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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[rightwingcrazy]

“Left means not ever having to say you’re sorry.”

[genghis]

without wright, ayers, rezko, his lunatic wife, bitter and a few other things obama was going to win 40 states. Now he has a good chance to lose 49. Once the morons on DU understand this are they going to be upset.

[VR-21]

I agree with the guy. There’s a very palpable thuggish, menacing, psychotic manner about much of the modern American left.

[txhurl]

And this is precisely why OpChaos has to shift to supporting Obama. We can take him down. Clinton, Inc. can take ANYBODY down.

Kerry came within less than 2pts of taking W down in '04.

ChaosBots seem to have forgotten that.

[Nipfan]

Obama is too toxic to take the chance.

Its not worth the risk that, as the nominee, by some unforeseen turn of events he wins in November. Unthinkable.

[Enchante]

Good point! Also, if OpChaos could immediately and very loudly switch to supporting Obambi it would really throw the Demagogues into a panic because THEY would realize on a very large scale just how unelectable Obambi is...... if Rush started pushing very emphatically for crossover voters to support Obambi in the remaining primaries it would have the Demagogues in a panic.

Of course, that might also increase the chances that the Clintonistas could still pull off a switcheroo with the Superdelegates, BUT it would also maximize the pressures and tensions among the Demagogues...... which is the whole point of OpChaos..... (I always disliked the idea of OpChaos because we do not want Shrillary to have a chance of getting to the WH, but now I think it would be best to try to help the Demagogues tear each other apart over Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, et al).

[Common Tator]

You make no sense. There is no way a Democrat can win without black support. They were about 12 million of the Democratic votes in 2004. If Obama does not win the nomination Hillary will lose by at least 12 million votes. If Hillary "Cheats" Obama out of the nomination blacks will just not vote. And if the Democrats don't get at least 88 percent of the Black voters to the polls to vote Democratic they lose the election. With out the black vote they can't win the House and perhaps not hold the senate.

In addition the only way for the Democrats to get the black vote back would be to nominate Obama in 2012. In 2012 Obama would lose 45 states

If Obama is the candidate this year, he will lose. The Demorats and the media will unite the party around an electable candidate in 2012. And that candidate will be elected president.

If we want to hold the white house for 8 more years we must get Hillary nominated so the Democrats lose the black vote and can only get it back by nominating Obama in 2012. Then in 2012 they lose the working class white vote.

The earlists a Democrat could get elected president would be in 2016.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I gues McCain has listened...cause:

McCain: OK, Rev. Wright Is An Issue, After All

[txhurl]

Are you taking the rat vote fraud into account in your calculations?

Over four months, 28% of Hillary’s supporters have consistently polled that they will vote McCain if Obama takes the nom.

No way can can ANY rat ‘fix be in’ November with that number.

[Jess Kitting]

If Obama is the candidate this year, he will lose.

That's why we need to make sure he is the Dem nominee.

If we want to hold the white house for 8 more years we must get Hillary nominated so the Democrats lose the black vote and can only get it back by nominating Obama in 2012.

How do you know that Blacks will not vote for Hillary if she is the nominee? Where else will they go?

What if Obama, after his inevitable demise, tells them to vote for Hillary "for the sake of the party"?

If Obama is so damaged this year (by losing the General), what makes you think the Dems would be stupid enough to nominate him again in 2012?

Hillary is still very dangerous, we can't risk the chance of her becoming the Dem nominee. Obama provides the best hope of getting rid of her once and for all.

[txhurl]

Last Thursday, even Paul Shanklin begged Rush to switch over to Obama!

[Atchafalaya]

You will probably have a letter in your mailbox Tues. from McCain condemning your harsh, uncivil, take on the country’s civics...
Works perfectly for me Tator!

[Atchafalaya]

You will probably have a letter in your mailbox Tues. from McCain condemning your harsh, uncivil, take on the country’s civics...
Works perfectly for me Tator!

[Atchafalaya]

oops!

[txhurl]

One unifying characteristic of OpChaos people is that they have NO fear of the Clintons re-trashifying the United States.

Why and how do you suppose that is? Are they crazy? Or what?

[Exton1]

Or that we have a crazy old uncle

[Jess Kitting]

they have NO fear of the Clintons re-trashifying the United States.

I will breathe a huge sigh of relief when the Clintons are completely gone from the political scene.

Until then, I will remain vigilant and wary of them. Who knows what tricks the Clintons still have up their collective sleeves?

[weegee]

Yeah and tell me what kind of race riot we will face in november when he loses. We were already at the brink of revolution when the last two dumbass democrats got voted down...

[llandres]

“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.”

And the problem with that would be...?

“I don’t see how any centrist Democrat can still belong to this party if Obama is its nominee.”

There’s always a place for them on our side, particularly this year.

As for the other comments about all the good the Democrats have done for civil rights, etc. -

I’d strongly recommend you go to Rev. Wayne Perryman’s website (he happens to be African American) and get an eye-opener as to which party, throughout our history, has REALLY been the champion of, and trailblazer for, civil rights (hint: it’s not the Democrats). I highly recommend two of his latest books, Unfounded Loyalty, and Unveiling the Whole Truth (What the Media Failed to Tell American Voters,) or catch his eloquent speaking on cspan/book tv sometime.

So, there, there - as a good friend often says, let not your heart be troubled. The current stife in the Democratic party, even the threat of its unravelling, will be surely not be earth-shattering and maybe some good, some way, will even come out of it.

:-)