I saw this article by Dennis Prager and here is the Article. I cut and pasted it in its entirety.
It is a very good article and I was pleased to see someone that said the same thing that I have said. The average leftist believe that they are superior due to their education, being "woke", social standing and other factors and that we "normals" are subhuman, Nazi's and other vile things.
When I was in graduate school, I learned a lot about the left.
One lesson was that while most liberals and conservatives abide by
society’s rules of order and decency, most leftists do not feel bound to
live by these same rules.
I watched the way leftist Vietnam War protesters treated fellow
students and professors. I watched left-wing students make
“nonnegotiable demands” of college administrations. I saw the Black
Panthers engage in violence—including torture and murder—and be
financially rewarded by leftists.
Today, we watch leftist mobs scream profanities at professors and
deans, and shut down conservative and pro-Israel speakers at colleges.
We routinely witness left-wing protesters block highways and bridges,
scream in front of the homes of conservative business and political
leaders, and surround conservatives’ tables at restaurants while
shouting and chanting at them.
Conservatives don’t do these things. They don’t close highways, yell
obscenities at left-wing politicians, work to ban left-wing speakers at
colleges, smash the windows of businesses, etc.
Why do leftists feel entitled do all these things? Because they have
thoroughly rejected middle-class, bourgeois, and Judeo-Christian
religious values.
Leftists are the only source of their values. Leftists not only
believe they know what is right—conservatives, too, believe they are
right—but they also believe they are morally superior to all others.
Leftists are Ubermenschen—people on such a high moral plane that they do
not consider themselves bound by the normal conventions of civics and
decency. Leftists don’t need such guidelines; only the non-left—the
“deplorables”—need them.
In August 2017, University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax
wrote a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer in defense of middle-class
values. She and her co-author cited a list of behavioral norms that, as
Wax put it, “was almost universally endorsed between the end of World
War II and the mid-1960s.”
They were: “Get married before you have children and strive to stay
married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful
employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your
employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be
neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in
public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime.”
She later wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “The fact that the
‘bourgeois culture’ these norms embodied has broken down since the 1960s
largely explains today’s social pathologies—and re-embracing that
culture would go a long way toward addressing those pathologies.”
For her left-wing colleagues at Penn Law School, this list was beyond
the pale. About half of her fellow professors of law—33 of
them—condemned her in an open letter. And Wax wrote in the Journal, “My
law school dean recently asked me to take a leave of absence next year
and to cease teaching a mandatory first-year course.”
The Pennsylvania chapter of the left-wing National Lawyers Guild
condemned her for espousing bourgeois values and questioned “whether it
is appropriate for her to continue to teach a required first-year
course.”
As regards traditional Jewish and Christian codes of conduct, just
read the left’s contempt for Vice President Mike Pence’s religiosity.
They fear him more than President Donald Trump solely for that reason.
One would think that leftists, as sensitive as they are to sexual
harassment of women, would admire Pence’s career-long policy of never
dining alone with a woman other than his wife. On the contrary, they
mock him for it.
With such high self-esteem and no middle-class, bourgeois, or
Judeo-Christian values to guide them, many leftists are particularly
vicious people.
The opening skit of “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend—Matt
Damon’s mockery of Judge Brett Kavanaugh—provided a timely example.
It is unimaginable that a prominent conservative group or individual
would feature a skit mocking Kavanaugh’s accuser Dr. Christine Blasey
Ford. Indeed, Kavanaugh noted his 10-year-old daughter’s prayer for his
accuser, and a political cartoonist promptly drew a cartoon with her
praying that God forgive her “angry, lying, alcoholic father for
sexually assaulting Dr. Ford.”
Is there an equally prominent conservative public figure on the right
who has ever said “F— Obama!” on national television just as Robert De
Niro shouted, “F— Trump!” at the recent Tony Awards?
Now, why would De Niro feel he could shout an obscenity at the
president of the United States with millions of young people watching
him? Because he is not constrained by middle-class or Judeo-Christian
moral values.
In Nietzsche’s famous words, De Niro, like other leftists, is “beyond
good and evil,” as Americans understood those terms until the 1960s.
In 2016, at a Comedy Central roast of actor Rob Lowe, the butt of the
jokes was Ann Coulter, not Lowe. They mostly mocked her looks, and if
there is something crueler than publicly mocking a woman’s looks, it’s
hard to identify. For example, “Saturday Night Live” cast member Pete
Davidson said, “Ann Coulter, if you’re here, who’s scaring the crows
away from our crops?”
There surely are mean conservatives—witness some of the vile comments
by anonymous conservative commenters on the internet. And it is a moral
scandal that Ford has received death threats.
The difference in left-wing meanness is the meanness of known—not
anonymous—people on the left. They don’t hide behind anonymity because
they do not feel bound by traditional notions of civility, for which
they have contempt.
Now you can understand why the left hates Pence, a man who has, by
all accounts, led a thoroughly honorable life. He—and other evangelical
Christians and Orthodox Jews—tries to live by a code that is higher than
him.
That ethic is what Ubermenschen seek to destroy. They are succeeding
I happened on the piece a few days before you posted this. He's entirely correct in his view of the Left.
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