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Most radical position possible is always the one that is the most
Anti-American, the most Anti-European, and Anti-Israeli The Left Drinks
Itself to Death. Again
*By* *Daniel Greenfield* Thursday, December 23, 2010
It wasn’t long after Obama’s victory that liberals began trying on
patriotism like an old ill-fitting coat, admiring themselves in the mirror,
and even denouncing conservatives as unamerican (yes it happened). Caught in
the afterglow of their win, basking in the radiance of their man addressing
the country, beaming down from the carefully arranged set pieces and
choreographed events, guzzling the myth like hopeandchangey brew—they could
almost believe that the great clock of history had wound back to the Kennedy
Administration. Before the Vietnam War or the shot in Memphis that killed
Martin Luther King. That golden moment between FDR and LBJ, only briefly
broken by McCarthyism and Ike, when hating your country hadn’t yet become
the mandatory liberal position. When it was still possible to look up
admiringly at the flag and be a liberal, even if Phil Ochs and the SDS might
mock them for it. When America to them was still the hope of the world, not
the shame of the world.
More than anything else, the rise of Obama offered them that. A return to
loving their country and being loved by it. Of course some things would have
to go. Many things. But there could be a reconciliation of some kind. A new
unity after the ‘nightmare years’ of the Bush Administration when the local
Borders could never keep enough Bushisms books in stock, for reasons that
they were sure had something to do with the Patriot Act, and their European
friends didn’t like them anymore. The new golden moment was here. Obama was
the new JFK. And this time he wouldn’t be shot and no one would have to be
drafted to go to Vietnam. Altamont would end peacefully. Jimmy Hendrix would
never die. Neither would Jim Morrison. All the culture clashes and racial
hatreds would be reconciled. And all the national traumas would be healed
again.
But despite what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thought, there is no
‘Reset Button’ on history. You don’t need one. History naturally repeats
itself because history is nothing more than people following patterns.
Liberals who talk about being traumatized by the America of the sixties and
the seventies, and the death of their dream of the Age of Aquarius, have
never understood that they created their own traumas. And manufactured their
own history. Their ‘traumas’ were created by their own cultural war against
America. A cultural war that did tremendous damage to America as a whole.
But even more damage to them.
Vietnam was the work of two Democratic Senators with no executive
experience, who promised the country that a new age was coming. The JFK
assassination was the act of a misfit turned radical socialist who ate up
all the paranoia being dispensed by the left, and decided to jump the gun on
the revolution. All the overdoses and assassinations were spawned by the
cultural chaos that the counterculture itself had unleashed. An anarchy that
rebounded on itself in murder and suicide. And of course the great legacy of
drug abuse and insanity, by counterculture figures who had made their living
celebrating both, until it killed them.
The moral of the story is that the left destroys itself
The moral of the story is that the left destroys itself. At the beginning of
the 20th century, Moscow was swarming with every breed of socialist,
radical, anarchist and leftist. A generation later they were all dead or
rotting in gulags waiting for Stalin to die. It wasn’t the right that it did
to them. It was the left devouring itself. Ideological factions forming
alliances against each other. Declaring zero tolerance for minor deviations.
Denouncing each other and staging executions. By the time they were done,
there was no more ‘left’ left in the Soviet Union. Only illiterate thugs
mouthing party slogans that they couldn’t understand. Eventually those
thugs, like Khrushchev and Brezhnev, became the leaders of the Soviet Union
and destroyed it from within. And today there are far more leftists to be
found in Germany, than in Russia. Because even the Nazis didn’t wipe out the
left nearly as thoroughly as the Motherland of Socialism did.
The left always destroys itself. Every time it takes power, it unleashes the
seeds of its own destruction
The left always destroys itself. Every time it takes power, it unleashes the
seeds of its own destruction. And the same greater thinkers who can write
entire treatises on the perfect society, and have hair-pulling eye-gouging
fights over the precise definition of working class, can no more run a
country, than they can run a farmhouse. They are moralists by nature,
bureaucrats by inclination and tyrants by inevitability. On paper they
scribble governments of theories, but when they are forced to govern people,
they no sooner encounter a setback than they reach for the whip. People are
naturally governed by consensus. But the left cannot even find consensus
within its own ranks.
Had the left been able to unite, Hitler would have never come to power. And
if it cannot find consensus within its own ranks, how can it possibly govern
by the consensus of a population with diverse views and needs? It can’t. It
tries to force them to comply with its theories and when they don’t, it
declares an economic war against the rich, a cultural war against the
bourgeoisie and the morals of the working class, it denounces its own
parents, burns the flag and announces that if it doesn’t win the next
election, it’s moving to Canada. We’ve gone through this farce many times
before. And it all ends with the country in worse shape than ever and
elderly leftists waxing nostalgic for the radical days of their youth, when
they protested whichever war was happening, smoked illegal substances and
practiced spiritualism.
