Lubricating the Slippery Slope: The Intellectual Astroglide of the Elite

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Few are willing to admit the truth, namely that our cultural elite have abandoned the truth — but that is putting it too mildly.

Our cultural elite, of which the editors of the Washington Post and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are members, have not only abandoned the truth, but have declared war on truth, and have dedicated themselves to the advancement of falsehood.

People saw this coming and sounded a warning. Judith Reisman was one of them, and Robert Knight was another. In 2000, Knight published The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture, addressing the philosophical roots of our current mess. You should also read Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education by Philip E. Johnson.

Whether or not you follow my reading recommendations, the bottom line is this: Good luck with this “secular conservatism” thing.

It ain’t gonna work, and if the history of the past 10 years or so haven’t convinced you that embracing secularism is doom for conservatism — and, ultimately, for the American republic — I’m sure the next 10 years will, but by then there will be nothing left worth conserving. And we’re probably doomed already.

Paul Weyrich — he totally saw it. A nation that would let President Clinton lie his way through the Lewinsky scandal, and accept all those flimsy rationalizations in his defense . . . Doomed.

There was a sort of post-9/11 bubble of Republican popularity that lasted four or five years, but by 2006, that was completely gone. Then in 2008 somehow, that backstabbing crapweasel John McCain got the Republican nomination and . . . Doomed.

Well, the Tea Party uprising of 2009-2010 was encouraging, but then 2012 came along and, once again . . . Doomed.

How are you feeling about 2014, Republicans? What about 2016?

Exactly: Doomed.

Basically, the enemy got inside the perimeter. The bombardment of liberal propaganda convinced both the Republican Party elite and leading figures of the conservative intelligentsia that all those hillbilly Bible-thumpers were, on balance, a detriment to the GOP’s political prospects, so shut up, Sarah Palin, shut up Michele Bachmann, shut up Rick Santorum and anyone else who doesn’t applaud gay marriage as  enthusiastically as Rachel Maddow and Andrew Sullivan.

Way to go, Republican elite! You saved your reputation as sophisticated, tolerant, enlightened intellectuals and you are . . . Doomed.

The revolutionary turning point is now in your rear-view mirror, and you’re all Vichy Republicans, negotiating with the radical Left the terms of your collaboration with their progressive agenda. In November 2008, I explained where we were heading:

The Lawrence ruling was the culmination of what Justice Antonin Scalia called “a 17-year crusade” to overturn the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision (which had upheld Georgia’s sodomy statute) and, as Scalia noted in his dissent, the Court’s “emerging awareness” argument was a disingenuous way to avoid actually declaring a “fundamental right” to sodomy. The legal effect was the same, however, and Lawrence was repeatedly cited in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision five months later mandating the legalization of gay marriage in that state. . . .
Gay activists do not construe their “rights” in terms of liberty, but in terms of radical and absolute equality. They insist that same-sex relationships are identical to — entirely analogous to and fungible with — traditional marriage.
Common sense resists this assertion, perceiving something fundamentally false in the gay marriage argument. Yet it seems common-sense resistance can only be justified by resort to religious faith, through the understanding that men are “endowed by their Creator” with rights. Eliminate the Creator from discussion, and it becomes impossible to refute the activists’ indignant demand for equality. . . .

You could read the whole thing — if you’re an ignorant hillbilly Bible-thumper like Justice Antonin Scalia. Perhaps you could also confront the reality that we have weighed anchor, sailed off into uncharted waters without a compass, and are now badly adrift in those regions of the ancient maps marked “Here Be Dragons.”

 

The Lawrence decision stopped just short of declaring a “fundamental right” to sodomy, but they might as well have gone all the way (if you’ll pardon the phrase) because we see how Justice Kennedy struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act as though no law prior to the “emerging awareness” had any validity at all. In 2003, the Supreme Court decreed that Texas had no authority to prohibit sodomy. Ten years later, the Supreme Court decreed that Congress itself could not deny recognition to same-sex marriage, and anyone shocked by the hasty destruction of what Chief Justice Warren Burger called “millennia of moral teaching” — well, shut up, haters.

Family Terrorized as Michigan Teachers
Support Colleague Who Molested Boy

 

Girl Commits Suicide; Rapist
Teacher Gets Just 30 Days in Jail

Only one of these stories was important enough to gain national attention outside of the right-wing media. Why? Because in the Michigan case, the teacher molested a boy. It was a gay thing, and only Bible-thumping hillbillies are against male teachers having gay sex with 14-year-old boys. By contrast, the other case involved a man having sex with a 14-year-old girl, so feminists were upset.

