THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

MIDDLE OF THE ROAD STRATEGY DOESN'T WORK BECAUSE HALF SANE IS NOT SANE | 2001-06-09

One of the constant dangers that psychiatrists have to be warned about is the natural tendency to enter into the delusions of their patients. That way lies madness - literally.

In other words, if a patient comes into a doctor's office claiming that a giant purple mosquito is sitting on his shoulder, the doctor does not seek a compromise. He does not offer to say, for example, that they can agree that it is a SMALL mosquito and it is GRAY mosquito. The patient would never get well, and the doctor would be institutionalized.

That is why it so critical, so vital, that we keep repeating this mantra: NOTHING THAT LIBERALS PROPOSE EVER WORKS (all of Whitaker Online Archives, passim).

Liberals take the very conservative idea of keeping the air clean and turn it into a demand that bureaucrats take over every aspect of American life. This despite the fact that the most bureaucratically controlled countries in history, the USSR and China and Communist Eastern Europe, are absolute environmental disasters.

Liberals take constitutional due process and turn it into complete sentiment with criminals over victims. They all used to say that the most efficient economy is one owned and run by the government.

Not to put too fine a point on it, liberals are nutcases.

These are the sort of issues that media commentators keep telling us that Republicans should compromise on.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, these are the very issues that have discredited the word "liberal" to the point where even old-line liberals call themselves "moderate" or "progressive." This was accomplished by attacking liberals as traitorous and insane, not by entering into liberal delusions with them.

Liberals want us to stop doing that.

When the right goes after the left tooth and tong, and shows how ridiculous leftists are, they win. Republicans did this with Reagan in 1980 and 1984. They did it under Gingrich in 1994. They won as "extremists" and they lost when they bumbled back repeatedly into the "middle of the road" nonsense.

Liberalism is Blame America First, it is anti-white, it is pro-criminal, and its only consistent demand is for more bureaucratic control and more government. In the long run, you can only win by attacking all that frontally.

Moderation -- the "middle of the road" -- means that you enter into all the liberal illusions with them, and act as if leftist silliness is good solid logic that you need to listen to and compromise with.

CNN's Bill Schneider will keep demanding that Republicans go "middle of the road." Jerry Ford and all the other Republican halfwits will chant "middle of the road" till they croak.

And the Dumb Old Party will keep trying it and losing.

HAPPY SEASON! | 1999-12-25

I want everyone who sends out "Season's Greetings" cards to think about this: what would you think of someone who saved some of these cards, and send them out to their Jewish friends at Passover? It would be bad manners, wouldn't it?

You see, Passover is not just another "season" to Jews. It is one of the two most important Jewish holidays. So you wouldn't send a "Season's Greetings" card to a Jew at Passover because Jews have feelings. Fortunately Christians don't have feelings, so you can send all the "Season's Greetings" cards you want to at Christmas.

Almost every time I get a Christmas card from another Christian it has the salutation, "Season's Greetings." No Jew is going to see the card, but it is assumed that the Jewish population will be comforted knowing that no one is saying "Merry Christmas" behind their backs. Do Jews really stay awake at night worrying that Christians may be saying "Merry Christmas" to each other? None of the Jews that I know ever did.

But no one who formulates Political Correctness cares a fig what real, flesh-and-blood Jews worry about. Those demanding that the Confederate flag come down say their only concern is that it offends black people. Polls of real black people do not indicate that the main concern of black people in South Carolina is the Confederate flag. There is no evidence that most blacks were offended by it or even concerned about it until their "leaders" told them to be ( See October 30, 1999 article, "What the Flag Boycott Really Means.").

And those black leaders were following liberal orders. This sort of Political Correctness uses minorities as an excuse. But their real aim is to dictate the behavior of the white Christian majority. The aim of Political Correctness is power, pure and simple. Today we have the once free American population blubbering excuses and begging to be told what they are allowed to say and how they are allowed to say it.

Saying what we damned well pleased used to be the hallmark of an American. For those who wanted to rule us, this proud free speech was the first obstacle they had to overcome. If you doubt it has been overcome, look at the cards you receive on December 25, and count the number that refer to Christmas by name.

Happy Season!

HINT 1: WHAT THE MEDIA CALL "RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS" ARE AMERICA'S HISTORIC ALLIES | 2001-09-27

To liberals, the term "freedom of religion" means that one does not take religion seriously. If a Baptist says something bad about Catholics or vice versa, a liberal says he is against religious freedom.

In actual fact there is no religious freedom if you are prevented from making a PURELY RELIGIOUS STATEMENT, no matter how extreme it may be.

Americas' religious freedom is important precisely because we take our religion so seriously. It is the right of a Bob Jones to say all Catholics are going to Hell. It is the right of an American Catholic to say that there is no salvation outside his One True Church. See September 9, 2000 - THE UN DECIDES TO "USE" RELIGION.

For generations, the most steadfast allies America has had, both at home and abroad, have been the very people our media call "religious extremists." Almost the only people who denounced Joseph Stalin in the 1940s were Protestant fundamentalists and conservative Catholics.

This is also true of non-Christian resistance to our enemies.

After fifty years of armed victory, Soviet armies were finally stopped and almost destroyed in Afghanistan -- by religious extremists. Osama Bin Ladin gave up life as a billionaire businessman in Saudi Arabia. He went to Afghanistan and put his life on the line against those who were invading Moslem territory, which he looked upon as blasphemous. In that country all of the real anti-Communist fighters were "religious extremists."

The Buddhist Dali Lama is the symbol of resistance to Communism in Tibet.

As more than one conservative Jewish writer has pointed out, the media culture takes it for granted that the words "liberal" and "Jewish" are interchangeable. But even among Jews the group which is most deadly serious about its faith, the Hassidim, votes solidly conservative.

So now the line is that Bin Laden and his Islamic fundamentalist followers have no goal but the destruction of America. According to today's media line they want to come over here and destroy us because we are "free and rich and good."

Does that really make sense to anybody?

THE WRONG FEET ARE THE SAME TODAY AS THEY WERE IN THE SIXTIES | 2003-01-11

Actually all those campus protests in the 1960s had nothing to do with political leftism. The day that the military draft disappeared was the day that students totally lost interest in anti-war protesting.

What happened to the fashionable war protests in the 1960s was exactly what happened to the fashionable campaign against profiling after September 11, 2001.

Until the Vietnam War got serious, nobody minded the draft much. Working people got drafted but anyone who mattered could get an exemption by going to college or something.

During the Vietnam War very few upper income people were drafted and even fewer were forced into combat. But in the 1960s the slightest threat to the comfort of the class of people who fly commercial airliners today caused a major political explosion.

Even a hint of a serious military draft could cause a political revolution, and a serious draft has been politically impossible for decades.

Now if there is any kind of draft, Congressman Rangel has put liberal fingerprints all over it. He is stupid enough to be a respectable conservative.