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Ubiquitous
May 16, 2013, 10:00:50 PM5/16/13
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By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr
This is what happens when radicals take over a once reasonable party.
WASHINGTON — Though it pains me to say it, I have made my final judgment
about the left. They do not like conservatives very much. In fact, they
come to an immediate boil when we enter their admittedly quite limited
range of perception. It all began back in the 1960s when radical thought
gained a footing with American Liberals. Back in those days Liberals
relished America, the mixed economy (as they called capitalism), our
system of government, and they were free of the bees in their bonnets
that eventually drove them to collective suicide: feminism, socialism,
identity politics, and all the little stuff: consumerism, the sky is
falling, something about organic foods. Taken one thing with another it
finally consumed Liberalism, moving me last year to administer the last
rites to the whole gaudy set of bugaboos and to pronounce Liberalism
dead in a sad little book, The Death of Liberalism.
Now Liberalism’s heirs compose the left. From the radicalism of the
1960s the left emerged, grew powerful in the Democratic Party, and
replaced the corpses of Liberalism to become the reigning orthodoxy of
the Democratic Party. As recently as 2006 Machiavels like Rahm Emanuel
tried to reinvigorate the party by running moderates and traditional
Liberals as candidates in congressional races, but his achievement was
completely undone by the Republican sweep of 2010, and by 2012 the left,
led by their leader, the improbable president, Barack Obama, finally
completely took over the Democratic Party. These people are not like the
Liberals, who while condescending to conservatives did not hate us.
These left-wingers really do hate us. That is why in the Congress not
much in the way of compromise can be achieved. Sometime back I dined on
Capitol Hill with a senator who had been around some three decades. He
said it with telling precision, “Up here the two sides almost never
meet.” The left hates us.
I personally discovered this back in the Clinton days. A friend probably
of the moderate left came banging into my gym to announce, “Well, if
Clinton had sex with a young intern you were right. He should be
impeached.” My friend held to this view for about a month whereupon he
came again into the gym and announced, “But we can’t possibly side with
Ken Starr.” In the months ahead the Clintons diabolized Starr so
successfully that the Democrats and their allies in the media came to
disrelish anyone favoring the Boy President’s impeachment. Clinton
survived. Even Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a moderate Liberal if
there ever was one, voted against impeaching good old lovable Bill,
after having said on national television that to lie under oath was
cause for impeachment.
By manipulating moderate Liberals’ passions the left has come to this
happy pass: they dominate the Democratic Party and they hate us. I know
we are very likable people. We do many good works. We are kind to
children and to household pets, but the left hates us. That is the way
it is today. The left rarely has any dealings with conservatives
whatsoever. On a growing list of issues, from guns to affirmative action
to whatever militant gays want, the very mention of our side of the
issue brings the left to a boil. Talk radio brings the left to a boil.
Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin can sally forth into comedic genius. I
laugh. You laugh. Even a moderate laughs. Yet the left-wingers see no
humor at all and they have even tried to limit talk radio’s First
Amendment rights. Such extreme measures would have been unthinkable when
Hubert Humphrey was in his prime, say in 1968.
Yet in 1968 Hubert would never have had to confront talk radio. He would
never have had to confront the Washington Times, the Wall Street
Journal, Fox News, or many of the other organs of conservatism. The
conservative movement back then was but a small percentage of the
population. It was easily dubbed the “extreme wing” of the Republican
Party. Back then we said jokingly that we conservatives could all meet
in a telephone booth. Today there are few telephone booths but you get
the idea. Conservatism accounts for some 42 percent of the vote. No
wonder the Left is angry.
Yet I have watched the left for years. I watched them spread through the
1960s and 1970s. In the 1990s they finally took over the Democratic
Party. They were always irritable. In fact, I wonder what came first,
the irritable disposition or the crazy ideological desiderata. At any
rate here we are in 2013, and boy do they hate us.
--
"Re-electing Obama is like backing The Titanic up and hitting the
iceberg a second time."
This is what happens when radicals take over a once reasonable party.
