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November 12, 2004

Who's Voting on Values?

Charles Krauthammer debunks the "Angry White Christian" theory of the election.

Andrew Stuttaford makes a point that I think needs further exploration:

Amid all the weird, wild wailing in Manhattan, amid the hot air and hysteria in Hollywood, amid all the crazy-lady shrieks of mainstream-media anguish (yes, Maureen, I'm talking about you) and the banshee howling of liberal complaint, Americans heard one overarching theme from the disappointed and distraught left — one meme, one fear, one insult that finally spoke its name. Jesusland (that's what they call it now) had won.

The left likes to imagine that the right votes almost exclusively on these irrational culture-war issues.

But read the words of the left. Look at what seems most hateful to them-- not the War in Iraq, hated though that is. Not Bush's stand against increasing the minimum wage. Not partial privatization of Social Security. Not the so-called "jobless recovery."

No-- it's that "Jesusland" won the election.

Recall that Clinton was never popular with the left until he traded DNA with an intern.

Who, precisely, is voting on "values"? Who is animated chiefly by their idiosyncratic (and irrational, or at least not logically proveable) beliefs about what sort of sexual climate is best for us all?

The left is voting on "values," too. In fact, sometimes it seems hard to discern what the hard left is interested in apart from the culture war. They have values they cherish and seek to evangelize to the nation through politics.

Guys-- you can't whine endlessly about gay marriage and The Passion of the Christ and how uptight this bourgeois country of ours is (gee, it's practically 1952 again!) and then sit there and critique your opponents for voting on "values."

You're voting on values too-- or rather for the rubbishing of them.

Some people are voting for Jesus, yes. But can you really deny that many of you aren't voting on your hatred of Jesus-- and your obsessive desire to see the hated religion Christianity once and for all branded an antisocial cult?

I had a funny argument one time. I think liberals make this argument constantly.

A guy was saying we shouldn't have a flag-burning amendment, because "it just doesn't matter either way." There were more important issues, he asserted.

Fine, I said. If it doesn't matter either way, stop opposing it, let us pass it, and then we can deal with these more important issues of which you speak.

No, he said. It's unconstitutional and bad for the country.

I thought it "just didn't matter either way"? I queried.

It doesn't matter, he reasserted. It's a non-issue.

If it's a non-issue, I patiently re-explained, then you ought to be neutral about whether we have a flag-burning amendment or not. Obviously, you have a strong opinion on it, so stop claiming that you "don't care either way." You do care-- passionately. You're using this "who cares?" claim -- a false claim, by the way-- as a way to denigrate your opponents for bothering to care, while refusing to admit that you care just as much as they do.

But I don't care, he told me once again.

Then let it pass, I suggested once again.

No, he said firmly. It's unconstitutional and will bring this country back into the dark ages.

And on. And on. And on. And on.

I don't understand how the left can continue to delude itself that these issues are "irrelevant" and "not even things we should be discussing" when they are clearly, themselves, so animated by these issues.

They have very firm ideas on what "values" this nation ought to embrace. They're just not willing to discuss what those values might be-- at least not publicly.

Hence, the perpetual claim that these issues are beneath them and of little concern to any enlightened person. And yet they're what they vote on, cycle after cycle after cycle.


posted by Ace at 01:21 PM
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You can take it a step farther and suggest that their hatred of religion is even more dangerous because they have adopted a religion of their own. They just don't recognize it as such and that's why it's more dangerous. And central to their own gospel is denigration of religion--Christianity in particular.

Whether the religion is Anti-Americanism or Collectivism or Atheism or Snotty Dipshitism I haven't determined.

Posted by: spongeworthy on November 12, 2004 01:39 PM

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Posted by: Sharp as a Marble on November 12, 2004 02:06 PM

Your Blog is precisely right. But "I don't understand how the left can continue to delude itself"??? Yet we do know how they delude themselves. They have no real absolute values of any kind, merely a set of prejudices and things they think they oppose because alcoholic lechars like Ted Kennedy say so. Or because it means they get easy sex to be a part of that group. Being a Leftie is more of a social thing, it gains one entre into social groups that even Republicans envy for their casual sex and partying. And to be a Hero of such a group - WOW! Michael Moore does what he does not out of conviction, but because it allows a disgusting, ugly, fat slob to live like a Roman Emperor! Yes, sadly we do know how they delude themselves. Satan uses the same-old, same-old over and over again.

