On the Falsehood of ‘The Vital Center’

Stacy McCain points out that Liberals are forever putting themselves out as "centrists" so that they can then call everyone else as "extremists."  That, for example, is why Liberals will denigrate and vilify the overwhelimg majority in this country who want to end illegal immigration from Mexico, calling them "racists." "Fascists" and as bad as Hitler. 

This is why I roll my eyes whenever anyone employs the term “center-right” to describe the political aims of conservatism. Chasing a ”center-right coalition” is to pursue a will-o’-th’-wisp into a swamp of confusion. It’s a snipe hunt, because so long as liberals have any influence in defining the terms — and their dominance in media and academia assure them that influence – the “center” will always be someplace acceptable to liberals.

Instead of fretting about the center, then, conservatives should aim to build a conservative majority. And one key to building that majority is to speak blunt truth about the idiocy of “centrism” — the kind of idiocy that permits people in Pennsylvania’s 12th District to vote for Mark Critz and think the result will be anything other than the advancement of a liberal agenda.

It is time to say good-bye to The Vital Center. Damn the Blue Dogs, and to hell with the RINOs. Let’s define the distinctions between conservatism and liberalism so clearly that nobody who pays attention can doubt what side they’re on.

The still-popular concept of American conservatism as a form of crypto-fascist neurosis dates back to the same era when Schlessinger wrote The Vital Center. Accusing liberalism’s critics of harboring secret totalitarian longings, of opposing liberalism because they are emotionally stunted or sexually repressed, neatly averts any discussion of whether liberal policies actually work.

I’m curious about the Democrats and the MFM (but I repeat myself) who continue this attack. Do they believe that they can turn a 70-80% majority into a minority with a ceaseless bombardment of propaganda? At one time, decades ago, that may have been possible and the American people, lacking the internet infrastructure that allows them to communicate freely and easily, may have been cowed into accepting the Party Line. But the MFM has exhausted its reservoir of credibility. The Obama Administration is no longer riding the wave of euphoria that got the Affirmative Action President elected. It’s now “US” against “THEM” and the communications structure exists to allow US to speak to each other without the censors of the MFM blocking us. The internet allows atomized individuals to meet and coalesce into groups and form power centers. Perhaps that’s the impetus behind the FCC desire to control and regulate the internet. All tyrannies try to control the means of communication. Free communication between people is a threat to a totalitarian or authoritarian government.