Heard any feminist upset about Kaitlyn Hunt dildoing a 14-year-old? Of course not: Feminists are all about supporting teenage lesbians, and to hell with those hateful puritanical age-of-consent laws.

“It was a quiet ceremony. Elizabeth Miklosovic had an outdoor wedding in June 2004 in Michigan’s Manistee National Forest, where the couple lit candles and exchanged vows. Miklosovic’s marriage lasted only a few months, however. Later that year, the mother of the bride found out that her daughter had, at age 13, become the lesbian ‘wife’ of Miklosovic, who had been the girl’s language arts teacher at Baseline Middle School in South Haven, Michigan. For some reason, state law did not recognize the legitimacy of Miklosovic’s pagan lesbian marriage, and she was convicted of felony sex offenses and sentenced to prison.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, “Sexual Anarchy: Progress, Perversion and the ‘Emerging Awareness’ Doctrine,” The American Spectator, June 26

Who knows whither the “emerging awareness” shall henceforth emerge? Certainly I can make no predictions, and it’s hard to imagine the series of court rulings or legislative action by which lesbian child brides could become a legal “right.” On the other hand, a lot of things that once were hard to imagine are happening every day of the week now. The Washington Post column defending student-teacher sex for instance, seemed like a tasteless joke:

All my current friends are 14-year-old girls. We have pool parties and sometimes we massage each other. . . .
Me and my 14-year-old jailbait posse are sick of society looking askance at our Forbidden Love.

No, that’s not from a Washington Post column, that’s Ace of Spades brutally mocking the column, which is funny as hell — the mockery, I mean, not the column itself, which is scary as hell, because editors had to approve that column, edit it, add a headline and put it on the page. And at no point during this process did any employee of the Washington Post look at that column and say, “Hey, wait a minute. This is not just badly written and badly argued, but it’s also grossly offensive and even arguably perverted.” Quoting myself again:

The world is full of idiots with bad ideas and the editors of the Washington Post are obligated to publish only the very worst of them. One cannot reform such institutions as the Washington Post and the New York Times, but can only pray for their well-deserved destruction, because their wicked depravity is not accidental.
The publishers are amoral monsters, their editors are active agents of evil, and their deliberate policy is to employ no honest or decent person. Nor could any honest or decent person ever wish to be associated with publications whose daily business is the destruction of Western civilization. A Christian would no more desire to be published by the Washington Post than to work in an abortion clinic or a bordello. It is a disgraceful stain on the conscience of our nation.

Of course, the editors of the Washington Post are totally pro-abortion — and probably also pro-prostitution, if the truth were known — so exactly why should they be offended by an argument in defense of teachers having sex with their 14-year-old students?

Sure, let’s make fun of the Washington Post, but their editors seriously believe that a woman’s most important “right” is killing her own babies, and if people can believe that, what immoral monstrosity won’t they endorse? At some point, Republicans must either summon the courage to speak the truth — sorry, we’re not going to call you “Chelsea Manning,” you despicable traitor — or else stop pretending that they have any actual disagreements with Democrats.

Do Reince Priebus or John Boehner or Mitch McConnell have any plan at all to halt this headlong descent into lawless perversion?

“Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with adults. Pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society. Sex with kids is tainted by a “cultural baggage of wrongfulness.”

People need to wake the hell up.

This Weimar decadence is very bad. What comes after the decadence is likely to be worse, and if you listen closely you can almost hear the sound of hobnailed boots marching over broken glass.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Weird to get a ‘lanche four years after I published this, but today I searched for when I first used the sentence, “People need to wake the hell up,” and here were are, eh? The election of Donald Trump, the recent street violence involving white supremacists and left-wing “antifa” radicals — yes, it seems my prophetic warnings from 2013 are being fulfilled.

A nation that has abandoned religion and morality (e.g., “Thou shalt not kill”) must sooner or later pay the price for its decadence, although it’s difficult to predict what form the consequences might take. For example, why should sexual deviance give rise to racial hostility? This connection doesn’t seem obvious, but nevertheless the perversity that flourished in Weimar Germany was followed by the ascent of a Nazi regime that murdered not only Jews, but also Poles, gypsies and other “untermenschen.” While it seems unlikely that any such thing could happen in America, who can predict the future? Just a few years ago, did anyone expect we’d be confronted in 2017 with transgenderism as a “mainstream” issue? When you’re off the map and deep into the “Here Be Dragons” territory, it’s hard to know what to expect next.



