Life Under the Victimocracy

victimIn America there are two types of people; the oppressed and the oppressors.

The oppressed oppress the oppressors. And everyone including the oppressors agrees that this is only fair because the oppressors deserve to be oppressed. After all they are the oppressors.

They deserve to have the money they earn taken away. They deserve to be sent to the back of the line when applying to a college or looking for a job. They deserve to be beaten, robbed, raped, and taunted with slurs that would lead to national outrage if it were directed at the oppressed.

But they’re the oppressors. They deserve it.

If they complain, they deserve to have their speech censored. They are the oppressors. There’s no telling how much oppression they might dish out if the oppressed don’t keep them down.

That’s just life in the Victimocracy.

With one sob story too many, one whine too great, one more PBS special, special report about the plight of the oppressed and episode of Donahue, the country changed. The oppressors still had the democratic refuge of elections where they could by sheer numbers vote to retain their civil rights, but most of the other mechanisms of governance had ceased to be democratic and instead became victimocratic.

To have real power you had to be a victim or one of their protectors.

The Victimocracy is a lot like any other tyranny. In an aristocracy, power belongs to the nobles, in a theocracy, power belongs to the clergy, in a meritocracy, to anyone with skill and a work ethic.

But in a Victimocracy the biggest and angriest whiner wins.

In a Victimocracy, suffering is the exclusive privilege of the elites. No one else is allowed to suffer except them. No one else has ever been oppressed, has felt pain, been insulted, abused, degraded, enslaved and ground down into the dirt except the very people who are grinding you into the dirt now.

Victimhood is what entitles them to special privileges, it’s what ennobles them as a superior class of people and gives them the right to rule over you. They are the victims. What they say goes.

Victimization is the currency of their power. They have 1/16 Cherokee blood and high cheekbones. They are ‘triggered’ by loud noises and differing opinions. They spent their twenties “coming to terms” with something because of the lack of sitcom role models for their favorite sexual preferences or skin color. They are all survivors of something or other. They were activists and someone once said mean things to them. And if all else fails, they are deeply passionate about the plight of the oppressed.

Like, seriously.

Now stop oppressing them and educate yourself by recognizing their right to oppress you.

The Victimocracy is based around the superior moral power of their suffering. That is why no one else is allowed to suffer except them. Their convoluted theories of social justice eliminate the very possibility that the source of their exclusive moral power can be experienced by anyone else. They have strived to warp language around their political narcissism to define suffering as an experience unique to them.

They will assert, for example, that anti-white racism cannot exist because racism is not interpersonal but a structural product of power relations. Since everyone knows that America is a white male patriarchy, white people cannot be oppressed. They can only be the oppressors. Because of the patriarchy, men cannot be sexually assaulted. Christians cannot be religiously discriminated against. Americans can’t be blown up by Muslims. Any claim otherwise is a lie intended to oppress our oppressed oppressors.

Victimocrats are narcissistically infuriated by the suffering of others. Many tyrannies applied the whip and the lash, the prison cell and the gulag, but they at least left those they abused in possession of their suffering. The Victimocracy denies its victims even their suffering. Victimocrats reject the humanity of their victims as thinking and feeling beings with the same needs and boundaries as themselves.

The Victimocracy rations empathy. Empathy is the election of its system. The biggest victim wins and his suffering licenses his abuses. The bigger the victim, the bigger the abuses he is entitled to commit. If the empathy flows the wrong way, then power shifts and the entire system collapses. To take over a society, the Victimocrats must control its education and entertainment to structure its empathy flow their way.

Victimocrats must appear weak to gain power. They must always seem beleaguered, under siege, abused and threatened from a thousand different directions. They must be made to seem underdogs. Even if a Victimocrat sits in the White House, unilaterally dispensing with the lives and fortunes of a nation with phone and pen, he must remain a vulnerable victim of a terrible history of racism.

The Victimocrat must always be seen as a weak victim in need of rescue from those he oppresses.

Never able to argue a thing on its merits, the Victimocrats shift the debate to the moral high ground of their own oppression.  It is impossible to disagree with them without somehow invoking stereotypes, flashbacks and the return of the white male patriarchy riding back into town on the last thing you said.

The Victimocrats are always in need of rescuing. No matter how much power they have, someone is always abusing them. And once that happens people of good will are called upon to condemn the abuse and to reinforce their power structure of the oppressed oppressor and the oppressive oppressed.

Victimocrats don’t win arguments. They convince others that they are entitled to avoid the argument.

