Posted by
Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Monday, July 06, 2009 6:54:11 PM
Showing Bill Clintion's Shine
We saw a political cartoon of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, the import of which was that Republicans are hypocrites because they excoriated the philandering Bill Clinton.
The leftist syllogism this represents of this runs along these lines:
"Republicans didn't like Clinton's morals. Philandering Mark Sanford is a Republican. Therefore, Republicans are hypocrites."
This passes for logic among eager Democrats, who seem quite comfortable with any pseudo-intellectualism that reinforces their preconceptions, just as they seem comfortable with the corollary that we may posit:
"Many Democrats are reprobates (Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Antonio Villaraigosa, Gavin Newsome … take your pick). Democrats defend reprobates. Therefore, Democrats are not hypocrites."
They probably would be less comfortable with the obvious conclusion – "therefore, all Democrats are reprobates" – if they ever thought deeply about this, or about anything else in this Age of True Belief.
Over the past several months we have written frequently of the parallels between fascism and Democratic Party/Barack Obama policies. We have noted that fascist movements spring from socialist motives and that fascist governments are characterized in part by state control of industry and the financial system.
Another parallel occurs to us as we ponder the weak, almost nugatory, response to President Obama's efforts to take over the American economy. Where, for example, are the lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of his policies? Where is the outrage among our captains of industry? Indeed, where is the ardency of Republican opposition, which has been lukewarm at best.
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