[BelfastTelegraph] Writer Lionel Shriver has revealed that her time living in Northern Ireland resulted in her becoming alienated from left wing politics and the liberal elite.
In a Quillette podcast with journalist Toby Young, the award-winning American author of We Need to Talk About Kevin - who called Belfast home for 12 years during the Troubles - said the pro-IRA position adopted by many on the left prompted her to denounce it.
"I probably broke with the conventional liberal left when I was living in Belfast," she said.
Lionel said it "never made sense" to her that there was support among liberals in both the United States and the UK for Irish republican terrorism. She added: "It was illogical. They (the IRA) were thugs. They were illiberal. They were murderers. Why are you supporting that? Living there it was not abstract, people were killed, pointlessly.
"And there were all these would-be virtuous people supporting them and it didn't make sense. I was alienated. So I've never felt the same about the left since."
She agreed with Young that describing the current political climate as authoritarianism versus libertarianism was more appropriate than using the traditional axis of left versus right.
"I've always been suspicious of these directional terms because they are not lining up with the values with which they are meant to be associated with," explained Lionel.
The author, who regularly contributes to The Spectator, outlined her estrangement from the left as she hit out at the mainstream media - along with the left - for ignoring dissenting scientific views on lockdowns.
"I think that getting around the inconvenient fact that lockdowns hugely punish those who have few resources, the left tends to talk about the fact that these people are victims of 'the virus'.
"The virus is cruelly punishing these people unduly. But that's not what is punishing them. It's not really a matter of disease... it's because of having the economy squashed.
"The punishment is coming from the cure, not from a disease."
She argued that "something has gone wrong" in journalism, insisting it a profession which now attracts activists.
[PJMedia] Leaders in American cities have spent most of 2020 deflecting blame for the violent mostly peaceful riots that have dominated them. Much of the finger-pointing has focused on Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, and other right wing groups. These groups have formed over the past half decade as a response to the chaos caused in Portland, along with many other large American cities, by radical leftist groups like Black Lives Matter protests, riots led by antifa and By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), and other turban marxist groups utilizing black bloc tactics to disrupt American free society.
But what are these right wing groups? Are they fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... s, white supremacists, and defenders of the systems of racism endemic to America’s core, as alleged by the Left? Are they the dreaded militias hell bent on domestic terrorism? How do they compare to antifa, BLM, or BAMN?
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"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Mr Yon is correct. And I have been calling this out for some time: a democracy cannot exist for long without an informed voting populace. The current press is not only MIS_informing, they are MAL-informing, in an effort to produce outcomes which they favor. This is corroding the very society upon which the Republic depends.
The deliberate and self-induced failure of the "Fourth Estate" will doom our Republic. Its them I will blame, and them I will mockingly applaud when the editors who made these decisions are (figuratively) hanging from the lampposts by their own entrails. The only regret will be that the socialists in academia who pushed all this will not be there kicking at the end of a rope next to them (or dancing to the impact of bullets on the wall below).
Revolution is such an ugly thing, and I only hope that all those who have sought to bring it about suffer the full brunt of it.
#5
Either way. If Democrats win they'll use the new power of government to kill us. If they lose they'll claim it was democracy dying and kill us. It's a no-win situation.
They view us as fundamentally incapable of existing in the same world as them. They want to reimplement the USSR, we want to go on without their oppression.
#10
Dems have shifted to vote in person messaging which will limit the number of late ballots. That will at least limit the worst of the waiting although I expect recounts and claims of hacking voting machines unless it's a landslide for Trump.
[Hot Air] Come on, man. There are a number of outcomes that might be plausible from next week’s election. None of them include Joe Biden winning Wisconsin by seventeen points, two more than Barack Obama’s margin in 2008. Yet that’s what the Washington Post and ABC News finds as its polling finale in the state, along with a somewhat more reasonable seven-point Biden lead in Michigan:
[Twitter] Watch this moment, I had no idea...In this clip #DragonBear (systemic coordination between China and Russia) analyst @vtchakarova asks @davereaboi & @jakejakeny about Iraq.
It's Kurt.
[Townhall] One of the many glories of Donald Trump is his remarkable ability to clarify the truths that have been hidden, or that weak and stupid people have just preferred not to see. Our garbage institutions are teetering, victims of age, technology, and the utter corruption and incompetence of our allegedly elite ruling caste, and for years the soft conservatives have refused to see what is right in front of their dumb, pasty faces. Thanks to Trump breaking them in mind, body, and spirit, there's no denying it anymore.
The Establishment is a boil that must be lanced.
So many people used to wishcast good faith upon the Establishment even in these chaotic times. How often have you seen Republicans treating the mainstream media like buddies instead of the partisan opponents that they are? GOP dummies go on "60 Minutes" or some Sunday morning libfest, get ritually disemboweled, and come back scratching their toupees wondering what the hell just happened.
But but but the host was unfair.
But but but the host was biased.
But but but I don't understand.
But but but I was told that the media were brave truth tellers of truth!
Well, understanding the reality has been thrust upon even the stupidest of us.
Take a look at the Hoover Biden laptop thing. We have a computer that the Toast of Medellin gave to a repair man and forgot about because meth-huffing losers forget about stuff. We got his signature on the papers. We got his ambulance chaser demanding it back. We got the testimony of a veteran with a vaguely Slavic name whistleblowing it, and I was told that it's literally treason to doubt whistleblowing veterans with a vaguely Slavic name (maybe they have to look like a bratwurst in their uniform for this to apply – it's hard to keep track of the ever-changin' rules). Is he perchance referring to Lt. Col. Sausage? Do go read the whole thing!
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Heh:
If some hobo on a corner took a break from nadlering all over the streets of San Francisco to tell a passing NYT reporter, “I like James Bond movies and I’m pretty sure I saw Putin paying for Don Jr.’s latte at a Starbucks on Castro Street” we’d see a headline the next day reading “Anonymous Intelligence Insider Reports Trump Family Receiving Payoffs From Russian Leader.”
#2
The establishment used to at least have the long term interests of their own nations at heart, but now the globalist establishment graze on the central bank debt moving between rent-seeking opportunities like green nude eels crashing one country then moving on like locusts.
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[Hot Air] Come on, man. There are a number of outcomes that might be plausible from next week’s election. None of them include Joe Biden winning Wisconsin by seventeen points, two more than Barack Obama’s margin in 2008. Yet that’s what the Washington Post and ABC News finds as its polling finale in the state, along with a somewhat more reasonable seven-point Biden lead in Michigan:
Take a look at the Hoover Biden laptop thing. We have a computer that the Toast of Medellin gave to a repair man and forgot about because meth-huffing losers forget about stuff. We got his signature on the papers. We got his ambulance chaser demanding it back. We got the testimony of a veteran with a vaguely Slavic name whistleblowing it, and I was told that it's literally treason to doubt whistleblowing veterans with a vaguely Slavic name (maybe they have to look like a bratwurst in their uniform for this to apply – it's hard to keep track of the ever-changin' rules).
