Persecution
In my election post-mortem, I wrote this:
And for that, we get Lawrence O'Donnell advocating "blue" state secession (he might want to take a look at the election results by county; the only states that are majority "blue" lie entirely east of New York, which means lib refugees would have to invade Canada just to have enough elbow room to keep giving "red state" America the finger), Garrison Keillor advocating "a national campaign to pass a constitutional amendment to take the right to vote away from born-again Christians," and Dean Murphy making a not-so-oblique appeal for the assassination of President Bush.
The thing is, ladies and gentlemen, these people are not kidding. This is not just the sourest of grapes. This isn't the ultimate in sore-loserdom. This is what they really believe. It's what they've always believed. They've just never been brought down low enough to where they felt they had nothing to lose by admitting it.
This is what frightened me about a Kerry victory more than even the terrorism issue - that America-hating neototalitarians like O'Donnell and Keillor and Murphy and Dowd and Krugman and Michael Moore and San Francisco Sign Guy would gain power over the country, including "red state" America with "no check in the federal government and no check in the world," possessing "an unfettered playing field."
Today the Washington Times' Tony Blankley wrote this:
"This dominant sentiment of the Democratic Party elite — that scores of millions of Americans are categorically unacceptable as fellow countrymen — is evidence of a cancer in the soul of that party. These Democrats, quite expressly, are asserting that "Christers," people who believe in the teachings of Jesus as described in the inerrant words of the Bible, are un-American, almost sub-human. Some of these Democrats would rather secede than stay in the same country with such people. If they were in the majority with no need to secede, what would they do? Their bigoted and absolutist view of religious people is at least a second cousin to the Nazi view of the Jews." [my emphasis]
If I remember my history correctly, the Nazis never did change their minds about the Jews. Once they got power, they made sure they could never lose it short of the complete destruction of Germany itself. And, of course, they systematically slaughtered six million Jews.
So, is this "secession" talk just sour grapes, lunatic partisan doggerell, or is it a threat? "Let us leave, you Jesus freaks get out, or when we get power again, we'll carry out our own "final solution"?
As Mr. Blankley points out, "[Lawrence O'Donnell] is a brilliant political analyst and a serious Democratic Party player. He was the late Senator Moynihan's top Senate staffer. He comes from one of the great Democratic Party families. I believe it was his uncle who was President Kennedy's White House chief of staff. He is also the most gifted writer/producer on the NBC show, West Wing. He is not one of those no-name nitwits who the cable shows pull from obscurity to recite Democratic Party talking points. I elaborate on his enviable pedigree and qualities of mind and experience, because if he says such a thing to a television audience of 6 million viewers, it must surely reflect some measurable body of senior Democratic Party sentiment. And although it is inconceivable that any senior elected Democratic Party officials would ever repeat or act on such a deranged notion, it is a measure of how deep is the Democratic Party elite's contempt for and estrangement from the American public."
I have to disagree with Tony on this one. I think "any senior elected Democratic party officials" will act on such a deranged notion, if/when they manage to regain power. Any who wouldn't will never be allowed to rise to "senior official" status. And now that such a Pandora's box has opened, can its harrowing contents ever be returned to its confines?
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." - II Timothy 3:1-7
Be careful out there - the "sorrows" have just begun. [Matthew 24:8]
UPDATE: Two great pieces today (Friday, November 12th).
Charles Krauthammer pops the bigoted lib myth of the "Bigoted Christian Redneck," as excuse for electoral defeat, just like its "angry white male" predecessor.
And on NRO, Andrew Stuttaford blasts Garry Wills exposition (entitled, "The Day The Enlightenment Went Out") on that myth with the following money contrast.
Wills: "The secular states of modern Europe do not understand the fundamentalism of the American electorate. It is not what they had experienced from this country in the past. In fact, we now resemble those nations less than we do our putative enemies.
Stuttaford: "After, allegedly (we must, I suppose, use that word) shooting his victim, B started to stab him. In a last attempt to save his life, a desperate [Theo] Van Gogh reportedly pleaded with his attacker: 'We can,' he said, 'still talk about it.' Talk. Dialog. Reason. In response, savagery. The murderer sawed through Van Gogh's neck and spinal column with a butcher knife, almost severing his head.
"And that, Mr. Wills, is how Enlightenment dies."
Powerful stuff, truth.
