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The movie The Sound of Music performed
a very useful function for the political left. The
whole plot revolved around the "fact"
that the von Trapp family couldn't get official
permission to leave Nazi Austria. The drama was
that they had to escape from Nazi Austria over the
mountains.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the von Trapp
family just got on a train and rode to Italy.
They never had the slightest problem leaving Nazi
Austria.
But in the post-World War II world, when The Sound
of Music was produced, every single Communist country
had walls and mines at its borders. Anyone who tried
to leave a COMMUNIST dictatorship -- and I am talking
about CUBA TODAY - was and is shot down in cold
blood!
So The Sound of Music said that ALL dictatorships
did that. In the real world, not even totalitarian
governments like Hitler's had ever done such a thing
before in all of history! The absolutely insane
idea of constructing a major military defense along
all of your OWN borders to keep your people IN was
something that began with Communism. Only the left
has to kill its people to keep millions of them
from running away as soon as they possibly can.
When the left actually puts all its silly cliches
into force, the entire population tries to escape.
It is critical to the let that this profound historical
truth be ignored, because they are still trying
to sell those SAME silly cliches today. *
One of the major functions of the respectable right
is to help the left keep people from repeating historical
truths like this. So when The Sound of Music assigned
this completely leftist crime to the Nazis, no one
dared say a word.
In fact, as far as I know, I am the only person
who has EVER dared to say a word about this. Any
rightist who points this out will be called anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
If being called anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews
- for the millionth time - doesn't stop the rightist,
this will: liberals will just tell him he is being
a bore.
He will usually stop immediately.
If that doesn't work, liberals will get another
conservative to insist that this one stop repeating
himself. Nobody is more desperate to do the liberals'
will than a conservative who is trying to prove
to liberals that he is being reasonable. Conservatives
trying to look good in public are the best friends
the left has in the world. **
To be accepted as part of the "cool" crowd,
conservatives will cut ANYBODY'S throat. So conservatives
never repeat anything that hurts liberals.
What happens if a conservative breaks that rule?
When I worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, Congressman
John Ashbrook used to do it. We were up against
a huge Democratic majority in both Houses of Congress,
and the Democratic Carter Administration in the
White House, but we stopped them cold time after
time.
In the late 1970's, the BATF under President Carter
tried to sneak in complete gun control. They put
through a rule which registered, not guns, but ammunition.
When we got BATF representatives in front of the
Subcommittee on Crime, of which Ashbrook was ranking
Republican member, he asked them, "Is this
a first step toward registering all weapons?"
The BATF reps gave the usual long, rambling answer
they gave to all conservatives. In every other case,
once they finished this ramble, the conservatives
would go on to another topic.
But John Ashbrook was different. After they had
finished their usual evasion, he asked, "Is
this a first step toward registering all weapons?"
They gave another long answer, so John Ashbrook
asked, "Is this a first step toward registering
all weapons?"
Another long, rambling reply.
Other Republicans on the committee, of course, now
began to attack Ashbrook for being such a bore.
As I said, the people liberals can always depend
on to crush needed repetition are good old conservative
coward-morons.
Fortunately, John didn't give a damn what they thought.
So he asked, "Is this a first step toward registering
all weapons?"
After six or seven repetitions, he finally got a
clear "No" out of them.
Then he put them UNDER OATH!
And, despite the hateful glares of his conservative
colleagues, he asked them the following question:
"Is this a first step toward registering all
private weapons?
And they said Yes!
And that particular Carter scheme began to die that
day.
The tactic worked. And one thing you can depend
on with respectable conservatives: they will never
repeat a tactic that works.
Here, in short, we have a major reason why the modern
right loses. Here we have the reason that the right
will lose EVERYTHING. It boils down to this simple
point:
The left repeats whatever hurts the right. The right
never repeats anything that hurts the left.
Liberals are always talking about how evil Hitler
was. If any rightist says anything even vaguely
good about the white race, leftists tear them to
pieces by comparing them to Nazis. But when a leftist
talks about how "idealistic" the New Left
of the 1960s was, no rightist dares say a bad word
about it. But, this wonderful, "idealistic"
New Left carried around Communist flags all the
time!
No rightist ever says a single word.
Now, what if a single rightist group carried a single
SWASTIKA anywhere in one of ITS parades?
The left would tear its guts out. And respectable
conservatives would demand the right to lead the
lynch mob. You see, the left takes hold of something
evil the right does, and it hangs on mercilessly.
