Posted on 01/25/2003 9:05:01 AM PST by Apolitical
After the resounding and mostly unpredicted Republican victory in the November midterm elections, Democrats, liberals and the left scurried to find excuses for their debacle. From "the message didn't get out" to the influence of "right-wing talk radio," the left trumpeted every excuse but the obvious -- that voters preferred the Republican Party.
The intellectual elite of the left needed a scapegoat for the wounding of their ideology by the American electorate and simply lacked the self-esteem to look inward. So instead they decided that the electorate is not smart enough to understand the left's message. And with the Democratic Party supposedly being the political party and ideology for the "average American," that is quite an assumption. You have to believe your base simply doesn't understand what is best for them, and they need to be led by the nose to the Promised Land in spite of themselves, to come to such a conclusion.
However, you also need to couch your disdain for your followers in terms that do not offend. In a word, you fib.
Fabricating is nothing new to the left; it is in fact the basis for their popularity and their ability to maintain their electoral base. Whether it is fabricating about "tax cuts only for the rich," or the Bush administration's "intention to bomb Iraqi civilians," the left fabricates as a matter of strategy. And in the past, before cable news and the World Wide Web, the left had free rein. After sound bites observing that the "Republicans are for the rich," or "Missile Defense is a waste of money," there were no rebuttals -- just a move onto the next topic.
Just a few months ago, before the revelations of North Korea's flaunting of the 1994 Clinton-Carter diplomatic agreement with Kim Il Sung regarding North Korea's promise not to build nuclear weapons, the left decried missile defense as a waste of taxpayer's dollars in the 21st century. "Missile defense would not stop terrorists on suicide missions," they argued. They believed missile attacks by rogue nations "unthinkable," or too big a diversion from their agenda to be mentioned.
Now, with North Korea's No Dong 3's pointed at America's west coast, you would think the left would champion missile defense; but no, they go back to the earlier mantra of "untried technology," to continue the fight against missile defense (in spite of the latest tests by the Air Force that indicate anti-missile defense works.) Again, they just lie, whether by using half-truths or flagrant twisting of the truth.
Overall, the left seeks a unified planet -- no super power, no rogue nations, and no national borders. Everyone living in harmony and dancing with unicorns.
On the surface, it's a noble cause. Unfortunately, there are no unicorns. The left, never straying far from its own thoughts and visions, has never been able to accept evil as a reality, or the possibility that the cavalry cannot always save them, even though they have had the horses sent out to pasture and the Winchester?s replaced with pepper spray.
The world as one nation is an attractive thought to virtually everyone, but everyone has a different idea of who would be in charge, and what kind of world it would be.
Moving on to yet another leftist daydream, the left treats our immigration policy the same way they approach most of their indefensible stands. They make things up as they go along. When confronted with the reality that illegals are not assets but rather burdens -- and that a large percentage of the prisoners in our border states are made up of illegal and legal immigrants who have committed felonies, and that any taxes paid by illegal immigrants are far overshadowed by the damage done to our economy by entitlement programs provided to immigrants by taxpayers -- the left remains undaunted. And though not actually retreating, they often change their argument in midstream.
For example, "progressive thinkers" preach that cultural diversity is deemed a blessing on any society that strives in its direction. However, they do insist that diversity by its very definition disallows nationalism. And as a result, the same folks who espouse the benefits and beauty of diversity shun the idea of Americanism. Being American is not a cultural identity that should be preserved; rather it is an identity that must be diffused in a hodgepodge of diverse ethno-cultural ideals, thereby lessening its importance. By doing so, America becomes part of a global family. No one can hate us or attack us; we are they.
It?s so beautiful. Everyone who comes here, and all are welcome, can maintain their traditions and loyalties to their motherland, or people, or cause, and can call themselves American. When America finds itself at odds with other nations, diverse voices within our own country can disapprovingly protest our "hegemony," and these diverse anti-American "American" protestors can be called patriots.
America's standing in the world as the only superpower can be reduced to just another cog in a wheel; and it?s considered a good thing -- not necessarily for Americans, but everyone else in the world, especially the Third World.
Again, the left has a few too many presumptions to allow reality to get in their way. The obvious flaws of the left?s love affair with the idea of diversity make that notion plainly detrimental for all. In a world where evil -- or as the left would prefer to label it, foreign leaders and nations whose agenda we don?t like -- exists, maintaining a strong defense is necessary. And so long as the defense of one?s country is dependent upon the populous for that defense, the populous must be of like mind -- at least to the point of believing what they possess materially or ethereally is something worth defending. However, to do that, the population must believe, at least partly, that their nation is responsible for their bounty and that its continued existence is worth pursuing and defending.
Certainly, when rewriting American history, the overriding theme that the left chooses to leave out is that America became great because the people who lived here, and the immigrants who came here, struggled to make it great. And the triumphant journey to realizing America's greatness in the world was due to our oneness as Americans. The vast majority of those that came here from distant lands in the past, and whose contributions helped America become the world's sole superpower -- with freedom and prosperity unmatched by any other nation -- did so without the shackles of their former homelands. Each was taught that being an American was special, and being an American overrode identification with one's prior national or ethno-cultural origins.
The freedoms of Religion, Speech, Assembly, and all the other freedoms bestowed on us by the Bill of Rights, were never meant to interfere with our sense of uniqueness as Americans. Just the opposite, they were meant to convey the unique ideals that make us American........
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One of the main reasons I left the Democratic party was due to their constant lying and smearing of then President Reagan.
Let's hope that with the rise of conservative talk radio, FOX News etc., people will become more informed, realize that the left is lying to them..and more people will stop supporting them.
Language lesson of the day:
Flaunting: To exhibit ostentatiously or shamelessly: flaunts his knowledge.
Flouting: To show contempt for; scorn: flout a law; behavior that flouted convention.
Besides, maybe I'm in a bad mood this morning, but although I agree with this writer, this whole column today is pretty turgid and unreadable.
Actually, over a period of 62 years (1932-1994), the Dems held the House of Representatives for sixty of them. The only exclusion was 1952-54, whereupon your forty year cycle began.
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