Conservatives v. the Liberal Undead
Commentary by Greg Lewis / TheRant.US
November 27, 2005
Over the past decade plus, the conservative point-of-view
has gradually gained greater and greater exposure and credence, along
with a larger and larger audience, through the ascendancy of the unruly
and wonderfully decentralized and unmanageable venues of talk radio and
the internet. During this time, many people, who had for so long cast
about in darkness because the political and spiritual views they held
found no voice in the mainstream media gradually discovered that there
were others lots of others out there who shared their views.
Discovering that you weren't alone in holding your conservative
views must have been something like waking up in the middle of the night
and discovering that you were surrounded by vampires. At the same time,
though, you also realized that help was on the way and the vampires weren't
going to suck everyone's blood, even if it sometimes seemed that way.
For, indeed, if the Left can be characterized in any way
at all, it is as the 'liberal undead,' as a somewhat loosely organized
group of political vampires who share a philosophy that is anti-capitalist,
anti-freedom, anti-religion, anti-the human spirit, pretty much all the
negatives the vampires I'm acquainted with hold dear.
For conservatives, the act of discovering over time the
disturbing truth that the liberal undead had insinuated themselves in
positions of power in our educational system and in the print and broadcast
media through which most Americans received most of their information
about public events and policy was at best unnerving. Indeed, you get
a sense of what Kevin McCarthy's character, Dr. Miles J. Bennell, must
have felt in the 1956 horror film classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
Like McCarthy's Dr. Bennell when he finally realized the horrific implications
of what the body-snatchers were trying to accomplish, conservatives have
steeled their resolve against and have refused to capitulate to those
who would desecrate what America stands for.
The good news is that discovering that there is indeed
an antidote to the infestation of the liberal undead, that the very media
through which we had become aware that 'they' were among us are the agents
of the Left's undoing will ultimately prove to be liberating.
Having awakened from what has been a 40-year bad dream
to discover that the liberal undead had usurped many of America's fundamental
institutions, the American people have mounted their defense, and that
defense has taken the shape of what can be called 'the Heartland Constituency.'
The Heartland Constituency is made up of the majority of Americans who
realize that the political positions presented by the liberal undead (read,
in this case, 'liberal Democrats') are not only counter to their own fundamental
values, they are detrimental to, not to say destructive of, America's
attempts to confront terrorism and eliminate it as a concern for freedom-loving
people around the world.
Make no mistake: Many Americans, liberal, centrist, and
conservative, fail to grasp the immediacy, the importance to the survival
of our and western civilization's future, of confronting the liberal hegemony
over the public dispersement of ideas. These ideas have their roots in
Marxist thought which gained ascendancy in America through the writings
of such 1960s campus icons as Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm. Indeed,
the very method of the Left's assault continues to be based upon an approach
to debate called "Critical Theory of Society," developed in
a Marxist think-tank in Frankfurt, Germany, during the 1920s. Erich Fromm
cut his Marxist teeth as a member of this school.
The approach dictates that one must always criticize,
denigrate, and tear down the ideas of one's adversaries, but one must
never propose constructive alternatives to what one seeks to destroy.
We have only to look at the recent assault by the Democrat triumvirate,
Reid, Kennedy, and Pelosi, on America's rationale for waging war in Iraq
to realize that, not only are those on the Left committed to destructive
activity, they are not above resorting to using blatant falsehoods as
the foundation of their assault.
Marxism is dead, yet it refuses to die. It is kept alive
in this country by the Liberal Undead, political vampires who cling to
a philosophy that carries on the unholy traditions of the communists of
the last century.
It is my contention that conservatives, who support all
of the positive values on which America was built and continues to thrive,
will soon have a second awakening. This awakening will build on the growing
awareness of the past decade that there are indeed political vampires
among us. This one will be the foundation of a renewed commitment to carry
through on the promise of political conservatism as it has been articulated
and accepted so well since Ronald Reagan's Presidency. This one will be
the silver bullet to the heart of the liberal undead and their destructive
agenda.
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