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Watching
so many serious journalists and leftist political figures fall for the
fake Rush Limbaugh quotes tells us something very frightening about
what leftists believe true about non-leftist America. I say,
“frightening,” because we evaluate the level of threat that others pose
based on our understanding of the amorality of their beliefs. Then we
rationalize the harshness of the methods we are willing to employ
against them based on our threat assessment. We are much more willing
to use draconian methods against people we view as extremely evil than
we are against people we judge less evil. As a nation, we were willing
to employ much more draconian methods to defeat fascism than we
employed to fight anyone else. The same basic principle applies to our
internal conflicts as well. The more extreme and dangerous we view our
political and social opponents as being, the more tolerant we become of
extreme measures to oppose them.
Given this, what does it portend for American non-leftists that a
wide and powerful swath of the American left apparently believes it
quite credible that a major media figure with an audience in the tens
of millions looks back fondly on slavery and approves of political
assassination? What draconian methods could those leftists rationalize
using if they really believe they are fighting people with such values?
As I have written before,
immersion in fantasy is a defining aspect of leftism. As they move
progressively towards the left pole of the political spectrum, the
realities become more and more immersive while becoming more and more
detached from reality. At the far end of the spectrum, the leftists
become delusional to the point they believe they are trapped in a
gotterdammerung struggle of good versus evil that justifies any action
they might take in fighting that struggle. When dangerous fantasies,
once the providence of the 5% most radical left, become accepted as
true in the 40% just to the left of center, the rest of us are in great
danger.
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He concludes that Limbaugh is only the "visible manifestation"of a fearsome mid-wing America that we know as you and me." His judgment that "They are targeting the rest of us as well" begs for a possible course of action.
Does he believe in any realistic, nonviolent, way of regaining
control of our government? How? He stops short, I guess, because
people who do venture into that arena enter into a very black place
indeed. And get their names put on a list. Ahem.
BTW, I do realize that
calling the left out this way will validate their own twisted
misapprehensions. So, there you have it. One faction can no
longer live with the other. Divorce, a very nasty divorce,
is probably in order.
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