The Moment of Truth for the Left has Arrived

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April 28, 2008

The Moment of Truth for the Left has Arrived

By James Lewis

If you haven't listened to Jeremiah Wright's hate sermons at Hugh Hewitt's website, you must do so.  Every American with open eyes and ears has to listen to the voice of racial hatred, coming not from the Klan but from a clergyman of the Christian Left. Reading his words isn't enough, because you won't hear the unmistakable meaning of his vocal intonations. If you are a person of good will you will feel upset. But it's of the utmost importance to understand this moment of truth.

Because Jeremiah Wright -- the respectful word "Reverend" seems grotesquely out of place now -- is shouting out the slander catechism of the Left. His sermons say exactly what other Leftists say in calm voices, over and over again. Mr. Wright just does it with real, raw hatred, and every new slam is cheered on by his jubilant congregation. His is not a lone voice. He just sings the music to fit the words.

We have been nursing a viper in our national bosom. Seven years after September 11, 2001, this is the moment of truth, when the Left must finally decide what side it's on. Wright's sermons may signal the end of the Obama campaign, and they may mean the breakup of the Democratic Party as we know it. I don't see how any centrist Democrat can still belong to this partyif Obama is its nominee. Jeremiah Wright may mean the historical end of the Civil Rights Era, because fifty years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,  the Left's presumption of victimhood and innocence is now gone.

The Rev is only the visible bulge of this lethal political tumor.  This is Saul Alinsky's sociopathic teachings on display,  and this is what Hillary Clinton learned back at Wellesley College.  It is the voice of feminists who hate all men, and of radicalized blacks who hate all whites.

Hate mongers collect injustices. If you and I did that, we could collect an endless laundry list about all the bad things somebody did to us. Maybe we have been hurt by men, or by women. Maybe we have been hurt by rich people, or by the angry poor. Maybe we have been hurt by Jews or blacks or whites, and we can put all our built-up rage on their heads. It's been done many times in the human past; that's exactly the psychology we see at work in Africa, the former Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, and various Muslim nations (among others), when explosive massacres take place. Mob psychology has been manipulated by demagogues throughout history. This is simply the another version of the Kluxers and Jim Crow lynch mobs. Today I see that psychology clearly enough on the Left, but outside of the ranting rooms of verifiable paranoids I don't see it many other places in this country.

Selectively collected injustices can keep us on the boil for a lifetime, because we ruminate on and on in all our waking hours about all the terrible things people have done to us. That is what the Left feeds itself in an endless stream; it is not a healthy thing to do. But it's what Jeremiah Wright has done to himself and to his congregation -- and who knows to how many thousands of other people? -- for almost all of his adult life. This is the Grand Inquisitor's view of America, the enraged prosecution case, without even imagining the possibility of innocence. This is what demagogues and witchhunters have always done, but I had never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

Most of us take a more balanced view on our lives; we've had undeserved good fortune some of the time, and we've suffered undeserved pain at other times. That's life. If you look at the facts of Jeremiah Wright's life, he has been a child of good fortune -- excellent schooling well into graduate school, privilege and money, the support of a community of believers, vast political clout in Chicago. But hate mongers don't think that way. They just collect more and more injustices as they go through life, and load it all onto some enemy. They are constantly reading the minds of the enemy -- whites and especially Jews, in the case of Mr. Wright -- and all they see there is malevolence. Evil is what evil sees.

For Jeremiah Wright, the enemy comes with a white skin. He has taken historical injustices and turned them into a lifelong call for vengeance. This is the official doctrine of Black Liberation Theology, and it is freely supported by powerful institutions on the religious Left. BLT's founder, Dr. Jim Cone, is a professor of systematic theology at the Union Theological Seminary. It's utterly bizarre but true.

So it's not just Senator Obama who is stuck with Mr. Wright today. We are all stuck with a rageful Left, which really wants to destroy rather than to build. They mentally rehearse perceived injustices over and over again, and they blame this country for all the evil in the world, including AIDS in the black community. They never look at another side. Many have no honest conception of other countries, other cultures, or other points of view. They are not balanced people.

