The first major defeat political correctness
giovedì 10 novembre 2016 English 0 commenti
Il Giornale, November 10, 2016"The chronically guilty mind (it is believed) becomes attached to guilt as a badge of inherent superiority," writes the psychoanalyst Deborah Tyler in The American Thinker where she examines the psychodynamics of Obama and Hillary Clinton's politics. It was fatal for them. In general, recognizing one's own faults and therefore one's limits is a springboard for overcoming problems caused not only by ourselves, but also by others. Trump, a man quite devoted to self-admiration and to the glorification of his actions, make us feel a little worried when he points his finger at Hispanics, immigrants, Islamic terrorists... And yet this was one of the basic tenets of his presidential campaign to move away from the guilt propagated by the Obama administration as the basis of American policy, which imbued its internal and external ethics. Guilty, responsible, sons and fathers who all share the blame: Americans couldn't stomach feeling this any longer, geez, given the multitude of troubles they already have.
We are all accustomed to fustigating ourselves: the war? We cynically chose it. Drones? Don't know if they kill innocent civilians when we make them fly. Immigrants? They're the result of our imperialist policy. Islamic terrorism? The consequence of Islamophobia - the ideological and social discrimination that we’ve directed at Muslims. Difficulties regarding integration between whites and other ethnic groups? The effect of our racism that always in turn leads to discrimination, violence, police brutality. Sexism and homophobia? These are all vices of capitalist society vis-à-vis a peaceful and innocent world, a left wing world who doesn't know prejudices(and the reverse is true). Pollution, climate change, and adulterated foods? The upshot of fierce exploitative policies, including refridgerators, heating, longer life expectancy and a general improvement with regard to living conditions.
Whatever kind of president Donald Trump will be, there are many social and cultural reasons that have decreed an end to the control of the democratic elite associated with Obama’s Chicago Style. That said, we must consider the explosion of anger that people wanted to express while sweating, working, fuming and hearing over and over that they are guilty, plus all the dogmas of a political correctness that crucifies them to historical slavery, which forces them to consider themselves responsable for the evils of the world, a public danger, a colonial invader instead of that great American friend who runs to the rescue back when it defeats Nazism and many other evils at the cost of so many lives. And what the heck! Can the leading thinker be Oliver Stone, who has rewritten America’s history by claiming that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed for futile and interest reasons, that Truman was insane due to some unresolved "gender issues," that Kennedy was killed by the Republicans because he wouldn’t go to war with the USSR... Gradually, we arrive up to the 9/11 attack as self-inflicted by America upon itself.
Obama and Clinton are in the eyes of those who voted for Trump, symbols of an apologetic America that has no right to exist. President Obama didn’t know how to explain to the mother of a boy killed by Islamic terrorism how he died, while refusing to use the expression "Islamic terrorism". Moreover, while advocating the importance of dialogue in his travels to Saudi Arabia and so many parts of the world, he has wiped out their responsibility and underlined forever those of the United States. Domestically, he has downplayed race-related incidents, even when five Dallas police officers were shot, and actually explained that “they were killed during a peaceful protest in response to the killing of Alon Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile of Minnesota" and that "police conduct was the subject of the protest.”
Again, self-accusation with regard to a very tough ethnic issue, in which even blacks were implicated during the riots and in the killings. But guilt is always greater than the will to tackle the problem, greater than the problem itself, like saying that terrorism is "random," casual, and psychopathological. Too much guilt, no need to exaggerate. The American people could not stand to be considered guilty as the democratic politics wants, according to the way Obama described them. And Clinton, moreover, has shown that while being the advocate of so many social issues you can still be part of an insolent and very wealthy elite.
Translation by Amy K. Rosenthal