Nixonland

I've been reading Rick Perlstein's fantastic Nixonland. So it's not a surprise to see how an African-American presidential candidate, no matter how accomplished, well-educated, conciliatory, and ground-breaking, would prompt the culture warriors to roll out language from the 1960s.

An Obama presidency would signal the final salvo by the Left in the culture wars. Obama’s advance troops have already taken over our college campuses, have bound and gagged our conservative professors, have ravished our virgins, have pillaged our stores of wisdom, and have ensconced themselves in the thrones of power in deans’, presidents’ and department heads’ offices.

In other words, guard your daughters, 'cause the coloreds are comin'.

And remember, white folks, we're the aggrieved ones.

For decades, teachers have been inculcating an alternative tradition and belief system. The beliefs may be based on such amorphous and sophistical ideas as “social justice,” “tolerance,” and “multiculturalism,” the traditions may lead back to the communist ideology of the nineteenth century and then through the heyday of radicalism in the sixties, but the means for inculcation are entrenched.

The conservative traditions and beliefs, in contrast, are rarely to be found in college syllabi and high school textbooks. Obama connects with audiences because they have been primed for him and his message. Obama, with his scantly [sic] resume, is an affirmative action candidate. But his record as a “community organizer” places him at an advantage with those who believe in “social activism” in the classroom.

"Social justice" -- you know what that means. I'm sure the rumors about handing out AK47s on the South Side will be proven true any day now.

I suppose we should laugh at this, it is Clown Hall, after all. But this is just the extreme fringe of a tact the RNC and their talking monkeys will take in the next few months. Expect to hear a lot about "rising crime" and affirmative action.

Speaking of their talking monkeys.