Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Culture of Smugness - the Liberal Elite

The Culture of Smugness | The American Spectator: "The resurfacing of racist ideologies is due not to the South’s past but to the nihilistic present, in which resentments and identity politics thrive. Eliminating the Confederate flag won’t arrest that unruly culture. It will make it even more rootless and ahistorical. Teens who shoot up churches and movie theaters haven’t been reading the biographies of Stonewall Jackson and Robert Lee. They have been immersed in an increasingly demented pop culture that celebrates the absence of virtue and discipline.

Only the liberal elite could be smug enough to think America is moving from a culture of “hate” to a culture of love under its dictates. Instead, it is moving toward a new culture of hate, one that is marked not by balanced moral judgments but by fanatical fiats. “We are on the right side of history,” its champions claim, but future generations will likely find such deluded moral boasting as far less honorable than the Civil War valor the Left seeks to erase."


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