Enmity Of The State

I received an e-mail from a reader today, taking issue with a quote from yesterday's entry:

`Guilty Liberals call those who oppose them racists, homophobes, religious fanatics, demagogues, Right Wing conspirators, or just plain evil in an shallow attempt to dismiss viewpoints and beliefs they refuse to tolerate. '

The writer explained that statement didn't apply to her and her Liberal friends, She went on to describe how a search of the Internet turned up many sites that mentioned the above slurs but, to her immense satisfaction, they were mostly Conservative sites recounting verbal attacks by Liberals.

Her advice to me was to take up the hate-speech issue with the Conservatives.

She obviously does not live in or near the War Zone.

Rear Echelon Liberals are routinely flummoxed by the heat coming from the Middle and Right. And probably with good cause. It must seem puzzling, sitting there ya-ya, waiting for their la-la.

Rather than launch into my standard Bay Area / Berkeley / San Francisco / Marin frontline assessment, I invited her to survey the battlefield herself. Starting with this article by Debra Saunders. then this analysis by Peter Schrag or this, by Steven Rosenfeld.

A common misconception is that there is a far, far Leftie Liberal faction that spews "Racist, sexist, homophobe, etc." The truth is, that those castigations are inherent in all liberal demands for social programs. (read, enforced charity)

As I said above, the reader is apparently far from the front line of the California Enforced Charity War, shielded from the politics and polemics of Bay Area Liberals.

Today Governor Davis is preparing to sign a bill that will give free California State University tuition to Illegal Mexican Aliens, while tuition fees for all other California citizens are raised. Oppose it and you are accused of being anti-education, anti-poor, and anti-affirmative action.

- If you are against the freshly-signed bill that gives Illegal Mexican Aliens California Driver's Licenses (and hence, de facto citizenship) you are branded a racist.

Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante freely uses the term "racist" to label those who oppose the license give-away despite the fact that Mexicans can legally use their Mexican Driver's License, purchase local insurance and drive in CA.

Like it or not, Driver's licenses are the equivalent of an American I.D. card. The Democrats are pushing through a wide-open border with perpetual amnesty.

- If you are against last week's bill that makes failure to hire a transgendered, transsexual, or transvestite an offense punishable by a $150,000.00 fine, you are called a homophobe - as said by Governor Gray Davis in a post-signing press conference.

- If you are against the bill that mandates all California employers to pay for full health benefits for all employees, you are scorned as anti-worker. (although this is seen - across the board - as the coup de grace to the critically wounded California economy)

- If you are against the tripling of car registration fees to pay for spurious social programs, you are called anti-poor (although no-one can say where the money is going other than "to the poor people who need it most."

- If you are against arbitrary regulations that allow under-qualified female candidates to push aside the qualified males (Police, Fire Department, Paramedic) you are called a sexist.

All of these abominations were signed into law without any input from the voters of the state - passed "in the dead of night" as it were.

Perhaps dangerous social, safety and security issues don't bother "homefront" Liberals, like the e-mailer who suggested I talk to Conservatives to end Liberal name-calling. But, in a foundering state that's literally going down the tubes with liberal socialism run wild, these insane handouts are progressive steps toward insolvency and chaos.

The blooming Culture War isn't Muslim versus the West, it's self-hating neo-socialists ready to spend other people's money and drive the society and economy into the ground - as the examples above clearly illustrate.

Sadly, this beautiful state, which I adopted as my second home years ago, is now being torn apart by wild-eyed, Utopia-seeking fools.

And, as with Fundamentalist Muslims being only a small BUT VERY LOUD percentage of all Muslims, the Guilty Liberal activists out here may be only a small percentage of all U.S. Liberals, but they are setting a course to the destruction of our society and economy, one state at a time.

If the e-mail writer and her congenial Liberal friends would like to take another look for epitet-spewing Liberals on the web, I suggest they skim the 1-star reviews of Conservative books on Amazon.com.