Then there’s Ymar… that likes trashing the entirety of human civilization and all factions in itself. LOL>

Aesop, the good red vs blue stuff. how many red pills do people need before they can wake up?

https://billwhittle.com/americas-failed-social-experiment-are-you-on-team-red-or-team-blue/

What needs to happen is co-ordinated state and federal legislation which breaks the academy’s rice bowls. As for anti-discrimination law, a fragment of it ought to apply to public agencies, public corporations, natural monopolies, and oligopolies wherein collusion in restraint of trade is a threat. Otherwise, it all should disappear except for some disclosure requirements. We’ve lived for 50-odd years with lawyers second-guessing everyone’s discretionary decisions. Time to break some of their rice bowls too.

Yes, they ‘should’… good luck with that.

They FEEL that Republicans are evil. All the Dem lies in the media, and academia, are to create this feeling, and lies & half-truths to make it easy for the super-smart test takers to “believe they think it”. Like rationally conclude it.
They don’t.
They rationalize their feelings.

All smart folk are able to lie to themselves, and believe their own lies.

No rational arguments will change the beliefs of those whose feelings are a certain way. Tho laughing at their superstitious beliefs might at least make them angry a bit – are they angry enough to look at evidence and facts? Not usually.

The problem is that college educated indoctrinated folk get their status and money come from espousing these false beliefs, and virtue signalling to other college indoc’d decision makers.
The culture and business and academic decision makers, including politicians and “conservative” SCOTUS justices have all been thru the Dem dominated, Republican hating college system.

As long as anti-totalitarians call them “left” or “Leftists”, it allows Democrats on the ballot to claim it’s not them.
It IS them. Voting Democrat makes the problem worse, and America has this problem because of the Democratic Party.
Democrat Derangement Syndrome – Dem DS. Not Trump, Kavanaugh, Palin Derangement Syndrome; not Bush, not Reagan, not even Nixon nor Goldwater DS. All hated by Dems, because of the feelings. But those who Hate the Loudest are the Best!

And after Trump there will be further, possibly worse, hatred for any other Reps or public figures who oppose the Politically Correct mob.

Until colleges hire more Republicans than Blacks or Gays.

Congress should pass a law that forbids hiring discrimination against Republicans. And current and past students of colleges which advertised “diversity” should sue their colleges, and win, for false advertising.

Key graf:
The whole masterful thing.

He knows better. He lives there. He denies–by omission–that there is any violence or looting. His immediate circle know better. They applaud him for saying what he said because they can believe half a dozen impossible things before breakfast and need to. And enjoy it.

And believing this convinces them that the regime doesn’t care about black people.

If, in some fashion, he could be brought to view footage of the looting and violence, he would smoothly pivot to how utterly justified it is. Seen him do it in other circumstances.

If you get some audio from protests, you can hear arguments over the meaning of works….”racism”, “violence”, “fascist”. Point is, the words mean what the left needs them to mean at the time and arguing about their accurate use is a waste of time and they enjoy, or at least consider it useful to get the rest of us tied up in an argument whose usual ground rules–logic and fact–only we believe.

I’m sorry to say this, but discussion in pursuit of an agreement to settle our differences is a waste of time. While it might be useful or entertaining to read such as Chait, our gracious hostess has shown us…it’s a waste of time unless it’s a matter of knowing our enemy. But, whatever we glean from this is only useful as long as the left agrees to agree that it’s even relevant. And they’re under no compulsion to do so.

So. Okay. Chait gets his facts wrong. Chait contradicts an earlier position. Chait misses a logical conclusion. Does anybody think Chait cares?

It’s hanging by a thread and only by virtue of “ORANGE MAN BAD” and those who support him.

Which is precisely why—for the usual suspects—he is very, very bad…and why he must be removed by hook or by crook.

Well, they’re working on it, ever more feverishly, fast and furiously…

Christopher Caldwell’s “The Age of Entitlement” has been much touted of late as describing how the Civil Rights Act (of LBJ’s administration) and the legislation it has subsequently influenced along with the zeitgeist it inspired, has essentially (if I’ve understood the argument) created a mighty counterweight to the Constitution itself.

IOW, the idea of a nation based on laws and a Constitution written (and amended) after arduous debate and soul-searching has been STEALTHILY usurped by the overarching principle of a nation whose Law of the Land must be subsumed by “Civil Rights” (stealthily because the “Bill of Rights” is in fact enshrined in the Constitution and its amendments).

The question then becomes, how does one legislate “Civil Rights”; that is, where does it end? And which other “Civil Rights” of the some (or the many) must be sacrificed to enable the “Civil Rights” of others if, as perhaps it inevitably must (though this may not be obvious, at least at first), “Civil Rights” becomes a zero-sum game (as the so-called principle of “equality of outcome” vanquishes the far more justifiable, even if difficult-to-implement principle of “equality of opportunity”).

Where de Tocqueville, during his investigative visit in the early 19th C., perceived with great enthusiasm that the separation of church and state—and the fact that the US had no officially sanctioned state religion—was one of the country’s more glorious (and practical) innovations, and the reason why, as he noted, religions were various, flourishing and vibrant, it appears that “Civil Rights” (so-called), having achieved the status of a civil or secular “religion” (or cult, if one believes that anyone can do anything and everything in its name, even though such an attitude/conclusion MUST be a misreading and misapprehension of the idea, an all-encompassing blueprint for the pursuit of morality, decency and virtue!), has thus become THE quasi-state religion of a sizeable number of people in the country.

It is by this seductive END RUN (whether orchestrated intentionally by the usual suspects or adopted more “innocently” by the morally “resolute” and the “repairers of the world”); it is by this perverting of intent that the boundary between state and religion has been utterly breached, with the result clearly visible in the mayhem, confusion, societal polarization and violence, much of which has been supported, even if tacitly, by the political persuasion that Chait is doing his pathetic best to rationalize, and this simply because the purported “goal” of this violence (along with the rationale for its Left-wing support) is a secular nirvana—a golden era of Civil Rights.

Correspondingly, the Right, personified by Trump and his “deplorable” supporters—RACISTS all, by definition (and thus ANTI-“Civil Rights”)—are being portrayed, by “THE RIGHTEOUS”, as standing firmly, obstinately and unjustifiedly in venal and evil opposition to this paradise (achievable no doubt if it weren’t for Trump). Hence the vitriol directed against him (and everything and everyone associated with him—even to the point of vilifying and ridiculing proven, life-saving medications he suggested)

Yes, Trump and his supporters are portrayed as devil-like persona…while the Left, personified by Obama et al. are on the side of all that is good as they subvert the laws of the nation and destroy individuals and institutions to rid the country of Trump—that is, for morally (and theologically) appropriate reasons.

Such weakening if not erasing of one of the tenets of the nation, this elevation of “Civil Rights” to religious, even fanatical religious status, augurs an ever-uncertain future (as the recent SCOTUS decision has made clear, no matter how one interprets Gorsuch’s motives).