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John McCain was on CNN, continuing his campaign
to be the liberals' favorite conservative. McCain has
begun to abandon his Western conservative, pro-gun position.
But McCain went further. He said that the solution to
gun violence wasn't ONLY the suppression of gun ownership.
McCain said that gun restrictions were not enough. He
wants to push another, deadlier liberal initiative.
Another thing that is to blame for gun violence, says
McCain, is the fact that "Hate" sites are allowed
on the Internet. What liberal could possibly disagree
with that? Liberals say they favor freedom of speech,
but not if it promotes "HATE."
Liberals want to ban "Hate" sites, but they
would not ban pornography sites. Why? Liberals say we
cannot ban pornographic sites because my definition of
pornography is different from yours. So, they say, who's
to judge what is pornographic?
So if this is true, then who is to judge what "Hate"
is?
Liberals, of course.
Liberals routinely refer to Rush Limbaugh and Gordon Liddy
as Hate Radio. By using the same word as liberals, McCain
infers that he will join them in banning these "Hate"
sites, too. How exactly are we to limit what liberals
can ban?
Do you think any respectable conservative is going to
have brains or guts enough to demand that a liberal DEFINE
what Hate is?
No way, Jose.
Respectable conservatives are always agreeing with liberals
that "racism" must be stamped out totally, no
matter what the cost. As I have repeatedly pointed out,
NO CONSERVATIVE HAS EVER HAD THE COURAGE TO DEMAND THAT
A LIBERAL DEFINE EXACTLY WHAT HE MEANS BY "RACISM"!
All liberals have to do is use a word and respectable
conservatives will give them anything they want. Leftists
just declare they are stamping out anything they choose
to call Hate, and that they are for Love and Brotherhood,
and no respectable conservative dares to question them.
After all, if you ask for definitions or any other reality
check, you are labeled anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
Labels are more important than anything else to respectable
conservatives.
Respectable conservatives are desperate to be accepted
by liberals. They want to believe whatever will make them
acceptable to liberals. Here we have the essence of Wordism.
Wordism is the opposite of nationalism. A Wordist believes
that people can be united only if they believe the right
thing, if they accept the right words as the Only True
Faith. A Communist is a Wordist. A fanatical Catholic
or a fanatical Protestant is a Wordist. A Politically
Correct person is a Wordist. A Wordist is a person who
believes he has The Only True Belief, and that you must
believe in his words to belong to his nation (See May
15 article, "Wordism").
There are tens of THOUSANDS of forms of Wordism. There
are thousands of religions, and each religion has its
Wordists, people whose only serious loyalty is to that
religion. They are the opposite of nationalists. There
are thousands of secular philosophies. Every philosophy
has its Wordists. There are thousands of political philosophies.
Every political philosophy has its Wordists. And every
one of those Wordists believes that he has The Only True,
Universal Faith.
Nationalism is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of
birth. Wordism is a matter of OPINION. If you say that
America is nothing but some words in the Declaration of
Independence or the Constitution, you are saying America
is just a matter of opinion (Please see October 31, 1998,
"Five Words and Emma Lazarus").
If America is a matter of opinion, then it must insist
on Political Correctness. A country that is based on nothing
but opinion cannot allow a diversity of opinions.
Nationalism is just the opposite. A nation does not require
everybody to have a common opinion. People are part of
a nation because of their birth -- the word "nation"
is based on the Latin word for "birth." There
may be immigrants, some adoptions into the family, but
there is no such thing as "a nation of immigrants"
(Please see July 3 article, "Why
Wordists Love to Say 'That's What America Is All About'").
Because nationalism does not depend on opinion for its
unity, a real nation can allow diversity of opinion. Unlike
its exact opposite, Wordism, nationalism allows diversity
of opinion within and variety without.
It never occurs to the people of a real nation that they
are The Only True Nation. The fact that one is a nationalist
presupposes that there are OTHER nations. My nationalism
presupposes that mine is one of a number of legitimate
nations into which the world is naturally divided.
People who recognize each other as fellow citizens of
the same nation can accept enormous differences in religion.
They can tolerate huge differences in every kind of belief
and still work together as parts of the same nation. In
the Confederate Army, the strongly Catholic French population
of New Orleans fought side-by-side with the strongly Calvinist
descendants of the Huguenots. We were all loyal to the
Confederate States of America, and that was enough.
The bottom line is that a Wordist cannot allow serious
dissent. If your unity is only based on a form of Wordism,
no REAL disagreement can be allowed. Wordism means that
everyone has to AGREE, or Wordist "unity" collapses.
As leftism takes over America, you cannot be an American
unless you are Politically Correct. Liberals keep saying
that some form of Political Correctness is "what
America is all about." As leftist Wordism takes over,
they are perfectly correct. As people like McCain insist,
America is no longer about freedom. It is all about Fighting
Hate.
You cannot have Wordism or Universalism unless you are
willing to use words like Hate and Racism to crush all
serious disagreement.
To the Wordist, Love and Brotherhood means, "You
agree with me." To liberals and to Senator John McCain,
Hate means you disagree with Political Correctness. Liberals
and respectable conservatives talk endlessly about "diversity."
But the fact is that any real diversity, any diversity
of THOUGHT, will eventually be labeled Hate, as in "Hate
Radio."
The fact that nations can tolerate diverse opinions and
the existence of other nations has been the basis of Western
society. The slaughter and oppression of the religious
wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries only ended
when the nation-state took over. In the sixteenth and
early seventeenth centuries, Europe was almost destroyed.
Wordist Catholics and Wordist Protestants tried to force
The Only True Faith on each other, and TENS OF MILLIONS
of people were slaughtered!
It is estimated that a quarter of the population of Germany
died in the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648, alone! If you
represent the Only True Faith, you cannot tolerate the
very existence of other opinions. Until the True Faiths
lost power, and the nation-state took over, there could
be no tolerance of other opinions.
Finally, the nation-states took over Europe, and the slaughter
ended.
In the Middle East, the only form of identity is still
religious identity. In the Middle East, the massacre of
Sunni by Shiite, of Moslem by Christian, the life and
death struggle of Jew and Islam, all continue. Nowhere
on earth is there a more desperate need to get rid of
the Wordist evil than in the Middle East. They need nations,
and they need them desperately.
Whenever nationalism goes wrong, it is because nationalism
has been perverted into Wordism. Hitler's "nationalism"
was actually a Wordist philosophy. Like all forms of Universalism,
like all forms of Wordism, it eventually had to rest on
brute force. Hitler's National Socialism was The Only
True Faith, so it could not tolerate other opinions.
In the Middle East, all the self-styled "nationalist"
rulers claim to represent The Only True Faith, whatever
form of Islam the dictator happens to favor. Whenever
you find an evil form of nationalism, you will find it
is actually some kind of Wordism.
The first thing any decent form of nationalism must do
is to DUMP THE POLITICAL POPES. God be praised, Western
nationalism outgrew this Political Papacy insanity over
three centuries ago. It should be permanently banished
to the Middle East where it belongs. Every decent person
will pray that the Middle East, too, will grow out of
it.
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