A key point he makes: “The anti-Kavanaugh campaign’s power and significance lies precisely in the ruling class’s perpetration of an in-your-face hoax. Making someone pretend that your patent lie is true may be the most humiliating of assertions of power. ”

We are being forced, repeatedly, to pretend that their lies and hoaxes are true — BLM, global warming, me too and rape culture, anti-Asian narrative, Russia collusion, the Capitol “riot/insurrection”, the “honest” election, white supremacy, the racism of voter ID — the list goes on and on.

(1) Post-modernism has spread, especially in academia and even lower school education, and then filtered out into the rest of the culture. Critical legal studies and critical race studies are outgrowths of post-modernism, which isn’t interested in objective truth.

(2) Most people under 40 know little of the evils that the left has wrought, for example under Communism. So leftism has spread, too.

(3) The left has found that using accusations of racism against attempts at truth-telling is very effective, especially with the younger generations.

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

? Theodore Dalrymple

Making someone denounce their ‘white supremacy’ is part and parcel of this technique.

Not quite the same thing as the others, it hearkens back to the “With what measure you mete, so shall it be meted unto you” stricture, and the “Forgive us our trespasses (debts)” plea in The Lord’s Prayer.

Oh, and I have very good, very fine neighbors, and I like them a lot.

Twilight faith, Pro-Choice quasi-religion, and progressive liberal (i.e. monotonically divergent) ideology. Everyone is religious (i.e. behavioral protocol), its relativistic sibling ethics, and politically congruent cousin law. Whether God, gods, or mortal gods and goddesses, each a religious/moral/ethical/legal philosophy… principles matter.