"A
Christmas Story" is such a popular movie that two different cable
networks run it for 24 hours straight around Christmas time.
No
doubt its latest excesses will be outdone by yet more egregious
flourishes in 2017. But there is some hope even in that; cults and
empires are at their most extravagant and unstable in their death
throes.
It surely never occurred to anyone before 2016 to write, let alone
publish, a 1,500-word essay about how it is a subtly racist movie that
exemplifies white privilege and conceals the ways the Northern Indiana
town it was set in was built on oppression.
This silly essay is just a single bullet fired in our long cultural
battle over political correctness. The aggressors are members of a
left-liberal-dominated elite determined to bend public morality
according to their biases and hatreds. They believed until about 9 p.m.
on Election Night that they had successfully established their own
brand of tyrannical relativism.
But there is and never has been national consensus on these matters.
And the result of the election suggests that America has reached a
point at which it is sick to death of being lectured by busybodies
about what ordinary people may think and say in decent society.
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