Jul
28
Suppressing the Right
Andrew Klavan notes what the left really wants in our political debate – a monologue:
…everywhere, the Left favors fewer voices and less information, and conservatives favor more. Everywhere, the Left seeks to disappear its opposition, whereas the Right is willing to meet them head-on.
Take the e-mails that the Daily Caller obtained from the now-defunct lefty Web service Journolist. Never mind the personal or psychological implications of a radio producer who lovingly imagines Rush Limbaugh’s death or a law professor who doesn’t know that the FCC has no power to deprive Fox News of a license or a reporter who wants to smear Fred Barnes and other right-wing commentators as racist in order to distract the public from the hateful radicalism of Jeremiah Wright, then Obama’s pastor. The point is not these people’s animus or ignorance or wickedness. The point is that what they desired was not victory in open debate but silence—the silence of censorship, intimidation, or the grave…
This stems from the leftist conviction that they are absolutely better than conservatives – morally better and intellectual superior. Where a conservative might, from time to time, grant that a liberal has a good idea and will always and everywhere defend the right of a liberal to express his views (regardless of how hair brained), no liberal will ever do either. It must be kept in mind that the left considers conservatism to be an evil – a wicked, hateful visitation upon the people of the world. Something to be destroyed – you certainly can’t compromise with it! After all, should good compromise with evil?
The liberal conviction of absolute superiority is also invincible. No amount of facts will deter a liberal from holding to the view of his personal excellence – and the excellence of all those wise enough to hold to liberal views. You can prove a particular liberal idea a failure; a particular liberal to be an idiot; a particular conservative idea to be good – it won’t matter. And, in fact, the more you prove such, the angrier liberals will get.
In the end, it boils down to this: its either get them out of power, or eventually find ourselves suppressed in the public square, because they’ll keep going no matter how long it takes.
