The Inversion Narrative
Since January 1, 2007, the Democrats have had the lead position in Congress and have legislated, drafted, crafted, and enacted their ideology into the body politic with a fury and a frenzied pace unmatched in our history as a nation. They have grabbed the reins of an enormous portion of our economy in arenas as diverse as banking, the auto industry, health care, energy, home ownership, and student loans, as well as homeland security, the courts, and the military.
In the eyes of a large portion of the electorate, they have spent taxpayer money wildly and recklessly. Perhaps more importantly, the Pelosi/Reid/Obama/Frank Democrats have thumbed their noses at the will of the populace and passed an unpopular monstrosity of a health care bill, and did so by reconciliation, in defiance and with an aura of a legislative rebellion against the people.
They have spoken openly and negatively about the populace as “mean,” “bitter,” “racist,” “homegrown terrorists,” and “scared,” and have barely concealed their contempt at the lack of gratitude, lack of capacity to “understand,” and lack of enthusiasm for the trillions of dollars poured into their pet programs.
This particular crowd has lead with ham-fisted arrogance, insolence, disrespect, and an imperiousness heretofore never witnessed or attempted by any political party in America.
This attitude has sparked a response. This response is given a name, the Tea Party, in part to give it an easy frame of reference. But do not be fooled. It is not a thing, it’s a process. It is not necessarily Republican, either. Republicans are going to be the beneficiaries on November 2, no doubt. The noxious arrogance by the supermajority emperors in the Democratic Party is going to be dealt a swift and harsh dose of karma. But the Republicans are not being rewarded, they are being entrusted.
They can squander that trust easily if they are not cognizant and careful from whence it stems.
This puts the Democratic Party, their White House administration, and their likely slim Senate majority in an entirely different role than the one they have mangled since January 1, 2007. They are now back to the fighting style at which they excel — counterpuncher.
As we have seen with the Juan Williams/NPR debacle, when the ideology is exposed to the sunshine and open air, it leaves a rancid residue behind. If one talks openly about the deep-seated hatred of the Islamic jihad, it’s naked bigotry — one is called a bigot.
If one exposes the fraud of the clearly “unsettled science” of global warming, one is called a repudiator of science.
If a Stanley Kurtz exposes the clear extremism of fringe socialism masquerading as centrism, the person who points out the elements of extremism is called an extremist.
If one points out racism — like J. Christian Adams and Christopher Coates did, inside our own Department of Justice — one is called a racist.
The paragons of “tolerance” are shown repeatedly to be the most intolerant people in the nation. The ones whose argument in the debates has devolved into nothing more than ad hominem attacks, smears, and distortions, now fault voters for “not understanding.”
The journolistas who meet in secret, construct plans to call someone racist, carry the banner for leftism, and pretend to be “objective” are part and parcel of the Inversion Narrative. They have been slandering the Tea Party with impunity for over a year.
They will announce on the night of November 2 that the country “threw a tantrum.” They will be inconsolable. And the Inversion Narrative will be in full force and effect beginning on November 3. When Reagan won, Bernie Goldberg highlighted how the very next day we began to see reports on the plight of the homeless.
Expect more of the same. Only worse.
The Republicans will be set up repeatedly. There will be leg snares and traps set at every turn. There will be someone to blame. And the Inversion Narrative has them in mind already. Just ask Juan Williams.
This is the Inversion Narrative. In his stance on education, tolerance, intellectualism, race views, peace advocacy, anti-authoritarianism, and feminism, the post-modern leftist is nothing, nothing at all, that he pretends to be.
The inversion thesis explains why Hollywood is so solidly leftist.
They spend their professional lives pretending to be what they are not…why not spend their private lives doing the same.
Going, going, gone. You gave that ball a funeral, deep in the center field bleachers … dude! Hey! I get it!
Hi, CFBleachers. I am happy to see that your comment is posted as an essay – well deserved.
I am copying here my response to The Inversion Narrative from where I saw it as a comment first: The Inexplicables, by Victor Davis Hanson.
The Inversion Narrative reminds me of the double-speak. Soviet Union had it well developed, to the level of schizophrenia. The land of the “victorious developed socialism” became at one of point a land of victorious surrealism.
