In Wellington, the Dominion Post
newspaper gives Left-Winger Chris Trotter a chance to publish his
biased viewpoint in a regular column, called From the Left.
On 29 September 2006, he vented his feelings about right-wing blogs
without providing any real rational analysis of the issues. However,
his own column demonstrates the main reason for this phenomenon, which
he says he is frightened of.
He does not give any examples of the actual material that he objects
to. He claims there is a lot of hatred expressed towards particular
groups. Maybe there is, but we can't take his word for it, because
it is clear that he only wants us to know and think what he thinks
it is good for us to know and think!
Political power issues from the muzzle of a gun, to paraphrase Chairman
Mao, and, ever since the Left (including the Soviet Union) won World
War II, Leftists have had the power to publish weekly columns etc.,
such as Trotter's From the Left, in mainstream media, while the Right
have been left with comparatively few mainstream published voices.
The Left have had this media power, while all the time complaining
constantly about the supposed right-wing bias of media owners. And
now that the Internet has finally brought equal rights to our (only
theoretical) freedom of speech, the Left are complaining!
The fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the Left is revealed
by Trotter's nostalgia for the Good Old Days when newspaper editors,
the judiciary and the police could arbitrarily curtail freedom of
speech and the right of assembly. He even puts the words "free
speech" into quotation-marks, as if it were some dangerous alien
disease.
I was fortunate to be able to see, one day, a video at the Goethe
Institut (Germany's cultural embassy, so to speak) which showed Communists
being violent towards Nazis. I have never had a chance -- before or
since -- to see anything bad about the enemies of Nazism in pre-war
Germany. There is no doubt in my mind that the Nazis ended up committing
genocide, but Trotter's article is an indication that the Left must
have done a lot to polarise Germany, which enabled the Nazis to get
elected.
The Nazis did get freely elected, in the first instance*,
and this created a quandary for the Leftist political elites after
World War II. How could they appear to maintain the trappings of democracy,
but still manage to stop people getting elected that they disapproved
of? I am not privy to all the tactics they have been using, but borrowing
Goebbels' tactics of mass-indoctrination through the media (including
film) was obviously one of them. Political Correctness was born.
Algeria is an example of how the West tolerates Democracy only a
long as it produces the right result: There, an Islamic fundamentalist
party was about to win a general election in 1991, so the Army mouted
a coup -- no doubt with the support of some Western countries. That
resulted in civil war. The United States has some form of Feminism
as part of its foreign policy, and is busy imposing it on Afghanistan
and Iraq. Feminism is certainly part fo the reason why it does not
like Islamic Fundamentalism. Needless to say, this governmental Feminism
is vague, woolly, ill-defined, and probably without Congressional
sanction, but that is typical of the minds that Feminism is formulated
in. It is undoubtably stiffening the resistance of the locals to the
US presence.
McCarthyism, which Trotter refers to in his column, was obviously
a reaction to Hollywood being used to brainwash society in Leftist
Political Correctness. This, too, was a war that the Left won, because
McCarthy has been discredited. But the victors write the history books,
of course, and you never hear what precisely it was that McCarthy
was fighting against, or why he thought such drastic measures were
necessary.
The basic assumptions of political discourse itself have been modified
by what I call the Media University Complex
so as to conform with Political Correctness. This means that what
counts as "extreme" has shifted leftwards, as the centre-ground
has shifted leftwards.
I do not disagree with every tenet of Political Correctness, but
what is pernicious about it is its Fascism, and the way it creates
alliances between interest-groups, which encourages them to support
each other's demands, without regard to the justifiablity or otherwise
of those demands. The Western World is divided into those who understand
why a woman would say (on BBC World TV) that Political Correctness
is a form of Fascism and those who just don't get it.
It is this totalitarian mind-set, which Trotter himself suffers from,
which is part of the cause of the phenomenon which he says he is frightened
of. People do get angry when they are manipulated, brainwashed and
lied to. And so they should!