The left keeps the right in a permanent state of
terror.
Just how many times have you heard the phrase, "Hitler
killed Six Million Jews?" I have heard the
left repeat it about a thousand times, at least.
Now, why do you think the left repeats that phrase
so many times?
Stalin killed fifty million people. In peacetime.
Mao killed more. Also in peacetime.
Nobody cares.
But we have all heard Six Million Jews just about
six million times. Why? Because it keeps the right
in a permanent state of terror. "Six Million
Jews" underlies every public political discussion
in this country. In every conversation, all a liberal
has to do is mention the word "racist,"
or even hint at it, and every conservative goes
into a state of terror and apologizes for absolutely
anything the leftist wants him to apologize for.
Why?
Because Hitler was a racist, and Hitler killed Six
Million Jews.
Does it work? It's working right now!
We have just watched the Republican Party denounce
thousands of its most loyal and active potential
supporters, the Council of Conservative Citizens,
because of that one phrase: Six Million Jews.
The process went this way:
1) Spokesmen who belonged to The Council of Conservative
Citizens announced they believed the book The Bell
Curve, which says that there is a large hereditary
IQ gap between the average American black and the
average American white. As a matter of fact, there
is not a single literate person in America, black
or white, who does NOT believe The Bell Curve is
right about innate IQ differences. It was the fact
that the authors of The Bell Curve actually dared
SAY what everybody knows that infuriated liberals.
Liberals had said that anyone who published this
evidence was anaziwhowantedtokillsixmillionjews.
They assumed that they had everybody too terrified
to do it again.
Liberals had assumed that ALL conservatives had
been terrified out of ever printing the vast array
of proof of innate racial IQ differences. So they
exploded in fury when The Bell Curve came out.
So, when someone dared to say it again, they concentrated
on prohibiting anyone from endorsing it.
2) When the CCC endorsed the book,
the ADL screamed that the CCC was a bunch of naziswhowanttokillsixmillionjews.
So the Republican Party denounced them. Liberals
use the naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews tactic
for a very good reason: It always works!
So the left knows how to use the sins of the far
right.
What does the right do with the sins of the far
left?
Communists, and ONLY Communists, built a vast defensive
work around EVERY ONE of their countries, and they
shot anyone down in cold blood who tried to escape
from them.
The New Left praised by today's liberals routinely
carried Communist flags in its marches. Have you
ever heard ANY conservative even MENTION that fact?
Me neither.
Please note I just said MENTION. I didn't say REPEAT
that fact, the way the left would repeat and repeat
and REPEAT the use of a swastika by any rightist.
I just said have you ever heard a conservative MENTION
this when a leftist praises the New Left of the
1960s?
Don't hold your breath.
Conservatives are too busy denouncing the Council
of Conservative Citizens to mention Communists shooting
people down in cold blood for trying to escape them.
You can say what you want to about Hysterical Bill
Press on Crossfire, but you can never accuse him
of letting any conservative get away with anything
the left chooses to call Heresy.
What happens when Pat Buchanan or some other accepted
conservative spokesman gets hold of a point? He
mentions it once or twice, and then, once it starts
to bother the liberal, he moves to something else.
I am not saying Pat won't repeat things. He simply
doesn't repeat anything that makes liberals uncomfortable.
When it comes to sounding like a religious nutcase,
Pat will repeat himself endlessly. It is only when
he is making a point that makes liberals uncomfortable
that he wants to seem reasonable.
What happens if a conservative does repeat something
that bothers liberals?
The other conservative will be the first to tell
him he is becoming a bore. If this sounds unrealistic,
I challenge you to observe closely when such debates
take place.
Stalin killed over FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE.
And Stalin killed most of his people IN PEACETIME!
Of course nobody ever says that. That's my point.
The perfect time to bring up these sins of the left
would be when liberals repeat Six Million Jews.
How often do conservatives ever do that?
The bottom line is that the left never misses an
opportunity to make its point against the extreme
right, and to use it to keep everybody on the right
crawling.
Instead of making our even stronger case against
the far left at every opportunity, we crawl.
That's why they win, and we lose.
And that is why, if we keep doing what we are doing,
we will lose EVERYTHING.
*Please see November 21 article,
"It Doesn't Work"
**Please See October
3 article "Respectable
Conservatives, they're Just Bureaucrats"
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