Whittaker Chambers wrote in his book WITNESS that liberals are/were incapable of ever effectively fighting Communism because they did not see anything in Communism that was antithetical to their own beliefs. In short, Liberals are Communists and Communists are Liberals.
A detailed exposition of that theme can be found in James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute's 2007 book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
He showed how that moment, the assassination, gave Liberals the opportunity to turn on communism, ...or on America.
Their choice is clear today.
1. "... (concerning Lee Harvey Oswald) He didnt even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. Its it had to be some silly little Communist. Jacqueline Kennedy
2. She thought it robbed his (JFK's) death of any meaning. But a meaning would be quickly manufactured to serve a new politics. First, however, an inconvenient fact Oswald had to be expunged from the story.
a. .... 24 months after the assassination, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Kennedys kept historian, published a thousand-page history of the thousand-day presidency without mentioning the assassin.
3. ... The transformation of a murder by a marginal man into a killing by a sick culture began instantly before Kennedy was buried. The afternoon of the assassination, Chief Justice Earl Warren ascribed Kennedys martyrdom to the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.
a. The next day, James Reston, the New York Times luminary, wrote in a front-page story that Kennedy was a victim of a streak of violence in the American character, noting especially the violence of the extremists on the right.
[Of course, Liberals are still running with that obfuscation today, with respect to the Tea Party]
b. Never mind that adjacent to Restons article was a Times report on Oswalds Communist convictions and associations. A Soviet spokesman, too, assigned moral responsibility for Kennedys death to Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right.
[Liberals and Soviet spokesmen....on the same page]
4. .... a Times editorial, Spiral of Hate, identified Kennedys killer as a spirit: The Times deplored the shame all America must bear for the spirit of madness and hate that struck down Kennedy. The editorialists were, presumably, immune to this spirit. The new liberalism-as-paternalism would be about correcting other peoples defects..... Kennedy was killed by Americas social climate, whose sickness required punitive liberalism.
[ "... Obama Is Making Shutdown As Painful As Possible" http://news92fm.com/390223/congressman-olson-says-obama-is-making-shutdown-as-painful-as-possible/]
5. The bullets of Nov. 22, 1963, altered the nations trajectory less by killing a president than by giving birth to a destructive narrative about America.....
6. Punitive liberalism preached the necessity of national repentance for a history of crimes and misdeeds that had produced a present so poisonous that it murdered a president.... Liberalism would become the doctrine of grievance groups owed redress for cumulative inherited injuries inflicted by the nations tawdry history, toxic present and ominous future.
[ Obama: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."]
7. As Piereson writes, the retreat of liberalism from a doctrine of American affirmation left a void that would be filled by Ronald Reagan 17 years after the assassination." George F. Will: When liberals became scolds - The Washington Post
Whitaker Chamber's point proven.
Liberalism continued down the path blazed by Franklin Roosevelt....seeing nothing worthy of confronting nor combating in communism.
Just as Oswald was erased as the central element of the assassination, so, too, was the glorious history of this great nation.
Instead, it turned the battle against a non-existent enemy of freedom and liberty, ...America.
Liberalism: seeking evil in America the way pigs seek truffles.
A detailed exposition of that theme can be found in James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute's 2007 book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
He showed how that moment, the assassination, gave Liberals the opportunity to turn on communism, ...or on America.
Their choice is clear today.
1. "... (concerning Lee Harvey Oswald) He didnt even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. Its it had to be some silly little Communist. Jacqueline Kennedy
2. She thought it robbed his (JFK's) death of any meaning. But a meaning would be quickly manufactured to serve a new politics. First, however, an inconvenient fact Oswald had to be expunged from the story.
a. .... 24 months after the assassination, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Kennedys kept historian, published a thousand-page history of the thousand-day presidency without mentioning the assassin.
3. ... The transformation of a murder by a marginal man into a killing by a sick culture began instantly before Kennedy was buried. The afternoon of the assassination, Chief Justice Earl Warren ascribed Kennedys martyrdom to the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.
a. The next day, James Reston, the New York Times luminary, wrote in a front-page story that Kennedy was a victim of a streak of violence in the American character, noting especially the violence of the extremists on the right.
[Of course, Liberals are still running with that obfuscation today, with respect to the Tea Party]
b. Never mind that adjacent to Restons article was a Times report on Oswalds Communist convictions and associations. A Soviet spokesman, too, assigned moral responsibility for Kennedys death to Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right.
[Liberals and Soviet spokesmen....on the same page]
4. .... a Times editorial, Spiral of Hate, identified Kennedys killer as a spirit: The Times deplored the shame all America must bear for the spirit of madness and hate that struck down Kennedy. The editorialists were, presumably, immune to this spirit. The new liberalism-as-paternalism would be about correcting other peoples defects..... Kennedy was killed by Americas social climate, whose sickness required punitive liberalism.
[ "... Obama Is Making Shutdown As Painful As Possible" http://news92fm.com/390223/congressman-olson-says-obama-is-making-shutdown-as-painful-as-possible/]
5. The bullets of Nov. 22, 1963, altered the nations trajectory less by killing a president than by giving birth to a destructive narrative about America.....
6. Punitive liberalism preached the necessity of national repentance for a history of crimes and misdeeds that had produced a present so poisonous that it murdered a president.... Liberalism would become the doctrine of grievance groups owed redress for cumulative inherited injuries inflicted by the nations tawdry history, toxic present and ominous future.
[ Obama: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."]
7. As Piereson writes, the retreat of liberalism from a doctrine of American affirmation left a void that would be filled by Ronald Reagan 17 years after the assassination." George F. Will: When liberals became scolds - The Washington Post
Whitaker Chamber's point proven.
Liberalism continued down the path blazed by Franklin Roosevelt....seeing nothing worthy of confronting nor combating in communism.
Just as Oswald was erased as the central element of the assassination, so, too, was the glorious history of this great nation.
Instead, it turned the battle against a non-existent enemy of freedom and liberty, ...America.
Liberalism: seeking evil in America the way pigs seek truffles.