My parents had moved the family a year before to a private home in Yonkers, a bedroom suburb of New York City. When the 1960 election took place, I was a junior in high school, and so I remember it very clearly. The situation was rather less straightforward than you seem to think it was. After dallying with the majoritarianism of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, and FDR, the Democrats have come to believe that rather than be concerned with the interests of the majority, politicians should only look out for minorities, the smaller the Catholics worshipped the Kennedys … It is the belief that sin resides in the social structures imposed by majorities and that virtue and the true consciousness reside with the oppressed groups.Īt a recent Faith Angle Forum in France, the British political scientist Matthew Goodwin defined wokeness as a belief system organized around “the sacralization of racial, gender and sexual minorities.” I’d add that right-wing populism is organized around the sacralization of the white working class and the belief that left-wing minority groups have now become the dominant oppressive majority.Īs I pointed out in Taki’s Magazine on November 10, 2021:īut another reason is because Democrats believe they have discovered the one true political ideal: minoritarianism.
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This is the belief that history is inevitably the heroic struggle by minorities to free themselves from the yoke of majority domination. And these days what I would call the religion of minoritarianism has seized many hearts. Americans are a deeply religious people, especially when they think they are not being religious. Our politics is so nasty now because many people find the third mind-set most compelling. In fact, this battle gives life purpose.įourth, integration without assimilation. The battle must be fought against the groups that despise us and whose values are alien to us. Bigotry is so baked in that there’s no realistic hope of integration. People who take this approach see life as essentially a struggle between oppressor and oppressed groups. Historically, to riff on another Sacks observation, there have been at least four different minority mind-sets: The crucial questions become: How do people think about their minority group identity and how do they regard the relationships between minorities? It might be most accurate to say that America is now a place of jostling minorities. But over the ensuing decades, the Protestant establishment crumbled and America became more marvelously diverse. Something similar can be said of America in the 1950s. They did not get to set the rules, run the institutions or dominate the culture. Other people got to stay there but as guests. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once observed that being a minority in 19th-century Europe was like living in someone else’s country home.
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