Escape
After a few years of Woke Far Leftness, some 80,174 New Zealanders recently decided to emigrate. Remind you of California in recent years of high taxation, increasing crime and homelessness, power outages, and stifling regulations?*
Almost seven million Venezuelans have left their country since 2014, and many more will probably leave if Maduro stays in power—many came to the US and more will like come. Ah! Socialism and Leftism, the miracle cures for all that ails the West’s economies. Not.
Come on, Now, What’s Wrong with a Little Socialism?
Attempts to quash speech and other freedoms, often attributed to people on the Right by the Press and liberal USA coast dwellers, have now become the modus operandi and goals of the Left. Take the attempted and successful quashing by the US government of conservative speech in American media and social media over the past few years as a foreshadowing of what lies ahead for Americans. Take a warning from the UK that the quashing isn’t restricted to America. Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds signalled that the new Government would consider changes to the Online Safety Act designed to regulate social media companies.”** That’s not just a promise to jail people involved in the recent riots, it’s “a reminder to everyone that whether you’re directly involved or whether you’re remotely involved, you’re culpable, and you will be put before the courts if you’ve broken the law.” Yeah, it’s one of those free speech problems that has the left twisted more than a Klein bottle. Convoluted thinking? You bet.
The Klein Bottle of Modern Leftist Thinking
The topology of a Klein bottle challenges our intuitive thinking. It’s a non-orientable surface that seems to defy our sense of logic with its twists and turns and convoluted interior. That’s the current political and social manifold of the Left. And it’s a good example of psychological projection. Declaring the Right to be Fascist, the Left embodies a resurrected Mussolini through their efforts to control speech and behavior. Can anyone say “hypocrisy”?
Take the political Left’s and mainstream media’s responses to riots and civil disobedience in America and Britain as an example. Apparently, riots such as those centered in Missouri, Oregon, and Washington or the destruction and social disturbance of Occupy Wall Streeters in NYC have Leftist blessing and social media praise, whereas any public display—even those Tea Party peaceful protests—by conservatives generates calls for censorship and punishment.
Speech isn’t protected if it is conservative. Nothing illustrates this more than the Left’s attempt to quash Elon Musk, especially after his announcement that he would talk to Trump on X. Washington Post journalist Cleve Wootson Jr. asked the White House’s Press secretary what it was doing to stop “the misinformation,” as he termed it. ***
Wootson, Jr., and other Leftists can’t see the Klein bottle of their thinking. Their world lies on a single surface whose twists of contradiction and hypocrisy seem beyond their comprehension. That a reporter would ask how the WH intends to control free speech is an indication of how the social snd political worlds have become convoluted.
The people who left New Zealand, Venezuela, and California somehow found a way to escape the Klein bottle of socialism—leaving their homes You might not have to leave yours, but you might start studying the math of topology just in case you are forced to live on the surface of a Leftist Klein bottle.
*Lucy Craymer, Reuters. Tue, Aug 13, 2024. People leave New Zealand in record numbers as economy bites. Online at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/people-leave-zealand-record-numbers-061232193.html
**The Standard. Online at: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/elon-musk-riots-uk-social-media-twitter-x-keir-starmer-asylum-seeker-b1175637.html
***AllSides: Online under title: WaPo Journo Asks How Biden-Harris Admin Can Quash Trump-Musk Interview and online also at https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/08/13/washington-post-reporter-asked-the-white-house-an-unhinged-question-about-trump-and-musk-n2643327
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