Gonna be a long election …
posted at 12:15 pm on June 9, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Just how painful will this election get? We already have a couple of data points. King Banaian at SCSU Scholars noticed a trend at his university. In what will be a series of daily posts, King looks at the indoctrination of St. Cloud State students into the “white privilege” arguments of Jeremiah Wright and Bernadine Dohrn, among others:
The picture above is a bulletin board that appears in the back stairwell (at the first landing) of the classroom and office building in which I work. Its title, “Daily Effects of White Privilege”, describes a set of thirteen sketches — amateur, perhaps done by children but I do not know the artists, they are not signed — that are to describe things that white people take for granted about the lives they lead. Next to each is a sentence describing that privilege.
He wonders what message this sends to prospective students of the university. I’d say it says, “Vote for Obama” pretty plainly. He’ll have more of these pictures every day this week. For those who don’t recall, here’s the video of Bernadine Dohrn expounding on white privilege as well as naming America as a “monster”:
The second data point comes from an exchange between Oliver Willis and Jon Henke, noted at QandO:
Oliver Willis resorts to stereotype in an attempt to frame the right:
Now, I know in the eyes of many on the right this [Trinity United] is just some black church that could be firebombed for all they care…
Jon Henke answers appropriately:
As far as I can see, the only notable person who has spoken positively of domestic bombing is…Bill Ayers, a colleague of Barack Obama.
So here’s the meme from the Left: If you oppose Barack Obama and are concerned about all of the radicals in his public circle, or if you don’t believe in the concept of “white privilege”, then you want to firebomb churches. Criticism will be construed as racism, and no dissent from Obamamania will be tolerated.
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Dangerous. These people love totalitarianism.
T J Green on June 9, 2008 at 12:21 PM
This is going to backfire. If you tell everyone that not voting for a candidate is the same as firebombing churches (and I know this will be the level of rhetoric) then people will just say racism has no meaning anymore. In fact, I’m tempted to say “Guess what–I voted against Obama. Now, where’s my slave, since I clearly want to bring back the South! Might as well deserve it, after all…”
Vanceone on June 9, 2008 at 12:23 PM
The left running this meme early and often is the best backlash fuel conservatives could hope for, the more the left tries to stuff it down America’s throat the less palatable Barack is to the middle of the political spectrum.
Theworldisnotenough on June 9, 2008 at 12:23 PM
This really shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. However, the good news is that (I believe) most Americans are simply tired of being accused of being racist when we are not. That mantra will wear thin really quickly, and The Left will be no better for it.
SouthernGent on June 9, 2008 at 12:25 PM
I guess one of the effects of white privilege is NOT to squelch this sort of racist nonsense on the part of the left.
flenser on June 9, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Seriously though, doesn’t the university have to approve displays like this? I wonder what the university would do if one were to put up a “Daily Effects of Christian Living” display.
highhopes on June 9, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Don’t worry, the Obamessiah will bring us all together!
Tony737 on June 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Oliver Willis….?
I had no idea lunchbox was still blogging.
JohnTant on June 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM
I’m finishing up my second Master’s degree (through Univ. of Buffalo), and I just got a heavy dose of the “White Privilege” agitprop from my prof’s lecture notes.
It consisted of a list of questions, and the response after the list was as follows: “If you can answer yes to most of these questions you have social and institutional power, ‘White Privilege’, which you may not have earned, but never the less possess. Accepting this awareness is critical if you have a commitment to the goals and values of diversity and equity, not only within our profession, but also within our society and nation.”
You can’t escape it now in academia. I can’t wait to see what happens in a few weeks, when I have to take a class in multiculturalism. A cursory look at that syllabus is already very concerning.
Moral of the story: If your career doesn’t require it, consider very carefully if grad school is worth the trouble.
Pope Linus on June 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM
I really believe that if Obama loses, there’s going to be violence.
Farmer_Joe on June 9, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Most white Americans are sick and tired of this crap. Sadly too many minorities have bought into the culture of victimhood and believe whole-heartedly that all whites are racist and all blacks are continuously oppressed. The tortured logic why Obama “doesn’t count” when it comes to blacks making it in America is astounding to watch.
highhopes on June 9, 2008 at 12:30 PM
We should encourage them to continue playing the race card at any and all opportunities. I’m convinced that if they continue to do so, they will witness a repeat of 1972’s Nixon/McGovern blow-out. I can’t think of anything that could possibly do more to piss-off the majority of voters.
