I mean, that really sums it up, does it not? I feel like that's the refrain of the entire trump administration. Bad things are bad, do I really have to explain why obviously bad things are bad? But here I am having to explain why obviously bad things are bad.
But yeah, Kyle Kulinski had a video discussing Trump's war on museums and education, and how they're trying to white wash slavery and the like. Look, I'm not the most woke person in the world. By the left's standards, I'm actually a bit anti woke, but the right's "war on wokeness" and war on information has gotten to a point where they wanna relitigate slavery again. And let's face it, they wanna do this because there are some people in this country who never got over the FRICKING CIVIL WAR and long for the days that they can see black people in chains forced to work on plantations again.
I keep saying it. The right is evil. Like flat out evil. For all their talk of objective morality from god, when it comes to issues that actually impact human beings in significant ways, they are the ultimate moral relativists. "Well we gotta judge them by the standards of the time". Okay. Fair. I do criticize the woke for judging people of the past, even relatively good people like say, Abraham Lincoln, or FDR, but at the same time....we don't want to repeat the bad things of the past, do we not? I mean, from my perspective, morality is a matter of trial and error, we try things, they're bad, so we change things and do things a different way. And while the losing side might hem and haw, eventually they die out, and society just moves on. But not these guys. No. They're still relitigating grievances from not just decades ago, but CENTURIES. The elephant is the perfect symbol for the republican party, because it never forgets, and WILL literally relitigate crap from WELL beyond current lifetimes that should be settled, because their idea of "objective" morality is literally based on a book written millennia ago and everything beyond it is just...relative.
Again, I keep saying it, but they're the epitome of evil. And in this modern trump administration, they're so regressive they're going places even I thought they'd never go. Concentration camps, relitigating slavery, it's like there's no end to these guys' depravity. It's just a bottomless pit of OH HELL NO.
And remember what I said about information warfare in my last article last night, they're moving onto the next stage of reshaping peoples' minds and making them stupid. They're actively attacking the education system, including the higher education system which is normally more independent, they're attacking museums, which is what the kyle video is about. They're replacing PBS and sesame street with FRICKING PRAGER U(rine). And in those videos the first that came up was these kids confronting christopher columbus for being a monster and him just doing this weird moral relativist spiel about the standards of the times. Okay yeah, standards of the times. I admit that. It's not those times any more. Can we agree that that stuff is bad now, and that we shouldnt do that stuff now? I mean, it should be obvious, but we can't because these guys literally dont believe in objective moral standards outside of their super special holy book, which was soft on slavery because it too was subject to the standards of the times.
Here's the thing. We should want to improve society. We should look at cultural practices we do and when they harm peoople, we get rid of them. Hell, I'm so sensitive on the slavery issue I literally view wage labor as a soft form of slavery. Someone showed me a concept today called "mudsill theory", where some believe that society requires a lower class to do the grunt work, while freeing the upper class from labor so they can "advance society." It was actually used to defend slavery back in the day arguing that that was just their place in society, and it's often used today to justiify the evils under capitalism. Except, as the poster who cited it pointed out, we're not honest with the lower classes, we instead brainwash them into wanting to be wage slaves and wanting to work and blah blah blah. And yeah, we do that. And quite frankly, that's what capitalism is. It's just an extension of feudalism, which operated under its own set of assumptions along the lines of this idea.
But that's also kinda what i was getting at last night. Conservatives, and even centrist libs, have a vested interest in keeping people dumbed down and distracted with nonsense to stop the working classes from realizing their lot and improving their life. We brainwash people into being happy little wage slaves and redirect their anger toward the system to places it doesnt belong, like nonsense racial conflicts, or hatred of those who see through this nonsense and dont wanna work.
And honestly, as a progressive who believes in freeing as many people from wage slavery as possible and having robots do as much essential work as possible (with whatever's left being done ideally by workers who are there voluntarily), it's hard enough to advance that battle. But now the right, in its infinite depravity, regressiveness, and rejection of anything good in life, is now going "let's teach people that actual literal slavery wasn't that bad." Instead of going forward, they wanna go backward. Again, because they dont believe in moral progress, but also because at the top are people who really do want there to be underclasses of people who do spend their lives doing all of the work while they live in their fancy mansions with gold plated everything.
It's sick. Our society is sick. Modern conservatism is metastasizing into stage 4 cancer and killing everything good in this world that human beings have ever done. Rather than moving on to a progressive golden age, we're regressing into a dystopian future as dim as any dystopian science fiction writer could come up with. It's genuinely F-ed up. I used to believe that people werent really evil, many were just misguided, but I really feel like at this point we have to admit that evil exists in the world, and modern GOP is the eombodiment of it, at least in american politics.
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