Mischaracterization

I try to find things in common with people with whom I disagree.  I really do.

Part of it was growing up a liberal, into my twenties.  I don’t see liberals as “the enemy” – not reflexively, at least.  They’re people, mostly.

Do both sides have crazies?  People who regard dissent and disagreement as signs of depravity and evil, things to be eradicated?  Sure. 

Unfortunately, on the left the crazies are pretty mainstream.  One of my enduring memories was after the death of Tony Snow, the former talk show host who’d become Dubya’s press secretary before being diagnosed with colon cancer.  The outpouring of hatred in the lefty alt-media after the death of Snow – one of the most genuinely good people in the media racket – was a telling moment; to a big part of the “intellectual” left, it’s not just about elections and bills; it’s a scorched-earth battle for control of the entire culture. 

So perhaps it’s unsurprising that the NYTimes expresses…shock?  Confusion?  Befuddlement at Republicans in Congress expressing their concerns for the President’s security; I’ll add emphasis:

WASHINGTON — President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days. As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting his every initiative have expressed deep worry for his security.

“The American people want to know: Is the president safe?” Representative Darrell Issa of California, the Republican committee chairman who has made it his mission to investigate all sorts of Obama administration missteps, solemnly intoned as he opened a hearing into the lapses on Tuesday.

Genuine desire not to see the President and his family killed?  It doesn’t seem a stretch – on the right.  Conservatives see Liberals as wrong; Liberals see Conservatives as Evil.  Evil people wish death upon their political opponents.  (Anyone but me seeing a Berg’s Seventh Law reference here?)

Put another way:  Today’s GOP, for all its maddening problems, is directly descended from the party that freed the slaves and brought about a shot at freedom for hundreds of millions in the Eastern Bloc.  Today’s Democrats are controlled by extremists who are intellectual descendents from sixties radicals who drank from the same well of Kool Aid that might not have openly endorsed herding kulaks and counterrevolutionaries into railroad cars to ship to Siberia – but they could see the reasoning behind it, too.

7 thoughts on “Mischaracterization

  1. Saw earlier that prominent Lefties David Corn and John Fugelsang among other lesser known names are having a few yucks that Texas has the first outbreak of the Ebola virus. Lot of “want to secede now?”, and “oh so now you Creationists want the CDC and “Science” to come to your rescue?”
    Incredible lack of awareness on what level of government controls our borders and skys; but what kind of soulless ghoul roots for death? Then I remember, the Left is a death cult – militantly promoting abortion and euthanasia. And making certain black people can’t defend themselves by making legal gun ownership prohibitively expensive. http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=47560

  2. Seflores; Yea, leave it to lefties to conveniently forget the rules and regulations that their minions foist upon us; i.e. the requirement to notify the CDC of anything that is high profile, like ebola or if something like flu affects more than 10 people. Pathetic hypocrites!

  3. As if we’d like to see the Current Occupant made a martyr, instead of the avatar of fail that he is and will be for generations to come.

  4. The American left projects: end of story.

    Mitch has said somewhere on this blog something to the effect of: if you want to know what the left is doing, thinking, or planning on doing, look at what they accuse the right of.**

    ** Is this one of Berg’s Laws Mitch?

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