My collie says:
Indeed, the backlash will be historic in its proportions.
CyberCipher on June 9, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Isn’t that playing into a stereotype? You may be right that certain individuals and groups use Obama’s loss as a convenient excuse to riot but do you really envision Maxine Waters standing up (again) and screaming about no justice/ no peace? I would hope Americans have grown past that kind of a reaction.
highhopes on June 9, 2008 at 12:33 PM
I still cannot get over that creepy person from the beginning of the clip. You know the one that looks like a refugee from TGIF Fridays. With all those buttons and the vest. What school is this? Clown College?
Institutionalized racism without a doubt.
Kini on June 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM
I do not see this kind of meme working. The American people will see through it much as they saw through Kerry’s endless posturing and condescension.
They will find it offensive.
That is hope and change you can put in your pipe and smoke.
Damn, I just associated Obama with crackheads just there didn’t I? Please excuse that accidental hate crime. It’s hard to frame anything about Obama without being guilty of some thought crime.
Ares on June 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM
I don’t even know why Henke is wasting his time with Filet-O-Fish…
doubleplusundead on June 9, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Intolerance will not be tolerated.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 9, 2008 at 12:38 PM
I might be feeling Tim Robbins’ Chill Wind.
Leopold Stotch on June 9, 2008 at 12:38 PM
It appears and it can also disappear. Clear it and replace with pics of burned out tenements and looted neighborhoods.
New caption: Daily effects of class hatred.
whitetop on June 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM
So essentially if you don’t have the old white guilt you are a racist? Nice!
I grew up in segregated schools and never been in a situation where individuals were treated differently on the basis of race. I’ll be damned if I am going to feel guilty because I’m white! Real diversity will never be occur in society so long as certain races are given special opportunities (affirmative action, minority set-asides, etc.)on the basis of race.
highhopes on June 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Where is McCarthey when you NEED him? Oh well, it will be a long one indeed!
Let the race (baiting) begin…
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2284542,00.html#article_continue
Whether BO is elected or not, his legacy will be that of a man having done more to create and foster racial tensions. His legacy is already one of a scorched earth landscape.
singlemalt_18 on June 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM
I hope Cipher’s collie is right
HawaiiLwyr on June 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM
highhopes,
I am willing to bet there will be rioting.
Take a look at the Obamaworshipers, they are behaving like members of the People’s Temple. The black race warriors have this so spun within the black community that if Obama does not win the next thing “whitey” is going to do to them is reinstate slavery. The radical left will jump right in because they desire the destruction of the US above all else.
Nahanni on June 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Let me add to the chorus: It’s not going to work.
It’s not going to work individually and it’s damn sure not going to work electorally. I hope and pray they keep this up even as I’m sure they will because they just can’t help themselves.
Provided they do, however, Barry’s probably going to get a drubbing of epic proportions.
Y’know, the guy on CNN who was talking about oil prices and drilling and animals may have given everyone cowed by the Left their rallying cry:
Enough is enough!
Typhoon on June 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM
I posted the following on this idiot’s blog…
Oliver,
This seems like an honest mistake, I think that you are reaching pretty hard with you assumtion that people who have a problem with Senator Obama’s associates and policies want to firebomb a church.
Just because we think the pastor is a nutbag does not mean we want to burn the church dowm, comeon.
Isnt Obama supposed to be about trancending race?
The only people who I see bringing up shades of racism are his supporters. I am not saying you are racist, but it is gross opportunism, taking advantage of the guilt many of us who were not even alive at the time still feel.
Respectfully,
The Squid
Squid Shark on June 9, 2008 at 12:47 PM
By white privilege I assume how they mean I had to work hard as balls to get into the County High School for the top 1% of students while a B+ Spanish student was able to get into the city school for top 1% that meet our quota?
Or white privilege how I didn’t get any federal help to go to College.
Our country gives more to minorities then it does to all those “Eeeeevil White People” How much love did these people lack as children that they hate themselves so much?
