A little over a week ago, the country bid a fond farewell to former President Ronald Reagan.  There was a week of remembrance for the man, only somewhat dotted with short, biased articles blasting various portions of his administration’s triumphant victory over Communism and his tax cuts, which caused tremendous changes in our nation’s economy and what has been dubbed, incorrectly, the “Clinton boom.”
  

“Compassionate” Liberals in their Natural Environment

As fate would have it, this was the same time that I started reading Washington Times’ White House reporter Bill Sammon’s new book, Misunderestimated, about the second half of George W. Bush’s first four years.  The book begins by detailing an angry and vicious mob protesting President Bush when he visited a Portland, Oregon, hotel for a midterm election fundraiser.  The unruly mob was virulent and openly professed their hatred for the President – not his policies, but the man himself.  These hooligans harassed guests and other patrons of the hotel, not caring whether they were there for the president or not, just simply to show their utter disregard and contempt for anyone even loosely associated with the President’s visit.  The police lost control of the crowd on several occasions, but it was still quietly ignored by the media.  Had this been a group of Republicans marauding through downtown Portland, it would have led the nightly news, but because it was Democrats lambasting an incumbent president the press disliked anyway, they were given a free pass.

Both of these instances demonstrate the utter hypocrisy of the liberal Democratic party these days.  Despite insisting that all people must love and be tolerant of others and urging us to celebrate our differences, when it comes to actually following through on their party’s ideology, they routinely fail – directly contradicting themselves with each drop of hate-filled venom hissed and spat at any conservative, living or not.

They dare blame President Bush for creating the divisive climate, yet a careful review of the facts suggests quite the contrary.  The political discourse of this country has slowly devolved, and each side points fingers at the other.  Each party has some culpability, but the Democrats, led by senators like Tom Daschle and Ted Kennedy, are currently deserving of more blame.  They openly criticize the president for taking divisive stances on various policies, but they themselves refuse to compromise from their own ultra-left, socialist agenda.  When the Bush administration does “compromise,” too often it is through outright capitulation to the left’s demands, as the Medicare prescription drug benefit demonstrates.  In fact, even though Bush gave the liberals almost everything they wanted, the plan still wasn’t socialist enough for their liking and they still blasted him for not doing enough to help senior citizens.

Democrats have developed a tactic that works with remarkable certainty, and with their abettors in the media, they are able to implement their method with horrifying precision.  Their tactics have a parallel elsewhere in the world, as Secretary of Education Rod Paige noted to the nation’s governors in February.  He observed that the National Education Association functioned in many ways like “a terrorist organization.”  The NEA, one of the foundation blocks of the socialist left, promptly attacked Paige and the Bush administration for daring to make such a comparison despite the evidence that it is true.  The tactics used by the NEA, and too many other liberals today, are psychologically similar to those used by al Qaeda and Hezbollah.  Those bona fide terrorist organizations attack their opponent repeatedly through irrational, and typically unjustified, hatred.  They make their enemy terrified of the consequences of failing to give in to their demands, and like the children’s story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…, once these groups have had success, they redouble their efforts to ensure that you will give them everything they demand in the future, too.

Despite their vehement objections to the contrary, modern liberals use such a tactic.  Following in the footsteps of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who would routinely tell lies in order to bolster the public’s confidence in his party’s leadership, the media establishment and socialists like Kennedy and Daschle seek to cause as much damage to Bush as they can manage in order to put their own socialist into power.  As a result of their irrational and unfounded hatred of President Bush, they’ve squashed stories that would show our failures in Iraq are not outnumbered by the successes and they’ve squashed stories of Democratic filibustering and stonewalling of the administration while portraying Bush as a do-nothing president.  They hide the good simply to make the President look bad.  When faced with this venom, the President should have stood strong as he did when confronting al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein, but he didn’t.  He caved and gave them as much as he could on the Medicare package and other liberal policies – thereby showing the terrorists that their tactics worked.

Our country is divided because the liberals and the hate-filled, irrational people on the left refuse to allow us to come together unless we capitulate to their demands en masse.  Too many conservatives have caved into the liberals’ demands, showing them that with enough terrorist-like pressures, we will simply cave as the Spaniards did after the Madrid bombing.

Now that liberals have seen that their hating, scorched-earth tactics work, it will be more painful and take more work to teach them how to compromise and actually come together again.  But, we can only come together if the liberals themselves agree to compromise, something they have not been willing to do to date and something that is impossible to do if they allow their hate to blind them.

---

| Main Page | Column Archive | Who Is Brian Clardy? | Files and Links | Feedback |

All written material on this website not attributed to another author is © 2001-2004 by Brian Clardy.
No part of this website may be reproduced in any way without the explicit consent of Brian Clardy.
All rights reserved.