What if we took bougiecrats at their word instead of making excuses and covering up their bad behavior?
The reality is more troubling than I had realized.
Yeah look, I hate this article. But it just started writing itself in my head this morning so I thought I should pay attention and jot it down. A lot of what I do is to just channel energies and emotions that seem to be in the air. The process of writing this down was unpleasant and uncomfortable. I’m calling out my erstwhile allies whom I still love very much.
Once you’ve had a chance to read it, let’s talk about it. I would absolutely love to be wrong. I would love to have someone point out the errors in my analysis here. But after watching and listening very closely to the mainstream narrative for two years now, this is what I’m hearing. It’s ugly. We often call it fascism. But the granular details of this worldview are worth noting and are really jarring.
I think we have to take bougiecrats at their word. They truly believe that:
‘Autism is a gift and that rising rates of autism (and other chronic conditions) are cause for celebration. Anyone who wants to keep toxic chemicals out of kids must hate disabled kids and want to kill them.’
‘Trans women are women. Indeed they are now the only women. All other former “women” are now “birthing persons” or womb having persons according to the best medical experts.’
‘Testosterone is a crime. Unless it is injected into women and girls. Then it is a lifesaving miracle.’
Their epistemology is muddled and contradictory but let’s try to piece it together:
‘Pharma press releases are the only truth.’
‘We’ve reached the end of history, all truth is known a priori by Pharma.’
‘Critical thinking and scientific debate are no longer necessary. “Thinking for oneself” is a dog whistle for right wing extremism that is dangerous and must be stopped.’
‘Internal thoughts and perceptions (by people who have gone to liberal arts colleges) are what’s true (postmodernism). There is no external reality. Everything is a performance that creates reality. Except Pharma press releases which are stone tablets handed down directly from god. Of course there is no god, only Pharma. Point being, Pharma is the only institution qualified to measure external reality. Anyone who thinks differently than this is dangerous and should be put into a “quarantine” camp.’
‘Democrats are the only people who Care(TM) and have Empathy(TM). We know that they care because they demand Equity(TM) in the distribution of experimental genetically modified poisons to the immunocompromised, underserved communities, and poor countries. Because Democrats are the only people who care, they are the only people fit to govern. In perpetuity. Even though legislatures have been replaced by executive orders, this could not possibly be authoritarian because Dems Really Care(TM).’
‘Republicans are inherently racist, sexist, homophobic, and violent and their thoughts are by definition false. Republicans hate Science(TM) which means that they hate truth and they sadistically revel in causing harm to others and tearing down society. This is why they must be censored, silenced, and removed from society. The purity of our thoughts and society and therefore health, can only be maintained through rigid separation to remove the always already diseased people (Republicans) from our midst.’
None of this makes any sense. But it’s the approved narrative(TM) that has been cranked out 24/7/365 for two years.
Me again: So the modern progressive bougie mindset is a weird mix of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (making kids sick is great), internalized misogyny (the total erasure of women), internalized corporatism/colonization (the worship of Pharma/vaccines), self flattery and self deception (‘only “I” am merciful’), and a series of cognitive devices (‘postmodernism for me but not for thee’) to prevent any challenges to this worldview. It’s like the progressive values of the 1960s got hijacked, hollowed out, inverted, weaponized, and reinjected into society to serve the interests of capital.
Now ask yourself if this is a society that you want to live in and do you want these people in charge? If the answer is no, then we need to get these people out of office.
Okay so let’s chat. Have I got this wrong? Or is this the gist of the narrative that we’ve been fed for two years — and it’s so horrible that we often look away and make excuses to cover up the fact that we are living in a fascist country?
To be clear, I respect and will defend with my life people on the spectrum and trans people. Obviously. We are fighting for the inherent worth and dignity of all people. (I just have to state this plainly because bougiecrats have a habit of getting things twisted and misunderstanding/misrepresenting satire and critique.)
The bigotry and hate that have been directed our way nonstop for two years is unlike anything I have ever seen before. I think we need to name it and call it out.
Blessings to the warriors! 🙌
Free Tamara Lich and all of the Canadian political prisoners. 🙏
Undermine fascism always and everywhere. 🙌
In the comments, please let me know your thoughts about the above or anything else that is on your mind.
(As always, please let me know if you spot any typos.)
I agree mostly except replace capital with power. In a free society with functioning free markets then capital meets a healthy mix of availability and risk/ benefit tension. People have opportunity.
What we have massive corporate consolidation to bring in our current weird leftist fascism to consolidate power among the few, who have held massive amounts of capital hostage through cronyism and also government waste.
Insanity is the only name I know to call it. Watching who we vote for is the best way to fix it, but it will be a long process, and will only work if we return to being grounded in truth. That means admitting trans women are not actually real women. It means admitting that every life is beautiful, but increasing rates of autism through useless big pharma subscription plans is cruel. Masking toddlers is cruel. Wasting our kid’s youth with political indoctrination void of imparting actual knowledge or demanding actual character is cruel.
Capital has been hijacked to consolidate power and traditional liberalism has been hijacked by regressive authoritarian nut jobs. Stop voting for them.
I couldn't agree more. I used to respect progressives and was on board with the ideology more times than not. But what the heck has happened to us? Progressives were the first to point out how we couldn't trust Bush/Cheney post 9-11 because of their direct ties to the military industrial complex. But try to mention the pharma industrial complex these days and their eyes gloss over. And every progressive I've ever met had read Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent.' But sure enough, you suggest that 'agency capture' that he so brilliantly wrote about is exactly what we're seeing with our government health regulatory agencies today and they just can't believe that the bureaucrats posing as doctors would EVER do anything unethical. As far as racism and sexism goes, it used to be that being loving towards all people was just doing the right thing. Now there is, apparently, a script that we have to abide by. It's more important to hate those who dare to think for themselves than to just try to be a decent person. Finally, how is the same party that champions a woman's right to be to able to have a medical procedure, now the party that is totally fine with the state saying that people MUST get a medical procedure that they don't want? I can't make sense of any of it.
Thanks so much for showing us former progressives that we haven't just lost our minds!