The collapsing left	

By Bruce Walker
web posted July 29, 2002

The old, three networks who ruled American political culture like
despots for forty years were too frightened a few months ago
when Bernard Goldberg's blockbuster Bias topped the bestseller
list to even mention it on their news programs, although the
putative "competition" between those corporate dinosaurs should
have made ABC or MSNBC leap at the chance to demonstrate
the flaws of their "competitor."

So also should the New York Times or Washington Post have
pounced upon Goldberg's bestseller in print media as evidence
of the weak broth of broadcast news. So also should PBS have
pointed out the natural superiority of public over private media.
Where are the checks and balances within the institutions of the
information industry? Where are the voices of outrage at secret
corporate conspiracies?

Bernard Goldberg is not a conservative, any more than
Christopher Hitchens is a conservative, but the dread of any
criticism of their monolithic, constricted party line is so intense
that even ideologically friendly critics must be ignored. So now
who is at the top of the bestseller lists? Ann Coulter, who - like
most of us - lacks the residual sympathy that Goldberg or
Hitchens had in their complaints.

The gutless oblivion of the establishment Left is proof of how
little real world support these aristocrats sense exist for them
outside the perfumed, stale salons of their tiny community.
Perhaps the braver members of this craven crew have glanced at
a recent Gallup Poll which shows an astounding sixty-one
percent of Americans consider themselves "conservative."
Perhaps some other jellyfish liberals have noted that snipping at
President Bush has had no impact upon his popularity at all.

Conservative smell blood. The big, bad bully of the Left is fat,
lazy, ignorant, and unpopular. The shrill cries of feminists, the
scowling frowns of professional minority leaders, the quirky
opinions of oddball academics - all these offend Americans these
days.

Plain spoken words are seen as smart and wise, and Newspeak
phrases like "morally different" and "ethically challenged" and
"multi-cultural" are understood by Americans to be cowardly talk
so much a contrast to the courage of soldiers, sailors, airmen,
firemen, policemen, nurses, and other heroes of the last five
months.

Americans no longer feel guilty for being affluent, healthy, safe,
stable, and content. We know longer care what silly excuse or
ridiculous accusation is served up by our own countrymen to
defend evil people who do commit unspeakable crimes. The
very real danger of a thermonuclear device incinerating a million
of our countrymen somehow trumps the perceived hubris of a
nation which is powerful because of its goodness.

As we rally around the flag, the President, the principles of our
nation, we must wander away from those who have always
consider America some source of secret evil in the world (but
who have shown no interest in living anywhere else). In this
migration, people we once considered liberals - like Rudy
Giuliani - have become simply Americans.

Is the Left, though, really collapsing? Oh, yes! Think back just a
and a half-year ago, when our President was holding onto his
office by the grace of a single Supreme Court Justice. Think
back when Fox News was redlined out of much of America.
Think back to the knowing nods of Al Gore. Think back to
when Jesse Jackson was preaching to corporate America, and
watching executives quiver. How things have changed since then!

How fast will the Left evaporate into nothing, leaving only the
rest of us - with our naturally differing opinions and interests to
keep a lively dialog - to keep America bustling? It may be quite
rapidly indeed. Like the Mafia, the Left relies upon fear. Like the
Kremlin under the commissars, it relies upon convincing each
person with an independent mind that he is all alone.

One day the Berlin Wall was standing in all its hideous splendor,
and the next day the German people tore it down. One month
the last thugs of the Kremlin were rallying the nomenclatura and
the "organs of state security" to crush the shoots of freedom, and
the next month they were gone. The edifice of the Left is rotten
to its core, bound only by fear, greed, perversion and nihilism.

Our culture has already reached the point of no return: the Left is
discredited and it will collapse utterly. When? Perhaps
December 2002, if Republicans gain the Senate and hold the
House. Perhaps January 2003, if Castro dies and the full horrors
of what the Left has been defending in Cuba becomes terribly
clear. The end will come suddenly. The end will come inevitably.
And the end, in all likelihood, will come much sooner than any of
us hope.

Bruce Walker is a senior writer with Enter Stage Right. He is
also a contributor to Citizens View, The Common Conservative,
Conservative Truth and Port of Call.

Enter Stage Right - http://www.enterstageright.com