You
Better Hope You Fail
Exclusive commentary by Greg Lewis / WashingtonDispatch.com
November 4, 2003
I've got one thing to say to leftists and Islamists in
America who are looking forward to the day they somehow manage to overthrow
the United States government: You damn well better hope you fail!
You damn well better hope there never comes a time when
the United States and the political freedom and the economic opportunity
and the environment of religious tolerance she stands for no longer grace
this planet. Because if that day ever comes, you and your families and
your fellow citizens of this wonderful country will very likely be mercilessly
trampled under the heels of a tyrannical dictatorship the like of which
you cannot conceive, unless you happen to be fortunate enough to read
and give credence to the writings of contemporary conservative commentators.
You on the left, in your ignorance and naiveté
— perhaps you are or have recently been on the receiving end of
the leftist brainwashing that passes for education in America's institutions
of "higher" learning — have no idea of the reality of
living in a totalitarian society. Nor do you seem to be able to comprehend
that the leftist, absolutist politics you so readily and so undiscerningly
espouse are in fact totalitarian politics.
You don't seem to realize, for instance, that Islam —
the religion which you unquestioningly elevate to a position superior
to that of Christianity or Judaism — is, for all practical purposes
and to the detriment of more than a billion of your fellow human beings,
under the pernicious control of small groups of Islamist radicals who
subvert the teachings of the Qu'ran to justify the most heinous and bloodthirsty
practices in the name of establishing a universal Islamist theocracy.
In other words, they're working — with your tacit
approval — to subjugate the world under a legal system based on
Sharia, the brutal and inhuman Islamic code of law which would disenfranchise
all women and all people who are not of the Muslim faith. I'm here to
tell you, radical Islam does not stand for tolerance and religious freedom.
You don't seem to realize, in your blind and unthinking dismissal of truly
democratic institutions and practices, that you're implicitly supporting
people who are among the most intolerant and unenlightened and bloodthirsty
would-be tyrants the world has ever known.
But, of course, your education has most likely included
almost no exposure whatsoever to the western liberal thought of the past
300 years or so, not to mention the early Greek and Judaeo-Christian philosophy
upon which such thought is founded. Nor do you realize — especially
if you're a college student, but also if you're a citizen who gets his
or her "news" primarily from a local newspaper or from a big-three
network newscast — that the "news" to which you are exposed
(or, since there are alternatives out there, to which you passively allow
yourself to be exposed by not exercising your right to choose your news
source) is inordinately and undeniably slanted in favor of a leftist political
agenda, that there's not a chance in a million that you'll ever hear or
read an unbiased report about any political issue of import.
The fact is that Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings
are being "outed," exposed for what they are: aging, out-of-touch
leftists who, because they exist in a kind of corporate ivory tower, surrounded
by sycophants and yes-men (oops, yes-people), have been able to perpetrate
what amounts to nothing less than journalistic fraud on the American viewing
public. To think that more than 20 million Americans each evening actually
tacitly accept (because the simple act of "tuning in" makes
them, as members of the network news audience, complicit in the fraud
perpetrated by the big-three networks) a leftist point-of-view.
Indeed, the fact that tens of millions of Americans actually
buy into the desiccated radical leftist blather of these three "newsmen"
will, within a decade, be looked at with incredulity by social historians.
These historians will no doubt couch their accounts of the history of
the early 21st century through which we're now living in an embarrassed
chuckle: "Unh, well, you see, for some reason a lot of people didn't
catch on to the fact that the world was changing and that Dan and Tom
and Peter were clinging desperately to — I know this is hard to
believe — to an outmoded 'socialist' agenda, and that the so-called
'news' these three delusional celebrities reported actually amounted to
nothing more than selected world events filtered through the screen of
an embarrassingly broad and undiscerning, not to say uncritical, leftist
agenda."
In the unthinkable event that some sort of radical leftist
or Islamist victory over democracy should occur, you would quickly realize
that you were accessories after the fact to the demise of the most truly
humane and inclusive and benevolent system of government ever brought
forth on this planet. The only problem is that by then it would be too
late for you to recant your position, to take back your implicit support
of the forces of tyranny and despotism.
Isn't it clear by now that — despite what the commentary
of Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings every evening between 6:30 and 7:00 EST
would lead you to believe — governments formed on Marxist principles
(on which principles the aforementioned "newsmen" base their
biased and critical reporting of the news) have demonstrated Marxism to
be capable of supporting nothing more than brutal, murderous totalitarian
regimes? The fact is that Marxist and Islamist regimes (Marxists and Islamists
are philosophical bedfellows, their repressive agendas for all practical
purposes identical, with the exception of the Islamists' "religious"
foundations) suppress every positive and worthwhile human impulse, from
the desire to freely worship a Supreme Being, to the desire of all humans
to further their personal interests and those of their families, to the
desire of men and women to realize through their creative impulses and
talents the infinite ways in which human beings can manifest the spark
of the Divine that informs each of us.
It is these fundamental impulses that democratic capitalistic
societies allow (not to say encourage) to flourish, just as it is these
fundamental impulses that societies founded on Marxist and Islamist principles
inevitably suppress. It is only in western democratic societies that humans
are afforded the opportunities to truly explore their humanity, to plumb
the depths and to ascend the heights of human consciousness unfettered.
And so to all of you who, by your support of the ascendancy of leftism
in its many insidious guises, of political and religious absolutists who
would reduce humanity to the level of their limited vision, I repeat my
words: You damn well better hope you fail!
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