No More Alan Colmes!

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will."
- Frederick Douglass

As many people already know, limp-wristed liberal strawman Alan Colmes was recently dropped from his seat opposite Sean Hannity. One can only speculate as to why.

My point today is not really to talk about Alan Colmes, but what he represents: the cuddly, harmless, "can't we all just get along" liberalism that, by my estimate at least, was ushered in by Jimmy Carter, and has been the soul of the Democratic Party ever since then.

It was a nice idea: it's nice to be nice to nice people. The theory was, this was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (or, if you're a serious occultist rather than a poseur, the Aeon of Horus), and if we could but love our enemies, they would pay us back in kind. As another song of the era put it, "there ain't no Good Guys/ there ain't no Bad Guys/ there's only you and me and we just disagree." Heartwarming. But did it work?

Well, they did start paying us back in love - the only problem is, it was their definition of "love." In exchange for Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Bobby Kennedy, we got James "Child Abuse" Dobson, Pat "Salvation for Sale" Robertson, Ronald "War on Drugs, and the Poor, and Minorities" Reagan, Grover "Fuck the Poor" Norquist, and David "I Used to be a Bloody Grand Wizard in the Goddamned KKK, for Christ's Sake" Duke.

The Far Right has made it unambiguous what they want. As pastor George Grant stated in his book "The Changing of the Guard: Biblical Principles for Political Action," "[It] is dominion we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time. It is dominion we are after. World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less..."

We can't afford the Alan Colmes strategy any longer. We are fighting the equivalent of Nazis here. Yes, yes, I know the majority of right-wingers aren't this scary, but you know what? Most Nazis were just regular people too. It is enough for the majority to believe, fear, and obey. The scary people are the ones giving the orders, and Adolf Eichmann and Stanley Milgram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment) showed the world in no uncertain terms what ordinary people will do under the geas of authority.

I think that the Far Right understands on some instinctual level that their beloved way of life has no place in the world liberals dream of. Our hope has always been that they will see the error of their ways and abandon their white Christian capitalist identities in favor of something good - but they ARE their white Christian capitalist identities; changing that is to them a fate worse than death. They've known all along that this is a war in which the loser will be obliterated. They won't stop until they have EVERYTHING exactly the way they want it. Of course, they can never actually have what they want - the objective Truth itself is against them; but the amount of destruction, suffering, ignorance and order they can cause before they figure that out is incalculable. And when would they figure that out? They're fundamentally irrational - and irrational people can ALWAYS rationalize their way into preserving their beliefs against facts.

As I've said before, the liberal mindset isn't a side or a perspective, but the perspective one attains when you synthesize all others. That said, if they insist on treating us like a "side", it might not hurt to start acting like one. They want "liberal bias"? Let's give them liberal bias!

No more pitching the tug-of-war game. No more compromises. No more appeasement. No more injustice. No more Alan Colmes.