Controlling Chaos With Lies

My previous post observed the despicable use, by the Left, to politicize the tragic deaths and wounding of several innocent people by a crazed nut case recently in Tucson, AZ.

George Will makes some interesting and powerful observations about how this development of the Left’s pinning evil acts and people onto Conservatives, Christians, and just plain ol’ ordinary citizens trying to make a living for themselves and their families.

 “The craving is for banishing randomness and the inexplicable from human experience. Time was, the gods were useful. What is thunder? The gods are angry. Polytheism was explanatory. People postulated causations.

 And still do. Hence: The Tucson shooter was (pick your verb) provoked, triggered, unhinged by today's (pick your noun) rhetoric, vitriol, extremism, ‘climate of hate’."

 A characteristic of many contemporary minds is susceptibility to the superstition that all behavior can be traced to some diagnosable frame of mind that is a product of promptings from the social environment. From which flows a political doctrine: Given clever social engineering, society and people can be perfected. This supposedly is the path to progress. It actually is the crux of progressivism. And it is why there is a reflex to blame conservatives first."

Rather than engage in debate and discussion of issues, remember that the primary assault on the TEA Party, whose only agenda is lower taxes and limited government, were labeled over and over and over as racists. Racist because the president is black, and if one disagrees with his policies, then one is a racist.

Will again:

"Three days before Tucson, Howard Dean explained that the Tea Party movement is "the last gasp of the generation that has trouble with diversity." Rising to the challenge of lowering his reputation and the tone of public discourse, Dean smeared Tea Partyers as racists: They oppose Obama's agenda, Obama is African American, ergo . . .

 Let us hope that Dean is the last gasp of the generation of liberals whose default position in any argument is to indict opponents as racists. This McCarthyism of the left - devoid of intellectual content, unsupported by data - is a mental tic, not an idea but a tactic for avoiding engagement with ideas. It expresses limitless contempt for the American people, who have reciprocated by reducing liberalism to its current characteristics of electoral weakness and bad sociology."

 I’m optimistic that this kind of demonization the Left engages in, doing in fact what they claim Conservatives and Traditionalist do, is finally being recognized by ordinary citizens for the lies and hypocrisy it is, and the Left will be pushed back, hopefully for a long enough time for this country to decompress from the lies and hatred that has caused us so much socioeconomic distress.


George Will's full article here.