Belloc Foresaw This All

Whenever I hear the one and sole argument ever leveled by the Left, that, namely, all who oppose the self defeating schemes of the Left are motivated by loathsome yet unadmitted hatred, ignorance, and phobia, ergo their opposition to unreason is ritually unclean and need not be entertained, then I see an insolent dismissal of truth.

Whenever I visit a modern art museum, and see literal crap and literal blasphemy, poop slung on canvasses or in tin cans, urinals hung on walls, scrap metal, a crucifix in urine, unspeakable degenerate graffito, then I see a neurotic hatred of beauty.

Whenever I hear Leftists crowing about how their moral superiority consists of their craving to destroy marriage, to destroy fatherhood, to unman boys and force girls into male roles, to celebrate those sick souls who want to castrate themselves and wear their mother’s dresses, to legalize not merely addictive drugs but every form of addiction, material and spiritual, to any and every vice, provided only it is loathsome and cheapens human life; and the ultimate pinnacle of their vaunted moral superiority is their nauseating celebration of prenatal infanticide, then I see a satanic hatred of virtue and goodness.

But Hillaire Belloc foresaw and foretold all this 85 years ago, with admirable prescience matched only by his compatriot GK Chesterton.

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