{"id":29920,"date":"2020-07-18T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-progressives-have-convinced-us-america-is-evil-and-must-be-destroyed\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:35:00","slug":"how-progressives-have-convinced-us-america-is-evil-and-must-be-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-progressives-have-convinced-us-america-is-evil-and-must-be-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"#How progressives have convinced us America is evil \u2014 and must be destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How progressives have convinced us America is evil \u2014 and must be destroyed<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The following essay is an excerpt from Ben Shapiro\u2019s new book, \u201cHow to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps\u201d<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

The philosophy of division is a philosophy that derides any notion of American unity as a lie, and bathes that which links us \u2014 Abraham Lincoln\u2019s \u201cbonds of affection\u201d and \u201cmystic chords of memory\u201d \u2014 in acid, disintegrating our ties and casting us all adrift.<\/p>\n

I call this strain of thought \u201cDisintegrationism.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to argue that America\u2019s philosophy is wrongheaded, her culture diseased, and her history evil, Disintegrationists must engage in an extraordinarily selective reading of reality. They must home in, in excruciating detail, on America\u2019s sins, which, in context, would be fine \u2014 but rob that history of all context or subsequent history. Exploitation is a feature of every human society, and repeated mistreatment by some groups of other groups is a similarly common feature. What is uncommon \u2014 indeed, unprecedented in human history \u2014 are prosperity, peace, and freedom.<\/p>\n

It is simply undeniable that capitalism, founded on protection of property rights \u2014 the ideology of the Founding Fathers \u2014 has been uniquely successful in spreading peace and prosperity both domestically and around the globe. Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, the enshrinement of individual rights, and the advent of protection for private property \u2014 the roots of capitalism \u2014 global GDP has increased exponentially, in shocking fashion. In the year 1 BCE, global GDP amounted to $183 billion; in 1000, global GDP was app<\/a>roximately $210 billion; in 1500, it was still just $431 billion; in 1700, $643 billion; as of 2013, $101 trillion. That is a 15 percent increase in the first millennium, and a 15,700 percent increase from 1700 to present.<\/p>\n

It is similarly undeniable that the spread of peace has been a direct result of American hegemony. On a year-by-year basis, international war deaths have decreased precipitously since World War II, from a high of nearly 200 deaths per 100,000 people at the end of that conflict to a low of well below 0.5 deaths per 100,000 people at the turn of the twentieth century. Global life expectancy has doubled since 1900. Furthermore, America has become the most tolerant country on earth. According to the Washington Post, a new Swedish survey found that people from the United Kingdom, America, Canada and Australia, as well as certain Latin American countries, were \u201cmost likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor.\u201d Other European countries aren\u2019t nearly as tolerant. And none of those countries has ever elected a black man \u2014 twice \u2014 with more than 65 million votes each time, to serve as the leader of those countries.<\/p>\n

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Democrats like Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Former Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke promote the notion that a supposedly oppressed coalition must rise up and rewrite the entire nature of the American bargain.<\/span>REUTERS; AP; Media<\/a>Punch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, it is perfectly obvious that global freedom has expanded wherever American influence has expanded. According to the Polity Project at the University of Maryland, democracy is actually at a global high, and has been in particularly steep ascent since the death of the Soviet Union \u2014 a collapse brought about, of course, by America\u2019s willingness to \u201cpay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty,\u201d as John F. Kennedy put it in his inaugural address.<\/p>\n

The bar for Disintegrationists, then, is high. To surpass it, they must employ a clever, seductive, and deeply vicious strategy.<\/p>\n

Disintegrationists offer a subversive but seductive view of America as an evil actor \u2014 and have provided an alternative Unionism rooted in intersectional solidarity. Intersectionality, in its original iteration, was perfectly plausible: It suggested that Americans may be targeted based on membership in more than one minority category. So, for example, a black woman might meet discrimination in a different way than a white woman. But intersectionality has now become a rallying cry for Disintegrationists who aver that America is subject to unbending, rigid hierarchies that can be torn down only by uprooting the entire American system.<\/p>\n

