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October 25, 2012
LIBERAL AMERICA—THE SODOM THAT PRETENDS IT’S KANSAS
“In America,” Jim Kalb recently remarked, “everything is normal”—meaning that no matter how radical, extreme, and perverted things become in our society, they are and must be seen as ordinary, traditional, and unthreatening.The result is the peculiar phenomenon that I have described as the “radical mainstream.” On one hand, liberals and their mainstream-conservative enablers boast of America’s transformational progress since the mid-twentieth century; on the other hand, they claim that we haven’t changed at all. The fact that all kinds of moral and constitutional norms have been shattered, and that nihilism, gross sexual libertinism, and statism are the new norm, is never allowed into public consciousness. The liberals suppress the ugly truth of what America has become, in order to maintain the legitimacy of liberal society; and the conservatives join in the suppression, because their goal is to keep their place at the liberal table; they know that anyone who speaks the truth about the radical transformation of America will no longer be welcome.... -- AmNation
Posted by Vanderleun at October 25, 2012 7:39 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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"...because their goal is to keep their place at the liberal table..."
Excellent article.
Posted by: Terry at October 26, 2012 7:39 AM
Funny, I always thought of it as the Kansas that thinks it's Sodom. You know, always talking about icky things --- like legalizing drugs or teaching kids about sex, but actually doing them?
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at October 26, 2012 3:50 PM
What I saw back in the late 1990's in the "alternative" Detroit paper (MetroTimes) was this - that the perverse claim that they are normal and the normal are the abnormal. Pity that the perverse grabbed the megaphone and have done such a good job that someone as decent as Mitt Romney is seen as a weirdo.
I remember the sneers about 'Ozzie and Harriet' and 'Ward and June Cleaver' back in the 1980's* and it didn't make any sense to me then. It does now.
*I was born in 1966, so that is my reference.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at October 26, 2012 7:05 PM