Superiority through Equality
The cultural negation of conservatism
By Brett Stevens
"In earlier years, I was influenced by my peers (who repeated what they saw on TV, in rockstar/moviestar interviews, and heard from their teachers) to think that all conservatives were evil or at least a secular equivalent of it - greedy, selfish and cruel.
"With that as our perceptual filter, it was easy to see people like Ann Coulter as not only somewhat vile, but also as pandering to the dumbest and lowest instincts of humanity. To be seen reading Ann Coulter was like admitting that you weren't sure what letter comes after 'R' in the alphabet. ..."
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Coulter has said some very sane things on immigration, but I don't quite get the part about her admirably not being afraid to criticize liberals. Anyone who isn't a liberal criticizes liberals all the live long day. Such criticism is richly deserved, but if you go to someplace like 'City Journal' online and enjoy it a bit too much, you feel a little guilty afterwards, because they seem to be using the skewering of liberals to make the case that liberal idiocy is pretty much all that is wrong with our society. If we could only put neocons in charge of a minimally regulated Flint or Detroit and install an army of no-nonsense ruler-wielding schoolmarms into ghetto schools we would soon have countless eager young scrubbed hardworking bright-eyed black entrepreneurs celebrating success after success!
"That’s the next crusade we must undertake: deflating the Democratic self-image, and replacing it with an image of the conservative as the only option for thoughtful and realistic people."
With all respect, I can't decide, is this speechifying more funny or sad? Not that we can't have a few more Republican presidents, due to voters reacting to yet more stupid meat-grinder wars or to particularly outrageous cases of corruption or incompetence. But the underlying problem for the GOP is America's ever growing third-world population. Go ahead and "must undertake" all you like, but to most of these people European-American conservatism might as well have hitched a ride to earth on a meteorite from a particularly remote and unfathomable suburb of the Oort Cloud.
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