By convincing Americans that any unexplained disparity is the result of the American system \u2014 philosophy, culture, institutions and history \u2014 Disintegrationists have a succinct and irrefutable argument in favor of tearing down the system. Any evidence of disparate treatment becomes an argument against Unionism.<\/p>\n

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Disintegrationists attack at the root of American pride, rewriting the history of beloved leaders like Teddy Roosevelt.<\/span>Seth Gottfried<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is an emotionally resonant pitch. Traditional Americanism suggests that while our system has never been perfect, it has grown increasingly so \u2014 and this means that it should be easier to succeed today, without the obstacles of bigotry that have plagued our history, than ever before. That worldview places an awful responsibility on individuals: If you fail to succeed, you can certainly blame personal disadvantages, but it becomes difficult to blame a miasmatic, existential, systemic, flag-draped boogeyman haunting your dreams. Additional freedom means additional responsibility.<\/p>\n

If, however, all disparity can be chalked up to the system, then personal responsibility becomes a secondary concern. Failures are no longer individual, but systemic. In fact, every failure becomes an additional brick in the wall of evidence against America.<\/p>\n

This outlook has become a rote part of radical Democratic politics: the notion that a coalition of the supposedly oppressed must rise up and rewrite the entire nature of the American bargain. Thus Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announces that \u201cresistance is female, intersectional and powered by our belief in one another.\u201d Sen. Kamala Harris of California explains that identity politics shouldn\u2019t be eschewed \u2014 in fact, she argued, the phrase itself was designed to \u201cminimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us.\u201d As former Texas Democratic representative Beto O\u2019Rourke, the id of the Democratic Party, put it in 2019, \u201cthis is a country that has been defined by foundational systemic endemic racism since the very founding of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Failures are no longer individual, but systemic. Every failure becomes an additional brick in the wall of evidence against America. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to the politics of Disintegrationism, the media routinely focus on demographic change in the United States as a harbinger of radical political change. Steve Phillips of the Center for American Progress triumphantly wrote in The Nation that \u201cthe concerns of people of color should be driving politics today and into the future.\u201d This is hardly fringe thinking in Democratic circles; for a large swath of the Democratic intelligentsia, it\u2019s a strategic linchpin. It\u2019s no small irony that alt-right racists hold the precise same viewpoint \u2014 that the changing ethnic composition of America represents an inherent threat to the American system \u2014 and prescribe their own form of racial Disintegrationism as a solution. Unfortunately, that alt-right mindset has, from time to time, crossed over into the Republican Party, too.<\/p>\n

All of this is deeply divisive. But in the Disintegrationist view, the true anti-unity forces lie among advocates for traditional Americanism. Unity, say the Disintegrationists, can be born of opposition to the system. This is why Disintegrationists have categorized culturally unifying symbols like the American flag as inherently divisive. Kneeling for the national anthem represents more authentic unifying behavior than standing for it (Beto O\u2019Rourke suggested, \u201cI can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up, or take a knee, for your rights, anytime, anywhere, in any place\u201d). Scientific investigation is deemed bigoted, and meritocracy itself derided as discriminatory. Belief in free markets \u2014 even opposition to nationalized health care \u2014 is evidence of America\u2019s roots in slavery. Adherence to American institutions like federalism and the Electoral College is castigated as inherently discriminatory. America\u2019s traditional reliance on reasoned conversation is itself deemed polarizing, as was seen when moderate opinion editor Bari Weiss resigned from The New York Times, accusing the paper of squashing any ideas that diverge from a left-wing orthodoxy.<\/p>\n

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Chick-fil-A was bullied into cutting donations to the Salvation Army and the Boy Scouts (right) were forced to denounce their principles.<\/span>Alamy; Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All the factors that once would unify us are now portrayed as divisive. And only kowtowing to the Disintegrationist worldview earns moral absolution.<\/p>\n