WASHINGTON — Though it pains me to say it, I have made my final judgment
about the left. They do not like conservatives very much. In fact, they
come to an immediate boil when we enter their admittedly quite limited
range of perception. It all began back in the 1960s when radical thought
gained a footing with American Liberals. Back in those days Liberals
relished America, the mixed economy (as they called capitalism), our
system of government, and they were free of the bees in their bonnets
that eventually drove them to collective suicide: feminism, socialism,
identity politics, and all the little stuff: consumerism, the sky is
falling, something about organic foods. Taken one thing with another it
finally consumed Liberalism, moving me last year to administer the last
rites to the whole gaudy set of bugaboos and to pronounce Liberalism
dead in a sad little book, The Death of Liberalism.
Now Liberalism’s heirs compose the left. From the radicalism of the
1960s the left emerged, grew powerful in the Democratic Party, and
replaced the corpses of Liberalism to become the reigning orthodoxy of
the Democratic Party. As recently as 2006 Machiavels like Rahm Emanuel
tried to reinvigorate the party by running moderates and traditional
Liberals as candidates in congressional races, but his achievement was
completely undone by the Republican sweep of 2010, and by 2012 the left,
led by their leader, the improbable president, Barack Obama, finally
completely took over the Democratic Party. These people are not like the
Liberals, who while condescending to conservatives did not hate us.
These left-wingers really do hate us. That is why in the Congress not
much in the way of compromise can be achieved. Sometime back I dined on
Capitol Hill with a senator who had been around some three decades. He
said it with telling precision, “Up here the two sides almost never
meet.” The left hates us.
I personally discovered this back in the Clinton days. A friend probably
of the moderate left came banging into my gym to announce, “Well, if
Clinton had sex with a young intern you were right. He should be
impeached.” My friend held to this view for about a month whereupon he
came again into the gym and announced, “But we can’t possibly side with
Ken Starr.” In the months ahead the Clintons diabolized Starr so
successfully that the Democrats and their allies in the media came to
disrelish anyone favoring the Boy President’s impeachment. Clinton
survived. Even Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a moderate Liberal if
there ever was one, voted against impeaching good old lovable Bill,
after having said on national television that to lie under oath was
cause for impeachment.
By manipulating moderate Liberals’ passions the left has come to this
happy pass: they dominate the Democratic Party and they hate us. I know
we are very likable people. We do many good works. We are kind to
children and to household pets, but the left hates us. That is the way
it is today. The left rarely has any dealings with conservatives
whatsoever. On a growing list of issues, from guns to affirmative action
to whatever militant gays want, the very mention of our side of the
issue brings the left to a boil. Talk radio brings the left to a boil.
Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin can sally forth into comedic genius. I
laugh. You laugh. Even a moderate laughs. Yet the left-wingers see no
humor at all and they have even tried to limit talk radio’s First
Amendment rights. Such extreme measures would have been unthinkable when
Hubert Humphrey was in his prime, say in 1968.
Yet in 1968 Hubert would never have had to confront talk radio. He would
never have had to confront the Washington Times, the Wall Street
Journal, Fox News, or many of the other organs of conservatism. The
conservative movement back then was but a small percentage of the
population. It was easily dubbed the “extreme wing” of the Republican
Party. Back then we said jokingly that we conservatives could all meet
in a telephone booth. Today there are few telephone booths but you get
the idea. Conservatism accounts for some 42 percent of the vote. No
wonder the Left is angry.
Yet I have watched the left for years. I watched them spread through the
1960s and 1970s. In the 1990s they finally took over the Democratic
Party. They were always irritable. In fact, I wonder what came first,
the irritable disposition or the crazy ideological desiderata. At any
rate here we are in 2013, and boy do they hate us.
--
"Re-electing Obama is like backing The Titanic up and hitting the
iceberg a second time."
Ashton Crusher
May 17, 2013, 3:06:41 AM5/17/13
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On Thu, 16 May 2013 22:00:50 -0400, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net>
wrote:
>By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr
>
>This is what happens when radicals take over a once reasonable party.
>
>WASHINGTON — Though it pains me to say it, I have made my final judgment
>about the left. They do not like conservatives very much.
The rest of this load of tripe snipped.
wrote:
>By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr
>
>This is what happens when radicals take over a once reasonable party.
>
>WASHINGTON — Though it pains me to say it, I have made my final judgment
>about the left. They do not like conservatives very much.
Jorge
May 17, 2013, 11:04:06 AM5/17/13
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In article <anlbp8hcaket6lngh...@4ax.com>,
against freedom of speech?
that's Un-American!
--
Karma ; what a concept!
that's Un-American!
--
Karma ; what a concept!
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