 

447 comments

  3. Why did you call the poster below a troll, then? Quit playing the wounded victim when you’ve been slinging arrows of insults yourself, hypocrite.

  4. Jefferson was pretty distinctly in the minority when it came to the views of the Founding Fathers. If you weren’t trying to be deceptive, you’d acknowledge that.

  5. If ‘members of Congress are collectively a pack of thieves, liars and perverts’ it is because we elected a pack of thieves, liars and perverts.

    The fault, dear Herddog505, is not in the House and Senate Chambers, but in ourselves.

  8. I called him a troll because what he posted would be characterized as what a troll would do, in my opinion. Granted, it probably wasn’t the best response, but I can’t exactly change my response now, can I?

    Watch the Ad Hominem, Finrod.

  12. No, FUCK YOU, HOMOPHOBE. Your ways are over. Get used to it. The tide has turned against you and what you’re saying and doing now is your attempt to not drown.

  13. You’re in the minority here, so you don’t get to determine Who The Trolls Are. I wouldn’t go calling people trolls if I posted on dKos, because I’m smart enough to realize such things. You, however, are not.

  14. “If you weren’t trying to be deceptive” – again resorting to Ad Hominem.

    He was, but I still ascribe to his views, and they have had a distinct impact on government today. Jefferson also advocated for a limited government, which I also support. The Tea Party, which is generally regarded with allying with the Republican Party, also hold many Jeffersonian ideals.

    I myself am a registered Republican. I consider myself a libertarian – I believe someone called me a ‘liberal dyke’ – and I believe Jefferson’s views also hold a place in modern US politics.

  16. “You’re in the minority here, so you don’t get to determine Who The Trolls Are.”

    I’m literally laughing at this.

  17. I just gave you a counter-example to your bullshit, troll. In case you haven’t read your John Adams, this country was not founded as a ‘secular democracy’, so go take that term and shove it up your ass sideways.

  19. The government puts it’s stamp of approval of homosexuality at which point it’s headed straight to our schools where our children are indoctrinated.

    Where do they make up the deficit?
    Our youth.

    Excellent commentary sir.

  21. “For all have sinned, and fallen short of the glory of God.”

    Sorry, but the Bible you’re deriding is way ahead of you.

  24. You’re quoting Jefferson as if he represents the Founding Fathers. That’s deceptive, and you don’t get to shrug it off with a Latin phrase you learned on wikipedia.

    Thomas Jefferson was one of many Founding Fathers, and the stuff of his you’re quoting are things that he was distinctly in the minority on.

  29. Given that a majority of leftists literally want us to all die in a fire, I have no qualms whatsoever expressing that exact sentiment right back at them.

  31. Of course, pointing out the obvious would make me a “hater” in your little world. Didn’t take two seconds to go from “we’re the majority deal with it” to 4 choruses of the “Poor, poor, put upon Me” persecution polka.
    Homosexuals are a minority trying to be the norm rather than the exception. Trying to force the majority to make special laws and considerations for their chosen lifestyle does effect the majority. Trying to convince others that the lifestyle is not without serious moral and medical risk. Live and let live acceptance wasn’t good enough. Tolerance wasn’t good enough. You only wish there were enough of you to shove the rest of us over the cliff.

  32. The homos won’t win this one. The homosexual-chic phenomenon will pass. Remember the homosexual’s weakness is that it always thinks with its loins. They are destined to become just another attraction at the zoo in due time – if they’re not already. In the mean time, make sure your children know what a “catamite” is, and teach them how not to become one…

  36. You do not have the intellectual capacity to know how you are mis-using collectivism. You also identify with cultures of which you know nothing.
    Ancient Greece and Rome? Where are they today?
    Keep riding the bandwagon to Hell. You may not believe in Hell, but Hell believes in you!
    I’ll wave as you go by on the express …

  38. Because everything in your comment is unproven. Not only unproven but patently a lie. (do you have the intellectual capacity to even parse “false premise”? Didn’t think so.
    Another hateful homonormative patriarchal idiot.

  42. “Western civilization as we know it…”

    Tricky little words there.

    Western civilization as we know it did not predate WWII.

    Western civilization as we know it did not predate the automobile.

    Western civilization as we know it did not predate electricity.

