. . . progressivism. Victor Davis Hanson considers both ideology and "a culture of behavior" and sees the true villain as globalism, with globalists being defined by whom they despise, namely:
The carbon-spewing Winnebago owners, the snowmobilers, the jet skiers, the Glock packers, the Elks Clubbers, the . . .
. . . lathe workers, the 101st Airborners with molôn labé tattooed on their arms, the 7-11 owners, the nutty Brit who speaks reverentially of Churchill, the dumb grubby French guy on a tractor who has no clue that his diesel engine must soon be replaced by three-hour batteries, the wacko Greek who cannot appreciate a boatload of noble Libyans landing on the beach below his ancestral olive grove in Crete, the limited Czech who clings to the hokey belief that residents in the Czech Republic should still speak Czech—in other words, all the autonomous cranks, and odd ballers who did not get the message, are not yet on board, and should have been by now long past woke.
(Victor Davis Hanson, "The Globalist Mindset: They Hate You," amgreatness.com, December 16, 2018).
In other words, dear conservative friend, Brother Hansen says globalists despise you and me. And they do.
By the way, molôn labé means, roughly, "come and take it," a slogan sometimes credited to King Leonidas at Thermopylae and a view of the matter at hand that was not unknown to Texian patriots at Goliad.
There's too much in this fine article to excerpt. Read it. As a further enticement:
The elite must never be subject to the sometimes unfortunate ramifications of their own ideologies—any more than a laboratory scientist need be singed when he recklessly puts the wrong volatile ingredients into his beaker mix. Open-borders architects in the U.S. need not put their children in schools overwhelmed by illegal immigrants. Walls are useless on borders but effective around Malibu and Napa estates. The elite need not live in neighborhoods where European languages are rarely spoken; others less liberal need such exposure and enlightenment. French citizens must pay high gas taxes for their huge carbon footprints, French elites fly private jets to conduct profitable business in the carbon-rich Gulf, India, and China.
Globalists generally assume that their own privileged material conditions are pitiful wages for the greater good they do and so justify their material hypocrisies, as if they were wounded wild fawns forced to rely on rich artificial shrubbery of suburban gardens. They often share the greatest disdain for the rural and muscular classes of their own countries who lack the sophistication of the elite and the romanticism of the distant poor. If worse comes to worst, such impediments can simply die off and be replaced by more fertile, more energetic immigrants from the former Third World happy to have a shot at Western material conditions and the general welfare state, and who are at least thankful and appreciative of their benefactors and so more than willing to be receptive to globalist, transnational, and redistributive bromides.
Globalism ultimately is the offspring of elite progressive universities, think tanks, foundations, government institutions, and borderless corporatism. . . .
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