Of course, that’s assumed by some in the know. Those who still believe in elections solving our problems, however, are not yet ready to abandon the principle or the function, however. Although at the current rate, the Left may declare emergency rule and abandon elections first, should the outcome of their enslavement plans reach full critical success.

“Suffice it to say it does not bode well for the future of the democracy.”

It’s about the same democracy as Saddam getting 99% of the votes. Dictators and tyrants know that democracy is one of the most efficient ways to rule over power as it lets people think they actually have a say.

Btw, overseers and slaves don’t need to think straight.

Beverly, I would say it is evil rather than rotten. The latter seems all too natural an occurrence of entropy.

THAT is what Ayn Rand realized at age twelve: it’s not just the Means of Leftism that are immoral, it’s the End itself — enslaving other human beings and taking the product of their labors and doing with it as They will.

ROTTEN.

In other words, they just can’t think straight.

I got that stuff a long time ago. I’ve just known it so long I can’t really freak out about it.

Or, is it finally sinking into some conservatives that when liberals say that they do not believe in natural kinds, and that even should there be “natural kinds”, no inferences could be drawn from their existence anyway, that they, the progressives, mean it?

And if finally, fewer now carry the torch of “we are all fundamentally the same” than used to, as recent essays linked to here seem to indicate, what has taken so long? What did it finally take? For liberals to finally come out themselves and patiently spell out for the average thick-headed conservative exactly what it is the anthropological implications of the progressive belief system entail for a common morality, not to mention the notion of a common humanity?

Are conservatives then, beginning to grasp and get it through their thick stolid heads and filters that when the leftist says that he wishes to remake humanity to his own vision, and that there is no objective reason why he should not, that he really does mean and believe it?

You don’t have to definitively answer the “one humanity” question one way or another to see what is transpiring. The question “Are they bad men fundamentally like us or are they a different moral kind altogether?” can be bracketed. All you have to do in order to grasp what is happening is to recognize the hypothetical [logical] implications for yourself in sharing a political space with, and making yourself vulnerable to, hedonic nihilists, in the name of some spurious, and ex hypothesi groundless, solidarity.

Yet it seems that to this day, or at least almost to this day, many would rather die, than face the fact.

Why?

We REALLY underestimate the extent to which the black subculture in this country has evolved and developed as dysfunctionally as it has. I guess that’s what you get with a legacy of 200 years of slavery, followed by 100 years of Jim Crow, followed by 50 years of liberal dependency-creating program “solutions.”

Funny thing is, Republicans used to be blacks’ party of choice. The Republican party was formed in the first place precisely to free the slaves, carried out by the first Republican president, Abe Lincoln. Many people don’t know it, but Martin Luther King was a registered Republican, as were many blacks of his era, especially in the South.

I remember the debates surrounding passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which southern Democrats in the Senate filibustered, including Al Gore Sr.), and this happened during the 1964 presidential campaign. It was Republicans, led by Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson, who shepherded the bill through, not Democrats. But the Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater voted against the bill on state’s rights grounds. LBJ and other Democrats used Goldwater’s no vote as a cudgel against him, and against Republicans generally, and the Democrats falsely packaged themselves as the ones who pushed it through, together with their false portrayal of the Republicans as being opposed, based on Goldwater’s no vote.