Odd, how the overwhelming bulk of these hair-raising reports of intolerant conduct and unrestrained mayhem I keep reading, come from those tiny little blue spots on the map. What the hell is wrong with people in places ruled by Democrats anyway? I’ve lived in some blue spots myself, and no shortage of red ones, and almost without exception the bad manners, wink/nudge racism, queer-intolerance and so very many other forms of disrespect I have witnessed over half a century, have been in those tiny little blue enclaves.
My time spent in college towns and tourist towns and capitol cities where the illusion of liberalism reigns artificially supreme, has left me convinced that self-designated liberals are the most hateful, judgmental, cynical and intolerant of all. The very purpose of political correctness has nothing to do with it being used to “correct” the behavior of everyday conservative working folks. Spend a day or two among folks who get their hands dirty and you’ll find in short order that any attempt to correct their behavior or their values will fall flat on its face.
No, the reason political correctness has become such a ubiquitous and viciously over-applied code of moralism, is that it is required as the only means of keeping alleged liberals behaving like proper liberals. It is used on college campuses because nobody really believes in the veracity of any of this leftist horseshit, and everybody knows nobody really believes any of it, and everybody knows that everybody knows that. The only way to keep a lid on the colossal fraud that is the liberal mindset, is to police it down to the minutest detail. There is so much rank hatred and intolerance built into liberal-left settings that one can feel it just walking into a room. Only in college towns full of leftists have I ever seen waitresses and cashiers treated like insects, and come to regard road-rage micro-aggressions as an everyday norm, and seen the countless methods of exclusionary conduct as expressed in body language and social positioning and vocal tonality all considered as ordinary interpersonal conduct.
On the other hand, where I first learned and eventually re-learned the arts of etiquette, tolerance, neighborliness, has ALWAYS been in places where it would be simply self-embarrassment to ever admit publicly that one is a Democrat. Since the fall of Jimmy Carter, that brand name has come to represent such a histrionic, hypocritical, tyrannical and supercilious mockery of itself, that only by rigidly enforcing its own codes of behavior from within is the illusion even sustained that anyone subscribes to all that juvenile nonsense.
Take away PC thought policing, and the behavior of conservative folks wouldn’t change an iota. But in the blue spots you would have utter mayhem and self-regenerating persecution of more and more out-groups just on mere suspicion of out-group-ness….
oh, wait: that’s already happening in places like Berserkeley, isn’t it?
Fill out a weak and ineffectual political contingent with weak and ineffectual and ill-brought-up overgrown children who believe in nothing at all but will pretend to believe whatever they are ordered to, and sooner or later it devolves into the torch-bearing mob it had to be PC-policed into not being all along.
Or has it not been noticed, that all the current mayhem and chaos going on, is happening in places run just like the old neighborhood-boss days, by Democrats?