I think for a week after the election I will take a vacation so that I don’t get the effects of ‘White privilege” when Obama loses and we have another chapter in the Newark riots.
Rbastid on June 9, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Not in my neighbourhood, at least, not for long anyhow.
LimeyGeek on June 9, 2008 at 12:51 PM
The irony? I know black Republicans that are voting for Obama because they think Al Sharpton type blacks will not have any excuses anymore. They do not understand that they will not cast aside their victimhood so easily. An Obama victory for them means the upperhand in forcing more Affirmative Action and more race baiting.
Hopefully the left will give me enough evidence to convince black conservatives that an Obama presidency will be anything but post racial.
Theworldisnotenough on June 9, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Add my voice, too. Americans aren’t about to accept unjust, blanket accusations when our families and day to day lives are packed with natural, uncoerced diversity.
RushBaby on June 9, 2008 at 12:52 PM
You feel guilty? Whatever for?
LimeyGeek on June 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Quite right. An Obama presidency will provide the black victicrats with a formidable crowbar with which to pry open access to channels of power never before tapped. It’ll be a free-for-all black-pandering reparation-fest.
LimeyGeek on June 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM
I want to know where the hell MY white privilege is. Why do I have to get up at 5 am, work from 7 am to 4 pm, and go to school from 6 to 10 pm three nights a week in order to continue to increase my level of income? Why do I have to pay my own tuition? Why do I have to drive a Hyundai instead of a Lexus to afford that tuition? Why did I have to work while I raised my kids in order to keep food on the table? Why did my husband and I have grow up and work out our selfishness issues when our kids were little in order to keep the marriage together to provide 2 healthy parents for role models?
My “white privilege” is all about sacrifice and hard work and ANYBODY can do it. I was born in Harlem in the 60’s, I did not have a silver spoon in my mouth.
I am SICK of being told I am privileged because I am successful. Any advantages I have, I have EARNED from self-discipline, delayed gratification, and doing the right thing even when it hurt to do so. Any liberal who wants to get in my face can STFU.
JustTruth101 on June 9, 2008 at 12:57 PM
not me, but there are plenty of idiots who are voting for Obama out of White Guilt
Squid Shark on June 9, 2008 at 12:59 PM
I don’t suppose there is a cadre of blacks that feel crushing guilt and shame at the fact that it was black slave traders that sold their own kind into white bondage, is there?
LimeyGeek on June 9, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Can we get a close-up picture of those drawings and statements so that we can read them? I’d like to really get my blood boiling.
Aggie85 on June 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Yes, if Obama does not win in this election, there will be PLENTY bitter people.
Even if they don’t resort to rioting and violence, there is NO HOPE of ever getting them in the cooporative mood.
Unless they are to be bought out heavily, no demand is beyond the pale, except they don’t get POTUS.
Sir Napsalot on June 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM
If anyone has seen my white privilege can you please let me know so I don’t have to work so darn hard for everything I have.
saltydogg14 on June 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Amen, brudda
JustTruth101 on June 9, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Certainly this is unlikely given the demographics current penchant for fabricated grievances.
Eliminate the race-whores, and install some sanity, then maybe things will change.
LimeyGeek on June 9, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Bernadine Dohrn and her husband are garbage and should be put out on the street.
moxie_neanderthal on June 9, 2008 at 1:05 PM
I’ve been wondering if all of this nonsense is resulting in support for White supremacy groups by privileged young White people?
This past weekend, I spoke with a few teenage guys that seemed average enough until the subject flipped to the election. A few of them had tattoos showing membership in a White “protection” group. This was in Massachusetts.
Is this going to wake a sleeping “ugly” giant of racial discord from a generation that was not suckled on guilt due to being White? The Obama campaign message seems to be read as anti-American, and being Black equates to that to these young men.
Hening on June 9, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Capitalism
herselfer…uh, himself.Juvenile. This person is joking right? She needs to get a “” on reality because she still beating the 60’s drum like one of those toy monkeys with a symbol. By the way, she sounded barley lucid. I wonder if if all those drugs she took in the 60’s are preventing her from organizing a coherent thought.
