-Caveat Lector- Why We Lost: The Madness Of Liberalism
By: Alan Stang As this commentary goes to press, we are routinely bombing Iraq, American troops are being ferried to bases in the Middle East en masse, and the next phase of the continuing illegal (because it is undeclared) war is about to begin. That means the already inflamed political dialogue will explode, as it did in Vietnam, so it could perhaps be helpful to take another look at what we are up against. "Liberalism" is a modern species of insanity. Like all kinds of madness, it is characterized by a willful refusal to recognize facts. The difference between liberalism and other kinds of insanity is that the liberal is able to function outside the walls of an institution because he refuses to recognize only certain kinds of facts; in other kinds of insanity, the madness is more generalized, so the victim must be confined. For instance, the liberal can recognize that things fall down, not up. Other lunatics cannot and wind up walking upside down (they think). The reason for this difference is that the more generalized versions of insanity happen by themselves for medical reasons; liberalism, on the other hand is deliberately induced. Indeed, one paradoxical symptom that may indicate the presence of liberal insanity is an inability to recognize the presence of liberal insanity. Many times in these commentaries (see the etherzone.com archives on page two), your obedient servant has shown that, for many decades, the "change agents" who run the nation�s government schools have deliberately used them not nearly so much to educate as to turn children into willing tools of der new vorld order, in which the United States and all other countries would be submerged in a totalitarian Socialist world government. As one of my readers, you can profit from my mistakes and save precious time. No doubt the biggest mistake I made for years when talking to such people was to assume that they didn�t understand what I was talking about because they didn�t have the facts. This was easy to believe, because there was a time, long ago in the previous century, when I didn�t have the facts and other people educated me. For instance, I blush now to confess that I used to think Franklin Roosevelt was an American; that the Japanese alone were to blame for Pearl Harbor; that Cuba fell to Castro by itself. Later, after others had educated me, I realized it was my turn to educate. Now, I was the keeper of the flame. Needless to say, it didn�t happen. Despite my best efforts, liberals persisted in disagreement and could not understand. The mistake I was making was my assumption that they were as interested in facts as I was. Time after time, I would come away from such a confrontation thinking that the fault was mine. Maybe I had not presented the facts properly. Maybe the facts I had presented were off point. Or, maybe I had presented them properly and on point, but hadn�t done enough. So, I would do more research and go back again. Needless to say, however much I studied, and however well I set forth the facts, the result would always be the same mocking cackle, the same belligerent ignorance, the worst kind. What I failed to understand at the time was that to the insane liberal mentality, facts are an irrelevant nuisance, not even a nuisance, because they don�t exist. The result of course was that your obedient servant would come away from such conversations intensely frustrated; the other man would feel no ill effects, because he was insane. Once I realized that, once I understood that whatever facts I set forth would make no difference, once I realized where the fault lay, I remember feeling intense relief. Now, I present the facts. As soon as it becomes clear that the man I am talking with has no interest in facts, I move on, or, if I�m momentarily trapped, at least I shut up or talk about J. Lo. There are literally millions of other Americans out there who are wondering what is really going on, and would be overjoyed were someone who knows to tell them. Here are a couple of examples of what I am talking about. One response to my recent commentary about Martin Luther King, Jr., was that your Intrepid Correspondent must be a "racist." No mention was made of the facts I had cited. The facts were irrelevant. I hadn�t said a word about Senator Joe McCarthy, but another reader wrote that he was sure I was one of his fans. Again, nobody challenged my facts. In the world these lunatics inhabit, there are no such things. In my experience, the prognosis for victims of liberal insanity is not hopeful. Because the disorder is constantly reinforced after the victim is handed a "high school diploma" from the mental institution to which he has been bused, reinforced mostly by television and the movies, there is little chance for recovery. Yes, I have seen a couple of remarkable remissions, but, sadly, not many. Your experience may be different. But, surely, in a case such as this, where our very existence is threatened, reality will kick in. Surely, in a kill-or-be-killed situation like the war we are entering, liberals will recover