But it’s a weakness as well. Soviet subjects learned to read between the lines and to recognize the lies (at least some of the time). For example, one of the major tenants of the Soviet ideology – the economic superiority of the socialist business model – became obviously laughable, and the stated goal of overtaking the West economically became clearly unreachable.
Despite the dominance in the so called “mainstream” media, thanks to the Internet and talk radio, the Left does not have a monopoly on information. More and more people will see through the pretensions of the left you so well describe. I don’t think they can sustain the double-speak indefinitely.
And speaking about another mortal danger of our times – the Islamists’ domination conquest: they don’t have the Soviet weakness. They stake no materialistic verifiable claims. While Soviet leaders could tolerate very high losses, they still cared for their countrymen to ultimately survive. And themselves, they cherished their sweat lives. Jihadists don’t care about the life. And while they are no match to the Soviet military power, they might prove to be more difficult to defeat.
CFBleachers:
I too add my kudos to PJM in seeing your comment up as an essay. It deserved it, you slobbering madman, you!
Well done, chappie!
And you are absolutely correct in pointing out that this is less a thumbs-up of the GOP as a thumbs-down to the Alleged Hawaiian and his pet Congressional Soviet of the last two years.
Glad to see one of us comment-grunts get off the rowing-benches and up on the foc’sle for a spell.
(Can I have your bowl of gruel, seeing as how you’ve been invited to dine in the Officer’s Saloon this evening?)
Congratulations to CFBleachers! You commentary is always as good (and sometimes better) than the articles to which you post. Its fantastic to see you with your own by-line! And, great article, looking forward to more from you!
Cheering From …the peanut gallery!!! A tour-de-force, CFB. Nothing else to say. Hear, hear.
I’ll pick just one for sanity’s sake.
“There is not a more intolerant group in America than the radical conservative.
They are intolerant of real America. They are intolerant of the Democratic Party. They are intolerant of blacks or Hispanics who are not quiet. They are intolerant of NBC, liberal radio, and anybody who’s not a Christian. They are intolerant of the Coasts. They are intolerant of Oregon. They are intolerant of Jon Stewart. They are intolerant of Charlie Crist. They are intolerant of France, NEA, and more frequently these days, Jews in general.
It is easy to put them in high dudgeon — you simply have to disagree with any position they take. It will be the swiftest comparison to Hitler you have ever experienced.”
This CF scribble is not scholarship. This is not even insight. It’s the simple concept of hypocrisy (impossible to disclaim) repackaged as Inversion. Warmed-over pre-emptive rationalizing now that you’ll be doing the same things you’ve been decrying – and decrying the same things you’ve been doing – for the last two years. Frankly, other than salving each other’s weep wounds of your relentless arbitrariness, you’re wasting your time. We never considered your words or principles genuine to begin with.
Reward the sheep with more shears.
Your Sensei,
You post a valid point, this time. There were minor things that aren’t very well done in your retort, such as the Jews comment. Overall tohugh I understand your point about CFBleachers’ article.
Constructively, CFBleachers should have expanded upon his comment thread. Instead of just reposting his comments as they were originally he should have added factual links for every statement made.
Zamir
Hey, try to understand some things. An article like this is necessarily supposed to preach to the choir. It is not necessary to always provide examples, especially since most conservatives have been closely watching American politics and culture since George Bush left office. We are aware of what CFBleachers is writing about, and there isn’t enough time or space to appease your “logical debate format” technicality. Deal with it.
The other thing is that ad-libbing is not a valid rebuttal anyway. It is supposed to insinuate that the opponents position can be juxtaposed along the same lines as much as it has dealt, but two wrongs do not make a valid rebuttal when one has been preaching to the choir. Ad-libbing in this vein will necessarily be empty, because it ignores purposely that the author wasn’t making an argument or addressing leftists in the first place. The ad-libber is only trying to imply that the right can be construed as “intolerant” just as well, so simply, (you) don’t let it stick. Yes, in this case, you do have the power to not “let it stick” because the ad-libber is not speaking truth, but is trying to make inroads to your inability to have absolute perfect judgment. It is an appeal to your opinion, not logic. Be smart, and ask, How so is the right intolerant? And, Are they wrong in their “intolerance”?
And just remember, according to Liberals, St. Peter is a bigot.
“especially since most conservatives have been closely watching American politics and culture since George Bush left office.”
