THE GREAT DISCONNECT: THE STILLED VOICE OF GRASSROOTS AMERICA

THE GREAT DISCONNECT: THE STILLED VOICE OF GRASSROOTS AMERICA
by Murray Soupcoff
The Iconoclast

June 17, 2002

If you need confirmation regarding the gaping disconnect between ordinary Americans and their supposedly more enlightened "betters" in the liberal media and the Democratic Party, then check out this plain-speaking Dick Morris column that appeared in theNew York Post a while back.

To quote Mr. Morris:

Rarely has there been more of a disjuncture between the real feelings of most Americans and the focus of the liberal mainstream media. While The New York Times is preoccupied with the "swirling" investigation into the warnings about 9/11 and liberal commentators zealously focus on potential invasions of our civil liberties, voters are solidly behind tough measures to combat terror even at the expense of an erosion of certain civil liberties. The danger they see is another terrorist attack...

Basically, it seems to come down to a particularly glaring difference between ordinary folks and the righteous chattering classes these days. When push comes to shove in these dangerous times, ordinary Americans are prone to choose national survival as the ultimate goal for their nation. In contrast, national suicide appears to be the preferred choice of the liberal-left establishment, in a last-ditch attempt to show their moral goodness by extending their full grab-bag of "rights", "understanding" and "civil liberties" to the latest hate-filled gang of lunatics lining up to slit their throats or blow them to kingdom come.

Tragically, American's liberal-left cognoscenti are so immersed in their self-righteous, Chomsky-tinged, 'hate-America' ideology, they are incapable of recognizing America's real enemies, and the threat to their very own existence those enemies pose.

Nor do they know how to defend themselves, or help America defend itself, against such threats. Because in their hearts, America has been, and always will be, the real bad guy in the world. And so any critic or enemy of America must somehow be justified in its actions, and rightfully motivated.

Obviously, when it comes to post-9/11 terrorism, ordinary Americans seem to have gotten this one completely right. And per usual, the mainstream media and liberal political establishment have again come up empty.

The problem is that within the morally-skewed social heirarchy that comprises today's American power structure, the America haters have gained supremacy in the arenas of influence that count -- whether they be judicial, legislative, academic or mass communications. They've managed to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic ( the contemporary ship of state that is the United States), so that they are the ones in control, or they strongly influence those in control (witness the Bush administration's near phobic fear of disapproval from liberal opinion makers or their Congressional allies).

Unfortunately, as the terrorist war against America begins to rev up again (as it inevitably will), the liberal-left oligarchy has only one thing to offer Americans -- a politically-correct road map to oblivion.

Salvation, if it's to come, lies in the intuitive survival instincts of ordinary Americans. However, these American have increasingly been left voiceless by an elite-controlled institutional structure built around the notion that the proper role of the governed is to acquiesce to the decisions and opinions of their better-educated and morally-enlightened betters -- the liberal-left power oligarchy that dominates today's mainstream media and politics.

Outside of the Internet, the last remaining vehicle for free expression by grassroots America, and a last venue for the will of the people to assert itself, is the ballot box.

So let's just hope that this coming November, voters all over America will exercise their collective wisdom and choose survival over national suicide -- rejecting the media's usual anti-Republican propaganda and finally handing Washington's haughty Democratic obstructionists their permanent walking papers. ***

© 2002 The Iconoclast

Murray Soupcoff is the author of 'Canada 1984' and a former radio and television producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also was Executive Editor of We Compute Magazine for several years, and is now the Managing Editor of the popular Canadian conservative Web site, Iconoclast.ca

Photo of former President Bill Clinton (D-AR) courtesy of the Associated Press