    Also, you forgot the Slavs, Greeks, Celts and (dare I say it?) the Jews. All of which had a heavy influence on civilization well before Christianity existed. That doesn’t make Christianity wrong. It does mean that sometimes people overlook history.

  43. *looks at the several thousand years of accomplishment and wonder that Bob discarded when he decided it wasn’t worthy.*

    You don’t mind if I keep these, do you? Some really good things in there.

    You might want to remember that it was the ancient Greeks who first distingushed between Western and Eastern civlizations. You know, those pre-Roman Republic, pre-Roman Empire, pre-Christian folks who did all that philosophy, theatre, democracy, and other really cool stuff?

  44. If what you claim is true and that homosexuality is simply a behavior
    problem like any other paraphilia then why does behavior modification
    via conversion therapy not work, nor has it ever, is such a spectacular
    failure as a form of therapy(not to mention destructive to the patient),
    and Exodus after decades of practicing it suddenly shut down and issued
    an apology to the gay community for the harm they caused?

    ================
    You are very misinformed. Let’s take one question at a time:
    1) There have been numerous reports and testimonies of individuals who have resolved their homosexuality problems. Some of these people did therapy, others didn’t. If you want to educate yourself about them, you can read some of them here:

    http://alessandrareflections.wordpress.com/not-born-lgbt/

    This is certainly NOT an exhaustive list!

    2) Furthermore, it looks like you are spectacularly ignorant concerning failure rates for any kind of therapy. The failure rates are high, for even mundane things such as marriage and couple’s therapy. And if we consider complex problems like pedophilia, homosexuality, or even more challenging ones such as schizophrenia, the rates of failure are even higher. Are you now going to claim that people are born pedophiles or schizophrenics because there is a great deal of therapy failure? that only further shows how little you understand of human psychology and therapy.

    3) Your claim about conversion therapy being harmful is also incorrect. First because there is no such thing as one single “therapy method” for anything, homosexuality included. Therefore what someone at Exodus might have done is different than any other therapists. Nicolosi, for example, last reported he had worked with 800 men, and just one of them (AFAIK) complained. Given how eager homosexuals are to sue anyone and everyone who questions their stupid normalizing agenda, it’s impossible if Nicolosi had done harm to 800 men that they would all sit quiet.

    It only goes to show you have no idea what you are talking about. You don’t know who all the therapists working with people with a homosexuality client are, nor what they are doing.

    4) While there have been some cases of therapy that were harmful, it’s certainly not because investigating and resolving psychological problems related to homosexuality is bad in itself; but it’s because some particular therapists were ill-equipped to deal with the issue. For your information there have been much greater and graver abuse of psychiatric and psychotherapy patients with other problems than homosexuality. Just as we have medical malpractice cases.

    It’s not because a doctor makes a mistake that anyone is going to say medical treatment itself should be eradicated as a practice. That’s the level of idiocy of the claim made by your homosexuality agenda proponents.

    What we have in America today is nothing but a bunch of deformed and dysfunctional individuals running away from dealing with their perverted problems regarding heterosexuality.

  45. All right. Death penalty. I didn’t want to derail the thread discussing the morality of the death penalty when the society has outlawed murder.

    My example was meant to show you a rigged game. With some few exceptions, it’s impossible to elect someone in the U.S. who is not one of the two major parties. The party leadership has conspired to make it so. No matter who you vote for or even if you don’t vote, you get a certified Party Person willing to sell you out at a moment’s notice.

  46. There should be absolutely no law in place that enforces a religious (including Christian) view.
    ===================

    What is wrong with religious views (or Christian) ones?

    And aren’t you aware that many laws exactly enforce a religious view today?

    A secular ideology or a religious ideology are both ideologies. There is no reason why we should any law that enforces destructive attitudes and behaviors, like a homosexuality agenda – it doesn’t matter if it’s part of any secular or religious ideology.

  48. Look again at the question I started with on this thread.

    If someone doesn’t share your beliefs, why should they be governed by those beliefs?

    Isn’t that about freedom?

  49. We need to legislate for a wholesome and healthy sexuality morality.

    And in most cases, it’s the adults that you call “consenting” that cause most of the non-consensual and exploitative and violent problems related to sexuality and relationships in the world. Either by direct involvement or by neglect.

    What we need is not luck, but action

  50. Greece and Rome are also the most prosperous and progressive
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    Their very high levels of violence against women, child abuse, slavery, and mass murder only further underscores your point!

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