And Disintegrationists demand kowtowing. They leverage the power of cultural institutions to target and destroy those who stand in their way. Their strategy relies on a simple rule: The squeaky wheel gets the grease. In the world of social media, this means targeting corporations who are too risk-averse to stand up for either free speech or for their own values. Thus Disintegrationist activists spend their days trolling conservative shows for clips to misrepresent, then crowdsourcing support on Twitter for boycotts that never actually materialize. A few tweets are often enough to prompt advertisers to drop hosts, prompt social-media platforms to demonetize or de-platform supposed violators, or even shift entire broad-based policies.<\/p>\n

The ever-shifting boundaries of political correctness, as enforced by the elitist Disintegrationist mob, force silence or compliance.<\/p>\n

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Hollywood, too, has become the tip of the sphere in the intimidation business: Mario Lopez (right) had to apologize for arguing that a 3-year-old might not experience gender dysphoria.<\/span>WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Corporations \u2014 which, after all, are motivated by profit rather than principle \u2014 often cave to even mild pressure. Corporations are nonideological in nature, contrary to left-wing characterization; they\u2019re legal structures designed to limit liability. This means that a few interns mouthing off at a massive company can shape policy from the inside \u2014 and it also means that a mild media firestorm may be enough to shift even billion-dollar companies toward more restrictive speech standards.<\/p>\n

Even charities aren\u2019t spared the Disintegrationist lash. The Boy Scouts can be forced to denounce its own principles, should those principles comply with traditional attitudes toward Judeo-Christian morality. Chick-fil-A can be forced by both governmental and nongovernmental pressure to drop charitable giving to organizations like the Salvation Army. College campuses, where Disintegrationists effectively control many administrations, have become the scene for egregious de-platformings and Maoist struggle sessions.<\/p>\n

Hollywood, too, has become the tip of the sphere in the intimidation business. Because celebrities are particularly vulnerable to bad press, they are often forced to comply with the Disintegrationist viewpoint or face firings. The mildest objection to the most radical-leftist agenda items earns a career-threatening rebuke. Mario Lopez, for example, committed the grave sin of suggesting that it would be \u201cdangerous as a parent\u201d to determine based on a 3-year-old\u2019s gender confusion that the child is indeed suffering from gender dysphoria, adding \u201cYou\u2019re just a kid.\u201d This was enough to spur E! to pressure Lopez for a public apology, which he duly gave. The man has a family to support. So do we all. The Disintegrationists know this. And they are unwilling to leave any area of American life untouched by their acidity.<\/p>\n

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Every piece of connective tissue in American life is being strip<\/a>ped away by Disintegrationists. This is happening constantly, all around us. We cannot watch a football game<\/a> without confronting Disintegrationism; we cannot pick up a celebrity magazine, attend a church event, or go to a restaurant without first considering politics.<\/p>\n

This is effective. It\u2019s effective because it\u2019s exhausting. It is meant to be. It is meant to convince Americans to throw up their hands and simply comply with the dictates of the Disintegrationists, or to force Americans to divide up every element of daily life politically. Either solution is unworkable for a country that wishes to remain united. Unionism suggests that despite our differences, we are, at root, Americans. Disintegrationism suggests that despite our American passports, we are, at root, different.<\/p>\n

The dirty little secret of Disintegrationism is that there is no unity at the end of the destruction. There is only more destruction. The revolution will eat its originators. No new world will be rebuilt after the razing of America\u2019s philosophy, culture, institutions and history. Tribalism will simply replace national unity. The glue of opposition that currently binds together the disparate factions of Disintegration will simply melt away. All that will be left are polarized groups, seeking their own interests.<\/p>\n

That means that the fight to save America is, first and foremost, a fight to defend Unionism. It is to that fight which we must turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps\u201d by Ben Shapiro. Copyright \u00a9 2020 by Benjamin Shapiro. Reprinted by permission of Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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