The Rise Of Populism: an Explainer

It was obvious to anyone who has done even a little reading in the field of political philosophy that Barack Obama was a Marxist, not an economic Marxist but a political or cultural Marxist, whose thinking like that of The Frankfurt School and Saul Alinsky was based more on Marx's other book, The Communist Manifesto than on his impractical but good-looking-on-paper economic theories in Das Kapital. In fact, with its focus on the subjugation of the individual to the all powerful central state authority it can be argued that all Marx did was take the social structure of Zionism and replace God with The State.

If that is correct it would go some way to explaining the weird, oppressive laws enacted (by executive order, the democratic equivalent of rule by Imperial Decree,) in the United States during the final months of the Obama administration, not just by the outgoing president, Emperor and Pontifex Maximus Barack Hussein Obama, but by state legislatures in those states traditionally dominated by the Democratic party. As one would expect in California, the world capital of 'progressive' craziness a plethora of new and oppressive laws come into effect as Governor Moonbeam extends the reach of government into the lives of the states people and even animals, and a bizarre new law took effect in Illinois which required hairdressers to obtain training in domestic abuse prevention. 

Hairdressers as domestic abuse coulsellors? WTF?. The basis of the idea is the state would take advantage of the confidential relationship between a woman and her hairdresser to spot the symptoms of control frwakery or even violent abuse and guide the victim toward the embracing arms of agencies of government where she will be made dependent for life by a far more subtle form of abuse that is designed to convince its victims they cannot survive without support.

While not yet fully implemented this daft idea is now part of the qualification process for anyone seeking to become a hairdresser in Illinois and whichever other US states adopt the policy (the usual suspects being California, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and the north east we guess.)

What level of training hover the great and good of Illinois decided is appropriate to enable people to fulfil this complex and sensitive role, you might well ask. Anyone who wants to keep their job as a hairdresser will be required to undergo one hour of training every two years. His / her / zur ability to wield comb, scissors, hairdryer etc. being unchanged, the loss potential earnings should he / she / ze be stipped of the license to weild such weapons of mass beautification in order to provide a service as part of a commercial transaction clearly not seen as an injustice in the bizarro would of Cultural Marxism.




While Cultural Marxist are fond of babbling about the utopian dreams of Marx and followers who believe a perfect world would ensue if only people would stop being indiviuals, stop living for themselves and learn to 'live for each other' to use an often quoted and rarely understood phrase. In order to be able to help others we must first help ourselves. A rarely quoted comment on Cultural Marxism that I believe should be shouted from the rooftops is the warning the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin gave Marx in 1870(ish) when he predicted that a Socialist or Communist government would quickly become more oppressive that the old absolute monarchies of Europe. Bakunin has been proved right in every nation where communism has been tried and even in democratic nations, elected governments of socialist parties have quickly developed authoritarian tendencies.

The rise of populism, symbolised by the victory of Donald Trump in the US election and the result of the UK's referendum on whether we should remain in the increasingly authoritarian vand federalist European Union isn’t the politics of rejecting the policies of politicians and experts, it is in fact a total rejection of the kind of “experts” who, having spent all their lives in schools and universities filling their head with theory and book - learning, feel themselves qualified to pontificate on a subject of which they have an almost total lack of understanding; life.

Such experts deserve more than voters' contempt disdain. Educational qualifications and endorsement from state agencies are now seen by a growing proportion of the global population as measures of incompetence and a bureaucratic obsession with process and procedure and pedantic devotion to pointless rules and regulations. Qualifications it seems, nothing at all to do with intellectual capacity apart from objectivity. It isn’t the denial of reasoned argument but rather the logical end of it.

Thus we have come to a state where on one side we have the people who are not part of 'The State' and are intelligent (in many different ways), creative and self reliant, and the ones who have embedded themselves in the suffocating grip of bureaucracy and have lost the power to think critically and reason objectively and have become dependent on process and procedure, rules and regulations.

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The Self Righteous Minority That Threaten Free Speech

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Until recently Universities were places where any ideas were welcome and any economic, social, or scientific theory, no matter how extreme would be given a fair hearing and debated openly. Were that not the case, how far do you think the ideas of Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle, respectively the fathers of modern physics and chemistry would have progressed in a world still dominated by religious dogma.

In the past five decades however, and with increasing intensity, the freedom of thought and speech cherished in universities (as well as the press and regular drinkers in public bars) in democratic societies has increasingly come under attack from those who style themselves 'The Left'. This of itself is bizarre because left wing thinking ought to be about freedom of the individual, self determination and personal development. People died for the right to speak freely, just as they did for the right of every citizen to vote in democratic elections. So where did it all start to go wrong? How did the idea that there is only one set of acceptable answers to society's problems (the 'pensée unique' to use a French phrase I am fond of) and that those who challenge the orthodoxy should be silence and prevented from broadcasting their ideas in print or verbally.

Literally translated, 'pensée unique' means single thought but in modern usage it means single mindset, as in the ideal of complete conformity to the orthodoxies of a society. At a recent G20 conference (London, 2009) a proponent of globalism called on governments of the developing nations to work towards creating not just a system og global governance but a global culture . "To persuade all the peoples of the world to accept a common set of values and morals is the only way forward," he said.

"On the contrary," a delagate from one of the emerging economies replied, "it will leave those who do not accept the single mindset by the wayside. To ignore people's sense of national allegiance and the role of the nation-state and force people to accept the'single mindset ' which you embody is out-of-date and dangerous."

