Posted on 09/15/2010 5:20:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Charles Krauthammer, in his Washington Post column (8/27/10), said, "Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed," pointing out that overwhelming majorities of Americans have repudiated liberal agenda items such as: Obamacare, Obama's stimulus, building an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero, redefinition of marriage to include same-sex marriage, lax immigration law enforcement and vast expansion of federal power that includes unprecedented debt and deficits.
The nation's elite and the news media see being against the Obama-led agenda as being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, mean-spirited and insensitive. Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times, has a different twist expressed in "It's Witch-Hunt Season" (8/29/10). Krugman says that the last time a Democrat sat in the White House, Bill Clinton, he faced a witch-hunt by his political opponents. "Now," Krugman says, "it's happening again -- except that this time it's even worse," asking, "So where is this rage coming from? Why is it flourishing? What will it do to America?"
Professor Krugman and others among America's elite blame some of the rage on talk-show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. They are only partially correct. What talk shows have accomplished is they've ended the isolation of many ordinary Americans. When the liberal mainstream media dominated the airwaves, Americans who were against race and sex quotas were made to feel as though they were racists and sexists. Americans who were against big government were portrayed as mean-spirited and uncaring. What talk radio and the massive expansion in non-traditional media have done is not only end the isolation, but more important, the silence amongst ordinary Americans.
Krugman says that what we're witnessing is "political craziness." Therefore, the overwhelming majority of Americans who think our borders ought to be secure and think we should have the right to determine who enters our country are politically crazy. Americans who can find nothing in the U.S. Constitution granting Congress the power to take over our health care system are politically crazy. Americans who think a mosque should not be built in the shadows of the Muslim-destroyed World Trade Center are simply religious bigots. By the way, those who oppose the building are not saying there's no legal or constitutional right to do so any more than they would say a person has no legal or constitutional right to curse his parents, but neither is a good idea. In Thomas Sowell's column on the topic (8/31/10), he reminds us that "If we all did everything that we have a legal right to do, we could not even survive as individuals, much less as a society."
Krugman predicts that political craziness, and by inference crazy Americans, will result in a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and play chicken with the federal budget. Chicken with the budget is precisely what Defundit.org has called for. Already they've obtained the pledges of 165 congressional candidates not to fund any part of Obamacare.
While America's liberal elite have not reached the depths of tyrants such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler, they share a common vision and, as such, differ only in degree but not kind. Both denounce free markets and voluntary exchange. They are for control and coercion by the state. They believe they have superior wisdom to the masses and they have been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. They, like any other tyrant, have what they see as good reasons for restricting the freedom of others.
Their agenda calls for the elimination or attenuation of the market. Why? Free markets imply voluntary exchange. Tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do. Therefore, they seek to replace the market with economic planning control and regulation.
Why liberalism has become an ugly sight, as Krauthammer claims, is because more and more Americans have wised up to their agenda.
We are seeing a "people power" revolution taking place.
The political class, and the elitists are panicking right now. Yes - that includes Karl Rove, William Kristol, Michael Medved, etc..
It is "the people", you, your family, your next door neighbor, that is performing an "EXORCISM" in America! Christin O'Donnell has shown the 'light of day' has been part of the exorcism process. The true faces are now coming out in reaction to her victory and it's not pretty...
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Excellent.
Thank you for posting this.
Would that Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell or Alan Keyes were the first POTUS of African ancestry.
Alas, we got the arrogant, narcissistic, metrosexsual, Marxist know-it-all Hussein. A man that never had a real job and does not know what it means to work for a living.
They forgot being a cross burning, "calling black people niggers ", member of the KKK, oh that was a demonRAT, now dead, senator byrd.
And we are the racists????
And this is why liberals (Obama) want more control over the internet.
Indeed
That is what the left does
“.....liberal agenda items such as: Obamacare, Obama’s stimulus, building an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero, redefinition of marriage to include same-sex marriage, lax immigration law enforcement and vast expansion of federal power.....”
This, and more are the minority Leftist manipulations to gain total power, and retain that power by solidifying their base through control. If they did not manipulate the populace thusly they would remain the minority eternally.
The Left is comprised of a cunning, self centered lot whom believe in Totalitarianism, Marxism as they cannot get a grasp of, or understand self government. They only care to understand enough to help themselves in undermining self government.
“... The nation’s elite and the news media see being against the Obama-led agenda as being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, mean-spirited and insensitive.”
These items represent tools the Left uses as clubs to beat their opposition with, and their control of the MSM is the arm that flails the clubs.
It worked before, so they are as usual replaying the scenario ad nauseum.
You got THAT right!
Interesting based on Krauthammer's response to the O'Donnell/Castle race yesterday. Krauthammer apparently does not like seeing liberalism under siege and at death's door.
on MSNBC some liberal from POLITICO was saying this election is wonderful news for Obama’s reelection in 2012.
IOW Obama NEEDS tea party candidates to WIN in order to get reelected. I think it is a case of POLITICO denial.
(how does that rag make money?)
Just wait.
Reid put a Dream Act Amnesty in the Defense Bill.
make no mistake Dream Act is pure amnesty.
Reid is scared silly.
“Would that Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell or Alan Keyes were the first POTUS of African ancestry.”
Haven’t you noticed the signs over the door at NAACP headquarters in DC. “NO BLACKS WITH INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED.”
“Liberal Crackup”
Hopefully.
But there are those in the electorate whose self esteem depends on voting for those self-appointed intellectual geniuses in the Democrat party.
IMHO
I am; the leftist on the Supreme Court decided in Kelo that NYC, New York State, or the U.S. Government can take that property for any public purpose. The government can force the owners to sell it to anyone. Have they forgotten?
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