I heard someone say yesterday why the left so hates Bush.
#1 - they believe he stole the 2000 election.
#2 - Iraq war.
I agree with this analysis. Add to that, the nation has never been more ideologically polarized, and I include myself in that assessment. I feel like we are playing for all the marbles now, from the left stacking the court and dismantling the US Constitution, to implementing all-out socialism. So at least in my case, I certainly see the need for pure polarization. This is a culture war between socialism and freedom, pure and simple.
Now going back to the 2 reasons above why the left hates Bush so much, those points are dripping with hypocrisy...
Which party is rampant with voter fraud? Which party keeps counting until they win? Which party asks judges to throw out military absentee votes? Which party forces the opposition to resign for minor ethics violations while not removing their own from office after committing crimes?
Which party supported every military action under Clinton while opposing every military action under Bush.
The Democrat left and their idiot socialist supporters are so rampant with hypocrisy, it could fill the airtime for Saturday Night Live skits for the next 100 years. Oh that’s right, Hollywood only mocks conservatives, not the left. Yet more liberal hypocrisy.
Michael Savage was brilliant to coin the phrase, “Liberalism is a mental disorder.” He is dead right.
“This is a culture war between socialism and freedom, pure and simple.”
I don’t disagree. But it is a war that is ongoing for a century or more. Is it really now for “all of the marbles” in a way that it was not previously?
In my opinion, as conservatives we lose from the kind of panic that I see routinely exhibited in this culture war ... on both sides. If the sky is falling, there is little to “conserve” and few enduring institutions to defend.
We have been through much worse as a nation than this. Indeed, this is nothing compared to other eras, and nothing compared to what may lie in front of us.
I think that there is more of a balance than folks here realize. The Democrats are ascendant in Congress and the White House. Many of their liberal institutions, such as the MSM, are in their death throes. We can not be complacent about our liberties, but panicing is no good either. This is very much a war of attrition. We are in this for the long haul.