Postmodern liberalism champions identity politics rather than individualism. Instead of the freedom of speech, it demands an authoritarian form of speech control called political correctness. Shelby Steele has a very interesting psychological analysis and claims that liberalism has become an identity that inoculates the bearer against the sins of the past. In the era of Trump people have become immune to the fake virus of 'white' original sin.
Mar 9, 2017
Comedian Dave Rubin joins Alex Jones to break down what has driven him away from the cult of the Left.
The Exhaustion of American Liberalism
White guilt gave us a mock politics based on the pretense of moral authority.By Shelby Steele
The recent flurry of marches, demonstrations and even riots, along with the Democratic Party’s spiteful reaction to the Trump presidency, exposes what modern liberalism has become: a politics shrouded in pathos. Unlike the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, when protesters wore their Sunday best and carried themselves with heroic dignity, today’s liberal marches are marked by incoherence and downright lunacy—hats designed to evoke sexual organs, poems that scream in anger yet have no point to make, and an hysterical anti-Americanism.
All this suggests lostness, the end of something rather than the beginning. What is ending?