Enduring shift

The Washington Times ^ | November 15, 2004 | Arnold Beichman

[neverdem]

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The Washington Times
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Enduring shift

By Arnold Beichman
Published November 15, 2004

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In his essay on "The Future of Liberalism," (1882) Matthew Arnold wrote: "If experience has established any one thing in this world it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and provide for them."

    Our November presidential election demonstrated the validity of Arnold's pronouncement. For clearly the majority of American voters repudiated the claim of their would-be proctors -- the academic and media elites, Hollywood's semiskilled intellectuals, George Soros' payroll parasites, Dan Rather and CBS -- that they and only they had the keys to paradise so please be good enough to vote as we tell you.

    Little realized, even by Bush supporters, is that the majority of American voters have, it would seem, moved permanently into the Republican column because they accept as their own the moral and social values in President Bush's sociopolitical philosophy.

    How else account for an astounding fact in American political history: the major power bases in our politics -- White House, Supreme Court, Senate, House of Representatives, governors and state legislatures -- are Republican-held, either by appointment or election?

    There seems to be general agreement the Democratic Party leadership and rank and file are particularly embittered. They are embittered with their dismal electoral fate over the decades and full of bile and spleen about the continued successes...

[michaelbfree]

how can he classify these high school dropouts as semiskilled intellectuals?

[expatpat]

And if the MSM hadn't worked so hard to elect Kerry......

[Woodworker]

A good story, but the essence of politics is, "What have you done for me lately?" Winston Churchill was forever marked by the khaki election of 1900, and never could understand how the British people could reject King & Country. The Liberals were back in power by 1906. Bill & Hill in 2008?

[ConservativeMan55]

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