Tea at Trianon: Why Are Extremist Progressives ANGRY All The Time?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, October 21, 2024

Why Are Extremist Progressives ANGRY All The Time?

From The Easton Gazette:

A couple of weeks ago our local Moms for Liberty chapter hosted a candidate's forum for local school candidates. We invited ALL the candidates to participate. In Maryland, school board candidates are designated as "non-partisan" even though most of them personally ascribe to one of the major parties.

It's not different in Talbot County where two incumbents are running against challengers and there is one open seat being contested between two first time candidates. We invited all of them, even the incumbents, starting in June so they could put the date of the forum on their calendar. Four candidates accepted the invitation, the two incumbents didn't RSVP, even though they were repeatedly asked.

The format was simple, all candidates were given the same questions ahead of time and were given the same amount of time to answer those questions in a round robin fashion. There was a moderator who asked the questions. There were no "gotcha" questions.

As we got set up and the crowd started to come in the door, we posted a sign in sheet so they could see who was in attendance. Attendees were greeted with a friendly "Welcome and good evening." Most of them responded in the same way.

But, there were those who were angry from the moment they set foot in the hall until they left.

Many couldn't even respond to the greeting. Others angrily grumbled something under their breath that sounded more like a bear coming out of a long hibernation than a human response.

And they scowled. The entire time. Even when one of the candidates, who probably was on their side, gave her answers. It was as though someone had urinated on their granola bars that day or had used the wrong pronouns. (Actually, no one asked for their pronouns nor did anyone urinate on their granola bars.)

But it didn't matter.

You see they hate us and conservative groups like Moms for Liberty. Why, you ask? (Read more.)