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We have just completed a year of defensive war pitting America and the
civilized world against Islamist fascist terrorists. While the war
officially began on September 11th, 2001 it has been raging as a slow
bloodletting for at least thirty years. During this time the leaders and
people of the American Republic have been tolerant and hoped that those
misguided by evil interpretations of Islam would evolve to become
contributing members of society.
Unfortunately, the mad feudal Islamist barbarians have not reformed. As a
result, they unleashed the hell of September 11th. They are now reaping
what they have sown - utter devastation. The United States will stop at
nothing to defend liberty and the military operation in Iraq during 2003 is
but a taste of what awaits all Islamist savages - if America stays the
course with clear moral vision and strong leadership.
The previous year also revealed a virulent domestic political and cultural
malady that emboldens Islamist terrorists and all like minded human
monsters. It is the anti-American creed advocating a lethal ideological mix
of utopian leftist elitism, multi-cultural moral relativism, suicidal
pacifism, anti-capitalism, Fabian socialism and immature tolerance of such
evil philosophies as Communism and anarchy. The official moniker of this
horridly misguided doctrine is liberalism, aka, progressive thought. Its
more accurate label is neo-liberal leftism.
From the search for flower power cosmic justice to perversely admiring the
likes of Marx, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Arafat and countless other utopian
leftist deviants, the devotees of malevolent neo-liberal leftism have more
than once led humanity to despotism and serfdom. Any objective historian
would instantly acknowledge this by the partial list of tyrants above .
Neo-liberal leftist dogma is a cultural philosophical blight. It is
emotion based and driven by virulent historical dishonesty, moral cowardice,
nihilistic narcissism, childish ingratitude, blatant hypocrisy and
astounding hubris - with class envy, resentment and jealousy made
legitimate. In order to fool themselves and experience the false bliss of
believing in their own (id) fantasy of idealistic superiority, its followers
have misleadingly packaged this awful doctrine with a non-threatening sirens
song label - liberal or progressive.
The venomous neo-liberal leftist core message of multi-cultural moral
equivocation and suicidal give peace a chance naiveté has been injected into
society - under the falsely sublime cover of being the ultimate cosmic
answer to resolving the inequities of life. In reality, it is a total lie
and potentially the final kiss of death for the civilized world.
Neo-liberal leftism and its adherents blindly enable and facilitate the
monstrous efforts of Islamist fascists - who are attempting to extinguish
the free world and lead humanity back to a new dark age. Put more directly,
Islamist fascists play neo-liberal leftists as the suckers they truly are -
placing civilization squarely in the crosshairs of ruin.
From the Democratic Presidential candidates to so-called erudite
university professors to Hollywood and media elites, malicious neo-liberal
leftist dogma now permeates the American cultural soul. Allowing this
malevolent doctrine to develop deeper societal roots will effectively form a
fifth column within the United States and further embolden the Islamist
savages.
Fortunately, rational leaders and responsible citizens immediately
recognize neo-liberal leftism as intellectually and morally unhinged. These
are the ones who ultimately defend civilization, expand freedom and save
humanity.
Washington, Lincoln, Churchill, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Reagan and their
fellow countrymen are models of successful leaders and citizens who
willingly took action to save the free world. We must strive to emulate
them, for once again we are staring into the abyss of cultural annihilation,
i.e., the overwhelming horror and lethal lesson of September 11th.
Victory in the war against Islamist fascism and revealing neo-liberal
leftism as the enabling pavement on the road to cultural hell are the macro
societal issues that we face in 2004. Both are matters of life and death
for civilization. Success or failure to achieve these objectives will be
largely guided by the results of the most important political event in
2004 - the Presidential election. The fate of the free world will be
profoundly effected by the outcome.
If we are mature in the election decision, there is only one candidate at
this time in history who can lead the United States and the civilized world
to a more positive future - President George W. Bush.
Mr. Bush's moral credibility, intellectual honesty, willingness to
audaciously defend America, commitment to victory in the war against
Islamist fascists terrorists and, most importantly, total rejection of
poisonous neo-liberal leftism are the right stuff for this awesome
responsibility. Moreover, Mr. Bush's performance in conducting the war
while simultaneously orchestrating an astounding economic turnaround has
been exemplary.
To be sure, Mr. Bush has fallen short on some important domestic issues
such as flawed immigration reform, misguided Medicare legislation and an
inexplicable expansion of Federal spending. However, these shortcomings
pale when compared to the alternative. Let us not talk falsely now - the
Democratic Presidential contenders and their Democratic Party supporters are
neo-liberal leftists. They can not be trusted with the well being of
liberty at stake.
If the guiding cultural ideology in America is neo-liberal leftism, our
national leadership will be weak and feckless. If that occurs at this
critical juncture in the war against Islamist barbarism, the destiny of
humanity could easily tip toward a new dark age of want, death and tyranny.
Islamist fascism and neo-liberal leftism must be vanquished and relegated to
the history of failed social and political creeds.
We can not ignore the reality that the United States of America is the
leader of the free world - that is simply the way it is. As citizens of
this greatest of nations, it is with sacred responsibility, honor and
humility that we must rationally step up and take the helm - as our
ancestors did in previous struggles to defend liberty and civilization.
Our primary macro cultural efforts for 2004 must be focused on the
re-election of President Bush. His neo-liberal leftist Democratic
competition is morally and intellectually bankrupt - just as neo-liberal
leftist dogma and those who worship at its alter.
Vance McDonald is a political commentator and essayist living in Los
Angeles.