Tea at Trianon: Liberalism is More of a Cult Than an Ideology

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

Friday, June 20, 2025

Liberalism is More of a Cult Than an Ideology

From Culturcidal:

Now, first of all, I am certainly not the first person to suggest that liberalism is closer to a religion than an ideology. The late, great David Horowitz, who lived a significant portion of his life before he became conservative as a devoted Communist, certainly talked about it in that way:
“(Liberalism is) a faith that seeks redemption in this life with itself as the savior. It’s such a beautiful dream, what lie would you not tell and what crime would you not commit to realize it?”
Additionally, Ann Coulter has beat this drum a lot over the years:
"Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals, and they can't stand the competition."
All that being said, if you’re comparing liberalism to a cult, you have to ask, “Who is the cult leader?” Typically, cults are run by charismatic, somewhat delusional narcissists or psychopaths with an endless need for control and self-gratification. Granted, there is no one Jim Jones ready to pass out the Kool-Aid to the whole Left (although ironically, Jim Jones was a diehard socialist who was a significant power player in California Democratic politics for a while), but this is a great description of liberalism. The object of worship in the center of everything is liberalism itself. Just as a Christian is taught to put God ahead of everything else, liberals are taught to put their liberalism ahead of everything else. If they’re a pastor, God comes second. If they’re a cop, the law comes second. If they run a corporation, making money comes second. If they’re a teacher, educating children comes second. The more political a liberal becomes, the more everything else becomes second to liberalism. It doesn’t matter whether they’re talking about God, their parents, their kids, or their country, liberalism has to come first for them to be a liberal in good standing. Just to name one of many examples, if you wonder how so many liberal parents could push their young children to be trans, this explains it. They’re willing to sacrifice their own children on the altar of liberalism.
Then, when you start to look at the tactics cults use to keep their members under control, you see parallel after parallel. Such as:
A coming doom: Cults frequently tell their members some apocalyptic event is coming in the future. Charles Manson was trying to kick off a race war between whites and blacks, which supposedly black Americans were going to win, leaving the Manson family in charge to rule them all. The Heaven’s Gate cult believed there was a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp Comet that would take the worthy to the “Next Level” of humanity.
Of course, liberals have their own coming doomsday story. It’s the pseudo-scientific belief that manmade global warming is going to wreck the planet as foreseen by the great prophets Al Gore and Greta Thunberg. (Read more.)