THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

SEA CHANGE II | 2005-11-21

Peter asks, "What do we do when the sea changes?"

Let us start with what we are doing now. Apparently a lot of people think that if they breathlessly report that Bush lied or the Iraq War is wrong, the public will suddenly wake up and react.

And that all goes back to the fact that an insect is smarter than a college professor.

In this case I am talking about respectable conservative college professors.

As I said on one of my radio programs, the difference between the EverReady Man and aninsect is that if an EverReady Man hits a chair leg, it just keeps going and going and going...

Insects, who had to SURVIVE, learned to go AROUND the table leg or stump a billion years ago.

So waht we see now is a giant table leg, an established establishment which is immovable. So we keep going and going and going...

Conservatives get paid for that.

Remember, things jump out at me that others don't even notice.

I will NEVER forget that Ross Perot, nutcase that he is, almost overthrew the presidential electoral process in America by accident. On one of hte least-watched national television shows in America Larry King asked Ross Perot if he would run for president in 1992.

Perot said yes. The next thing he knew he was leading both Carter and President Bush in all the elction polls. He was on the ballot in all 50 states.

Perot didn't have to lift a finger.

Perot is no radical. He dropped out of the race on a nutcase excuse.

But everybody else has forgotten the incident. Bob hasn't.

Everybody else sees a table leg. I see a system that is teetering on the edge.

See next chapter above.

THE COMMUNIST LABEL IS PROVEN; THE NAZI LABEL IS DISPROVEN | 2011-05-22

One main thing respectable conservatives get paid for is FORGETTING.

McCarthyism is a term seldom used today, but the fact is that everybody McCarthy called a Communist WAS a Communist.. When the USSR fell, the titanic KGB files were opened up. Even the ones Buckley denied were Communists turned out to be right there.

Our local liberal newspaper, it belongs to a chain, had a front page article announcing that Alger Hiss, the one Nixon caught, had NOT been found in the files.

Then he was.

Conservatives have long since stopped mentioning this. It is too embarrassing to liberals, and not being too embarrassing to liberals is what makes one respectable.

And PAID.

On the other hand, when German files were opened at the end of World War II, every newspaper in America would have welcomed word that people like Lindbergh were Nazi agents.

No way, Jose, Errol Flynn either.

We keep getting called Nazis, but the only claims that were ever PROVEN were that American leftists worked as freely with the Communists as the most fanatical McCarthyite would have claimed.

Lately highly redacted intelligence reports have shown that Ted Kennedy was working with the Reds on a number of fronts.

If you hold your breath until respectable conservatives even MENTION that you will suffocate.

Respectable conservatives are busy calling US Nazis.

It astonished me when the X-Files had Darren McGaven playing an old FBI agent who said "Of COURSE there were Communists in the State Department, HUNDREDS of them." The whole episode turned on the fact that the reason they were NOT found out was because the Aliens didn't want them to be!

This is a secret only kept by respectable conservatives.

In fact I once explained what happened to all the John Birch and McCarthyite Communists charges of the 1950s. In the 1960s, they went public. In the Radical Sixties, all the Communists came out and in anti-Vietnam rallies carried the Viet Cong banner.

You would have played hell before finding an America First rally in 1940 carrying a swastika.

Jane Fonda praised Communism as did the rest of the "anti-War" spokesmen.

There is a difference between being against the American entry into World War II and carrying a swastika in wartime. There is a difference between opposing an undeclared war and carrying the banner in American streets under which American soldiers are being killed.

But no respectable conservative will ever mention it.

EXAMPLES | 2002-05-11

What if every child were required to spend eight years in military school? What if those same kids ended up being militarists and fascists? The connection would seem a bit obvious, right?

So our teachers, who call themselves "Intellectuals," tell us how a Truly Just Society is to be run. Here are some predictable things they say

Businessmen are Evil. What we need to do is to turn economics over to the Planners and the professors. This never works, but kids keep marching for it, especially at European universities. Has it ever occurred to anybody that for a university student to be a socialist is as inevitable as it would be for an entire generation sent to military school to be militarists?

So we have younger generations that have the terminal sillies. They insist that criminals are really nice people who have been perverted by Society. What we need, they say, is huge Rehabilitation programs planned by Criminologists. And the Europeans are still on the street demanding this as their crime rate climbs out of sight.

Once you start thinking in these terms, it is as revealing as suddenly finding out about supply and demand. Everything we call "leftist" is simply what college professors would professionally prefer.

And notice that every school child knows all about the biases of military men, businessmen, doctors, and every other profession. But never once does anybody point out that teachers -- and your teachers' professors -- have just as many biases that are just as natural.

Have you ever heard anybody even MENTION this possibility?