When, When, When will the United States Government recognize that a greater degree of national unity is essential in these times of peril and a requisite to win ANY war?

…it’ll be a hard slog.

We’ve had, since the ’60’s certainly, a generation of teachers and academics raised on the “conventional wisdom” that America is a deeply flawed, unjust and racist nation. Suspicion of any and all authority, especially law enforcement officers in the various local to state to federal agencies, have been portrayed in popular culture as goons or corrupt tyrants. The “corrupt cop” on the take is a vaudevillian villain akin to the “Snidely Whiplash” character twirling his mustachios, as is the fat, sweatty Southern sheriff and the government suit on the take.

The military is getting some grudging props from the culturistas, but the media’ll see that this changes. They’ll under-report the heroism of the many and slam home the perfidity of the few, as in the endless squaking about Abu Ghraib and Kerry’s assertions of “terrorizing in the middle of the night”.

The US is being sold to many on campuses and other venues as an ignoble place. There are entire college departments dedicated to honing grievance to a fine edge. I don’t see unity coming from among the educated or the chattering classes.

The majority of folks, however, could be mustered, but spokesmen championing our history, culture, and legacy of justice and sacrifice are thin on the ground, and many are not very clever. Some only speak to fixed, almost hermetically sealed audiences, reinforcing what these folks already know. That keeps the troops fired up, but new troops are needed.

National unity on anything needs a short, sharp shock. Hard as it is to say, I’m sure that the allies of our new Democratic overlords might — if they can overcome their own Keystone Kop-ianisms — provide just such a shock. They obliged on 9/11, and continue their Lilliputian threats. Now, emboldened by the Democratic victory, with oil money from the Saudis and Venezuela, and the Dems holding to keys to national security, they may try something again.

Let’s hope not. We don’t need national unity that badly.

We on the Right need to shake off this “conventional wisdom” of national relativism. To do that, we need to be organized…and leave off the whole “who’s a *real* conservative” blather until the Left is revealed for what it is: a viper in the national bosom.

Within days of 9/11, the bolder among the Leftist relativists began to howl…and we began to hear talk of “religion of peace” and the closing of Leftist ranks. It took ‘em five years to organize, but they did. Time to meet them with *our* numbers and beat them back into their dark little holes.

The Left used to be the fringe in this country, wacky and angry and generally laughed at. I’m for them returning to their rightful place. Their input, beyond comic relief, is unnecessary to a healthy national dialogue.

Puritan1648 on November 11, 2006 at 1:53 PM