Sunday, February 03, 2008
The Cold War, McCarthyism, And Dancing With The Jihad;
The left has successfully installed into the public psyche the word, "McCarthyism"; narrowly defined as a conservative persecution of communists. School textbooks, movies, and popular imagination all remind us of the great risk of public insult spies and traitors faced during the cold war. Indeed, communists faced the oppressive circumstance of ...being called communists (and perhaps, in a few cases, not getting the security clearance they wanted with the state department)!
So, where in our vocabulary is the word which addresses the harassment, enslavement, and slaughter of millions by communists? Today, daring to question leftist orthodoxy or following contrived codes of conduct on college campuses can find one's grade reduced, or find one admonished, insulted, or even expelled. After all, who wants to be seen as a "radical right wing extreme Christian racist fascist" (a threat we all know looms throughout the U.S. -- if one believes Spiegel, Le Monde, Newsweek, and the BBC)?
A half century ago a few intellectual artist-snobs rallied against their own country for the cause of a Soviet totalitarian empire (during the height of the cold war) and we're supposed to weep over their "persecution?"
Give an authoritarian leftist a nation state and the danger to public health and historical sanity multiplies far and above the revenue lost by an aspiring screenwriter in league with our country's enemies. Yet we have no word tailor suited to the specific crimes of aggression that the radical left has imposed upon the pages of history. For now I'll just call it leftist intimidation, violence, and murder...plus hypocrisy and leave the one-word catch phrase -- "McCarthyism" -- to their arsenal of PR jargon.
If you're a citizen of a society with an unprecedented degree of personal liberty, and an authoritarian clique' or nation seeks the annihilation of that liberty...and you actually side with that enemy and crave its success in enslaving your fellow citizens, you're at minimum, a "useful idiot" ...and asshole or, more likely, a traitor to decency.
"McCarthyism!" ...Yeah, right.
