By Dom Nozzi
I had a conversation with someone about the protest at the Federal Capitol building in DC in January 2021. He said that the event was a “shock to the system of democracy by the action of ‘insurgents,’ and we need to take a close look at why and how the event happened, to prevent it from happening again.”
He asked how I felt about it.
I told him that I believe the media, as it always does, created mass hysteria way beyond what was justified for the protest in DC. Millions of Americans, as a result, now falsely believe that the US government nearly collapsed or was nearly taken over by “American Nazis.”
There was never even the smallest chance that there was any threat to the Federal government due to that protest. Had it been Black Lives Matter or Antifa activists, the media would have either praised it or ignored it. Neither CNN, MSNBC, NYT, or the Washington Post would have told us it was an “insurrection” if those groups had done something similar. For example, I did not even know until a few weeks ago that Black Lives Matter activists engaged in violent protests in DC several months ago.
Once again, an extreme double standard.
“Shock to the system of democracy”? “Insurgents”? Hearing my friend use these terms, I had to wonder which news source he was quoting? CNN? MSNBC? NYT? Washington Post?
Why do I think the protest happened? How do we prevent it from happening again?
I am certain that no Democrat will have even the faintest clue about knowing why it happened or how to prevent right-wing radicalism. Why will the Democratic Party members have no clue? Because one of the reasons membership in Proud Boys, white supremacy groups, Nazi groups, alt-right groups, etc. is exploding (and why Trump won in 2016 and nearly won again in November) is that the wokesters and Social Justice Warriors and Antifa and many in the Democratic Party have spent several years unfairly vilifying or punishing or imprisoning or convicting or ruining white males.
What is the inevitable result of this disgusting Ends-Justify-the-Means game?
A game where zombie activists employ cruel, blatantly unfair “identity politics” tactics – tactics that throw away merit or competence in favor of giving preference to black people simply because of their skin color or women simply because of their gender? A game where demands are issued to punish all white males, regardless of their guilt or innocence?
I will tell you.
This form of group guilt – practiced by the Soviets when they targeted the wealthy as Enemies of the People – inevitably and understandably results in extreme resentment. Who would not be resentful if they worked hard for much of their life and developed superior skills, only to see themselves passed over by less competent people in the name of a useless concept such as “diversity”?
We should not be surprised, then, to see a rise in violence by resentful white males who have started joining right-wing groups, and started voting for people like Trump and those like him.
A leading cause of the ruinous group guilt totalitarianism by zombies on the political left is adopting the “Cultural Marxism” ideology. Cultural Marxism is the idea that revolutionary progress requires that we split society into two groups: The Oppressed, and The Oppressors. The former group (largely blacks, women, low-income people, and sexual minorities) must be rewarded and promoted regardless of merit. The latter group (largely or exclusively white males) must be punished and disparaged regardless of guilt.
Similarly, “identity politics” lead society to punish or reward based not on merit but on whether you have the “correct” skin color or gender, or are “correctly” low income. We must thank Democrats and such opinion leaders as university professors for being the cause of a big jump in popularity in far right groups who push for and have adopted unfair policies to create “diversity” and affirmative action.
In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King stated that “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Today, Cultural Marxists have adopted the reverse of King’s inspirational and highly equitable statement, because they push the idea that we should judge people based on the color of their skin (or their gender or sexual orientation or income level). We should — these Cultural Marxists insist — discriminate based on skin color and gender and income and sexual orientation. We should, in other words, let the glorious ends justify unfair means. We should believe that two wrongs make a right.
“Race hustlers” are people who project themselves into the media spotlight as spokespersons whenever there is an alleged racial incident that involves their race. They expliot a racial situation to serve their own interests, rather than sincerely dedicating themselves to advances of the racial group. Race hustlers promote a form of Cultural Marxism by advocating that America oppresses black people due to “systemic racism,” even though there is no meaningful evidence of such a thing in American society. Indeed, a strong case can be made today that there is quite a bit of reverse discrimination (which again breeds resentment for white males).
Race hustler activists have mostly abandoned the idea of having blacks focus – as individuals — on improving quality of their character, as called for by King and Booker T. Washington. How is character improved? By promoting education rather than disparaging it. By promoting a healthy and assimilating culture rather than pushing separatism (or “redneck” culture, as Thomas Sowell has put it – a concept I will describe later in this book).
These character improvements are known to be effective ways to achieve a successful adult life.
Instead, the race hustler activists largely call for political agitation and confrontation, along the lines of Malcom X, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
In sum, how do we reduce the membership in these far right groups? Or reduce violence from the right? Or reduce the number of people who engage in “protest” voting for people like Trump?
Very simple: Bring back fairness. Bring back preference based on merit. Eliminate “diversity” efforts. Eliminate affirmative action. Get rid of Identity Politics. Stop hiring or promoting or electing or selecting people simply because they have black skin or female gender or politically correct sexual orientation.
What did new president Joe Biden do in his first few weeks as president in 2020? He appointed a large number of blacks and women and sexual minorities to top Federal posts. Only the naïve or partisan can believe that these appointments were more based on competence rather than identity.
Will fairness and merit return our society to where it was before our society lurched into Cultural Marxism? No, because each of these unfair, ends-justify-the-means tactics are powerful vote-getting tools for the Democratic Party.
Coincidentally, I just picked up a book at the library today. The author – Jason Riley — is a black man and his book is titled: “Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed.”
I am proud to learn, on occasion, that some consider my views “extreme.” We live in an age with a very large population of wokesters and Social Justice Warriors and Black Lives Matter activists and Antifa zombies.
Those are the real “extremists.”
Since when is it “extremist” to insist on fairness and merit? It seems to me that the “extremists” are the cult-like, tribal left-wing fundamentalists who are today assigning all people to one of two groups: Oppressors and the Oppressed.
Like in the Soviet Union, that can only lead to a big rise in violence, divisiveness, purging, and misery.
But it will be done “heroically.”
Standing Against Mob Rule 