Musings Of An Indie WriterMonday, August 30, 2010
The reason for leftist panic.
I would suggest that one of the main reasons so many liberals are in a flop-sweating, bowel-stewing panic over Fox News and the Tea Parties is that they understand such developments are a real threat to epistemic hegemony of liberalism that has been unraveling for the last decade and half. . . .
. . . Since 1950, “vital center” liberals, and of course leftists, have looked for every conceivable excuse to delegitimize conservative dissent and criticism. For decades, liberal elites abused their monopoly on the media and their near complete control of the commanding heights of the culture to attack not just conservative ideas, but conservative motives . . . . That effort is still under way in the arts, in academia and in the few remaining bastions of the “legacy media.”
. . . [L]iberals have grown more shrill and desperate in their efforts to delegitimize conservative ideas, new and old.
Liberal reaction to conservative argument heads south after the first two or three sentences. Conservatives are racists, sexists, nativists, bigots, borderline paranoids, full-fledged paranoids, homophobes, or xenophobes. You see it everywhere.
Mr. Goldberg is right. Liberals go straight to vitriol and personal attack because they’re desperate at the loss of the monopoly and unaccustomed to doing the work to refute the substance of conservative arguments. The Supreme Court’s reversal of 140+ years of learning on the Commerce Clause was an atrocious betrayal and a lie from the word “The” on down. Yet, since the New Deal, this betrayal has been lauded as wisdom incarnate and served up as the mother’s milk of the unitary state.
Now conservatives have the outlets to proclaim leftist lies for what they are and leftists can do nothing to stop the threat to the foundation of their power. They try to foist hate speech laws, PC codes, Fairness Doctrine II, and net neutrality on us. But their real agenda is plain. They are attacking free speech and will do all in their power to demonize their hated enemies on the right.
Leftist hostility to liberty is clear.
“The Conservative Bubble and Liberalism’s Cargo Cult.” By Jonah Goldberg, The American, 4/13/10.
