FrontPage Magazine, Liberalism, Hell on Earth

Moonbat Central, FrontPage Magazine. David Horowitz' neo-con ego booster strikes again.

FrontPage is spewing invective as though Apocolypse nears by the second. Their homepage boasts two liberal-blaming top stories of the Hurricaine: one about Mayor Ray Nagin's failures, one about how the pseudo-socialist liberal American society of welfare rats fueled the post-flood descent into madness. Sound like a Rick Santorum rant about liberalism being the corrosive failure of the State? Good call- because it is. Keep in mind we're talking about Liberalism. Not Communism or Socialism. We're talking about a political ideology that deals directly with John Locke; we're talking about Enlightenment principles of ethics. Things like a basic understanding of human rights. Things like a personal right to choice. Things that literally inspired, out of protest for the opposite, the Declaration of Independence. These guys thing that Liberalism is the acid eating away at America; it is the agent that created America.

The truth of the matter is that Nagin did have failures as a mayor, and we'll discover exactly what those failures would have been. He wasn't able to keep the city's 4 pumps all conditioned for every possiblity; he wasn't able to keep his police force in line. As though the first of those mattered once the second levee burst; as though the second mattered when it became clear that they had no infrastructure, nothing to protect, and nobody was coming to help them.

But, as ProgressNow.org notes, their blog, Moonbat Central, is particularly unseamly. Michael Calderon writes:

The following post is a warning of one of two possibilities for America, an America of a not too distant future that might suffer a terrorist WMD strike. In the aftermath of a terrorist WMD attack that results in the deaths of tens of thousands of our citizens, there is a potential not only for a breakdown in civil order, but perhaps even a small-scale civil war. That possibile outcome I fear is highly probable.

Perhaps it is my reading of Thomas Hobbes combined with my increasingly complex view of human nature, that is that humans are not that good after all. Perhaps it is my reading of leftist bloggers’ and writers’ posts that revel in America’s pain so long as it is the wrong America, i. e. Red States America that suffers. Or perhaps it is the psychotic level of dementia and hatred directed at President Bush. But whatever the source, I am deeply pessimistic about this country’s future. The left has done a number on America for over forty-plus years. And if we suffer an attack that overshadows 9/11, and if the left responds with "blame America" and "we had it coming," there’s a good chance that Americans will spill other Americans’ blood. If John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau had it right, then the better angels of our nature will prevail. I fear Hobbes may have been closer to the essence of the human soul, and that we will see the Hobbesian future before we ever (if we ever) see utopia.

This is incredible invective. In his introduction to this blog post he states that Leftists simple hatred of everything right will inevitably lead to Liberals attempting to kill Conservatives. I can't believe this. His belief is so unstudied, so obcene: he's attempting to connect the core ideas of liberalism with a blame-America left that causes a descent into chaos after a devastating attack, such as experienced in the wake of Katrina.

He neglects to assume that generations of liberalism's failures for these people, many of whom were two times under the level of poverty in America, entrenched them in a world of pain and neglect. After Katrina, what do these people possibly have? Many of them, including the ones who fired upon the authorities, acted just as individualistic and insane as refugees in Somalia and many third world countries, rejecting that which has for their lives ignored their every need, and now attempts to help them.

This is a sociological ordeal of the highest degregradation. This is not a decent into the madness of liberalism.

More of this guy's bizarre logic:

The ongoing meltdown in New Orleans, though not entirely surprising given the corrupt, inept nature of Louisiana State and New Orleans’ local governments, respectively, is astounding to the degree and extent of incompetence. It is incompetence par excellence. Of note is the fact that the Democratic Party has dominated Louisiana’s politics since at least 1880.

Are you idiotic, Liberal AntiCentoniacs able to follow this higher logic? The city flooded, and fell into chaos, because they've been steeped in local democratic politics since 1880. This has rendered their infrastructure to be inadequate; their planning to be meaningless; and their leadership to be inept.

In fact, to further his argument, he points out, rather racistly:

The four most incompetently “managed” cities in America – Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. – all have two things in common; large populations of African Americans who are the victims of forty years of paternalistic, patronizing liberal policies, and African American leaders who have reached their positions of responsibility via affirmative action policies. New Orleans now reaps the whirlwind of incompetent leadership promoted to power via the channels of affirmative action school admissions and public sector racially biased hiring politics.

Any discussion of the racial difficulties and inequalities of the school system would fall on deaf ears here. Any discussion of the deep American connection in the race/class divide would be deemed irrelevent.

Now, for a surprise: I'm going to near-agree with his core argument about al Queda in the same way that I agree with Bill O'Reilly.

Calderon's main fear in this article is that, given another 9/11 caliber or greater terrorist attack, the US will be unable to cope. The system itself is corroded; the lack of planning, the inept abilities, the shortsighted, uncreative responses are the core failures of the event. I agree with this.

What I don't agree with is the concept that Liberalism is to blame- this is asinine. The failures of liberalism, the simple idea that every citizen deserves protection and assistence, that every citizen has a right to food, water, aid, health care. These are the core values that have been corrupted and removed from our culture. Last I checked, it wasn't Liberals who were removing them.