Claypigeon on June 9, 2008 at 1:06 PM
I’d contribute to that one: Getting to vote for the best candidate, regardless of race, without being thought of as a sell-out, Uncle Tom, or pariah.
calbear on June 9, 2008 at 1:16 PM
I don’t see violence when Obama loses. For the people who you’d think likely to riot, I think they’ll instead use it as validation of their victimhood complex and start the whole reparations talk again. If they were motivated to riot then they’d be motivated to educate themselves and not swallow the platitudes Bronco Bomber is shoveling out.
Heck, I thought the loony wing of the Ronulan corps would be the rioters, because generally they view themselves as the reincarnation of the Framers and aren’t shy about using violent imagery.
JohnTant on June 9, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Get the hell out of here, the people running this place are nuts kind of message?
Blake on June 9, 2008 at 1:18 PM
lol! When did this get coined?
LimeyGeek on June 9, 2008 at 1:23 PM
I hear that in the Democratic primary, the split among white voters was 55% Hillary, 45% Barack and among black voters it was 92% Barack, 8% Hillary. Tell me again: Who are the racists here? Sounds like another Matthew 7:3 moment to me.
Kafir on June 9, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Criticism will be construed as racism, and no dissent from Obamamania will be tolerated.
Huh. And here I’ve been told, repeatedly mind you, that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Where they wrong?
I R A Darth Aggie on June 9, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Divining ‘racism’ from statistics is fraudulent, and we really should stop pretending otherwise.
LimeyGeek on June 9, 2008 at 1:26 PM
When you have no rational core axioms to set as your foundation, incoherence is a likely state-of-affairs.
LimeyGeek on June 9, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Re: calbear at 1:16
Good lick!
whitetop on June 9, 2008 at 1:28 PM
I don’t suppose there is a cadre of blacks that feel crushing guilt and shame at the fact that it was black slave traders that sold their own kind into white bondage, is there?
No.
They also don’t seem to understand that in parts of Africa today the slave trade is going on hot and heavy.
I R A Darth Aggie on June 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM
In an election where the two choices are Obama and McCain, I’m likely to be bitter no matter who wins.
highhopes on June 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Anybody else notice that all the pictures appear to have been drawn with crayons?
Kafir on June 9, 2008 at 1:30 PM
You mean in the election results, or othewise?
JiangxiDad on June 9, 2008 at 1:30 PM
You know what I’d like to see? A bulletin board showing How My Life Is So Much Better In America than It Would Be If My Ancestors Had Remained in Africa (or Mexico, or Honduras, etc.).
Every day in this country tens of millions of blacks and other minorities take for granted the blessings of this extraordinary country. Instead of constantly bitching about “white privilege,” they should be down on their knees thanking God for the brilliant, courageous, and bold white men (and women) who came to this continent from Europe and put in place here the foundations of what would become the most remarkable and successful nation in the world. Even the poorest minority citizens of this country have wealth and opportunities that are unimagineable to their third-world counterparts, and they have these things mainly due to the hard work, sacrifice, and generosity of generations of those same despised white people that American minorities so love to revile. Those of us whose ancestors built this nation are getting sick and tired of the ingratitude of those who take, and take, and take, from this country, give little or nothing in return, and then bitch and whine about how they’re being “victimized” by this country.
AZCoyote on June 9, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Here is what Captain Firebomb has posted because I dared to call him out (very politely I might add):
A few conservatives are stomping their feet in anger that I would say more than a few on the right would like to see churches like Trinity United firebombed.
I’m sorry, really.
To which I responded:
Squid Shark on June 9, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Gee, the race card is being played from day 1. Go figure.
GarandFan on June 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM
She wonders where the “wealth of America” comes from, well, I know where it is going, it is going to pay you and your husbands salary.
Like most beggars, she begs for money with one hand, and slaps the giver with the other.
The “welfare” state works for the social welfare also. The fact is, if you give someone something without charge, without them working for it, they expect it and abuse the giver because of the guilt.
She was given freedom, and she created “monsters” to fight. She (and other like her) can’t sit down at the table of freedom, and give thanks to those who provide (and provided) that freedom to them.
