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Posted on 01/23/2003 5:41:54 AM PST by Davis
I had planned to devote this Conning Tower to a declaration of Abuse Hillary Week, an appropriate response to her putrid performance at Trinity Baptist Church in the Bronx on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It'll wait, that declaration. You can start without me, if you want. You might want to read the account of that woeful event in the New York Sun. I'll catch up as soon as I can.
The text for today is the Peace March on the Mall in Washington, DC last Saturday. I can tell you I doubted that it would attract a huge crowd. I could tell by just walking around the Upper West Side of Manhattan, my home territory, that there was no grassroots groundswell of opposition here. The few dispirited souls who had patrolled Broadway from Harry's Shoes in the north to Fairway Market nine blocks south collecting signatures on petitions had disappeared by late October. Nor did I hear a buzz of opposition in the Espresso Café of the Barnes & Noble I frequent.
The Peace March was, first of all, a fizzle. The crowd by my estimate didn't exceed thirty-thousand. No, I wasn't there and I didn't count the people. But I've been there. I've been in large crowds in open spaces and I can count, make estimates by the people per acre. The crowd was small. The aim of assembling such a crowd is to impress onlookers--the press, essentially--with your numbers. This didn't do it.
The small turnout wasn't surprising in the light of the nature of its sponsor. Michael Kelly and David Horowitz both identify the sponsor as a communist front organization. They note that the sponsor and the cast of characters last Saturday were pretty much the same as those of the Black Reparations March a while back. The similarity between the Saturday's rally and the Not in our Name rally last October in Central Park is also evident, the sponsorship the same.
These people are Stalinoids. Stalinoids, yes, the loony Left, no doubt, but what else is left of the Left? (The NYTimes characterized these people as "mainstream." This proves only that Executive Editor Howell Raines--who has never publicly released his SAT scores--has confused main stream with the creek navigable without a paddle.) Is there anything that unites the marchers of the Left except their hatred of the decency and prosperity of America?
This is Michael Kelly's answer.
The left has hardened itself around the core value of a furious, permanent, reactionary opposition to the devil-state America, which stands as the paramount evil of the world and the paramount threat to the world, and whose aims must be thwarted even at the cost of supporting fascists and tyrants.
The word "reactionary" wouldn't be my choice of modifier. It's too general a pejorative and it's antique. Reaction to what? I am content to note that they're Stalinoids, the one-plan-fits-all people, the gulag guys.
We can continue to think about why they march together, what unites them. And we can consider that among the stars of the rally were Cynthia McKinney, dressed to kill, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Representatives John A. Conyers and Charles Rangel and New York City Councilman Charles Baron. That's right, they're all racists. They're all Democrats, the party of Robert A. Byrd, former KKKleagle. There's not a Republican in the Lott.
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