Well, you should have been watching when Bush was around for eight years. Trust me, we saw some amazingly bad shit go down.
What are you, my mother? I’m a brick layer. Why don’t you eat dirt?
Yes, the amazingly bad shit that went down was in some ways, he acted like a DEMOCRAT with excess spending…
Your handle tells us all we need to know about your arrogance. Your intolerance naturally follows suit. Your zen master would have broken his staff off on your blockhead, by now.
He has no Zen Master, none will take him
He cannot defend himself…. he knows nothing of offense or defense, he just flails around in his costume…
“wuuzzzzz…wwwwuuuuzzzzzzzzz…. shhhhhhpoowwww!!!” goes his imaginary light saber.
Talking to himself in the mirror with that hood on is so sad, but he gets picked on at the playground so……
You’ve got half a point there–CFBleachers isn’t accusing the left of anything that isn’t true of the foamier partisans of the right. However, it’s the Left that keeps setting itself up as the archetypes of tolerance. For the sake of argument, let’s say there’s no real difference in viciousness between the fringes of left and right (I don’t agree with that, but let’s say). Even so, it’s the Left that’s so damnably unrealistic about its own human flaws, and that clothes itself in robes of virtuous tolerance to which it has no greater right than the other side. Advantage: not you.
Who imbues themselves as the archetype of family values? Damnably unrealistic. Narratively inversionistic.
Again, you get half a “touche.” Still, if you genuinely believe in said “family values” while still falling short of them, they call that human weakness. If you only believe in “tolerance” when it’s convenient for your own side to do so, and CONSCIOUSLY reject it when it suits you tactically, that’s something worse.
Your willingness to dismiss family values hypocrites as having simple human weakness is proof enough of “convenience.” Don’t try so hard to deny the undeniable. Accept it and move on . . . and up.
If it seems “undeniable” to you that no one could actually BELIEVE in such concepts except where politically expedient, or believe in them even when failing to hew to them, I won’t waste my time trying to convince you. One can only say that from some base [in more than one sense] assumptions, there’s no real “up” to proceed to. Enjoy your chosen philosophical terrain, and best wishes.
“They are intolerant of blacks or Hispanics who are not leftists.”
Care to comment on how The Party of Tolerance speaks of black people such as Clarence Thomas, Col.Allen West, Gen. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Michael Steele, Lloyd Marcus, or Thomas Sowell?
Care to comment on them yourself without falling into a sewer of racial epithets fit only for a Ku Klux Klansman like the late Sen. Robert Byrd (WV, D)?
I’d rather hear Rush Limbaugh comment on General Powell.
Normally, I would not waste time on a troll like you, But I need to point out to folks that cfbleachers is not a conservative, nor even on the right. The cf part means Center-Field. I have clashed with him a bit, mostly before the 2008 elections. (I never got the chance to say I told you so, cf.)
His viewpoints have moved rightwards a bit since, it seems, because all decent Americans oppose the radical, indecent agenda and modus operandi of the Leftists. Make no mistake though, if we discuss issues, we will clash on many things. However, such a clash is done with erudition and mutual respect.
Cf, congrats to you for becoming a contributor to PJM. May you not be a one-trick pony.
Only one little problem: every thing you put in your fill-in-the antonym inversion is untrue. CF did’nt mention another characteristic of the Leftist-0 his existence in a constructed reality built of his own fabrications and delusions. The leftist inhabits a world where windmills are hostile giants and that poor merchant of Salamanca is an evil sorcerer.
The two sides are NOT equivalent; explaining why that is the caser would require an essay in itself.
False equivalencies are the province of the feeble mind and the moral bankrupt.
Isn’t it amusing
You can cut and paste YOUR words into someone ELSES sentences, and convince yourself you might have a creative thought!
Good boy Sensei!
All those free trophies they give out to EVERYONE these days has paid off!
Youre SOOOOOOOOOO smart!
Many reasonable, rational folks draw the line before the third trimester. Apparently, you could convince some leftists that a mother’s “snuff rights” over her child extend to third grade.
I’d laugh at the cleverness of that quip if I didn’t already know how easily hyperbole becomes fact; how quickly satire is lapped by reality.
