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The Weird Failure of the Left
By Robin of Berkeley
I'm starting to dread seeing the postal worker. That's when my leftist mate's magazines start showing up. Some days, it feels like Saul Alinsky himself has risen from the dead and invaded my mailbox.
Last month, Jon's Harper's Magazine wailed about the White Supremacy movement. But his March/April Mother Jones takes the paranoid cake.
The cover features the most despised life form on the planet: the white male. He's wearing a hoody and looking menacingly into the camera. The headline thunders: "Age of Treason. This Soldier Is Ready To Take Up Arms Against the Obama Administration. He's Not Alone."
The hit piece is all about the enemy within. But the author's not talking about those domestic terrorists who planned to bomb Jewish centers in New York. Not the infiltration of our military (our military!) by jihadist Muslims. Certainly not the far-left Obama-holic who killed her brother and blew the brains out of her University of Alabama colleagues.
It's something much more hair-raising: the God-fearing, conservative-voting, white male.
Inside Mother Jones, a rather good-looking young white guy is wearing a camouflage outfit and cradling a pistol. He's part of a small group of military and police officers called the Oath Keepers. While the organization numbers only a miniscule 14,000 nationwide, Mother has elevated them to Public Enemy Number One.
From the article: "Glenn Beck loves them. Tea Partiers court them. Congressmen listen to them." The 912 Project and former Rep. Dick Armey are also implicated. In fact, to read the lengthy exposé, you'd think that the multitudes were fleeing to the hills and taking up arms, Waco-style.
The article does everything a good left-wing rag should do: whip up hatred and paranoia. Of course, in vilifying people as dangerous, Mother is the one inciting violence.
Why does the Left engage in such inflammatory behavior? For one, demonizing works. The brainwashed masses buy into it.
In one local example, the Bay Area Patriots, organized by the indomitable Sally Zelikovsky, are being accused of "sedition" by a former AP reporter.
Outraged that the Patriots are holding a meeting at the Mill Valley Community Center, a liberal rants, "We have young kids going there to swim, to go to classes ... I feel our local government has to make a stand against this movement, which I view as seditious."
By tarring and feathering the Right as dangerous nutjobs, the Left tries to drive a wedge into the Tea Party movement. Their hope is that moderates and independents will distance themselves from the unhinged conservatives.
The Left also amasses power by touting themselves as the injured party. Radicals bring billy clubs to polling places, trash Middle America with a vile sexual term, and bite off fingers. Yet Obama and the Left masterfully paint themselves as damsels in distress.
Take California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is running for reelection with only a 50/50 chance of winning. Her campaign ad: "Protect Barbara Boxer from the Tea Baggers." Rather than the fiery radical who disses Condi Rice and humiliates a Brigadier General, this Boxer is a true-blue victim.
Even the Big Guy himself, Bill Clinton, has been enlisted to character-assassinate the tea partiers. (Why he wants to do Obama's dirty work given the Barack/Hillary primary debacle is a mystery to me.) In a month's time, Clinton has gone from helping Haitians to promoting hate.
In our Alice in Wonderland world, crazy people are normal, flag-wavers are traitors, and the Pope hurts Jesus. And in a truly freak-show moment, a liberal commentator cajoles Obama to get even more gansta.
(Am I the only one out there thinking that the Left, with its combustible brew of domestic terrorists and communists, doesn't need to be any more mafiosi?)
Demonizing enemies, cracking down on opponents -- these are methods endemic to third-world despotisms. But the Left embrace these lowdown tactics because they see their cause as sacrosanct. Sitting at the left hand of God (right next to Jesus?), they're allowed to usurp common decency.
The Left also cleanse their collective conscience by projecting aggression outward. They never are the mean ones, the evildoers. Sanitizing their vicious deeds, the Left dump all the badness on the other.
Regardless of the Left's topsy-turvy version of reality, the way to be a decent human being is fairly straightforward. If you act in an honorable, caring way, you're good. If you throw your weight around, abuse your power, and whip up paranoia, you're bad.
There's a story about a man who teaches his grandson the following: that every person has a good and a bad wolf inside him, battling for control. The good wolf is compassionate, moral, and principled. The bad wolf is selfish, violent, and mean.
The little boy asks, "Which wolf wins?"
The wise grandpa answers, "The one that you feed."
With every cry of Nazi or racist, with every gleeful joke about Cheney's or Limbaugh's heart problems, the Left feeds the bad wolf.
Branding dissenters as Enemies of the State, usurping the Constitution, and disrespecting the will of the people, this evil wolf gets bigger and fatter and meaner.
The moral imperative of the Tea Party movement? To forbid this brutal wolf to win.
I want to close with an excerpt from a favorite poem by the Sufi poet Kabir. Though it was written 600 years ago, to me, this poem captures the radical Left:
We sense that there is some sort of spirit
that loves birds and animals and the ants;
Perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you
In your mother's womb.
Is it logical you would be walking around
entirely orphaned now?
The truth is you turned away yourself,
and decided to go into the dark alone.
Now you are tangled up in others,
and have forgotten what you once knew.
And that's why everything you do
has some weird failure in it.
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