Quote: (01-29-2015 03:00 PM)TheWastelander Wrote:
All the old liberals have either bought into cultural marxist thinking or are gone. In fact, they are about as politically irrelevant as the paleoconservatives are. The "progressives" rule the roost now and their war on the traditional American culture continues apace.
You might be right.
I was reading a response to the article I just posted up and it contained this passage:
http://gawker.com/punch-drunk-jonathan-c...1682078451
"Chait, like many liberal commentators with his background, is used to writing off left-wing critics and reserving his real writerly firepower for (frequently deserving) right-wingers. That was, for years, how things worked at the center-left opinion journalism shops, because it was simply assumed that no one important—no one who really matters—took the opinions of people to the left of the center-left opinion shop seriously. That was a safe and largely correct assumption. But the destruction of the magazine industry and the growth of the open-forum internet have amplified formerly marginal voices. Now, in other words, writers of color can be just as condescending and dismissive of Chait as he always was toward the left. And he hates it."
Just like the recent rebellion within right wing ranks with Tea Partiers displacing establishment Republicans, in the last few years the Marxists have been taking over the left wing. The difference is while the Tea Partiers are mostly irrelevant now after a short time at the top, the leftists are entrenched.