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This Painless Coup Isn’t So Painless

December 6th, 2009 at 10:30 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes

Or at least it may not be for much longer. The Anchoress takes the weak-kneed Peggy Noonan and shows her how it’s done.

Considering Noonan was so quick to hike up her skirt and hop aboard the empty-rhetoric-fueled Obamessiah train last fall, it’s hard to take her seriously about anything these days, but at least she inspired this brilliant post.

The ending, of course, is the coup d’état. Believing that the rest of us, now disillusioned, are no longer clinging to romantic ideals of honor, or truth or nobility, these always-restless First Children, devoted to deconstruction, believe they are about to take down the presidency, the churches, the “old” government and even the “old” media. They expect to put into place something “brand new.” But believe me when I tell you what they are building is older than dirt. And up from it. Which is why they will need their fortresses. Castro lives in one, too.

They’ve been practicing all of this, by the way, perfecting the Art of the Painless Coup so thoroughly that most ordinary folks do not even realize what has occurred.

Over the past 40 years these hyperactive First Children have been pulling off small scale coups with varying levels of success. They managed to deconstruct the academies, so that education is less a broadening of knowledge than a narrowing of perspective. They have deconstructed the liturgy to insist that a pantomime in clownface is a vast improvement over 2000 year-old sacrament and liturgy. They have deconstructed government by constructing something so huge and unwieldy that nothing coming out of it is reliable or dependable, and almost no one is accountable, either. They have deconstructed the press to the point where the truth of a story is less important than how it may be framed and spun. They have deconstructed the idea of fascism to mean “those democracies in Israel and America” rather than the freedom-suppressing regimes which surround them.

And what has become of our enlightened liberal “Aunt Sallies” whose own brains were rotted out by the carefully designed counter-cultural crusaders? (Yes, I have two of these Aunt Sallies in my family as well!)

Except that Aunt Sally, having been spoon-fed her enlightenment by media overrun with these busy First Children and their co-horts, is not around to hear him. She has taken off her bra, taken the pill and several dozen lovers, she has “found herself,” lost her children and moved in with her newest partner, Charlene. They own cats and attend drum circles. They protest whenever possible, because a good protest can validate almost any life-choice by pinpointing and naming an enemy, and declaring that enemy an oppressor and a villain, even if that villain is liberating men, women and children and trying to create a safer world. “An illusion!” They shout. “There is no liberation, there is no safer world, there is no nobility, no honor, no truth! All lies!”

Read the entire thing or you’re a damn fool.

The left has been waging the culture war for decades and we have averted our eyes in a pointless attempt to coexist. The time to fight back is now, if it’s not too late.

UPDATE: BMac points out that this post is actually from 2005. It’s just as prescient today, though. Interesting how things haven’t been impacted by much hope and or change since then, except for the negative.

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