What happened last week to Charles Murray at Middlebury College should be a stark wake up call for lefties that forces them to start pushing back in a serious way against the fascist ideology the progressive religion is turning into - but you won't see the push back - some faint gestures, some wispy rationalizations, but no real push back - and that’s how a country dies. The left is in dire need of a George Orwell ‘where’s the omelette?’ moment - ya know, where someone of stature who is soundly associated with progressive causes stands up and says ‘this is wrong, this intolerance has to stop or it will lead to bad things, our country can’t be about behavior like this’ - but I have little optimism you’ll see such a thing - and that’s because Orwell was a brilliant man who lived in a time where you may have ascribed to a certain point of view but you were still well acquainted with other points of view, even those you strongly disagreed with - he would have read thoroughly Burke and Hobbes and Machiavelli - he would have applied Hume’s sceptical empiricism to Marxist determinism and found the latter wanting - such a broad scope would have allowed him, with humility, to keep an open mind - whereas today the left’s hivemind is closing with such intemperate rapidity that to even just entertain a notion not firmly embedded in the progressive canon can have you labeled a heretic and burnt at the metaphorical stake - and given what happened at Middlebury College one wonders just how long that ‘burning’ will remain merely metaphorical.
