
No. 9: Childhood.
One reason young people on the left don’t want children is that the left doesn’t particularly like children (except as sexual prey). The leftist teachers unions’ adamant refusal to open schools for over a year (while they still got paid) during the scamdemic opened many Americans’ eyes to this fact. So has the war on children’s innocence — like prematurely talking to them about sex without their parents consent and having schools introduce them to drag queens and gay sexuality from the age of five.
No. 10: Black life.
Like the Democratic Party historically, the left is racist. And it is so in precisely the way the word was always used — the left believes in black inferiority. That is why leftists advocate lowering standards for black people. That is why they advocate policies that always result in more black people dying at the hands of other black people. That is why they believe the state must take care of black people; they think black people can't take care of themselves. That is why left-wing policies, from the Great Society to today, have destroyed so much that was wonderful about black Americana, especially its family life .
No. 11: Black-white relations.
Who remembers life from little more than a decade ago? Black-white divisions appeared to be healing then and Americans seemed optimistic about relations continuing to improve. The left shattered that with its anti-white, “America is systemically racist” propaganda shouted from almost every major media and relentlessly pushed in almost every school and big business. The left knows that when blacks and whites feel good about one another, the Left loses control over African-Americans.
No. 12: The military.
As the military gets more and more woke — recall the testimony of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testifying before Congress about the need to teach the military about white racism — soldier morale declines. Add to this the utterly gratuitous and cruel mandate that every member of the military get the useless Pfizer juju jabs or be discharged and you understand why military morale is in steep decline.
No. 13: Late-night television.
Americans who remember the titans of late-night comedy — Johnny Carson and Jay Leno — remember how their sole aim was to bring smiles and laughter to Americans. Few people had any inkling of the political views of either host. That is now history. The left has destroyed late night comedy. It now consists of little more than angry rants against conservatives.
No. 14: Superman.
Superman was an iconic American hero. Thanks to the left, he is no more. Not long ago, Superman stood in front of the United Nations to announce he was renouncing his American citizenship to become a “citizen of the world.” And the left has now changed his motto from “Truth, Justice, and the American way” to “Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow.”
No. 15: Free speech.
Never before has freedom of speech been threatened as it is today. As has been true since the communist revolution in Russia, everywhere the left has gained power — from Russia in 1917 to the university and most social media today — it has suppressed free speech. There is no exception.
No. 16: Sports.
Until lately, an appreciation for spectator sports appeared to act as a great American unifier. It was one thing many Americans could enjoy together and, leaving politics behind, root for the same team. No longer. The left ruined it by radically politicizing professional baseball, football and basketball. The left has also relegated women to the status of hopeless losers by decreeing that men can compete against them in women's athletics.
In support of that observation, here is a list of many of the things I believe the left ruins and often destroys.
No. 1: Art.
The left long ago conquered the art world. Consequently, since the early 20th century, a lot of modern art has descended into a cesspit of ugly, meaningless and nihilistic crap — the opposite of what Western art had always been.
No. 2: Music.
What the left did to the eyes in art, it did to the ears in music. Most contemporary music seems ugly, meaningless and uninspiring. The people who praise such music appear to be music critics and, of course, music professors.
No. 3: Journalism.
Journalists were once highly respected. Unless a piece was listed as “opinion,” people generally believed they were getting, to the best of a journalist’s ability, as truthful a report as possible — “just the facts.” Today, on virtually any issue, they are getting opinion, not truth. The purpose of nearly every major newspaper and other “news” outlet is the same purpose Pravda had in the Soviet Union: to transmit the party line.
No. 4: Colleges and universities.
The left has destroyed universities as places of learning devoted to seeking truth and therefore welcoming, even cultivating, diverse opinions. Nearly every left-wing idea implanted in the minds of Americans emanated from a university.
No. 5: High schools and elementary schools.
Many schools in America — private as well as public — now teach children that America is systemically racist and that they are not born male or female, but at can choose whether to be one or the other — or neither. And increasingly, American educational institutions deny that objective truth exists, even in mathematics.
No. 6: Happiness.
You can meet happy and unhappy liberals and happy and unhappy conservatives, but you are unlikely to ever meet a happy leftist. The only question is whether the unhappy gravitate to leftism or whether leftism makes people unhappy. Both may be true.
No. 7: The family.
People on the left increasingly choose not to get married and not to have children — in other words, not to make families. And their welfare policies serve to disincentivize the creation of families.
No. 8: Women.
The rates of depression among young people, especially young women, are higher than ever recorded in American history. One reason might be that for half a century, women have been told, as one famous feminist saw put it, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” But the fact is that, according to the popularity of dating apps, it seems the vast majority of (heterosexual) women appear to a man to be fulfilled, just as the vast majority of (heterosexual) men need a woman to be fulfilled.
No. 9: Childhood.
One reason young people on the left don’t want children is that the left doesn’t particularly like children (except as sexual prey). The leftist teachers unions’ adamant refusal to open schools for over a year (while they still got paid) during the scamdemic opened many Americans’ eyes to this fact. So has the war on children’s innocence — like prematurely talking to them about sex without their parents consent and having schools introduce them to drag queens and gay sexuality from the age of five.
No. 10: Black life.
Like the Democratic Party historically, the left is racist. And it is so in precisely the way the word was always used — the left believes in black inferiority. That is why leftists advocate lowering standards for black people. That is why they advocate policies that always result in more black people dying at the hands of other black people. That is why they believe the state must take care of black people; they think black people can't take care of themselves. That is why left-wing policies, from the Great Society to today, have destroyed so much that was wonderful about black Americana, especially its family life .
No. 11: Black-white relations.
Who remembers life from little more than a decade ago? Black-white divisions appeared to be healing then and Americans seemed optimistic about relations continuing to improve. The left shattered that with its anti-white, “America is systemically racist” propaganda shouted from almost every major media and relentlessly pushed in almost every school and big business. The left knows that when blacks and whites feel good about one another, the Left loses control over African-Americans.
No. 12: The military.
As the military gets more and more woke — recall the testimony of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testifying before Congress about the need to teach the military about white racism — soldier morale declines. Add to this the utterly gratuitous and cruel mandate that every member of the military get the useless Pfizer juju jabs or be discharged and you understand why military morale is in steep decline.
No. 13: Late-night television.
Americans who remember the titans of late-night comedy — Johnny Carson and Jay Leno — remember how their sole aim was to bring smiles and laughter to Americans. Few people had any inkling of the political views of either host. That is now history. The left has destroyed late night comedy. It now consists of little more than angry rants against conservatives.
No. 14: Superman.
Superman was an iconic American hero. Thanks to the left, he is no more. Not long ago, Superman stood in front of the United Nations to announce he was renouncing his American citizenship to become a “citizen of the world.” And the left has now changed his motto from “Truth, Justice, and the American way” to “Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow.”
No. 15: Free speech.
Never before has freedom of speech been threatened as it is today. As has been true since the communist revolution in Russia, everywhere the left has gained power — from Russia in 1917 to the university and most social media today — it has suppressed free speech. There is no exception.
No. 16: Sports.
Until lately, an appreciation for spectator sports appeared to act as a great American unifier. It was one thing many Americans could enjoy together and, leaving politics behind, root for the same team. No longer. The left ruined it by radically politicizing professional baseball, football and basketball. The left has also relegated women to the status of hopeless losers by decreeing that men can compete against them in women's athletics.