In the well-known Aesop’s Fable of yesteryear, a young boy repeatedly tricks his village into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock, only to laugh as they come running. When the wolf actually does appear, his cries are met with indifference and disaster ensues.
Today, we’re witnessing a political parallel, with the incessant cries of “fascism” coming from the Left and their echo chambers in the mainstream media.
Except this time there was really no wolves and the boy was actually creating a diversion for the real wolves to come in the back door namely the Woke academic ideologues taking the institutions in their own attempt to take control.
So our intuition not to trust the boy who cried wolf was correct. In fact it wasn't even intuition but plain common sense. The actual reality, the evidence was there for everyone to see, there was no wolves coming, it was all lies.
For more than eight years, this has been the go-to epithet for anyone to the right of center on the political stage in America. This is not because any recent candidates actually exhibit any of the traits of fascist leaders but because some of them have challenged the status quo with an unorthodox style and conservative policies.
Actually I think the reason why the Dems are now explicitly using language and narratives that the Right are like Hitler and facists is just the extreme fundemental belief they have as a party. The Dems have a long history of calling Replicans names like Facists. Regan was viewed the same. So it doesn't matter if the candidate is being more Right than usual. They see any leader from the Right as having Facist tendencies.
Its just that due to politics becoming more personal, more about identity this basic ideology is coming out in the extreme. The Left are a Party of socialism, anti capitalism and elitist ruling class. Which has now become cultural class. So the Right are always the oppressors of the socialist utopia.
But herein lies the rub: By branding everything from tax cuts to immigration enforcement as fascism, the term has been stripped of its historical gravitas, becoming nothing more than a rhetorical cudgel.
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The Left’s hyperbolic habit of characterizing its conservative opponents as “fascists” isn't just a disservice to political discourse — it's a dangerous game that desensitizes the populace to the warning signs of the Left’s own authoritarian leanings. In the well-known Aesop’s Fable of...
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Yes I think for the Left it becomes a meaningless word. But that is what they have done with language full stop. They have taken words hostage and redefined or cancelled them. A women is now redefined and any objective reality we had to determine this has been taken away. By redefining words to the irrational ideology the Left are redefining reality and themselves.
They are forever having to redefine and recreate words and narratives because the previous redefinitions are exposed and after a while they lose any rational basis for what they are talking about.
That is why it was so important to get some clarity and rationality back into the conversation. Look at the facts and reality and allow that to be the determination and not peoples words.