In the Victimocracy the illusion of weakness is power. The weak are entitled to disproportionate power to protect themselves from the rest of us. The weaker they are, the more power they need. And the more power they get, the weaker they grow until we live under a tyranny of the absolutely powerless who wield absolute power.

Sometimes the oppressors wonder where their incredible power is supposed to be. They don’t have all that much money and no one seems to have taught them the secret handshake that will unlock the heavy iron doors of the heteronormative patriarchy where the patriarchal plutocrats sit around the table drinking the tears of Obama, Oprah and various Hollywood celebrities from human skulls.

Their oppressors tell them about their privilege, an invisible power to oppress others that they never even knew they had, but the privilege never really explains why they have to work harder, die sooner and be berated constantly for even existing. And they die and their oppressors take what they have.

There is no end to the oppression because the Victimocracy has to grow. America is always more bigoted than it was last year because the Victimocrats need more power this year. The more oppressed Americans become, the more they must be denounced for victimizing all the nice people running their lives and robbing them blind.

The Victimocracy rules by manufacturing an urgent crisis of oppression. It demands special measures to deal with the crisis. The temporary measures become permanent. Rolling them back would be an act of oppression. The permanent measures turn out to be insufficient. They must be redoubled.

Each Victimocrat victory is “a significant step forward” but there is always “more work to be done.”

And like all lust for power, the work never ends.

The oppressed want more. The oppressors make do with less. The protectors of the oppressed, who actually run the Victimocracy, announce that more speech must be censored, more wealth redistributed and more must be made unequal to achieve equality. A better world is around the corner, but first the one we have must be destroyed. Only when the balance shifts permanently and the new world is born, will the oppressors be allowed to see for the first time that they had been the oppressed all along.

And then it will be too late.

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  • Bamaguje

    The topsy-turvy world of leftist political correctness… beautifully elucidated.

  • NonPCconservative

    Yes, the “eager victim” era is upon us. It is just as we conservatives have always known . . . people will tend to act in their own interest. This means that if being a “victim” is the easiest choice then that is what many people will choose. The only thing holding up the rotting foundation is those of us who were brought up with morals, character and earned self esteem.

    It won’t last much longer though. The number of people who cry for “social justice” already greatly exceeds those of us who believe in social responsibility

    • objectivefactsmatter

      That’s why abandoning the need for actual evidence is so tragic. It’s all drama and politics.

      And they end up ruining their own lives victimized by their own strategies.

  • I_Am_Me

    Leftists and their sheep aren’t victims. They’re losers. And very few of them ever figure this out. They prefer holding onto their delusions and cognitive dissonance.

  • camp7

    Some say it’s already too late.

    The oppressed oppressors live a life of dependency. Their self-proclaimed victimization is the lack of intellectual and moral courage to face life with the faith and maturity to be responsible for their own actions and decisions. Like spoiled children, they want to blame others when they discover the error of their selfish ways. And then they cry oppression and expect and demand the pressed workers and builders of society to support their oppressive tantrums.

    The virtual world of Victimocracy is not sustainable. Like Daniel so eloquently advocates, it must be destroyed to make a better world. But they don’t need our help, their doing a damn fine job of their own.

    • halevi

      Unfortunately, they mostly don’t vote. They came out in force to vote for Obama though. When they do start voting in larger numbers, then we’ll really be finished.

      • Nadzieja Batki

        The supposed oppressors are getting sick of the whiners and the “victims” and there will be a backlash against the whiners and the ‘victims”. The best backlash is the election of 4 November 2014.

    • ricpic

      “The virtual world of Victimology is not sustainable.”

      I’m not so sure about that. If by sustainable you mean economically sustainable, it may be that the “oppressors” have made such astounding technological breakthroughs, breakthroughs that have in turn created quantum leaps in productivity, that a huge victim cohort CAN be maintained in purely parasitic fashion on the backs of their “oppressors.” As long as the “oppressors” backs are bent but not broken (overtaxed but not utterly impoverished by taxation) the topsy turvy world of victimology can go on indefinitely.

      • Lightbringer

        Re-read ATLAS SHRUGGED. Although many of the astonishing technological breakthroughs had not yet been created or even dreamed of, the premise is the same. If we, the productive, were willing to give it all up and go on strike, perhaps the “looters and the moochers” would wise up. Or not.

        • Nadzieja Batki

          You are supposed to Stand and that is the best defense and offense. If the producers (?) retreat that is ground that is lost to the looters and the moochers and it makes them stronger and the producers weaker. That ground can never be recovered.

