Posted on 08/02/2003 8:28:48 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner
Reading Ann Coulter’s "Treason" is a lot of fun. She has to be the ballsiest chick in America. Part of what makes her so cool is that you know she would love that description of her.
Aside from the sheer enjoyment of watching her rhetorically eviscerate liberals, she performs a great public service in rehabilitating Joe McCarthy and exposing the Myth of McCarthyism. "McCarthyism is one of the markers on the left’s Via Dolorossa," she observes. "It is their slavery, their gulag, their potato famine. Otherwise liberals would just be geeks from Manhattan and Hollywood."
So, let’s go beyond all the fun and outrage and cut to the chase. Coulter is fabuloso at explaining what aid and comfort three generations of liberals and Democrats have given to any and every anti-American cause and group on the planet, but she is at a total loss to explain why.
In the final concluding chapter, "Why Do They Hate Us?" you expect an answer to the question, and all she can come up with is: Liberals think they are gods. That’s it. What the hell is that? There is not even an explanation of what she could possibly mean.
Do liberals believe they (actually, no metaphors) reside in a non-physical supernatural realm and have magical powers to create and manipulate laws of nature? That is what it is to be a "god." "Treason" can only offer gobbledygook as an attempt to explain why liberals are the way they are.
Further, America is hardly the only thing liberals are treasonous toward. Calling someone a traitor to their country doesn’t explain why they are a traitor to their race, their culture, their civilization and their species.
Writer Susan Sontag has denounced the white race as "the cancer of human history." She is white herself. A racist hatred of one’s own race – auto-racism – has become a defining characteristic of the white liberal mind. But just exactly what has that got to do with being anti-American?
We thus need a deeper understanding of what motivates liberals that goes far beyond simply hurling epithets of treason and traitor at them.
For such understanding, we need to travel to the Amazon. Among the Yanomamo and other tribes deep in the Amazon rain forests, it is an accepted practice that when a woman gives birth, she tearfully proclaims her child to be ugly.
In a loud, mortified lament that the entire tribe can hear, she asks why the gods have cursed her with such a pathetically repulsive infant. She does this in order to ward off the envious Black Magic of the Evil Eye, the Mal Ojo, that would be directed at her by her fellow tribespeople if they knew how happy she was with her beautiful baby.
Anthropologists observe that for most primitive and traditional cultures, "every individual lives in constant fear of the magical aggression of others ... there is only one explanation for unforeseen events: the envious black magic of another villager."
Envy is the source of tribal and traditional cultures’ belief in Black Magic, the fear of the envious Evil Eye. Reflect for a moment on the extent to which tribespeople in a tribal, "primitive" culture suffuse their lives with superstition, witchcraft, sorcery, voodoo, "black magic," the "evil eye." The world for them is teeming with demons, spirits, ghosts and gods, all of whom are malicious and dangerous – in a word, envious.
What Ann Coulter doesn’t understand is that the liberal mind is an atavism, a regression to a primitive mentality. Liberals believe in Black Magic just as strongly as Yanomamos. What makes a liberal is his or her fear of the Evil Eye of Envy.
An American liberal’s primary motivation is not to betray his country – it is to appease the envious. Liberalism is not a political ideology. It is a psychological strategy to avoid being envied. What causes someone to be a liberal is the fear of being envied. It is the fear of being envied that is the source of "liberal guilt."
This is most easily seen in the children of wealthy parents. Successful businessmen, for example, who have made it on their own normally have a respect for the effort and the economic system that makes success possible. Their children, who have not had to work for it, are easier targets for guilt-mongering by the envious.
So they assume a posture of liberal compassion as an envy-deflection device: "Please don't envy me for my father's money – look at all the liberal causes and government social programs I advocate!" Teddy Kennedy is the archetype of this phenomenon.
This is also why Hollywood is so liberal. The vast amounts of money movie stars make is so grossly disproportionate to the effort it took them to make it that they feel it is unearned. So they apologize for it. The liberal’s strategy is to apologize for his success in order to appease the envious.
The passions of Limousine or Hollywood Liberals are not traitorous. They are frenzies of masochism. The more one fears being envied, the more one is driven to masochistic self-humiliation in attempts at envy-appeasement. Traitors are folks who go over to the other side for the money or some other self-interested reason. Liberals root for the other side precisely because they believe it is against their self-interests.
What, for example, could be more idiotic and masochistic than to oppose missile defense? This opposition cannot be understood unless one dispenses with its rhetoric and rationales and realizes that these folks at their emotional core do not want their country defended. The lunacy of the "global warming" hoax cannot be comprehended other than that its masochistic advocates do not want their civilization to prosper. Culture-destroying illegal immigration policies are defended by those who do not want their culture to survive.