I fear that in my lifetime I’ll see a day when a kid quits coming to school and when someone asks where he went there will come the straight-faced answer, “Oh, his mother had him done in.”
Epic stupidity…along comes ‘Your Sensei’ to actively stamp The Inversion Narrative with a real time example, thanks.
I’m beginning to think Sensei works for Pajams….They are providing us with a simple warm up several times a day to keep us sharp.
He is like a quick stretch, or cracking of your knuckles…no heavy lifting mind you, just a comfortable little yawn before turning to larger issues of thought…
Well said cfbleachers! Those of us whose income/business has been leaned on by the left and chose resistance, are way too familiar with the Inversion Narrative. F. A. Hayek observed that power in the objectionable sense is the capacity to direct the energy and resources of others to the service of values which those others do not share. Sounds like he was describing the Obama administration.
Every government, just by choosing a legitimate policy can’t help using its power in ways that are objectional to some people. That is normal, but these Obama guys have directed the energy and resources of the US to serve values that a majority of Americans do not share.
Whatever the election results, after November 2nd the voters will put the Republicans on a short leash. If they continue to be a big government party, the voters will shout ‘whoa Nelly!’ and a third party will emerge to swallow the GOP.
i was wondering when someone would call Obama on his hubris. the lefties have been driving the car for the last 4 years, and they are blaming the most recent dents on the last owner. Fannie Mae and Freddie mac and the unemployment bubble, weren’t they caused by George Washington? surely it wasn’t done on Obama’s watch.
I know a couple good tutors in math and history. Let me know if your’e interested.
Holy ****ing jeepers, what a hopeless idiot. Trolling this website isn’t much of a career. Didn’t anyone any attention to you as a child? Not that I could blame them. I’d have drowned you. Don’t leave all those wadded kleenex beside your bed for your mom to pick up, by the way.
Why don’t you call them?
Not interested?
Being a remedial student for so VERY long, I’m sure you know MANY MANY “Special Ed.” tutors!
I think you are the one in need of a tutor. GWB tried mightily to restrain Fannie and Freddie, it was the Dim-o-crats, (think Barney Frank and Chris Dodd), who let the cart run off the cliff. Let’s grow up and place the responsibility where it belongs.
“There is not a more intolerant group in America than the postmodern leftist.”
Calling Democrats the Party of Tolerance is like calling Mohammadanism the Religion of Peace.
You make that one up all on your own? Here, try something a bit more ambitious . . . “Calling Democrats the Party of Tolerance is like calling Glenn Beck a chiseled tower of muscle and intellect.”
Go ahead, get crazy with it. Let your freak flag fly!
Indeed, Persons Galore is running the noise orifice on shear anxiety. The noise level always increase with stress. Isn’t that so, Persons Galore?
Gee whiz Born Senseless, that M-80 Mr. President tossed in the Cesspool worked wonders. You know, sometimes you get what you ask for. Congratulations!
How about some movies and cat box treats to sooth the raging Modern Liberal with a so called soul?
Yeah, The Tingler has been loose and Born Senseless is high on LSD-25. Except for the Inversion. Born Senseless can scream, but to no avail. Born Senseless believed. And The Tingler took Born Senseless for a ride.
Terrified, absolutely terrified. Poor thing. Did you get that part as The Fly’s head too?
Help me! Help me! Help me! Crunch. Oh well.
Whatever.
I’m not sure much in your points is limited to the left; just the specific accusations may be. The tone and/or tenor is the same.
e.g. most climate skeptics are well aware that the world appears to be warming and that there is merit to much of the science. However, skeptics are less inclined to think the sky is falling or that it’s necessary to ruin western economies “right now or else.” Skeptics (i.e. those capable of grasping the science and the issue) tend to see IPCC AR4 etc as overstated, but not necessarily “wrong” in that there will likely be some continued warming, but not calamity. Much of the warming is natural, and we simply can’t tell the degree of anthropogenic contribution yet. This is a responsible, clear headed, and rational position: follow the science. The world is warming; man contribues to this. This is a given. How much man contributes is unknown, but what IS known is that there’s no reason to panic quite yet.
Contrast this to the screeching of “fraud” and other inflammatory statements that do little more than sound like the antipode of alarmist screeching. Unfortunately, alarmists are also correct in pointing out that the claim of fraud tends to come from those who reckon evolution is fraudulent. Sad but true. It’s my opinion that the far right’s vocalising on this issue that has caused things to gum up as they have with the alarmists claiming their settled science idiocy and the right charging fraud.