So the entire American body politic has a festering sore on its hands. This will not go away by itself. It will not be bought off by more money. It must be repudiated by the sensible Left, if it is still there. Just as William F. Buckley denounced the anti-Semites on the right, and sensible Americans rejected segregation and the Klan, just as American unions expelled Stalinist unions from the AFL-CIO, the time has come for the decent Left to draw a bright line in the sand, and keep the hate mongers out.

James Lewis blogs at dangeroustimes.wordpress.com

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[counterpunch]

It is impossible.
First of all, McCain does several points better against Hillary than he does against Obama. McCain’s favorabilities are very high, but Hillary’s are well over 50%. 50% of voters have said they WILL NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY.

These are the reasons why the Democrats first decided to pull the rug out from underneath Hillary.
The believe, to a person, that Hillary is a bigger liability than Obama.
They cannot wait to get rid of her.
Let’s not lose sight of that.

You are afraid of the buffoons known as the Clintons.
That’s what it comes down to.
They don’t scare the rest of us.
We say: bring ‘em on.

They have lost their empire.
They’re jokes in 2008.

A few months ago, we were all salivating at the prospect of running against the Clintons.
Why should that suddenly change?

Obama has already done the damage to her — he’s taken away her cloak of invincibility.
The Ice Queen has no clothes.

But Hillary won’t get so far as to be their nominee.
There won’t be a Democrat party left for her to be the nominee of if they try to give it to her.
And they all know it.

We have free reign to taunt them with what a loser Obama is, flaunt his weaknesses, and then laugh as they are powerless to do anything about it. They’re stuck with him.

So just sit down and quite whimpering.

[llandres]

So for now, the Clintons and the GOP are strange bedfellows.

You have a complete handle on the whole situation and grand scheme!!! Bravo.

[Nathan Zachary]

Why won’t blacks vote for Hilary if she’s the nomination?"

Because she's white. But that's not racist remember, it's only racist when whites don't vote for a black because of his racist and Marxist character.

Now I don't know if this sentiment is going to carry on through until November, but if the charges of racism continue to dog Hillary for the rest of their primary, there is a better than good chance it will.

You have to consider as well that plenty of nasty stuff will be said about Hillary before this primary is over and that isn't going to help her at all. It will wake up a lot of the truly stupid in this country who always vote Democrat but don't really know why, finishing off Hillary nicely.

I really doubt she'd try run in 2012. 4 years is a long time for someone who's face is sagging lower each day. By 2012, it will have overtaken her breasts.

This is her shot, so she's not going to pull any punches, which will only destroy Obama, but herself in the backlash.

[Jess Kitting]

I understand, but at this point there are forces at play that even we can’t control.

Agreed. We don't really know how this will play out.

Operation Chaos could easily backfire on us and have unintended and very serious consequences. Especially if it makes Hillary the nominee, and she goes on the win in November.

Why tempt fate? Hillary will be much more difficult to dislodge once she has secured the Dem nomination. She ain't going nowhere. Barack is on his way down. Why not let him destroy Hillary first, then take the rest of Dems down with him?

I for one do not want to hear Hillary's cackling voice thanking Rush Limbaugh come January 20, 2009.

[txhurl]

Wimpering?

This is a place in a little town called Waco about 50 miles N of here.

You don't genuflect and prognosticate with these people. You bury them when you get the chance.

Except for idiot gamers like you who think it's entertaining to keep them alive.

[endthematrix]

"Because she's white."

Ridiculous.

[counterpunch]

>Why won’t blacks vote for Hilary if she’s the nomination?"

Because she's white

Let's try to be a little more sophisticated here. That's not why they won't vote for her.
In fact, they will vote for her.
But they won't vote in the same numbers. They may not sit it out, but they will be less enthused, to say the least. That translates into a few points at the polls. Maybe not a lot, but enough to make the difference in some states.

The bigger problem for the Democrats if Hillary takes it from Obama is the youth vote. Young would-be first time voters would certainly become disenchanted and cynical about the Democrats, and young people dislike the Clintons, particularly Hillary. John McCain would be the choice of young vote against Hillary, because he is ironically hip.
 

[counterpunch]

Plus, there is the long term fallout that if the Democrats steal victory from a black man, then they know the GOP’s message that the Democrat party doesn’t deliver on their promises to the black community will begin to resonate.

