This column is for people who are confused – perplexed by the fantastical, nightmarish growth and mutation of progressive ideas. Confused how an ideology ostensibly founded on fighting bigotry and hatred has become the one of the most hateful and bigoted groups in existence today. Confused how after supporting equal rights for women and minorities, they now find themselves under attack for being male or white.

I write here today to explain.

So if you have seen computer programmers fired by public witch hunt over a joke – if you have seen student activist groups physically attack and scream down public speakers at university – if you have seen feminism morph from love of women to hatred of men, and anti racism morph into racism against whites – if you have seen UK police refuse to investigate Pakistani child rape gangs because they are afraid to be accused of racism – if you have seen these things, and wonder how in the hell we got here – this column is for you.

In order to understand the present, we will need to visit the past.

In the time of my Grandfather, Reactionary was a dangerous word.

Joseph (his Christian name) lived through the Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao and the Communist Party of China.

During those dark days, millions upon millions of Chinese citizens were dragged out of their homes, shops, and classrooms, accused of not supporting the progress of the People. Accused of not supporting communism. Accused of being Reactionary.

The communists formed the “Red Guards,” a youth movement full of progressive curb fervor and faith. They were true believers. They knew they were fighting the bourgeois, capitalism, and the old system.

They held “struggle sessions” during which a Reactionary would be accused of supporting the “Four Olds”- old habits, old customs, old culture, old ideas. Reactionaries were beaten, publicly humiliated, forced to apologize for their opinions, and sent to re-education.

You may recognize some of these concepts taking from once again today.

Of course, the truth is that the Cultural Revolution was not anti capitalist or anti bourgeois. The targets of the Red Guards included free thinkers to be sure. But the true targets of the Cultural Revolution were Chairman Mao’s political enemies, all of whom were communists.

The Chairman stoked and exploited fervent believe in progressive ideas to create a student army, and provide political cover for his true goal: an attack on his political enemies.

So it was then, so it is always with communists, and so it is today.

The ideology – whether it is pro worker, anti racism, anti sexism, or anti inequality – is not an ideology. It is an excuse, a lie, a weapon used to attack any who oppose the one that wields it. And as with any good lie, it must be grounded in a kernel of truth. Racism exists, sexism exists, inequality exists. But fighting these things is not their cause. It is their excuse.

So you see, the hijacking and perversion of civil rights causes from pro women and pro minority to anti male, anti white, anti straight hatred is not a surprise, nor is it an accident. It is the goal.

For decades, the American right wing has fought off attacks on their religion, morality, culture, race, and traditions. Yet for decades the response has been confused and uncoordinated, because they knew not who was attacking them and why.

This column is dedicated to exposing and explaining the origins, methods, and goals of the wielders of neomarxism. Together we will learn who the enemy is, what they plan, and how to fight them.

We are the New Reactionaries. It’s time to fight.