Maryland City Equity Official Wants the U.S. to "Burn Down;" "MY Ideology Can Arise From the Ashes"

I'm like a broken record, but: all factions have their crazies. I don't hold that against them too much. But on the contemporary progressive left: (a) crazy fringe beliefs have become orthodox, taking over the center, and (b) the crazy fringe sets the agenda. The American right doesn't follow its rightest wing. There is no academic-political complex as there is on the left. But there is an intellectual left that does not distinguish itself from activism--in fact the subordination of scholarship (and, in fact, all thought) to activism is one of their central ideals. Absolutely insane ideas flourish there--and they always, always, always push toward madness and destruction. Those ideas are then laundered and repackaged into bleeding-heart-liberal-esque form: oh, the poor, oh, the oppressed, oh, the cruelty...weep for the less-fortunate and less-successful...

   The average progressive in the street doesn't want to destroy the USA, nor the West, nor Capitalism. But the vanguard does. The vanguard realizes that de facto open borders will wreck the country; it also knows that more centrist lefties don't want that. So to them, the vanguard says Oh look at the huddled masses...diversity is our strength...where is your compassion??...how can we who are so fortunate to have been born in the greatest (though most racist, misogynist, x-phobic-for-every-value-of-x, and just generally evil) nation on Earth refuse to share our fortune with those who are less fortunate by mere chance? We have no RIGHT to American citizenship.... 

   This is part of what accounts for the weird dual aspect of progressivism--the weeping, puling pathos on the one hand, and the vicious, violent, destructive rage on the other. In the end the left basically thinks: destroy free speech, bring down America, "dismantle" "whiteness" and the West, "decolonize," smash capitalism...  Whether all this gets down via violent rage or smarmy sentimentality matters not. An incoherent mixture is just fine too...