[counterpunch]

I'm voting for John McCain...
because that would be, like, totally ironic.
 

[Nathan Zachary]

True enough. But if this racism stuff escalates, which it most likely will as Hillary takes apart Obama, I think it will have a big effect on a large portion of the black vote for Hillary. Sure, there many (blacks) smart enough to see through all of this, and see Obama for what he is, but those numbers aren't enough to put Hillary in the white house, in fact a good many will probably vote Republican, and always do.

[Nathan Zachary]

LoL! I know, isn’t it? And I’ll probably feel real dirty afterwards too.

[counterpunch]

Yeah, the racism will certainly escalate from both sides.
Obama will do it to turn out blacks and increase his margins in North Carolina, and Hillary will appeal to the KKK in Indiana and Robert Byrd’s base in West Virginia.

And Bill will do a replay of South Carolina after North Carolina.

[Jess Kitting]

the Democrat party doesn’t deliver on their promises to the black community

This is something that few in the black community are willing to acknowledge.

They will remain on the Dem plantation regardless of an Obama loss, or even the choice of Condoleeza Rice as the Republican VP.

After Barack has lost the Dem nomination, the powers-that-be in the Dem party will force him to "play nice" and throw his support behind Hillary, and as a good little boy, he will do it.

Then you will see who is really holding the cards.

[Nathan Zachary]

I guess you failed to see what that really means. Simply put, with Obama and co. fanning the flames of racism every time Hillary attacks Obama's character, by the time the primary is over, they will NOT vote for Hillary- or any white person.

As well, Sharpton and co. may have NY shut down by then as well over that shooting case, especially if the city reinstates those officers.

There is plenty of time and room for things to go very bad for Democrats in general.

[txhurl]

OK, you punked me. ~lol (really rather puked in technicolor)

You describe McPain as ironically hip? but also claim we should support two communist, murderous, rapist hyenas because the nearly-dead 'hip' guy can beat them?

Insane!

[endthematrix]

"long term fallout"

Since Civil Rights movement, the only thing the democrats have delivered to the Black community is perpetual poverty. Still they vote for the white Democrat handouts...Obama IMO won't break that trend. Plenty of state and local elections are evidence. Heck, think Chicago's Daley!

I'm split on the opinion of the youth vote. White democrats perhaps may switch parties. I see the wind blowing more towards a violent anti-globalist Marxist youth, so a Populist/RINO/Third way/false prophet will be the ideal candidate.

[endthematrix]

"the powers-that-be in the Dem party "

[counterpunch]

Huh?
You’re off your rocker.
I never said we should support the Clintons because McCain can beat them.
I said we should continue encouraging them to bloody Obama, because nothing they do can win Hillary the nomination. Nothing.
Do you really not get it?

I think your problem here is you actually believe that the Democrat super delegates will look at the two candidates, decide because Obama tanked at the end that Hillary is the stronger candidate (even though she will still lag in the delegate count by triple digits) and rip the nomination from Obama’s hands after he won it fairly.

You actually believe that the super delegates will unanimously all come to the same conclusion that Hillary could carry a few more points, or a couple more states in the general election, that they should rob the first black candidate to win the nomination. That they will believe that slim margin is worth the long term damage to their party, and their own political careers as they go back to their constituents and have to explain their actions, and face primary challengers for their seats because of it.

You believe that these same super delegates who already have stabbed the Clintons in the back with the long knives are now going to suddenly return them to power inside the party instead where Bill and Hillary will have free reign to exact revenge, settle scores, and purge the disloyal right out of the Party.

You believe that the Democrat super delegates who need cash for their own races will reject Obama and his record fund-raising for cash-strapped Hillary, all over a few points gain in the Presidential race?

Please. You really do not understand politics. These super delegates are all politicians themselves, and like all politicians, they are looking out for their own self-interests first, regardless of what anyone says. Their own elections mean a lot more to them than the Presidential election. And nominating Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama works against their self-interests.

[Earthdweller]

Bookmark

[txhurl]

Please. You live a soap-opera life, and seem to enjoy it very well and defend it vociferously.

I, on the other hand, actually lived under the Clintons the first time around. You could ask your parents or siblings how it went - if you could detach yourself from The Days of Our Lives and hear it first-hand from someone you trust.