January 22, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
THE NOISY DEATH OF AMERICA, those Pro-Life Students, and Tucker Carlson
Again
Friends,
Is America finished? Is the fragile “experiment in
republicanism” begun in Philadelphia in 1787 finally over, or at the very least
experiencing its pitiable and noisy death throes?
Certainly, since 1865 there has been a pernicious and
seriously destructive trajectory in our history which, now reaching unimagined and
unparalleled frenzy, seems to indicate so.
Are we not living in a geographical entity officially
called the United States of America where verifiably there are (at least): TWO
Americas, TWO realities, TWO conceptions of what is real and what is not real,
TWO ideas of what is moral and what is not, TWO views about Truth and Error,
TWO ideas about using whatever means is available to reach a desired and
posited end (which for one of these
groups is the creation of a brutal, vicious and soulless “utopia” that would
make Joe Stalin’s Communism seem like Disneyland in comparison)?
Words—what I call “devil terms”—now pop up with amazing
regularity and frequency: “racism,” “white privilege,” “sexism,” “toxic
masculinity,” “equality,” “democracy,” and so on. And these terms have been
weaponized and are now employed by the Progressivists and those on the Left—but
also by many elitist movement conservatives (“conservatism inc.”, or the “Big
Con”)—to disauthorize, condemn, and damn anyone who would actually and
effectively oppose the rapid Leftward spiral of what remains of this nation.
Not just the wide-eyed unhinged talking heads on CNN and
MSNBC and on Twitter, but such “respectable” conservative voices as Bill
Kristol, Hew Hewitt, and National Review and
various Republican types, have joined
in with the baying mob. Their hardly-concealed hatred for Donald Trump, for “middle
America,” for that lumpenproletariat
of hard-working, gun-owning, church-going, underpaid folks who still try to
raise a family morally on a shrinking salary, knows no bounds.
Perhaps as many as one half of our citizens, those who over
the decades have become the identifiable elites and financial, political and
cultural “upper crust,” look upon the rest of us as mere rubes, a servile class
who are not supposed to have a voice—this, you see, is now “American democracy.”
Those folks—our folks—were not supposed to get restive, not
supposed to get off the “reservation” assigned to us. But in 2016 we did, we
did because instinctively we knew that the old promises of this nation had
fallen miserably by the wayside, that an unelected managerial class—an elite
more connected globally and more loyal to its own class and more concerned
about conserving its power and authority—guided OUR destiny, and in fact did
not give a damn about us, despite the constant stream of vomited campaign
promises and solemn avowals we hear every election season.
And many of us were stunned at the unleashed and vile hatred
directed at us. All we had done was ask—in the normal way at the voting booth—that
the long-forgotten promises of the Framers be fulfilled. All we had done was
ask that our elected leaders in Congress and in government and those elites, finally
acknowledge our just requests.
But those elites—the media, the entertainment industry, almost
the entirety of academia, and not just the Progressivist Democrat Left, but
also those supposed defenders of our interests, “conservatism inc.”—responded not
only with undisguised and unrestrained anger, but also disdain, contempt and
condescension…and with a steady diet of what, charitably, could be described as
lies, fabrications, assaults on our character, attempts to suppress our
guaranteed rights to speech and expression, shaming, and efforts (many
successful) to destroy our livelihoods or get us fired from our jobs or
dismissed from our schools.
What happened to those Catholic high school students from
Kentucky who had been to the March for Life [on March 18], who wore those MAGA
hats, is only the latest—and perhaps most scandalous and searing example—of this
climate of venomous and unconcealed hatred. And it is not a hatred that emits
from our folks, not from the “deplorables,” but from that “other America” that
feels threatened by the “natives”—threatened by us new slaves on that giant
fly-over plantation between the million dollar mansions surrounded by walls in
Silicon Valley and San Francisco and the paneled million dollar board rooms on
Wall Street where the international globalists gather to plot the future of the
world: a world enmeshed in slogans about “the fruits of democracy” and “equal
rights,” where “racism” and “sexism” will finally be extinguished….but where,
in fact, the very contrary will exist, where democracy will have become a
totalitarian dystopia a thousand times worse than what George Orwell envisioned
in his fantasy novel Nineteen Eighty Four.
Even if these two Americas still use the same language they
are increasingly incapable of communicating with each other, as almost weekly words
and terms are redefined beyond comprehension. The new “devil terms” are fierce
and nearly unstoppable weapons used to destroy and humiliate; they are the
modern version of hydrogen bombs of the Progressivists. They represent what the
brilliant political theorist Paul Gottfried calls a “post-Marxist” period that
has actually moved beyond the assaults of cultural Marxism, an imposed
narrative and what German philosophers might call a “gestalt.”
