“What
do you call a man who loves his country but is not so enthusiastic
about the government that confiscates half of his income? Who takes care
of his own family but is not sure why, through tax policies and
affirmative action, he is also supposed to take care of the children of
other people he does not know? Who believes in charity but believes it
begins at home and does not extend beyond the borders of the United
States?
Who
wishes peace and prosperity to the people of the Third World but does
not necessarily want to bring them here? Who admires the brave struggle
of the Israeli people but does not see why American money and military
clout have to be used to do to Palestinians what was done to Jews in the
past? Who wishes no ill to anyone else’s religion but wonders why
non-Christians can use a government-funded by mostly Christian taxes to
teach anti-Christianity in schools and eliminate Christian symbols and
prayers from public places”
I
would call such a man, no matter what party he belongs to or principles
he espouses, an instinctive conservative. Leftists, however,
particularly the leftist tentacles of the institutional octopus of hate
that is strangling both civilization and freedom, would call him a bigot
and an antisemite. It is an easy trick of propaganda to portray all
natural affections in the dark colors of prejudice….[but] to change the
value of words is a more ambitious project. There was a time when
prejudice did not mean hatred of other races….
To
speak of a “conservative mind” in America is somewhat misleading. The
average American does have a conservative heart, but his mind has been
so addled by bad teachers, bad books, and bad ideas that he often feels
guilty if he prefers to limit his charity to his neighbors, if he
resents the money squandered on public schools, in he does not share in
the general glee over the massive immigration that is transforming the
country of his fathers into something he cannot recognize. He is easily
intimidated when the left condemns this vague, inchoate mixture of
family loyalty and patriotism as the bigotry of the “extreme right. “
Reduced
to the clichés of politics, conservatives are guilty of hating and
oppressing non-European racial and ethnic groups, persecuting
non-Christians (especially Jews), exploiting an impoverishing the
working classes, destroying the environment, and waging destructive
wars.
Leftists,
by contrast, promote racial and religious tolerance, work selflessly
for the welfare of the working classes, preserve the environment, and,
to cap it all, they always “give peace a chance.” Leftists know this to
be true, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Leftists
like to apply the “fascist” label to conservatives, and, in the
process, the equate fascist with Nazi, a lie they can get away with
because the leftists who control our schools make sure that Americans
grow up stupid, ignorant, and helpless. On the other hand, leftists
scream bloody murder if their own principles are described as Marxist,
socialist, or communist – which they are.
Our
[conservative] fathers and grandfathers told race jokes and belonged to
restricted clubs; [leftists] fathers and grandfathers shilled for
Stalin or the equally bloodthirsty Trotsky. No, we are not perfect, and
yes, conservative societies have, on occasion, betrayed their deepest
principles, and committed terrible crimes. They, since the days of
Robespierre, have committed mass theft and mass murder on principle.
And,
when the lack the power to kill and rob, they make do with corrupting
the young with pornography; destroying marriage with feminism and
homosexualism; undermining our morals with Freudianism and behaviorism;
warping our sense of beauty with free verse, abstract expressionist
painting, and Bauhaus architecture; and, if we dare complain, they cry,
“antisemite,” as if Jackson Pollock or the Bauhaus architects were
Jewish.
Yes,
in addition to their other fine qualities, leftists are chronic liars
about every subject they discuss, from Athenian democracy to second-hand
smoke. Even the term they use to describe themselves, liberal, is a
lie. American liberals are non-revolutionary socialists, and their
allies to the left are unreconstructed Marxists. We ought to forgive
them, I suppose, because they have no choice. When your entire worldview
is based on counterfactual assumptions about human nature – the
equality of the sexes, the immorality of private property and status,
the artificiality of the family, etc. – you cannot help lying about
everything, whether the subject under discussion is women in the
military, the danger of asbestos, the “epidemic” of father-daughter
incest, or the effectiveness of public education.
Why
should any conservative care if he is attacked by the leftists of the $PLC, the ADL or those of the New York Times? These people have lies in
their mouths, blood on their hands for the great genocides of the 20th century, and guilt on their consciences for the seduction of the innocent and the destruction of our civilization.
Our
task, as our late friend Mel Bradford put is, is to remember who we are
and stop our ears against the siren song of the revolutionists, which
have proved to be not the anthems of a new dawn, but a message of hate
and filth that leads to destruction.”
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