Not long after Obama had set down his laurel crown, the radical left set off
denouncing him for not getting everything they wanted done right away. They
weren’t listened to at first. They never are. But there’s money in them that
radical hills. The Michael Moores of the country know that if they stick to
their guns, sooner or later mainstream liberals will become embittered and
disappointed, and admit they were right. And now that the elections of 2010
are over and done with. And Obama has to govern with the Republicans, their
hour has come round at last. Now they can condemn every bipartisan
compromise as treason. Embrace Assange. Rant about robot drones bombing poor
innocent terrorists from the sky. Now they can tear down what Soros’
billions built for them.
The great ignorant failure of the left is that it never learns from history
The great ignorant failure of the left is that it never learns from history.
It improves its tactics, but never its worldview. It learns how to get
elected, but not how to govern. When its black and white view of the world
and the country has to be leavened by a touch of gray, it retreats in a huff
and sticks to its principles. Those principles being that they are
completely right. Everyone else is completely wrong. And the rest of the
country is a bunch of FOX News brainwashed doodooheads for not seeing it
their way. Then when the next messiah comes along, the next JFK wannabe
looking gravely at the camera, and with just that right combination of
hopefulness and seriousness, invoking some great dream or another, they’ll
swoon and rush right out to faint at his speeches. But when the smelling
salts of bipartisanship and practical governance are waved under their
noses, they leap up and abandoning their newfound patriotism, begin burning
the flag again.
And so history repeats itself. Again. And again. And each time the left is
certain that this time they will get it right. But how can they get it
right, when they’re the problem? For all their cleverness at theory, they’re
hopelessly stupid about practice. And as good as they are at staging
elections as theater and governing through bureaucracy, they’re terrible at
dealing with people and keeping the books straight. There’s no better
formula for disaster than that.
Now the left has cast off its briefly worn flag, thrown away the pins and
banners, and gone to war against their country again. The embrace of Assange
marks the moral irrelevancy of liberals. Not just their willingness to
suddenly defend a rapist and demean his victims. Anyone who remembers what
actually went on behind the doors of the Clinton White House, knows that
isn’t new. But their sabotage of their own government’s soft power strategy.
Wikileaks is not sabotaging the hard front line of warfighting with its
release of confidential diplomatic cables, but the soft power that liberals
promised would prove to be a more effective and respectable method of
fighting terrorism. Much as Michael Moore or Naomi Wolf may posture, what
they are actually doing is destroying the very approach that liberals sold
as an alternative to the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. This is no
longer Cindy Sheehan crying on cue for the cameras or newscaster gravely
intoning the latest death count, while showing background footage of an
anti-war rally. This is exactly what liberals accused Cheney and Rove of in
the Plame Affair… but on a vast and epic scale. On such a vast scale that if
you imagine Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson as a single fingernail, then the
Wikileaks diplomatic cable release is the entire population of the Houston
metropolitan area.
Wikileaks has helped the right, because the diplomatic cable leak mainly
hurts liberals
Wikileaks has helped the right, because the diplomatic cable leak mainly
hurts liberals. It undermines the diplomatic corps. It sabotages the Obama
Administration’s efforts at building international relations. It makes the
case for a War with Iran. It mainly leaks things that the liberal side of
the foreign policy aisle wanted to keep secret.
Michael Moore can put on his clown suit and pretend that he’s fighting Sarah
Palin on Twitter. But he’s not. He’s fighting the Obama Administration. So
is every liberal Assange supporter. And why? Why sabotage the man they were
on their knees for, in the winter of another year. To answer that question
is to understand why the left destroys itself again and again. Why lemmings
dash off cliffs and socialists murder each other over the placement of a
comma in a policy statement on the role of the peasantry in agrarian
socialism. Ideology is theory, not reality. Theory promotes radicalism,
because the radical position can never be disproven in theory, only in
practice. The easiest way to build a cult of personality within a community
where radicalism equates to integrity is to take the most radical position
possible. And the most radical position possible is always the one that is
the most Anti-American. And the most Anti-European. And Anti-Israeli.
Drunk on theory, the left either seizes enough power to manage tyranny, or
defeated slinks away while its more moderate figures hammer out a slightly
less dysfunctional system whose only virtue is that it will completely
collapse in 20 years, instead of 20 minutes. And the drunken theoreticians
on the left assail them from the sidelines for selling out the movement, the
working class and the revolution. In a democracy, the theoreticians get book
deals. In a tyranny, they get the Gulag. The system collapses either way and
the cycle begins again. At least until the barbarian hordes overrun the
entire civilization. And then the clock gets reset to zero.
The War on Terror is the hamhanded attempt by our civilization to keep the
barbarian hordes back a little. Like most such historical attempts, it’s
incompetent and futile. But the left is busy hammering holes in what few
walls we have managed to put up. Sabotaging even our meager efforts to
extend the life of our civilization by another decade or two. “Let it all
burn,” they cry. “A better world will come in its place.” But this time it
will not be Gulags for them. There is no snow in Arabia. Only dunes. And the
always waiting headman’s axe.
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