This is a collation of quotes. My thesis is that the liberal, progressive ideas, which have driven our elite since I was in primary school, when the post war generation took the liberal members of the “greatest generation” such as Sartre, Foucault and the Frankfurt School seriously, is gone beyond bankruptcy into that part of ridiculousness beyond where even the satirist can see.

The politics of the left died with the Soviet. The politics of identity has also died, and we are putting the rotting corpse on the gibbet.

A woman, a mother, a victim of sexual assault in college, someone who according to the overly simplistic center-left perspective should be sympathetic both to Democrats and stricter gun laws, stood up and defended firearm ownership. It was a moment that demonstrated the fragility of narratives and stereotyping. It exposed just how rapidly worldviews predicated on a naïve and one-dimensional typecasting – a trap into which political demographers easily fall – can collapse. As it turns out, it was the beginning of a very bad 24-hour period for the consecrated and unfalsifiable belief structures preferred by the left.

Just as anyone with nothing to hide would do, the State Department released another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private and poorly secured state department just before two a.m. on Friday. Included in that tranche were a variety of emails with classified or sensitive information included in the body, raising the number of such emails Clinton said never existed to well over 1,000. Exposing Clinton’s claim that “there is no classified material” in her private “homebrew” email server is no longer shocking. What was remarkable in this particular batch of emails was one communication from Clinton in which she informed her aide, Jake Sullivan, to disregard sending sensitive information via “secure fax.” Instead, she requested that a document in question be turned “into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”

The content of the document that was supposed to be sent securely but was instead stripped of the markings that would identify it as sensitive and sent via non-secure transmissions remains unknown, and the State Department is dragging its feet. This revelation is, however, nothing short of a bombshell. The notion that Clinton’s email scandal has amounted to nothing, a dubious assertion of faith that the left nevertheless comforted itself with, is under siege.

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Unfortunately, this was not the only incident on Friday related to ISIS-inspired radical terrorism or jihadist attacks inside the United States. Late Thursday night, a Philadelphia police officer was attacked by a gunman and shot three times. On Friday, the city’s police revealed that the attack had been carried out by a radical Islamist extremist who had pledged allegiance to ISIS. The suspect in custody contended that he performed this act of attempted murder “in the name of Islam,” but what does he know? After all, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, speaking for the alleged assailant, insisted that the act had nothing to do with “being a Muslim or the Islamic faith.”

The narrative is as disconnected as the Ba’athist were during the Gulf War.

You only have to look at what is reported to have happened in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve to get a sense that Europe’s establishment, with its politically correct thinking, is losing control. Angela Merkel is a great lady and most of her leadership has been sound as a drum, but she will probably lose her job eventually because of her epic miscalculation in accepting more than a million Middle Eastern refugees.

Her decision was no doubt driven by heart and sympathy, but it reminds me of the fall of Margaret Thatcher. In 1989 Thatcher moved to impose a change in the British tax system. This caused resentment and then unrest. She wouldn’t back down, and the next year she fell. Years later she told me what she’d learned. People are afraid, she said; they live closer to the margins than we understand. When you propose a big change you can leave people feeling as if the rug is being pulled from under them. That’s a big thing to learn, and she spoke of it with humility.

She lost her job by being too tough. Ms. Merkel has imperiled hers by being too soft. But the lesson is the same: know how close to the edge people feel, how powerless, and respect their anxiety. Don’t look down on it, and them.

Yes, and bringing a million or so Islamic young men who have no interest in integrating, converting, and becoming members of Christendom, or German, or Finn, or French is a massive change. And most people live closer to the edge than the elite. They cannot isolate themselves and their families.

But without the people’s consent, the elite will crumble.

The #JesuisMilo hashtag shows this. Twitter has unverified Milo Yanipoulous’ name. So half the internet is calling themselves Milo on twitter.

Which allows the SJw trolls to police their safe space… into bankruptcy.

How long can Twitter extend and pretend if they have a single digit non-GAAP operating margin, and they don’t post a positive GAAP operating margin?

I’ve wondered about making a replacement, and then I ask – why would you try to lose a giant pile of money, too?

The SJW leave but ruins behind them. Divest from the companies they control to preserve your wealth. And expect the changes to start happening fast. The panoptician society that the SJW and progressives suggest we need is breaking.