Posted by: 72VIRGINS on November 12, 2004 02:10 PM

I think it's more an issue of them hiding their true convictions, a la Kerry flip-flopping. As Ann Coulter once said, "If the American people understood what Liberals really believed, they'd boil them in oil."

Posted by: Golden Boy on November 12, 2004 02:30 PM

Mmmm, deep fried Wonkette. Tasty.

Posted by: Joe R. the Unabrewer on November 12, 2004 02:34 PM

Great point, Ace.

I think the American left joins the jihadists in valuing suicide. Why else would Michael Moore have bestirred himself to argue against suicide? More on that on my blog at:

http://paragraphfarmer.blogspot.com/2004/11/counsel-of-michael-moore.html

Posted by: Patrick O'Hannigan on November 12, 2004 02:37 PM

Golden Boy: Yes Ann Coulter is right, as always. But believing that they have a right to mooch off of others for a living, have sex lives like Caligula, and be accountable and responsible to no one and nothing except their own selfish lust and greed is a long way from having absoloute values.

Posted by: 72VIRGINS on November 12, 2004 02:51 PM

the funny part of all this to me is that, frankly, the left is obscenely stupid about who the right is.

Look, this is a blog with some fairly intellectually and possibly politically active conservatives checking in all the time.

And many of us spend much of our time here discussing lesbians on Survivor, speculating on Wonkette's personal life, and/or reliving our heady Dungeons and Dragons filled youths.

Most of us would prefer traditional values be respected instead of denigrated. And many of us are quite religious. But the absurd notion that Bob Jones III will be crowned emperor next week persists on the left in spite of any sustainable evidence.

They want an enemy. And they'll twist us into one no matter what the facts are on the ground.

Posted by: See-Dubya on November 12, 2004 03:55 PM

You nailed it right here I think:

They have very firm ideas on what "values" this nation ought to embrace. They're just not willing to discuss what those values might be-- at least not publicly.
That, at least was the case 110% on a messageboard I eventually got kicked off of for pissing so many libs off. All anyone would *ever* say is "bush is a retard" "his plan is wrong" "bush lied" - but god forbid one applies the thumbscrews to them and ask them to come up with a better plan - you know, anything that could actually be debated. For the life of them, they simply couldn't do it. It got to the point where it was funny (to me) and I'd just bait them all day long. At that point, we'd stopped talking about motorcycles which gave the mod's enough of an excuse to say I'd upset the apple cart, and I was banned.

This was all about 8 months ago, the ban was only for 5 days. The only post I've made since being banned was on 11/3 and it read something to the effect of:

Elected, not selected. Bitches.
Haven't gone back since.

Posted by: fat kid on November 12, 2004 04:18 PM

Ace,

Let me try and follow your liberal friend's logic. Passing a Constitutional amendment that says flag burning is illegal is unconstitutional. The income tax is illegal people should add that to their list of excuses--the amendment allowing an income tax is unconstitutional. If it's part of the Constitution it is constitutional. These guys are amazing.

Posted by: Dale on November 12, 2004 06:07 PM

Hm. Well, that's a plan. Taperecord those two lines "If it doesn't matter then let it pass," and "Yes, you do care." and we can keep the liberals forever arguing about whether or not they care instead of having to put up with them in the next election.

Posted by: Beka on November 12, 2004 10:12 PM

Talk about pinning the tail right on the Donkey's liberal leftist ass. Nice job Ace. I think that to a lot of people who chose the "Moral values" issue were saying that obviously lying about what you stand for in order to get elected shows a lack of "moral values". The split up of Iraq and the War on Terror was a flagrant attempt to dilute the importance of that issue too. To security hawks, Iraq and the WOT are one and the same, but they were likely to choose the WOT as their issue. Anti war weenies who don't think they are related were more likely to seperate Iraq and the WOT and vote against Bush based on Iraq. Totaly snow job.

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