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December 10, 2006
Hegemonism: A Deadly Strain of Moonbattery
J.R. Dunn asks an excellent question. How is it possible that only a few short years after the atrocities of September 11, the Left has managed to turn a large part of the country against the War on Terror? The answer: through a strain of moonbattery Dunn calls hegemonism.
Dunn describes the healthy upsurge of patriotism after the attacks — and the sickening spectacle of watching it wither as liberals eat away at our spirit from within, endlessly repeating shallow mantras like "blood for oil," tirelessly rubbing the freak occurrences at Abu Ghraib in our faces, using their dominance of academia, the news media, and the entertainment industry to chew away like termites at our belief in what we are. By now they have the average American buying into the ridiculous notion that the war in Iraq has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism. More than a few have even been convinced that our own government was behind 9/11.
This appalling display of mass brainwashing was made possible by what Dunn calls "fifty years of conditioning that any and all American activities overseas, whether diplomatic, commercial, or military, are fundamentally illegitimate." This is the "hegemonist" doctrine that all American initiatives — even attempting to defend ourselves from Arab terrorists after 9/11 — are solely motivated by a sadistic desire to impose an oppressive hegemony on the rest of the world on behalf of sinister cabals like Big Oil or The Neocons.
The doctrine was developed during the Cold War to allow liberals to do what they could to advance the triumph of totalitarian communism over freedom and democracy. Even after their beloved Evil Empire collapsed, progressives kept the doctrine alive in academia, the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, and the Democratic Party, where despite being demonstrably false, hegemonism has managed to become the officially correct point of view by appealing to the base instincts of the weak. In Dunn's words:
It was a doctrine that appealed to fundamental human failings — hatred, envy, smugness, and paranoia.
Hegemonism found fertile soil in the moral and intellectual rot that characterizes our intelligentsia, who reflexively fell back on it when September 11 occurred, with their nauseating bleating about "why they hate us." Then came the Iraqi theater of the War on Terror:
The Iraq War was a godsend for the American left, something they'd have had to invent if it hadn't happened on its own. It allowed the entire War on Terror to be chopped and fit into the already existing intellectual template, enabled all the old slogans to be revived, all the dusty concepts to be trotted out anew. It has turned the overall war, one of the most justified conflicts in this country's history, a belated defensive response against an ugly and murderous enemy, into the traditional shadow play of murderous military officers, bloody-handed CIA operatives, and cackling businessmen, all overseen by a bulging-browed Karl Rove, operating from some Goldfingeresque headquarters buried far beneath the Crawford ranch. The result is a nation slowly edging toward the same paralysis that afflicted it during the 1970s.
Absurd and pernicious as hegemonism may be, it has taken deep root, having been force-fed to us by the liberal elite for half a century:
There are politicians now serving in Congress, intelligence agents investigating overseas threats, diplomats working in embassies, bureaucrats handling the day-to-day business of the government, who fully believe that the country they serve is a criminal enterprise. And this is not even to mention the millions of students, professionals, housewives, officials, clergymen, and citizens of all types who labor under the idea that their country is an international tumor worthy only of defeat and punishment, because they have never heard it argued otherwise. The United States, the most powerful nation in the memory of man, is proving unable to correct a situation that led to the greatest crime ever committed against its citizens because of the doubts and anxieties engendered by this empty dogma.
As in Vietnam, the only enemy in a position to defeat us is not the one our soldiers face on the battlefield, but the enemy within: the smirking, vacuous minions of moonbattery.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 10, 2006 12:35 PM
Comments
Too true. The question is, are we so far gone that we won't even rouse enough to defend ourselves after a major city becomes a glowing cinder, or will we blather hysterically and beg the UN to help us?
It's idiotic that we're having the conversations we're having now; was Iraq a mistake (of course, but not for the reasons the left claims; it wasn't nearly bold and decisive enough), should we talk with Iran/Syria (yes, if only enough to demand surrender, then, when they refuse, to give the 2 wks notice to evacuate their capitols before we lob a tactical on the location) etc.
We're at war with Islam, even if most of us don't want to acknowledge it, and most of them deny it. Most Germans and Japanese probably didn't really care very much about WW2, either. If given the option, they probably wouldn't have invaded Czechoslovakia and bombed Pearl, either. But they weren't opposed to the fight enough to take a stand against those who were fighting in their name. Similarly, the vast majority of Muslims won't take a stand against those who want to kill, convert, or dhimmitize the whole world by force if necessary. Many of them either participate in the fight or support it materially. The only conversations we should be having now are exactly how we attack Islam: Should we put millions of ground troops in the ME? Should we lob tacticals on ME capitols? How draconian should our quarantine be: besides deporting all Muslims here on visas, what should be done about US citizens who embrace Islam?
Posted by: Doc at December 10, 2006 1:46 PM
"It was a doctrine that appealed to fundamental human failings — hatred, envy, smugness, and paranoia."
Don't forget cynicism.
Posted by: Adam at December 10, 2006 3:29 PM
