Are the God's of the Left Showing Feet of Clay?

For John, BLUF:  The old Democratic Party verities (true principles or beliefs) may no longer hold.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Twilight of the Liberal Gods

Author Sarah Hoyt penned this thought piece for Pajama Media, published 28 September 2017.

Here is the lede plus seven:

Hat tip to Memeorandum.

We are living in amazing times, astonishing times, times I wouldn’t have believed possible as little as a year ago.

There is this Jorge Luis Borges story, where the old gods are returning to Earth, but upon their arrival, it is found that they have lost the ability to speak.  Instead, when they open their mouths, they caw or roar, or make other bestial sounds.  The populace, disgusted, turns away from them and refuses to worship them.  I don’t remember precisely (it’s been years since I read them), but I think in the end the “gods” get utterly destroyed.

That’s what’s been happening to the left this last year.

Look, I’m a writer, which, for a long time, my husband said was an excuse to spend more than I made on history books.  This is not precisely true, more sort of what I do for fun.  Because I write in many times and places, I like to have an idea of what I call “the great movements of history,” i.e. what things led to other things.

Part of what led to the dominance of the left in all the “gatekeeping” places, including publishing, the arts, education, and to a large extent government, was two things:  their ability to project intelligence and calm; and the ruthlessness to not only not hire anyone who wasn’t a fellow-traveler, but also to kick out everyone who disagreed with them as soon as they could.

The second led to, by a ruthless and slow process, getting rid of everyone who wasn’t first at least social-democrat, then socialist, and finally outright communist from most of the fields the left captured.  (And if one is to believe Robert A. Heinlein, the process was completed with the Democratic Party back in the forties.)

The first led to their holding that power, because not only did they have control of the mass media, and really, all forms of cultural communication, but they could project the calm and gentle impression of being the sane ones.

And this started with the publishing industry, for instance, back in the twenties.  It might have started with news and art before that.

The title reminds me of a novel by Earnest K Gann.

The author of this piece is an immigrant to the United States, although accomplished enough to right fiction in English and see it sell.

As for the subject matter, she may be on to something, as the left establishment tears itself apart over Mr Harvey Weinstein and progressive men like him.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff