Something below from Paul Rahe, which pretty well sums one of the main reasons the country is turning its collective back on the democrats. Despite Obama's and his fluffing media's insistence on the non-issues of Romney's tax returns and on his time at Bain, the momentum has swung and the democrats appear to be headed for a serious and stunning defeat at the poles. That is unless major vote fraud, or some form of 'national emergency' occurs, and don't rule that out.
Politics is generational. Consider the thuggery practiced by the
Democrats recently in Wisconsin. Force, intimidation, and openly
partisan, unprofessional conduct on the part of judges, civil servants,
physicians, and policemen became on the part of left-liberals the order
of the day, and no one on the left stood up to denounce this conduct.
Now, thanks to our President’s admiration for the tactics of Saul
Alinsky, others in other states are imitating the deportment of the
Wisconsin left-liberals – not only heckling Republican candidates but
attempting to storm the platforms on which they speak.
I remember
when left-liberals insisted on civility. I remember when they condemned
the tactics of intimidation championed by the New Left. I remember when
progressives insisted on impartiality on the part of judges, civil
servants, policemen, and those who purported to be reporting the news
(as opposed to espousing opinion). There were always exceptions to the
rule. Dan Rather was playing tricks as early as 1963. But, when caught
and exposed, these exceptions took it on the chin. Today they rarely
even apologize.
I remember when liberals sported on their
automobiles bumper stickers reading, “Hatred is not a Family Value.”
Then, back in 2003, in The New Republic, Jonathan Chait wrote an essay
explaining why it was legitimate to hate George W. Bush, and the dam
burst. Civility is no longer a liberal ideal. And now – as yesterday’s
armed attack on the Family Research Council in Washington, the five-hour
delay in President Obama’s condemnation of the act as he calculated
whether it was in his interest to comment or not, and the mainstream media’s initial reluctance to report on the event,
much less highlight the activist LGBT connections of the shooter
suggest – left liberals are willing to wink at violence. It may be
regrettable, they think, but, like stealing elections, it is all in a
good cause – and before figuring out how to respond to an outbreak of
violence on the part of their allies, they pause to calculate the
political consequences. You will not hear liberals arguing for a
crackdown on the use of force by animal-rights activists, environmental
activists, union thugs, and the Occupy movement. Instead, you will find
in them a desperate hankering to pin on the Tea Party responsibility for
conduct the Tea-Partiers abhor and a willingness to engage in
race-baiting and talk of class warfare on a stunning scale.
The
truth is that it is a short distance from the hatred preached by
Jonathan Chait to assassination, and five and six years ago there was a
great deal of open, public fantasizing along these lines by left
liberals.
Don't forget, as the democrats wish you would, this is what the elections about, not Romney's tax returns. The democrats are trying to put us on the same road as Greece.
