Commonplace Thoughts on AOC, Cancel Culture, and MAGA

Commonplaces: Random thoughts from great writers about what is wrong with our world: 

Why the GOP establishment dislikes Trump: They call it utopian and revolutionary that anyone (Trump) should really have his own way, or anything be really done, and done with.

AOC's mathematical reasoning for the Green New Deal: Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among today's radical progressives it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

The philosophy of the radical left's socialism: Do not knock the fetters off the slave; knock the slave until he forgets the fetters.

What is Cancel Culture? Anarchists inventing new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

The meaning behind Trump's MAGA hat: All the men in history who have really done anything with the future have had their eyes fixed upon the past.

There is one feature in the past which more than all the rest defies and depresses the AOC's of the radical left and drives them towards this featureless future. I mean the presence in the past of huge ideals, unfulfilled and sometimes abandoned.  The radical left keeps them entirely out of their Twitter feed and almost entirely out of their history books.

More on Cancel Culture: Our modern prophetic idealism is narrow because it has undergone a persistent process of elimination. We must ask for new things because we are not allowed to ask for old things.

On taking down statues and monuments: Here is not really any courage at all in attacking antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother.

Trump's MAGA philosophy:There is another proverb, “As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it”; which is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

Adapted excerpts From: G. K. Chesterton. “What's Wrong with the World.”