Wednesday - July 06, 2011

left wingers who control the debate

One of my favorite editorial writers is a lady I often hear on the radio on a program called The Moral Maze.  It was a pleasant surprise to also find her doing her conservative thing being interviewed on Fox last year, when we visited home.

It isn’t just because she’s very conservative that I like her so much.  She would not approve of all my methods for fixing problems I’m sure, as she is far more civilized then I am.  Thing is, she is exactly right darn near all of the time.  Really, she is.

I have heard her on radio as mentioned, and one of the things that really impresses is how she can maintain her cool when confronted by an idiot.  Doesn’t shriek,
doesn’t talk over people (as a rule) and has a great radio voice. She honestly is a delight to read and listen to.

This is a little excerpt from a recent op-ed.

We are living through a terrifying erosion of freedom of expression

MELANIE PHILLIPS

Adherents of the ‘one view’ agenda lose their ability to tell right from wrong and truth from lies — and so end up justifying their own wrongdoing as a moral act.

This was vividly illustrated by the scandal over the leaked emails from the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, which revealed that prominent proponents of man-made global warming theory had tried to suppress the evidence that the world was getting cooler rather than warmer.

What was so remarkable was that they did so because they believed unshakeably that any challenge to their own viewpoint was simply impossible. So faced with evidence that actually busted their theory wide open, they felt morally justified in manipulating the data to shore up their own agenda.

The point about the Left-wingers who police and thus control our public debate is this: they believe above all else that they alone occupy the moral high ground.
They thus divide the world into good and bad. Only their own view is to be permitted; any dissent is by definition evil.
So all dissenters are Right-wing, all Right-wingers are evil and all who oppose the liberal consensus are therefore evil Right-wingers who must be damned as beyond the pale.

This is, of course, a totally closed thought process, similar to the totalitarian tyrannies imposed by the medieval Church or Stalinism.
Yet this monstrous repudiation of reason has effectively hijacked public debate.  So how on earth can this have happened to Britain?

In brief, it has been caused by a number of factors.

There was the onslaught by secularism upon Christianity and the moral codes of the Hebrew Bible.
There was the demoralisation of the political and intellectual elites after World War II, caused by the near bankruptcy of Britain and the end of Empire.
There was the resulting loss of belief in the nation. And so the elites were vulnerable to the ultra-Left ‘long march through the institutions’ that aimed to capture the citadels of the culture and turn all its values upside-down and inside-out.
The outcome was that Britain’s whole centre of political gravity shifted, as what was formerly considered ultra- Left thinking became deemed mainstream while what was formerly mainstream was labelled ‘Right-wing’.
You have only to listen to BBC group- think to realise how completely all this has been achieved.
One result is that language itself has been hijacked. Words such as ‘rights’, ‘justice’, ‘tolerance’, ‘liberal’ and ‘centre ground’ have come to mean their precise opposite.

And argument has been replaced by gratuitous abuse and insults, such as ‘institutionally racist’, ‘homophobic’, ‘fundamentalist’, ‘extremist’ or ‘mad’.
There is, of course, nothing remotely extreme or bigoted about wanting your country to govern itself, or for the justice system to protect people against wrong-doers, or for your country to uphold its ancient traditions and laws.
On the contrary, these are all main- stream aspirations that have been denied systematically.

We are, in short, living through a terrifying erosion of freedom of expression and dissent of any kind, and an attack on thought and reason itself.
If ever there was an agenda for which conservatism was fitted, then dealing with all this is surely it.
Conservatives spent much of the last century fighting off Soviet-style communism. But this bastard child of that creed is even more dangerous because it has undermined us from within.

The great task of politics is to reclaim politics for the long-suffering mainstream voters who find themselves disenfranchised.
Unfortunately, the Conservative Party has gone in the opposite direction, choosing instead to plant its standard on that Left-wing terrain masquerading as the centre ground.

The Government cannot deal with issues such as the EU or human rights law unless it addresses head-on this hijacking of language, morality and politics that threatens to engulf Britain and the west.
The prize would be great indeed for the politician who meets this, the supreme civilisation challenge of our times.

Melanie Phillips

“ it has undermined us from within. “

In other words, a fifth column.  My hobby horse for some years now.

Posted by peiper     on 07/06/2011 at 07:26 AM   
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