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The window burns to light the way back home
A light that warms, no matter where they've gone
They're off to find the hero [trigger] of the day
But what if they should fall by someone's wicked way
Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flame
Do you feel your name?
Can't you hear your babies crying?
Mama they try and break me...
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/virginia-democrats-controversy-intersectional-politics/
Q: Where is this last paragraph most in evidence today?
A: Virginia (where there is a Progressive Santa Clause)
A light that warms, no matter where they've gone
They're off to find the hero [trigger] of the day
But what if they should fall by someone's wicked way
Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flame
Do you feel your name?
Can't you hear your babies crying?
Mama they try and break me...
From The Ox-Bow Incident to To Kill a Mockingbird, novelists warned of the American propensity to become mob-like and often lethally so. Our Puritan roots, when coupled to elements of Athenian-style democracy, can on occasion vary wildly between dangerous bias and equally mindless self-righteousness.
Update those traditions within the modern bane of electronically charged instantaneous social media, identity politics, the decline of journalism, and vicarious virtue-signaling, and we increasingly suffer psychodramas like the Virginia fraternity mess, the Duke Lacrosse fiasco, the Kavanaugh hearings, and the Covington nightmare.
In such cases, predictable constructs often set afire the new mob. “Vulnerable” women or minorities or both are juxtaposed against young white males who have the scent of traditionalism, conservatism, or “privilege.” I say “psychodramas,” because the point is never to assess guilt or innocence or to establish some set of objective standards by which to condemn or exempt the accused. No, the aim is to vent outrage — the quicker, the more venomous, and the more public, the more advantageous either in a careerist or psychological sense.
The result is that there are now no rules in the Roman arena of feeding the accused to the carnivores — except two. If the progressive cause can be advanced, then necessary, one-time adjustments can call off the mob. And, two, given the complex hierarchy of victimhood and the relative degrees of perceived progressive correctness, it is sometimes difficult to sort out who should be rescued from, and who served up to, the famished lions.
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/virginia-democrats-controversy-intersectional-politics/
Q: Where is this last paragraph most in evidence today?
A: Virginia (where there is a Progressive Santa Clause)