The Dangers of Leftist Groupthink
Derek Hunter
Posted: Jan 24, 2021 12:01 AMIf you were a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, you are familiar with the Borg – a half human, half cyborg species with a collective consciousness; if a thought occurred to one Borg, it occurred to all Borg. When attacked, they acted in unison without orders being given. In nearly every way, they are the science fiction version of the Democratic Party.
The United States is a nation of “rugged individualism,†or at least we used to be. People took care of themselves, and when something happened where they couldn’t, family, friends, neighbors, and churches stepped up to help out when it was needed. Starting with the “Great Society,†Democrats pushed government into that space, supplanting that community-based infrastructure with a centrally planned one. This wasn’t naturally occurring or by accident.
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In the years since government’s insertion into the care and feeding of individuals, the left has redefined the word “community.†What once used to mean your neighborhood has been twisted to mean people who look like you or share the same sexual orientation. They’ve trained people to care more about what happens to someone on the other side of the country with whom they share those irrelevant characteristics than what happens to someone on their block who doesn’t. And it happened seamlessly.
That’s how easily the left changes the world around us. If you weren’t paying attention, you likely didn’t even notice it had changed.
But they do telegraph their punches, you just have to pay attention.
An idea gets floated – from a think tank, on TV, or some op-ed somewhere – and normal people laugh at it.
We laugh because it sounds stupid, or in some cases it really is stupid and has no basis in reality. But it’s out there, and once a thought occurs to one of them, it occurs to all of them.
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