SEEK AND DESTROY | 2007-02-19
The two pieces below, and a major part of my work, consists of making people take a new look at themselves. I watched while the word "liberal" went from everybody's favorite label to an abandoned term, all in a decade or two.
And during that decade or two, liberals had absolute control of all means of communication outside of very local newspapers in the South and West. There were NO, repeat NO alternative media AT ALL.
So how did this seemingly hopeless attack on "liberal" in the time John Kennedy took office make it a word you didn't US after 1972?
Simple: "Liberal" went from MAKING YOU LOOK like an idealist to making you look like a traitor and a fool. As long as the anti-racist or the pro-Communist or the libertarian LOOKS like an idealist or an intellectual, they will be out in force.
THAT is the vital function that respectable conservatives perform. Respectable conservatives began to populate the media at the exact moment that liberalism was becoming a laughing-stock. Suddenly every liberal was paired with a Faithful Conservative Companion.
I distinctly remember that, in the 1950s and early 60s, you would have two liberal Republicans and three liberal Democrats. I remember being in Washington at a Young Republican Leadership Conference when Jack Paar had William Buckley on his program. It was shocking at the time!
In fact, abut half the audience got up and walked out when Buckley left and Paar shouted, "I KNEW this wasn't my regular audience!" But back then everybody was aware what his regular New York audience was. Can you imagine someone making such a self-revealing statement today?
That is where things were in 1962. One conservative on a late-night talk show was revolutionary. By 1972 every liberal had his Faithful Conservative Companion.
And it was accomplished, not by new arguments alone, but by new arguments SUPPLEMENTED BY IMAGE-BREAKING. You cannot let the other guy walk away with his image intact. He is NOT an idealist. He is NOT worth listening to. He is Mommy Professor's robot. He hates his own people and wants them destroyed.
Do not seek and correct. Seek and DESTROY.