Left and Right

Is the majority always wrong, simply because it is the majority? Conversely, is the minority always to be excused, simply because it is the minority? These questions are increasingly becoming the major fault line between the left and the right in more and more countries. Things have gone so far that Roger Scruton says that:

“The great difference between left and right, in every matter that impacts on our survival, is that the left turns against us, whereas the right believes that, on the whole, we are not to blame for wanting to hold on to our way of life.”

Remember the mass scale molestation of German women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve? Sadly, for many, it was unacceptable to call out the ethnicity of the perpetrators (Arab and North African). Turns out reports of a similar assault on women in Sweden during the We Are Sthlm music festival were suppressed because the assaulters were ‘so-called refugee youths primarily from Afghanistan’. In Sweden:

“If you mention anything negative about refugees or immigration, you’re accused of playing into the hands of the reviled far-right. As a result, even legitimate concerns are silenced or labelled xenophobic.”

Apparently anything can be sacrificed at the altar of openness to minorities:

“When women’s rights conflict with the goal of accommodating other cultures, it’s almost always women who are pushed to the side.”

Did that remind you of the Shah Bano case?

A famous speech in Ayn Rand’s book, The Fountainhead, had these lines by one of the central characters:

“Let all suffer and none enjoy. Let progress stop. Let all stagnate. There’s equality in stagnation.”

The left leaning set world over subscribes to that view even today. Instead of raising everyone to a higher level, they will drag everyone down to the lowest level. Equality by any means!

No wonder the “we are not to blame for wanting to hold on to our way of life” folks are now fighting back. Because not all of us want our countries to end up like Belgium.