Every single dumb-ass theory, every single crackpot notion ever conceived and cherished by the men, women, and whatever we call liberals—the socialsts who refer to themselves as "Progressives" and are actually Junior Communists—and every single political program ever derived from them over more than a century, has proven beyond the palest possible shadow of a doubt to be wrong-headed, futile, and ultimately destructive to individuals and to civilization.

There once was a time, long ago in a galaxy far away, when liberals seemed to comprehend some matters better—love, romance, and sexual freedom—than their traditional opponents. That's what the sexual revolution of the 1960s was all about. I was a proud warrior in that fight. But gender feminism and political correctness took care of that.

For the full length of the last century, Western culture has been commanded by the blind, deaf, but never speechless entities who see things stubbornly as they prefer to see them, and "dream the impossible dream", rather than see them as they really are. This mental habit has led to various messes that we find ourselves in today. To any extent that it might help us to get out of those messes, it might help to understand how we got into them.

Don't look to the wrong assistance. Psychology, for example, is nothing at all like a science and those who practice it are nothing at all like scientists. Mostly they're hyper-opinionated liberals. No two shrinks ever agree on a diagnosis, and official definitions of various mental illnesses are a grammatical and logical laugh riot. The great truth of life is that understanding character is an art, best left to master novelists and story-tellers.

Although they'll seldom admit it, even to themselves, so-called Progressives know by now that they are wrong, that they have always been wrong. You might say that their wrongness has stood the test of time. So what is it that they really want? Their high-flown theories and values having failed them embarrassingly—a good example of that is the minimum wage, which destroys employment for entry-level and minority youth—rather than seeking new theories and values that might serve them and everybody better, they have turned to a kind of bitter nihilism. They hate and fear the society that has stubbornly refused to bend to their wills, and so it must die. Every single policy recommendation that they make—like the $15 minimum wage, for example, or defunding the police—is directed to that purpose.