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The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
Guest Column | By Alan Caruba | August 25, 2008
As a dues-paying member of
Hillary Clinton’s Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, it came as a revelation of sorts
to learn about the parallel universe in which a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
exists. Within it, liberals do endless battle with one another for control of
the Democrat Party.
Ron Arnold’s book, Freezing
in the Dark: Money, Power, Politics and The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, is
not light reading. This heavily researched and documented narrative reveals all
the major players of the liberal universe and how these renamed “progressives”
interact through networks of wealthy foundations, advocacy groups, think tanks,
and leftist media.
Freezing will particularly please policy wonks, but it is also
a brilliant romp through the jungle of leftist politics. If you have the
stamina to get into and through it, you will understand what drives the Left.
To get you started, I will quote Winston Churchill who defined Socialism as “a
philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its
inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
As I reached the end of Freezing,
I had a random thought about the 2008 election and its outcome. Simply put,
Democrats who have been driven insane by the very existence of George W. Bush
cannot run against him. In the funhouse of modern politics, the Republican they
must defeat is more like them than not. John McCain is Democrat Light. One of
his best pals is Joe Lieberman who ran as the vice president nominee with John
Kerry!
Emerging swiftly from the
text is the way the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Act transformed how
politics was to be funded. Little wonder that Sen. Obama abandoned his pledge
to work within the constraints of federal campaign funding in favor of raising
gobs of money from the Internet and the traditional supporters of anything and
anyone labeled liberal, progressive. Never mind that the Communist Party USA
also supports Obama. It must surely just be a coincidence.
McCain-Feingold banned “soft
money” donations, the large and unlimited contributions from individuals,
unions, and corporations to political parties. This “reform” required
Democrats to create a networking restructure with the many satellite groups
competing to use the party to get the only reform they ever wanted, the
trashing of the U.S. Constitution.
It’s useful to remember that
the Constitution exists to limit the power of the federal government and, via
the Bill of Rights, those of the States to the extent that individual liberties
are protected. This is why the liberalism discredited by Ronald Reagan in the
1980s has returned as a Halloween mask labeled “progressive.”
Progressives, however, come
in many colors of red. There are, as Arnold notes, social, labor,
anti-globalization, anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, environmental,
post-national who like Sen. Obama see themselves as citizens of the world, and
campaign finance reform progressives who think that the current electoral
system is a threat to democracy, mostly one suspects because it keeps defeating
progressives.
As Arnold reveals, one can hardly call liberals
or progressives a movement. “It was more like a mental hospital without doctors
or nurses.” They don’t have a cohesive culture, have no coherent ideology, but
are “just quarrelsome factions with loads of issues.”
What they all seemed to have,
however, was gobs and gobs of money from leftist foundations and millionaires
who wanted to change the world by supporting one or more of the myriad of
issues they embrace as their penance for being successful, thanks to
capitalism.
The ultimate symbol of this
is the billionaire George Soros. As Arnold
points out, “The Soros mishmash of leftist causes at home ranged from financing
the anti-gun lobby to abolishing capital punishment; from anti-Israel activism
to promoting abortion rights; from feminism, population control, and gay
liberation to anti-corporate campaigns, radical theories of education, and
replacing national sovereignty with global institutions.”
Compare this with
conservative values that include “hard work, duty and obligation,
self-reliance, high levels of national pride, pro-life values, rejection of
homosexuality, belief in the importance of religion and God in one’s life, and
that children should learn respect and obedience.”
Essential to the compact that
the American government makes with citizens is the understanding that if you
work hard and stay out of trouble with the law, it will leave you alone!
The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
believes that your life must be guided from birth to death by the government,
its prohibitions, and its demands, a society in which everything not mandated
by law is prohibited.
To achieve this, progressives
come at voters from all directions, conjuring up hoaxes like global warming,
promises of often imaginary “clean” energy, the demand to end “urban sprawl,”
the “right” of same-sex couples to marry, support for the United Nations, and
endless charges of racism, among other charades to gain control of the federal
government and its judiciary system in order to implement a top-down control of
your life.
Freezing in the Dark is a roadmap to understand why we are assailed daily
with the insanity of liberalism, an utterly failed system that depends on
coercion while seeking to devalue the central principles of our constitutional
system, from private property to individual merit and, yes, the promotion of
wealth as a good thing.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, “Warning Signs”, posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center. His book, “Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy”, is published by Merrill Press.
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liked best: “One can hardly call liberals and progressives a movement. ‘It is more like a mental hospital without doctors or nurses.
Back at you Jack….nuthin but net
I went on The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy article hoping you would have commented here. I know Brian and company won’t get this on his email since he hasn’t posted here. Just a quick wrap up on Brian and Company. I made the comment earlier in another post about the “Basement boys”. Not really kidding on that. I truly believe this is a Media Matters group. They are attacking aim because they are printing articles that absoutely no one else is touching with the proverbial ten foot pole. Just wait until Kincaid delves into the Ayers/Obama matter that is being shielded. The unprintable foundations.
Tell me how to find out where the comment portions are on “The Jewish World Review.”
Good article, except for the obvious error in calling Joe Lieberman the VP candidate for John Kerry. It was Edwards with Kerry, and Lieberman stood with Al Gore in 2000.
Hi Julie, no comments section <jack> on Jewish World Review. The daily email starts out with about three <atenglish> or four Jewish things, then has links for cartoon strips, then links for toons from political <dotzzn> type newspapers, then some commentary links, then that day in History, and <dot> finally a long section on
commentary. I love the cartoons, and many of the commentators are <com>different than on other sites.
I suppose you are already on the site GOPUSA.com? That has a moderated comments section.
Hi Julie O:
I came back here because they are not here. Check out my first post here < > and read between. I figured that the Obama minions were on every Conservative leaning site, and haven’t been to Michelle’s site recently, but will check it out. Different minions or are they from same IP as Sullivan?
August 26 at 10:09 am | #1 | Link
Dear Alan Caruba:
Your synopsis of “Freezing in the Dark” by Ron Arnold was excellent. In just a short few paragraphs you hit the nail on the head of how I think about the left in America - it would have taken me a lot longer in words to say basicly the same thing. I say the left in America, because not only does that include the Communists, Socialists, Progressives and Democrats, but also Republicans such as John McCain.
I remember as a young man when the drive for population control started here - it also was the start of millions of baby abortions. What has therefore been very ironic to me is that that same group is for the massive numbers of illegals that have come to this country from south of the border. They achieved population control in this country, so now they want to import those that do not have a right to be here to supposedly fill the jobs all those dead babies would have taken. And these illegal imports are from a country and people that do not begin to understand population control - they breed like rabbits. So much for their want to control the population. They were successful and then purposely now have made themselves VERY unsuccessful.
Much the same has occurred in Europe - nearly zero population increase and in some countries they are actually losing population, that is HOW successful they were, so now they import massive numbers of muslims who hate their guts and want to destroy their society. Thank God that it is mainly Mexicans here and not muslims BUT that too is also starting to take hold in some areas of the country - Detroit comes to mind when I think of out of control muslim importation.
I liked best: “One can hardly call liberals and progressives a movement. ‘It is more like a mental hospital without doctors or nurses.’ They don’t have a cohesive culture, have no coherent ideology, but are ‘just quarrelsome fanatics with loads of issues.‘“ That is certainly a definition of liberals and so-called progressives that I would love to see in a dictionary.
I will be checking the Conservative Book Club for Ron Arnold’s book - it has to be good reading. And once again, thank you, Alan Caruba, for the excellent synopsis.