I was going to do a post called “How My Liberal Facebook Friends Elected Donald Trump.” (Indeed, I still may.) But this lovely rant make some of the same points.
Tom Walker is a comedian whose shtick is pretending he’s a reporter called Jonathan Pie caught telling shocking, unspeakable truths between real reporting segments. He’s reliably lefty, but this post-Trump election rant hits home:
Some choice segments:
“How many times did the vote not have to go our way before we realize that our argument isn’t won by hurling labels and insults?”
“But I can’t say this to any of my friends, Tim. People like me. I’d get fucking lynched!”
“The left is responsible for this result, because the left has now decided to any other opinion, any other way of looking at the world, is unacceptable. We don’t debate anymore because the left won the cultural war, so if you’re on the right you’re a freak! You’re evil! You’re racist! You’re stupid! You are a basket of deplorables! How do you think people are going to vote if you talk to them like that? When has anyone ever been persuaded by being insulted or labeled? So now if you’re on the right or even against the prevailing view you are attacked for raising your opinion. That’s why people wait until they’re in the voting booth, where no one’s watching anymore, there’s no blame or shame or anything, and you can finally say what you really think, and that is a powerful thing.”
“If my mansplaining is triggering you you can either fuck off to your safe space or you can engage and debate me and tell me what I’m getting wrong.”
Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.
Demographics is destiny and everything is downstream from immigration. This guy is wrong and the left is correct – they can afford to insult, dismiss and oppress the populations they have conquered through colonialism. The worst they can be accused of is being a little premature. Even the most die hard conservative will soon see that he has no effective voice in the system.
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Demographics is destiny and everything is downstream from immigration. This guy is wrong and the left is correct – they can afford to insult, dismiss and oppress the populations they have conquered through colonialism. The worst they can be accused of is being a little premature. Even the most die hard conservative will soon see that he has no effective voice in the system.