Demonic (30 page)

In the mid-sixties, the Worst Generation burst onto the scene and took over the Democratic Party.

That was the decade that launched legalized obscenity, the birth control pill, student riots, the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Black Panthers. The crime rate skyrocketed as the courts granted ever more elaborate rights to criminals. Prayer and Bible-reading were banned from the public schools. The most privileged, cosseted generation in history began tearing apart the universities. One of every ten universities would be hit. The Aquarius generation turned into a drugged-out hippie cult of Manson family murderers.

In other words, the South began to go Republican about the same time as the Democratic Party went insane.

Another minor issue, even in the fifties, was the Cold War. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, there was growing admiration in the South for the Republicans’ belligerent approach to national security. Southerners are hawks: Sooner or later they were going to join the patriotic party. How long were Southerners going to tolerate a party that ran a peacenik like George McGovern for president in the middle
of a war? Name a Southern university that’s ever banned ROTC before answering that question. (Even Duke has an ROTC program.)

Moreover, if it was hostility to civil rights that drove Southern Democrats into the Republican Party, that shift should have come to a screeching halt by the mid-seventies, when segregation was no longer an issue—thanks to Richard Nixon. But in fact, the South only gradually became Republican over the course of several decades, even flipping back to the Democrats to vote for fellow Southerners Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. The South’s move to the Republican Party was as gradual as the Democrats’ shift from the party of Harry Truman to the party of Rosie O’Donnell.

Even the Wallace vote wasn’t exclusively a segregationist vote. Not everything was about the blacks. Cold War hawks thought Nixon would be soft on communism—correctly—and the Democrats were complete pansies. The great World War II general Curtis LeMay—“Old Iron Pants”—was Wallace’s running mate. LeMay supported integration 100 percent, but he didn’t trust Nixon to be tough enough with the Russkies, so he turned down Nixon’s offer to join his ticket and ran with Wallace instead. LeMay was a Reaganesque Cold Warrior. With the slogan “Bombs Away!,” he was as bellicose toward communism as Goldwater had been in 1964—which explains Wallace’s winning a lot of the same states Goldwater won.

Southerners were not the only demographic that shifted party registration in reaction to the turmoil created by the Worst Generation. In 1972, the whole country became the South. Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” was, in reality, a “landslide strategy.” If you look at the facts, Republicans have been so clearly right about everything, it’s frightening.

Now that the battle for civil rights has been won—the Southern Poverty Law Center is going to have to start placing monitors in people’s homes to ferret out an incident of racism—liberals have suddenly become mighty pugnacious on the matter of of racial equality. (The really great thing about yammering on and on and on, endlessly, day after day, year after year ad infinitum about race is that it pays such big dividends in easing tension between the races.) All these pretend-heroes of the civil rights movement self-righteously claim that any suggestion
that size of government be cut is de facto racist. False, indeed preposterous, accusations of racism are just another way for liberals to whip up the mob.

Obama is hysterically defended from every little criticism as if liberals are at war with the Klan. You know, we could have really used them when Republicans actually were at war with the Klan. But back then, Democratic politicians were pandering to the segregationist mob. On the basis of—let’s see—nothing … liberals labeled the loose-knit group of Tea Partiers “racist.” They broadcast to America: You are not allowed to associate with Tea Partiers. We’ll let you off with a warning this time, but the next time you are caught agreeing with Tea Party people, you’re going to be called a racist, too.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, whose life history betrays little association with black people, fancies himself a hitherto unheralded hero of the civil rights movement. He is a scrupulous bean counter when it comes to the number of blacks at Tea Parties—as if some central Tea Party bureaucracy controls who shows up at their rallies. Inasmuch as blacks vote overwhelmingly Democratic, you wouldn’t expect to see a lot of them at Tea Parties. Still, the Tea Parties are not as white as Chris Matthews’s staff. They’re not as white as a Jon Stewart audience. They are not as white as Janeane Garofalo’s fans.

But night after night, Matthews accuses conservatives of harboring secret racist views, asking, “What are the Tea Partiers really angry about? Health care reform or the fact that it was an African-American president and a woman speaker of the House who pushed through major change?”
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When Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico endorsed Obama, Matthews called it a “stunning picture” to have a very white but technically Latino governor endorsing the half-black Obama.
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In a special tribute to his own post-racial attitude, after Obama’s first State of the Union address, Matthews announced, “You know, I forgot [Obama] was black tonight for an hour.”
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So we know Matthews is down with the brothers. Needless to say, he sends his own kids to white-as-snow private schools. Washington, D.C., is majority black, whereas St. Albans is probably about 3 percent black. Matthews had to go to a lot of trouble to get his kids into a school like that. It’s not Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. So Matthews may not be the best
person to be hectoring Tea Partiers, “How dare you not have black people at your rallies!”

The placid acceptance of glaring contradictions is the essence of mob behavior, according to Le Bon. Neither Matthews nor the rest of the herd grasp any inconsistency between Matthews’s personal behavior and his blustery public accusations against others. He is “in reality under the influence of anterior ideas, that have become sentiments, and it is such ideas alone that influence the more recondite motives of our acts and utterances. It cannot be otherwise in the case of crowds.”
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Also on the Republican racism beat is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. (Because if a Jewish lesbian doesn’t speak for the black man, then I don’t know who does.) On September 21, 2009, Rachel Maddow introduced a video as if she were presenting a snuff film, saying, “Behold, a Missouri congressman, candidate for U.S. Senate, … telling what seems to be a really long, meandering, gut-churning racist joke.”

