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L.A. Times Op-Ed - Beware the Radical Right's Hate Speech
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 Veins are popping out on my temples, but I'm going to quell the urge to yell "STFU!" at today's paper, and try reason:
The Reverend Frank Pastore opines in today's Times that liberalism is an "evil ideology" and that America is all about "ethnic and religious unity."
Word to the right: You did not win the "mandate" or "political currency" about which Bush keeps braying. You barely won the election, and considering the questions arising about the legitimacy of the e-voting results, it's not clear you even did that ...
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The growing cultural war being fomented by chest-thumping radical conservatives and proselytizing demagogues like you will cause more damage to this beautiful, diverse nation you purport to love than any amount of liberal ideology ever could.
Anybody else read his jingoistic, bigoted tripe? Check the demonizing tone: On Tuesday, this nation rejected liberalism, primarily because liberalism has been taken captive by the left. Since 1968, the left has taken millions captive, and we must help those Democrats who truly want to be free to actually break free of this evil ideology.
In the weeks and months to come, we will hear the voices of well-meaning people beseeching the victor to compromise with the vanquished. This would be a mistake. Conservatives must not compromise with the left. Good people holding false ideas are won over only if we defeat what is false with the truth.
The left must be defeated in the realm of ideas, just as it was on Tuesday at the ballot box. The left hates the ballot box and loves its courtrooms, which is why it hopes to continue to advance its agenda through the courts. This must end.
The left bewitches with its potions and elixirs, served daily in its strongholds of academe, Hollywood and old media. It vomits upon the morals, values and traditions we hold sacred: God, family and country. As we learned Tuesday, it is clear the left holds the majority of Americans, the majority of us, in contempt. This country wasn't built on respect for God or scorn for people who disagree with you. It was built on tolerance and respect for individual rights and beliefs. I respect your belief in God as deeply as I respect any other American's belief in Buddha, Yahweh, Allah, Satan, Eric Clapton, the aliens beyond the sun or Hello Kitty.
I also believe in your inalienable, constitutional right to say whatever damn fool thing you like, though obviously you don't believe in mine. Simply, a majority of Americans have rejected John Kerry and John Edwards and the left because they are wrong. Horseshit.
If indeed a majority voted for Bush, it was for a broad variety of complex reasons that your simplistic little equations can't encompass.
Sure, the core reason was that a simple majority decided they'd rather see Bush run the country. Some thought stem cell research was a bad idea. Others didn't like Kerry's speaking style, which has nothing to do with his policies and plans for repairing the economy and ending the war efficiently, which they never took time to understand.
And a good many God-fearing, open-hearted moderates were simply snowed by Goebbels-style propaganda from the administration and its media tools (the repetition of lies becomes truth) into believing that the right of marriage for any consenting adults was somehow more of a threat to this nation than this nation's disastrous and provocative decision to send our children to invade another country, kill people and die on foreign soil for oil profits.
The nation has now resoundingly rejected the left and its agenda. We do not want to become European. We do not want to become socialist. We do not want to become secular. We are exceptional. We are unique. Again, I'll resist the urge to point out that this is an insular simpleton's view of the liberal position and our position as citizens of the world.
Here, I'll put it in words of one or two syllables: - You do not run the U.S. We all do.
- The U.S. does not run the world.
- The world hates us because we act like we do.
- We all share the world. The world will not stop hating us if you can't get that.
- This nation is less safe thanks to Bush, inside and out.
- He drove a wedge between people who had respect for each other even when they didn't agree.
- It will get worse before it gets better, so long as you hate and condemn and provoke.
Your hateful, misguided campaign to somehow "stamp out" an ideology you disagree with hurts us all, cripples any chance of working together for the common good and will not win you allies.
Cut. It. Out. Now.
(Spotted at LAObserved)
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| Posted by: mack_reed on Friday, November 05, 2004 - 11:17 AM
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