The only thing this accomplishes is making it easy for alarmists to dismiss the skeptical voice. As with all things, the far (especially evangelical) right poisons everything it touches. Insofar as I can tell the far right has never been right about anything, and it isn’t correct in this case either. If only they would simply go home and let the adults go on about their business.
A reasonable national level GOP response re climate science is to have a rational and easily understood energy policy: advocate nuclear power, fund and charge NASA with development of the remaining technical hurdles to implement spaceborne solar. Energy is wealth. Clean energy creates US jobs. Instead, the GOP seems to be informed as much by PJM’s level of screechers (it’s all a fraud) as it is by level heads, and resorts, when energy is mentioned at all, to inane bumper sticker idiocy such as “drill baby drill.”
In the center of all this is sanity. To the alarmist left and the fraud-accusing right, there be dragons.
The rest of your points are just as pointlessly focused on antipodal dragons and/or strawmen, but it does serve to whip the local troops into a frenzy.
Oh, yes. You are a voice in the wilderness. The middle of the road voice of reason. Do you realize that if it wasn’t for the ineptness of some of the major players in this global warming farce (Climategate, 10-10 video, IPCC), that we probably now would have a cap and trade law? And energy legislation that penalized coal and oil, while the public would have picked up the tab? Why do you think the alarmists have been so strident? To get the legislation passed to get the money coming in as fast as possible, while the conditions were right. From Al Gore making his billion, to windmill and solar panel manufacturers, to G.E. and fuel cell manufacturers, to Green groups taking their cut, to politicians ready to tax us, to the third world nations selling their carbon credits, to oil companies on the bandwagon, to the UN with their sticky fingers acting as the money distributor. Let’s not forget the scientists looking for Federal grants. There are trillions and trillions of dollars involved, from now until forever. Where there’s this much money at stake there will be lies, deceit and corruption. One member of the U.S. Congress said “This is the largest revenue source there ever was” referring to cap and trade. How fast did the EPA jump on the bandwagon without any input from scientists as required by law? Boom. CO2 is now a pollutant. Not an undesirable gas – a pollutant. All these corporations waiting in the wings for the Democrats to just pass the legislation that would make them billions of dollars. Just recently the the Chicago Carbon Exchange closed. How much money was lost there? The whole man-made global warming farce is driven by money. Why do you think Stockholm was attended by so many representative nations no one ever heard of. So that they could get in line for the free money that the first world countries promised them. This is all about taxation and the distribution of wealth.
GLAlston
You sound pretty reasonable until you go off the rails fantasizing about space based solar power.
Face the facts re alternative energy…the power density is just not sufficient to make it competitive. Similar to the flaws of Keynesian economics, we cannot prosper by subsidizing energy production.
Obama could dramatically shift the debate in his favor by challenging the private sector to develope Thorium based nuclear power as a potentially much more efficient and therefore cheaper source of electrical energy.
Plus a simple consideration of global political realities demonstrates how foolish carbon emission limiting schemes are. India, for example, has 300 MILLION people without electrical power. Just how likely do you think it is that India would ever agree to curb its carbon emissions prior to meeting the needs of its own citizens?
#14 — You sound pretty reasonable until you go off the rails fantasizing about space based solar power.
Fantasy? Until the Obama administration severely mishandled the current economic crisis PG&E was negotiating with a private company to provide a few hundred megawatts via SPS, on orbit by 2012. That’s not fantasy. That’s a plan by real people with real hardware.
Just how likely do you think it is that India would ever agree to curb its carbon emissions prior to meeting the needs of its own citizens?
Self-answering, isn’t it? The easy and simple way to cleanly power the entire world without giving nuke technology etc to unstable regimes is SPS. 1 billion people currently have no electricity right now. We know how to do SPS which is absolutely no fantasy and is scalable. Windfarms are crap as is PV ground based solar. They don’t work and they certainly don’t scale. China and India would be less inclined to use coal if SPS systems could be parked overhead faster, cheaper, and easier.
The technical hurdles of SPS is “faster/cheaper,” NOT inventing it.
