Aw: Fey and Palin hug it out after the show

You could argue the toss about Sarah Palin’s lack of experience. You could reasonably make a case that she is strong on energy policy and weak on foreign policy. You could legitimately argue that IYHO she might be underqualified to be VP. In a democracy it is reasonable, essential, to make a judgement that allows you to discriminate between two or more opposing candidates. But you could do that and still concede she has some good qualities. Or at least remain neutral about them.

However, what is truly shocking, truly astounding in its flight from all reason, is the all-consuming, unbridled hatred that has been heaped on Sarah Palin, even before anything much was known about her. A tsunami of vituperation the likes of which I have never seen has been unleashed against someone who even an objective critic might be expected to conclude ‘inexperienced- but I admire her pluck’.

I was brought up a Catholic, fell by the wayside but returned to the fold in my thirties having given the matter much thought. An aspect which encouraged my belief that Catholic Christianity was the truth was the extent to which Catholicism aroused such a degree of hatred that it defied reason. It was hard to turn the pages of a newspaper or to watch a week’s worth of television without encountering an endless stream of blasphemies and ridicule. I would have thought that people who thought that Catholicism (or, more generally, Christianity) was false would simply ignore it and get on with there lives. After all, people are pretty much free to do what they want and it isn’t like the Catholics have a religious police force who go around arresting people for adultery or fornication (compare, and contrast, Islamic countries- none of whom arouse the same degree of hatred amongst the liberal elite that Catholicism does.

It came to the point where the hatred was so obviously at variance with any semblance of reason that it occurred to me it was almost as if the hatred was driven by an external force. And without elaborating further at this point, I became increasingly convinced that Christianity in general, and Catholicism in particular, aroused such hatred because it was true. And that truth was an inconvenient truth as it got in the way of many of the things that people like to do. And the hatred was driven by a conflict between people’s desires and subconscious recognition of that truth.

And so to Sarah. Can you imagine for an instance that if she adopted the standard feminist position with regard to, abortion, that she would have encountered anywhere near the same level of hatred? Sure, people might still not have thought she was well qualified or the best candidate, but would she really have inspired teams of people to root around rubbish bins for dirt on her, wild, ludicrous accusations about her children to receive such wide recognition, ‘entertainers’ lining up to mock, humiliate and , in at least one instance, wish rape upon her, T-shirts to be printed calling her a “C**t”. Can you imagine any of this were it not for the single issue of abortion.

Because, people, and in particular ‘liberals’ and even more in particular actors and filmstars – what they like to do is, without mincing words, fuck. Fucking is what many people like best. And they’ve liked fucking even more since contraception became more widely available. Thing is, sometimes they forget the contraception, sometimes they’re careless, sometimes it just doesn’t work. And then what? Heaven forbid they should have to endure such a terrible consequence of their actions such as a baby. Particularly when the chances are they didn’t much care for the person they were fucking in the first place. And in a world created in man’s image, where God is relegated to the dustbin, consequence-free fucking, frequently, with as many people as possible, is pretty much the highest calling there is. So nothing can be allowed to spoil the party, least of all a baby.

Trouble is, at a subconscious level, we all know that abortion is monstrous, it is an unspeakable evil. Even the pro-abortionists know it. Subconsciously. Hence the inner conflict. Hence the hatred of Sarah Palin.

So that is it. It isn’t her accent (there is nothing wrong with her accent ), it isn’t her hairstyle, it isn’t her experience or lack thereof. It isn’t to do with whether she can name a newspaper or a Supreme Court case except Roe v Wade.

She is hated for saying that abortion is wrong.

That’s it.

schiehallion on October 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM