Is anyone who’s been paying attention to the American left for the past several generations – but particularly over the past decade or so – really surprised at the turn of events in Washington? I’m not talking about the various policy proposals on the table; those are the same tired leftist “solutions” to existential human problems we’ve seen forever and have been shown in case after case to be tragically counterproductive.
No, no one who has paid attention to the left these many years can be at all surprised that the usual suspects are again trotting out their socialized medicine plans, their breathless save-the-planet plans, their adolescent tax the successful plans. These are all mother’s milk for the left.
But really, can any student of the left be surprised that it is doing everything it can to stifle discussion aboiut anything and everything and is very close to criminalizing dissent? It was clear even at the time that its attacks on the Bush administration about matters of public dissent were a case of projection, pure and simple.
The fact is, for anyone honest enough to look at the evidence, the Bush administration was almost heroically stoic in the face of often wildly unfair and unfounded political and character attacks. Far from being “brave” for attacking Bush and his policies (for such was the conceit of the pony-tailed, earth-shoed Prius-driving bohemian bourgeoisie), criticizing Bush became a ritual, like something you had to recite to join the fraternity, as rigid and structured and ossified as a Japanese Noh play.
The febrile attacks (circa 2009) on legitimate criticism – or even legitimate questioning of policies for which one seeks clarity – betray the adolescent heart beating deep within the body of leftist ideology.
The teenagers are in control, they know best and the stupid adults are the ones who have caused the mess (as Obama puts it) we’re in today. They just need to shut up and let the kids show that we can all get along.
The danger here – the scary part – is that there is no one more sanctimonious and capable of the most sociopathic rationalization than the self-satisfied teenager with his dudgeon up. I wouldn’t want to predict how far and fast this situation could get out of control.
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Bill, you are so right. These freaks can't tolerate dissent or questioning because their idiotic, totalitarian schemes can't stand up to scrutiny. This is why they have to lie about what they are trying to do. Obama is a tyrant and a Stalinist. Fundamental to Stalinism is lying. Everything these people say to the public at large is a lie. As with Bill Clinton, the truth is what they need it to be at any given moment. Curiously, when they're in the company of their "peeps," they're remarkably candid. Perhaps people are noticing that the Obama crowd's public statements contradict the things they say to their comrades in arms.
By the way, I'm in the middle of one of the best books I've ever read: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. The history, the hypocrisy, the lies--it's all there. This book is loaded. Goldberg has nailed these people, but good. I don't think there are many "must reads"; but this is one.
"But really, can any student of the left be surprised that it is doing everything it can to stifle discussion aboiut anything and everything and is very close to criminalizing dissent? "
Who is being stifled? Are the left trying to repeal the first amendment and I missed it?
Yes, Tom, apparently you did miss it.
And let's not throw the first amendment into this discussion. Surely you don't believe that the first amendment is an actual guarantee of anything? Surely a man of your experience understands that our laws are only as good as those who are charged to enforce them. One doesn't have to repeal anything to empty it of meaning. You do, of course, undertand that?
I won't recite the litany of ways in which the left is proactively trying to stifle free discussion, for I expect you know them full well. After all, even such a scrupulously - even unreasonably -reasonable woman of the center-right as Peggy Noonan is alarmed enough to recognize that initiatives such as flag@whitehouse.gov approach the level of officially sanctioned intimidation.
And I won'ty be baited with disingenuous remarks like "Did I miss something?" Eye-batting, cheek-flushed, hanky waving faux naivete of that sort doesn't work much for me.
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