The shepherd boy tending his flock near a village cried: "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Help me or the wolf will kill my sheep!" The villagers heard him and several times came running to drive away the wolf. But he always laughed at them because he did not really see a wolf. One day a real wolf came along and attacked his flock. The boy cried "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Help me or the wolf will kill my sheep!" But the people did not came to his aid because no one believed him any more. So the wolf ate all his sheep.
Perhaps we should all print this out and fax it to Senator Durbin just in case he still doesn't understand the gravity of comparing our humane treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo to Nazis, Soviet Gulags and Pol Pot.
But this problem of dangerously undermining the meaning of language isn't an incident isolated to the utterings of Senator Durtbag Durbin. It's a pandemic pathological disorder shared by neosocialist democrats and their ilk in the international socialist movement. I've shared with readers of this page quite a few excellent examples of how socialists are willing to use such grotesque comparisons to advance a transparently partisan socialist agenda. Take a glance down the page if you haven't had the chance to read the column by Ralph Peters and another excellent piece: "Moral Equivalency..."
Not even when President Reagan was busy winning the Cold War over the same socialist-rooted opposition we have opposing President Bush's war on terror did we see the level of hyperbolic "Bush=Hitler" "America=Nazi" rhetoric that we've become almost numbed by in the last four years.
The Cause
In part we can blame President Reagan for contributing to the problem today. After all, he won the cold war and ended the nuclear confrontation which threatened to destroy the world at the same time he brought freedom to millions around the world and forced the closure of the Soviet gulags. The left never forgave him. In their mind he was simply not capable of producing such a result and to admit that they were wrong in opposing him would mean admitting that they preferred that millions continue to live in tyranny and face gruesome horrible deaths in real gulags rather than see a Republican succeed.
The same is true today. In "A San Francisco Liberal No More" we have the story of Keith Thompson who got his first clue as the to the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of liberalism during the Reagan years with the last straw coming shortly after the Iraqi election in January. He asked himself why so many on the left dismissed what was recognized around the world as the most intense outpouring of thirst for freedom we have seen since the fall of the Berlin wall. His answer is the same as during Reagan's time: the left will never support effective American action if it is being led by a Republican. PERIOD!
Why? Because admitting that Republicans might actually be solving problems, especially on the grand geo-strategic plane on which Reagan and Bush operate would completely expose that same intellectual and moral vacuity which is all that remains to sustain the left. They seem to have little choice but to march deeper into the dark recesses of denial, hate and fear rather than admit they were wrong and perhaps emerge into a brighter world of truth.
The Cure
I doubt there is anything we could do to help some on the left who are so locked into left-speak that they cannot tell the difference between Bush and Hitler or Guantanamo and gulags. The best antidote to that poison is to prevent it's spread and politically isolate those contaminated by it.
With the birth of new media conservatives have voices that were long denied. But we can't stop there. We need to insist that academia, Hollywood and the so called "mainstream media" respect our viewpoints and provide us equal access to the resources which have heretofore been held in near monopoly control by the left.
We must also press ahead to engage the remaining dinosaurs of liberal/left/socialism (call it what you want, it's all bad) in the political sphere. Defeating these folks at the ballot box is paramount to re-establishing a government that has proper respect for rights of all citizens and not just "diversity and tolerance" for those who fit the correct ideological mold.
There is sure to be increasingly shrill opposition to the re-balancing necessary to counter the dangerous and weakening effects of Orwellian socialism. Already we've seen charges of a new "theocracy of the right" with another variant of their outrageous and hysterical scare rhetoric. Our opponents tried to claim that somehow President Bush, used the religious right to affirm his re-election. Never mind that the same exit polls which the left thought would show Kerry winning in a landslide actually showed larger margins of Jewish, Hispanic, black and women voters ,who are not part of a Christian coalition, but coming to the GOP in larger numbers than ever before.
In order to succeed, we'll have to do more than merely elect more people with an "R" after their name. We'll have to insist that those we honor with elected office remain accountable to our conservative principles. It's a tricky business since we don't wish to alienate the new GOP voters, who may be more susceptible to the siren song of compromise that always seems to be a one way street in our party favoring Democrat positions. But as we saw recently in the Ohio Congressional special primary, a party or political family which compromises with the enemies of freedom does so at their peril.
The battle lines are drawn and the stakes are high. Allow the left to continue to "CRY WOLF" and one day, the wolf will come... Not that I expect France to come and help us, but let's just hope if we stay strong and understand the reality of the threats we face, we can help ourselves.
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