And for that, we get Lawrence O'Donnell advocating "blue" state secession (he might want to take a look at the election results by county; the only states that are majority "blue" lie entirely east of New York, which means lib refugees would have to invade Canada just to have enough elbow room to keep giving "red state" America the finger), Garrison Keillor advocating "a national campaign to pass a constitutional amendment to take the right to vote away from born-again Christians," and Dean Murphy making a not-so-oblique appeal for the assassination of President Bush.
The thing is, ladies and gentlemen, these people are not kidding. This is not just the sourest of grapes. This isn't the ultimate in sore-loserdom. This is what they really believe. It's what they've always believed. They've just never been brought down low enough to where they felt they had nothing to lose by admitting it.
This is what frightened me about a Kerry victory more than even the terrorism issue - that America-hating neototalitarians like O'Donnell and Keillor and Murphy and Dowd and Krugman and Michael Moore and San Francisco Sign Guy would gain power over the country, including "red state" America with "no check in the federal government and no check in the world," possessing "an unfettered playing field."
Today the Washington Times' Tony Blankley wrote this:
"This dominant sentiment of the Democratic Party elite — that scores of millions of Americans are categorically unacceptable as fellow countrymen — is evidence of a cancer in the soul of that party. These Democrats, quite expressly, are asserting that "Christers," people who believe in the teachings of Jesus as described in the inerrant words of the Bible, are un-American, almost sub-human. Some of these Democrats would rather secede than stay in the same country with such people. If they were in the majority with no need to secede, what would they do? Their bigoted and absolutist view of religious people is at least a second cousin to the Nazi view of the Jews." [my emphasis]
If I remember my history correctly, the Nazis never did change their minds about the Jews. Once they got power, they made sure they could never lose it short of the complete destruction of Germany itself. And, of course, they systematically slaughtered six million Jews.
So, is this "secession" talk just sour grapes, lunatic partisan doggerell, or is it a threat? "Let us leave, you Jesus freaks get out, or when we get power again, we'll carry out our own "final solution"?
As Mr. Blankley points out, "[Lawrence O'Donnell] is a brilliant political analyst and a serious Democratic Party player. He was the late Senator Moynihan's top Senate staffer. He comes from one of the great Democratic Party families. I believe it was his uncle who was President Kennedy's White House chief of staff. He is also the most gifted writer/producer on the NBC show, West Wing. He is not one of those no-name nitwits who the cable shows pull from obscurity to recite Democratic Party talking points. I elaborate on his enviable pedigree and qualities of mind and experience, because if he says such a thing to a television audience of 6 million viewers, it must surely reflect some measurable body of senior Democratic Party sentiment. And although it is inconceivable that any senior elected Democratic Party officials would ever repeat or act on such a deranged notion, it is a measure of how deep is the Democratic Party elite's contempt for and estrangement from the American public."
I have to disagree with Tony on this one. I think "any senior elected Democratic party officials" will act on such a deranged notion, if/when they manage to regain power. Any who wouldn't will never be allowed to rise to "senior official" status. And now that such a Pandora's box has opened, can its harrowing contents ever be returned to its confines?
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." - II Timothy 3:1-7
Be careful out there - the "sorrows" have just begun. [Matthew 24:8]
UPDATE: Two great pieces today (Friday, November 12th).
Charles Krauthammer pops the bigoted lib myth of the "Bigoted Christian Redneck," as excuse for electoral defeat, just like its "angry white male" predecessor.
And on NRO, Andrew Stuttaford blasts Garry Wills exposition (entitled, "The Day The Enlightenment Went Out") on that myth with the following money contrast.
Wills: "The secular states of modern Europe do not understand the fundamentalism of the American electorate. It is not what they had experienced from this country in the past. In fact, we now resemble those nations less than we do our putative enemies.
Stuttaford: "After, allegedly (we must, I suppose, use that word) shooting his victim, B started to stab him. In a last attempt to save his life, a desperate [Theo] Van Gogh reportedly pleaded with his attacker: 'We can,' he said, 'still talk about it.' Talk. Dialog. Reason. In response, savagery. The murderer sawed through Van Gogh's neck and spinal column with a butcher knife, almost severing his head.
"And that, Mr. Wills, is how Enlightenment dies."
Powerful stuff, truth.
posted by JASmius at 8:24 AM
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