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

Representative Roy Blunt (R, Missouri):
Supposedly it’s the turn of the 19th century, the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century, there was a group of British occupiers in a very lush, very quiet, very peaceful, very uneventful part of India. And this group of British soldiers who were occupying that part of India decided they’d carve a golf course out of the jungle of India. And there was really not much else to do. So, for over a year, this was the biggest event going on getting this golf course created.
   And they got the golf course done and almost from the day the first ball was hit on this golf course, something happened they didn’t anticipate. Monkeys would come running out of the jungle and they would grab the golf balls. And if it was in the fairway, they might throw it in the rough. If it was in the rough, they might throw—they might throw it back at you.
   And I can go into great and long detail about how many things they did to try to eliminate the monkey problem, but they never got it done. So finally, for this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule, and the rule was you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it. And that is the rule in Washington all the time.
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(LAUGHTER)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

You could play that tape for the NAACP, and they would say, “I’m sorry, why are you showing us this?” Obviously, Blount was saying, This is how things work in Washington. It could be senators, representatives, government bureaucrats—or other Republicans—who are grabbing the balls. It actually tells you something about liberals that they instantly assume any mention of monkeys must be a reference to Obama.

Longtime
New York Times
blubberbutt Tom Wicker wrote endlessly about civil rights and racial reconciliation. Naturally, Wicker was another educational chicken hawk, sending his own children to elite, very white private schools and then retiring to Vermont, literally the whitest state in the nation.
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When asked about the glaring inconsistency of his kids’ white private schools, he said, “It gives me a lot of intellectual discomfort, but I am not going to disadvantage my children to win more support for my views.”
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The point wasn’t whether Wicker was required to “win more support” for his views, but that he didn’t actually hold those views in the first place. Manifestly, liberals who don’t send their own children to public schools believe those schools are inferior, but don’t mind dumping poor kids into them—provided they can send their own children to sanitary, private schools. It tells you a lot when the actual behavior of people is at variance with their public position.

Liberals who send their own kids to fancy private schools while wailing about the racism of other people are like stockbrokers pushing stocks they got out of a long time ago. All these friend-to-the-blacks liberals adamantly refuse to give other people the same opportunity they have to escape the public schools through things like school vouchers and parochial schools.

In 2002, when marbles-in-his-mouth Trent Lott stepped down from a leadership position with the Senate Republicans for praising Strom Thurmond (who had a better record on civil rights than Bill Clinton’s pal Orval Faubus), Hillary Clinton said, “If anyone thinks that one
person stepping down from a leadership position cleanses the Republican Party of their constant exploitation of race, then I think you’re naive.”

Where did Chelsea go to school again? (Fancy private school, Sidwell Friends.)

In fact, could we get a list of all the sanctimonious white liberals constantly accusing other people of racism who sent their kids to private schools? We’ll start with Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama—all of whom sent their kids to lily-white private schools. What other pompous liberals who rank themselves with Martin Luther King won’t let their kids go to school with blacks?

It’s always the people with the most secure, taxicab, doorman-protected lives lecturing those who live on the front lines of integration about their racial attitudes. Howell Raines was editorial page editor of the
New York Times
from 1993 to 2001. During that time, more than one-third of his signed editorials somehow brought up “racism” (11 out of 29). Raines’s main interaction with actual black people was apparently limited to the family maid, about whom he wrote a book,
Grady’s Gift
. Like Wicker’s “intellectual discomfort” with sending his kids to elite private schools, Raines felt bad about leaving the maid outside in the car when his family ate at “Whites Only” restaurants.

Raines’s only other famous interaction with a black person consisted of his utter humiliation of Jayson Blair, whom Raines hired, retained, and promoted, despite Blair’s manifest inability to do the job, culminating in an indelible scandal at the
Times
and both of their firings. When Raines “retired,” he chose the Poconos as his home,
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a famous white-flight destination that lawyer Ron Kuby calls “outer whitelandia.”
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Contrast these hairy-chested civil rights champions with Republican-appointed judge Charles Pickering. He took on the Ku Klux Klan as a prosecutor in the sixties—you know, before it was safe. As a consequence, Pickering required full-time FBI protection for his family. In the seventies, he sent his children to public schools in Mississippi, the state with the highest percentage of blacks in the nation.
60 Minutes
found a picture of Pickering’s daughter sitting happily in a classroom with nearly all black faces.

But when George W. Bush nominated Pickering to the Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals, Democrats said Pickering was bad on … civil rights! Yes—civil rights. Of course, by “civil rights” liberals meant abortion on demand. These days, “civil rights” is nothing but a cat’s-paw for the mob’s left-wing social policies, such as abortion. Back when civil rights meant rights for blacks, Democrats were standing in the schoolhouse door.

The fact that Pickering’s nomination to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under Bush was blocked by Senate Democrats tells you all you need to know about the mob. Pickering was supported by the Mississippi NAACP, which knew him and knew his history. His nomination was fiercely promoted by Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. But Pickering was opposed by an oddball collection of pro-abortion left-wingers. So in the name of “civil rights,” the Democrats filibustered a man who risked his life to take on the Klan.

The inferior reasoning of crowds described by Le Bon allows liberals to puff themselves up and act as if they are Freedom Riders by waiting a safe fifty years after the racist mobs have been defeated and then running around denouncing everyone else for “racism.” A mob’s logic, Le Bon says, resembles that of “the savage, who imagines that by eating the heart of a courageous foe he acquires his bravery.”
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Republicans are always the party of the law-abiding and the productive; Democrats are always the party of the resentful mob. Now that Hispanics are gaining demographic ground, watch for the Democrats to drop blacks as their special friends and move on to illegal aliens.