‘Left’ Is Now Political Shorthand For ‘Corporate State Technocracy’By Ben Bartee
May 26, 2022
The left-right paradigm was always dubious as a way to describe the Western political dichotomy. Given what modern “Leftism” entails, it’s even more irrelevant now.
Here’s a basic definition of “Leftist” ideology that, once upon a time, characterized many aspects of leftist politics in the early-to-mid-20th century:
“The portion of the political spectrum associated in general with egalitarianism and popular… control of the major institutions of political and economic life… Leftists tend to be hostile to the interests of traditional elites, including the wealthy and members of the aristocracy, and to favour the interests of the working class.”
What a difference a few decades of corporate capture makes!
What sort of egalitarian, hostile-to-elite-interests positions does the modern Western left take?
Does the ‘Left’ safeguard Constitutionally-guaranteed free speech?Nope!
The liberal coast elites are panicked at the possibility of free speech erupting on social media, or anywhere else. Watch them meltdown over the possibility of – clutch the pearls! – an open speech platform in the digital public square where non-blue-check dissenters don’t get arbitrarily purged for “hatespeech”:
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Does the ‘Left’ protect civil liberties?Naw!
Hitherto unprecedented civil liberty crackdowns were most recently pushed by the left, not the right, under the pretense of “stopping the spread” of COVID-19.
The result — in addition to handicapping the economy for years, starving millions, stunting children’s psychological well-being irreparably, and wrecking Americans’ psychological health writ large – was no measurable public health benefit whatsoever, as reported by the National Academies of Sciences:
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The corporate state technocracy’s personal servants: What modern ‘Leftism’ actually isPerhaps the most succinct summary of the modern ‘Left’ is illustrated by “Antifa” (a truncated version of “anti-fascist”) unironically cheerleading fascistic lockdown, masking, and forced lockdown measures:
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To tie the threads together, the modern ‘Left’ is reduced to a conglomeration of the absolute worst of all political machinations: authoritarian, elite centralized, anti-free speech, economically rapacious, warmongering.
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Source:
https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/left-is-now-political-shorthand-for-corporate-state-technocracy/
