Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [138]
When CodePink activists returned to the Convention Hall the next night to heckle John McCain’s speech, again, only a handful of newspapers reported this shocking assault on a party’s political convention. Earlier in the day, CodePink loons had violently disrupted a pro-life luncheon, storming the stage and ripping the microphone from Phyllis Schlafly’s hand.
If a couple of John Birchers had stood up and started shouting during Barack Obama’s convention speech, would that have been considered newsworthy?
One of the rabble-rousers, Jodie Evans, not only was a bundler for Obama but also had served in the cabinet of California governor Jerry Brown during his first administration. She ran Brown’s 1992 presidential campaign and held fundraisers for him during his 2010 gubernatorial run.
She’s also led protests in Santa Monica against the Israeli skin care company Ahava8 and tried to stage a citizen’s arrest of Karl Rove. And yet Evans is as welcome in the Democratic Party as the Koch brothers are in the Republican Party.
Part of what gives mob movements their fury is that they’re always claiming to be righting the wrongs of the past—the corrupt royalty and clergy in France, the oppressive tsars in Russia, the hyperinflationary Weimar Republic in Germany, the inept Kuomintang in China. You will find that the most bloodthirsty regimes in history are those claiming to be redressing the wrongs of previous regimes.
In America, it’s “discrimination” and “white male patriarchy” that’s always being redressed, naturally with even more discrimination. We’ve gone from Democrats imposing discriminatory laws on blacks in the South to national Democrats imposing federally sanctioned, government-supported race, gender, and disability quotas on the entire country.
Following their totalitarian forebears, liberals went from punishing acts to punishing thoughts and motives in the blink of an eye. In lieu of class crimes and counterrevolutionaries, American liberals have given us “hate crimes,” “disparate impact” rules, “sexists,” and “bigots.” Acts are irrelevant; your motives are on trial. You are presumed guilty and acquittals are rare.
The American Left also shares the French revolutionaries’ blind hatred of tradition when it comes to morals and culture. Ironically, liberals are hidebound reactionaries when it comes to recent innovations such as government pensions: It’s the thousand-years-old building blocks of civilization they want to shatter. The definition of “family” and “human life” are up for grabs, but the retirement age for Social Security is written in stone tablets.
Liberals never bother to ask whether there might have been a reason for a thousand-years-old convention such as marriage. They don’t care. Their approach is to rip out society’s foundations without considering whether they serve any purpose. Why do we need immigration laws? What’s with these borders? Why do we have the institution of marriage anyway? What do we need standardized tests for? Why do children have to have a mother and father? Hey, I like Keith Richards—why not make heroin legal? Let’s take a sledgehammer to all these load-bearing walls and just see what happens!
Liberals even manipulate children to falsely accuse their elders, a specialty of all totalitarians. There is something so vile about turning a child against his parents as to be bone-chilling. But for liberals, it’s just one more weapon in their quest for power.
Just as Marie Antoinette’s son was brainwashed into accusing his mother of incest, a slew of American children in the eighties were manipulated by liberals into accusing completely innocent adults of child molestation. The psychologist Le Bon says the appeal of