They are the pigs at the trough of freedom…
right2bright on June 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Does anyone out there in TV Land have a way to track whether Ayers and Dorhn have trust funds?
JAW on June 9, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Ollie? Ain’t he sorta half-black hisself?
mojo on June 9, 2008 at 1:44 PM
I occurs to me that I should respond to questions about who I intend to vote for in the following manner:
Obama, of course. All the liberals say that not supporting the Obamassiah would be racist.
iconoclast on June 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM
…and yet somehow, probably by the grace of Obama, thousands of churches have withstood the constant onslaught of conservative firebombs and escaped completely unscathed.
It’s a…miracle, or something.
James on June 9, 2008 at 1:55 PM
The man is intellectually vacuous if he believes conservatives are the ones who opposed rights for minorities. Has he ever even seen a history text book?
Seems likely enough. You keep telling a group that they’re all racists and don’t deserve the success they’ve earned, soon enough they might actually become racist. The two wrongs don’t make a right, but it is an understandable outcome.
Esthier on June 9, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Pope Linus on June 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM
One of the most important and effective organizations working against this forced brainwashing in our colleges and universities is FIRE – the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. They are doing a remarkable job. I contribute to them regularly and strongly encourage everyone to at least visit their site and subscribe to their Newsletter.
For those with kids in college or soon to be, their searchable Campus Spotlight Freedom Resource will let check on how far down the “forced indoctrination rat hole” your college or university has fallen.
This is truly evil, evil stuff.
Rod on June 9, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Let this crap be yelled often enough and loud enough and the voting majority in this country will show what they think about it when they pull the levers.
You can’t say anything in public, but you can certainly cast a vote in private in response to all the many decks of race cards being tossed around lately.
Of course, you’ll only have a private vote as until the democrats make your voting record public information.
Grafted on June 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Was it ‘white privilege’ which gave Michelle Obama her affirmative-action acceptance into Princeton (and perhaps Harvard as well)?
CrazyFool on June 9, 2008 at 2:04 PM
How long before the confiscations begin?
ronsfi on June 9, 2008 at 2:13 PM
This is the goal of people like Ayers and Dohrn and Obama. This has been the long goal of the Left: to stir up the “proletariat” to “agitate for change”–in this case, black and white against each other. And such people are succeeding.
Funny how those so easily manipulated never think about the fact that freedom turning into slavery and domestic peace turning into fratricide are indeed examples of Change.
That is the kind of change which these people will bring.
baldilocks on June 9, 2008 at 2:15 PM
How do you win an election on the hate whitey platform?
ronsfi on June 9, 2008 at 2:47 PM
We have no candidate besides McCain.
We have no driving unifying movement to push us to succeed.
Wait! Here’s a movement that we can work together on: Highlight the political agenda of Obama and the Dems.
Do your research and share it with every moderate you know, every in-between voter who might get hyped into voting for Obama.
Forget his former pastor, forget his dubious friends; attacking them only makes him stronger. His politics is at odds with most Americans: that’s what needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
Doug on June 9, 2008 at 2:52 PM
When’s the last time a black church was actually bombed in this country? Now ask when was the last time a synagogue was attacked? Wasn’t there a guy just tried for it in Seattle? Now tell me which campaign has a Website full of anti-Jewish hatred? Which campaign has supporters who actually advocate the destruction of the Jewish state?
rockmom on June 9, 2008 at 2:58 PM
If you can run a college on it, and get numbskull whitey parents to pay through the nose for the privilege of sending their spawn there, you can win an election.
JiangxiDad on June 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Exactly, it’s ironic when people start expounding on that “invisible backpack of privilege” that white guys carry around, no-one bothers to mention how hard these people work to get where they are.
That is the truth!
4shoes on June 9, 2008 at 3:18 PM
I feel sick… if that bulletin board were near me it would be kindling…
Kaptain Amerika on June 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM
This kind of propaganda is like the hot water with the frog. If the temperature is raised slowly, the frog never realizes that he’s dying.
njcommuter on June 9, 2008 at 3:44 PM
I saw a brief thing on TV the other day about the “forced busing” of public school children and the riots it sparked in South Boston. It was a noble idea at the time I guess, but what a mess that turned out to be. Now public schools in a lot of areas are more segregated than they were before “forced” integration.
