The New Inquisition

America’s progressives, led by Bernie Sanders, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden, have established an agenda and have sanctioned a technique that harkens again to a a lot earlier day: the Inquisition that began within the twelfth century.

The Inquisition was a part of the Catholic church’s effort to determine and punish heresy. Heresy was any opinion opposite to the canons of the Church. Heretics have been harshly punished, and their lives have been usually “cancelled” (terminated). The earliest prosecutions appear to have been in opposition to Catholic splinter teams and later unfold to Jews, Muslims, and Protestants, though Catholics who dared to deviate from the Church’s dictates have been additionally topic to persecution.

America’s progressives have their very own “faith” and impose punishment on heretics as effectively. The progressives excommunicate, “cancel,” heretics, banning them from jobs and entry to the media. The first targets for the progressive inquisition are residents who need limiting authorities management over their lives; assist the Structure (to incorporate freedom of faith); assist regulation and order, need faculties to concentrate on studying, writing, and arithmetic; or, gasp! voted for Donald Trump. Dissenters from the progressive faith will not be labeled heretics because the similarity to the Inquisition would turn into too apparent. As an alternative, they’re labelled “deplorables,” “destroyers of democracy,” and “semi-fascists.”

Progressives eschew economics: cost-benefit evaluation, provide and demand, and alternative prices are irrelevant to their values and “logic.” As soon as they decide a coverage they like, it issues not how a lot it prices or how wasteful it’s. The Inexperienced New Deal and the tutoring debt-forgiveness packages are instances in level. Asking if the cash could be put to raised use will mark the questioner as “egocentric.” Progressives increase illogic to a brand new degree.

Progressives are additionally destroyers of historical past that they don’t like. They settle for no “false gods.” Statues of the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln are pulled down and their names excised from faculties and different buildings. Joseph Stalin rewrote Russian historical past for political achieve. Progressives are doing the identical.

The catechism of the progressives contains Essential Race Principle, the 1619 Undertaking, and the indoctrination of pre-pubescent kids into transgender concepts. Progressive academics, we’re informed, know finest the way to educate our youngsters.

Progressives have discovered their very own official inquisitors: The FBI and Division of Justice appear to have turn into a part of the progressives’ faith. They’ve hidden Hunter Biden’s laptop computer and his crony capitalism, and Joe Biden’s nepotism. They’ve allowed Hillary Clinton to flee prosecution for mishandling delicate authorities paperwork. Members of the “true religion” stroll free whereas heretics are prosecuted.

Progressives, as true socialists, seize possession of companies in observe if not in identify. They’ll regulate enterprise to do their bidding by imposing ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) scores, packing boards of administrators with public representatives (i.e., progressive trustworthy), and banishing industries and oil pipelines to not their liking.

Progressives, of their intolerance of dissenting concepts and abhorrence of sharing political energy, plan to make Washington, D.C., a state so as to add two new Democratic senators. They converse of packing the Supreme Courtroom with progressive-friendly justices. For progressives, the top justifies the means. Progressives need a one-party, one-religion state and won’t cease till their mission is completed.

The unique Inquisition lasted for a number of hundred years. The Enlightenment enormously helped to finish the fear. Progressives now threaten these features. They search to banish competitors and set up one-party (one-church) rule. Data by way of cause, liberty, toleration, and constitutional authorities are all underneath menace. Progressives are harmful to particular person freedom, and so they should be known as out for what they’re: illiberal spiritual zealots, fascist-socialists, and power-hungry anti-intellectuals.