Last week, MSNBC.com columnist Eric Alterman profiled a leftist Internet-based grass-roots campaign website called MoveOn.Org, describing its “awfully intelligent” work as an invaluable tool we can all use to save our republic from – you guessed it – constitutional traditionalists.
Alterman, who also keyboards a column for the ultra-leftist magazine, The Nation, said the site “is emerging as one of America’s premier grass-roots organizations,” while engaging “more than 600,000 people in the U.S. (and nearly a million worldwide) in campaigns on key public issues.”
Which issues? Well, he says, they “include peace, protection of the environment, campaign-finance reform, and fair economic and tax policy.” And, in an example only a liberal could love, he went on to note that the site’s first major grass-roots effort – called the “Censure and Move On” campaign – took the form of an “e-mail from founders Joan Blades and Wes Boyd to 100 friends, opposing the impeachment of President Clinton.”
“The message spread like wildfire, quickly reaching more than 500,000 people, and generating more than a million e-mails and more than 250,000 phone calls to Congress. It crashed the servers on Capitol Hill and woke politicians up to the power of the Internet,” Alterman wrote.
Since then MoveOn.Org has become an Internet destination for committed leftists who can “sign” electronic petitions opposing virtually anything most Republicans and traditionalists on Capitol Hill support.
There is no balance here. Indeed, only “causes” of the political left are hawked: “Peace” agreements (that favor our enemies); “environmental responsibility” measures (that hurt local industries and throw people out of work); “responsible” energy policies (that make the U.S. more reliant on nations that support terrorism against Americans); and petitions that claim to be supportive of “the little people” (while punishing the entities that employ – and thus feed, clothe, and heat – the little people: corporations).
America isn’t a perfect country and the Bush administration, God love ’em, isn’t going to be the savior of our republic. But using Internet technology to bash, among other things, technology and corporations isn’t going to do us much good, either.
That’s the point leftists and liberals repeatedly fail to grasp – most of what they advocate smacks of solid-gold hypocrisy, making it difficult to even debate issues with them.
Leftists complain about cutting down trees but support the printing of hundreds of thousands of petitions that echo their complaints about cutting down trees.
They will utilize the Internet to organize their supporters, even as they criticize the energy resources it takes to power the same homes of the people they are trying to reach by computer.
And speaking of energy, leftist leaders from all over the world took fuel-guzzling airliners to South Africa last month to attend an Earth Summit whose goal was, among other things, to find ways to cut airliner exhaust. The summit was attended by 45,000 people and cost nearly $60 million, and was attended by many leftist heads of state who live large in their own countries while blasting the excesses of some (but not nearly all) Americans.
Leftists believe it’s OK to discriminate … if it’s done in the name of forced quotas and affirmative action. They believe it’s permissible to limit the speech of those with whom they disagree (think college campuses).
The entire leftist ideology is anti-American. It extols collectivist, rather than individual, rights. It champions the destruction of freedoms at the behest of the perceived security and sanctity of the state. It encourages forced redistribution of wealth from those who have and deserve to those who don’t have because they have not earned and are undeserving.
Despite these truths, Alterman writes: “God knows there are few things this country could use more than an intelligently organized left-liberal movement to shore up the Democrats on progressive issues and put some pressure on the increasingly conservative-dominated punditocracy debate.”
Leftists even have to speak in code, lest their true intentions be known to the world; “progressive” is nothing more than a euphemism for “socialism.”
As long as there are leftists at the gate, there is a danger this nation will be overrun by little Napoleons who have made it an art form to hold themselves high above the dismal standards they seek to force upon the rest of us.
In exposing their putrid duplicity, traditionalists must be equally committed.
Let’s curb the kangaroo court of anonymous sources
Tim Graham