Quasi-Religious Undertones of Progressive Liberalism
The Equality Cult
“God made all men equal is a fine-sounding phrase, and has also done good service in its day; but it isn’t a scientific fact. On the contrary, there is nothing so certain as the natural inequality of men.” — Winwood Reade [1]
People sometimes call the United States a melting pot of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities. The metaphor first coined in the 1780s was used to describe how America was becoming more homogeneous. [2] European immigrants had to assimilate into the dominant Anglo-Saxon culture and adopt new ways. They became Americans. But progressive liberals on both sides of the Atlantic now promote identity politics and pride movements that fight majority culture, rather than embrace it. A globalist cabal wants to deconstruct Western civilization and dissolve it into a global super culture in which every opinion is equal. However, the core concepts of the political left —diversity, equality and social justice —all rest on empty fiction.
Equality as Religion
If Christianity was Judaism for Europeans, and Islam was Judaism for Arabs, as historian Arnold Toynbee believed, [3] then progressive liberalism is really Judaism for all mankind. It is the same gospel, but with a new name and new symbols. In order to achieve the goal of world domination, liberals have resorted to shamelessly rewriting the past and reinterpreting the present to justify a desired future. Progressive liberalism has absolutely nothing to do with science, facts or history, but with an atheistic world religion that wants to replace God with the State. It is globalized communism.
As Hans Morgenthau explained in his book Politics among Nations,
“The community of the American people antedated the American state, as a world community must antedate a world state.”
[4] Indeed, in order to establish a world government, which George Soros admitted being the purpose of the European Union after having failed to establish it with the United States, [5] one must first build a community of like-minded followers. Globalists achieved this by using political correctness to oppress dissenters. The false promise of equal riches has united the jealous masses against the West. Globalists also allied themselves with hundreds of millions of Westerners who hold a grudge against the successful middle classes.
But where exactly does the belief in equality come from? What is equality based on? The missionaries of progressive liberalism state that all people are equal, because they believe all people’s minds are equal. For example, without citing scientific evidence, progressives maintain that the human mind has no sex or gender, so they conclude that men and women must be equal. The sexes can only differ in physical appearance, they think, but not in ability or preference. Consequentially, if people find any differences in achievements between men and women, progressives reason it must come from social oppression.
This viewpoint isn’t watertight and creates a problem. If male and female minds are supposedly equal, then why would male minds want to oppress female minds? Progressives cannot solve this contradiction without blaming society for institutionalized discrimination. Somehow, for some unknown reason, societies have developed into regimes that treat women unfairly. Women’s discrimination isn’t the male mind’s fault, but rather the fault of pre-existing patriarchal culture. Patriarchy has made men into oppressors. Really, men are victims too. Only by relieving men from their traditional gender roles, progressives believe they can undo ‘rape culture’ and restore society into its original position of equality.
Similarly, progressive liberals believe that people of all races, no matter how different in appearance and culture, have equal minds. Through sheer accident, the world has awarded white people an institutional advantage over the rest of the world. By sharing Western wealth with so-called minorities abroad, progressives think they can restore the world to its original position. They believe any differences observed between any two groups of people at any given time, whether economic, cultural or historic, must have been caused by racial oppression.
This is what liberals actually believe. The belief all minds are equal is what lets progressives justify gay marriage, since in their view all marriages are gay anyway, namely a marriage of two gender-neutral minds. Next, predatory liberals reason that children’s minds and adults’ minds are also alike, and therefore toddlers, too, can “understand consent”. [6] Well, there you have it. At last, liberals have found the ideological justification for their most degenerate needs.
To truly appreciate progressive liberalism, we must analyze one more layer of its psyche. If liberals believe all people are equal, because their minds are, then what do they think makes minds equal? The answer to this question comes from Philo Judaeus’s reinterpretation of Jewish scripture. Philo wrote a great deal about God being an incorporeal mind rather than a physical being. His God is an eternal, unchangeable and indivisible mind. [7] Since the divine mind cannot be divided into separate parts, it means all people’s minds really belong to the same God-Mind. Progressive liberals don’t consider themselves or others to be distinct beings, but rather the front-facing representatives of a singular, collective hive-mind: Star Trek’s Borg.
Progressive liberalism is the most retrograde force in human history. Liberals deny that differences between races are real, because they believe all minds are equal, but they also oppose the very notion of racial differentiation. They don’t want groups of people to evolve into different races or species. Their fear of genetic diversity forces them to suppress the continued evolution of humankind. Real diversity threatens their religious belief in an indivisible God-Mind. In fact, when progressives talk about ‘diversity’, they really mean mixing the existing races into a single human race, thereby erasing all genetic inequalities between people, which may have devastating consequences for humanity’s continued existence.
Some conservative groups deny evolution is real, but progressives are absolutely terrified of its prospects. If one group of people were to evolve beyond globalized mass man, the new man might overtake the Earth just as Homo Sapiens once drove Neanderthal man to extinction. Progressives feel the urge to preserve their collective by reeling in or persecuting dissenting groups of individuals. This is the reason why George Soros admitted he wants to send one million African and Arab migrants to Europe each year.⁸ By ‘diversifying’ Europe, he hopes to erase the unique European genome and blend it back into the collective.
The last bastion of inequality between people always remains historic achievement. Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, but the Inuit did not. Anglo-Protestant Americans landed men on the moon, but no women. But blaming all historic difference on institutionalized racism sounds too far-fetched even for progressive ears, so liberals have simply resorted to rewriting history books.
Notes
1. Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (London: Trübner & Co, 1872), 7.
2. Jason J. McDonald, American Ethnic History: Themes and Perspectives (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), 50.
3. A. Beker, The Chosen: The History of an Idea, the Anatomy of an Obsession (Springer, 2008), 63–64.
4. Hans Morgenthau, Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 1st ed. (New York: Alfred Knopff, 1948), 406.
5. George Soros, “Revitalizing the European Idea,” Project Syndicate, October 9, 1997, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/revitalizing-the-european-idea.
6. Brittney McNamara, “Watch How Consent Is Actually Something TODDLERS Understand,” Teen Vogue, accessed August 11, 2017, http://www.teenvogue.com/story/video-shows-toddlers-understand-consent.
7. Philo Judaeus, The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition, trans. C. D. Yonge (Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993), bk. “On the Giants,” XI, para. 52.
8. George Soros, “Here’s My Plan to Solve the Asylum Chaos,” Market Watch, September 25, 2015, https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/george-soros-heres-my-plan-to-solve-the-asylum-chaos-2015-09-29.