The Left Speaks

It is axiomatic that a tree cannot survive without roots.

Neither can a nation.

Yet, today we hear and see in the news some attacking our national roots: Pulling down statues, burning down buildings, unrestrained mob violence, perversions of history, drum beats of victimhood, unsubstantiated accusations against traditional thought-threatening to take away our constitutional and amendment rights as well as our civil liberties, attacking long-held truths about family, religion, sex and values.

Only, now we hear different voices-coming from the LEFT side of the aisle saying, “Whoa! Maybe we should put the brakes on this!”

Seems the 'Cancel Culture' is completely out of control, and knows it!

Witness this, from Bill Maher, host of Real Time Show video, April 25. The video is carried on Rumble: ' Liberal Bill Maher has had enough of young, idiotic leftists.'

Here is the quote from Maher:

' You know the reason why advertisers in this country love the 18 to 34 demographic? Because it's the most gullible. Yeah. A third of people under 35 say they're in favor of abolishing the police – not defunding, but doing away with a police force altogether, which is less of a policy position and more of a leg tattoo. Thirty- six percent of millennials think it might be a good idea to try communism, but much of the world did try it. I know, millennials think that doesn't count because they weren't alive when it happened. But it did happen. And there are people around who remember it. Pining for communism? It's like pining for Betamax or Myspace. So when you say you're old and you don't get it. Get what? Abolish the police and the Border Patrol and capitalism and cancel Lincoln? No, I get it. The problem isn't that I don't get what you're saying or that

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Need more consensus from the Left?

There's this, from James Carville, courtesy of

Newsmax: “ Longtime Democrat strategist James Carville told Vox on Tuesday that ' wokeness is a problem' for the party ' and we all know it.'

Carville added that despite success in the 2020 elections,

' messaging problem.'

Later on, Carville added that the reason for this is ' because large parts of the country view us as an urban, coastal, arrogant party, and a lot gets passed through that filter. That's a real thing. I don't give a damn what anyone thinks about it – it's a real phenomenon

to the party brand.'

Carville said ' wokeness' is a problem for Democrats.

' Everyone knows it. It's hard to talk to anybody today – and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party – who doesn't say this,' he said. ' But they don't want to say it out loud because they'll get clobbered or canceled.”

Room for one more.

Been following the new recruitment ad for the CIA? If you missed it, you haven't lived! The 2-minute video features a 36-yearold Latina CIA agent who described herself as an 'intersectional, cisgender, millennial.' The video begins with cisgender declaring:

' I am intersectional, but my existence is not a boxchecking exercise. I am a

walking declaration…”

From there is goes straight down in a ball of flame, like an off-track Scud missile., The ad features a braindead, clueless, hyper-sensitive minority who has a butt-load of grievances to unpack-who drones on and on about her mental diagnoses in the past, how lousy American society is, how it has disadvanged her, browbeat her, looked down the nose at her, and didn't treat her with the respect she demands and is owed.

And, by golly,

is gonna to pay up!

This…

THIS

is where we are!

' Discover the CIA: Your Nation is Counting on You,' sparked a fierce reaction Monday for being what critics labeled 'full of woke propaganda.'

One tweet went: “It sounds like a bad Saturday Night Live skit.”

A quote from The Independent on Sunday, which refers to itself as a 'proudly liberal newspaper' goes as follows:

“ Many attacked the video for focusing too much on political correctness. The Latina officer uses language that is synonymous with progressive millennials and now Gen Z.

“ Even some progressives and leftists mocked the video out for its messaging. Conservatives called it pandering and leftists said the video co- opted leftist and progressive messages.” The Guardian- the most liberal newspaper in the United Kingdom, bar noneran the following article:

“ CIA forges unity in diversity: everybody hates their ' woke' recruitment ad:

Here's an extract from that article: history, US intelligence has come in for a lot of criti-cism, for engineering coups, drug trafficking and torture, but just over 100 days into the Biden administration it faces a new charge no one saw coming: is the CIA just too woke?

“ A social media campaign, Humans of CIA, aimed at boosting diversity at the agency has united critics on the right and left in a moment of shared derision, albeit for different reasons.”

But, perhaps the most apt response to the video was this-when one social media user said: “I literally almost threw up.”

'Nuff said.

Robert L. Hall is a resident of Marion and has a Bachelor’s Degree in music from the University of Memphis and a Master’s Degree from Florida State University. He is the pianist for Avondale Baptist Church and a writer of fiction on Amazon eBooks.