THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 14, January 12, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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GIFFORDS EPISODE UNLEASHES LEFTIST VENOM
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT AS THE TRULY UGLY SEGMENT OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM IN THE U.S.A.: THE
TUCSON SHOOTING & THE HIDEOUS BEHAVIOR OF THE MONOLITHIC & REPREHENSIBLE LEFTWING LIBERAL POLITICAL
MACHINE & ITS LAPDOGS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA -- DISSEMINATION OF POLITICAL PROPAGANDA DESIGNED BY THE
LEFTISTS TO LINK AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES WITH THE MINDSET & ACTIONS OF THE PSYCHOTIC GUNMAN IN ARIZONA
-- THE BLITZKRIEG OF LIES, DISTORTIONS, & ACCUSATIONS LAUNCHED BY LEFTISTS SEEKING TO PAINT CONSERVATIVES AS
BEING SOMEHOW COMPLICIT IN MOTIVATING THE ACTS OF THE HOMICIDAL NUTCASE WHO SHOT CONGRESSWOMAN
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS -- UNABATING LIBERAL HYSTERIA, CONDEMNING CONSERVATIVES IN THE HARSHEST OF TERMS &
DEMANDING THAT THEY HENCEFORTH BE SILENCED BY WHATEVER GOVERNMENTAL POWER CAN BE INVOKED FOR THIS
PURPOSE -- LIBERALS ENDEAVORING TO DEMONIZE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES & DEPRIVE THEM OF THEIR FREE SPEECH
RIGHTS UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION -- THE COMPLETE LACK OF SINCERITY & CREDIBILITY OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL
LEFT
FULL STORY:
Within hours after last weekend’s horrendous shooting rampage that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded,
including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a truly ugly picture of a segment of America has emerged. It does not
reflect the isolated actions of a lone, crazed gunman in Arizona, but the monolithic behavior of a reprehensible Liberal
political machine and its lapdogs in the major media. Sadly, homicidal maniacs have plagued the human race since Cain.
Such shameless propagandizing, in contrast, is a relatively new phenomenon.
The disgraceful, but predictable, blitzkrieg of accusations from the nation’s Leftists was in full swing, even before the
splattered blood could be cleaned from the pavement at the Tucson Safeway, where the attack occurred. Without
knowing any of the specifics, Liberals were immediately in front of every camera offering a veritable “who’s who” of
American Conservatives as being somehow complicit in motivating the acts of a solitary mad man.
Since that time, it has become abundantly obvious that “alleged” gunman Jared Loughner was anything but
Conservative, and is much more appropriately aligned with the morally rudderless and nihilistic counterculture that
decries traditional America and its values. Regardless, the calamitous nature of this situation is obviously too valuable
of an opportunity for Liberals to let it pass by, merely because the facts of the situation do not fit their premises of
what ails America.
So, despite the ongoing revelations that daily invalidate any supposed connections between Loughner, Fox News,
Rush Limbaugh or the Tea Party movement, Liberal hysteria is not abating. It is a great time to cry “foul” and point the
finger at every enemy of the political Left, condemning them in the harshest of terms and demanding they henceforth
be silenced by whatever governmental power can be invoked for this purpose. That this is all done under such
sanctimonious auspices as “toning down the harsh rhetoric of recent years” would be comical in its irony, were not
the impending consequences of this effort so dire for the future of the nation.
Fortunately, the modern “minutemen” on the political Right were quick to respond to the situation, rapidly and astutely
anticipating the ghoulish glee and enthusiasm with which the Leftists would seek to exploit this horrendous tragedy,
all for the improvement of their own political fortunes and with total disregard of the facts and the sensibilities of
those whose lives were devastated by it. Though the “nightly news” is devoid of such abundantly available
information, alternative media outlets are overflowing with accounts of truly hateful and incendiary commentary from
Liberals in recent years, which most often failed to elicit even a shred of criticism from those like-minded commentators
who now look down their pious noses at Conservative America and excoriate it in the severest of terms.
That none of this caterwauling bears even the slightest connection to the horrible actualities of the Tucson tragedy,
and, likewise, none of the proposed “remedies” bear even the minutest chance of preventing any similar future
occurrences, is inconsequential. It continues nonetheless. Once the dust settles on all of the appalling grandstanding
and jaundiced media “analysis,” the fate of those who lost their lives or their loved ones is of little consequence, if the
Liberal cause can be advanced.
Clearly the political Left is overplaying its hand. The gratuitous efforts to construct some sort of connection between
the carnage on Saturday and the noble and legitimate concerns of grassroots America, as it confronts the Liberal
encroachment of recent years, have only served to highlight the complete lack of sincerity or credibility among the
Liberal ruling class. By painting with such a broad brush, the Left has ultimately indicted itself to a far greater degree
than has the American heartland which the Left so despises and obsessively strives to impugn and neutralize.
Nevertheless, the current situation, which is far more defined by an exuberant and invigorated Liberal establishment
that believes it can shamelessly exploit a grievous calamity to its own ends than by the initial event itself, should serve
warning to those who would undertake the effort to turn back the Liberal onslaught of the past few years. Real
America must recognize to what depths the Liberal opposition is willing to descend as it struggles to maintain its
dominion.
Conservatives are right to disavow any culpability or association with the Loughner shootings, since no such link
exists. But they must go a step further. They must seize this occasion of baseless Liberal grandstanding and use it to
highlight just how brazenly those on the Left will demagogue any situation, irrespective of substantiating evidence,
to lay claim to the moral “high ground” and thereby advance their morally bankrupt agenda.
Furthermore, no amount of tact, reason, or diplomacy will suffice to convince those who are steeped in the tactics and
philosophies of Marx and Alinsky that the end goal of grassroots Conservatism is an honorable one, only motivated
by the best interests of the country. Despite laughably fraudulent Liberal claims to want “civility in the national
discourse,” no “reasoned discussion” will be allowed or accepted, unless it wholly embraces the Liberal orthodoxy.
Anything else will be summarily consigned to the categories of “hate speech,” “inflammatory rhetoric,” or some other
contemptuous term designed not to illustrate differing philosophies and their benefits or liabilities, but to suppress
and silence every idea that does not comply with Liberal convention.
Real hate does not abide among those who desire to hold their elected officials accountable, but among office holders
who despise and eschew such accountability. Real threats to personal safety, well being, and the future of the nation
do not emanate from citizens who are outraged at the irresponsibility of elected officials, but from the arrogance of
those officials as they attempt to place themselves beyond any liability for their actions.
Venomous and unfounded accusations from Liberal Democrats notwithstanding, it would be a terrible mistake to
accept their heinous premise and, on that basis, relinquish the fate of the nation into their hands.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, Special Interest Groups, & Political Corruption
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state
level for many years, and is a contributing columnist at the new print publication Liberty Ink Journal. His
contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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