Dennis Prager wrote recently that we have little hope of bridging the Left-Right divide. I understand how he and many others have come to this way of thinking. And that’s the thinking that has Conservatives always playing defense.
Prager wrote:
Millions of Americans, depressed by the ideological divide in America, harbor a wish that something or someone can bridge this divide.
This wish is understandable. But it is fantasy. The divide is unbridgeable. One might as well wish that daily consumption of a hot fudge sundae will lead to weight loss.
He then gave reasons as to why we will never agree with the Left. But therein lies the problem. Agreeing with them. I know, I know. The explanation will come soon, so read on.
How did we get here, Part 1?
Well, Leftists are insane. That’s a fact that Prager notes and that any, repeat any conservative knows. Nothing Leftists say makes sense. They want open borders, to defund the police, and they have the fiscal responsibility of a 5-year-old. Their ideas make good theories at best. However, in practical application they fail miserably almost every time.
Leftists steal good ideas from us, like charity for example. Then they expand the idea well beyond the breaking point. So in the case of charity, it’s expanded to the lazy and the ruthless.
Further, Leftists demonize ideas through clever marketing. They create buzz words or “cutesy” terms, and then pretend to care about the issue.
Look at 1619, CRT, DEI and ESG to understand a good idea gone bad. The good idea in this case: the Constitution. The outcome? The most racist, divisive concepts are now taught in schools and infused throughout society.
Using 1619, CRT, DEI, and ESG the Left took a manifesto formed by Communist academics and accused a nation that freed black people of being a racist country; a country that as far as I know remains the only country who has allowed a person who lineage comes from the bottom to rise to the top.
Ironically, the calls of racism generally by people who are doing quite well. Blacks like Michael Eric Dyson, Shaun King, and many others fare very well in America, even exceeding most whites in their accomplishments regardless of measuring standard. Yet they sell poverty, pimping it to young Blacks like an academic crack, and to young whites like academic cocaine.
But why stop at racism for Leftist political quackery?
Look at crime in any location where Leftists rule, and you will have plenty to look at. Still, they call for the insanity of less police, while simultaneously releasing violent criminals on the streets. They have no significant plans for rehabilitation, and seem to love the revolving door back to prison.
And what about that pipeline to prison (for minorities) known as the education system? Leftists give themselves more money each year, despite failing at all levels of academia.
As Prager said, there are so many areas of contention between the Left and the Right.
I recommend that any American who believes the left-right gap is bridgeable read the comments submitted by New York Times readers to any column that discusses a left or right position. These comments are a superb indicator of what those on the left, including liberals (I often distinguish between liberalism and leftism) believe. To submit a comment to a New York Times article or column, one must be a subscriber to the New York Times. So, virtually all those who comment are on the left, graduated from college and have enough disposable income to subscribe to the New York Times.