The lethality of Liberal Envy-Appeasement is that personally felt guilt is projected onto the various social or tribal collectives to which the liberal belongs and are a part of his self-identity. Self-loathing is transformed into a loathing for one's society or race.
White liberals become auto-racist, male liberals auto-sexist: racists toward their own race, sexists toward their own sex. Dime-store demagogues like eco-fascist environmentalists, feminazis, PETA animal rights loonies, NAMBLA pederasts, race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton – all get their strength from the liberal’s fear of their Evil Eyes.
As the Amazon tribeswoman who says her baby is ugly, so the white male liberal says his gender, his race, his country, his civilization and even his entire species are ugly.
Fear of envy is very deep-seated in the human psyche. Only a youthful culture full of vigor and confidence can shrug it off, enabling that culture to flourish. The road to cultural ruin lies in the fear of envy reasserting itself from the primordial depths.
Today, America’s elite universities have degenerated into fascist cesspools of envy-appeasement. America’s airlines compromise passenger security by harassing people at random, rather than racially profiling Arab and other Moslem men. The entire fascist phenomenon of political correctness – perhaps best exemplified by the New York Times editorial page – is nothing but a massive exercise in envy-appeasement.
One of the silver linings of Sept. 11 is that it made the American people mad enough to reject envy. They now could not care less if Moslems or the French or whomever are envious of them. That rejection must be applied to the envy-panderers and envy-appeasers within America herself.
Rejecting envy is the key to America’s cultural resurgence and survival. Fear of the Evil Eye is the only thing that gives the Evil Eye any power. Without fear of it, the Evil Eye is impotent. Calling folks traitors solves no problems and provides no solutions. Conservatives instead need to reach out to liberals and help them overcome their fear of envy.
The Christian and American solution is to enable liberals to feel proud, rather than embarrassed, to be themselves, to be American, to be a participant in Western Civilization and to be a human being.
©copyright 2003 Dr. Jack Wheeler and ToThePoint™.
Jack Wheeler is Editor of ToThePoint, a geopolitical intelligence service at www.tothepointnews.com.
His idea of liberalism being sourced in the desire to eliminate envy due to some primative totemism may have some validity. I especially think liberalism is sourced in ignorance, since many get cured of it as they get older and learn how the world works. But I think there are multiple causes and Mr. Wheeler is too simplistic.
There is an old saying that; "If you scratch a socialist, they bleed blue, just like an aristocrat". I think this is closer to the truth. The Left are aristocrats without enough title, lands, social and political power. In the case of Alger Hiss, he had plenty, but he wanted wanted more. Just like Ted Kennedy. For those in the vanguard of socialism; "Too much is not enough".
I think McCarthy's sin against the Left was that he was exposing their greed, and they hated him for it.
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Liberals are insecure about their own morality and compassion. In fact, deep down at their core they disbelieve that they possess these virtues.
This insecurity causes them to commit ever-more-outrageous acts of "conspicuous compassion", in order to demonstrate to others -- and secretly to themselves-- their moral superiority.
But the black hole within the souls of liberals can never be sated. It will eat the world--consume the universe--if not thwarted.
All of this would be sadly amusing were it not for the fact that the left discovered they could force others to pay for their displays of "compassion". Thus was born Forced Compassion (tm). Forced compassion is NOT compassion. It is easy to be "compassionate" when someone else is paying the tab.
Let Teddy Kennedy and Jane Fonda bankrupt themselves, take up the lifestyle of Mother Teresa, and give all they have to the poor. Then they will have the moral stature to lecture the rest of us on the inadequacy of our compassion and charity. Otherwise, every word that drips from their smarmy mouths will be met with the whisper, "Hypocrite" in every ear.
Likewise with the Gun Grabbers. I'd like to see a law enacted nationwide that requires those who try to remove our ability for self-defense go without any firearms themselves. No armed guards for Rosie and Chuckie, no CCW for Feinstein and her ilk. Let them see how it feels to be unarmed and at the mercy of the unwashed masses. I'd call it the Practice What You Preach Act.
I pegged them for sort of phonies, because they did not want to give up one iota ,of what made them what they were. It needs copying down and thinking over quite carefully, even if one eventually decides to reject the premise. I think there is much in it myself.
Now to better things. Last week, the Canadian National Post, recently aquired by Liberal Issy Asper, gave a preview of Ann's book. Bearing in mind pious denials of a possible future influence of Issy, on a partially conservative newspaper, they still toed the line. A blistering header appeared and I give it roughly ie: Attilla the Hon. Also "Hate and Sex sells". Must have pleased Issy.
To my surprise and delight, this Saturday was a full page excerpt from Ann's book titled. Celebrities Find Dictators Irresistable. Ah, thought I, cunning foxes, blister Ann last week, use the word hate in conjuction with her. An old leftist trick. This week, let Ann give it to 'em both barrels, full page. Covered their backsides, but let we Canadians be thankful with what we got.
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