I’m afraid that the Left’s insistence that all who don’t get in line and follow their whole socialist program are an evil racists may end up having similar undesirable long term effects.
Many folks who opposed busing in the 1970s did so because they wanted their children to attend nearby schools with their lifelong friends from the neighborhood. This got branded as racist. Now folks who want lower taxes or a victory in Iraq will get the same treatment.
Will there be a voters’ equivalent of White Flight? Will we all be worse off 30 years from now as a result?
Gilda on June 9, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Getting people to vote against Obama isn’t enough. You have to give them a reason to vote for McCain and all he’s done is present himself as an older crankier version of Obama. Outside Iraq, there is very little difference between the two and this is the important part on issues that matter to the potential pool of Hillary voters.
highhopes on June 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM
When I was in third grade, Prince George’s County was forced to institute busing. Half of my school and half of an inner-city school “swapped” places. The social problems this caused was enough that we ended up as part of the flight out of the school system. Parents whose kids were taking a 45 minute ride on a bus to get to school moved in behind and within a very few years, the system was virtually all black.
highhopes on June 9, 2008 at 3:57 PM
Oliver Willis is just operating from the core leftist assumption that:
1. I am right.
2. Since I am right, no possible rational reason can actually exist to oppose me.
3. Since no rational reason can exist to oppose me, people who oppose me must be Evil.
Therefore, if you argue with Oliver Willis, you must be evil. Since evil is a commodity (just stay with me here), all evil is interchangeable, and all evil things are the fault of people who oppose me.
That’s how he can blame YOU for church burnings if you don’t agree with his “white privilege” generalizations.
It is, in fact, a form of mental illness.
Merovign on June 9, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Is this what the original “integrators” wanted? I don’t think so, but it is what they got.
Gilda on June 9, 2008 at 4:16 PM
I`m busting my ass trying to help my mom pay her bills after my dad died, gas money and my own bills. Boy do I feel priviledged!
ThePrez on June 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM
You know what? I say f$%k it! Go full speed ahead conservative, let `em call us racists. It`s not true and they wouldn`t be friends of ours, so why care?
ThePrez on June 9, 2008 at 4:32 PM
I don’t want to firebomb churches.
Wouldn’t that require some fuel? And its sorta expensive.
Can’t we just toilet paper their trees or something?
Professor Blather on June 9, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Typical White People!
baldilocks on June 9, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Sorry to be a blogsnob, Ed, but Oliver Willis is unqualified to merit my ire. Fat, drunk and stupid is no basis for political discourse.
I refuse even to taunt him a second time.
Jaibones on June 9, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Maybe the Dems should explain what side of Obama’s family his privilege and/or victimhood originated from?
How do you separate the two for a sitting Senator and Harvard graduate?
jerseyman on June 9, 2008 at 9:20 PM
How has any dictator taken power? First, they seek to convert, then they seek to control and destroy when they get enough power (e.g. popular support.) Ever see “Triumph of the Will?” All dictators seek power using emotional messages, all focused around some unifying topic, whether a common enemy (i.e. political opponents seen as the source of all ills, religious ‘infidels,’ any perceived source of unfairness, etc.) or a common desire that sounds promising, yet fails to pass any rational scrutiny (i.e. promising free lunches, neglecting history, etc.) Then after discrediting the current regime, and getting enough popular support and removing tools for dissent from those not yet converted, they strike. If they fail, they start again, in the shadows, building, waiting, watching for the time to be right again.
In the end, they all hate the same things: religion, speech, intellectual inquiry, anything that elevates or promotes the individual. [Paraphrased from In the Face of Evil]
Obama becoming president is only the beginning of this war of ideas, this counterinsurgency within our own country.
Send_Me on June 10, 2008 at 12:07 AM
The left, as usual, does not think very far ahead. The expectations of The Messiah mount. At the end of his first time, “there is much work still to do”. Of course. How will the left spin it when he fails to deliver the miracles? When the race relations end up pretty much where they are today? I like metrics to measure success. Let’s compare number of young black males in jail today, vs. number in jail at the end of his first time.
shaken on June 10, 2008 at 8:43 AM
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