      • Nadzieja Batki

        Parasites have to keep their hosts alive and debilitation of the host does not matter to the parasites. If the parasites kill the hosts, the parasites die as well.

  • hitz

    Let’s allow all people the choice of getting a $10 reduction in their personal income taxes if they sign a statement on their 1040 forms where they proclaim themselves oppressed victims

  • Biff_Maliboo
    • I_Am_Me

      Another coward.

      China and Russia cannot believe their good fortune.

  • dwayne roberson

    The social justice paradigm continues to invert reality, disorienting us like a swimmer who is deeply underwater and has no idea which direction to swim for the surface and some life saving oxygen. I’m not not not kidding.

  • Biff Henderson

    The nepotism of Victimcrats is an interesting dynamic that provides loads of entertainment. It is a constant source of amusement watching them claw each other’s eyes out on their way to the trough.

  • Hard Little Machine

    This is why populism is always the handmaiden of fascism.

    • I_Am_Me

      That’s a great quote.

  • Debbie G

    I looked up the definition of “victim.”
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/victim
    I found it interesting that there is no mention of “innocence” as being a part of Merriam-Webster’s definition of victimhood. In my eyes, a victim is someone who is UNJUSTLY attacked, injured robbed, cheated etc. One could say it is implied, but perhaps this is part of the problem. Now you’re automatically a victim if things don’t go your way.

    • whatalife1

      Exactly so…

  • Scar

    What a convoluted mess! This is very confusing…the suffering of the victimocrats must end…since most of them likely support euthanasia, they must be terminated. (Just kidding…sort of.)

  • cree

    If I deduced the message correctly, victimocracy is like a disease inflicting its hosts, sickening them eventually unto death and in death the disease also kills itself. ?

    The collapse (death by its disease) of the soviet union mutated before its collapse; Obama is a host cell.

    Conservatism is the vaccine strengthened by Constitutional ingredients.

    • Nadzieja Batki

      Soviet Union just rearranged itself, it did not collapse at all.

  • halevi

    Spot on….again.

  • mtnhikerdude

    Their mantra is , “Where’s my free stuff” . “When victim hood is your empowerment , recovery is the enemy” . Tammy Bruce .

    • paendragon

      How about: “You dared to bother to earn stuff I didn’t, so you owe me!”

  • nimbii

    Classic example is the illegal immigration issue.

    “We can wait no longer!” “I have a pen and I must act.”

  • kasandra

    Great column! “Victimocracy,” I love it. That and “Idiocracy” (loved the movie, BTW) concisely and accurately describe where we are as a nation.

  • joe kulak

    Bravo!

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    They demand to be treated better than most Americans treat their own extended family.

  • truebearing

    And it all comes down to linguistic tyranny. They redefine terms so that rationality is neutralized. They redraw the structural blueprint so that the “victims” have no moral culpability, therefore are justified if they use violence to get their way. They rebuild the structure of society based on lies, linguistic manipulation, and the false morality of political correctness. The “victims” are liberated from moral restraint. The “oppressors” are put into a pseudo-moral straightjacket that they can never escape because they are in the straightjacket based on their color, or other things they can’t change. If you point out that that is racism, the counter with the “victims can’t be racists” nonsense.

    As with all things leftist, what they decry is what they are, or what they intend to do. They are the oppressors. They create the victims. And sooner or later, everyone but the elite becomes a victim of their oppression.

    • Dan Knight

      projection

  • catherine maneker

    In a Grade 4 classroom there are the “whiners”. And just like any pack mentality they learn to get on with their lives or get bullied until they do. So…….bulllies act as a growing up function. Now……the whiners are the bullies!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Blaine Simpson

    Daniel’s categorical analysis suffers from neglecting the third set: “champion of the oppressed”. Danusha V. Goska gets it right in her recent article reprinted at FP. Any model of the progressive view that in no way accounts for LBL, the Clintons, Kerry, Dean, O’Malley, is a poor model indeed. Daniel does discuss this phonemenon some, but apparently doesn’t think they are very influential to progressive America: “In America there are two types of people”.

    • I_Am_Me

      I was working on my own notes and came to this same conclusion. There are three types of people. The self-loathing collectivist, the free man, and the elitist. The elitist can either be a herder of the collectivist or a defender of the free man. Morality is the toggle switch.

  • Guy DeWhitney

    GREAT article! The best aspect is that ANYONE, regardless of religion can read it and not be prejudiced by un-needed religious language; the Right REALLY needs to stop doing that if they want to get more people to identify with them publicly.

