With Palin on the GOP Ticket, a Return to the Culture Wars
But in stoking passions about wedge issues, McCain may jeopardize his appeal to independents
McCain's gambit tries to yoke together two seemingly irreconcilable strategies: on one hand, the Karl Rove-inspired strategy of energizing the base by emphasizing wedge issues (in this case, values issues); on the other, the moderate tack of winning the broad middle through a politics of consensus, reform, and pragmatism.
It will be considered a good trick if it works, of course. And some of the best young conservative thinkers (including Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, authors of the recent Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream) argue that values issues are anything but a distraction from the economic concerns of nervous working people and a growing swath of the middle class. To such conservatives, McCain-Palin is just the ticket when it comes to driving home the connection between faith, values, strong families, and economic security.
But Democrats can point out that they had already absorbed that message. Consider Obama's emphasis on family-friendly policies, including faith-based initiatives, as well the new Democratic plank that aims to lower the demand for abortion by providing support to mothers who go to term. Democrats can argue that a culture war, even a somewhat limited one, only raises the rhetorical heat, making it another war that Americans cannot afford.
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AMERICA’S MALIGNANT NEO-MARXIST CANCERS
America suffers from Podhoretz Neo-Con and Leiberman Neo-Lib political cancers, in her executive, legislative, and judicial organs; and in Hollywood and the news media. Their subversion of foreign policy, Christian morality, nationalism, and traditional labor relations are notorious.
The 9/11 Terrorist Spectacle is one of the lesser symptoms caused by their hate provoking foreign military interventions. The un-patriotic and illegal Neo-Con Iraq War in support of Judeofascist Israel is costing over a trillion dollars and killing more than 4,000 young patriots; and doing worse damage to Iraq. The military intervention in Afghanistan is needlessly creating more suffering and hatred there.
Roe vs. Wade is sacrificially killing more than 45 million children by their mothers. Naturally, Neo-Marxists and their following of Christian heretics, not wanting to be stigmatized as morally depraved child killers, want every woman to sacrificially kill her children.
Money scammed and extorted from blue-collar rednecks and school teachers by the Neo- Marxist union lobbies, SEIU and NEA, is electing Congressional political prostitutes who enact legislation that subverts Christian culture, nationalistic unity, freedom from excessive governmental regulation, and capitalistic free enterprise.
These malignant cancers got started in America 60 years ago, when millions of pitiful defeated Marxist refugees from Nazi Germany and Marxist Soviet Union were trustingly accepted as immigrants by inexperienced America, after their rejection by experienced Europe. History suggests that their destruction will inevitably occur, with surprising speed. Russia was utterly devastated by Marxist cancers for two generations, and is very slowly recovering with the gradual introduction of democracy, freedom of speech, nationalism, and Christianity. But Germany under Hitler, and Spain under Franco, quickly destroyed their Marxist cancers, before they could seize control over vital governmental organs. Each healthy nation naturally has a unique defensive immune system for destroying malignant political cancers. England’s immune system is so effective that Marxist cancers are unable to grow.
America’s Constitution is quite extraordinary in that the supreme defensive governmental organ of the People is the grass-roots town militia. When executive, legislative, and judicial organs become tyrannical, militias spring-up over-night in every town to restore freedom and democracy, by guns and gallows revolutionary justice. America promises to put on the greatest revolutionary show on Earth, to the tune of “God Bless America”.
Staunch Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Evangelical, and Fundamental crusaders in the Cultural War indirectly support the revolutionary militias, when they forcefully condemn the heresies and inter-denominational strife that is destroying America’s Christian culture. The militia man with Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, and the Right to Bear Arms go into action in a minute, clutching his Crucifix and gun. With Separation of Church and State, his pastor never tells him how to fight for his Country, and his general never tells him how to pray to his Christian God.
Culture wars
The culture war is one that must be fought. While much of Europe and Canada have caved in to the liberal lunatic fringe, we in America, and those of us who are hard line, right wing, conservative evangelicals are on the move with or without the McCain/Palin candidacy. True, we feel encouraged because with the Republican ticket there is a chance for our side to prevail. We have been slugging it out for 40 years with the secular humanists and amoral elements of our society, those in the media and in academia who claim to be "progressive" but promote an anti-Christian agenda, support sexual promiscuity as presented by the cesspool called Hollywood and entertainment media. Does the world think that the media represents American values as sex, drugs, rock music? Does the world think many millions of conservative Americans actually like the way our culture has been stolen and presented on the world stage as sordid as the anti-religious liberals of England, France, and Canada? God help us if we should become like these once great nations that now have no fear of God nor any respect for their Christian heritage and family values. Yes, we care about Iraq and the economy, etc, but we also care deeply that abortion is murder and infanticide, that same sex marriage is a perversion that must not be allowed, and we are willing to continue to engage and confront our society. I do not think there is much will to engage these forces in Europe and Canada, so these countries will continue to decline due to lack of backbone and little resistance by conservatives in these lands.
The Decline of America
As a Canadian its frequently shocking to witness the amount of close minded ideologically driven commentary on many sites (with most preaching to the converted). What I am witnesses is the relative deterioration of the United States through the death of pragmatism. Its all blinkered hate based hysteria at this point. You have an economy is serious trouble with the dollar declining year after year, hordes of debt at both the personal and gov't level. Reputation worldwide is at a relative low (though some improvement lately) and yet we are focused on the "culture wars" in which both sides paint the other as evil incarnate. I witness no willingness to compromise with both sides having a winner takes all mentality. This is resulting in the slow deterioration of a once great country that I used to respect. Its no longer a that shining light on a hill, but an example of regression. If the current trend continues I have a sneaking suspicion more that foul words will be exchanged.
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