You cannot dissent from it, you cannot deny it. If it
demands you call black, white; then you must comply, or suffer the
consequences. If your eyes tell you one thing, but the collective media and
elites tells you something else, who are you gonna believe, them or your “lying
eyes”?
Thus, the egregious and unspeakably evil reportage concerning
those Catholic students in Washington this past weekend, the foul, even satanic
attacks upon them. It was just, in the overall scheme of things, a relatively small
incident, yet it became on nearly every news channel, on Twitter, on Facebook,
everywhere, just one more case of…yes, “racism,” “sexism,” “white privilege,” “toxic
masculinity,” and, of course, all leading back to that “biggest racist/sexist
in the White House.”
And it became a major cudgel not just for the
Progressivists but also for the mainline conservative movement types, who are
nothing more than eager foot soldiers doing the bidding of their bedfellows on
the farther Left, and who see such opportunities as a chance to “virtue-signal”
to their Progressivist buddies that “hey, look, we aren’t like those bad uncouth
right wing racists—we actually share your essential premises about America!”
Welcome Ben Shapiro, Jonah Goldberg, National Review, Bill Kristol, and company.
The immediate condemnations of those students came quickly
and in the thousands in social media—death threats, demands to publish names and
addresses, appeals to have them expelled from their school, encouragement to
kill them, and worse…And all based on a first and totally unverified and now
proven fake preliminary view, and the openly false statement of a native
American activist and revolutionary. No matter—it served the template, it
served the created “gestalt,” it projected the vision and the thinking of that
one half of America that I have on previous occasions described as certifiably
living in a counter-reality, lunatics who have turned much of this country into
their own private asylum. And where the rest of us are now seen as the crazies.
Is this not G. K. Chesterton’s definition of lunacy in all its aching misery,
of being truly outside the realm of reality itself?
Back in 2015 ago I published an essay in Communities
Digital News [“Pat Buchanan and the End of America,” at: http://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/election-2016/pat-buchanan-and-the-end-of-old-america-41894/]
in which I suggested, echoing on from writer Patrick Buchanan’s warning from
the 1990s, that America—the American nation—was on the brink of fracturing irredeemably,
broken apart on the then-still-not-clearly-seen rocks of political correctness,
extreme multiculturalism, and the
Hydra-headed monsters from Hell, accusations of racism (AKA, “white supremacy”)
and sexism (AKA, “toxic masculinity”).
At the
time I had a couple of friends whom I would call “regular” or establishment
conservatives who approached me and informed me that I was simply exaggerating,
that Buchanan was the extremist and fear monger. Later, when I began to write
favorably of Donald Trump’s presidential run, and its potentially profound meaning
for American (and international) politics AND culture, some of these same
friends again just shook their collective heads and, with deep concern, wondered
how I could “deviate” from what they termed “conservative orthodoxy.”
I was not
exaggerating; indeed, what I wrote back then was far too timid, far too mild.
In fact,
I have come to the conclusion, fitfully and uncomfortably, and after witnessing
the far, far greater meaning of what occurred with those Catholic pro-life
students, that America in 2019 faces three choices for its future:
(1) Either
there must be some large mass conversion of one side or the other (a “Road to
Damascus” conversion?), probably occasioned by some immense and earth-shaking event,
war, depression, disaster; (2) the secession of large portions of what is
presently geographically the United States, including possibly enclaves within
some states that would basically exit those jurisdictions—this secession could
be peaceable, although increasingly I think it would not be; or lastly, and
worst, (3) the devolution of this country into open and vicious civil and
guerrilla war.
I am not
at all comforted by this vision, but, frankly, given the present state of this
nation, is there any other possibility? After all, despite the pious pinning of
the Neoconservative publicists that America is the world’s “exceptional”
nation, the new Utopia, God did not grant us national eternity, did not
guarantee our future. And our leaders and many of our citizens have done their
damnedest to undo and undermine all those original hopes and promises.
At
present the last scenario looks like the one that is coming, and it will not most
likely be what any of us expect. Our enemies, the Progressivists and their
allies it is true, are growing in number and have demographics on their side.
But we do have one advantage: they believe in gun control. We don’t.
*****
Here
[link below] is a Youtube portion of Tucker Carlson’s program from Monday
night, January 21, about the significance of the assault on those students and
what it means. The first nine minutes are essential viewing, but the entire
first half hour is excellent. Notice that, perhaps for the first time, Carlson
takes direct aim at the establishment
“conservative movement inc.” and in particular names names and blasts away at
Bill Kristol and National Review for
joining in and virtue-signaling with their ideological bedfellows on the
farther Left. Later Mark Steyn also lays
in to NR and the conservative and GOP elites. Utterly despicable and loathsome,
they are…something that I’ve been writing about for years.
There
are, let me add, a couple of ad interruptions, but ignore these as the video
quickly picks up again.
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