  • Lightbringer

    Great article. But is there any solution to all this? What are we, the victimizers, to do to regain our supposed place in the sun?

    • I_Am_Me

      Opt out.

      • Lightbringer

        Go galt, huh?

        • Nadzieja Batki

          Can’t do that. In fact going Galt at this time in history is disastrous, besides where could anyone go to. You never ever ever cede ground to the stupid Dems/Progs/leftists/Communist/Marxists because once you cede ground, you will never recover that ground.

        • I_Am_Me

          Just refuse to play their stupid word games and don’t get involved in their victim narratives. You are not the victimizer. You’re not a part of their story at all. Get in their smug and rotten little faces if you have to. Bring a dictionary written before 1960.

          • Lightbringer

            Years ago I participated in a group of black and Jewish poets. Most of the Jewish poets, like me, wrote of a variety of things — the joys of crisp, snowy winter days, the pleasures of parenthood, the warmth of their cats, the industriousness of their honored parents, and so forth. The black ones? Victimology from A to Z. And how they lectured!

            One young man, handsome and elegantly dressed, whose entire outfit probably cost more than I made in six months, lectured us, hectored us, finger-wagged at us, about how rich Jews mistreat poor blacks. And there I was, right up front, dressed like a homeless bag lady (hey, it was Sunday… why bother, huh?) I just sat there with what I hope was a credulous, dumb-looking smile pasted on my face… what else could I do?

    • lyndaaquarius

      Daniel Greenfield deconstructing the Leftist pap for the sake of individual Liberty.I have real hope that our nation will again become a nation of free men and free markets. Daniel Greenfield will be remembered as one of the significant restorers. The pen is mightier………….. Thank you!

  • lies die

    This is because liberalism is a mental illness. The “defenders of the oppressed” are the white liberals who need to feel good about themselves, feel superior, to the rest of us. They’re simply mentally ill. And the rest of us suffer.

    http://www.frontlineofdefense.com/americas-enemies/liberalism-is-a-mental-illness

  • Nadzieja Batki

    Thank you, Daniel Greenfield. I like what you wrote.

  • drygoldfeld

    Thank you Daniel Greenfield for one of your most interesting articles .All Islamist groups thrive as victimocracies , especially the Palestinian Authority .

  • http://paulweston101.blogspot.com Paul Weston

    Hence the relationship between Communism and Political Correctness. In 1900 Russia, the Borgeoisie “oppressed” the proletariat based purely on the class system.

    Today, the oppressors are still class based, but they are also racial, gender, sexual-orientation and religious based. In every instance the oppressor is ONLY ever the middle-class, white, Christian, heterosexual, married male. ALL others are the oppressed and they are constantly reminded of this fact 24/7 from cradle to grave.

    This can lead to one of only two outcomes. The total destruction of the neo-Communist Left or the total destruction of Western civilisation. Take your pick, but be prepared to fight to the death for it.

  • whatalife1

    Well, I strongly agree with Daniel here as elsewhere. It seems to me, however, that the elephant in the room here is the “religion” of the Holocaust…which provides the narrative for and underpins the modern religion of the victim. I would be interested to learn Daniel Greenfield’s view on this matter.

  • Dan Knight

    Wow… wound up reading it aloud to the family. Hits the nail on the head, Daniel. We Irish of course are real-true oppressors: We oppressed the potato and them we really oppressed the steerage and then the railroads. … Many of my ancestors were ignorant enough to support Demokkkrats before the Demokkkrats oppressed them for oppressing the potato; and their grandchildren wised up during the Great Depression when the Demokkkrats oppressed America for letting the Demokkkrats deflate the economy. …

  • paendragon

    Funny just how EXACTLY liberalism (victimology) smells like islam!
    ;-)

    http://unclevladdi.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/islam-is-political-correctness/

  • paendragon

    Criminals (“liberals,” “muslims”) are all masochists, always trying to “control” their fears, BY causing those very same worst-case-scenario pains they fear the most!

  • Pilgrim786

    Sultan, you may fill the void left when Larry Auster (RIP) left us.

  • cxt

    Good article!

  • DTM

    Daniel Greenfield – one of the BEST articles ever. I’ve sent the link to many people. Thanks for writing it.

  • paendragon

    Wherever will this all lead us to?! Past predictions give us clues:

    ENTER BARACK OBAMA:

    H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) was a journalist, satirist, critic, and Democrat. He wrote this editorial while working for the Baltimore Evening Sun, which appeared in the July 26, 1920 edition.

    “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.”

    - H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920 -
    ;-)