Every once in a while, people blab stuff from O'Reilly and other pinheads as examples of the kind of thinking they think all Conservatives think. Here's Fernandez, and he's a thinker I follow with regard to geopolitics and foreign policy. Here, he bonks Obama but good. Emphasis mine.
In the years leading up to the Civil War there was the theory among those who advocated compromise that slavery would gradually fade away and that a direct confrontation was ultimately unnecessary. In a kind of inversion the Left has probably hoped since the 1960s that people would be ‘enlightened’ into voluntarily accepting their intellectual chains.But the Culture Wars and especially the Rise of Islam have shaken that belief to the core. The Culture Wars meant the program wasn’t working. People were pushing back. And with the decline of the MSM and the growing obsolescence of the traditional university it became less obvious that a certain world view could ‘inevitably’ be imposed by cultural indoctrination alone. But I think the advent of radical Islam really told them the clock ticking. If they couldn’t make their vision happen soon, it wouldn’t happen at all. September 11 had the effect of energizing conservatism and usurping the Left self-appointed revolutionary role. The Left was caught between two fires: the conservative hold-outs and the more militant Muslims. But there was a third, largely unrecognized factor which weakened the Left. Globalization. Globalization has made not just Islam but a whole host of non-Marxist authoritarianisms competitive with their monopoly. The Confucian Chinese and the Russian crime-syndicate types of authoritarianism mean their dream of a multilateral EU-style world is far from inevitable. In fact, it means their politically correct world is unlikely to survive in the fact of such brutal competitors. Not only are the demographics and trends are against them, their silly little Fabianism simply won’t work against thugs. You can’t argue “reproductive rights” with radical Islam who will simply decapitate the staff of their abortion clinics. Nor can you blater on about human rights in Moscow, where a bullet in the head answers all arguments. About the only thing the Left is confident of beating is the relatively civilized, Bible-clinging, law-abiding soccer mom. So that’s who they’re going to beat up on. Not any Shi’ite militias or Janjaweeds. None of those. What they’ll take on is Sarah Palin or an old geezer who can’t comb his hair.
I’ve come to believe that the extraordinary rancor associated with the Obama campaign is driven more by anxiety than anything else. They’ve pulled out all the stops, dropped all the masks, dispensed with all the subtlety because this is Last Chance Saloon. They’ll run whatever media they’ve got left into the ground in the hope that if they can just get BHO into the White House, history will stop. But it won’t. BHO’s administration will be about as safe as British New Labor is against militant Islam and Russia in a world without America because the whole guiding principle of BHO is that America is part of the problem, if not the whole problem. Which is to say, that after he succeeds in sawing off the limb, he’ll wait for the tree not the branch to fall. But he’ll be in for a surprise. What’s BHO going to do after he sells both Iraq and Afghanistan down the river? What are the Kos people going to do after they’ve cancelled all advanced combat systems and made it a crime to criticize their shibboleths? What are they going to do after they’ve made every apology and paid every reparation and Hezbollah still wants more? Who’s going to bail out Chavez and Morales after they’ve Mugabeized their countries? Get money from Obama? Basically the Left is up against it and must burn their shirts for a little bit more flash.
They may get it their momentary blaze of glory, but the fire they see will be that of the house burning down. I feel sorry though, for the bystanders of their gotterdammerung.
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