Pet Peeve

There was an election in Italy over the weekend. The so-called "right" won the election. At least, that is how it is being reported.

You may say that it has become something of a pet peeve to hear opposition being referred to being "on the right". This is in some cases unthinking. Maybe it goes along the lines of "everybody does it". So, the logic of that is what you may have heard your mother say when you were a kid. If you did something "everybody else did", your mother may have asked you the question: "If everybody was jumping off the Empire State Building, would you do it?" There is no logic in following the crowd, unless the logic is that the crowd is always right.

Crowds can be wrong, unfortunately. Following the crowd is not fail-safe. It may actually be quite dangerous. When the Jim Jones cult decided to "drink the Kool-Aid", they must have been following the "everybody is doing it" brand of "logic". It cost many people their lives.

The term "drinking the Kool-Aid" means to mindlessly follow the leader, or the group. Likewise, it would seem that the use of the term "right" in reference to a political opposition is much over-used. It is so over-used that it is becoming dangerous. It is dangerous because the ideology behind the use of such a word is inherently dangerous. That would be the ideology of Marxism. Those using that term either know this or they don't. If they know it and are using it in reference to all opposition to certain others who identify as "progressive", they may well be swallowing the Kool Aid. The Kool Aid crowd would have you believe that all opponents to them are a reincarnation of Hitler. This is not mere speculation. You have Brandon saying this, not once, but several times now. Hillary has also jumped into the mix.

It's nothing new, this Marxist paradigm. You might even say that it has made it into the culture so much that people may not be aware of it. If that is the case, and if people are unthinkingly using it, then it is out of ignorance. Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity cannot. At least try not to be ignorant. If you are just stupid, then you cannot help yourself.

One might have patience with stupid people, but ignorance is not easily forgiven. Information is widely available. Nobody should be ignorant of what these words mean. People are not fascist just because they disagree.

It has become a pet peeve.