at least sufficiently to save themselves. Not necessarily. Robert Fisk is an English journalist, who was beaten by a mob of refugees in Afghanistan in the early days of the war on the Taliban. Fisk wrote later, "If I were the Afghan refugees, I would have done the same to Robert Fisk. Or any other Westerner I could find." Clearly, Robert Fisk is not a normal human being. If that is really what he thinks, one wonders why he does not put a bullet in his head to save someone else the trouble. We are talking here about a species of insanity that has existed nowhere else in the recorded history I have searched. Many countries have suffered treason by their leaders. Nowhere else have I found leaders who deliberately inculcated self-loathing in their subjects to the point of self-destruction, by means of a comprehensive program including the latest scientific enhancements. Because of that self-loathing, for instance, our borders are no more. Our country is literally being dismantled with the acquiescence of our leaders, in the face of overwhelming opposition from our people. Again, nothing like this has happened in the history of the world. I have entitled these comments, "Why We Lost." So total has been the victory of these conspirators (so far), that the madness we are discussing includes not just the usual charlatans on the left; it also includes people who are allegedly on the right. It includes anyone trained from earliest childhood to endorse blind belief in government, whether that belief looks to government for the solution to every problem from asthma to zits, or whether it demands military intervention around the world. For just one example, there is Sean Hannity. He is inordinately handsome, he is full of characteristically delightful Irish charm, and every time I see him in action I ask myself, "Can this man really be this stupid? Can he really be this ignorant?" Or is his belligerent stupidity nothing but a show-business shtick? Maybe it is. Some years ago, your Intrepid Correspondent guested for a few hours on a radio show in Miami run by a man named Al Rantel. Al was a liberal then. He was also a sodomite, but that fact was undercover at the time (not a pun). Now, Al turns up in Los Angeles and he�s a "conservative," which is so au courant, don�t you know, and now that sodomy is so popular, everyone is allowed to know what he is. There apparently is no government press release, especially about the war, so preposterous that Hannity will not trumpet its veracity and belligerently take on all comers. George Bush, a total factotum of the conspiracy for world government, can apparently tell no lie, however blatant, that Hannity will not applaud. He skillfully conceals his disdain for the facts with a superficial concern for the facts. Needless to say, he is just one of many like him on the "right." Certainly one of the most destructive elements of liberal insanity is its implacable insistence that there is no such thing as evil. "There�s some good in the worst of us." Presumably, this means there�s some good in Osama bin Laden and Saddam. Patrick Henry, maybe my favorite Founding Father, said he wanted to know the truth however bad it was; on the other hand, Bush loves to say Islam is a religion of "peace." Firearms enthusiasts, who know "incoming" when they see it, might call it a religion of "piece," as we shall see in coming weeks. In my opinion, the best thing we can do right now is salvage the remnant. It cannot be said too often that that means taking the children out of government mental institutions and either schooling them at home (the best solution) or in a Christian environment. Salvaging the remnant also means spreading the word. The more people who do bow before facts, the more people who do understand what is happening and who�s whose, the easier it will be to take the country back when the Lord of hosts decides He has had enough and intervenes. ------------------ "Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact." Alan Stang has been a network radio talk show host and was one of Mike Wallace's first writers. He was a senior writer for American Opinion magazine and has lectured around the world for more than 30 years. He is also the author of ten books, including, most recently, Perestroika Sunset, surrounding our Government's deception in the POW/MIA arena. If you would like him to address your group, please email what you have in mind. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone. Alan Stang can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Published in the February 14, 2003 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright � 1997 - 2003 Ether Zone. ----------------- -iNFoWaRZ The "Left" Liberals were written off a long time ago. It's the "Right" Liberals, like Bush, Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz, that present the deception and danger to America's freedom. They have succeeded so far in Bamboozling and Brainwashing a large percentage of those who consider themselves conservative, Christian, and constitutionalists. 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