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The Unavoidable Self-Destruction of the Left

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I’m watching one figure on the left after another fall to stupidity, be consumed by their own hubris, or get bodied by their own weapons. The tastemakers and big cats on the left have drifted so far into their own bubble that they truly began to think they were above everyone else, the law, and commonly established morals. Now we’re watching as their own actions bring them down.

Today, Jeff Zucker announced his resignation as the head of CNN after it was discovered that he had an extramarital relationship with CNN executive Allison Gollust. Inappropriate sexual relationships have been a theme at CNN, be they between two married people at the top of CNN’s food chain, to producers attempting to initiate pedophilic relationships. It’s typically the man at the top that crafts the culture for everyone else below, so it was really only a matter of time before we found out what Zucker was doing in the shadows himself.

And here it is, or at least, all we know so far.

The man who spent a good deal of his time attempting to shame his ideological opponents as lacking morals and being generally horrible ended up being an immoral person himself. Were you surprised? Probably not. It’s very common for leftists that rage against something to be very guilty of it themselves. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and Zucker’s power convinced him that his corruption would never touch him.

Let’s also look at Whoopi Goldberg who recently said something incredibly stupid during a rant fueled by her “wokeness.” According to her, the Holocaust that targeted millions of Jewish people for destruction, wasn’t about racism since both the Germans and Jewish people had white skin. It was a thoughtless statement that boiled down the history of entire races to their skin color and dismissed the atrocities done upon one of them because Goldberg can’t see past the color of someone’s skin.

Racism is multi-faceted and you can see quite a bit of it coming from the woke crowd at all times. Goldberg, a fan of social justice herself, manifested hers in a massive display here. As a result, the network suspended her for two weeks. Goldberg isn’t losing her job but this is hardly about Goldberg. The suspension is about sending a message to her fellow co-hosts and everyone else on the network. If you let your wokeness go too far, it will result in punishment, or possibly your termination.

It’s this same wokeness that also disallows dissenting opinions. We’ve watched as a gathering cadre of celebrities have announced that they’re pulling their music from Spotify in an effort to silence Joe Rogan whom they claim is spreading “misinformation,” a buzzword the left uses to suggest someone is spreading lies, but really it just means “something that challenges the left’s narrative.”

It started with Neil Young announcing he was pulling his music over Rogan, and it didn’t make a difference. Neil has now been joined by Indie Arie, Graham Nash, and Mary Trump.

Oh no! Anyway.

The stars aren’t likely going to succeed in Spotify altering their contract with Rogan in any way. They definitely aren’t going to get him suspended or thrown off the app. Rogan has 11 million listeners per episode. Young will be lucky to get a fraction of that kind of attention. The same can be said of all the other woke artists.

Mr. “Keep on rockin’ in the free world” effectively de-platformed himself in an attempt to make the space less free. In terms of getting your music out, Spotify is one of the biggest fish in the pond, and it’s especially helpful for bigger artists. Young just effectively swiped his own legs out from underneath him, and to that, I say “good.”

I’m not one for de-platforming anyone but if they want to do so to themselves out of some misguided virtue signal then I say the less we have to see this nonsense the better. Young and his ilk want to fade into obscurity faster and I won’t stop them.

But the lesson here is that woke culture has driven them all into some sort of end or, at the very least, tripped them up so badly that they’re suffering consequences. It’s inevitable when your entire philosophy centers on allowing immorality in some form to be your guiding star.

Eventually, leftism will lead to destruction, even to those who think they’re above it.

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