Right?...Left?... Right.
April 26, 2005
By Douglas B. Wakeman
Where did this notion come from that there is a Left and a Right on opposite sides of an ideal center? This is a false dichotomy invented by the Left to make it appear that their more moderate brethren are closer to goodness than their opponents, who are farther from the “center”. And, oh how successful they have been!
I constantly hear people like Bill O’Reilly, in their guise of being “Fair and Balanced”, say to a guest, when discussing the latest outrage or hypocrisy from the Left, “Don’t get me wrong, the right does the same thing!” Or, “The radicals on The Right are just as bad.”
A show like “Hannity and Colmes” takes pains to have a representative of the Left and one of the Right in every discussion and call it, too, “Fair and Balanced."
Let’s get this straight! There is no ideal “center” in this battle. The Left is wrong. The Left labors in the service of evil. The most moderate Leftist is still wrong. The least Leftist is still radical. The far Leftist is a monstrous freak. The scale doesn’t begin in the center radiating outward. It starts on the Right, which is the ideal, and moves leftward where it gets ever worse. A liberal is starting down the road to perdition. A Leftist is an enemy of all that is good.
The farther Right you are the more right you are. There is no radical Right. The extreme end-of-the-scale Right-winger is a normal American. 40 years ago, the person who is called a right-winger today was everybody except the seditious fifth-column Communists. JFK would be considered a right-winger by today’s wacko, Leftist standards. A “moderate” Right-winger is not reasonable. He is beginning to compromise with evil.
The Left seeks to remake this nation into a Socialist shithole on the European model. They have no use for a rule of law, representative government, individual liberty, individual responsibility, equal opportunity, property rights, limited government or free markets. They want to destroy every vestige of this nation’s founding principles. That’s radical.
The Right just seeks to keep our constitutional republic as the founders created it. The farther right, the more adamant they are in holding the line. That’s radical!?
How does the ridiculous notion of marriage between two men become no less radical than the position of those who wish to maintain marriage as it is? How does The Defense of Marriage Act become radical rightwing?
How does the elimination of the borders of this nation become no less radical an idea than the idea of having borders? How does the idea of upholding the immigration laws enacted by our elected representatives become radical rightwing?
How does appointing a taxpayer-supported lawyer for every, single prisoner of war become no less radical an idea than the notion that enemy combatants do not enjoy American constitutional rights? How does recognizing the absurdity of mirandizing enemies on the battlefield make you a radical rightwinger?
How is the finding of a right to abortion in the “penumbras and emanations” of the Constitution no less radical an idea than leaving the issue up to the elected legislatures of the independent states? How is the belief that, if it’s not in the Constitution, it is up to the people, a radical rightwing idea?
How is the proposition that contracts, college admissions and job promotions be awarded on the basis of skin color, sex, sexual predilection etc, no less radical than the notion that all applicants be treated the same? When did equality before the law become radical rightwing?
How are hate crime laws considered no less radical than the idea of all criminals being prosecuted equally? When did it become radical rightwing to eschew the idea of judges and juries apportioning punishment based on the race or whatever of the victim?
If cancer had the devious mindset of the Left, it would label perfect health as radical, extremist and out of the mainstream. It would establish a moral relativism between rotting with tumors and shining with health. There would be an ideal state in between where you had “just a little” cancer and “just a little” health. And, of course, that ideal middle would be constantly shifted toward a few more diseased cells.
If cancer could think, any attempt to roll back a tumor or two would be met with howls of outrage.
If cancer could think, it would get control of the schools and the media.
If cancer could think, it would replace elected legislatures, that reflect the will of the people, who treasure health, with unelected, unaccountable judges.
After achieving all of the above, if cancer could think, it would replace independent doctors with a government plan.
When Fox news allows Leftist scum and filth like Ellis Hennican and moronic, useful idiots like Juan Williams to enter the debate as “balance” I have to wonder; do they put a little arsenic in their kids’ breakfast cereal as “balance?” When they visit the doctor, do they ask for a dose of a cold virus for “balance?” Do they scrape paint off their cars to encourage rust for “balance?”
One more thing. Never let them tell you that Hitler was Right-wing. The Nazi Party was the NSDAP – National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei. That’s The National Socialist German Workers Party. Socialist! Workers! That’s Leftist to the core! They allied with Stalin in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. They were all a bunch of Leftists, fighting each other for enslavement of the world.
When they tell you that you are to the right of Genghis Khan, tell ‘em, “How could I not be? Genghis was a Leftist!” How was he different from Stalin or Mao or Hitler?
When they try to conflate skinheads and white separatists with the Right, say, “But don’t they just share your affinity for racial preferences?”
When they say, in a derogatory manner, that you are a right-winger, say, “Thank you! That must make you, my ideological adversary, a Wrong-winger!”