The Common Denominator Between Pride Month and Bolshevism
This is how we as a country wind up with the divisive politics with which we are plagued
Last night was Pride Night at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Everything about the game was focused on promoting the Pride Agenda. The announcers spoke with an LGBTQ-led charity every inning. The ballpark was festooned with rainbow flags everywhere. The Orioles Twitter account stopped tweeting game updates and instead tweeted Democratic propaganda. It was an overwhelming and unnecessary orgy of Pride everywhere.
Not surprisingly, the Orioles lost.
The in-your-face nature not in holding the event but the propagandizing during the event was what turned off fans like me.
Amusingly, though I said nothing about the gay community, some Orioles Podcast I had never heard of put me on this list.
I’m sure that if we had a Catholic Night at the Ballpark, with the Cross everywhere, Catholic Charities all over the broadcast, and Catholic Banners on the Warehouse, the “Bird’s Eye View” would sign a different tune.
The entire spectacle got me thinking about the Russian Revolution.
The Bolsheviks, obviously, were the side that prevailed during the Russian Revolution. Before 1917, they were also opposed by the Mensheviks. The Mensheviks were socialists like the Bolsheviks, but they were more Social Democrats than the hardline Marxist Bolsheviks.
The etymology of the name, however, is where I want to focus:
Bolshevik, (Russian: “One of the Majority”) , plural Bolsheviks, or Bolsheviki, member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, which, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power. The group originated at the party’s second congress (1903) when Lenin’s followers, insisting that party membership be restricted to professional revolutionaries, won a temporary majority on the party’s central committee and on the editorial board of its newspaper Iskra. They assumed the name Bolsheviks and dubbed their opponents the Mensheviks (“Those of the Minority”)….
….In 1912 Lenin, leading a very small minority, formed a distinct Bolshevik organization, decisively (although not formally) splitting the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. His determination to keep his own faction strictly organized, however, had also alienated many of his Bolshevik colleagues, who had wished to undertake nonrevolutionary activities or who had disagreed with Lenin on political tactics and on the infallibility of orthodox Marxism. No outstanding Russian Social Democrats joined Lenin in 1912.
The Bolsheviks were the minority group within the far-left of the Russian socialist spectrum. However, they dubbed themselves the “Bolsheviks” and dubbed their opponents "Mensheviks” to control the narrative.
You can see something similar happening in the Pride Movement though on a grander scale. For it is not a small splinter party determining which side is which. It is an entire political party led by certain elements within corporate governance.
Call it Rainbowwashing. Every company, every organization, and every politician changes their logo to something rainbow themed for the month to pander to a small minority of the people: the entire rainbow initialism crowd accounts for a whopping 7.2% of the American population.
Look, I know my religion acknowledges that homosexual relations are a sin. My common sense knows that somebody who thinks they are a different gender is wrong. But my religion and common sense also teach me that members of the LGBTQ+ community are all God’s Children. Truly hate the sin, but truly love the sinner.
Nor do I care if there is a Pride Month any more than I care that there is a National Mentoring Month, National Athletic Training Month, Community College Awareness Month, Fresh Florida Tomato Month, National Burger Month, National Dairy Month, National Hot Dog Month, National Win with Civility Month, National Prostate Health Month, World Menopause Month, National Pomegranate Month, or National Pear Month.
But what I do care about is the way that governments and corporate entities shove a political agenda down my throat, pretend that it has a majority of support across the country, and strongly imply that those who aren’t fully in lockstep with the Newspeak of the age are a problem to be dealt with. That is how we get serious societal problems and this is how we as a country wind up with the divisive politics with which we are plagued.