It stikes me that this site tends to attract people who like to invoke American Exceptionalism and then when showing examples of precisely what AE is (world leadership through energy policy) pronounce this as fantasy. Well, so was nationwide power grids and telecommunications and computers in every home. Americans figured out how to do this. American Exceptionalism isn’t an abstract concept loosely tied to god’s will. The US alone can solve the problems of worldwide energy generation and distribution. In fact it’s already solved. What remains is to make it cheaper.
If the GOP were to focus on science and energy, everything from job creation to the enviro-nazi movement would be solved. It would also kill the only thing the left has going for it. The way to take on the left is via action by real people with real plans and real policies and real hardware. Screeching about the left solves nothing.
I agree with you. The GOP needs to do more regarding energy policy. They have been very lax. In the past, they have been proponents of nuclear but the greens have thrown so many road blocks into getting a plant running that it is prohibitively expensive.
the bigot racist teaparty in my state (Florida) elected a CUBAN (Hispanic) Governor (RUBIO) and a BLACK MAN—>ALLEN WEST – lol
truth is these who call everyone they disagree with haters and worse- are the haters-reaping what they have sown (Nancy P “dont like health bill we will shove it though anyway” Obama a man who refused to cross the aisle once crying about bipartinship), HYPOCRITES blind to actual reality, blind tothe fact THEY created this hostility by their own behaviors.
I wish I could share the vitriol, the accusations, the vicious diatribes I read on libs FB this AM ———-the sorest losers ever in history who are now eating sour grapes
a need a sweater for the schadenfreud
OH I didn’t notice the byline- congrats ctf- have long enjoyed reading your always excellent well thought comments here—
Oh Sensei, Master of the Dark, and Clueless,
Lord of all impotence, perpetually struck by mighty confusion and weakness.
ARISE! And be learned!!
Proof, you seek, of some nefarious left-wing cabal that kept Christines 30-minute Hail Mary commercial off the air?
Was it not a PBS station? One that useth taxpayers funds to present programming on GLBT lifestyle issues as a top priority, often in prime time slots?
Were they not of the same tribe that fired Juan Williams? Robbers of the public purse, with which they promote their false agenda, one that cannot exist unsubsidized?
Didith they not CASH thy check, and yet we should believe TWICE they forgotteth?
Oh Sensei, with such naiveté, you even defend yourself? Lest be the teacher of others?
So, if struck once in the face by one who denies doing so, would you then allow them to walk BEHIND you? And believe the kick in the pants you then receive is plausibly from another assailant?
Wax on, Wax off, do you not SEE the obvious before you?
The “Force” you pretend to know of is not strong within you….It exists not. You are indeed the opposite of knowledge, strength, and discipline……Common sense, judgment, decisiveness, none.
Away to your basement game board…paint your figurines…arrange your warlocks and dragons into battle formations…pretend some more, that YOU are not just a Warrior, but a Warrors Sensei.
I shall strike you no more, as MY SENSEI taught me;
I shall not harm the weak and feeble, who threaten me not.
Black Babies
To hear Whoopi Goldberg and others on “The View” last year reacting to Ann Coulter’s presentation of copious facts and details that substantiate Coulter’s researched contention that 72% of black babies in America are being born to single, unwed mothers is to wonder whether Ol’ Whoop is operating in an alternate universe.
“The View’s” braindead studio audience erupted into applause whenever Whoopi mouthed equally-braindead responses such as, “Umm, not great research since we’ve seen this research discounted time and time again,” while never citing any sources for that discounting.
Goldberg took exception to Coulter’s assumed denigration of single mothers in part because Whoopi is one, as well as a proud, multiple-aborter of a number of her pre-born babies, although she didn’t bring that up. I’m tempted to say those aborted babies were better off in Whoopi’s case, but I won’t.
Coulter ripped not single mothers but the “exalting” of single motherhood by the MSM and Hollywood while allowing single fatherhood and the fathers who fathered all those born and aborted progeny to escape responsibility.
Under cross-examination by Goldberg, Coulter admitted she was neither married nor had she borne children–facts Whoopi knew as well as she knew, maybe, how many babies she had aborted–but Whoops concluded from that that Coulter didn’t know what she was talking about. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2596)
Thank goodness some bloggers can still write. Thanks for this writing…