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2011-01-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

For Israelis, the American Left's assault on Sarah Palin and the conservative movement in the wake of Jared Loughner's murderous attack in Tucson was disturbingly familiar.

...In certain ways, Palin is a revolutionary leader and the Tea Party movement is a revolutionary movement. For nearly a hundred years, the Left in its various permutations has captured Western policy by controlling the elite discourse from New York and Los Angeles to London to Paris to Tel Aviv. By making it "politically incorrect" to assert claims of Western, Judeo-Christian morality or advocate robust political, economic and military policies, the Left has made it socially and professionally costly for people to think freely and believe in their countries.

What distinguishes Palin from other conservative leaders in the U.S. and makes her an important figure worldwide is her indifference to the views of the Left's opinion makers. Her capacity to steer debate in a way no other conservative politician can owes entirely to the fact that she does not seek to win over leftist elites. She seeks to unseat them.

The same can be said of the Tea Party. The reason it frightens the Left, and the Republican leaders who owe their positions to their willingness to accept the Left's basic agenda, is because it does not accept the Left's policy platform.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-27 06:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 she does not seek to win over leftist elitesShe seeks to unseat them. .

Go Sarah. There's a lot more unseating that needs to be done.

the Left has made it socially and professionally costly for people to think freely and believe in their countries.

That makes the left the enemy of democracy, freedom, and the Constitution.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-01-27 12:26|| 2011-01-27 12:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Hopefully someone out there can remember the details better than I, but I remember one of the leaders of the socialist movement in the US saying that he didn't need to try to become president any more because the Democrats had taken up the socialist cause. This was arount 1950 or so.

Posted by gorb 2011-01-27 15:30|| 2011-01-27 15:30|| Front Page Top

#3 PALIN-BOLTON IN 2012!

Posted by pan 2011-01-27 22:55|| 2011-01-27 22:55|| Front Page Top

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