Interesting bit over at NRO’s The Corner on the leftist demands for Beck to be taken off the air because, horror of horrors!, he quoted a leftist and thus revealed to the general public a truth about the left – it is very, very nasty.
…Dreier’s defense of Piven is completely at odds with the upshot of her writings, which lovingly chronicle efforts by community organizers to intensify riots and violent protests. I explain Piven’s strategy on NRO’s homepage today in “Frances Fox Piven’s Violent Agenda.” Dreier’s efforts to turn Piven into a latter-day incarnation of Martin Luther King are absurd. Piven looks forward to rioting and urges community organizers not to waste time channeling violent protests into conventional politics but to escalate disruptions for maximum leverage. Dreier’s defense of Piven’s latest controversial editorial in the Nation leaves out the crucial passage where she calls for Euro-style protest riots in the United States.
The hope of silencing Beck in the wake of Tucson has lured the left into a strategic blunder. They’ve decided to turn Piven into a martyr. Yet in doing so the left has tied itself to Piven’s wild writings and over-the-top radicalism…
As Glenn Beck rips off the mask we can expect more and more of this – outraged liberals demanding that Beck and others like him be silenced. The left’s hate and the left’s plans are not for general consumption. They are for small magazines and websites where only the liberal leadership is wont to go – let everyone in on it and…and…well; you see, what will happen is that the left will be rejected, even by quite a lot of the rank and file.
The thing is that the left is based upon a lie (perfectibility of Man by the actions of men) and anything based upon a lie cannot be sustained by experience or rational argument. When you box yourself in to an intellectual corner, as the left long ago did, then you’re only way out is to either admit error or to irrationally reject the truth. Those who stay on the left eventually wallow in irrationality – irrational devotion to unworkable ideas coupled with irrational hatred for whatever is opposed to the unworkable ideas. When you go a bit crazy, your judgment gets a bit warped.
Think about it – Franken called Rush a big, fat idiot; Nicholson Baker fantasized about murdering President Bush; liberal street demonstrators called on troops to shoot their officers…are these the actions of balanced people who are advancing truth? Or are they more like the actions of people unbalanced by lies and determined to protect a false world view? We report, you decide. Piven has called for Greek-style riots in the United States. To advance what, precisely? What on earth can anyone hope to accomplish by people breaking and burning things, and killing a few people, in to the bargain? Nothing that any rational person could want.
There is not much we can do for these poor people, but what we can do is precisely what Beck has done: expose them. Let everyone know the bug-eyed craziness which lies at the heart of the American left. Turn the rock over, and let’s see what scurries out. The more people get to know those who advocate violent riots, the more rejected such advocates will become. The truth really does set you free – even if it does very greatly offend our liberals.
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