It is in fact as out of date and dangerous as Marxism; in his Communist Manifesto Karl Marx predicted in a communist world people would cease to exist as invididuals and be only components of a mechanistic state. Marx's sociopathic state offers a grim enough prospect to warn all thinking people off his version of communism. But not our current generation of students it seems. From being the crazy, anarchic idiots of National Lampoon's Animal House in the 1970s, students have become self righteous prigs.

In a time where college students are offended by just about everything that causes them to question their indoctrination, US magazine The Federalist Papers reports that one professor at University of North Carolina, Wilmington decided to cut through the politically correct rhetoric and let his students know that they aren’t "the special snowflake liberals" and their parents and school teachers would have them believe.

His epic class introduction has gone viral, and for good reason: this is the most common sense lecture to come out of any college in a long time. Here's a taster:

Welcome back to class, students! I am Mike Adams your criminology professor here at UNC-Wilmington. Before we get started with the course I need to address an issue that is causing problems here at UNCW and in higher education all across the country. I am talking about the growing minority of students who believe they have a right to be free from being offended. If we don’t reverse this dangerous trend in our society there will soon be a majority of young people who will need to walk around in plastic bubble suits to protect them in the event that they come into contact with a dissenting viewpoint. That mentality is unworthy of an American. It’s hardly worthy of a Frenchman.

Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand that you are confused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools, which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school.

Of course, your high school might not be the problem. It is entirely possible that the main reason why so many of you are confused about free speech is that piece of paper hanging on the wall right over there. Please turn your attention to that ridiculous document that is framed and hanging by the door. In fact, take a few minutes to read it before you leave class today. It is our campus speech code. It specifically says that there is a requirement that everyone must only engage in discourse that is “respectful.” That assertion is as ludicrous as it is illegal. I plan to have that thing ripped down from every classroom on campus before I retire.

One of my grandfathers served in World War I. My step-grandfather served in World War II. My sixth great grandfather enlisted in the American Revolution when he was only thirteen. These great men did not fight so we could simply relinquish our rights to the enemy within our borders. That enemy is the Marxists who run our public universities. If you are a Marxist and I just offended you, well, that’s tough. I guess they don’t make communists like they used to.

Unbelievably, a student once complained to the Department chairwoman that my mention of God and a Creator was a violation of Separation of Church and State. Let me be as clear as I possibly can: If any of you actually think that my decision to paraphrase the Declaration of Independence in the course syllabus is unconstitutional then you suffer from severe intellectual hernia.

Indeed, it takes hard work to become stupid enough to think the Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional. If you agree with the student who made that complaint then you are probably just an anti-religious zealot. Therefore, I am going to ask you to do exactly three things and do them in the exact order that I specify.

First, get out of my class. You can fill out the drop slip over at James Hall. Just tell them you don’t believe in true diversity and you want to be surrounded by people who agree with your twisted interpretation of the Constitution simply because they are the kind of people who will protect you from having your beliefs challenged or your feelings hurt.

Second, withdraw from the university. If you find that you are actually relieved because you will no longer be in a class where your beliefs might be challenged then you aren’t ready for college. Go get a job building houses so you can work with some illegal aliens who will help you gain a better appreciation of what this country has to offer.

Finally, if this doesn’t work then I would simply ask you to get the hell out of the country. The ever-growing thinned-skinned minority you have joined is simply ruining life in this once-great nation. Please move to some place like Cuba where you can enjoy the company of communists and get excellent health care. Just hop on a leaky boat and start paddling your way towards utopia. You will not be missed.

Professor Adams hits the nail on the head, but it is not just themselves the precious little liberal luvvies believe should be protected from anything that might offend. As all Boggart related online publications have reported, they are always eager to take offence on behalf of others. There are few genuine cultural divisions in the world that cannot be overcome with a little goodwill on both sides. Most of the issues that divide people are arbitrarily created, not only by the ruling elites who, like the Roman, know that human nature changes little, and so Cicero's strategy of divide and rule is still effective two thousand years later, but also by the useful idiots of Uncle Joe Stalin's famous phrase and the mindless sycophants (sheeple) who have infiltrated our higher education systems.

It is not coincidence that cultural Marxists, "social justice warriors", Politically Correct busybodies, militant feminists and globalists tend to create artificial divisions between people and classes through their obsession with identity politics. This is what cultural Marxists and followers of The Fabian Society do.

Their chief weapons are the use of arbitrary "victim status" to various minorities, based on how "oppressed" or "marginalised" they supposedly are thus dividing them from each other and from mainstream society. The less statistically prominent a particular group is (less represented in a job field, media, education, population, etc.) in any western society based on their color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, etc., generally the more victim group status is afforded to them by social justice gatekeepers. Fashions change as rapidly in the world of cultural Marxism, Muslims are the currently favoured religious minority (that Muslim culture is sexist, homophobic and justifies rape of infidel women hasn't penetrated the SJWs self righteousness shields yet). Whites and males (straight white males especially) are at the bottom of the list of people who can be seen as victims of society and we are repeatedly targeted by SJW organizations and left wing online hate mobs as upholders of an absurd theory they call "the patriarchy" (Again, they reveal their ignorance by favouring the most patriarchal culture on the planet, Islam.

In the end however, Cultural Marxism harms every individual in the long run it harms the concept of individualism itself. The pensée unique has no rooms available for indiviuals.

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