The Death of the Center-Left in America

by Steve McCann, American Thinker:

The center-left in the United States is no longer a viable political force. Once among the largest segments in the political spectrum, it meekly surrendered to and has been essentially absorbed by the American Marxists. This was a realignment almost entirely due to the breathtaking level of gullibility and ignorance of ostensibly well-educated self-described liberals.

Over the years, this naïveté and obliviousness have been a source of amusement and head-shaking incredulity. However, these traits have now become so dominant among an ever-growing segment within American society that the future of this nation as a prosperous and freedom-loving country is in serious jeopardy.

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There is little doubt that a major contributing factor to the accelerating ignorance of much of the citizenry can be traced back to a Marxist-leaning education establishment that, for the past fifty years, has been increasingly focused on indoctrination, not education.

Curricula that had been used for over a century in secondary and higher education and that were designed to foster appreciation of the nation’s founding tenets and the development of reason and independent thinking were deliberately abandoned. Instead, curricula were developed that fostered a herd mentality wherein being a mindless part of the designated in-crowd became the overriding factor in the lives of many Americans.

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This, when combined with an inculcated inability to reason or generate an original thought, saw far too many willingly accept any pronouncement or machination proffered by the center-left elites in the ruling class who constituted and defined the in-crowd. Mindlessly believing and acting on these proclamations reinforced the herd mentality of the legions of vacuous but committed true believers, regardless of how absurd and unbelievable they were. For example:

• • In a feat only Marvel Comics cartoonists could accomplish, Donald Trump has been cast as not only a treasonous, albeit transparent, Manchurian candidate and puppet of Vladimir Putin, but also the incarnation of a composite Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini determined to create a fascist dictatorship. As such, he and his supporters are the unquestioned enemy that must be defeated and marginalized at any cost and by any bizarre or nonsensical means possible.

• • It is only American socialism-lite (a hybrid form of European socialism) that can save the United States from environmental catastrophe, unchecked capitalism, America’s outdated Constitution, and above all, the evil clutches of Trump and the MAGA movement. This version of socialism will guarantee an equitable and inclusive society.

• • An all-encompassing “green agenda” will save the planet by eliminating environmental risks and ecological scarcities while creating a low-carbon, socially inclusive economy that results in improved human well-being and, above all, social equity.

• • It is irrefutable that the United States has been and currently is a systemically racist country, as anyone with white skin, regardless of class, circumstances, or geography, has unfairly benefited from “White Privilege.” An equitable and just society thus demands that de facto racial quotas underpin the culture and economy, while the borders are opened to mass immigration from third-world countries as de facto reparations for their “exploitation” by the United States.

• • Equality also demands that gender dysphoria (aka transgenderism) can no longer be considered a serious mental health issue but is, in reality, normal behavior and must be accepted and promoted as, by mere self-declaration, men can be women and women can be men.

• A just society recognizes that abortion up to the time of birth must be ceaselessly championed as the entity on the cusp of being born is merely a clump of cells that magically becomes a human being only after exiting the birth canal.

Over the previous three decades, the center-left ruling class elites have chosen to gradually ally themselves with hard-core Marxists due to similarities in political philosophy. However, after 2015, that arms-length relationship evolved into a full-blown open alliance solely based on an unbridled and mutual hatred of Donald Trump. The armies of dupes, breathlessly hanging on every word and deed of the ruling elites, unwittingly allied themselves with the Marxists as well.

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