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Monday, 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.
Comments
Finally, an article from my most favorite American humorist since Will Rogers. Nice snappy article. Did you read my last two treatises. The kind of heavy lifting that results in groin pulls. Fran popped one out that got comments in the teens, but that’s probably from the lack of pressure while on vacation. I Played golf Sunday (first time out this summer). Nine holes. Three pars. One birdie. Two snow cones (eights). I pray to the patron Saint of consistency, but suffer Garth Brooks problems. Unanswered prayers. Glad your back. Rach
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/31/2010 at 04:06 AMBut as long as they maintain their grip on the MSM and the education system, Col. we have a damn hard row to hoe.
Posted by KG on 08/31/2010 at 04:07 AMThe blatant fearless way that the left has choosen to “come out” scares me. Either they are willing to expose themselves to the world as they really are (i.e want to flood us with illegal immigrants who will vote them into office, want to use lies propaganda and the government itself to fight and stop Americans who disagree with them, etc.) OR they recognize that they have already won this and they no longer need to hide behind the veil of democracy and we are lost. Clearly a “politic” way to deal with Fox news and conservative voters would include more shmozzing and diplomacy even as they stab us in the back. They seem to have abandoned that as though they don’t need any of the tea party votes or independents who believe what their lying eyes see on the news. Either the Left is correct and they have won or they have made an incredibly stupid mistake. Will 20 million illegals become legal and all vote Democrat in the future? Will losing this midterm election all be worth is as they secure all national elections for the next 100 years (if we last that long). Was selling out American citizens worth it? Time will tell but clearly the left believes it is true.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/31/2010 at 11:37 AMThanks, Rach. Any humor in my posts is strictly unintentional, I assure you.
I didn’t catch your last two and will. I was at a delightful wedding with the Bedrock People and I’m telling you it was a pleasure to see the culture of normal people step smartly on. The groom’s father didn’t leave a dry eye in the house with his speech about how much he loves his son and new daughter-in-law. A sight to behold for even the most jaundiced, of which I’m not one.
I enjoy the weekend’s respite from the web, a practice I’ve adopted for the most part. Too much of it makes me crazy, like spending 24 hours in the Fun House at Six Flags over Mecca. Hoo boy!
I am a luke warm golfer. Basically a threat to other golfers, spectators, and innocent ducks. No golf, no stress way I see it.
Posted by Col. B. Bunny on 08/31/2010 at 04:38 PMRight you are, KG. I’m toying with practical ways to administer the cattle prod to the Snatchers that would effect a gigantic exit from the party system. Nothing that the best of populist thinking didn’t come up 100 years ago to be quite honest. Still and all, think referendum, initiative, write-in, and recall—all as augmenticalated by the resources available on the web. Something wrong with an electoral system that survives on campaign contributions. If they basically pay for print, radio, and tv communications with the voters, why would they be necessary if voter eyeballs could be steered to places that cost nothing to consult?
Voters seem to be determined to keep this system viable alas, but surely somehow the words Tweeter (gag), FB, Google, and Typepad can be invoked to instill paralyzing fear in the hearts of the political sellout class.
I’m just sayin’.
Posted by Col. B. Bunny on 08/31/2010 at 04:49 PMThose are chilling thoughts, GWTW. If world class vote fraud were not a reality here today, I’d be more sanguine about the ship of state righting itself after being broadsided by a rogue wave out of nowhere. The fraud element is a threat of unknown dimension, however. The closer the vote, the easier it is to pull off so maybe this time around we’ll survive it. The hostile majorities are going to be hard to finesse.
The stridency and vitriol of the leftists is more in the nature of desperation, I think. Or at least, I pray it is. It’s still a stretch to believe that the left “knows” that the balance tipped in their favor irrevocably and thus are acting with the confidence that stems from this knowledge. If read leftist sites or leftist comments, the words “cogent” and “insightful” don’t ever spring to mind. “Headlong flight from hard facts” is more like it.
No time for complacency. Still, unlike Germany in the ‘30s, Americans live in a federal system. What was a bona fide tipping point there would not be a tipping point here. Too many state governments and too many informed people. I think we’ve sobered up too much from 2008 to be likely to put up with extraconstitutional maneuvering in 2010 or 2012.
The fiscal damage that has been done is, however, enormous and it will take a lot for it to be repaired. It may be irreparable and default or horrible inflation may be the intended objective—ignoring the necessary incredible malevolence and stupidity that that objective would entail—but I think leftists are deluding themselves if they assume that would break in their direction as the night the day.
Posted by Col. B. Bunny on 08/31/2010 at 05:11 PMGood point about the federal system, Colonel, I hope you’re right.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/31/2010 at 11:27 PMI’m frequently wrong but never in doubt.
Posted by Col. B. Bunny on 09/01/2010 at 07:59 PM
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