“Happy warrior” indeed
Interesting and encouraging theory from Andrew Klavan, via martinra:
Look, the American media are in a bad way, a disastrous way. Movies, TV, literature–instead of illuminating vehicles for art and entertainment, they’ve become like the Matrix, replacing reality with a plausible leftist imitation. Journalists especially have so shamed themselves in their coverage of the last election–hounding Sarah Palin’s daughter and Joe the Plumber while all but ignoring Barack Obama’s ties to Illinois corruption, and his long and deep association with the racist anti-American Jeremiah Wright–that it’s going to take them years to recover. When people shame themselves that badly, they don’t admit it in a hurry. They savage their critics instead and continue their own shameful practices as a kind of defiant denial–anything rather than look in the mirror and confront what they’ve turned themselves into.
So yeah, we’re on our own for now. But we’re not unarmed and we’re in no way defeated. We have great politicians like Sarah Palin–who could well be president in not eight years but four–honest newsmen like Bret Baer and genius commentators like Rush–and Ann Coulter, who’s only about ten times smarter, funnier and more talented as a satirist than Jon Stewart or Bill Maher will ever be. The left can’t out-argue these mind-warriors so they try to ridicule, disdain and isolate them, to make us feel ashamed that we admire and respect them. And they tell us they’re finished, washed-up. Why, just look, it must be true: it’s right there in the newspapers and on TV.
They’re lying. The left has to lie for the simple reason that they’re wrong and we’re right, their policies don’t work and ours do. Look at the cities that liberal politicians and programs have devoured like locusts. Look at the liberal states that can’t rein in their spending even as they go broke. Look at how environmentalists have made us energy-slaves to monsters overseas. And look at how leftist, anti-patriotic and anti-religious policies in Europe have turned a once-great culture into a corpse that is being consumed by Islamo-fascist bacteria as we watch.
As pessimistic as I usually am myself, I nonetheless think Klavan’s onto something. Read all of it — and stop weeping. I’m all for Obama and the Commiecrats’ giving it to the people who cheerfully allowed themselves to be duped by them, as I keep saying, good and hard. But mostly because it seems to be the only way they’re ever going to learn the truth. No, the inevitable catastrophic failure of their Great Socialist Experiment — which has never worked, never will, and in fact cannot — won’t be enough to shut the hardcore Left up once and for all. Nothing ever will; they’re far too obstinate in ignorance to expect it. But the attendant hardship and loss of liberty (a feature, not a bug) just might wake some of the less committed from their deep slumber. We have to hope so anyway, for freedom’s sake — and our own.
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An interesting theory there. But I predict that *no* degree of economic hardship or loss of liberty would be enough to make Leftists reconsider their ideology. Reason is that no matter how awful things go, the hard Left will fall back on the two old standbys that enable them to dodge accountability every time: First, their program would have worked had it been fully enacted. But sadly, some compromise (no matter how trivial) was made with conservatives in a noble effort at bipartisanship, and this compromise ruined the Great Plan.
Second Leftist rationalization: The Great Plan would have worked had it been tried when they first recommended it. But sadly, the extremists in the GOP (the only people to whom the MSM applies that term) refused to compromise and let the Dems pass the program they wanted, so once again, failure was ensured.
If this country had an objective, balanced press, the Left couldn't get away with that, but sadly....