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‘Civility’: The Denouement
In the run-up to this week’s debt ceiling deal, many on the Left and in the media (but I repeat myself) have engaged in a shrill new form of “new civility,” whereby they equate Americans in the Tea Party movement with terrorists in Al Qaeda. Whether they call them “Teahadists” or just come right out and call them terrorists, Progressives are busily writing a new amendment to Godwin’s Law. And after Vice President Joe Biden joined in the venomous slander, I couldn’t resist sounding off about it.
But this is a much bigger story than America’s second-in-command making defamatory statements about a grassroots movement that 48% of all Americans identify with. Several bloggers have been chronicling the Left’s increasing incivility, but James Taranto posted an article in the Wall Street Journal today that makes the point better than any writer I’ve read yet.
…all of liberaldom is likening the Tea Party to terrorists. But really, that message is entirely consistent with the one in January, and indeed with the message the liberal elite has been propagating since the early days of the Obama administration: that the Tea Party is illegitimate.
“Terrorist,” “racist,” “uncivil,” “insane,” the list goes on–in this context, these words have no real meaning. They are mere epithets. The Obama presidency has reduced the liberal left to an apoplectic rage. His Ivy League credentials, superior attitude, pseudointellectual mien and facile adherence to lefty ideology make him the perfect personification of the liberal elite. Thus far at least, he has been an utter failure both at winning public support and at managing the affairs of the nation.
Obama’s failure is the failure of the liberal elite, and that is why their ressentiment has reached such intensity. Their ideas, such as they are, are being put to a real-world test and found severely wanting. As a result, their authority is collapsing. And if there is one thing they know deep in their bones, it is that they are entitled to that authority. They lash out, desperately and pathetically, because they have nothing to offer but fear and anger.
There is much more, read the whole thing.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
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