THE GREAT DISCONNECT: THE STILLED VOICE OF GRASSROOTS AMERICA

THE GREAT DISCONNECT: THE STILLED VOICE OF GRASSROOTS AMERICA
by Murray Soupcoff
The Iconoclast

June 17, 2002

If you need confirmation regarding the gaping disconnect between ordinary Americans and their supposedly more enlightened "betters" in the liberal media and the Democratic Party, then check out this plain-speaking Dick Morris column that appeared in theNew York Post a while back.

To quote Mr. Morris:

Rarely has there been more of a disjuncture between the real feelings of most Americans and the focus of the liberal mainstream media. While The New York Times is preoccupied with the "swirling" investigation into the warnings about 9/11 and liberal commentators zealously focus on potential invasions of our civil liberties, voters are solidly behind tough measures to combat terror even at the expense of an erosion of certain civil liberties. The danger they see is another terrorist attack...

Basically, it seems to come down to a particularly glaring difference between ordinary folks and the righteous chattering classes these days. When push comes to shove in these dangerous times, ordinary Americans are prone to choose national survival as the ultimate goal for their nation. In contrast, national suicide appears to be the preferred choice of the liberal-left establishment, in a last-ditch attempt to show their moral goodness by extending their full grab-bag of "rights", "understanding" and "civil liberties" to the latest hate-filled gang of lunatics lining up to slit their throats or blow them to kingdom come.

Tragically, American's liberal-left cognoscenti are so immersed in their self-righteous, Chomsky-tinged, 'hate-America' ideology, they are incapable of recognizing America's real enemies, and the threat to their very own existence those enemies pose.

Nor do they know how to defend themselves, or help America defend itself, against such threats. Because in their hearts, America has been, and always will be, the real bad guy in the world. And so any critic or enemy of America must somehow be justified in its actions, and rightfully motivated.

Obviously, when it comes to post-9/11 terrorism, ordinary Americans seem to have gotten this one completely right. And per usual, the mainstream media and liberal political establishment have again come up empty.

The problem is that within the morally-skewed social heirarchy that comprises today's American power structure, the America haters have gained supremacy in the arenas of influence that count -- whether they be judicial, legislative, academic or mass communications. They've managed to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic ( the contemporary ship of state that is the United States), so that they are the ones in control, or they strongly influence those in control (witness the Bush administration's near phobic fear of disapproval from liberal opinion makers or their Congressional allies).

Unfortunately, as the terrorist war against America begins to rev up again (as it inevitably will), the liberal-left oligarchy has only one thing to offer Americans -- a politically-correct road map to oblivion.

Salvation, if it's to come, lies in the intuitive survival instincts of ordinary Americans. However, these American have increasingly been left voiceless by an elite-controlled institutional structure built around the notion that the proper role of the governed is to acquiesce to the decisions and opinions of their better-educated and morally-enlightened betters -- the liberal-left power oligarchy that dominates today's mainstream media and politics.

Outside of the Internet, the last remaining vehicle for free expression by grassroots America, and a last venue for the will of the people to assert itself, is the ballot box.

So let's just hope that this coming November, voters all over America will exercise their collective wisdom and choose survival over national suicide -- rejecting the media's usual anti-Republican propaganda and finally handing Washington's haughty Democratic obstructionists their permanent walking papers. ***

© 2002 The Iconoclast

Murray Soupcoff is the author of 'Canada 1984' and a former radio and television producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also was Executive Editor of We Compute Magazine for several years, and is now the Managing Editor of the popular Canadian conservative Web site, Iconoclast.ca

Photo of former President Bill Clinton (D-AR) courtesy of the Associated Press

But what do you think about the killers that want you dead?

This is the great disconnect. You and others thinking that it's about Bush--It's about "The problem is that within the morally-skewed social heirarchy that comprises today's American power structure, the America haters have gained supremacy in the arenas of influence that count -- whether they be judicial, legislative, academic or mass communications. They've managed to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic ( the contemporary ship of state that is the United States), so that they are the ones in control, or they strongly influence those in control (witness the Bush administration's near phobic fear of disapproval from liberal opinion makers or their Congressional allies)."

It's folk like you that no matter what article is posted you immediately see Bush as the problem and letting the other America haters in positions of our Congress take a pass on being accountable for this mess.

Yep, ya gotta respect the opininon of this Soupcof guy and his hero: --- [the] "plain-speaking Dick Morris column that appeared in the New York Post a while back."
To quote Mr. Morris:

Rarely has there been more of a disjuncture between the real feelings of most Americans and the focus of the liberal mainstream media. While The New York Times is preoccupied with the "swirling" investigation into the warnings about 9/11 and liberal commentators zealously focus on potential invasions of our civil liberties, voters are solidly behind tough measures to combat terror even at the expense of an erosion of certain civil liberties. The danger they see is another terrorist attack..

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By golly, the ol toe-sucker sure nails it, don't he? Yep, if anyones got insights to the real feelings of the american people, Clintons trusted buddie Dick is one such.

Maybe Bush should hire him as an advisor.

Perhaps changing the course of the Ship Of State takes longer than most of us realize, hope and would prefer. Patience would help if we're really in this for the long-haul.

Not only is President Bush charged with reversing the damage done by Clintigula, Hildabeast the rest of the bedwetting Leftist reminents of the 1960's, he also has to contend with at least two generations of Americans who have grown up with entitilements. Top that off with 9/11, whacko moslems walking amongst us, an economy that has the jitters, problems in Mexico, the Middle-East and a whole whack of people that just plain hate our guts, nutjob obstructionists in the dummycraps, really really creepy communist Chinese and lots of very pissed off conservatives with E-X-P-E-C-T-A-T-I-O-N-S ...

well, you get the picture.

Maybe its time to cut Dubya some slack and realize this is one heckuva big boat we're all in. Askin' the helm if they're awake and if all's clear is fine. Bustin' into the wheelhouse and grabbing at the pilot's wheel is maybe not the best longterm strategy.

(I can't believe all I could come up with is this lamea$$ed boating metaphore.)

Well put. You almost make me feel sorry for the guy. However, I still disagree with many of his policies, as a self-confessed paleo-conservative I'm disappointed about several things he has done. One good thing I've noticed lately is that there actually seems to be some direction coming from the top down concerning enforcing immigration law. Apparantly our president hasn't yet forgotten "choking on his coffee" when he read the headline about Mohammed Atta getting his immigration papers six months after 9-11.

Although he has publicly promoted a "compassionate" approach towards immigration, his actions would seem to indicate a more serious conviction towards actually doing something about our borders and the problems of the continuing immivasion. I'm watching our presidents actions with a new interest, perhaps he has finally woken up to the seriousness of the massive immivasion we are experiencing here in America. I sure hope so. I'm a "one issue" voter, my issue is immigration. I want it stopped for the next fifty years, so that we can absorb all of the people who have come here over the last fourty years. If our president decides to take this issue seriously and put the brakes on our immigration policy I will most likely vote for him in '04.

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