Posted on 03/15/2007 6:38:16 AM PDT by Reagan Man
As America careens from one artificial public controversy to the next, it becomes more and more obvious that politically correct liberalism dominates both parties, albeit in varying degrees of intensity. The Democrats represent full-throttle political correctness while Republicans stand ready to advance political correctness just a little bit more slowly.
One of the Democrats' most successful rackets is to label any Republican position, no matter how timid, "extremist." This ensures that skittish Republicans will eventually even step away from that timid position. The "conservative" position, under the pressures of this demagoguery, inevitably becomes the liberal one of yesteryear, and then a little time passes and that position is deemed outrageous. This is seen across the board -- such as when Democrats and Republicans squabble pointlessly over the rate of growth of federal programs that shouldn't exist in the place -- but it shows up most starkly on moral issues.
Look at the ginned-up outrage over Marine Gen. Peter Pace's opposition to homosexual behavior in the military -- a dispute which is designed to make even support for Bill Clinton's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy appear "extremist." After suffering more than a decade of political correctness mau-mauing, Republicans have gone from opposing that policy in 1992 as a stupid and needless relaxation of a total ban on homosexuals to supporting that policy (as a Clinton-era concession to liberalism) to signaling a willingness to embrace the full-blown PC position on gays in the military, which is: Don't Care. For those keeping score, today's outlandishly "conservative" position, as determined by the ever-changing scale of political correctness, is Bill Clinton's policy.
Pace violated a sacred precept of life under political correctness, one which the Republicans have learned to incorporate into their agenda so well that they are now on the verge of becoming a pro-choice, pro-civil unions party: Never ever disapprove of vices political correctness has renamed virtues. Commit sins and the gods of political correctness will reward you; condemn them and they will destroy you.
Pace has now duly apologized for his act of impiety (although perhaps not sufficiently; we'll see). "Pace Expresses Regret Over Gay Remark," the press announced after a day of horrified coverage during which reporters knitted their brows in pain while reporting his crime. (CNN windbag Jack Cafferty, a font of inane opinions, expressed grave impatience with a general opining so egregiously, while ABC's George Stephanopaulos felt entitled, I guess because of his Clinton-era credentials, to look perturbed by the comments of such an unworthy defender of his old boss's policy.)
In yet another profile of courage, the Bush administration bravely seconded the mainstream media and Dems, making it clear that their general had committed a serious societal no-no. Pace, quickly reeducated by enlightened Bush administration officials, chastised himself for letting slip his "personal moral views." This is the approved relativistic lingo for Republican apologies: they make sure to call their views "personal" as a way of letting the PC authorities know that the liberal view is "official" and "state" while the conservative one is just a marginal "opinion" they would never dream of imposing on anyone. (Perhaps the Bush administration will have Pace go on Larry King Live with Mary Cheney to explain how his "upbringing" deformed him -- the word the press emphasized in their original reports on his comments.)
For his part, Defense Secretary Robert Gates offered up this hearty defense of the now-unacceptably conservative Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy: "It is my responsibility to execute that policy as effectively as we can as long as the law is what it is; that's what we'll do." With conviction like that, the policy is sure to last for a long time.
The media, in its vast wisdom, is blaming military recruitment on this terribly reactionary policy. You see, recruiting problems in the military are never created by political correctness; they are corrected by larger and larger doses of it. If only standards were lower, the best and strongest would sign up. Nothing appeals to brave patriots hidden away in the hinterlands of America more than women in combat and gays in the military.
The Bush administration's "conservatism" seems to consist of conserving Clinton-era liberalism, then expanding it under pressure from PC propagandists. The Democrats launch dumb policies; hapless, unprincipled Republicans complete them.
One would think a country of 300 million people would be offered more than two choices in debates. But now not even those limited choices are meaningfully distinct: America is offered political correctness in two forms, one quick, one gradual, both dangerous to her future.
[Mr. Neumayr is editor of Catholic World Report and a columnist for California Political Review.]
She understands in this war that one must be something like Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano and never take a step back when fighting.
There is something more in play here when it comes to the homosexuals and the power elite. And that is the absolute dominance by the homosexuals of the elite. I really don't have the data to back it up, but my intuition tells me that the number of homosexuals per thousand among the elite is much higher than the number of homosexuals per thousand in the general public. In a very real sense we are being ruled by the homosexuals. It is no more than a speculation but perhaps there is something about the drive for power and homosexuality that explains this. In any case the increased brazeness of these people says more about the rise in absolute power of the elites than it does about attitudes toward homosexuality.
PC is the poison of a God-Fearing, generally decent society...
The mind can get weary trying to ford through these permutations.
The reason we are not cannibals isn't that there are laws against it. It is because cannibalism is so culturally repugnant, no one engages in it. Homosexuality, and especially abortion, are not culturally repugnant in America. Quite the opposite. Abortion is the baptism of liberalism and sodomy is its holy communion. We won't stop either by passing laws against them.
Instead of focusing on culture, the religious right has focused on politics. Meanwhile, the MSM has made pornography and mind-numbing video games pervasive in our culture. Now I ask you: who has been more effective in changing both culture and politics?
In the end, I think one has to embrace the idea that freedom comes from within oneself, and that the best you can do is to try to live a productive and moral life. And hope that your children find your example more compelling than the media brain washing.
Ann Does not work for the Commander In Chief.
I've often thought that a good strategy is to print all of JFK's speeches over and over...
It would make the heads of liberals, radicals, anarchists and "progressives" explode...
How is this relevant?
Political correctness corrodes everyone and everything. Granted, it is much more dangerous among the leadership, but c'mon; the popularity of the nanny state and the tendency to establish more and more thought crimes is intended to keep the unwashed masses cowed and fearful.
Whether they work for the Commander-In-Chief or not.
The author belies his aticle's point by using the PC "gay".
Not so much on a second reading.I don't know what I was thinking.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That about somes it up. The PC apparatchiks are "pod people"!
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