Dear Hal,
While slow to anger, and quick to forgive, the common American, by-and-large conservative in cultural and political tendancies, has endured a six decade history of leftists stealing Jacksonian Democracy of the Democratic party and seen its transformation of that party into a destructive virus.
Our educational, economic, academic, cultural, liturary and political instituions have been perverted and our citizenry has plainly risen up in recoginition of that in the last twenty years. The Totalitarian Rationalist Democracy of the Left is not for us, they have proclaimed. Classical Liberal Democracy, which uses democratic methods as only a participartory tool, has been seen as the thing worth keeping. That was the system of the Old Whigs, those who founded this country.
The false Sentimentality of the Enlightenment, the Rationalism the cannot recognize that "Beauty Lives, though Lillies die", that "establishes" the secular humanism of Dewey as a national religion, and the economics of the Left are all been seen as the road to failure for the freedoms on which this nation has thrived.
Hate and contempt have been poured upon our founders' values and principles for decades by the Left. But that scheme has been seen for what it is and its victims, our common citizens, are proclaiming their understanding.
That is what the leftists have always wanted isn't it? "Understanding."
Well now they have it, in spades.
KC Burke,
Psoter at FreeRepublic.com