{"id":222098,"date":"2017-06-21T22:58:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T02:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/in-trump-era-the-mean-streak-of-the-celebrity-liberal-is-out-of-control-heat-street.php"},"modified":"2017-06-21T22:58:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T02:58:03","slug":"in-trump-era-the-mean-streak-of-the-celebrity-liberal-is-out-of-control-heat-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/liberal\/in-trump-era-the-mean-streak-of-the-celebrity-liberal-is-out-of-control-heat-street.php","title":{"rendered":"In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control &#8211; Heat Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Want to understand what is wrong with the American left these    days? WatchChelsea Handler rant on her Netflix show.  <\/p>\n<p>    The progessive comicslatest painfully unfunny monologue    was a full four minute rant ripping into Ivanka Trump, the    President and even her own father, while     neglecting to make a single coherent political point.  <\/p>\n<p>    Like so many othersleft-leaning mainstream media pundits,    newscasters, celebrities and comediansHandler uses vile    language, puerile toilet humor, crass incest innuendo and utter    disrespect not only toward the President and his daughter, but    toward her own family. Yet her edginess is more    desperate than most celebrity Resistance liberals.  <\/p>\n<p>    This type of insulting language by progressives is so    strikingly common nowadays that it no longer has any shock    value. Once you strip away the facile attempt to be cool, edgy    or hip by using insults and four-letter words all youre    actually left with is an angry woman being crass, crude and    downright disgusting.  <\/p>\n<p>    Lets not pretend thatsneering diatribes by Handler and    her ilk are anything new.Progressivism has dominated the    media and driven popular culture ever since the 1960s.But    the abuse has increased in its shrillness and shocking tone    since Donald Trump became President.  <\/p>\n<p>    What may have begun as questioning the status quo and the    establishment has now descended into an all-out assault on    civility, decency and morality. Anyone with a conservative    viewpoint is considered a deserving target of the Lefts attack    dogs.  <\/p>\n<p>    Liberal celebrities now vent fury with smug, self-righteous    glee on national TV, on newer venues like Netflix and Amazon,    and in the old print media. In place of sophisticated political    satire or any attempt at arguing ideas in an informed manner,    the cultural apparatchiks of the media\/entertainment complex    have instead adopted the put-down tactics of 14 year old    bullies.  <\/p>\n<p>    They use lame insults and f-bombs to both amuse their fan base    and to shut down any attempt at rational debate.  <\/p>\n<p>    Some examples:  <\/p>\n<p>    When in 2008 Sandra Bernhard expressed hope that Sarah Palin    was gang raped in NYC by my black brothers. The    Washington Post called itthe lefts favorite wordedgy!    Now such sentiments are increasing in number and frequency.  <\/p>\n<p>    Its not as if these celebrity interventions are effective.    Doomed Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff enjoyed support    from Samuel L. Jackson, Jane Fonda, George Takei and, of    course, Handler. He still lost the Georgia House race. Ossoff    even pathetically confessed to    MSNBC s Nicole Wallace: Celebrities across the country?    Thats not what animates people in Georgia.   <\/p>\n<p>    Furthermore, these guilt-ridden pop-cultural progressive    influencers of Western culture obscure the fact that they are    part of an obscenely wealthy elite by directing envy and class    rage away from themselves and onto anyone seen as promoting    conservative values or beliefs.  <\/p>\n<p>    Those who are untouched by the average persons reality preach    to their audience that walls are wrong, before driving home to    their gated communities or guarded mansions. Yet they believe    that crass comments and personal insults make them down with    the people.  <\/p>\n<p>    Perhaps theyre hoping that if there is a real revolution, the    starving masses will burn down their Beverly Hills and Hamptons    homes last!  <\/p>\n<p>    I keep hoping their followers will grow up and see the light;    that Handler and Colbert and the others will check their own    moral compass, mislaid by all that vile abuse, before    prioritizing helping the poor, fighting injustice and making    the world a better place.  <\/p>\n<p>    But it seems that sneering cruel sarcastic variants of    President Obamas 2008 comment that midwest voters cling to    guns or religion are now the default setting in the battle of    ideas.  <\/p>\n<p>    Im not sure how we as a society deal with this kind of    visceral hatred. But with every Handler rant and every Colbert    crudity another brick drops from the wall that holds the center    together. When that wall collapses no amount of sneering    opinion pieces, foul-mouthed rants or abusive put-downs will be    able to fix things.  <\/p>\n<p>    The final irony is that the mega-rich wanna-be revolutionaries    of the cultural-media class love to preach the virtues of    positive discrimination but they might soon find out societal    chaos is an equal opportunity destroyer of peoples lives.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More here: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/in-trump-era-the-mean-streak-of-the-celebrity-liberal-is-out-of-control\/\" title=\"In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control - Heat Street\">In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control - Heat Street<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Want to understand what is wrong with the American left these days? WatchChelsea Handler rant on her Netflix show. The progessive comicslatest painfully unfunny monologue was a full four minute rant ripping into Ivanka Trump, the President and even her own father, while neglecting to make a single coherent political point.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/liberal\/in-trump-era-the-mean-streak-of-the-celebrity-liberal-is-out-of-control-heat-street.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[431665],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}