Weaponising Our Weaknesses: ‘establishment’ conservatives blithely accept the moral authority of leftist ideology, by Edwin Dyga.
Yep, politically correct tactics and media domination have allowed the global elitist left to capture the mainstream conservative parties in the West. Which is why they are so useless in the culture wars, and need to be reformed or, if necessary, replaced.
That a profound malaise has struck conservative thought throughout the contemporary West, particularly across the Anglosphere, is an axiom of the political zeitgeist. … [A]nxieties that would ordinarily define the fears and aspirations of the electoral centre-right … are systematically censored from the political debate by the candidates of more ‘respectable’ parties in the so-called ‘moderate’ centre.
The so-called “conservative” mainstream party has just become the team B of the big government, global elitist party, team A of course being the leftist mainstream party. In a democracy with two mainstream parties, both are going to be in power about half the time, — so it was imperative for the permanent government of bureaucracy, academia and media to also capture the mainstream right party. This they have now done in all Western countries.
In Australia, the preferred party for the PC elite is of course the Labor Party, but the Liberals Party is team B and not too bad for their interests (especially under Turnbull). Both parties keep the money and jobs flowing to the ABC, the usual suspects, the bureaucracy, the education system, the carbon accounting system, etc. etc.
Cultural elites from across the Continent through to London, New York and Canberra, those who set the tone for ‘polite’ discourse on topics such as immigration and citizenship need to be incessantly reminded that what occurred in France [the coordinated attack on the Bataclan Theater and several other sites on November 13, 2015] was entirely avoidable; had they only heeded the warnings of those they were instead busy denouncing as unworthy of political acknowledgment, as embarrassing affronts to the enlightened sensibilities of a post-Cold War universalist, end-of-history ‘consensus’, and routinely defamed as ‘nativists’, ‘extremists’, ‘bigots’, and the like.
And yet, despite the obvious and evident failure of leftist social theory, so-called ‘mainstream’ or ‘establishment’ conservatives on the whole are incapable of shaping what one might expect to be a popular culture in desperate search for an alternative to the status quo. One explanation for this – but undoubtedly the most important – is that these ‘establicons’ seem to accept the moral authority of the principles and ideas upon which their ostensible opponents’ ideology is founded. …
Let us recall that Angela Merkel’s risible contribution to the global hand-wringing post Paris 13/11 was to reemphasise “compassion”, “charity”, “the joy of the community” and of course “tolerance” as a response to the terrorist attacks. These are the attributes of an ideology that has paralysed the West into impotence before a medieval aggressor, not the defining qualities of a particular civilisation that appears to be under constant attack from without and within. …
It is more than a little ironic that a militantly secular republic has been targeted by a religion whose vendetta against the People of the Cross dates back to the seventh century. …
An overdose of “love, peace and tolerance” renders the defenders and advocates of Western civilisation incapable of discerning with what and whom they should declare their solidarity in times of crisis. Conservatives of any description embarrass themselves when they stand shoulder to shoulder with an ideology that has not only paved the way towards its own self-destruction, but has demonstrated no “love, peace and tolerance” towards Christians or cultural traditionalist themselves. …
It leads to what is sometimes described as pathological altruism, a selective moral outrage, willing blindness and the inability to take one’s own side in a conflict of competing group interests, all under the impulse of compassion über alles. Why else is it that the names Trayvon Martin and Aylan Kurdi are globally recognisable but not Jonathan Foster or any of the ‘Rotherham 1400’? …
hat-tip Stephen Neil
