THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 36, February 19, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
TYRANNY OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT
By Christopher G. Adamo
America’s constitutional foundations and its rule of law are hemorrhaging.
They are hemorrhaging in Massachusetts, where an activist State Supreme Court
suddenly invented, out of thin air, an inherent “right” to same sex
“marriage.” They are hemorrhaging in San Francisco, where newly elected
Mayor Gavin Newscomb issued an edict whereby “marriage” licenses would
henceforth be granted to homosexual couples, despite his having absolutely
no authority to do so.
They are hemorrhaging in Texas, where Democrats in the State Legislature
have engaged in an illegal effort to prevent the implementation of a
redistricting plan required in the wake of the 2000 census. And they are
hemorrhaging in Alabama, where Judge Roy Moore was removed from office by a
tribunal (itself an illegal procedure) after he refused to abide by the
order of an out-of-control federal judge. In Florida, Rush Limbaugh’s
problems with prescription drug addiction have served as a catalyst to make
him a target of the local Democratic Party political machine, solely on account of
his influence and his views, in a situation ominously reminiscent of
Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Soviet Russia.
Clearly, those on the political and cultural Left in this country have arrived at a point where
they believe they can simply make up laws as they go, confident that their
opponents in the Middle and on the Right possess neither the motivation nor
the moral certitude to buck the trends of “political correctness.” In
situation after situation, outlandish violations of not only the precepts of
the United States Constitution, but previously established and long-respected laws, are
simply ignored or otherwise subordinated to new and arbitrary “absolutes”
contrived and fabricated out of thin air by unaccountable Liberal
ideologues. Unfortunately, among far too many Conservatives in government,
who ought to be fighting against these ever-increasing outrages, the typical
response is something akin to saying, “I abhor concentration camps, but my
job is to make sure the trains run on time.”
From Florida to Texas to California, Liberals in public office, as well as
the Leftwing political and countercultural activists who support them from the outside, have shown that they will,
if allowed, make any statement and circumvent any law as deemed necessary to
establish or affirm their absolute dominance.
The success of this pattern is leaving the United States of America vulnerable to
Islamist insurgents who now reside within our national boundaries, and who
increasingly assert their presumed authority to silence opposition, entrench
themselves in positions of power, and thus encroach upon and suppress such
traditional American ideals as constitutionalism, liberty under law, nationalism, and patriotism. Often in
league with Liberal Leftist and countercultural organizations already engaged in
similar activity, it should be clearly understood that such Islamist
organizations are in no way morally aligned with Leftwing political activists, but
merely recognize their approach as the best means of undermining America’s
binding moral fabric, thus destroying the most effective defense against
the Islamists' incursion.
The menacing nature of this malignancy cannot be minimized. Why, for
example, should Americans expect foreigners, contemplating illegal entry
into this country, to respect its laws when the Liberal establishment, and
indeed an entire political party, regularly show they have no intention of
doing so?
Conservatives, being almost compulsive in their efforts to “play by the
rules,” are regularly confounded by the fact that these “rules,” so piously
dictated to them by their Liberal opposition, somehow never seem to remain
in place long enough for Liberals to be subject to them.
Furthermore, unwillingness on the part of Conservatives to honestly address
each situation, for fear of breaching the latest standard of “political
correctness,” only serves to further enable Liberal operatives. As an
example, consider the ongoing controversy over wrongfully obtained memos of
Democratic Party politicians' tactics to cheapen the judicial nomination process in the interest
of partisan politics. Had Republicans, from the beginning, framed the entire
nomination controversy as a crucial battle for the integrity of the
U.S.Constitution, and thus for the future of America as we know it, no memos
would ever have been necessary. Yet, by soft-peddling Democrats' stonewalling
as merely being “unfair,” they allowed Democrats sufficient latitude to
assert that their own actions merely reflected differences in party
philosophies (with theirs, of course, being inherently superior).
This threat to the future of the country cannot be effectively combated
through "the New Tone,” “bipartisanship,” or any other misguided and naive
concern for “ending the rancor that characterizes Washington politics.” It
will only be overcome by an honest recognition of the imminent danger posed
by it, followed up with a commitment to courageously and aggressively
confront it head on.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
U.S. Constitutional Law & Political Philosophy
American Politics & Political Competition
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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