Encounter with Progressives on April 3, 2021

Yesterday, in 45F weather, (we always get a cold spell the week before Easter), we were in Colonial Williamsburg for the purpose of taking pictures of blooming tulips, daffodils, cherry trees, lambs, and other simple and beautiful corners of nature waking up from its winter slumber. Hubby was kind enough to drive us a few hours coming and going through heavy traffic. People are tired of masks and lockdowns and seem to be going places in larger numbers.

Among the azaleas, cherry blossoms, shuttered stores, and larger crowds than we have seen before, two older, Caucasian women in the market square caught my eye.  They were manning a BLM booth, offering free lemonade above a large Black Lives Matter poster, and the simple words, “Can We Talk?” The implication was that they wanted to have a conversation about BLM and race, further causing division among Americans to promote the progressive Marxist agenda of “the white race and patriotism are bad, black and anti-Americanism are good.”

It raised my ire immediately; they were William & Mary college professors trying to indoctrinate visitors into their racist and Marxist hatred. I asked one of them what she wanted to talk about? ALL lives matter, in my opinion, not just black ones.

One of the ladies, no doubt a tenured professor, asked, “Are all cancers equal?” My immediate reply was, “cancer is a life-threatening disease and it’s a horrible analogy to make.” I continued with my own question, “How do you feel about the killing of black babies in the abortionist Planned Parenthood?” Silence and a smirk of superiority from the two college professors.

“I won’t listen to you because you are irrational liberals promoting Marxism, racism, and hatred.” One said, “I’m not calling YOU irrational.” “That’s because I am not a nutjob, I am a rational person, fighting communism, racism, division, and genocide promoted by academic ‘progressives’ like you.”

My husband, who was already crossing the street and did not stop at the booth, overheard only my calling them “irrational.” He said, which is true, “when you call people names, you’ve lost the argument.”

It seems to me that, at this point, I have lost more than the argument, I have lost my country to Marxists who used fascistic methods to gain control. We are way past debates as Marxists are not using rational dialogue to make their points. It is a “my way or the highway” takeover, with Marxists in full power of government.

Marxists like these professors are not rational, do not make cogent arguments, they use indoctrination to push their agenda and therefore cannot win something they never had, i.e., rational thoughts.

Within a few steps, still stewing from my encounter with the radical leftists, I saw a man with a Colonial Williamsburg cap on who was replenishing the hand-sanitizer station.

I asked him why so many businesses have closed or are moving away from the Colonial Williamsburg property. His answer was, “The Democrats have decided to lockdown small businesses and the American people, and to keep them masked and six feet apart like sheep. That is why. And greed. When things opened a bit and people started visiting again, small businesses were levied higher rent and an additional larger percent of their profits which were small or non-existent at that point.”

My wise best friend and daughter Mims replied to my commentary with the following:

“Well, you knew you weren’t going to get anywhere with them. What you should’ve done was tell them where you came from and what you have experienced and ask them if they had any idea what they were promoting? Meaning, asking them to define what it is they think it is so glorious about communism and socialism. I agree that calling them names no longer validates an argument. But I completely understand why you would call them that.

Furthermore, I probably would not have said all lives matter, but I would have asked them why only certain black lives matter. This would have been cited to ask what you mean and then you could have interjected the constant abortions performed in the black community. I would have stood there calm as a cucumber and asked them to define what it is that they were promoting. I would have made them squirm.”

While I agree with Mims assessment, the painful reality is that scams, fraudulent and deceptive ideas, and philosophies, are easy to promote and pass for three important reasons:

1.    Masses are easier to deceive than convincing them that they have been deceived.

2.    People seem hungrier for hope, any hope, even when it is a patently false hope.

3.    Most people are not looking for the truth; it is too hard to search for the truth because people are basically indolent. Humans want constant reassurance that what they believe is the Truth, even when the truth is disinformation, indoctrination, or a lie.