The Problem Isn’t “Conservative Anti-Intellectualism”

Here’s something I found from a rant on Digg today:  “Conservative Anti-Intellectualism”.

To hear this, you’d think it was something on the rise.  It’s not the first time I’ve seen or heard something like this, either.  A blog troll here, a post there, some comments against Fox News and Glenn Beck in particular.  Not quite a talking point yet, but the sentiment is floating around in cyberspace.

It’s bunk, of course.  There’s nothing anti-intellectual about us.  We still do things like back up positions with facts.  Some, like Sowell and Levin, can do so eloquently.  However, none of this is the point because it’s not the rising anti-intellectualism of conservatism that’s the cause of complaint.  It’s the rise of conservative anti-passivity.

Our leaders failed and betrayed us before self-destructing.  Now we’re stuck with Obama, and he’s not wasting any time destroying everything he touches.  His power grabs have been many and shocking, and the Republicans are still worthless.  That means we do something about it, or no one does.

So we did.

Suffices to say, it isn’t funny to the left when the activists are working against liberalism.  So, much like the complaint of “the lack of civility” that used to occur when Congress was majority Republican, we now have “conservative anti-intellectualism”.  We haven’t become dumber, just louder and more assertive in resisting the left.  If anything, this was long overdue, and I’m just as guilty about trusting my leaders over my own initiative as a lot of us once were.

It’s not going to happen again.  So find new and amusing things to call us, liberals, because we’re not going away.  I’m sure there’s a slogan you’ve used before that applies.  How about “I’M FIERCE, I’M A FEMINIST, AND I’M IN YOUR FACE!”

Uh…never mind.

Filed under: Commentary and Opinion on September 21st, 2009 No Comments